Good Morning! Highlights of today’s digest include a promising probiotic effect of Lactobaccillus helveticus on acute liver failure as shown in an animal model study. Findings from another study about soil sterilization and how it leads to healthier soil microbiome and plant growth by modulating promotion of plant and beneficial microbes associations. Finally, check out an investigation aiming to generate a standardized approach for microbiome profiling by evaluating a series of hypervariable regions of 16S gene and estimating community richness across diverse sample types. Many review articles are also posted. Enjoy!

Pregnancy and early life

Acquisition and Development of the Extremely Preterm Infant Microbiota Across Multiple Anatomical Sites – Young et al. – J of Pediatric Gastroebterology and Nutrition

Multi-site human microbiome

Review: Urobiome: In Sickness and in Health – Wojciuk et al. – Microorganisms

Review: The Skin and Gut Microbiome and Its Role in Common Dermatologic Conditions – Ellis et al. – Microorganisms

Human oral microbiome

Analysis of the human oral microbiome from modern and historical samples with SPARSE and EToKi – Achtman and Zhou – bioRxiv

Human vaginal microbiome

HIV infection is associated with preterm delivery independent of vaginal microbiota in pregnant African women – Gudza-Mugabe et al. – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Review: Microbial Phenolic Metabolites: Which Molecules Actually Have an Effect on Human Health? – Marhuenda-Munoz et al. – Nutrients

Microbial succession during wheat bran fermentation and colonisation by human faecal microbiota as a result of niche diversification – Paepe et al. – ISME

Bifidogenic and butyrogenic effects of young barely leaf extract in an in vitro human colonic microbiota model – Sasaki et al. – AMB Express

Animal experiments

Dietary energy and protein levels influenced the growth performance, ruminal morphology and fermentation and microbial diversity of lambs – Cui et al. – Scientific Reports

*Lactobacillus helveticus R0052 alleviates liver injury by modulating gut microbiome and metabolome in d-galactosamine-treated rats – Wang et al. – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Evaluation of the ecological restoration of a coal mine dump by exploring the characteristics of microbial communities – Chen et al. – Applied Soil Ecology

*Soil sterilization leads to re-colonization of a healthier rhizosphere microbiome – Li et al. – Rhizosphere

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microbial composition and variability of natural marine planktonic and biofouling communities from the Bay of Bengal – Angelova et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Changes to the microbial communities within groundwater in response to a large crustal earthquake in Kumamoto, southern Japan – Morimura et al. – Journal of Hydrology

Increasing oxygen defciency changes rare and moderately abundant bacterial communities in coastal soft sediments – Sinkko et al. – Scientific Reports Nature Research

Probiotics / peribiotics

Review: Recent systems biology approaches for probiotics use in health aspects: a review – Yadave and Shukla – 3 Biotech

Bioinformatics

A phylogenetic model for the recruitment of species into microbial communities and application to studies of the human microbiome – Darcy et al. – bioRxiv

Developing a Reproducible Microbiome Data Analysis Pipeline Using the Amazon Web Services Cloud for a Cancer Research Group: Proof-of-Concept Study – Bai et al. – JMIR Medical Informatics

Techniques

*Evaluation of primer pairs for microbiome profiling across a food chain from soils to humans within the One Health framework – Wasimuddin et al. – bioRxiv

Rapid, selective and single cell electrical detection of antibiotic resistant bacteria – Kumar et al. – bioRxiv

Droplet Digital PCR Technology for Detection of Ilyonectria liriodendri from Grapevine Environmental Samples – Martinez Diz et al. – APS Publications