Table 2.
OTU level taxonomic biomarkers for (a) concentrate basal diets and (b) forage basal diets (Linear discriminant analysis effect size > 4.0)
| (a) | ||
| Concentrate | % Seq | SILVA 128 Taxonomy (Mixed Rank) |
| OTU00001 | 10.5 | Unclassified Gammaproteobacteria (Class) |
| OTU00004 | 2.6 | Prevotella (Genus) |
| OTU00017 | 1.0 | Phascolarctobacterium (Genus) |
| OTU00019 | 0.9 | Prevotella (Genus) |
| (b) | ||
| Forage | % Seq | SILVA 128 Taxonomy (Mixed Rank) |
| OTU00003 | 2.9 | Methanobrevibacter (Genus) |
| OTU00006 | 2.3 | Ruminococcaceae (Family) |
| OTU00005 | 2.4 | Proteobacteria (Phylum) |
| OTU00009 | 1.9 | Lachnospiraceae (Family) |
Taxonomic classification to the lowest identified rank assigned using SILVA SEED 128 reference database with bootstrap values of 100. % Seq: Proportion of sequence counts from total dataset representing each OTU