Today’s digest covers articles describing sphingolipids in host-microbiome interaction, unique microbiome and metabolome of Indian population, selection and stabilization of soil microbiome and effect of probiotics on early sepsis in patients and immune response in children. Enjoy reading!

General microbiome

Metabolic Modeling of Human Gut Microbiota on a Genome Scale: An Overview – Partho Sen – Metabolites

Altered composition and function of intestinal microbiota in autism spectrum disorders: a systematic review – Feitong Liu – Translational Psychiatry

Sphingolipids in host–microbial interactions – Stacey L. Heaver – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Mixed Viral-Bacterial Infections and Their Effects on Gut Microbiota and Clinical Illnesses in Children – Shilu Mathew – Scientific Reports

Pathways linking caesarean delivery to early health in a dual burden context: Immune development and the gut microbiome in infants and children from Galápagos, Ecuador – Amanda L. Thompson – American Journal of Human Biology

Human gut microbiome

The vagino-cervical microbiome as a woman’s life history – Zhuye Jie – BioRxiv

Dynamics of Human Gut Microbiota and Short-Chain Fatty Acids in Response to Dietary Interventions with Three Fermentable Fibers – Nielson T. Baxter – mBio

The unique composition of Indian gut microbiome, gene catalogue and associated faecal metabolome deciphered using multi-omics approaches – D.B. Dhakan – Gigascience

Animal experiments

Oral neonatal antibiotic treatment perturbs gut microbiota and aggravates central nervous system autoimmunity in Dark Agouti rats – Suzana Stanisavljević – Scientific Reports

Intestinal epithelial N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine phospholipase D links dietary fat to metabolic adaptations in obesity and steatosis – Amandine Everard – Nature Communications

Mutual interplay between IL-17–producing γδT cells and microbiota orchestrates oral mucosal homeostasis – Anneke Wilharm – PNAS

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Selection, succession and stabilization of soil microbial consortia – Elias K. Zegeye – BioRxiv

Comparison of the bacterial and methanotrophic diversities between an Italian paddy field and its neighboring meadow – Mohammad Ghashghavi – BioRxiv

Quality of Irrigation Water Affects Soil Functionality and Bacterial Community Stability in Response to Heat Disturbance – Sammy Frenk – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophiles microbiome

Archaea dominate the microbial community in an ecosystem with low-to-moderate temperature and extreme acidity – Aleksei A. Korzhenkov – Microbiome

Antibiotic disturbance affects aquatic microbial community composition and foodweb interactions but not community resilience – Ester M. Eckert – Molecular Ecology

 Phages and viruses

Megaphages infect Prevotella and variants are widespread in gut microbiomes – Audra E. Devoto – Nature Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Dysbiosis in early sepsis can be modulated by a multispecies probiotic: a randomised controlled pilot trial – V. Stadlbauer – Beneficial Microbes

Lactobacillus plantarum IS-10506 supplementation increases faecal sIgA and immune response in children younger than two years – P.D. Kusumo – Beneficial Microbes

Supplementation with Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens ZW3 from Tibetan Kefir improves depression-like behavior in stressed mice by modulating the gut microbiota – Ye Sun – Food and Function

Non-microbiology picks

Identification of Enteroendocrine Regulators by Real-Time Single-Cell Differentiation Mapping – Helmuth Gehart – Cell