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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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Bacterial taxonomic biomarkers of lamb age and the rumen microbiota gradually stabilize. (A) The top 27 biomarkers of bacterial genera were identified by applying RandomForest regression of their relative abundances in lambs against chronological age. Ranking in descending order of importance to the accuracy of the model was to determine biomarker taxa. The insert illustrates the result of the 10-fold cross-validation error. (B) Heatmap of changes over ages showing the relative abundances of the top 27 age-predictive biomarkers for bacterial genera.