Effect of time and bacterial probiotic on the bacterial diversity at the family level of the lamb rumen over the first six months of life.

<p>X-axis labeled reflect treatment (Con = control, Exp = probiotic experimental), as well as sampling date.</p

Effect of bacterial probiotic on lamb rumen pH over the first six months of life.

<p>Significance (P < 0.05) is denoted with *, and error bars show standard error mean. MR = milk replacer.</p

Effect of bacterial probiotic on lamb rumen acetate to propionate ratio over the first six months of life.

<p>Significance (P < 0.05) is denoted with *, and error bars show standard error mean.</p

Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) of lamb rumen bacterial samples by sampling time (A) and treatment (B).

<p>Sampling time (A) is week 2 = teal, week 6 = green, week 11 = red, and week 23 = dark blue for both groups. Treatment (B) is control (con) week 2 = red, experimental (exp) week 2 = green triangle, con week 6 = orange, exp week 6 = teal, con week 11 = yellow, exp week 11 = blue, con week 23 = green, exp week 4 = dark blue.</p

Effect of time and bacterial probiotic on the bacterial diversity at the phylum level of the lamb rumen over the first six months of life.

<p>X-axis labeled reflect treatment (Con = control, Exp = probiotic experimental), as well as sampling date. Error bars show standard error mean.</p

Phylogenetic comparison of 31 fibrolytic isolates along with known sequences (NCBI).

<p>A neighbor-joining tree was created using MEGA ver. 6 and the Kimura 2-parameter model. The asterisk (*) indicates the five probiotic isolates, and the one potential probiotic strain which could not be grown in continuous culture.</p