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Local microbial community assembly of the infant gut microbiota depends on dispersal from a bacterial source pool. This bacterial source pool is comprised of both maternal microbes, transmitted vertically, and environmental microbes, transmitted horizontally. The development of the local community is shaped primarily by host selection, based on interactions between host and bacterial cells.
