Category Archives: Animal experiments

January 21, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Metabolite-based dietary supplementation in human type 1 diabetes is associated with microbiota and immune modulation – Kirstine J Bell – Microbiome

GWAS-associated bacteria and their metabolites appear to be causally related to the development of inflammatory bowel disease – Zhenhuang Zhuang – European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

The vaginal Torquetenovirus titer varies with vaginal microbiota composition in pregnant women – Tania Regina Tozetto-Mendoza – PloS ONE

Can the Acid-formation Potential of Saliva Detect a Caries-related Shift in the Oral Microbiome? – Cornelia Frese – Oral Health & Preventive Dentistry

Gut microbiome alterations and gut barrier dysfunction are associated with host immune homeostasis in COVID-19 patients – Zhonghan Sun – BMC Medicine

Predicting Treatment Nonresponse in Hispanic/Latino Children Receiving Silver Diamine Fluoride for Caries Arrest: A Pilot Study Using Machine Learning – Ryan Richard Ruff – Frontiers in Oral Health

The Gut Microbiome of Adults With Type 1 Diabetes and Its Association With the Host Glycemic Control – Smadar Shilo – Diabetes Care

Evaluation of Bacterial Diversity and Evolutionary Dynamics of Gut Bifidobacterium longum Isolates Obtained from Older Individuals in Hubei Province, China – Zhendong Zhang – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Frontiers in Oral Mucosal Immunity and the Microbiome – Georgios N Belibasakis – Frontiers in Oral Health

Review: The microbiota-gut-brain axis: pathways to better brain health. Perspectives on what we know, what we need to investigate and how to put knowledge into practice – Anirikh Chakrabarti – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Meta-Analysis: Predictors of Fecal Microbiota Transplant Failure in Clostridioides difficile Infection: An Updated Meta-analysis – Azizullah Beran – Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Systematic Review: The Role of Gut Microbiota-Brain Axis in Pathophysiology of ADHD: A Systematic Review – Salman Shirvani-Rad – Journal of Attention Disorders

Systematic Review: Meta-Analysis Using NGS Data: The Veillonella Species in Dental Caries – Naile Dame-Teixeira – Frontiers in Oral Health

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Peppermint oil effects on the gut microbiome in children with functional abdominal pain – Santosh Thapa – Clinical and Translational Science

SER-109, an Oral Microbiome Therapy for Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection – Paul Feuerstadt – The New England Journal of Medicine

Lactiplantibacillus plantarum CCFM1019 attenuate polycystic ovary syndrome through butyrate dependent gut-brain mechanism – Yufeng He – Food & Function

Causal relationship between gut microbiota and serum vitamin D: evidence from genetic correlation and Mendelian randomization study – Xiaolin Yang – European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Review: Modulation of Gut Microbiota and Immune System by Probiotics, Pre-biotics, and Post-biotics – Yue Liu – Frontiers in Nutrition

Review: Outlook on next-generation probiotics from the human gut – Francesca De Filippis – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Animal Microbiome

Seasonal shift of the gut microbiome synchronizes host peripheral circadian rhythm for physiological adaptation to a low-fat diet in the giant panda – Guangping Huang – Cell Reports

Seasonal variations in the composition and functional profiles of gut microbiota reflect dietary changes in plateau pikas – Chao Fan – Integrative Zoology

N-acyl-homoserine lactone produced by Rahnella inusitata isolated from the gut of Galleria mellonella influences Salmonella phenotypes – Leonardo Luiz de Freitas – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Comparative 16S Metabarcoding of Nile Tilapia Gut Microbiota from the Northern Lakes of Egypt – Ahmed M Serag – Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Diversity and Distribution of Microbial Communities Associated with Reef Corals of the Malay Peninsula – Dhivya P Kanisan – Microbial Ecology

The Harris’ hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus) as a source of pathogenic human yeasts: a potential risk to human health – Gustavo Dornelles – Future Microbiology

Increased microbial diversity and decreased prevalence of common pathogens in the gut microbiomes of wild turkeys compared to domestic turkeys – Julia Craft – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Comparative Evaluation of the Effect of Metformin and Insulin on Gut Microbiota and Metabolome Profiles of Type 2 Diabetic Rats Induced by the Combination of Streptozotocin and High-Fat Diet – Nan Hu – Frontiers in Pharmacology

