May 17, 2024

Today’s digest features bioinformatics binning methods, healthy dogs, lakes in South Africa, and more. For the human gut microbiome studies, check out the latest digest (May 15, 2024) by Grace Deitzler.

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Skin microbiome

Intraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes – Christopher P. Mancuso – bioRxiv

Oral microbiome

Oral microbiota of patients with phenylketonuria: A nation-based cross-sectional study – Memduh Bingöl – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Urinary microbiome

Microbroth dilution method for antibiotic susceptibility testing of fastidious and anaerobic bacteria of the urinary microbiome – Wilson Geaman – Microbiology Spectrum

Respiratory tract

Meta-analysis of the human upper respiratory tract microbiome reveals robust taxonomic associations with health and disease – Nick Quinn-Bohmann – BMC Biology

Food microbiome

Microbial community structure of plant-based meat alternatives – Franz-Ferdinand Rochn – pj Science of Food

Plan, root, soil

Functional team selection: a framework for local adaptation in plants and their belowground microbiomes – Nancy Collins Johnson and César Marín – ecoevoRxiv

Life on the edge: microbial diversity, resistome, and virulome in soils from the Union Glacier cold desert – Patricio Arros – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Microbiota of healthy dogs demonstrate a significant decrease in richness and changes in specific bacterial groups in response to supplementation with resistant starch, but not psyllium or methylcellulose, in a randomized cross-over trial – Silke Salavati Schmitz – Access Microbiology

Early-life factors shaping the gut microbiota of Common buzzard nestlings – Hugo Pereira – Animal Microbiome

Animal experiment

13C-Stable isotope resolved metabolomics uncovers dynamic biochemical landscape of gut microbiome-host organ communications in mice – Xia Xiao – Microbiome

Water microbiome

Metagenomics datasets of water and sediments from eutrophication-impacted artificial lakes in South Africa – Grace Nkechinyere Ijoma – Scientific Data

Bioinformatics

Fairy: fast approximate coverage for multi-sample metagenomic binning – Jim Shaw and Yun William Yu – bioRxiv

Highly accurate metagenome-assembled genomes from human gut microbiota using long-read assembly, binning, and consolidation methods – Daniel M Portik – biorXiv

Using short-read 16S rRNA sequencing of multiple variable regions to generate high-quality results to a species level – Amy S Graham – bioRxiv

Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities – Juan Diaz-Colunga – bioRxiv

ARGNet: using deep neural networks for robust identification and classification of antibiotic resistance genes from sequences – Yao Pei – Microbiome

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