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

Daniel D. Sprockett
, Andrew H. Moeller

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	R124-R126
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	31
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.11.045
State	Published - Feb 8 2021
Externally published	Yes

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General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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