Fig. 2
From: Individuality and convergence of the infant gut microbiota during the first year of life
The infant GI microbiota goes through a period of accelerated convergence approximately between days 60 and 130 after birth. All data series were interpolated to equal length (365 pseudo-days) for this analysis. Dots show the observed values while lines show fitted generalized additive models (p ≪ 0.001 for all model fits). a Mean pairwise contemporaneous Bray–Curtis distances between 11 infants* (R2 = 0.65). b Relative abundances of Bifidobacterium longum/breve (OTU1) (yellow, R2 = 0.79) and Firmicutes (blue, R2 = 0.74). Shaded bands represent 95% confidence limits for the fitted models. Dotted vertical lines indicate the window of convergence (days 60–130). * ID8 was excluded from this analysis since sampling did not commence until day 54
