| AL | Alpaca |
| GAS | Guanaco |
| ASV | Amplicon Sequence Variant |
| AVD | Average Variation Degree |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LDA | Linear Discriminant Analysis |
| LEfSe | Linear Discriminant Analysis Effect Size |
| PCA | Principal Component Analysis |
| Sobs | Observed Richness |