Ayele Argaw-Denboba, Thomas S B Schmidt, Monica Di Giacomo, Bobby Ranjan, Saravanan Devendran, Eleonora Mastrorilli, Catrin T Lloyd, Danilo Pugliese, Violetta Paribeni, Juliette Dabin, Alessandra Pisaniello, Sergio Espinola, Alvaro Crevenna, Subhanita Ghosh, Neil Humphreys, Olga Boruc, Peter Sarkies, Michael Zimmermann, Peer Bork, Jamie A Hackett
The gut microbiota operates at the interface of host-environment interactions to influence human homoeostasis and metabolic networks1-4 . Environmental factors that unbalance gut microbial ecosystems can therefore shape physiological and disease-associated responses across somatic tissues5-9 . However, the systemic impact of the gut microbiome on the germline-and consequently on the F1 offspring it gives rise to-is unexplored10 . Here we show that the gut microbiota act as a key interface between paternal preconception environment and intergenerational health in mice...
May 1, 2024: Nature