Fig. 7.

Shannon diversity of different groups of infant gut microbiota increases with age, demonstrated by separating subjects by both age and by birth mode. Significant differences between birth modes at a given time point were tested with a linear mixed effects model which adjusts for potential batch effect (sequencing run), and the age of the infants at the given time point. Comparing different time points for a given birth mode was performed with linear mixed effects models that adjust for the batch and the subjects