Plant Microbiome

Modulating the rhizosphere microbiome by altering the cocktail of root secretions – Wei Zhang – Plant Physiology

Book Chapter: Characterization of Tobacco Microbiome by Metagenomics Approach – R Suresh Kumar – Methods in Molecular Biology 

Bioinformatics and Genomics

Incorporating genome-based phylogeny and functional similarity into diversity assessments helps to resolve a global collection of human gut metagenomes – Nicholas D Youngblut – Environmental Microbiology

Single-cell Microbiomics Unveils Distribution and Patterns of Microbial Symbioses in the Natural Environment – Vittorio Boscaro – Microbial Ecology

Adaptive and powerful microbiome multivariate association analysis via feature selection – Kalins Banerjee – NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics

Metabolic modeling of host-microbe interactions for therapeutics in colorectal cancer – Prerna Bhalla – NPJ Systems Biology and Applications

January 19, 2022

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Human oral and skin microbiome

Oral HPV associated with differences in oral microbiota beta diversity and microbiota abundance – Zhang et al. – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

The Skin and Nose Microbiome and Its Association with Filaggrin Gene Mutations in Pediatric Atopic Dermatitis – van Mierlo et al. – Dermatology

Human gut microbiome

Associations of Childhood and Perinatal Blood Metals with Children’s Gut Microbiomes in a Canadian Gestation Cohort – Shen et al. – Environmental Health Perspectives

Patient knowledge of gut microbiota and acceptability of fecal microbiota transplantation in various diseases – Benech et al. – Neurogastroenterology & Motility

[PREPRINT]Comprehensive assessment of functional effects of commonly used sweeteners on ex vivo human gut microbiome – Sun et al. – bioRxiv

Fusobacterium nucleatum and Bacteroides fragilis detection in colorectal tumours: Optimal target site and correlation with total bacterial load – Rye et al. – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome aging clocks based on taxonomic and functional signatures through multi-view learning – Chen et al. – Gut Microbes

[REVIEW]The gut microbiome can be a potential regulator and treatment target of bone metastasis – Contino, Yadav & Shiozawa – Biochemical Pharmacology

Animal microbiome

Comparative analysis of gut microbial composition and potential functions in captive forest and alpine musk deer – Jiang et al. – Environmental Biotechnology

Effects of dietary antimicrobial peptides on intestinal morphology, antioxidant status, immune responses, microbiota and pathogen disease resistance in grass carp Ctenopharyngodon idellus – Liu et al. – Microbial Pathogenesis

[PREPRINT]Microbiomes of hadal fishes contain similar taxa, obligate symbionts, and known piezophiles across trench habitats – Blanton et al. – bioRxiv

Association of human disturbance and gastrointestinal parasite infection of yellow baboons in western Tanzania – Mason et al. – PLOS One

Bacterial recognition by PGRP-SA and downstream signalling by Toll/DIF sustain commensal gut bacteria in Drosophila – Bahuguna et al. – PLOS Genetics

[PREPRINT]Meta-analysis of the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) microbiota based on 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing – Idema et al. – bioRxiv

Groundwater microbiome

Vertical stratification of microbial communities and isotope geochemistry tie groundwater denitrification to sampling location within a nitrate-contaminated aquifer – Chakraborty et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Techniques / Bioinformatics

Microbiome differential abundance methods produce different results across 38 datasets – Nearing et al. – Nature Communications

[PREPRINT]Using strain-resolved analysis to identify contamination in metagenomics data – Lou et al. – bioRxiv

Revealing General Patterns of Microbiomes That Transcend Systems: Potential and Challenges of Deep Transfer Learning – David et al. – mSystems

January 18, 2022

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Today’s digest contains interesting gut-brain axis articles, developments in bioinformatic multi-omic analyses, and some recent developments in long COVID research highlighted under non microbiome picks below. 

