Fig. 7

Relative abundance of the dominant genera after in situ digestion. Cows were fed a diet supplemented without (N = 4, control) or with inulin (2% dry matter basis; N = 4, inulin). Respective diets were incubated in the rumen of cows from 2–120 h and ruminal microbiota were then analyzed. Error bars indicate ± standard error of the mean. The box in the plots indicates the interquartile range (IQR) (middle 50% of the data), the middle line represents the median value, and the whiskers represent 1.5 times the IQR