Happy December! Today’s digest features research articles on prion like domains in phages, effect of high salt challenge on gut microbiota and immune system. Enjoy!
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Assistant Professor, Statistics and Microbiology – The University of Manitoba
Program Manager, Microbiology – RWJ-Pathology-PISC
General microbiome
Review: Experimental design and quantitative analysis of microbial community multiomics – Himel Mallick – Genome Biology
Pregnancy and early life
Low Microbial Diversity and Abnormal Microbial Succession Is Associated with Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Infants – Priscila T. Dobbler – Frontiers in Microbiology
Human respiratory microbiome
Colonic Bacteroides are positively associated with trabecular bone structure and programmed by maternal vitamin D in male but not female offspring in an obesogenic environment – C R Villa – International Journal of Obesity
Human skin microbiome
Diversity of bacterial communities on the facial skin of different age-group Thai males – Alisa Wilantho – PeerJ
Human oral microbiome
Oral Health and the Oral Microbiome in Pancreatic Cancer: An Overview of Epidemiological Studies – Paige M Bracci – The Cancer Journal
Bacterial alterations in salivary microbiota and their association in oral cancer – Wei-Hsiang Lee – Scientific Reports
Human vaginal microbiome
Review : Is bacterial vaginosis a disease? – Gregor Reid – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Human gut microbiome
The gut mycobiome of the Human Microbiome Project healthy cohort – Andrea K. Nash – Microbiome
Analyses of gut microbiota and plasma bile acids enable stratification of patients for antidiabetic treatment – Yanyun Gu – Nature Communications
*Salt-responsive gut commensal modulates TH17 axis and disease – Nicola Wilck – Nature
Interactions between diet and the intestinal microbiota alter intestinal permeability and colitis severity in mice – Sean R.Llewellyn – Gastroenterology
Psychobiotics: A new approach for treating mental illness? – Snigdha Misra – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth: Should Screening Be Included in the Pre-fecal Microbiota Transplantation Evaluation? – Jessica R. Allegretti – Digestive Diseases and Sciences
Gut microbiota-mediated generation of saturated fatty acids elicits inflammation in the liver in murine high-fat diet-induced steatohepatitis – Shoji Yamada – BMC Gastroenterology
Animal experiments
Vertical vs. horizontal transmission of the microbiome in akey disease vector, Ixodes pacificus – Jessica Y. Kwan – Molecular Ecology
Gut Microbiome-induced Shift of Acetate to Butyrate Positively Manages Dysbiosis in High Fat Diet – Xu Si – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research
Increased cortical neuronal responses to NMDA and improved attentional set-shifting performance in rats following prebiotic (B-GOS®) ingestion – Benjamin Gronier – European Neuropsychopharmacology
Effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus on gut microbiota composition in broilers challenged with Clostridium perfringens – Zhui Li – Plos One
Doxycycline induces dysbiosis in female C57BL/6NCrl mice – Felicia D. Duke Boynton – BMC Research Notes
Animal microbiome
The effect of dietary energy and protein levels on body weight, size, and microflora of ostrich chicks – Tahereh Nikravesh-Masouleh – Tropical Animal Health and Production
Gene and genome-centric analyses of koala and wombat fecal microbiomes point to metabolic specialization for Eucalyptus digestion – Miriam E. Shiffman – PeerJ
The microbiomes of blowflies and houseflies as bacterial transmission reservoirs – Ana Carolina M. Junqueira – Scientific Reports
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
The Patterns and Drivers of Bacterial and Fungal β-Diversity in a Typical Dryland Ecosystem of Northwest China – Jianming Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology
Water and extremophile microbiome
Highlighting patterns of fungal diversity and composition shaped by ocean currents using the East China Sea as a model – Wei Li – Molecular Ecology
Microbial Reduction of Fe(III) and SO42− and Associated Microbial Communities in the Alluvial Aquifer Groundwater and Sediments – Ji-Hoon Lee – Microbial Ecology
The influence of complex fermentation broth on denitrification of saline sewage in constructed wetlands by heterotrophic nitrifying/aerobic denitrifying bacterial communities – Guiping Fu – Bioresource Technology
Amplicon-Metagenomic Analysis of Fungi from Antarctic Terrestrial Habitats – Marcelo Baeza – Frontiers in Microbiology
Microbial Community Structure and Arsenic Biogeochemistry in Two Arsenic-Impacted Aquifers in Bangladesh – Edwin T. Gnanaprakasam – mBio
Probiotics / prebiotics
Short communication: Does early-life administration of a Megasphaera elsdenii probiotic affect long-term establishment of the organism in the rumen and alter rumen metabolism in the dairy calf? – T.T.Yohe – Journal of Dairy Science
Review: Effect of Probiotic Supplementation on CD4 Cell Count in HIV-Infected Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Asma Kazemi – Journal of Dietary Supplements
Phages and viruses
*Prion-Like Domains in Phagobiota – George Tetz – Frontiers in Microbiology
Bacteriophage Distributions and Temporal Variability in the Ocean’s Interior – Elaine Luo – mBio
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