General microbiome

Substantial overlap between symptomatic and asymptomatic genitourinary microbiota states – Adu oppong et al. – Microbiome 

Human gut microbiome

Gut Ruminococcaceae levels at baseline correlate with risk of antibiotic-associated diarrhea – Gu et al. – iScience

Home or hospital birth: the neonatal microbiota perspective – Stojanov et al. – The Lancet Microbe

A pilot exploration of multi-omics research of gut microbiome in major depressive disorders – Zhao et al – Translational Psychiatry

Post-ischemic protein restriction induces sustained neuroprotection, neurological recovery, brain remodeling, and gut microbiota rebalancing – de Carvalho et al. – Brain Behavior and Immunity

Bifidobacterium breve CCFM1025 attenuates major depression disorder via regulating gut microbiome and tryptophan metabolism: A randomized clinical trial – Tian et al.  – Brain Behavior and Immunity

Gestational insulin resistance is mediated by the gut microbiome-indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase axis – Priyadarshini et al. – Gastroenterology

A natural polyphenol exerts antitumor activity and circumvents anti-PD-1 resistance through effects on the gut microbiota – Messaoudene et al. – Cancer Discovery

Virome

[Research Highlight] Virome holds back a vaccine – York – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Plant & Soil microbiome

Genome-Resolved Metagenomics Reveals Distinct Phosphorus Acquisition Strategies between Soil Microbiomes – Wu et al. – mSystems

Bioinformatics

M&Ms: a versatile software for building microbial mock communities – García-García et al. – Bioinformatics

GraphOmics: an interactive platform to explore and integrate multi-omics data – Wandy & Daly – BMC Bioinformatics

Aristotle: stratified causal discovery for omics data – Mansouri et al.  – BMC Bioinformatics

Non Microbiome Picks

The last few weeks has seen several big studies of ‘long COVID’ published, as well as a letter in The Guardian, which I wanted to highlight

Immunological dysfunction persists for 8 months following initial mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection – Phetsouphanh et al. – Nature Immunology

Long-term perturbation of the peripheral immune system months after SARS-CoV-2 infection – Ryan et al. BMC Medicine

Post-acute neurological consequences of COVID-19: an unequal burden – Nolen et al. – Nature Medicine 

Long COVID in children – Gurdasani et al. – The Lancet Child Adolescent Health
I’m leading a long Covid trial – it’s clear Britain has underestimated its impact – Amitava Banerjee – The Guardian

January 14, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Intestinal commensal microbiota and cytokines regulate Fut2(+) Paneth cells for gut defense – Mariko Kamioka – PNAS

Gut microbiota promotes cholesterol gallstone formation by modulating bile acid composition and biliary cholesterol secretion – Hai Hu – Nature Communications

Non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae–Moraxella catarrhalis vaccine for the prevention of exacerbations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a multicentre, randomised, placebo-controlled, observer-blinded, proof-of-concept, phase 2b trial – Stefan Andreas – The Lancet. Respiratory Medicine

PET microplastics affect human gut microbiota communities during simulated gastrointestinal digestion, first evidence of plausible polymer biodegradation during human digestion – Alba Tamargo – Scientific Reports

Ear microbiota and middle ear disease: a longitudinal pilot study of Aboriginal children in a remote south Australian setting – Steven L Taylor – BMC Microbiology

Comparative analysis of DNA extraction and PCR product purification methods for cervicovaginal microbiome analysis using cpn60 microbial profiling – Elinor Shvartsman – PloS ONE

Microbial hydrogen economy alleviates colitis by reprogramming colonocyte metabolism and reinforcing intestinal barrier – Li Ge – Gut Microbes

Single-gene long-read sequencing illuminates Escherichia coli strain dynamics in the human intestinal microbiome – Dalong Hu – Cell Reports

Draft Genome Sequence of Bifidobacterium adolescentis 4-2, Isolated from Healthy Human Feces – Hend Altaib – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Preview: Diet, microbe, and autism: Cause or consequence? – Guanjian Li – Cell Host & Microbe

Human and General Microbiome – Reviews

Systematic review: Gut microbiota in patients with Alzheimer’s disease spectrum: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Chun-Che Hung – Aging

Systematic review: Characteristics of the gut microbiome in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: A systematic review – Louise Søndergaard Rold – PloS ONE

Systematic review: Respiratory tract infections and gut microbiome modifications: A systematic review – Claire A Woodall – PloS ONE

Systematic review: Repercussions of intermittent fasting on the intestinal microbiota community and body composition: a systematic review – Flaydson C S Pinto – Nutrition Reviews

Review: Skin Deep: The Role of the Microbiota in Cutaneous Autoimmunity – Márcia S Pereira – The Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Review: Current advances in the anti-inflammatory effects and mechanisms of natural polysaccharides – Dan Yuan – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Animal Microbiome

The gut microbiota of environmentally enriched mice regulates visual cortical plasticity – Leonardo Lupori – Cell Reports

