Figure 2.

Diversity and composition of ruminal fungi in goats and sheep. (A). Mutual and particular operational taxonomic unit (OTU) number of fungi in goats and sheep. (B). Comparison of the diversity estimation of the fungi based on One-way ANOVA, in which the y-axis represented Shannon index. The Shannon index was related to the richness and evenness of the microbial community. (C). Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) profile of fungi diversity in all samples using an unweighted UniFrac metric. The percentage of variation explained by PC1 and PC2 were indicated in the axis X and Y. Statistic (R) and p-value (P) were annotated by ANOSIM analysis between goats and sheep. (D). The illustration exhibited the relative distribution of the most dominant fungi (1% of the total sequences) in goats and sheep at the phylum, family, and genus level. (E). Taxa with significantly different abundances at phylum (p), class (c), order (o), family (f), genus (g) levels are shown. The red color represented that the abundance of taxa was higher in goats and a blue color represented that the abundance of taxa was higher in goats. The higher the Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) score, the greater the effect of the taxa abundance on the difference between goats and sheep.