Author Archives: Axel Künstner

April 08, 2025

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General microbiome

Conserved genetic basis for microbial colonization of the gut – Liu et al. – Cell

Human skin microbiome

Confounders of the skin microbiome and wound healing in burn patients – Pourali, Aali & Kamrava – Burns

Human vaginal microbiome

[PREPRINT]Temporal Dynamics of the Vaginal Microbiome and Host Immune Markers Before, During, and After Metronidazole Treatment for Bacterial Vaginosis – Williams et al. – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome/mycobiome

Gut microbiome in patients with early-stage and late-stage endometriosis – Cai et al. – BMC Women’s Health

Effect, tolerability, and safety of exclusive palatable elemental diet in patients with intestinal microbial overgrowth – Rezaie et al. – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

[PREPRINT]Characterization of the gut mycobiome in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and correlations with serum metabolome – Zheng et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Investigating microbiota differences across chronic pancreatitis, influenced by lifestyle and genetic determinants – Ahmed et al. – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiota contributes to protection against porcine deltacoronavirus infection in piglets by modulating intestinal barrier and microbiome – Zhang et al. – Microbiome

Adaptive survival strategies of rumen microbiota with solid diet deficiency in early life cause epithelial mitochondrial dysfunction – Yu et al. – The ISME Journal

[PREPRINT]Longitudinal study of the udder microbiome of Norwegian red dairy cows using metataxonomic and shotgun metagenomic approaches: Insights into pathogen-driven microbial adaptation and succession – da Silva Duarte et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Characterizing the Microbiome of ‘Sterile’ Organs in Experimental Mice – Xu et al. – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Environmental drivers of the resistome across the Baltic Sea – Serrana et al. – Microbiome

Candidate Phyla Radiation (CPR) bacteria from hyperalkaline ecosystems provide novel insight into their symbiotic lifestyle and ecological implications – He et al. – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

Bayesian compositional generalized linear mixed models for disease prediction using microbiome data – Zhang et al. – BMC Bioinformatics

Techniques

[PREPRINT]Artificial soil systems: A tool for investigating microbial life strategy effects on substrate mineralization – Fujiwara, Makino & Hamamoto – bioRxiv

December 10, 2024

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General microbiome

[COMMENT]The role of pharmacomicrobiomics in HIV prevention, treatment, and women’s health – Swanson, Basting & Klatt

Early life

Characterization of the Gut and Skin Microbiome over Time in Young Children with IgE-Mediated Food Allergy – Roth et al. – Nutrients

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]A systematic review of the relationship between gut microbiota and prevalence of pancreatic diseases – Jankowski, Fichna & Tarasiuk-Zawadzka – Microbial Pathogenesis

Beneficial microbiome and diet interplay in early-onset colorectal cancer – Zhou et al. – EMBO Molecular Medicine

Age-stratification reveals age-specific intestinal microbiota signatures in juvenile idiopathic arthritis – Budzinski et al. – Molecular and Cellular Pediatrics

[PREPRINT]Human gut archaea collection from Estonian population – Pantiukh & Org – bioRxiv

Analysis of early childhood intestinal microbial dynamics in a continuous-flow bioreactor – Granato et al. – Microbiome

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Increase in body weight is lowered when mice received fecal microbiota transfer from donor mice treated with the AT1 receptor antagonist telmisartan – Freschi et al. – Frontiers in Pharmacology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Interaction between root exudates and PFOS mobility: Effects on rhizosphere microbial health in wetland ecosystems – Lu et al. – Environmental Pollution

[PREPRINT]The activity of soil microbial taxa in the rhizosphere predicts the success of root colonization – Harris et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Fertilization impacts microbiomes along the grassland trophic chain – Jetter et al. – bioRxiv

Waste

Shallow shotgun sequencing of healthcare waste reveals plastic-eating bacteria with broad-spectrum antibiotic resistance genes – Siew et al. – Environmental Pollution

Bioinformatics

EURYALE: A versatile Nextflow pipeline for taxonomic classification and functional annotation of metagenomics data – Cavalcante et al. – IEEE Xplore
EURYALE

