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No significant difference in the bacterial composition was detected between any two libraries constructed for any given fraction of the rumen in cows with alfalfa as the diet. For the libraries constructed for the rumen of cows with triticale as the diet, significant differences in the bacterial composition were detected between the two libraries constructed for both the _L and the _PT fractions. Overall, the bacterial populations identified in the library of period 1 for a specified fraction shared 16�C32% http://www.selleckchem.com/products/SB-431542.html and 10�C27% of their OTUs with the bacterial populations identified in the corresponding library of period 2 in the rumen of cows fed alfalfa and triticale, respectively. At the community level, 16% of the OTUs in the alfalfa-fed bacterial community were identical to the same percentage of the OTUs in the triticale-fed bacterial community. A high level of biodiversity in the rumen bacterial community has been revealed in this study. In total, 656 OTUs were identified in the rumen of animals fed alfalfa or triticale, with 74% of the OTUs (451) belonging to new bacterial species. The species richness (Chao 1) estimated for the bacterial communities fed alfalfa and triticale was 1027 and 662, respectively. The values are markedly higher than the 300�C400 estimated (also using Chao 1 estimation) by Edwards et al. (2004) based on the rumen bacterial clones obtained by Whitford et al. (1998), Tajima et al. (1999), and Tajima et al. (2000). This is likely because in each of these previous studies, only limited (80�C90) 16S rRNA gene clones were sequenced http://www.selleckchem.com/products/byl719.html for each library and multiple phases of the rumen were not considered. The high species richness estimations obtained in this study are relatively close to those (?621) estimated by Larue et al. (2005) for different fractions of the rumen of sheep (no data were provided for the entire community). In both studies, fractionation of digesta samples and construction of relatively large clone libraries for each fraction were carried out. The sequences obtained by Larue et al. (2005) were http://www.selleck.cn/products/ipi-145-ink1197.html could result in biases to the estimation of diversity. We believe that the species richness estimation arrived at in this study is reflective of the bacterial biodiversity of the rumen of cows fed high-forage diets, indicating that the rumen bacterial community is more diverse than expected. The biodiversity of the rumen bacterial community defined in this study could also be seen at the genus level. Using the na?ve bayesian classifier provided in RDP, the 656?OTUs obtained in our study were classified into 32 genera (27 and 23 genera in the three fractions of rumen fed with alfalfa and triticale, respectively), markedly more than the 19 genera reported by Larue et al. (2005) in the rumen of sheep fed orchard grass hay, with or without corn (c.