| CMT | California Mastitis Test |
| PCR | Polymerase Chain Reaction |
| ASV | Amplitude Sequence Variant |
| PICRUSt2 | Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States 2 |
| CTAB | Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide |
| UPGMA | Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean |