Structural and functional analysis of the active cow rumen’s microbial community provides a catalogue of genes and microbes participating in the deconstruction of cardoon biomass

Table 2 Differential expression (DE) analysis of transcripts affiliated with major fibre-degrading families in rumen and cardoon samples

Family	Total mRNA transcripts	Total CAZy transcripts	% of Differentially expressed (DE) transcripts¹	DE CAZy transcripts²
Neocallimastigaceae	15,389	644	23% (3572)	27% (178)
Oscillospiraceae	46,338	1006	7.5% (3493)	11.5% (116)
Fibrobacteraceae	21,557	403	n.d	n.d
Prevotellaceae	17,991	252	6.8% (1225)	8.7% (22)
Lachnospiraceae	62,729	509	7.2% (4866)	6.6% (34)
Treponemataceae	17,666	136	5.9% (1059)	11% (15)
Paludibacteraceae	6462	79	n.d	n.d

¹Complete list of DE transcripts is provided as Additional file 1: Table S12
²Complete list of DE CAZy transcripts is provided as Additional file 1: Table S13
n.d. not detected

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