[PREPRINT]MCSPACE: inferring microbiome spatiotemporal dynamics from high-throughput co-localization data – Uppal et al. – bioRxiv

October 10, 2024

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Pregnancy and early life

Maternal and infant microbiome and birth anthropometry – Padiyar et al. – iScience

Human oral microbiome

Tumor-colonized Streptococcus mutans metabolically reprograms tumor microenvironment and promotes oral squamous cell carcinoma – Zhou et al. – Microbiome

Human skin microbiome

Causal relationship between 150 skin microbiomes and prostate cancer: insights from bidirectional mendelian randomization and meta-analysis – Chen et al. – Frontiers in Immunology

Human respiratory microbiome

Microbiome and metabolome patterns after lung transplantation reflect underlying disease and chronic lung allograft dysfunction – Martin et al. – Microbiome

Human gut microbiome

Visceral adiposity in postmenopausal women is associated with a pro-inflammatory gut microbiome and immunogenic metabolic endotoxemia – Gaber et al. – Microbiome

[REVIEW]From gut to bone: deciphering the impact of gut microbiota on osteoporosis pathogenesis and management – Hao et al. – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

[PREPRINT]Abundance measurements reveal the balance between lysis and lysogeny in the human gut microbiome – Lopez et al. – bioRxiv

[REVIEW]The role of gut microbiota in prostate inflammation and benign prostatic hyperplasia and its therapeutic implications – Chen et al. – Heliyon

Unveiling the gut microbiota blueprint of schizophrenia: a multilevel omics approach – Qi et al. – Frontiers in Psychiatry

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

[PREPRINT]Failure of colonization following gut microbiota transfer exacerbates DSS-induced colitis – Gustafson et al. – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Gut microbiome in two high-altitude bird populations showed heterogeneity in sex and life stage – Sun et al. – FEMS Microbes

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Analysis of rhizosphere fungal diversity in lavender at different planting years based on high-throughput sequencing technology – Deng et al. – PLOS One

[PREPRINT]Soil microbiome perturbation impedes growth of Bouteloua curtipendula and increases relative abundance of soil microbial pathogens – Hobbs et al. – bioRxiv

Microbes in space

Adaptation to space conditions of novel bacterial species isolated from the International Space Station revealed by functional gene annotations and comparative genome analysis – Szydlowski et al. – Microbiome

Metabolomics

[PREPRINT]Metabolomics survey of uropathogenic bacteria in human urine – Chan et al. – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics/Resources

[PREPRINT]FungAMR: A comprehensive portrait of antimicrobial resistance mutations in fungi – Bedard et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]argNorm: Normalization of antibiotic resistance gene annotations to the Antibiotic Resistance Ontology (ARO) – Perovic et al. – QUT ePrints

[PREPRINT]BEREN: A bioinformatic tool for recovering Giant viruses, Polinton-like Viruses, and Virophages in metagenomic data – Minch & Moniruzzman – bioRxiv

[DATASET]Dataset of 16S rRNA gene sequences of 111 healthy and Newcastle disease infected caecal samples from multiple chicken breeds of Pakistan – Ameer et al. – Data in Brief

Techniques

High accuracy meets high throughput for near full-length 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon sequencing on the Nanopore platform – Lin et al. – PNAS Nexus

September 26, 2024

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General microbiome

[RESOURCE/COLLECTION]Microbial Primers

Phages reconstitute NAD+ to counter bacterial immunity – Osterman et al. – Nature

The direct inhibitory effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus, a commensal urinary bacterium, on calcium oxalate stone development – Noonin et al. – Microbiome

Pregnancy and early life

Neonatal gut microbiota profile and the association with retinopathy of prematurity in preterm infants – Chang et al. – Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology

Human skin microbiome

The wound microbiota: microbial mechanisms of impaired wound healing and infection – Uberoi, McCready-Vangi, Grice – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

[PREPRINT]Altered oral microbiota of drug-resistant organism carriers exhibit impaired gram-negative pathogen inhibition – Zelasko et al. – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Emergence of community behaviors in the gut microbiota upon drug treatment – Garcia-Santamarina et al. – Cell

