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Table 1 Experimental design and rumen sampling for microbial and viral community analyses

From: Dietary energy drives the dynamic response of bovine rumen viral communities

Steer identifier

Period 1

Period 2

Period 3

Period 4

346

27CDSM

CornM,V

40MDGSM,V

55CSM,V,DV

3244

27CDSM

CornM,V

40MDGSM,V

55CSM,V,DV

222

55CSM

40MDGSM,V

CornM,V

27CDSM,V,DV

3257

40MDGSM

27CDSM,V,DV

55CSM,V,DV

CornM,V

259

CornM

55CSM,V

27CDSM,V,DV

40MDGSM,V

  1. Five steers were rotated through four diets in a row-column design. Microbial metagenomes and 16S rRNA amplicons (M) were sequenced from all periods, viral metagenomes from periods 2–4 (V), and deep viral metagenomes were sequenced from select 27CDS and 55CS samples (DV)