Good Morning! Highlights of today’s digest include investigation about early childhood microbiota assembly in mother-infant participants from the Tsimane indigenous population from Amazon and with findings suggesting that socioeconomic changes may be altering interactions of highly abundant members of the microbiota in the host. Results from a gut-brain axis rat model showed possibility of novel biomarkers development for stress response based on abundance of genes in microbiomes. Finally, another study is aiming to access biologically active small molecules with antibacterial activity derived from human microbiota by sequencing of metagenomes and the use of computational and synthetic biology methods.

Pregnancy and early life
Prenatal and postnatal contributions of the maternal microbiome on offspring programming – Jasarevic and Bale – Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

Multi-site human microbiome
*Microbiota Assembly, Structure, and Dynamics Among Tsimane Horticulturalists of the Bolivian Amazon – Sprockett et al. – bioRxiv

Human vaginal microbiome
Oncogenic Virome Benefits from the Different Vaginal Microbiome-Immune Axes – Campisciano et al. – MDPI Microorganisms

Non-optimal vaginal microbiota after azithromycin treatment for Chlamydia trachomatis infection – Tamarelle et al. – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Human nearly-sterile sites
Targeted High-Throughput Sequencing Identifies Predominantly Fungal Pathogens in Patients with Clinically Infectious, Culture-Negative Endophthalmitis in South India – Gandhi et al. – MDPI Microorganisms

Human gut microbiome
Review: Synthetic ecology of the human gut microbiota – Vrancken et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: The interaction between gut microbiome and nutrients on development of human disease through epigenetic mechanisms – Ho-Sun Lee – Genomics & Informatics

Adaptation of Syntenic Xyloglucan Utilization Loci of Human Gut Bacteroidetes to Polysaccharide Side Chain Diversity – Dejean et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Pre‐and post‐serial metagenomic analysis of gut microbiota as a prognostic factor in patients undergoing haematopoietic stem cell transplantation – Kusakabe et al. – British Journal of Haematology

Animal experiments
Experimental evidence for adaptation to species-specific gut microbiota in house mice – Moeller et al. – mSphere

Low‐calcium diet in mice leads to reduced gut colonization by Enterococcus faecium – Top et al. – MicrobiologyOpen

Letrozole treatment of pubertal female mice results in activational effects on reproduction, metabolism and the gut microbiome – Arroyo et al. – PLOS ONE

Transplanting Fecal Virus-Like Particles Reduces High-Fat Diet-Induced Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Mice – Lin et al. – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

*Metabolome and microbiome profiling of a stress-sensitive rat model of gut-brain axis dysfunction – Bassett et al. – Nature Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome
The composition and stability of the faecal microbiota of Merino sheep – Al Mamun et al. – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Faecal microbiota and functional capacity associated with weaning weight in meat rabbits – Fang et al. – Microbial Biotechnology

Review: Feline Virome—A Review of Novel Enteric Viruses Detected in Cats – Martino et al. – MDPI Viruses

Phylogeography and ecological niche shape the cichlid fish gut microbiota in Central American and African lakes – Baldo et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant, root and soil microbiome
Biocontrol activities of rhizobacteria associated with apple, apricot and kiwi rhizosphere against bacterial canker caused by Clavibacter michiganensis – Gautam et al. – Indian Phytopathology

Distinct Drivers of Core and Accessory Components of Soil Microbial Community Functional Diversity under Environmental Changes – Zhang et al. – mSystems

Antarctic tundra soil metagenome as useful natural resources of cold-active lignocelluolytic enzymes – Oh et al. – Journal of Microbiology

Microbial communities in bioswale soils and their relationships to soil properties, plant species, and plant physiology – Brodsky et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Soil prokaryotes associated with decreasing pathogen density during anaerobic soil disinfestation – Lee et al. – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome
Bacterial Communities of Microbial Mats of the White Sea Supralittoral and of the Littoral of the Lakes Separated from the Sea – Burganskaya et al. – Microbiology

Microbial community dynamics and coexistence in a sulfide-driven phototrophic bloom – Bhatnagar et al. – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics
*A metagenomic strategy for harnessing the chemical repertoire of the human microbiome – Sugimoto et al. – Science

Techniques
Protocol: Open-Source Software Tools, Databases, and Resources for Single-Cell and Single-Cell-Type Metabolomics – Biswapriya B. Misra – Single Cell Metabolism

An Entropy-Based Graph Construction Method for Representing and Clustering Biological Data – Ariza-Jimenez et al. – Latin American Conference on Biomedical Engineering

Microbes in the news
Artificial gut aims to expose the elusive microbiome – Anne McGovern – MIT PHYS.ORG