Today’s microbiology picks have articles on sampling source effect on the gut microbial diversity, whether resistant starch in mothers could benefit the offsprings, protective role of the gut bacteria of firebugs, microbial community shift during different stages in anaerobic membrane bioreactor, NanoAmpli-Seq as well as articles from plant-root-soil microbiome. Precision medicine, genetics of social interaction and isolation, “ethics dumping ” among our non-microbiology picks.
Events and jobs
John Maddox Prize 2018 nomination – Deadline: 13th August 2018 – Check their website for more details
General microbiome
Human-associated microbial populations as evidence in forensic casework – Frederike C.A. Quaak – Forensic Science International: Genetics
The Mammalian Intestinal Microbiome: Composition, Interaction with the Immune System, Significance for Vaccine Efficacy, and Potential for Disease Therapy. – U Desselberger – MDPI
244 Analysis of microbiome prostatic secretion in depending of levels total testosterone in blood serum – M.I. Kogan – The Journal of Sexual Medicine
Triclosan and triclocarban exposure, infectious disease symptoms and antibiotic prescription in infants—A community-based randomized intervention – Catherine Ley – PLoS One
Human skin microbiome
Microbiome analysis of forehead skin in patients with atopic dermatitis and healthy subjects: Implication of Staphylococcus and Corynebacterium – Masutaka Furue – The Journal of Dermatology
Human vaginal microbiome
Trichomonas vaginalis: Pathogenesis, Symbiont Interactions, and Host Cell Immune Responses – Frances Mercer – Trends in Parasitology
Human gut microbiome
More of the Gut in the Lung: How Two Microbiomes Meet in ARDS – Samiran Mukherjee – Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
The Influence of Gut Microbial Metabolism on the Development and Progression of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Wei Jia – Obesity, Fatty Liver and Liver Cancer
Severe Defects in the Macrophage Barrier to Gut Microflora in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colon Cancer. – Carlos A. Rubiro – Anticancer Research
Animal experiments
Feeding sows resistant starch during gestation and lactation impacts their faecal microbiota and milk composition but shows limited effects on their progeny – Julie Leblois – PLoS One
Animal microbiome
The cotton stainer’s gut microbiota suppresses infection of a co‐transmitted trypanosomatid parasite – Thomas O Onchuru – Molecular Ecology
Gut microbial diversity in two insectivorous bats: Insights into the effect of different sampling sources – Haonan Wu – Microbiology Open
Evidence for multiple ecological roles of Leptographium abietinum, a symbiotic fungus associated with the North American spruce beetle – Thomas S Davis – Fungal Ecology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics reveals that Saccharibacteria utilize microbially-processed plant-derived carbon – Evan P Starr – Microbiome
Swift Acid Rain Sensing by Synergistic Rhizospheric Bioelectrochemical Responses – Tian Li – ACS Sensors
Crop Rotation and Straw Application Impact Microbial Communities in Italian and Philippine Soils and the Rhizosphere of Zea mays – Saarah A Maarastawi – Frontiers in Microbiology
Plant growth promoting bacteria associated with corm of Crocus sativus during three growth stages – Ranjit Kour – Letters in Applied Microbiology
Fungal Diversity of Rhizosphere Soil from 11 Varieties of Grapevines at Maturity Stage from Two Vineyards in China – Ping Zhao – Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy
Disruption of microbial community composition and identification of plant growth promoting microorganisms after exposure of soil to rapeseed-derived glucosinolates – Meike Siebers – PLoS One
The value of wet leaves – Todd E. Dawson – New Phytologist
Water and extremophile microbiome
Marine Environmental Epigenetics – Jose M. Eirin-Lopez – Annual Reviews
Disentangling the complexity of permafrost soil by using high resolution profiling of microbial community composition, key functions and respiration ratesDisentangling the complexity of permafrost soil by using high resolution profiling of microbial community composition, key functions and respiration rates – Oliver Müller – Environmental Microbiology
Effect of different carbon sources on denitrification performance, microbial community structure and denitrification genes – Zhongshuo Xu – Science of The Total Environment
Built environment
Characterization and Dynamic Shift of Microbial Communities during Start-Up, Overloading and Steady-State in an Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor – Nsanzumukiza Martin Vincent – MDPI
Food microbiology
Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella and Native Microbiota on Fresh Strawberries by Antimicrobial Washing and Coating – Mingming Guo – Journal of Food Protection
Microbial quality of ice cream sold by retail outlets in Erzurum. – S Çubukçı – CAB Direct
Techniques
Preprint: NanoAmpli-Seq: A workflow for amplicon sequencing for mixed microbial communities on the nanopore sequencing platform – Szymon T Calus – bioRxiv
Preprint: Genetic insight into zinc and antimicrobial toxicity uncovers a glycerol phosphate modification on streptococcal rhamnose polysaccharides – Rebecca J. Edgar – bioRxiv
Preprint: Nano-particles from Chaetomium against Rice Blast – Jiao Jiao Song – bioRxiv
Seamless assembly of recombinant adenoviral genomes from high-copy plasmids – Jessica J. Miciak – PLoS One
Twenty-seven years of screening for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in a university hospital. Brussels, Belgium, 1987-2014 – Klara De Rauw – PLoS One
Microbes in the news
Bacteria Fight Competitors by Turning them Against Each Other – Technology Networks
Non-microbiology Picks
Personalized medicine should not be restricted to the wealthy – Nature
Elucidating the genetic basis of social interaction and isolation – Nature Communications
Evaluation woes: we’re on it, responds DORA – Nature
Italy is squeezing out wet biology research – Nature
Europe’s biggest research fund cracks down on ‘ethics dumping’ – Nature
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