Table A.1.

Bacterial abundance in buffalo inoculum at the phylum and genus level after 24 h in vitro incubation.

Taxon	Substrate
	Cassava residues	Corn straw silage	Elephant grass	Sugarcane tail silage
Phylum
Actinobacteria	0.170	0.650	0.420	0.460
Bacteroidetes	15.02	29.36	33.76	30.03
Chloroflexi	0.450	0.480	0.330	0.850
Firmicutes	25.90	55.05	48.45	57.38
Proteobacteria	55.91	9.300	12.84	7.820
Spirochetes	1.230	2.250	2.120	1.470
TM7	0.840	1.420	0.500	0.890
Tenericutes	0.280	0.880	0.830	0.720
Genus
Acinetobacter	0.168	1.337	0.551	0.477
Butyrivibrio	3.474	1.433	1.653	1.388
Clostridium	0.123	0.634	0.656	0.511
Comamonas	0.290	4.203	9.509	4.581
Coprococcus	0.257	2.356	1.535	1.337
Prevotella	10.29	21.25	26.85	14.38
Pseudobutyrivibrio	1.005	0.965	0.616	1.081
Ruminococcus	0.547	1.213	1.128	1.473
Sphaerochaeta	1.139	1.143	1.207	0.971
Succiniclasticum	0.793	1.213	0.984	0.903
Succinivibrio	52.46	1.309	0.630	0.707
Unclassified	26.81	55.90	48.57	64.96
Others (<0.5%)	0.559	1.915	2.453	2.342