ArticleiScience2022
The early life microbiota mediates maternal effects on offspring growth in a nonhuman primate.
Article in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Hypothesis Linking Early-Life Adversity to Altered Synaptic Connectivity Through Disrupted Gut Microbiome-Microglia Communication.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Age-related changes in the gut microbiota of a long-lived seabird suggest divergence from mammalian models.Royal Society open science · 2026Article
- The effects of parity on the maternal microbiome - challenges associated with mouse models.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Maternal β-carotene supplementation improves offspring growth, development, immunity, and intestinal microbiota in chickens via immune-mediated and microbial-mediated maternal effects.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Connecting microbial ecology to human fertility and reproduction: perspectives from the reproductive microbiomes of animals.F&S reports · 2025Article
- Early-life gut microbiota assembly patterns are conserved between laboratory and wild mice.Communications biology · 2024Article
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- Microbiome: Mammalian milk microbiomes: sources of diversity, potential functions, and future research directions.Reproduction & fertility · 2024Review
- Meager Milk: Lasting Consequences for Adult Daughters of Primiparous Mothers Among Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta).Integrative and comparative biology · 2023Article
- The long-term gut bacterial signature of a wild primate is associated with a timing effect of pre- and postnatal maternal glucocorticoid levels.Microbiome · 2023Article
- Ecoevolutionary processes structure milk microbiomes across the mammalian tree of life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Milk microbiomes of three great ape species vary among host species and over time.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- The case for microbial intervention at weaning.Gut microbesReview
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Abstract
Maternal parity can impact offspring growth, but the mechanisms driving this effect are unclear. Here, we test the hypothesis that vertically transmitted microbiota may be one potential mechanism. We analyzed 118 fecal and milk samples from mother-offspring vervet monkey dyads across the first 6 months of life. Despite poorer milk production, offspring born to low parity females grew larger than their counterparts. These offspring exhibited reduced alpha diversity in the first days of life, stronger seeding of maternal milk microbiota,
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