Today’s digest features house mice gut microbiome, infant gut DNA bacteriophage strain persistence, maternal gut microbiome in pregnancy, and more.

Do not miss Francine Marques’s opinion on rethinking culture to unlock the potential of research.

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Respiratory microbiome

Review: Winds of change a tale of: asthma and microbiome – David Galeana-Cadena – Frontiers in Microbiology

Gut microbiome

Review: The maternal gut microbiome in pregnancy: implications for the developing immune system – Omry Koren – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Bioactive glycans in a microbiome-directed food for children with malnutrition – Matthew C. Hibberd – Nature

Shotgun metagenomics reveals interkingdom association between intestinal bacteria and fungi involving competition for nutrients – Zixuan Xie – Microbiome

Gut microbiota-related metabolite alpha-linolenic acid mitigates intestinal inflammation induced by oral infection with Toxoplasma gondii – Jing Yang – Microbiome

Fiber-deficient diet inhibits colitis through the regulation of the niche and metabolism of a gut pathobiont – Peter Kuffa – Cell Host & Microbe

Animal microbiome

Subspecies divergence, hybridisation and the spatial environment shape phylosymbiosis in the microbiome of house mice – Susana C. M. Ferreira – bioRxiv

Our preprint on hybridisation and environmental effects on the gastrointestinal microbial communities of genetically diverse house mice 🏡🐭 is now available! https://t.co/N4Tg7Lo01B

— Víctor Hugo Jarquín-Díaz (@vhjarquind) December 12, 2023

Turnover of strain-level diversity modulates functional traits in the honeybee gut microbiome between nurses and foragers – Gilles L. C. Baud – Genome Biology

Seasonal and environmental factors contribute to the variation in the gut microbiome: a large-scale study of a small bird – Martta Liukkonen – bioRxiv

Plant-Root-Soil microbiome

Genome-resolved metatranscriptomics reveals conserved root colonization determinants in a synthetic microbiota – Nathan Vannier – Nature Communications

Virome

Infant gut DNA bacteriophage strain persistence during the first 3 years of life – Yue Clare Lou – Cell Host & Microbe

🦠What are the early-life colonization & assembly dynamics of bacteriophages? Out today online in@cellhostmicrobe, our paper took a strain-resolved approach to investigate early phage colonizers.

Article:https://t.co/C74GsnNFAB

— Yue Clare Lou, Ph.D. (@ClareLou9) December 13, 2023

Techniques

High-throughput anaerobic screening for identifying compounds acting against gut bacteria in monocultures or communities – Patrick Müller – Nature Protocols

Bioinformatics

MAGqual: A standalone pipeline to assess the quality of metagenome-assembled genomes – James P.J. Chong – bioRxiv

Excited to share my opinion piece on rethinking culture to unlock the potential of research

Grateful to @HyperAHA & editors @LabTouyz & @endocelldoc for the support

A 🧵 about why I wrote this & why it matters https://t.co/uEo64Oulbx

— A/Prof Francine Marques (@FZMarques) December 1, 2023