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Role of priority effects in the early-life assembly of the gut microbiota

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Sprockett, Daniel, Fukami, Tadashi, Relman, David A.·2018·Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

DOI 10.1038/nrgastro.2017.173PMC PMC6813786

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Understanding how microbial communities develop is essential for predicting and directing their future states. Ecological theory suggests that community development is often influenced by priority effects, in which the order and timing of species arrival determine how species affect one another. Priority effects can have long-lasting consequences, particularly if species arrival history varies during the early stage of community development, but their importance to the human gut microbiota and host health remains largely unknown. Here, we explore how priority effects might influence microbial communities in the gastrointestinal tract during early childhood and how the strength of priority effects can be estimated from the composition of the microbial species pool. We also discuss factors that alter microbial transmission, such as delivery mode, diet and parenting behaviours such as breastfeeding, which can influence the likelihood of priority effects. An improved knowledge of priority effects has the potential to inform microorganism-based therapies, such as prebiotics and probiotics, which are aimed at guiding the microbiota towards a healthy state.

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Authors: Sprockett, D., Fukami, T., & Relman, D. A.
Affiliations: Stanford Medicine (US)
Stanford University (US)
VA Palo Alto Health Care System (US)
Corresponding author: Relman, David A.
ORCID: Sprockett, Daniel
Fukami, Tadashi
Relman, David A.
Venue: Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2018-01-24
Volume: 15
Issue: 4
Pages: 197-205
ISSN: 1759-5045 (ISSN-L)
1759-5053
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2017.173
PMC: PMC6813786
OpenAlex: W2784989009
Cited by: 419
References: 134
Citations by year: 2026: 38 · 2025: 52 · 2024: 58 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 59 · 2021: 66 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 33 · 2018: 12
FWCI: 4.09
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of General Medical Sciences (T32GM007276)
Topics: Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Infant Nutrition and Health
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
Keywords: priority effects, microbial transmission, mode of delivery, diet, breastfeeding, parenting behaviour, prebiotics, probiotics, early childhood
MeSH terms: Gastrointestinal Microbiome, Host Microbial Interactions, Child Development, Biological Evolution, Female, Humans, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Labor, Obstetric, Maternal-Fetal Exchange, Pregnancy, Selection, Genetic, Time Factors, Genetic Drift, Biodiversity

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