Multivariate analysis.

<p>Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) ordination plot, showing axis 1 and 2. The input data for ordination plots were Yue & Clayton measure of dissimilarity, based on microbiota composition at operational taxonomic unit level. The size of the points represents the time of lactation, the smallest points corresponding to days 0–4 days, the medium to days 5–11, and the largest to month 2.