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Vaginal delivery promotes colonization by maternal vaginal and gut microbes, while Caesarean section delivery leads to exposures of environmental and skin-derived microbiota. Although maternal contributions have been studied, the role of paternal exposure in shaping infant microbiota remains underexplored. We hypothesized that both parents influence infant microbiota establishment and therefore investigated the contributions of maternal and paternal microbes, as well as delivery mode, on infant oral and fecal microbiota within 48\u00a0h of birth and at 1 month of age.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We analysed the gut and oral microbiota of 264 pregnant women, 261 partners, and 266 infants using 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. \u03b1-diversity (Shannon Index) was compared using Wilcoxon tests, and \u03b2-diversity (Bray\u2013Curtis dissimilarity) was assessed with PERMANOVA and PERMDISP. Principal component analysis (PCA) based on centered log-ratio (CLR)-transformed genus-level data was used for ordination and visualisation of taxonomic structure. Differentially abundant taxa across niches and delivery modes were identified using Kruskal\u2013Wallis and Wilcoxon tests with false discovery rate (FDR) correction, followed by linear discriminant analysis (LDA). Putative amplicon sequence variant (ASV) sharing between infants and family members was explored using tree-based phylogenetic plots showing taxon presence and relative abundance across sample types. All analyses were performed in R using established packages.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Adults showed significantly higher microbial \u03b1-diversity than infants in both gut and oral samples. \u03b2-diversity analyses revealed distinct microbial community structures influenced by ecological niches and delivery mode. Within the first 48\u00a0h after birth, differential abundance analyses identified\n                      <jats:italic>Lactobacillus crispatus<\/jats:italic>\n                      in meconium and\n                      <jats:italic>Blautia_A<\/jats:italic>\n                      in oral swabs enriched in vaginally delivered infants.\n                      <jats:italic>L. crispatus<\/jats:italic>\n                      also emerged as a key marker of the vaginal microbiota in our cohort-wide comparison, while\n                      <jats:italic>Blautia<\/jats:italic>\n                      , typically a gut-associated genus, was also detected in parental rectal and meconium samples. This co-occurrence may reflect transient microbial seeding during vaginal delivery. However, due to the limited resolution of 16S rRNA gene sequencing, these patterns suggest ecological overlap rather than definitive evidence of vertical transmission.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Our findings demonstrate that delivery mode influences early gut and oral microbiota composition, with vaginal delivery associated with taxa also found in maternal samples. While we observed microbial continuity between infant and parental niches, we could not clearly distinguish partner-specific contributions\u2014likely due to the limited resolution of 16S rRNA gene sequencing. These results highlight the importance of delivery-associated exposures in early microbial development and underscore the need for high-resolution approaches to better resolve microbial acquisition within families.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12866-025-04521-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,15]],"date-time":"2025-11-15T09:04:06Z","timestamp":1763197446000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Early-life gut and oral microbiota development: a multi-niche study including mother-partner-infant triads"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"25","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1323-9913","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kotryna","family":"Simonyt\u00e9 Sj\u00f6din","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5350-4219","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andreas","family":"Sj\u00f6din","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0577-123X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patrik","family":"Ryd\u00e9n","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2985-1135","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ingrid","family":"Mogren","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0726-7029","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Magnus","family":"Domell\u00f6f","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2779-5865","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Pernilla Lif","family":"Holgerson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9599-2580","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christina E.","family":"West","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"4521_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"838","DOI":"10.1038\/s41564-020-0694-0","volume":"5","author":"K Bittinger","year":"2020","unstructured":"Bittinger K, Zhao C, Li Y, et al. 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