Figure 3
From: Temporal development of the oral microbiome and prediction of early childhood caries
Temporal development of the core oral microbiome. Values represent the percentage of the cohort with detectable levels of each taxa at the six mean ages tested. Taxa were considered to be part of the core microbiome if they were present in the saliva of more than 90% of the children in the cohort at one or more time-points. Bold font within the Figure shows those values above 90%. Taxa are arranged from early to late colonisers and the shading clusters taxa based on when they first became part of the core microbiome. Staphylococcus caprae is placed at the end of the Figure due to its anomalous colonization pattern. The final row shows the total number of taxa in the children’s core microbiome at that time point.
