(B)
	CAP of individual ruminal ciliate genera								FLP	SEM	No. of samples detected
Taxa	Dasytricha	Diplodinium	Diploplastron	Entodinium	Epidinium	Isotricha	Ophryoscolex	Polyplastron
Methanobrevibacter	0.12	0.04	0.57	0.22	0.73	0.21	0.56	0.10	0.30	0.07	25/72
Methanimicrococcus	0	0	0.56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.07	1/72
Thermoplasmata	0.01	0	0.09	0.14	0.10	0.10	0	0.26	0.11	0.04	8/72
Overall	0.13	0.04	1.22	0.36	0.83	0.31	0.56	0.37	0.41	0.10	32/72

^*Data are shown as mean of relative abundance (%); n = 3 each for the FLP and the CAP of monocultures; n = 9 for the CAP of the fresh ruminal ciliate isolates; and n = 5 for the FLP of the rumen fluid sample.