Salivary microbiomes of indigenous Tsimane mothers and infants are distinct despite frequent premastication

BACKGROUND: Premastication, the transfer of pre-chewed food, is a common infant and young child feeding practice among the Tsimane, forager-horticulturalists living in the Bolivian Amazon. Research conducted primarily with Western populations has shown that infants harbor distinct oral microbiota fr...

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Published in:PeerJ
Main Authors: Han, Cliff S., Martin, Melanie Ann, Dichosa, Armand E.K., Daughton, Ashlynn R., Frietze, Seth, Kaplan, Hillard, Gurven, Michael D., Alcock, Joe
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016
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Anthropology
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5101600/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27833819
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2660
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