Fig. 5
From: The development of lower respiratory tract microbiome in mice
Heatmap generated and hierarchical clustering of the 72 samples: Clustering was undertaken using Ward’s method [62], and maximum linkage was applied to the log10-transformed abundance levels. Heatmap was generated from the weighted UniFrac distance matrix. This heatmap reveals distinct clusters for weeks 1, 2, 6, and 8. The increasing shades of blue denote greater similarity between samples. Red shade represents dissimilarity. Squares with dashed border contain single samples from different weeks. These dashed border clusters therefore represent the noisy grouping of samples where the neighboring samples do not belong to the same week points (represent non-specific clustering between samples). The numbers in the X-axis represent the week to which a particular box belong