Characterization of the juvenile koala gut microbiome across wild populations – Michaela D J Blyton – Environmental Microbiology

Specific gut bacterial responses to natural diets of tropical birds – Kasun H Bodawatta – Scientific Reports

Effect of dietary supplementation of lauric acid on growth performance, antioxidative capacity, intestinal development and gut microbiota on black sea bream (Acanthopagrus schlegelii) – Sami Ullah – PloS ONE

Establishment and resilience of transplanted gut microbiota in aged mice – Ying Wang – iScience

Identification of Gut Bacteria such as Lactobacillus johnsonii that Disseminate to Systemic Tissues of Wild Type and MyD88-/- Mice – Sreeram Udayan – Gut Microbes

Responsive changes of rumen microbiome and metabolome in dairy cows with different susceptibility to subacute ruminal acidosis – Tao Zhang – Animal Nutrition

Torula yeast in the diet of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar and the impact on growth performance and gut microbiome – Alexandra Leeper – Scientific Reports

Distinct gut microbiomes in two polar bear subpopulations inhabiting different sea ice ecoregions – Megan Franz – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Resilience despite a Profound Loss of Minority Microbiota following Clindamycin Challenge in Humanized Gnotobiotic Mice – Lin Liu – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Bovine respiratory microbiota of feedlot cattle and its association with disease – Jianmin Chai – Veterinary Research

Plant Microbiome

Plant neighborhood shapes diversity and reduces interspecific variation of the phyllosphere microbiome – Kyle M Meyer – The ISME Journal

Environmental Microbiome

Sulfate-dependant microbially induced corrosion of mild steel in the deep sea: a 10-year microbiome study – Pauliina Rajala – Microbiome

Microbial community composition and glyphosate degraders of two soils under the influence of temperature, total organic carbon and pH – Angelica M Muskus – Environmental Pollution

Increased Tea Saponin Content Influences the Diversity and Function of Plantation Soil Microbiomes – Shouke Zhang – Microbiology Spectrum

Bioinformatics

Identifying temporal and spatial patterns of variation from multimodal data using MEFISTO – Britta Velten – Nature Methods

Review: Inferring microbiota functions from taxonomic genes: a review – Christophe Djemiel – GigaScience

January 12, 2022

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General microbiome

[PERSPECTIVE]It’s the Economy, Stupid: Applying (Micro)economic Principles to Microbiome Science – Kashtan, Bushong and Leveau – mSystems

[PERSPECTIVE]Conceptual Exchanges for Understanding Free-Living and Host-Associated Microbiomes – Pfister et al. – mSystems

Human endometrial microbiome

Endometrial microbiota composition is associated with reproductive outcome in infertile patients – Moreno et al. – Microbiome

Human oral microbiome

[REVIEW]Temporal development of the infant oral microbiome – Blum et al. – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Effect of antibiotic pretreatment on bacterial engraftment after Fecal Microbiota Transplant (FMT) in IBS-D – Singh et al. – Gut Microbes

[REVIEW]The gut microbiota can orchestrate the signaling pathways in colorectal cancer – Bennedsen et al. – Journal of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Age-Associated Gut Dysbiosis, Marked by Loss of Butyrogenic Potential, Correlates With Altered Plasma Tryptophan Metabolites in Older People Living With HIV – Ghare et al. – Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Intestinal Microbiota and Host Cooperate for Adaptation as a Hologenome – Zhou et al. – mSystems

The bacterial density of clinical rectal swabs is highly variable, correlates with sequencing contamination, and predicts patient risk of extraintestinal infection – Chanderraj et al. – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Consistent changes in the intestinal microbiota of Atlantic salmon fed insect meal diets – Li et al. – Animal Microbiome

Maternal regulation of biliary disease in neonates via gut microbial metabolites – Jee et al. – Nature Communications

Reduced calorie diet combined with NNMT inhibition establishes a distinct microbiome in DIO mice – Dimet-Wiley et al. – Scientific Reports

Comparison of Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Status of Sows With Different Litter Sizes During Pregnancy – Chen et al. – Front. Vet. Sci.

