. 2017 Nov 28;5:155. doi: 10.1186/s40168-017-0374-3

Table 1.

Experimental design and rumen sampling for microbial and viral community analyses

Steer identifier	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4
346	27CDS^M	Corn^M,V	40MDGS^M,V	55CS^M,V,DV
3244	27CDS^M	Corn^M,V	40MDGS^M,V	55CS^M,V,DV
222	55CS^M	40MDGS^M,V	Corn^M,V	27CDS^M,V,DV
3257	40MDGS^M	27CDS^M,V,DV	55CS^M,V,DV	Corn^M,V
259	Corn^M	55CS^M,V	27CDS^M,V,DV	40MDGS^M,V

Five steers were rotated through four diets in a row-column design. Microbial metagenomes and 16S rRNA amplicons (M) were sequenced from all periods, viral metagenomes from periods 2–4 (V), and deep viral metagenomes were sequenced from select 27CDS and 55CS samples (DV)