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. 2021 Sep 20;12:679135. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2021.679135

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Copyright © 2021 Yin, Ji, Duan, Tian, Ju, Yan, Zhang and Liu.

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Effect of the age of lambs on rumen bacterial communities. (A) Species richness estimates (Chao1 index) and (B) diversity (Shannon index) for the nine sampling time points. (C) Scatterplot from non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMSD) of bacterial Bray-Curtis distance in each sample. (D) Relative abundance of bacterial phyla at different ages of the lambs. ^a,bLetters denote significant differences between groups; groups that do not share the same letter are significantly different from each other (P < 0.05).