The MB Digest Team hopes everyone had a good Labour Day holiday (or just a good day depending on where you are). Our Tuesday digest is full of fresh articles, a few news pieces, and lots going on in the Environmental Microbiome sections. Enjoy!

Events and jobs

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General microbiome

Analysis of stability to cheaters in models of antibiotic degrading microbial communities
András Szilágyi et al. – Journal of Theoretical Biology

Revew: Human genome-microbiome interaction: metagenomics frontiers for the aetiopathology of autoimmune diseases
Aycan Gundogdu & Ufuk Nalbantoglu – Microbial Genomics

Review: Fingerprinting microbiomes towards screening for microbial antibiotic resistance
Naifu Jin et al – Integrative Biology

Comparative genomics and metabolomics analyses of the adaptation mechanism in Ketogulonicigenium vulgare-Bacillus thuringiensis consortium
Nan Jia et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Multi-site human microbiome

Review: A critical assessment of the “sterile womb” and “in utero colonization” hypotheses: implications for research on the pioneer infant microbiome
Maria Elisa Perez-Muñoz et al – Microbiome

Review: Interaction between the gut microbiome and mucosal immune system
Na Shi et al – Military Medical Research

Human gut microbiome

Bacterial Diversity of the Gastric Content of Preterm Infants during Their First Month of Life at the Hospital
Moles L. et al. – Frontiers in Nutrition

Opinion: The shrinking human gut microbiome
Moeller AH – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Differences in gut microbial composition correlate with regional brain volumes in irritable bowel syndrome
Labus JS et al. – Microbiome

Gut microbial metabolites limit the frequency of autoimmune T cells and protect against type 1 diabetes
Eliana Mariño et al. – Nature Immunology

Microbial diseases

The Novel ASIC2 Locus is Associated with Severe Gingival Inflammation
Zhang S. et al. – JDR Clinical & Translational Research

In vitro Multi-Species Biofilms of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Their Host Interaction during In vivo Colonization of an Otitis Media Rat Model
Yadav MK et al. – Frontiers in Cellular and Infectious Microbiology

Reduction in fecal microbiota diversity and short-chain fatty acid producers in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infected individuals as revealed by PacBio single molecule, real-time sequencing technology
J Zhao et al – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Perspective: Treatable traits and therapeutic targets: goals for systems biology in infectious disease
Clark D. Russell & J. Kenneth Baillie – Current Opinion in Systems Biology

General Environmental Microbiome

Review: Effects and mechanisms of biochar-microbe interactions in soil improvement and pollution remediation: A review
Zhu X et al – Environmental Pollution

Sulfur flows and biosolids processing: Using Material Flux Analysis (MFA) principles at wastewater treatment plants
Fisher RM et al. – Journal of Environmental Management

Exploration of the relationship between biogas production and microbial community under high salinity conditions
Shaojie Wang et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Review: Phytoremediation of Water Bodies
E. Etim et al. – Current Environmental Engineering

Review: Role of Phytochelators in Land Reclamation: Recent Progress and Perspectives
Resham Sharma et al. – Current Environmental Engineering

Environmental Metabarcoding Reveals Contrasting Belowground and Aboveground Fungal Communities from Poplar at a Hg Phytomanagement Site
Alexis Durand et al. – Microbial Ecology

Monitoring global protein thiol-oxidation and protein S-mycothiolation in Mycobacterium smegmatis under hypochlorite stress
Melanie Hillion et al – Nature Scientific Reports

A comprehensive multi-omics approach uncovers adaptations for growth and survival of Pseudomonas aeruginosa on n-alkanes
Sarah L Grady et al – BMC Genomics

Interpreting Omic Data for Microbially Influenced Corrosion: Lessons from a Case Study Involving a Seawater Injection System
Craig Bartling et al – OnePetro

Land scale biogeography of arsenic biotransformation genes in estuarine wetland
Si-Yu Zhang et al – Environmental Microbiology

Animal experiments

Effects of Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation products on dairy calves: Ruminal fermentation, gastrointestinal morphology, and microbial community
Xiao JX et al. – Journal of Dairy Science

Immunological effects of reduced mucosal integrity in the early life of BALB/c mice
Bendtsen KM et al – PLoS One

Dietary Supplementation with Raspberry Whole Fruit Modifies the Relative Abundance of Fecal Microbial Communities in Obese Diabetic (db/db) Mice
Giuliana Noratto et al – The FASEB Journal

