Table 7 Top significantly functional co-expression modules of sheep RNA-seq transcripts and amplicon sequence variants (ASV)

M2

Isoforms = 239; archaea feces = 2; archaea rumen = 3; bacteria feces = 24; bacteria rumen = 26

ASV_Bac_396_R, ASV_Bac_250_R, XM_042238037.1 (SYTL2), ASV_Bac_1273_R, ASV_Bac_422_S

M6

Isoforms = 232; archaea feces = 3; archaea rumen = 4; bacteria feces = 11; bacteria rumen = 13

ASV_Bac_1254_R, ASV_Bac_433_R, ASV_Bac_115_R, ASV_Bac_269_R, ASV_Bac_218_S

M10

Isoforms = 223; archaea rumen = 1; bacteria rumen = 7

XM_027958292.2 (SFMBT1), XM_042256129.1 (MAPT), XM_042230866.1 (ZNF570), ASV_Bac_239_R, XM_027964183.2 (SEMA4D)

M25

Isoforms = 116; bacteria feces = 4; bacteria rumen = 3

XM_042250691.1 (PWWP2A), XM_027978299.2 (COQ8B), XM_012180311.3 (PTPN13), XM_042247173.1 (RIC8B), XM_042237043.1 (SSR1)