Today we have an interesting review discussing the best practices for performing a microbiome study by R. Knight, “Microbial wars” – a brief overview on microbial competition by M.A. Bauer. Check many other interesting papers, particularly “crowded” section of Soil microbes, while in news you can read how scientists tested bacteria’s power to boost broccoli growth in space. Enjoy!

General microbiome

Review: Best practices for analysing microbiomes – Rob Knight – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Microbial wars: Competition in ecological niches and within the microbiome – Maria A. Bauer – Microbial Cell

Review: Concepts and Methods to Access Novel Antibiotics from Actinomycetes – Joachim J. Hug  – Antibiotics

 

 

Human gut microbiome

Gut Microbiota and Human Health: Insights From Ecological Restoration – Matthew R. Orr – The Quarterly Review of Biology

Maternal omega-3 fatty acids regulate offspring obesity through persistent modulation of gut microbiota – Ruairi C. Robertson – Microbiome

Current Evidence for the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Using Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – Seong Ran Jeon – Current Infectious Disease Reports

The contribution of culturomics to the repertoire of isolated human bacterial and archaeal species – Melhem Bilen – Microbiome

Animal experiments

Gut microbes contribute to variation in solid organ transplant outcomes in mice – Christine M. McIntosh – Microbiome

Animal microbiome 

Necessary Sequencing Depth and Clustering Method to Obtain Relatively Stable Diversity Patterns in Studying Fish Gut Microbiota – Fanshu Xiao – Current Microbiology

Microbial shifts in the swine nasal microbiota in response to parenteral antimicrobial administration – Mohamed Zeineldin – Microbial Pathogenesis

Photobacterium malacitanum sp. nov., and Photobacterium andalusiense sp. nov., two new bacteria isolated from diseased farmed fish in Southern Spain – Alejandro M. Labella – Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of genetically modified Burkholderia pyrrocinia JK-SH007E1 on soil microbial community in poplar rhizosphere – L. He – Forest Pathology

Dynamics of soil nitrogen fractions and their relationship with soil microbial communities in two forest species of northern China – Dong Liu – PLOS One

Short-term transcriptional response of microbial communities to N-fertilization in a pine forest soil – Michaeline B.N. Albright – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Spatial structuring of soil microbial communities in commercial apple orchards – Greg Deakin – Applied Soil Ecology

Dynamics of soil nitrogen fractions and their relationship with soil microbial communities in two forest species of northern China – Dong Liu – PLOS One

Effects of winter snowpack and nitrogen addition on the soil microbial community in a temperate forest in northeastern China – Guoyong Yan – Ecological Indicators

Responses of soil bacterial communities to Conyza canadensis invasion with different cover classes along a climatic gradient* – Congyan Wang – CLEAN Soil Water

Shifts in microbial community structure and soil nitrogen mineralization following short-term soil amendment with the ammonifier Bacillus amyloliquefaciens DT – Cai Hui – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Restoration with pioneer plants changes soil properties and remodels the diversity and structure of bacterial communities in rhizosphere and bulk soil of copper mine tailings in Jiangxi Province, China – Xiaoyan Sun – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Enhancer assisted-phytoremediation of mercury-contaminated soils by Oxalis corniculata L., and rhizosphere microorganism distribution of Oxalis corniculata L. – Zhongchuang Liu – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Draft Genome Sequence of the Plant Growth-Promoting Sphingobium sp. Strain AEW4, Isolated from the Rhizosphere of the Beachgrass Ammophila breviligulata – Abanoub E. Wanees – Genome Announcements

Cultivar-specific response of bacterial community to cadmium contamination in the rhizosphere of rice (Oryza sativa L.)  – Dandi Hou – Environmental Pollution

Elevated CO2 increases the abundance but simplifies networks of soybean rhizosphere fungal community in Mollisol soils – Zhenhua Yu – Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Suppression of Alternaria blight disease and plant growth promotion of mustard (Brassica juncea L.) by antagonistic rhizosphere bacteria – R. Sharma – Applied Soil Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Salipaludibacillus halalkaliphilus sp. nov., a moderately haloalkaliphilic bacterium from a coastal-marine wetland – Mohammad Ali Amoozegar – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Insights into Brevibacillus borstelensis AK1 through Whole Genome Sequencing: A Thermophilic Bacterium Isolated from a Hot Spring in Saudi Arabia – Amjad B. Khalil – BioMed Research International

Seasonal dynamics of bacterioplankton community in a large, shallow, highly dynamic freshwater lake – Zhaoyu Kong – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Sediment microbial communities influenced by cool hydrothermal fluid migration – Laura A. Zinke – Frontiers in Microbiology / Extreme Microbiology

Microbial interactions with dissolved organic matter drive carbon dynamics and community succession’ – Xiaoqin Wu – Frontiers in Microbiology / Microbiological Chemistry and Geomicrobiology

Metabolites change of Scenedesmus obliquus exerted by AgNPs – Pu Wang – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Built environment

Cultivable microbial diversity associated with cellular phones – Rashmi Kurli – Frontiers in Microbiology / Systems Microbiology

Food microbiology

A bioinformatics pipeline integrating predictive metagenomics profiling for the analysis of 16S rDNA/rRNA sequencing data originated from foods – Marios Mataragas – Food Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Identification of a bacteriophage from an environmental multidrug-resistant E. coli isolate and its function in horizontal transfer of ARGs – Qiang Wang – Science of The Total Environment

Metagenomic analysis of the RNA fraction of the fecal virome indicates high diversity in pigs infected by porcine endemic diarrhea virus in the United States – Qi Chen – Virology Journal

Bioinformatics

Evaluating the use of diversity indices to distinguish between microbial communities with different traits – Sergey Feranchuka – Research in Microbiology

Taxonomic and functional compositions impacted by the quality of metatranscriptomic assemblies – Maggie Lau – Frontiers in Microbiology – Microbiological Chemistry and Geomicrobiology

Biotechnology

Practical applications of PCR primers in detection of anammox bacteria effectively from different types of samples – Zhichao Zhou – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Systems analysis of phosphate-limitation-induced lipid accumulation by the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides – Yanan Wang – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Review: A decade of understanding secondary metabolism in Pseudomonas spp. for sustainable agriculture and pharmaceutical applications – Izzah Shahid – Environmental Sustainability

Microbes in the news

Could we work together with our bacteria to stop infection?

Scientists test bacteria’s power to boost broccoli growth in space