A wide variety of studies today from the digestive microbiota of carnivorous pitcher plants, to the skin microbiome of dogs, and the impacts of probiotics on male fertility in a mouse model of obesity.
Events and jobs
Microbiome World Congress – November 7-8, 2017, Capital Hilton, Washington, DC – registration
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- General microbiome
The Pelagic Bacterium Paraphotobacterium marinum Has the Smallest Complete Genome Within the Family Vibrionaceae – Zhaobin Huang – Frontiers in Microbiology
Review: Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy – Konstantinos T Konstantinidis – The ISME Journal
Review: The growing tree of Archaea: new perspectives on their diversity, evolution and ecology – Panagiotis S Adam – The ISME Journal
- Human respiratory microbiome
Antibiotic exposure and interpersonal variance mask the effect of ivacaftor on respiratory microbiota composition – Anton Y. Peleg – Journal of Cystic Fibrosis
- Human gut microbiome
Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae colonization (CRE) and subsequent risk of infection and 90-day mortality in critically ill patients, an observational study – Thomas Howe McConville – PLOSone
Review: Antibiotics, gut microbiome, and obesity – Karen S. W. Leong – Clinical Endocrinology
Review: Gut microbiota changes in the extreme decades of human life: a focus on centenarians –
Review: Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Strategies for Host Adaptation – Christopher J. Anderson – Frontiers in Microbiology
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- Animal Experiments
Lactobacillus rhamnosus PB01 (DSM 14870) supplementation affects markers of sperm kinematic parameters in a diet-induced obesity mice model – Fereshteh Dardmeh – PLOSone
- Animal microbiome
Metagenomic binning of a marine sponge microbiome reveals unity in defense but metabolic specialization – Beate M Slaby – The ISME Journal
A polyphenol-enriched diet and Ascaris suum infection modulate mucosal immune responses and gut microbiota composition in pigs – Andrew R. Williams – PLOSone
Individual signatures and environmental factors shape skin microbiota in healthy dogs – Anna Cuscó – Microbiome
Review: Metagenomic investigation of gastrointestinal microbiome in cattle – Minseok Kim – AJAS
- Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Linking the development and functioning of a carnivorous pitcher plant’s microbial digestive community – David W Armitage – The ISME Journal
Biogeography and organic matter removal shape long-term effects of timber harvesting on forest soil microbial communities – Roland C Wilhelm – The ISME Journal
Nitric Oxide Accumulation: The Evolutionary Trigger for Phytopathogenesis – Margarida M. Santana – Frontiers in Microbiology
- Water and extremophile microbiome
Genome sequences of lower Great Lakes Microcystis sp. reveal strain-specific genes that are present and expressed in western Lake Erie blooms – Kevin Anthony Meyer – PLOSone
Mixotrophy drives niche expansion of verrucomicrobial methanotrophs – Carlo R Carere – The ISME Journal
High abundance and expression of transposases in bacteria from the Baltic Sea – Theoden Vigil-Stenman – The ISME Journal
Genome sequences of lower Great Lakes Microcystis sp. reveal strain-specific genes that are present and expressed in western Lake Erie blooms – Kevin Anthony Meyer – PLOSone
High-throughput sequencing revealed novel Dehalococcoidia in dechlorinating microbial enrichments from PCB contaminated marine sediments – B. Matturro – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Flooding Duration Affects the Structure of Terrestrial and Aquatic Microbial Eukaryotic Communities –
Sediment microbial taxonomic and functional diversity in a natural salinity gradient challenge Remane’s “species minimum” concept – Christina Pavloudi – PeerJ
The Exometabolome of Two Model Strains of the Roseobacter Group: A Marketplace of Microbial Metabolites – Gerrit Wienhausen – Frontiers in Microbiology
- Built environment
Indoor microbiota in severely moisture damaged homes and the impact of interventions – Balamuralikrishna Jayaprakash – Microbiome
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- Probiotics / prebiotics
Review: Probiotics in the Prevention of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus – Nutrition and Diet in Maternal Diabetes
- Phages and viruses
Microencapsulation of Clostridium difficile specific bacteriophages using microfluidic glass capillary devices for colon delivery using pH triggered release – Gurinder K. Vinner – PLOSone
Novel chaperonins are prevalent in the virioplankton and demonstrate links to viral biology and ecology – Rachel L Marine – The ISME Journal
- Techniques
A simpler and more cost-effective peptide biosynthetic method using the truncated GST as carrier for epitope mapping – Wan-Xiang Xu – PLOSone
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