Chemical and pathogen-induced inflammation disrupt the murine intestinal microbiome
Mikayla A. Borton et al – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Diversity of culturable bacterial communities in the intestinal tracts of goldfish (Carassius auratus) and their ability to produce N-acyl homoserine lactone
Haruo Sugita et al. – Folia Microbiologica

Viral gut metagenomics of sympatric wild and domestic canids, and monitoring of viruses: Insights from an endangered wolf population
Nádia Conceição-Neto et al – Ecology and Evolution

Characterization of the fecal microbiome during neonatal and early pediatric development in puppies
Blake C. Guard et al – PLoS One

The environmental and host-associated bacterial microbiota of Arctic seawater-farmed Atlantic salmon with ulcerative disorders
C Karlsen et al – Journal of Fish Diseases

Pre-print: Caterpillars lack a resident gut microbiome
Tobin J Hammer et al – bioRxiv

Bacterial microbiome of the nose of healthy dogs and dogs with nasal disease
Barbara Tress et al – PLoS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

First “charosphere” view towards the transport and transformation of Cd with addition of manure derived biochar
Wang L et al. – Environmental Pollution

Competition drives the response of soil microbial diversity to increased grazing by vertebrate herbivores
Eldridge DJ et al. – Ecology

Soil aggregation and associated microbial communities modify the impact of agricultural management on carbon content
Pankaj Trivedi et al – Environmental Microbiology

Altitudinal, seasonal and interannual shifts in microbial communities and chemical composition of soil organic matter in Alpine forest soils
José A. Siles et al – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Water, estuarine and sediment microbiome

Pre-peer review: Microbiome succession during ammonification in eelgrass bed sediments
Cassandra L Ettinger et al – PeerJ

Microbial communities in sediment from Zostera marina patches, but not the Z. marina leaf or root microbiomes, vary in relation to distance from patch edge
Cassandra L Ettinger et al – PeerJ

Extremophile and space microbiome

In-depth characterization of bacterial and archaeal communities present in the abandoned Kettara pyrrhotite mine tailings (Morocco)
Odile Bruneel et al – Extremophile
Microbial biotechnology

Impact of selectively enriched microbial communities on long-term fermentative biohydrogen production
Kanniah Goud R. et al – Bioresource Technology

Review: Cooperation in microbial communities and their biotechnological applications
Matteo Cavaliere et al – Environmental Microbiology

Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for higher alcohols production: An environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels
Ana L. Gonçalves & Manuel Simões – Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Weak magnetic field: A powerful strategy to enhance partial nitrification
Zhibin Wang et al – Water Research

General microbiology and evolution

Comparative genomics of host-symbiont and free-living Oceanobacillus species
Kumar Mondal A. et al – Genome Biology and Evolution

Draft Genome Sequence of Plantibacter flavus Strain 251 Isolated from a Plant Growing in a Chronically Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Site
Rhea Lumactud et al. – Genome Announcements

HexA is a versatile regulator involved in the control of phenotypic heterogeneity of Photorhabdus luminescens
Langer A. et al – PLoS One

Complete Genome Sequence of the Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid-Producing Strain Streptococcus thermophilus APC151
Daniel M Linares et al – Genome Announcements

Bioinformatics and statistics

MicrobiomeAnalyst: a web-based tool for comprehensive statistical, visual and meta-analysis of microbiome data
Dhariwal A. et al – Nucleic Acids Research

Techniques and methods

Perspective: The Role of the Negative Control in Microbiome Analyses
Kyle Edmonds & Laura Williams – The FASEB Journal

Perspective: A Robust Framework for Microbial Archaeology
Warinner C. – Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Microbes in the news

Gut bacteria found to be linked to chronic fatigue syndrome
Victor Marchione – Belmarra Health News

Zapping bacteria with sanitizers made of paper
Phys.org

‘Electric’ bacteria can purify sewage water – fast
EuroNews

How The Gut May Influence Food Choices: Fruit Flies With More Bacteria Had Fewer Cravings
Janissa Delzo – Medical Daily

Harmless Bacteria on Teeth Can Hijack Harmful One That Causes Lung Infections, Study Finds
Magdalena Kegel – Cystic Fibrosis News

Retired US Navy Veteran Comments on Military Microbiome Study
Yahoo News

Microbes In Human Body: Connection Between Abundance Of Various Microbiota Species & Accessibility Of Its Resources
Piyali Roy – The Science Times