Today’s short digest covers articles on bacterial interaction with intestinal cells, semen microbiome and how microbiota affects insulin reactive immune cells.

General microbiome

The founder hypothesis: A basis for microbiota resistance, diversity in taxa carriage, and colonization resistance against pathogens – Yael Litvak -Plos Pathogens

Review : Impact of the gut microbiome on the genome and epigenome of colon epithelial cells: contributions to colorectal cancer development – Jawara Allen – Genome Medicine

Paneth cell granule dynamics on secretory responses to bacterial stimuli in enteroids – Yuki Yokoi – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Altered immunity and microbial dysbiosis in aged individuals with long-term controlled HIV infection – Nicholas S. Rhoades – Frontiers in Immunology

Bacterial viability in faecal transplants: Which bacteria survive? – Lito E. Papanicolas – EbioMedicine

Semen Microbiome Biogeography: An Analysis Based on a Chinese Population Study – Zhanshan Ma – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal experiments

The effects of unfermented and fermented cow and sheep milk on the gut microbiota – Elizabeth Rettedal – Frontiers in Microbiology

Altered Gut Microbiota Activate and Expand Insulin B15-23-Reactive CD8+ T-Cells – James A. Pearson – Diabetes

Lactobacillus plantarum PFM 105 Promotes Intestinal Development Through Modulation of Gut Microbiota in Weaning Piglets – Tianwei Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water microbiome and extremophiles

Microbial residence time is a controlling parameter of the taxonomic composition and functional profile of microbial communities – Cresten Mansfeldt – ISME Journal

Microbial community structure and functionality in the deep sea floor: evaluating the causes of spatial heterogeneity in a submarine canyon system (NW Mediterranean, Spain) – Sara Román – Frontiers in Marine Science

Non-microbiology picks

Dual AAV-mediated gene therapy restores hearing in a DFNB9 mouse model – Omar Akil – PNAS