A holobiont birth narrative: The epigenetic transmission of the human microbiome

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Gilbert, Scott F ^a,b  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Birth; Colonization; Holobiont; Individuality; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; MICRORNA; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTEROIDES; BIFIDOBACTERIUM; BIRTH; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; CESAREAN SECTION; DELIVERY; DOWN REGULATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIGENETICS; FETUS GROWTH; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; IMMUNITY; INDIVIDUALITY; INSULIN RESISTANCE; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROBIAL TRANSMISSION; MICROBIOME; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; SYMBIOSIS; TOXOPLASMOSIS; VAGINA FLORA; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

EID: 84906280798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2014.00282     Document Type: Article

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