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Today’s microbiome digest includes several interesting research and review articles. Enjoy reading!

General microbiome

Review: The intestinal neuro-immune axis: crosstalk between neurons, immune cells, and microbes – Amanda Jacobson – Mucosal Immunology

Review: The Role of the Gut Microbiome, Immunity, and Neuroinflammation in the Pathophysiology of Eating Disorders – Michael J. Butler – Nutrients

Review: The microbiome and host mucosal interactions in urinary tract diseases – Bernadette Jones-Freeman – Mucosal Immunology

Comparison between 16S rRNA and shotgun sequencing data for the taxonomic characterization of the gut microbiota – Francesco Durazzi – Scientific Reports

Perspective: Modulating gut microbiota to treat cancer – Christopher H. Woelk – Science

Sequence Meets Function—Microbiota And Cardiovascular Disease – Myungsuk Kim – Cardiovascular Research

Human gut microbiome

Fecal microbiota transplant overcomes resistance to anti–PD-1 therapy in melanoma patients – Diwakar Davar – Science

Fecal microbiota transplant promotes response in immunotherapy-refractory melanoma patients – Erez N Baruch – Science

Components of a Neanderthal gut microbiome recovered from fecal sediments from El Salt – Simone Rampelli – Communications Biology

Meta-omics characteristics of intestinal microbiota associated to HBeAg seroconversion induced by oral antiviral therapy – Yu-Li Zeng – Scientific Reports

Anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory effects elicited by short chain fatty acids produced by Escherichia coli isolated from healthy human gut microbiota – Atchareeya Nakkarach – Microbial Cell Factories

Exploiting the Microbiota for the Diagnosis of Anal Precancerous Lesions in Men Who Have Sex With Men – Raquel Ron – Journal of Infectious Disease

Distribution characteristics of intestinal microbiota during pregnancy and postpartum in healthy women – Shengtang Qin – The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Co-Occurrence of Symptoms and Gut Microbiota Composition Before Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Radiation Therapy for Rectal Cancer: A Proof of Concept – Velda J Gonzalez-Mercado – Biological Research For Nursing

Oral and respiratory microbiome

Development of a robust protocol for the characterization of the pulmonary microbiota – Nathan Dumont-Leblond – Communications Biology

Lung microbiota associations with clinical features of COPD in the SPIROMICS cohort – Kristopher Opron – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Animal microbiome / Animal experiments

Changes in the gut microbial community of the eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens) across its three distinct life stages – Samantha S Fontaine – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Altered Gut Microbiota is Involved in the Anti‐Hypertensive Effects of Vitamin C in Spontaneously Hypertensive Rat – Ying Li – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Long Term High Protein Diet Feeding Alters the Microbiome and Increases Intestinal Permeability, Systemic Inflammation and Kidney Injury in Mice – Matthew Snelson- Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Low-dose exposure of glyphosate-based herbicides disrupt the urine metabolome and its interaction with gut microbiota – Jianzhong Hu – Scientific Reports

Metagenomics of antimicrobial and heavy metal resistance in the cecal microbiome of fattening pigs raised without antibiotics – Paiboon Tunsagool – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

IL-17 controls central nervous system autoimmunity through the intestinal microbiome – Tommy Regen – Science Immunology

The skin microbiome of Xenopus laevis and the effects of husbandry conditions – Maya Z. Piccinni – Animal Microbiome

Effects of dietary oregano essential oil supplementation on growth performance, intestinal antioxidative capacity, immunity and intestinal microbiota in yellow-feathered chickens – Dong Ruan – Journal of Animal Science

Composition and acquisition of the microbiome in solitary, ground-nesting alkali bees – Karen M. Kapheim – Scientific Reports

The impact of the gut microbiome on memory and sleep in Drosophila – Valeria Silva – Journal of Experimental Biology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Prebiotic dietary fibre intervention improves fecal markers related to inflammation in obese patients: results from the Food4Gut randomized placebo-controlled trial – Audrey M. Neyrinck – European Journal of Nutrition

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Reduced tillage, cover crops and organic amendments affect soil microbiota and improve soil health in Uruguayan vegetable farming systems – Victoria Cerecetto – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Tillage shapes the soil and rhizosphere microbiome of barley – but not its susceptibility towards Blumeria graminis f. sp. Hordei – Nina Bziuk – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

The rhizosphere microbiome plays a role in the resistance to soil-borne pathogens and nutrient uptake of strawberry cultivars under field conditions – Cristina Lazcano – Scientific Reports

16S rRNA gene-based microbiome analysis identifies candidate bacterial strains that increase the storage time of potato tubers – Franziska Buchholz – Scientific Reports

Methods and techniques

Boolean implication analysis unveils candidate universal relationships in microbiome data – Daniella Vo – BMC Bioinformatics

Review: Advances in modelling the human microbiome–gut–brain axis in vitro – Chrysanthi-Maria Moysidou

MB-GAN: Microbiome Simulation via Generative Adversarial Network – Ruichen Rong – GigaScience