Modulation of gut microbiota impacts diet-induced and drug-induced alopecia in mice – Lam et al. – Gut

Sex-specific differences in the gut microbiota and fecal metabolites in an adolescent valproic acid-induced rat autism model – Gu et al. – Frontiers in Bioscience Landmark

Host tp53 mutation induces gut dysbiosis eliciting inflammation through disturbed sialic acid metabolism – Lee et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Whole-Genome Duplication and Host Genotype Affect Rhizosphere Microbial Communities – Ponsford et al. – mSystems

Bioinformatics

A Goldilocks Principle for the Gut Microbiome: Taxonomic Resolution Matters for Microbiome-Based Classification of Colorectal Cancer – Armour et al. – mBio

Towards a metagenomics machine learning interpretable model for understanding the transition from adenoma to colorectal cancer – Casimiro-Soriguer et al. – Scientifi Reports

Techniques

[PREPRINT]Library Preparation and Sequencing Platform Introduce Bias in Metagenomic-Based Characterizations of Microbiomes – Poulsen et al. – bioRxiv

January 4, 2022

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Happy new year! Today’s digest is jam packed with articles published over the Christmas period. This includes the Skin Microbial Genome Collection (SMGC), a fascinating study linking the gut virome to rotavirus vaccine response, multiple cancer-microbiome papers and a catalogue of the human gut archaeome

General microbiome

The Metaproteomics Initiative: a coordinated approach for propelling the functional characterization of microbiomes – Bossche et al. Microbiome

Directional Gaussian Mixture Models of the Gut Microbiome Elucidate Microbial Spatial Structure – Pasarkar et al. mSystems

Human gut microbiome

Human gut-microbiome-derived propionate coordinates proteasomal degradation via HECTD2 upregulation to target EHMT2 in colorectal cancer – Ryu et al. ISME

Gut microbiomes from Gambian infants reveal the development of a non-industrialized Prevotella-based trophic network – Goffau et al. Nature Microbiology.

Reuterin in the healthy gut microbiome suppresses colorectal cancer growth through altering redox balance – Bell et al. Cancer Cell. 

Population study of the gut microbiome: associations with diet, lifestyle, and cardiometabolic disease – Walker et al. Genome Medicine

Enteric virome negatively affects seroconversion following oral rotavirus vaccination in a longitudinally sampled cohort of Ghanaian infants – Kim et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Maternal gut bacteria drive intestinal inflammation in offspring with neurodevelopmental disorders by altering the chromatin landscape of CD4+ T cells – Kim et al. Immunity

Lactobacillus gallinarum modulates the gut microbiota and produces anti-cancer metabolites to protect against colorectal tumourigenesis – Sugimura et al. Gut

A catalogue of 1,167 genomes from the human gut archaeome – Chibani et al. Nature Microbiology

Variation and transmission of the human gut microbiota across multiple familial generations – Valles-Colomer et al. Nature Microbiology. 

The Mouse Gastrointestinal Bacteria Catalogue enables translation between the mouse and human gut microbiotas via functional mapping – Beresford-Jones et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Human skin & oral microbiome

Integrating cultivation and metagenomics for a multi-kingdom view of skin microbiome diversity and functions – Kashaf et al. Nature Microbiology.

Alterations of human skin microbiome and expansion of antimicrobial resistance after systemic antibiotics – Jo et al. Science Translational Medicine

Microbiome-mediated incapacitation of interferon lambda production in the oral mucosa – Rodriguez-Hernandez et al. PNAS

Plant microbiome

Glutamic acid reshapes the plant microbiota to protect plants against pathogens – Kim et al. Microbiome. 

Water microbiome

Metagenomics of Antarctic Marine Sediment Reveals Potential for Diverse Chemolithoautotrophy – Garber et al. mSphere

Dissecting the dominant hot spring microbial populations based on community-wide sampling at single-cell genomic resolution – Bowers et all. ISME

Bioinformatics

Fast and accurate metagenotyping of the human gut microbiome with GT-Pro – Shi et al. Nature Biotechnology

Rapid screening and identification of viral pathogens in metagenomic data – Song et al. BMC Medical Genomics. 

