Table 3. Percentage of the main bacterial phylum and genus in Qula samples from different regions in China.

Bacteria	Percentage composition in samples
	Yunnan	Xizang	Qinghai	Gansu	Sichuan
	n = 3	n = 3	n = 3	n = 3	n = 3
Phylum
Firmicutes	79.20	51.87	64.70	45.65	57.64
Proteobacteria	20.80	45.91	32.7	54.18	42.24
Actinobacteria	0.00	2.13	1.62	0.09	0.08
Acidobacteria	0.00	0.03	0.66	0.03	0.05
Bacteroidetes	0.00	0.05	0.23	0.01	0.00
Cyanobacteria	0.00	0.01	0.04	0.03	0.00
Unidentified	0.00	0.01	0.00	0.00	0.00
Genus
Lactobacillus	79.12	5.41	14.48	36.81	13.15
Acetobacter	17.92	41.43	14.06	50.66	5.84
Lactococcus	0.00	41.09	23.37	7.71	26.63
Leuconostoc	0.00	3.52	18.97	0.10	15.26
Streptococcus	0.00	0.01	5.43	0.01	1.25
Acinetobacter	0.00	0.08	4.58	0.45	2.09
Burkholderia	0.01	0.12	3.83	0.16	0.10
Ralstonia	0.00	0.04	1.32	0.05	0.03
Rhodanobacter	0.00	0.03	1.20	0.02	0.03
Pseudomonas	0.01	0.32	0.61	0.00	23.83
Enterococcus	0.00	1.13	0.46	0.15	0.01
Geobacillus	0.00	0.01	0.39	0.00	0.00
Sphingomonas	0.00	0.01	0.37	0.01	0.01
Anoxybacillus	0.00	0.00	0.33	0.02	0.00
Bacillus	0.05	0.14	0.30	0.02	0.00
Rhodococcus	0.00	0.02	0.27	0.02	0.01
Gluconobacter	0.81	0.63	0.24	0.93	0.90
Agrobacterium	0.00	0.01	0.23	0.00	0.00
Ochrobactrum	0.00	0.01	0.19	0.01	0.01
Comamonas	0.00	0.00	0.17	0.00	0.00
Others	2.07	5.99	9.20	2.86	10.85