Microbial transformation of dietary xenobiotics shapes gut microbiome composition – Culp et al. – Cell

[REVIEW]Microglia and Gut Microbiota: A Double-Edged Sword in Alzheimer’s Disease – Bano et al. – Ageing Research Reviews

[REVIEW]What defines a healthy gut microbiome? – van Hul et al. – Gut

[OUTLOOK]The gut microbiome and chronic pain – Watson – Nature

Acarbose enhances the efficacy of immunotherapy against solid tumours by modulating the gut microbiota – Zhang et al. – Nature Metabolism

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Trait-based study predicts glycerol/diol dehydratases as a key function of the gut microbiota of hindgut-fermenting carnivores – Li et al. – Microbiome

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Microbial community storm dynamics signal sources of “old” stream water – URycki et al. – PLOS One

Hyperexpansion of genetic diversity and metabolic capacity of extremophilic bacteria and archaea in ancient Andean lake sediments – Lezcano et al. – Microbiome

Food microbiology

Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over evolutionary history – Liu et al. – Cell

Bioinformatics

A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies – Wirbel et al. – Genome Biology

[PREPRINT]Quantifying Data Distortion in Bar Graphs in Biological Research – Lin & Landry – bioRxiv

September 19, 2024

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Pregnancy and early life

Networks of human milk microbiota are associated with host genomics, childhood asthma, and allergic sensitization – Fang et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

Affective symptoms in pregnancy are associated with the vaginal microbiome – Scheible et al. – Journal of Affective Disorders

Human oral microbiome

[PREPRINT]An extensive archaeological dental calculus dataset spanning 5000 years for ancient human oral microbiome research – Standeven et al. – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

[EDITORIAL]The global epidemic of early-onset cancer: Nature, nurture, or both? – Ogino & Ugai – Annals of Oncology

Akkermania muciniphila: a rising star in tumor immunology – Wang & Tang – Clinical and Translational Oncology

[REVIEW]Nutraceuticals and pharmacological to balance the transitional microbiome to extend immunity during COVID-19 and other viral infections – Kaushal –

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

The role of intestinal microbiota in physiologic and body compositional changes that accompany CLA-mediated weight loss in obese mice – Zhang et al. – Molecular Metabolism

Depletion of the paternal gut microbiome alters sperm small RNAs and impacts offspring physiology and behavior in mice – Masson et al. – Brain, Behaviour, and Immunity

Succession of rumen microbiota and metabolites across different reproductive periods in different sheep breeds and their impact on the growth and development of offspring lambs – Sha et al. – Microbiome

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

[PREPRINT]Microbiome and climate: Skin microbial diversity and community functions of Polypedates megacephalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) associated with bioclimate – Meegaskumbura et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Enrichment of novel entomopathogenic Pseudomonas species enhances willow resistance to leaf beetles – Wang et al. – Microbiome

Food microbiology

Making yogurt with the ant holobiont uncovers bacteria, acids, and enzymes for food fermentation – Sinotte et al. – bioRxiv

Phages and viruses

Birth of protein folds and functions in the virome – Nomburg et al. – Nature

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]An efficient pipeline for creating metagenomic-assembled genomes from ancient oral microbiomes – Standeven et al. – bioRxiv

September 12, 2024

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General microbiome

[REVIEW]Emerging roles of intratumor microbiota in cancer: tumorigenesis and management strategies – Shi, Li & Zhang – Journal of Translational Medicine

[REVIEW]Fungal effectors: past, present, and future – Li et al. – Current Opinion in Microbiology

[Voices]Microbes and metabolites in immunity – Elinav et al. – Immunity

Pregnancy and early life

Human milk variation is shaped by maternal genetics and impacts the infant gut microbiome – Johnson et al. – Cell Genomics

Human urinary tract microbiome

[REVIEW]Urinary tract infections: pathogenesis, host susceptibility and emerging therapeutics – Timm, Russell & Hultgren

