Fig. 5
From: Temporal microbial colonization on different forages is driven by the rumen environmental conditions
Forage adherent microbial community variations in the different rumen environmental conditions. A Variations in genus abundance within the rumen environmental conditions. The columns of the heatmap represent the samples collected from individual animals on different days, and the rows correspond to the genera that varied significantly during forage incubation. The relative abundances were normalized by z-scores for easier visualization of variation patterns in each genus across different time points. Genera were clustered according to the unweighted pair group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) method and calculated based on Spearman’s correlation of scaled abundances. B Variations in the bacteria-to-archaea ratio. The lines show the changes in the total bacteria-to-archaea ratio during forage incubation in different rumen environmental conditions. The solid green lines represent the AHR (a rumen environmental condition created from animals fed an alfalfa hay-based diet), and the dashed yellow lines represent the CSR (a rumen environmental condition created from animals fed a corn stover-based diet). Yellow squares and green dots in each line represent CS (corn stover pellets in nylon bags) and AH (alfalfa hay pellets in nylon bags) incubated in the respective rumen environmental condition