FIG 4.

The fecal microbes of the parturient covaried with the initial flora of the fetus. (A) Comparison of the Chao1 index and the Shannon index of bacterial communities for different age groups in mother feces and matched newborn meconium samples. (B) Comparison of Bray-Curtis distances of bacterial communities for different age groups in mother feces and matched newborn meconium samples. (C) The transmission of bacteria with significant differences between different age groups at the genus level. (D) Prediction of the functions of different microflora in meconium samples from different age groups by PICRUSt.