Human gut microbiome

Dietary-timing-induced gut microbiota diurnal oscillations modulate inflammatory rhythms in rheumatoid arthritis – Ma et al. – Cell Metabolism

Animal microbiome

[PREPRINT]The holobiont’s extracellular microbiome modulates the adaptation of an intracellular endosymbiont – Imchen et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Functional insights into the effect of feralisation on the gut microbiota of cats worldwide – Aizpurua et al. – bioRxiv

Microbial community profiling in intestinal tract of indigenous chickens from different villages – Mootane et al. – Scientific Reports

Vitamin B12 ameliorates gut epithelial injury via modulating the HIF-1 pathway and gut microbiota – Feng et al. – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

[PREPRINT]Symbiont loss and gain, rather than co-diversification shapes honeybee gut microbiota diversity and function – Prasad et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Effects of parental care on skin microbial community composition in poison frogs – Fischer et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Metabolome-driven microbiome assembly determining the health of ginger crop (Zingiber officinale L. Roscoe) against rhizome rot – Wang et al. – Microbiome

[REVIEW]Re-Envisioning the Plant Disease Triangle: Full Integration of the Host Microbiota and a Focal Pivot to Health Outcomes – Leveau – Annual Review of Phytopathology

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Global marine microbial diversity and its potential in bioprospecting – Chen et al. – Nature

Bioinformatics

Stable biomarker discovery in multi-omics data via canonical correlation analysis – Pusa & Rousu – PLOS One

Techniques

Highly accurate and sensitive absolute quantification of bacterial strains in human fecal samples – Li et al. – Microbiome

August 01, 2024

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Pregnancy and early life

Diet at birth is critical for healthy growth, independent of effects on the gut microbiota – van den Elsen et al. – Microbiome

Human oral microbiome

Comparative analysis of microbiome in coronal and root caries – Gondo et al. – BMC Oral Health

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiota carcinogen metabolism causes distal tissue tumours – Roje et al. – Nature

Time-Dependent Shifts in Intestinal Bacteriome, Klebsiella Colonization and Incidence of Antibiotic-Resistance Genes after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation – Moiseev et al. – biomedicines

[PREPRINT]Comparative analysis of the treatment-naive microbiome across rheumatic diseases to predict MTX treatment response – Amend et al. – bioRxiv

Meta-analysis identifies common gut microbiota associated with multiple sclerosis – Lin et al. – Genome Medicine

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

[PREPRINT]Ganoderma lucidum alleviates kidney aging by modulating gut microbiota – Liu et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Dietary fiber content in clinical ketogenic diets modifies the gut microbiome and seizure resistance in mice – Ozcan et al. – bioRxiv

Effects of antibiotic cocktail on the fecal microbiota and their potential correlation of local immune response – Liu et al. – BMC Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[REVIEW]Practical applications of soil microbiota to improve ecosystem restoration: current knowledge and future directions – Peddle et al. – Biological Reviews

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Impact of host species on assembly, composition, and functional profiles of phycosphere microbiomes – Roager et al. – mSystems

Metaproteomic analysis decodes trophic interactions of microorganisms in the dark ocean – Zhao et al. – Nature Communications

Microbial communities on microplastics from seawater and mussels: Insights from the northern Adriatic Sea – Kolenc et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Built environment (subways, indoor surfaces)

A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance – Danko et al. – Cell

Bioinformatics

Solving genomic puzzles: computational methods for metagenomic binning – Mallawaarachchi et al. – Briefings in Bioinformatics

July 25, 2024

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Pregnancy and early life

Human cytomegalovirus in breast milk is associated with milk composition and the infant gut microbiome and growth – Johnson et al. – Nature Communications

[PREPRINT]First-Year Dynamics of the Anaerobic Microbiome and Archaeome in Infants Oral and Gastrointestinal Systems – Neumann et al. – bioRxiv

Human skin microbiome

A Mendelian randomization analysis reveals the multifaceted role of the skin microbiota in liver cancer – Wang & Zhu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Metagenomic sequencing of the skin microbiota of the scalp predicting the risk of surgical site infections following surgery of traumatic brain injury in sub-Saharan Africa – Lekuya et al. – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]The interplay between diet and the gut microbiome: implications for health and disease – Ross et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Microbiota composition effect on immunotherapy outcomes in colorectal cancer patients: A systematic review – Ajab et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia – Glendinning et al. – Microbiome

