TABLE 2.
Summary of published rumen viral metagenomics studies including the type of ruminant used for each study (breed description provided in publication), number of individual animals sampled and the DNA sequencing technologies used.
| Ruminant description | Number of animals | DNA Sequencing technology | References |
| Cattle (Angus Simmental Cross steers) | 3 | Pyrosequencing | Dinsdale et al., 2008 |
| Cattle (Angus Simmental Cross steers) | 3 | Pyrosequencing | Willner et al., 2009 |
| Cattle (Holstein dairy cows) | 3 | Pyrosequencing | Berg Miller et al., 2012 |
| Cattle (Holstein dairy cows) | 13 | Illumina HiSeq | Ross et al., 2013 |
| Sheep (Cross bred rams) | 22 | Illumina HiSeq | Yutin et al., 2015 |
| Buffalo (Surti breed) | 1 | Ion torrent | Parmar et al., 2016 |
| Cattle (steers) | 5 | Ion torrent, Illumina MiSeq | Anderson et al., 2017 |
| Goats (Caprus hircus), sheep (Ovis aries) | 8, 8 | Pyrosequencing | Namonyo et al., 2018 |
| Moose (Alces alces gigas) | 1 | Illumina HiSeq | Solden et al., 2018 |