Greetings from Santiago, Chile! Today, in this Digest we have several reviews about microbiota and different conditions or interventions. We have also papers about the microbial evolution and its relationship with the host, the role of O-glycosylated mucus, the microbiome of neonates and the influence of probiotics, and more…    

Human and General Microbiome

Review: The gut microbiota-brain axis in behaviour and brain disorders – Livia H. Morais – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: Gut microbiota in pancreatic diseases: possible new therapeutic strategies – Li-long Pan – Acta Pharmacologica Sinica 

Review: The Gut Microbiome and the Triple Environmental Hit Concept of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Pathogenesis – Richard Kellermayer – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Review: Allogenic stem cell transplant-associated acute graft versus host disease: a computational drug discovery text mining approach using oral and gut microbiome signatures – M. F. Beckman – Supportive Care in Cancer 

Experimental evolution makes microbes more cooperative with their local host genotype – Rebecca T. Batstone – Science

Proximal colon-derived O-glycosylated mucus encapsulates and modulates the microbiota – Kirk Bergstrom – Science

The Microbiota Profile in Inflamed and Non-Inflamed Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis – Sabrina Just Kousgaard – Microorganisms (MDPI)

Altered Gut Microbiome and Environmental Factors Associated with Development of Eczema in Hong Kong Infants: A 4-Month Pilot Study – Carmen Wing Han Chan – International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Beneficial microbes and Compounds

Systematic Review: The role of pro-, pre- and symbiotics in cancer: A systematic review – Miarons Marta – Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics

Review: Fiber and Prebiotic Interventions in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease: What Role Does the Gut Microbiome Play? – Genelle R. Healey – Nutrients (MDPI)

Influence of probiotic supplementation on the developing microbiota in human preterm neonates – Niels van Best – Gut Microbes

Anti-Inflammatory and Intestinal Microbiota Modulation Properties of Jinxiang Garlic ( Allium sativum L.) Polysaccharides toward Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Colitis – Xin Shao – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Food Microbiome

Metagenomic characterization of bacterial community and antibiotic resistance genes in representative ready-to-eat food in southern China – YiMing Li – Scientific Reports

Animal Microbiome

Review: Toxin Degradation by Rumen Microorganisms: A Review – Zhi Hung Loh – Toxins (MDPI)

Gut dysbiosis associated with the rats’ responses in methamphetamine-induced conditioned place preference – Cheng Yang – Addiction Biology

A High-Fat Diet Increases Gut Microbiota Biodiversity and Energy Expenditure Due to Nutrient Difference – Botao Wang – Nutrients (MDPI)

Plant Microbiome

Microbiome-wide association studies reveal correlations between the structure and metabolism of the rhizosphere microbiome and disease resistance in cassava – Lin Zhang – Plant Biotechnology Journal

Daring to be differential: metabarcoding analysis of soil and plant-related microbial communities using amplicon sequence variants and operational taxonomical units – Lisa Joos – BMC Genomics

Bioinformatics

Clustering on Human Microbiome Sequencing Data: A Distance-Based Unsupervised Learning Model – Dongyang Yang – Microorganisms (MDPI)

A generalized machine-learning aided method for targeted identification of industrial enzymes from metagenome: a xylanase temperature dependence case study – Mehdi Foroozandeh Shahraki – Biotechnology and Bioengeenering