Indigenous infants in remote Australia retain an ancestral gut microbiome despite encroaching Westernization #MMPMID41339319
Harrison LC; Allnutt TR; Hanieh S; Roth-Schulze AJ; Ngui KM; Stone NL; Bandala-Sanchez E; Backshell L; Gurruwiwi G; Gondarra V; Couper JJ; Craig ME; Davis EA; Huynh T; Soldatos G; Wentworth JM; Vuillermin P; Penno MAS; Biggs BA
Nat Commun 2025[Dec]; 16 (1): 9904 PMID41339319show ga
Studies of traditional Indigenous compared to 'Western' gut microbiomes are underrepresented, and lacking in young children, limiting knowledge of early-life microbiomes in different cultural contexts. Here we analyze the gut metagenomes of 50 Indigenous Australian infants (median age