Metals and early-life microbial ecology

Coverage

The linked records preserve whether the evidence concerns humans, experimental animals, microbial mechanisms or soil systems. Environmental microbiology is kept distinct from the human gut; a topic-wide synthesis remains pending.

Indexed source records

• Metal availability shapes early life microbial ecology and community succession (2024; peer reviewed).
• Association between infants’ serum levels of 26 metals and gut microbiota: a hospital-based cross-sectional study in China (2025; peer reviewed).

Related topic

Heavy metal exposure, microbial metal ecology, and disease pathogenesis: a first-principles framework for microbiome medicine.

References

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1. Metal availability shapes early life microbial ecology and community successionJoshua Soto Ocaña, Elliot S. Friedman, Orlaith Keenan, Nile U. Bayard, Eileen Ford, Ceylan Tanes, et al. · mBio 15(7):e00854-24 · 2024 · doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01534-24Peer-reviewed
2. Association between infants’ serum levels of 26 metals and gut microbiota: a hospital-based cross-sectional study in ChinaXing Yan, Jun Qiu, Ruiwen Huang, Xiaoming Peng, Shi-ting Xiang, Kunyan Zhao, et al. · Frontiers in Microbiology 16:1669475 · 2025 · doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2025.1669475Peer-reviewed

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