December 22, 2021

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General microbiome

[PREPRINT]Unconstrained coevolution of bacterial size and the latent period of plastic phage – Bonachela, Choua & Heath – bioRxiv

Not a ‘they’ but a ‘we’: the microbiome helps promote our well-being – Ragsdale – Journal of Biological Chemistry

Microbial metabolite delta-valerobetaine is a diet-dependent obesogen – Liu et al. – Nature Metabolism

[EDITORIAL]15 years of microbial biotechnology: the time has come to think big—and act soon – de Lorenzo – Microbial Biotechnology

Pregnancy and early life

Microbial community networks across body sites are associated with susceptibility to respiratory infections in infants – Reyman et al. – Communications Biology

Human oral microbiome

Profiling the oral microbiomes in patients with Alzheimer’s disease – Guo et al. – Oral Diseases

Human skin microbiome

[REVIEW]Human Skin Microbiota in Health and Disease – Bay & Ring – Journal of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology

Human vaginal microbiome

Human implantation: The complex interplay between endometrial receptivity, inflammation, and the microbiome – Sehring & Jeelani – Placenta

Large-scale characterisation of the pregnancy vaginal microbiome and sialidase activity in a low-risk Chinese population – Ng et al. – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Human gut microbiome

The potential of gut microbiome as a non-invasive predictive biomarker for early detection of pancreatic cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma – Kaźmierczak-Siedlecka – European Review for Medical and Pharmacological Sciences

The effect of antibiotics on the human microbiome: a systematic review – van Zyl et al. – International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

[REVIEW]Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: the interplay between metabolism, microbes and immunity – Tilg et al. – Nature Metabolism

Clinical efficacy of fecal microbial transplantation treatment in adults with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis – Mashiah et al. – Immunity, Inflammation and Disease

Deviated and early unsustainable stunted development of gut microbiota in children with autism spectrum disorder – Lou et al. – Gut

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

Oat Fiber Modulates Hepatic Circadian Clock via Promoting Gut Microbiota-Derived Short Chain Fatty Acids – Han et al. – J. Agric. Food Chem.

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Effects of sublethal azadirachtin on the immune response and midgut microbiome of Apis cerana cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae) – Zhao et al. – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Analysis of the microbial diversity in the fecal material of the critically endangered African wild dog, Lycaon pictus – Sanches et al. – Archives of Microbiology

Divergence together with microbes: A comparative study of the associated microbiomes in the closely related Littorina species – Maltseva et al. – PLOS One

Gut microbiome composition, not alpha diversity, is associated with survival in a natural vertebrate population – Worsley et al. – Animal Microbiome

Clinical health issues, reproductive hormones, and metabolic hormones associated with gut microbiome structure in African and Asian elephants – Keady et al. – Animal Microbiome

Early life skin microbial trajectory as a function of vertical and environmental transmission in Bornean foam-nesting frogs – McGrath-Blaser et al. – Animal Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[PRERPINT]Disentangling the genetic basis of rhizosphere microbiome assembly in tomato – Oyserman et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Amino acid availability determines plant immune homeostasis in the rhizosphere microbiome – Liu et al. – bioRxiv

Techniques

Ancient Metagenomic Studies: Considerations for the Wider Scientific Community – der Sarkissian et al. – mSystems

Assessing the impact of storage time on the stability of stool microbiota richness, diversity, and composition – Holzhausen et al. – Gut Pathogens

December 20, 2021

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Today’s digest is a grab bag that includes research articles on the vaginal microbiota, the gut microbiota of dairy calves, microbial loads in medical waste, and more! I’ve also highlighted a non-microbiology article that found that pet dog owners were significantly less depressed than non-pet owners during the pandemic. So if you’re looking for more reasons to adopt a new furry friend, you can add this one to the list!

General microbiome

Genomic comparison and phenotypic profiling of small colony variants of Burkholderia pseudomallei – Zulkefli et al. – PLOS One

Human vaginal microbiome

Vaginal microbiota of American Indian women and associations with measures of psychosocial stress – Borgogna et al. – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiota features associated with Clostridioides difficile colonization in dairy calves – Redding et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Culicoides Latreille (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) as potential vectors for Leishmania martiniquensis and Trypanosoma sp. in northern Thailand – Sunantaraporn et al. – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Migratory wild birds carrying multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli as potential transmitters of antimicrobial resistance in China – Yuan et al. – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Characterization of soils conducive and non-conducive to Prunus replant disease – Khan et al. – Plos One

Built environment

Disposal habits and microbial load of solid medical waste in sub-district healthcare facilities and households in Yilo-Krobo municipality, Ghana – Egbenyah et al. – PLOS One

Phages and viruses

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the potential non-human animal reservoirs and arthropod vectors of the Mayaro virus – Celone et al. – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Bioinformatics

Genomic prediction using low-coverage portable Nanopore sequencing – Lamb et al. – PLOS One

Development of an efficient Sanger sequencing-based assay for detecting SARS-CoV-2 spike mutations – Lim et al. – PLOS One

Kara’s non-microbiology pick

***Depression, anxiety, and happiness in dog owners and potential dog owners during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States – Martin et al. – PLOS One

December 16, 2021

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Today’s digest features the Global Microbial Gene Catalog, studies on group B Streptococcus vaginal colonization in a murine model and Patescibacteria in oxic and anoxic groundwater, and more. Happy holidays!

