Fig. 4. Associations between 1-month microbiome and non-social fear behavior.

a–e Scatterplots displaying relationships between alpha diversity principal component 2 at 1 month of age and average scores of bodily fear, escape behavior, facial fear, vocal distress, and startle response during the Mask Task paradigm at 1 year of age, respectively. Each dot represents a single subject. f Two-level linear mixed effects model with t test, **denotes significance after Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons, threshold for significance of p = 0.00208, * denotes p < 0.05, n = 19 independent participants. Source data for this figure are provided as a Source Data file.