Fig 1.

Mean counts (× 10⁵) of 40 test species in supragingival biofilm samples from the mesiobuccal surface of each tooth of 187 subjects. The upper panel represents the maxilla and the lower panel the mandible. Species counts were averaged across subjects for each tooth separately. All species differed significantly among teeth at p < 0.001 (Kruskal Wallis test) after adjusting for 40 comparisons (5). The species were ordered and color-coded according to supragingival microbial complexes (1). In this cumulative plot, the total height at each sample location provides the mean total DNA probe count at that site. The cartoons of each tooth are presented to depict the location of each tooth sample. The full genus and species names of the 40 taxa listed in the Fig. are as follows: Actinomyces naeslundii genospecies 1, Actinomyces israelii, Actinomyces odontolyticus, Actinomyces gerencseriae, Actinomyces naeslundii genospecies 2, Veillonella parvula, Neisseria mucosa, Capnocytophaga gingivalis, Eikenella corrodens, Capnocytophaga sputigena, Capnocytophaga ochracea, Selenomonas noxia, Campylobacter gracilis, Prevotella melaninogenica, Prevotella nigrescens, Prevotella intermedia, Campylobacter rectus, Campylobacter showae, Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies vincentii, Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies nucleatum, Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies polymorphum, Fusobacterium periodonticum, Tannerella forsythia, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Eubacterium nodatum, Treponema denticola, Parvimonas micra, Eubacterium saburreum, Streptococcus gordonii, Streptococcus sanguinis, Streptococcus oralis, Streptococcus mitis, Streptococcus intermedius, Streptococcus constellatus, Streptococcus anginosus, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Propionibacterium acnes, Leptotrichia buccalis, Treponema socranskii, Gemella morbillorum.