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Table 2 Summary of differences between rumen fluid and faecal samples

From: High throughput whole rumen metagenome profiling using untargeted massively parallel sequencing

 

DPI_rumen

JGI_rumen

Human faeces

Percentage aligned (mean ± S.D.)

3.46 ± 2.19

0.68 ± 0.46

0.87 ± 0.40

Contigs unique to faeces

14 635

555

15 090

Contigs unique to rumen fluid

148 861

8 774

6 472

Contigs present in both #

27 313

2 216

3 977

DR contigs (p ≤ 0.01) [FDR]

3 037 [62.8%]

822 [14.0%]

1 168 [21.9%]

DR contigs (p ≤ 0.001) [FDR]

444 [43.0%]

116 [9.9%]

386 [6.6%]

DRa contigs with BLASTn hit

77

88

307

  1. #Contigs present in both sample types: faeces and rumen fluid.
  2. DR - significantly differently represented.
  3. FDR - False discovery rate.
  4. a p ≤ 0.001.