Effect of soybean and seaweed-based diets on growth performance, feed utilization, and gut microbiota of tilapia: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Viagem et al. – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Plant species influences the composition of root system microbiome and its antibiotic resistance profile in a constructed wetland receiving primary treated wastewater – Riva et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Endogenous retroviruses mediate transcriptional rewiring in response to oncogenic signaling in colorectal cancer – Ivancevic et al. – Science Advances

The plasma viral communities associate with clinical profiles in a large-scale haematological patients cohort – Ma et al. – Microbiome

Viruses of free-roaming and hunting dogs in Uganda show elevated prevalence, richness and abundance across a gradient of contact with wildlife – Tayebwa et al. – Journal of General Virology

March 7, 2024

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General microbiome

[OPINION]Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence – Custer, Bresciani & Dini-Andreote – Trends in Microbiology

Studying mixed-species biofilms of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus using evolutionary game theory – Dühring & Schuster – PLOS One

Human oral microbiome

Microbial Communities and Functional Genes in Periodontitis and Healthy Controls – Ma et al. – International Dental Journal

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Unlocking the secrets: exploring the influence of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and microbiome on cancer development – Rayan et al. – Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters

Short term supplementation with cranberry extract modulates gut microbiota in human and displays a bifidogenic effect – Lessard-Lord et al. – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Fecal microbiota impacts development of Cryptosporidium parvum in the mouse – Widmer & Creasey – Scientific reports

High fat diet is associated with gut microbiota dysbiosis and decreased gut microbial derived metabolites related to metabolic health in young Göttingen Minipigs – Lützhøft et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Gustatory Responsiveness of Honey Bees Colonized with a Defined or Conventional Gut Microbiota – Suenami, Sato & Miyazaki – Microbes and Environments

[REVIEW]Fungal infection of insects: molecular insights and prospects – Hong et al. – Trends in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbiome sequencing revealed the abundance of uncultured bacteria in the Phatthalung sago palm-growing soil – Nutaratat et al. – PLOS One

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Assigning the unassigned: A signature-based classification of rDNA metabarcodes reveals new deep-sea diversity – Angeles et al. – PLOS One

February 29, 2024

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Human oral microbiome

Using formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue to characterize the microbiota in p16-positive and p16-negative tongue squamous cell carcinoma: a pilot study – Yuanbo et al. – BMC Oral Health

Human gut microbiome

Inflammation and bacteriophages affect DNA inversion states and functionality of the gut microbiota – Carasso et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

Integrated multi-omics analysis reveals gut microbiota dysbiosis and systemic disturbance in major depressive disorder – Xie et al. – Psychiatry Research

Long-term beneficial effect of faecal microbiota transplantation on colonisation of multidrug-resistant bacteria and resistome abundance in patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection – Nooij et al. – Genome Medicine

Bacteroides salyersiae is a potent chondroitin sulfate-degrading species in the human gut microbiota – Wang et al. – Microbiome

Elemental iron protects gut microbiota against oxygen-induced dysbiosis – Ostrov et al. PLOS One

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Fecal microbiota transplantation ameliorates abdominal obesity through inhibiting microbiota-mediated intestinal barrier damage and inflammation in mice – Zhu et al. – Microbiological Research

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Exploring the modulatory effects of brown seaweed meal and extracts on intestinal microbiota and morphology of broiler chickens challenged with heat stress – Oretomiloye & Adewole – Poultry Science

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Synthetic microbe-to-plant communication channels – Boo et al. Nature Communications

Time-shifted expression of acetoclastic and methylotrophic methanogenesis by a single Methanosarcina genomospecies predominates the methanogen dynamics in Philippine rice field soil – Li et al. – Microbiome

Influence of climatic variation on microbial communities during organic Pinot noir wine production – Ohwofasa et al. – PLOS One