Figure 5. Venn diagram displaying (A) the total sequence reads
(B) the number of unique and shared bacterial ASVs in adult and calf
groups
We attempted to identify bacterial ASVs which were shared between
different groups of the muskox. 34.72% (66731/125489) of the total
sequence reads were shared, 7.33% (713/9719) of the total ASVs were
shared between adults and calves (Figure 5). In the shared ASVs,
Ruminococcaceae (adults: 77.96%, calves: 60.64%) and Lachnospiraceae
(adults: 8.79%, calves: 26.69%) were abundant.