Fig. 1
From: Neonatal gut and respiratory microbiota: coordinated development through time and space
Composition of community state types (CSTs) of the nose (NAS), gut (GUT), and throat (THR). Average composition of each CST was identified by Dirichlet-Multinomial mixture (DMM) model-based clustering. Samples are grouped by the Dirichlet component that they represent, with each component corresponding to a CST, and the average composition of all samples in each CST group is represented. The CSTs in each site are ordered based on their occurrence over time (e.g., CST 2 is the earliest gut CST). The height of each bar is equal, indicating that all total abundances are normalized to a constant sum. The number of samples in each CST is included at the top of each bar. Within each bar, different colored bands correspond to different taxa, and the height of a given band is proportional to the average relative abundance of the corresponding taxon in the given CST. The top ten most abundant taxa within each body site are identified, with the closed circle flanking each taxa name positioned in the corresponding taxa in each bar. The composition of all samples is listed in Additional file 4: Table S1