Important NEWS from the Microbiome Virtual International Forum:
The recordings of the MVIF #4 with Jonathan Eisen and other speakers are available here.
The registration for the MVIF #5 with Eran Elinav is open.
The abstract submission for the MVIF #6 with Susan Holmes is open.

Global microbiome

*Towards the biogeography of prokaryotic genes – Luis Pedro Coelho – Nature

Review: Human microbiota research in Africa: a systematic review reveals gaps and priorities for future research – Imane Allali – Microbiome

Human milk microbiome

Factors influencing the microbial composition of human milk – Anastasia Mantziaria and Samuli Rautavab – Seminars in Perinatology

Animal experiments

*Group B Streptococcus CAMP Factor Does Not Contribute to Interactions with the Vaginal Epithelium and Is Dispensable for Vaginal Colonization in Mice – Mallory B. Ballard – Microbiology Spectrum

Ageing and rejuvenation models reveal changes in key microbial communities associated with healthy ageing – Jongoh Shin – Microbiome

Water microbiome

*The economical lifestyle of CPR bacteria in groundwater allows little preference for environmental drivers – Narendrakumar M. Chaudhari – Environmental Microbiome

Bioinformatics

EXPERT: Transfer Learning-enabled context-aware microbial source tracking – Hui Chong – bioRxiv
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.29.428751v2

NEWS from NCBI taxonomy

December 15, 2021

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Nasal microbiome

Deep nasal sinus cavity microbiota dysbiosis in Parkinson’s disease – Pal et al – NPJ Parkinson’s disease

Pregnancy and early life

Influence of Family Integrated Care on the Intestinal Microbiome of Preterm Infants With Necrotizing Enterocolitis and Enterostomy: A Preliminary Study – Yang et al. – Front. Pediatr.

Multi-site human microbiome

[PREPRINT]Alternations of fecal microbes and lung tissue microbes in Lung Cancer patients is more consistent than that of sputum – Yanze et al. – bioRxiv

Human oral microbiome

[PREPRINT]A core salivary microbiome shows the high prevalence of bacterial members yet variability across human populations – Ruan et al. – bioRxiv

Human eye microbiome

Metagenomic Analysis Reveals the Heterogeneity of Conjunctival Microbiota Dysbiosis in Dry Eye Disease – Liang et al. – Front. Cell Dev. Biol.

Human vaginal microbiome

[REVIEW]Beyond bacterial vaginosis: vaginal lactobacilli and HIV risk – Armstrong & Kaul – Microbiome

Human gut mycobiome/microbiome

The fecal mycobiome in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – Demir et al. – Journal of Hepatology

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

Intermittent Fasting Reshapes the Gut Microbiota and Metabolome and Reduces Weight Gain More Effectively Than Melatonin in Mice – Liu et al. – Front. Nutr.

Analyzing gut microbiota composition in individual Anopheles mosquitoes after experimental treatment – Fofana et al. – iScience

Microbial interaction-driven community differences as revealed by network analysis – Pan et al. – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

[PREPRINT]Metabolic reconstitution by a gnotobiotic microbiota varies over the circadian cycle – Hoces et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Single cell genome sequencing of laboratory mouse microbiota improves taxonomic and functional resolution of this model microbial community – Lyalina et al – bioRxiv

Gut microbiota modulates weight gain in mice after discontinued smoke exposure – Fluhr et al. – Nature

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

[PREPRINT]Stratified microbial communities are highly sensitive towards multiple combined global change factors, revealing antagonistic and synergistic effects – Suleiman et al. – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics / Databases

Cow Rumen v1.0 – Database

[REVIEW]A review of computational tools for generating metagenome-assembled genomes from metagenomic sequencing data – Yang et al. – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Microbiome podcast

The Microbiome Facts, Not the Hype – Kristina Campbell