Airwair microbiome at birth, fungi on strawberries, molds in a library.
Pregnancy and birth
The Airway Microbiome at Birth – Charitharth Vivek Lal – Scientific Reports
Press: Discovery of Infants’ Airway Microbiomes May Help Predict Lung Disease
A newborn’s airway — once thought to be sterile until after birth — is colonized by bacteria– University of Alabama at Birmingham
Discovery of infants’ airway microbiomes may help predict lung disease – Jeff Hansen – Medical Xpress
Gestational Diabetes is associated with changes in Placental Microbiota and Microbiome – Judit Bassols – Pediatric Research
Human respiratory microbiome (also see Pregnancy and Birth)
Characterizing human lung tissue microbiota and its relationship to epidemiological and clinical features – Guoqin Yu – Genome Biology
High Frequency and Diversity of Antimicrobial Activities Produced by Nasal Staphylococcus Strains against Bacterial Competitors – Daniela Janek – PLOS Pathogens
Human ear microbiome
Molecular microbiological profile of chronic suppurative otitis media – Michel Neeff – Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Human gut microbiome
Antibiotic-Induced Gut Microbiota Disruption Decreases TNF-α Release by Mononuclear Cells in Healthy Adults – Jacqueline M. Lankelma – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology
Review: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation and Its Usage in Neuropsychiatric Disorders – Alper Evrensel – Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience
Review: Interactions between the gut microbiome and the central nervous system and their role in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and depression – Adrian Andrzej Chrobak – Archives of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Animal microbiome
Strain diversity and host specificity in a specialized gut symbiont of honey bees and bumble bees – J. Elijah Powell – Molecular Ecology
Flow cytometric enumeration of bacterial in the coral surface mucus layer – Yvan Bettarel – Journal of Microbiological Methods
Worldwide exploration of the microbiome harbored by the cnidarian model, Exaiptasia pallida indicates a lack of bacterial association specificity at a lower taxonomic rank – Tanya Brown – PeerJ Preprint
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Metagenomic Analysis of Fungal Diversity on Strawberry Plants and the Effect of Management Practices on the Fungal Community Structure of Aerial Organs – Ahmed Abdelfattah – PLOS ONE
The active microbial diversity drives ecosystem multifunctionality and is physiologically related to carbon-availability in Mediterranean semiarid soils – Felipe Bastida – Molecular Ecology
Spatial and successional dynamics of microbial biofilm communities in a grassland stream ecosystem – Allison M. Veach – Molecular Ecology
Review: Phytoremediation: state-of-the-art and a key role for the plant microbiome in future trends and research prospects – Sofie Thijs – International Journal of Phytoremediation
Review: Bacterial pathogenesis of plants: future challenges from a microbial perspective. Challenges in Bacterial Molecular Plant Pathology – Sebastian Pfeilmeier – Molecular Plant Pathology
Review: Effects of Secondary Plant Metabolites on Microbial Populations: Changes in Community Structure and Metabolic Activity in Contaminated Environments – Lucie Musilova – Int J Mol Sci
Water and extremophile microbiome
Unexpected biodiversity of ciliates in marine samples from below the photic zone – Jean-David Grattepanche – Molecular Ecology
Meltwater export of prokaryotic cells from the Greenland Ice Sheet – Karen A. Cameron – Environmental Microbiology
Environmental Conditions Outweigh Geographical Contiguity in Determining the Similarity of nifH-Harboring Microbial Communities in Sediments of Two Disconnected Marginal Seas – Haixia Zhou – Frontiers in MIcrobiology
Review: Extremophilic adaptations and biotechnological applications in diverse environments – James Charlesworth – AIMS Microbiology
Built environment microbiome
Detection of volatile metabolites of moulds isolated from a contaminated library – Anna Micheluz – Journal of Microbiological Methods
Review: Shoe soles as a potential vector for pathogen transmission: A systematic review – Tasnuva Rashid – Journal of Applied Microbiology
Bioinformatics and metagenomics
PhyloBot: A Web Portal for Automated Phylogenetics, Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction, and Exploration of Mutational Trajectories – Victor Hanson-Smith – PLOS Computational BIology
The Phylogenetic LASSO and the Microbiome – Stephen T Rush – arXiv
Microbiome networks: A systems framework for identifying candidate microbial assemblages for disease management – Ravin Poudel – Phytopathology
Techniques
On the study of microbial transcriptomes using second- and third-generation sequencing technologies – Sang Chul Choi – Journal of Microbiology
Microbes in the news
Notre Dame Researcher Explores Bacteria beyond the Ability of Typical Hospital Setting: Gail Weaver – Nina Welding – Engineering
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