Microbiomes: Infant Chimps Crawling with Bacteria

Daniel D Sprockett; Andrew H Moeller

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.045

Microbiomes: Infant Chimps Crawling with Bacteria

Curr Biol. 2021 Feb 8;31(3):R124-R126. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.045.

Authors

Daniel D Sprockett¹, Andrew H Moeller²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA.
² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

Abstract

Human guts are colonized at birth by a limited set of microbes that gradually increases in diversity throughout infancy. A new study reports the opposite pattern in infant chimpanzees, raising questions about how host-microbiota relationships have changed during ape evolution.

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Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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MeSH terms

Animals
Bacteria / genetics
Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Microbiota*
Pan troglodytes

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