Fig. 3: Bray Curtis MDS clusters. | Pediatric Research

Fig. 3: Bray Curtis MDS clusters.

From: Early gut microbiome composition of very preterm infants randomised to receive human milk volumes of 60 ml/kg/day or more within the first 36 hours after birth

Fig. 3

De novo clustering of individual sample microbial Bray-Curtis dissimilarity scores identified four community state types (CST) characterised by distinct microbial community compositions. Mutli-dimensional scaling a plots the overall composition of each sample as an individual point, coloured by CST grouping. Heatmap b shows distinct bacterial compositions between CSTs. The colour intensity of each tile represents the relative abundance of a single genus (rows) across samples (columns) (white = low, blue = high). Samples are arranged on the x-axis according to compositional similarity. CST grouping of each sample (column) is plotted as per colour scheme above the heatmap along with other clinical covariates. No CSTs were associated with intervention group or other clinical covariates. (Community state types: CST1 red, Enterobacteriaceae dominance, CST2 = blue, Staphylococcus and Enterococcus dominance, CST3 green, Enterobacter dominance, CST4 purple, Escherichia dominance).

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