Happy Friday! Today’s digest includes the sea cucumber gut microbiome, bacterial diversity of volcano steam vents, and the impacts of arsenic and antimony on microbes in river sediment. Enjoy!

Human gut microbiome

Use of shotgun metagenomics for the identification of protozoa in the gut microbiota of healthy individuals from worldwide populations with various industrialization levels – Lokmer – PLoS ONE

Age-associated Impairment of the Mucus Barrier Function is Associated with Profound Changes in Microbiota and Immunity – Sovran – Scientific Reports

A single alcohol binge impacts on neutrophil function without changes in gut barrier function and gut microbiome composition in healthy volunteers – Stadlbauer – PLoS ONE

Animal experiments

TGFβ/BMP immune signaling affects abundance and function of C. elegans gut commensals – Berg – Nature Communications

Animal microbiome

Distinct microbiotas of anatomical gut regions display idiosyncratic seasonal variation in an avian folivore – Drovetski – Animal Microbiome

Characterization of the intestinal microbiota of the sea cucumber Holothuria glaberrima – Pagán-Jiménez – PLoS ONE

Dynamic distribution of gallbladder microbiota in rabbit at different ages and health states – Xing – PLoS ONE

Dietary-induced modulation of the hindgut microbiota is related to behavioral responses during stressful events in horses – Destrez – Physiology & Behavior

Review: Host-Microbe Coevolution: Applying Evidence from Model Systems to Complex Marine Invertebrate Holobionts – O’Brien – mBio

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Environmental filtering drives distinct continental atlases of soil archaea between dryland and wetland agricultural ecosystems – Jiao – Microbiome

The occurrence of potato common scab correlates with the community composition and function of the geocaulosphere soil microbiome – Shi -Microbiome

Enterobacteriaceae dominate the core microbiome and contribute to the resistome of arugula (Eruca sativa Mill.) – Cernava – Microbiome

Unlocking a high bacterial diversity in the coralloid root microbiome from the cycad genus Dioon – Suárez-Moo – PLoS ONE

Characterization of iron-metabolizing communities in soils contaminated by acid mine drainage from an abandoned coal mine in Southwest China – Gao – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Impacts of Arsenic and Antimony Co-Contamination on Sedimentary Microbial Communities in Rivers with Different Pollution Gradients – Sun – Microbial Ecology

The bacterial diversity on steam vents from Paricutín and Sapichu volcanoes – Souza Brito – Extremophiles

Food microbiology

Spent coffee grounds extract rich in manooligosaccharides promote a healthier gut microbial community in a dose dependent manner – Pérez-Burillo – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Impact of routine sanitation on the microbiomes in a fresh produce processing facility – Gu – International Journal of Food Microbiology