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.