Good morning everyone!
Today the focus is almost entirely on environmental microbiology- plant, soil and water habitats. Check also the methods paper regarding activating silent BGCs (a true challenge for drug discovery).
General Microbiology
A multiphase theory for spreading microbial swarms and films, Siddarth Srinivasan, eLIFE
Methods
Advances in microbial culturing conditions to activate silent biosynthetic gene clusters for novel metabolite production, Hailey A. Tomm, J. Industrial Microbiology % Biotechnology
A set of modular and integrative vectors for synthetic biology in Streptomyces, Celine Aubry, AEM
Revealing microbial assemblage structure in the human gut microbiome using latent Dirichlet allocation, Shion Hosoda, bioRxiv
Animal microbiome
The Insect Virome: Opportunities and Challenges, BC Bonning, Curr. Issues Mol Bio.
Host species and site of collection shape the microbiota of Rift Valley fever vectors in Kenya, David P. Tchouassi, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Microbiomes of stony and soft deep-sea corals share rare core bacteria, Christina A. Kellogg, Microbiome
Plant Microbiome
Identification and Characterization of the Core Rice Seed Microbiome, Alexander W. Eyre, Phytobiome
Microbiota Associated with Sclerotia of Soilborne Fungal Pathogens – A Novel Source of Biocontrol Agents Producing Bioactive Volatiles, Pascal Mulner, Phytobiome
ffects of agricultural management on rhizosphere microbial structure and function in processing tomato, Jennifer E. Schmidt, AEM
Environmental microbiome
Methylotrophs and Methylotroph Populations for Chloromethane Degradation, F Bringel, Curr Issues Mol Bio.
Diversity of Methane Cycling Microorganisms in Soils and Their Relation to Oxygen, C Knief, Curr Issues Mol Bio.
Microbiomes in Ground Water and Alternative Irrigation Water, and Spinach Microbiomes Impacted by Irrigation with Different Types of Water, Ganyu Gu, Phytobiome
Microbiome in the market
Macrogen Announces Strategic Investment in Australian Microbiome Company, Microba
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