Our daily digest for you, with highlights on gut microbiota signatures in Japanese infants with food allergy, salt mash communities affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and a proposed stricter P value for claiming a ‘significant’ result.

Jobs

Microbiology Laboratory Technicians – Australian Clinical Labs

General microbiology

Light controlled 3D micromotors powered by bacteria – Gaszton Vizsnyiczai et al. – Nature Communications

Press: Herding Bacteria Brings Power to 3D-Printed Micromotors – Michael Molitch-Hou – Engineering.com

Review: Zika Virus Protease: An Antiviral Drug Target – Congbao Kang et al. – Trends in Microbiology

Call for papers: Advances in Understanding and Controlling Bacteria-Material Interactions, with a Focus on how Bacteria Sense a Surface – Frontiers

Preprint: Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain YH166: a novel wild yeast for the production of tropical fruit sensory attributes in fermented beverages – Kara Osburn – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Early-life adversity, epigenetics, and visceral hypersensitivity – S. Liu et al. – Neurogastroenterology & Motility

*Signatures in the gut microbiota of Japanese infants who developed food allergies in early childhood – Masaru Tanaka et al. – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Animal experiments

Mouse: Dietary perturbations alter the ecological significance of ingested Lactobacillus plantarum in the digestive tract – Xiaochen Yin et al. – Scientific Reports

Abstract: A commensal Bifidobacterium longum strain improves gluten-related immunopathology in mice through expression of a serine protease inhibitor – McCarville JL et al. – Applied Environmental Microbiology

Carrageenan-induced colitis is associated with decreased population of anti-inflammatory bacterium, Akkermansia muciniphila, in the gut microbiota of C57BL/6J mice – Qingsen Shang et al. – Toxicology Letters

Mouse: Estrogen protection against EAE modulates the microbiota and mucosal-associated regulatory cells – Gil Benedek et al. – Journal of Neuroimmunology

Feed-additive probiotics accelerate yet antibiotics delay intestinal microbiota maturation in broiler chicken – Pengfei Gao, Chen Ma and Zheng Sun et al. – Microbiome

Stable engraftment of human microbiota into mice with a single oral gavage following antibiotic conditioning – Christopher Staley et al. – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Supplemental thymol and carvacrol increases ileum Lactobacillus population and reduces effect of necrotic enteritis caused by Clostridium perfringes in chickens – Dafei Yin et al. – Scientific Reports

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Impact of Land-use Change on Vertical Soil Bacterial Communities in Sabah – Hoe Seng Tin et al. – Microbial Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Pilot-scale investigation of sludge reduction in aerobic digestion system with endospore-forming bacteria – Kyu Won Seo et al. – Chemosphere

*Abstract: Salt marsh bacterial communities before and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill – Engel AS et al. – Salt marsh bacterial communities before and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Phages and viruses

A virulence-associated filamentous bacteriophage of Neisseria meningitidis increases host-cell colonisation – Emmanuelle Bille & Julie Meyer et al. – PLoS Pathogens

Microbes in the news

Cleaning a Dirty Sponge Only Helps Its Worst Bacteria, Study Says – Joanna Klein – NYT

McDonald’s, KFC, Burger King drinks test positive for fecal bacteria – WHDH

Congrats, happy couples: You really do share everything, even skin bacteria – Ellen Scott – Metro

Seasonal bacteria causes odd taste in Sacramento water – KCRA Staff – KCRA3

IIT Delhi team develops a new antibacterial drug-delivery system – R. Prasad – The Hindu

Antibiotics use by India’s poultry farms endangering human lives, says expert – Charu Bahri – Hindustan Times

Can We Encode Medical Records Into Our DNA? – Cathy Cassata – Healthline

Papaya Outbreak Grows to 109 Infected People. But How Does Salmonella Get Inside Produce? – Heather Williams – UnsafeFoods

Microbes on the market

PhoneSoap uses a UV sanitizing system to keep your phone bacteria-free – Ricci Rox – NoteBookCheck

Non-microbiology pick

*The Reproducibility Of Research And The Misinterpretation Of P Values – David Colquhoun – bioRxiv