Breed and ruminal fraction effects on bacterial and archaeal community composition in sheep

The purpose of this study was to study the effect of sheep breed and ruminal fraction on rumen bacteria and archaea populations in sheep using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. For this investigation, samples were taken from the solid, liquid, and epithelial ruminal fractions from ram lambs of four distinct sheep breeds (i.e Cheviot, Connemara, Lanark and Perth).