Table 2.
Abundance (number of 16S rRNA sequences) and diversity (number of unique OTUs) across the three sheep and the various intestinal subsites at the phylum level.
| Najdi sheep | Noiami sheep | Harrei sheep | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small intestine | Large intestine | Rectum | Small intestine | Large intestine | Rectum | Small intestine | Large intestine | Rectum | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Seq | OTUs | Seq | OTUs | Seq | OTUs | Seq | OTUs | Seq | OTUs | Seq | OTUs | Seq | OTUs | Seq | OTUs | Seq | OTUs |
| Acidobacteria | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Actinobacteria | 205 | 18 | 20 | 11 | 116 | 25 | 5,745 | 52 | 126 | 38 | 75 | 24 | 775 | 40 | 31 | 11 | 19 | 12 |
| Bacteroidetes | 13 | 11 | 11,218 | 200 | 5,882 | 216 | 601 | 40 | 7,908 | 193 | 12,386 | 192 | 53 | 13 | 11,202 | 162 | 12,699 | 145 |
| BD1–5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Candidate division OD1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Candidate_division_TM7 | 366 | 23 | 191 | 14 | 359 | 22 | 5,364 | 23 | 41 | 8 | 54 | 7 | 13,253 | 77 | 766 | 21 | 1,063 | 22 |
| Chlamydiae | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Chloroflexi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cyanobacteria | 42 | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 400 | 33 | 11 | 7 | 26 | 12 | 2,620 | 63 | 343 | 53 | 339 | 52 |
| Deferribacteres | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Deinococcus-Thermus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Elusimicrobia | 0 | 0 | 38 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 3 | 92 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 3 | 38 | 3 |
| Fibrobacteres | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 208 | 5 | 394 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 18 | 2 |
| Firmicutes | 12,630 | 136 | 17,807 | 965 | 19,953 | 1,316 | 17,089 | 266 | 11,754 | 1,067 | 10,720 | 817 | 16,665 | 332 | 14,461 | 1,212 | 14,518 | 1,125 |
| Fusobacteria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lentisphaerae | 2 | 2 | 153 | 17 | 139 | 30 | 535 | 10 | 1,033 | 50 | 1,585 | 60 | 631 | 21 | 636 | 32 | 579 | 31 |
| Nitrospirae | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Planctomycetes | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 75 | 10 | 129 | 1 | 8,466 | 33 | 8,037 | 22 | 67 | 6 | 96 | 7 | 71 | 2 |
| Proteobacteria | 26,333 | 36 | 382 | 24 | 284 | 27 | 3,170 | 37 | 362 | 30 | 1,231 | 33 | 157 | 29 | 884 | 23 | 1,274 | 29 |
| SHA-109 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Spirochaetae | 0 | 0 | 1,411 | 20 | 241 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 149 | 22 | 300 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 4 | 43 | 4 |
| Synergistetes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tenericutes | 22 | 5 | 53 | 23 | 274 | 57 | 4,419 | 26 | 54 | 24 | 35 | 21 | 725 | 40 | 579 | 113 | 518 | 110 |
| Unclassified | 26 | 16 | 1,885 | 213 | 2,975 | 306 | 462 | 56 | 1,234 | 256 | 946 | 173 | 2,481 | 58 | 3,412 | 354 | 3,314 | 322 |
| Verrucomicrobia | 0 | 0 | 72 | 4 | 2,623 | 21 | 39 | 1 | 1,724 | 25 | 1,018 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 212 | 7 | 122 | 7 |