Your Saturday Microbiome Digest: CSF metagenomics in multiple sclerosis, Caenorhabditis elegans responses to bacteria, and archaeal communities in permafrost.
Infection and microbes
Only microbial contamination found: Metagenomic Analysis of Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Multiple Sclerosis – Karol Perlejewski – Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
Review: The regulation of host defences to infection by the microbiota – Rebecca L. Brown – Immunology
Animal and in vitro experiments
Microbial Community Transplant Results in Increased and Long-Term Oxalate Degradation – Aaron W. Miller – Microbial Ecology
Differential Utilization of Basic Proline-Rich Glycoproteins During Growth of Oral Bacteria in Saliva – Yuan Zhou – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Caenorhabditis elegans responses to bacteria from its natural habitats – Buck S. Samuel – PNAS
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Presence and persistence of viable, clinically relevant Legionella pneumophila bacteria in garden soil in the Netherlands – E. van Heijnsbergen – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Size Matters: Assessing Optimum Soil Sample Size for Fungal and Bacterial Community Structure Analyses Using High Throughput Sequencing of rRNA Gene Amplicons – C. Ryan Pento – Frontiers in Microbiology
Monitoring fungi in ecological restorations of coastal Indiana, U.S.A. – Peter G. Avis – Restoration Ecology
Review: Resilience of Soil Microbial Communities to Metals and Additional Stressors: DNA-Based Approaches for Assessing “Stress-on-Stress” Responses – Hamed Azarbad – MDPI International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Water and extremophile microbiome
Archaeal communities of Arctic methane-containing permafrost – Victoria Shcherbakova – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Microbial community diversity, structure, and assembly across oxygen gradients in meromictic marine lakes, Palau – Matthew S. Meyerhof – Environmental Microbiology
Bioreactor microbiology
An integrated metagenome and -proteome analysis of the microbial community residing in a biogas production plant – Vera Ortseifen – Journal of Biotechnology
Bioinformatics
Finds microbial interactions based on PubMed abstracts, so basically finding interactions that were already published (???): @MInter: Automated Text-mining of Microbial Interactions – Lim Kun Ming Kenneth – Bioinformatics
More microbiology
In situ replication rates for uncultivated bacteria in microbial communities – Christopher T Brown – bioRxiv
Pervasive Selection for Cooperative Cross-Feeding in Bacterial Communities – Sebastian Germerodt – PLOS Computational Biology
Microbes in the news
UWM professor taking a deeper dive on beach pollution data – Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel
The medical revolution that delves into humans’ inner aliens – Robert Matthews – The National
Brewing on the wild side: IU’s Dr. Matthew L. Bochman – Rita Kohn – Nuvo.net
Fecal bacteria and antibiotic resistance genes found in water samples from fly-in Northern Manitoba – Ian Graham – Thompson Citizen
CosmosID, BioCollective Collaborate on Microbiome Analysis Kit – GenomeWeb
