Dog skin, kangaroo methane emissions, flea microbiome and ecology, domestication of wine yeast, and surface reflectance by roof microbes.
Events
11th International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XI), March 2016, Portugal – Abstract submission deadline: November 10
General microbiome
Microbiomes in light of traits: A phylogenetic perspective – Jennifer B. H. Martiny – Science
The ecology of the microbiome: Networks, competition, and stability – Katharine Z. Coyte – Science
What makes the gut microbiome stable? – Caroline Ash – Science
Microbiome, a new dimension in cancer research – Antonio Galvao Neto – Annals of Translational Medicine
Human gut microbiome
Characterization of the salivary microbiome in patients with pancreatic cancer – Pedro J. Torres – PeerJ
Animal microbiome
What is living on your dog’s skin? Characterization of the canine cutaneous mycobiota and fungal dysbiosis in canine allergic dermatitis – C.M. Smith – FEMS Microbial Ecology
Decreasing methane yield with increasing food intake keeps daily methane emissions constant in two foregut fermenting marsupials, the western grey kangaroo and red kangaroo – Catharina Vendl – Journal of Experimental Biology
Evaluation of the bacterial microbiome of two flea species using different DNA isolation techniques provides insights into flea host ecology – Andrea L. Lawrence – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
The functional gene composition and metabolic potential of coral-associated microbial communities – Yanying Zhang – Scientific Reports
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Can commercial soil microbial treatments remediate plant–soil feedbacks to improve restoration seedling performance? – Lora B. Perkins – Restoration Ecology
Anthropogenic impact on diazotrophic diversity in the mangrove rhizosphere revealed by nifH pyrosequencing – Hongmei Jing – Frontiers in Microbiology
Phylogenetic diversity of culturable fungi in the Heshang Cave, central China –
Baiying Man – Frontiers in Microbiology
Review: Ongoing domestication of wine yeast: past, present and future – P.J. Chambers – Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research
Built environment microbiology
Surface reflectance degradation by microbial communities – Meng-Dawn Cheng – Journal of Building Physics
Metagenomics and bioinformatics
The single-species metagenome: subtyping Staphylococcus aureus core genome sequences from shotgun metagenomic data – Sandeep J Joseph – BioRxiv
Metagenomics: A New Way to Illustrate the Crosstalk between Infectious Diseases and Host Microbiome – Yinfeng Zhang – International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Fizzy: feature subset selection for metagenomics – Gregory Ditzler – BMC Bioinformatics
Evaluation of shotgun metagenomics sequence classification methods using in silico and in vitro simulated communities – Michael A. Peabody – BMC Bioinformatics
Microbes in the news
Our Dust, Ourselves – Emily Anthes – The New Yorker
Emily Anthes writes about Wildlife of Your Homes microbiome studies in the New Yorker – Jonathan Eisen – MicroBEnet
The Hottest New Cancer Drugs Depend on Gut Microbes – Ed Yong – The Atlantic
Gut bacteria may affect the success of cancer treatments – Sam Wong – New Scientist
This New Exhibition Is a Tour of the Human Body’s ‘Hidden Organ’ – Becky Ferreira – Motherboard
Podcast (20 min) We are a constellation of our microbiome and ourselves – Meg Tirrell and Luke Timmerman – Stat News
The strange case of the man infected with tapeworm cancer – Helen Branswell – StatNews
With a picture of human cells? 30 mind-blowing facts about the microbes that live inside of you – Julia Calderone – TechInsider
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