Fig. 1.
a Compositional differences of saliva inoculum, caries biofilms and gingivitis biofilms evaluated by Principle Coordinates analysis (PCoA) of weighted UniFrac distances. Depicted are principal coordinates 1 to 3, which explained 93% of total variance. Each sample is represented by a single dot; cluster centroids are highlighted by bold points. b Heatmap of ASV abundance on genus-level for saliva inoculum, caries biofilms and gingivitis biofilms