Spearman's rank correlation matrix of the dominant microbial populations across domains in analyzed rumen samples.

<p>Microbial populations listed represent at least 1% of the bacterial, archaeal, ciliate, or fungal communities in at least one sample and were detected in at least 50% of the rumen samples analyzed. Strong correlations are indicated by large squares, whereas weak correlations are indicated by small squares. The colours of the scale bar denote the nature of the correlation with 1 indicating perfect positive correlation (dark blue) and -1 indicating perfect negative correlation (dark red) between two microbial populations. Correlations marked with circles are discussed in the text.