Figure 1
From: Temporal development of the oral microbiome and prediction of early childhood caries
Notch plot of the bacterial α-diversity of saliva from the 134 children and their mothers examined in this study. The figure shows oral bacterial community development in children as the increase in taxa number over six time-points, from 1.9 to 48.6 months-of-age. The number of bacterial taxa in the saliva of mothers taken when their children were 7.7 months-of-age is shown for comparison. The box represents the interquartile (50% of data), the horizontal line in the box represents the median, the “notch” represents the 95% confidence interval of the median and the “whiskers” represent the maximum and minimum values.
