From parent to progeny

Sara Shama; Michelle R Asbury; Deborah L O'Connor

doi:10.1016/j.chom.2024.05.012

From parent to progeny

Cell Host Microbe. 2024 Jun 12;32(6):947-949. doi: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.05.012.

Authors

Sara Shama¹, Michelle R Asbury², Deborah L O'Connor³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Translational Medicine Program, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
² Department of Physiology & Pharmacology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; Alberta Children's Hospital Research Institute, Calgary, Canada.
³ Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Translational Medicine Program, SickKids Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Joannah and Brian Lawson Centre for Child Nutrition, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Rogers Hixon Ontario Human Milk Bank, Toronto, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 38870905
DOI: 10.1016/j.chom.2024.05.012

Abstract

How infants acquire their gut microbial communities and the various factors influencing these dynamics remain unclear. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Selma-Royo et al. and Dubois et al. use shotgun metagenomic sequencing to understand the transmission of microbes from parents to infants and delve into factors modifying this process.

MeSH terms

Gastrointestinal Microbiome*
Humans
Infant
Metagenomics