Pregnancy and birth microbiome
* Intestinal Microbiota is Different in Women with Preterm Birth: Results from Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis – Arihiro Shiozaki – PLOS ONE
Ureaplasma species and Mycoplasma hominis in cervical fluid of pregnancies complicated by preterm prelabor rupture of membranes – Ivana Musilova – Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
Human respiratory microbiome
Characterization and quantification of the fungal microbiome in serial samples from individuals with cystic fibrosis – Sven D Willger – Microbiome
Human gut microbiome
* The human intestinal microbiome at extreme ages of life. Dietary intervention as a way to counteract alterations – Nuria Salazar – Frontiers in Genetics
Nanosilver-Mediated Change in Human Intestinal Microbiota – Pranab Das – Journal of Nanomedicine & Nanotechnology
Animal microbiome
Bacterial Diversity Dynamics Associated with Different Diets and Different Primer Pairs in the Rumen of Kankrej Cattle – Dipti W. Pitta – PLOS ONE
Think laterally: horizontal gene transfer from symbiotic microbes may extend the phenotype of marine sessile hosts– Sandie M. Degnan – Frontiers in Microbiology
* Temporal changes in the bacterial community of animal feces and their correlation with stable fly oviposition, larval development, and adult fitness – Thais A. Albuquerque and Ludek Zurek – Frontiers in Microbiology
Plant microbiome
Bacterial networks and co-occurrence relationships in the lettuce root microbiota – Massimiliano Cardinale – Environmental Microbiome
Fungicide Effects on Fungal Community Composition in the Wheat Phyllosphere – Ida Karlsson – PLOS ONE
* Spatial structuring of bacterial communities within individual Ginkgo biloba trees – Jonathan W. Leff – Environmental Microbiology
Soil microbiome
Printing Soil: A single-step, high throughput method to isolate microorganisms and near-neighbor microbial consortia from a complex environmental sample – Bradley R. Ringeisen – Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Microbial communities of frozen soils of the Tuimaada Valley in Central Sakha – T. I. Ivanova – Biology Bulletin
Metabolomics
Automatic Prediction of Polysaccharide Utilization Loci in Bacteroidetes Species –
Nicolas Terrapon – Bioinformatics
Microbial Ecology
* The importance of sample archiving in microbial ecology – S. Craig Cary & Noah Fierer – Nature Reviews Microbiology
“it is an unwritten rule that all freezers will rapidly become filled to capacity, no matter how many freezers are purchased”
Coincidental Loss of Bacterial Virulence in Multi-Enemy Microbial Communities – Ji Zhang – PLOS ONE
Top-down effects of a lytic bacteriophage and protozoa on bacteria in aqueous and biofilm phases – Ji Zhang – Ecology and Evolution
Bioinformatics
Toward a better understanding of Apis mellifera and Varroa destructor microbiomes: introducing “PhyloH” as a novel phylogenetic diversity analysis tool – A Sandionigi – Molecular Ecology Resources
Microbes in the news
* Will You Donate Your Poop To Science? – Christopher Robbins – Gothamist
Pediatric Research | Microbiome research exploding with new revelations – John Barnard – Dispatch
Line Dancing Bacteria on a Chip – UTwente.nl
* Researcher studies microbiome of the dead – Melissa Benmark – WKAR Michigan State University
Bik’s Picks
The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi – Adam Higginbotham – New York Times
Winners Announced For The World’s Richest Science Award: The $3 Million Breakthrough Prize – F.D. Flam – Forbes
* The Challenge of Teaching Science in Rural America – Alexandra Ossola – The Atlantic
Don’t swallow it: Six health myths you should ignore – New Scientist
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