Here, the authors employ multi-omics on a cohort comprising three generations of family members, showing that fecal microbiota populations, functions, and metabolome of infants vary greatly from their maternal lineage, exhibiting a less diverse microbiota and differences in various metabolite classes including short- and branched-chain fatty acids.
- Tomás Clive Barker-Tejeda
- Elisa Zubeldia-Varela
- Alma Villaseñor