Fig. 10

Lung microbiota discriminate between early and late developmental stages. Heatmap generated from the recursively partitioned mixture model (RPMM) for beta and Gaussian mixtures. The columns represent weeks, and the rows are the clusters. Color reflects the within-cluster mean abundance levels for each of the developmental stages. The different stages of lung development clustered with their respective neighbors, thereby indicating the ability of microbial populations to discriminate between the developmental weeks. Weeks 1–3 cluster together, whereas weeks 4–8 form independent clusters