In our short digest today, you could read articles on animal experiments and pre-prints on techniques!

Human gut microbiome

Preprint: Using molecular ecological network analysis to explore the effects of chemotherapy on intestinal microbial communities of colorectal cancer patients – J Cong – bioRxiv

Animal experiments 

Anti-diabetic effect of baicalein is associated with the modulation of gut microbiota in streptozotocin and high-fat-diet induced diabetic rats – B Zhang – Journal of Functional Foods

Effects of limestone inclusion on growth performance, intestinal microbiota, and the jejunal transcriptomic profile when fed to weaning pigs – L Blavi – Animal Feed Science and Technology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Soil microbiological attributes indicate recovery of an iron mining area and of the biological quality of adjacent phytophysiognomies – AO Silva – Ecological Indicators

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Response of microbial populations regulating nutrient biogeochemical cycles to oiling of coastal saltmarshes from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill – H-S Bae – Environmental Pollution

Techniques

Preprint: Using the Wax moth larva Galleria mellonella infection model to detect emerging bacterial pathogens – R Hernandez – bioRxiv

Preprint: Isolation and antibiotic profile of Vibrio spp. final effluents of two wastewater treatment plants in the Eastern Cape of South Africa – O Osuolale – bioRxiv

Conventional wastewater treatment and reuse site practices modify bacterial community structure but do not eliminate some opportunistic pathogens in reclaimed water – P Kulkarni – Science of The Total Environment

Effect of temperature and pH on the community dynamics of coagulase-negative staphylococci during spontaneous meat fermentation in a model system – DA Stavropoulou – Food Microbiology