title: Birth of the infant gut microbiome: moms deliver twice!
abstract: The infant gut is rapidly colonized by microbes shortly after birth. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe,Bäckhed et al. (2015) shed new light on the assembly of the infant gut microbiome early in life, and how diet and delivery mode shape this community in a western human population.
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis and the Foods For Health Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
authors.forename: Steven A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Frese
authors.affiliation: Department of Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis and the Foods For Health Institute, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA. Electronic address: damills@ucdavis.edu.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Mills
mesh_terms: D000069196:Gastrointestinal Microbiome; D041981:Gastrointestinal Tract / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D064307:Microbiota