Table 1.

Animals, diets, and 16S gene amplicon sequence reads generated to study their gut microbiota

Animal	Binomial nomenclature	Abbrev.	n	Digestion type	Feed supplied	Sequence reads
Chinchilla	Chinchilla lanigera	Ch	3	Hindgut fermenter	Commercial feeda	37,013
Rabbit	Oryctolagus cuniculus	Ra	8	Hindgut fermenter	Commercial feedb	74,963
Donkey	Equus africanus asinus	Do	7	Hindgut fermenter	Grass	220,774
Miniature pony	Equus ferus caballus	MP	7	Hindgut fermenter	Grass	46,884
Deer	Cervus nippon	De	4	Ruminant	Grass	32,635
Goat	Capra aegagrus hircus	Go	5	Ruminant	Grass	27,791
Sheep	Ovis aries	Sh	4	Ruminant	Grass	43,559
Llama	Lama glama	Ll	2	Ruminant	Grass	52,461
Alpaca	Vicugna pacos	Al	1	Ruminant	Grass	10,837
Pig	Sus scrofa scrofa kunekune	Pi	2	Monogastric	Sow pellets and bread	14,040

^aDehydrated grass pellets, alfalfa pellets, chopped alfalfa hay, flaked field peas, flaked corn, vitamins, and minerals.

^bDry grass flaked maize, carrots, corn, and oat grains supplemented with additional carrots.