Fig. 1From: Modeling the temporal dynamics of cervicovaginal microbiota identifies targets that may promote reproductive healthA Cervicotype (CT) assignments were given to 316 samples taken from 88 women. Each row represents the cervicotype designation for each sample in a time series of a given woman. Points are joined when adjacent samples are separated by a 3-month interval. B–D Principle coordinate analysis (PCoA) of Bray-Curtis dissimilarity of species-level relative abundances. Samples are colored by CT assignment with ellipses representing an interval of 2 standard deviations around the centroid of a given cluster. B Points represent samples projected in to the PCoA space. C Adjacent time points separated by a 3-month interval are connected by an arrow colored by the CT designation of the early time point. D Summing the vectors by the CT designation of the earlier timepoint shows the overall direction of movement of samples beginning in a particular CTBack to article page