Our Saturday digest has microbes associated with oesophageal region; sore throat; aphids, stingless bees; common carps, Italian cheeses and many more!
General microbiome
Bipartite network analysis of gene sharings in the microbial world – Eduardo Corel –
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Is the impact of starvation on the gut microbiota specific or unspecific to anorexia nervosa? A narrative review based on a systematic literature search – Isabelle Mack – Current Neuropharmacology
Pregnancy and early life
Association between sn-2 fatty acid profiles of breast milk and development of the infant intestinal microbiome – Teimin Jiang – Food and Function
Multi-site human microbiome
The microbiology and treatment of human mastitis. – A Angelopoulou – Medical Microbiology and Immunology
Human respiratory microbiome
Initial acquisition and succession of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome is associated with disease progression in infants and preschool children – Marianne S. Muhlebach – PLoS Pathogens
Analysis of the tonsillar microbiome in young adults with sore throat reveals a high relative abundance of Fusobacterium necrophorum with low diversity – T. Preskott Atkinson – PLoS One
Human gut microbiome
Diet Affects Gut Microbiota and Modulates Hospitalization Risk Differentially In an International Cirrhosis Cohort – JS Bajaj – Hepatology
Emerging Insights into the Esophageal Microbiome – M May – Current Treatment Options in Gastroenterology
Analysis of gut microbiota diversity and auxiliary diagnosis as a biomarker in patients with schizophrenia: A cross-sectional study – Y Shen – Schizophrenia Research
Animal experiments
Colonization of the cervicovaginal space with Gardnerella vaginalis leads to local inflammation and cervical remodeling in pregnant mice – Luz-Jeannette Sierra – PLoS One
Kudingcha and Fuzhuan Brick Tea Prevent Obesity and Modulate Gut Microbiota in High-Fat Diet Fed Mice – Guijie Chen – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research
Sequential BMP7/TGF-β1 signaling and microbiota instruct mucosal Langerhans cell differentiation. – Tal Capucha – Journal of Experimental Medicine
A host-pathogen interaction screen identifies ada2 as a mediator of Candida glabrata defences against reactive oxygen species – I Kounatidis – bioRxiv
Animal microbiome
A large-scale field study of bacterial communities in cereal aphid populations across Morocco – Samir Fakhour – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) affect the bacterial diversity of the eggshells of their great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) hosts – Nikoletta Geltsch – PLoS One
Stingless Bee Larvae Require Fungal Steroid to Pupate. – Camila R. Paludo – Scientific Reports
Plant, root and soil microbiome
Succession of microbial communities and changes of incremental oil in a post-polymer flooded reservoir with nutrient stimulation – Peike Gao – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Biotic elicitation of ginsenoside metabolism of mutant adventitious root culture in Panax ginseng –
Streptomyces AcH 505 triggers production of a salicylic acid analogue in the fungal pathogen Heterobasidion abietinum that enhances infection of Norway spruce seedlings – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Seed Endophyte Microbiome of Crotalaria pumila Unpeeled: Identification of Plant-Beneficial Methylobacteria – AS Sánchez-López – International Journal of Molecular Sciences
Extreme rainfall affects assembly of the root-associated fungal community – CJ Barnes – The New Phytologist
Abrupt burial imparts persistent changes to the bacterial diversity of turbidite-associated sediment profiles. – BK Harrison – Geobiology
Review: Fungal-Mediated Solid Waste Management: A Review – A Jain – Mycoremediation and Environmental Sustainability
The PEG-responding desiccome of the alder microsymbiont Frankia alni – K Ghedira – Scientific Reports
Composition of pelagic microbial communities in Mediterranean coastal aquatic ecosystems under extreme drought conditions – N Àvila – Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
Water microbiome and extremophile
What color should glacier algae be? – Roman J dial – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Microbial Community Structure of Sea Spray Aerosols at Three California Beaches – Katherine Graham – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
The early conversion of deep-sea wood falls into chemosynthetic hotspots revealed by in situ monitoring – Dimitri Kalenitchenko – Scientific Reports
Microbial communities and their predicted metabolic functions in a desiccating acid salt lake –
Protein adaptations in extremophiles: An insight into extremophilic connection of mycobacterial proteome – A Kumar – Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology
Built environment
Composition and role of the attached and planktonic microbial communities in mesophilic and thermophilic xylose-fed microbial fuel cells – Paolo Dessi – RSC Advances
Food microbiology
Development and implementation of multilocus sequence typing to study the diversity of the yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus in Italian cheeses – Fabrizia Tittarelli – Microbial Genomics
Application of molecular tools to elucidate the microbiota of seafood – Paloma Almeida Rodrigues – Journal of Applied Microbiology
Review: Recent Past, Present, and Future of the Food Microbiome – Francesca De Filippis – Annual Review of Food Science and Technology
Extracellular Enzyme Composition and Functional Characteristics of Aspergillus niger An-76 Induced by Food Processing Byproducts and Based on Integrated Functional-omics – L Liu – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
Changes in microbial communities and quality attributes of white muscle and dark muscle from common carp (Cyprinus carpio) during chilled and freeze-chilled storage – Q Li – Food Microbiology
Phages and viruses
Comparative transcriptomics reveals a conserved Bacterial Adaptive Phage Response (BAPR) to viral predation – BG Blasdel – bioRxiv
Single-cell transcriptional dynamics of flavivirus infection – F Zanini – bioRxiv
Techniques
A distance-based approach for testing the mediation effect of the human microbiome – J Zhang – Bioinformatics
ReprDB and panDB: minimalist databases with maximal microbial representation – W Zhou – Microbiome
Diverse spatial organization of photosynthetic membranes among purple nonsulfur bacteria – B LaSarre – bioRxiv
Microbes in the news
WEBINAR REVIEW: IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY AND THE MICROBIOME – Taconic
Scientists Peek Inside The ‘Black Box’ Of Soil Microbes To Learn Their Secrets – npr
Broadways Nursing Home: Legionella bacteria found in plumbing – BBC
Agros refuses Troodos water after coliform bacteria found – Cyprus Mail Online
Strange Weather Triggered Bacteria That Killed 200,000 Endangered Antelope – npr
Bacterial biofilm cellulose found to differ from plant cellulose – Phys.org
This is what happens to your gut when you go on a juice cleanse – Well and Good
New Course in Virus Hunting – SDSU NewsCenter