Title: Correlations Between Gut Microbiota Community Structures of Tibetans and Geography

Title: Correlations between gut microbiota community structures of Tibetans and geography

Authors: Daoliang Lan1,2*, Wenhui Ji2, Baoshan Lin2,3, Yabing Chen2, Cai Huang2, Xianrong Xiong2, Mei Fu2, Tserang Donko Mipam1,Yi Ai1, Bo Zeng4, Ying Li4, Zhixin Cai1, Jiangjiang Zhu1, Dawei Zhang1, JianLi1,2*

Address: 1Institute of Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu, 610041, Peoples’ Republic of China.

2College of Life Science and Technology, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu ,610041, Peoples’ Republic of China.

3Animal Disease Prevention and Control Center of Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province,624000, Peoples’ Republic of China.

4Farm Animal Genetic Resources Exploration and Innovation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu, 611130, Peoples’ Republic of China.

Table S1. The statistical information of sequencing in each sample.

Figure S1. Rarefaction curves of each sample.

Figure S2. Taxonomic classification of bacterial reads at the phylum level. Sequences were classified into different taxonomic groups using Ribosomal Database Project (RDP) classifier with a threshold value of 80%.

Figure S3. Taxonomic classification of bacterial reads at the class level. Sequences were classified into different taxonomic groups using RDP classifier with a threshold value of 80%.

Figure S4. Taxonomic classification of bacterial reads at the family level. Sequences were classified into different taxonomic groups using RDP classifier with a threshold value of 80%.

Figure S5. Taxonomic classification of bacterial reads at the genus level. Sequences were classified into different taxonomic groups using RDP classifier with a threshold value of 80%.

Table S2. Sample Information.