Fig. 3: Top ten species with a minimum abundance of 1%, significantly associated in the 11 age groups.

Significantly differentially abundant bacterial taxa on the TSS + CSS log2 data. The box plot shows the minimum, first quartile, median, third quartile and maximum values. The P value from the Kruskal–Wallis test shows the overall significance across all eleven 3-month age groups. In this overall general presentation, all three sampling time points were combined.