Another month has passed! Hope everyone is staying at home and being well. Today’s highlights include a paper applying NMR to monitor neonatal metabolic adaptations, how oil influence microbial community assembly off the Gulf of Mexico and a preprint for a Bayesian Multi-task method to identify global microbiome associations.
COVID-19 Articles
Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing – Ed Yong – The Atlantic
Aerodynamic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in two Wuhan hospitals – Liu & Ning et al. – Nature
Human microbiome
Fucosidases from the human gut symbiont Ruminococcus gnavus – Wu & Rebello et al. – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
Temporal Dysbiosis of Infant Nasal Microbiota Relative to Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection – Grier et al. – bioRxiv **preprint**
Sex-specific Alterations in the Urinary and Tissue Microbiome in Therapy-naïve Urothelial Bladder Cancer Patients – Pederzoli et al. – European Urology Oncology
Microbiome and Metabolomics
Metabolic changes in early neonatal life: NMR analysis of the neonatal metabolic profile to monitor postnatal metabolic adaptations – Georgakopoulou, I., Chasapi, S.A., Bariamis, S.E. et al – Metabolomics
Analyzing the impact of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection on primary human macrophages by combined exploratory and targeted metabolomics – Vrieling & Kostidis et al. – Nature Scientific Reports
Soil microbiome
Structural and microbial evidence for different soil carbon sequestration after four-year successive biochar application in two different paddy soils – Bi & Cai et al. – Chemosphere
Soil pH and C/N ratio determines spatial variations in soil microbial communities and enzymatic activities of the agricultural ecosystems in Northeast China: Jilin Province case – Xu et al. – Applied Soil Ecology
Animal microbiome
Viral metagenomics revealed diverse CRESS-DNA virus genomes in faeces of forest musk deer – Liu & Wang et al. – Virology Journal
Links between the rumen microbiota, methane emissions and feed efficiency of finishing steers offered dietary lipid and nitrate supplementation – Bowen & Cormican et al. – PLOS One
Microbiomes of the built environment
Influence of oil, dispersant, and pressure on microbial communities from the Gulf of Mexico – Noirungsee et al. – Nature Scientific Reports
Passenger-surface microbiome interactions in the subway of Mexico City – Vargas-Robles et al. – bioRxiv **preprint**
Pathogens
Intra-species signaling between Pseudomonas aeruginosa genotypes increases production of quorum sensing controlled virulence factors – Mould et al. – bioRxiv **preprint**
Statistics and bioinformatics
A Bayesian Multi-Task Approach for Detecting Global Microbiome Associations – Hatami et al. – bioRxiv (soon to be published in Bioinformatics) **preprint**
Extremophiles
Genomic sequencing of Gracilibacillus dipsosauri reveals key properties of a salt-tolerant a-amylase – Deutch & Yang – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Aquatic environments
Cyanobacteria in inland waters: new monitoring, reporting, modelling and ecological research – Mitrovic et al. – Marine & Freshwater Research **review**
Contrast diversity patterns and processes of microbial community assembly in a river-lake continuum across a catchment scale in northwestern China – Tang et al. – Environmental Microbiome
Microbiome in the News
Coffee plants have a small but consistent core microbiome of fungi and bacteria – American Phytopathological Society – EurekAlert!