Fig. 4.

Identification of 0–6 M group infant ICSTs. Panel a shows a circular cladogram of the samples belonging to the 0–6 M group, obtained by means of hierarchical clustering (HCL) analysis. Panel b reports the principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) of the 0–6 M infant samples, subdivided by ICST. Panel c displays the average abundance and prevalence of bacteria that correspond to an identified ICST. Values that represent the ICSTs cut-off are highlighted in green. (For interpretation of the references to colour in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the web version of this article.)