Additional file 1 of Inoculation with rumen fluid in early life accelerates the rumen microbial development and favours the weaning process in goats

Additional file 1 Table S1. Description of the inocula in terms of rumen fermentation and microbial composition. Table S2. Effect of the early-in-life rumen microbial inoculation and age on the rumen bacteria concentration, diversity and taxonomy. Table S3. Spearman’s correlations between the bacterial taxa and the rumen function and animal performance. Table S4. Effect of early-in-life rumen microbial inoculation and age on the rumen methanogens concentration, diversity and taxonomy. Table S5. Effect of early-in-life rumen microbial inoculation and age on the rumen protozoal concentration, diversity and taxonomy. Table S6. Effect of early-in-life rumen microbial inoculation and age on the rumen anaerobic fungal concentration, diversity and taxonomy. Table S7. Descriptive statistics of the metadata used in the distance-based redundancy analyses and spearman correlations with microbial taxa abundance. Table S8. Primers used for quantitative PCR and Next Generation Sequencing. Fig. S1. Principal co-ordinates analysis illustrating the inoculation effects on the multi-kingdom rumen microbioma.