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<p>The human gut microbiome is most dynamic in early life. Although sweeping changes in taxonomic architecture are well described, it remains unknown how, and to what extent, individual strains colonize and persist and how selective pressures define their genomic architecture. In this study, we combined shotgun sequencing of 1,203 stool samples from 26 mothers and their twins (52 infants), sampled from childbirth to 8 years after birth, with culture-enhanced, deep short-read and long-read stool sequencing from a subset of 10 twins (20 infants) to define transmission, persistence and evolutionary trajectories of gut species from infancy to middle childhood. We constructed 3,995 strain-resolved metagenome-assembled genomes across 399 taxa, and we found that 27.4% persist within individuals. We identified 726 strains shared within families, with Bacteroidales, Oscillospiraceae and Lachnospiraceae, but not Bifidobacteriaceae, vertically transferred. Lastly, we identified weaning as a critical inflection point that accelerates bacterial mutation rates and separates functional profiles of genes accruing mutations.</p>

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Gut microbiome evolution from infancy to 8 years of age

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年4月2日

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  • Sanjam S. Sawhney,
  • Robert Thänert,
  • Anna Thänert,
  • Carla Hall-Moore,
  • I. Malick Ndao,
  • Bejan Mahmud,
  • Barbara B. Warner,
  • Phillip I. Tarr,
  • Gautam Dantas

摘要

The human gut microbiome is most dynamic in early life. Although sweeping changes in taxonomic architecture are well described, it remains unknown how, and to what extent, individual strains colonize and persist and how selective pressures define their genomic architecture. In this study, we combined shotgun sequencing of 1,203 stool samples from 26 mothers and their twins (52 infants), sampled from childbirth to 8 years after birth, with culture-enhanced, deep short-read and long-read stool sequencing from a subset of 10 twins (20 infants) to define transmission, persistence and evolutionary trajectories of gut species from infancy to middle childhood. We constructed 3,995 strain-resolved metagenome-assembled genomes across 399 taxa, and we found that 27.4% persist within individuals. We identified 726 strains shared within families, with Bacteroidales, Oscillospiraceae and Lachnospiraceae, but not Bifidobacteriaceae, vertically transferred. Lastly, we identified weaning as a critical inflection point that accelerates bacterial mutation rates and separates functional profiles of genes accruing mutations.