Happy Friday! Today’s digest includes the microbiome of plankton, viral diversity of ticks, and a review of microbiome engineering. Enjoy!

General microbiome

Homeorhesis and ecological succession quantified in synthetic microbial ecosystems – Chuang – PNAS

Human nearly-sterile sites

Insights into the Microbiome of Breast Implants and Periprosthetic Tissue in Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma – Walker – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Review: Precision Medicine Goes Microscopic: Engineering the Microbiome to Improve Drug Outcomes – Lam – Cell Host & Microbe

A structured weight loss program increases gut microbiota phylogenetic diversity and reduces levels of Collinsella in obese type 2 diabetics: A pilot study – Frost – PLoS One

Animal experiments

Changes in cecal microbiota community of suckling piglets infected with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus – Tan – PLoS One

Animal microbiome

Cicadae pupa promotes metabolites synthesis of Isaria cicadae, a dominant species in cicada flowers microbiota – Chunyu – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Experimental Evidence for Adaptation to Species-Specific Gut Microbiota in House Mice – Moeller – mSphere

Fecal microbiota of different reproductive stages of the central population of the lesser-long nosed bat, Leptonycteris yerbabuenae – Gaona – PLoS One

Diel transcriptional response of a California Current plankton microbiome to light, low iron, and enduring viral infection – Kolody – ISME

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Preprint: Maize residues changes soil fungal composition and decrease soil microbial co-ocurrence networks complexity – Cobo-Diaz – BioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

Impacts of continuous inflow of low concentrations of silver nanoparticles on biological performance and microbial communities of aerobic heterotrophic wastewater biofilm – Alizadeh – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Phages and viruses

Preprint: Metagenomic exploration of viral diversity and virus-host interactions in a deep freshwater lake – Okazaki – BioRxiv

Preprint: Identification and evolution of avian endogenous foamy viruses – Chen – BioRxiv

Viral Diversity of Tick Species Parasitizing Cattle and Dogs in Trinidad and Tobago – Sameroff – Scientific Reports

Bioinformatics

Predictive metabolomic profiling of microbial communities using amplicon or metagenomic sequences – Mallick – Nature Communications

Heterogeneity spacers in 16S rDNA primers improve analysis of mouse gut microbiomes via greater nucleotide diversity – Jensen – BioTechniques