Rumen methanogen and protozoal communities of Tibetan sheep and Gansu Alpine Finewool sheep grazing on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China

Table 1 Biodiversity and predicted richness from the rumen content of Tibetan sheep and Gansu Alpine Finewool sheep

Sample	No. of clones	No.of unique sequences^a	No. of OTUs^b	C (%)	H (95%CIs)^c	S_ACE (95%CIs)^c	S_Chao1 (95%CIs) ^c
TM	138	62	28	92.1	2.8 (2.5, 3.1)	44.1 (39.1, 51.1)	38.7 (30.5, 66.4)
GM	155	65	18	95.5	2.1 (1.8, 2.4)	24.5 (21.7, 28.9)	21.7 (18.0, 39.8)
TP	180	31	10	98.3	2.1 (1.9, 2.4)	10.6 (10.1, 16.1)	10.0 (9.5, 16.4)
GP	169	37	9	98.8	1.5 (1.2, 1.9)	8.9 (8.2, 12.4)	8.5 (8.0, 16.3)

^aUnique 16S rRNA gene sequences were determined via RFLP analysis
^bOTUs of the 16S rRNA gene sequences were determined as described in the text. The coverage (C), Shannon-Weiner (H) indices, and S_ACE and S_Chao1 richness estimators were calculated with the OTU data
^cThe 95% confidential intervals (95%CIs) were provided when calculating richness estimators

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