Maternal Gut Microbes Control Offspring Sex and Survival

Yassin M Ibrahim^1#, Sean M Kearney^1,2#, Tatiana Levkovich¹, Alex Springer^1,2, Sheyla Mirabal¹, Theofilos Poutahidis^1,3, Bernard J Varian¹, Jessica R Lakritz¹, Eric J Alm^2,4 and Susan E Erdman^1*

¹Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

²Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

³Laboratory of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

⁴Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

^#Contributed equally to this work

^*Corresponding Author: Susan E Erdman, Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Tel: 617-252-1804, Fax: 508-435-3329 Email: