Specifically, babies whose mothers ate a high - fat diet had fewer
Bacteroides microbes in their guts, both at birth and several weeks after.
Not exact matches
Quantifying the relative abundances of three ubiquitous genera of
gut microbes —
Bacteroides, Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium — revealed that populations of
Bacteroides andLactobacillus peter out
in a predictable manner, the team reported
in June
in the Journal of Forensic Sciences.
Yet
in captivity, they all lost their distinctive
microbes and ended up being dominated by the same bacteria that dominate our human
guts — species of
Bacteroides and Prevotella.
They found that the samples from the older normal mice had the most diversity of their
gut microbes, including Clostridia and
Bacteroides bacteria not seen
in the younger mice that were still getting their nutrition entirely from mother's milk.