Fig. 6

Associations between inferred microbial functions and menstrual phases. Microbial KEGG pathways enriched in the proliferative or the secretory phases (orange versus blue, reporter score >1.96 or <−1.96) and present in all the body sites were plotted as a heatmap. The pathways were arranged by unsupervised hierarchical clustering. Samples derive from the study cohort of 95 reproductive-age women (n = 94 CL, 95 CU, 95 CV, 80 ET, 93 PF, 9 FLL and 10 FRL, Supplementary Data 1)