Fig. 1From: Comparison of the gut microbiota composition between wild and captive sika deer (Cervus nippon hortulorum) from feces by high-throughput sequencingRarefaction curves (a) and rank abundance curves (b). The former reflects the rationality of our sequencing data size and abundance of species in feces samples indirectly. In rank abundance curves, wider span of curves reveals higher relative abundance of species in horizontal direction and the smoothness of curves showed the evenness of bacterial species in samples verticallyBack to article page