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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 18.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2019 Sep 18;574(7776):117–121. doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1560-1

Extended Data Fig. 2. Microbiota variation associated with mode of delivery in the neonatal period and infancy.

Extended Data Fig. 2

Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination of Bray–Curtis dissimilarity between the species relative abundance profiles of the gut microbiota sampled from babies on day 4 (vaginal, n=157; C-section, n=153), day 7 (vaginal, n=280; C-section, n=252), day 21 (vaginal, n=147; C-section, n=178), during infancy (vaginal, n=160; C-section, n = 142) and from mothers (vaginal, n=110; C-section, n=65). Microbial variation explained by factor mode of delivery is represented by the PERMANOVA R2 value (bottom left) and statistically significant across four cross-sectional PERMANOVA tests (FDR-corrected p-values reported in Supplementary Table 2).