Category Archives: Animal experiments

June 26, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

Microbial community-scale metabolic modelling predicts personalized short-chain fatty acid production profiles in the human gut – Nick Quinn-Bohmann et al – Nature Microbiology

Island biogeography theory provides a plausible explanation for why larger vertebrates and taller humans have more diverse gut microbiomes – Katherine Ramos Sarmiento et al – ISME Journal

Dietary fibre directs microbial tryptophan metabolism via metabolic interactions in the gut microbiota – Anurag K. Sinha – Nature Microbiology

Animal models

The zebrafish gut microbiome influences benzo[a]pyrene developmental neurobehavioral toxicity – Keaton Stagaman et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Modulation of gut microbiota composition due to early weaning stress induces depressive behavior during the juvenile period in mice – Itsuka Kamimura et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Antibiotics affect the pharmacokinetics of n-butylphthalide in vivo by altering the intestinal microbiota – Xiangchen Li et al – PLOS One

Trilobatin ameliorates dextran sulfate sodium-induced ulcerative colitis in mice via the NF-κB pathway and alterations in gut microbiota – Nanbo Wang et al – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiota and immune profiling of microbiota-humanised versus wildtype mouse models of hepatointestinal schistosomiasis – K.A. Stark et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Analysis of differences in the rumen microbiome and metabolic function in prepartum dairy cows with different body condition scores – Dewei Du et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Improvement of insulin sensitivity by dietary fiber consumption during late pregnant sows is associated with gut microbiota regulation of tryptophan metabolism – Yang Li – BMC Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiota diversity in a dung beetle (Catharsius molossus) across geographical variations and brood ball-mediated microbial transmission – Hao-Yu Chen et al – PLOS One

Water & extremophile microbiomes

Metagenomic insights into Heimdallarchaeia clades from the deep-sea cold seep and hydrothermal vent – Rui Liu – BMC Environmental Microbiome

Metagenomic insights into microbial adaptation to the salinity gradient of a typical short residence-time estuary – Ziheng Wu et al – BMC Microbiome

Plant, root, & soil microbiome

Microbial consortium assembly and functional analysis via isotope labelling and single-cell manipulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degraders – Jibing Li – ISME Journal

Chemolithoautotrophic diazotrophs dominate dark nitrogen fixation in mangrove sediments – Shasha Wang et al – ISME Journal

Other microbes

Cellular interactions and evolutionary origins of endosymbiotic relationships with ciliates – Qi Song et al – ISME Journal

Bioinformatics & tools

Entourage: all-in-one sequence analysis software for genome assembly, virus detection, virus discovery, and intrasample variation profiling – Worakorn Phumiphanjarphak & Pakorn Aiewsakun – BMC Bioinformatics

Methods

Soft autonomous ingestible device for sampling the small-intestinal microbiome – Ruben Del-Rio-Ruiz et al – Cell Device

June 12, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

Persistence and Sexual Dimorphism of Gut Dysbiosis and Pathobiome after Sepsis and Trauma – Jennifer A. Munley – Annals of Surgery

[REVIEW] COVID-19 influenced gut dysbiosis, post-acute sequelae, immune regulation, and therapeutic regimens – Sterlin T. Raj – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Novel probiotic preparation with in vivo gluten-degrading activity and potential modulatory effects on the gut microbiota – Olga Nikoloudaki – Microbiology Spectrum

Adaptation to tolerate high doses of arabinoxylan is associated with fecal levels of Bifidobacterium longum – Edward C. Deehan – Gut Microbes

Vaginal microbiome

Co-evolution of vaginal microbiome and cervical cancer – Menglu Hu – BMC Journal of Translational Medicine

Animal experiments

Establishment of a novel obesity mouse model: the induction of intestinal microbiota dysbiosis – Qiuju Li – Scientific Reports

Bacteroides uniformis CECT 7771 requires adaptive immunity to improve glucose tolerance but not to prevent body weight gain in diet-induced obese mice – Marina Romaní-Pérez – BMC MIcrobiome

Animal microbiome

Oral microbiome sequencing revealed the enrichment of Fusobacterium sp., Porphyromonas sp., Campylobacter sp., and Neisseria sp. on the oral malignant fibroma surface of giant panda – Xiaowan Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effect of microplastics pollution on the gut microbiome of anecic and endogeic earthworms – Christina Papazlatani – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Evolutionary history of tyrosine-supplementing endosymbionts in pollen-feeding beetles – Jürgen C Wierz – ISME Journal

Compendium of 5810 genomes of sheep and goat gut microbiomes provides new insights into the glycan and mucin utilization – Ke Zhang – BMC MIcrobiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Fungal biomass and ectomycorrhizal community assessment of phosphorus responsive Pinus taeda plantations – Jacob Hackman – Frontiers in Fungal Biology

Soil conditioner improves soil properties, regulates microbial communities, and increases yield and quality of Uncaria rhynchophylla – Qian Liu – Scientific Reports

Genetic control of rhizosphere microbiome of the cotton plants under field conditions – Feng Wei – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Genomic insights into redox-driven microbial processes for carbon decomposition in thawing Arctic soils and permafrost – Yaoming Li – mSphere

Sewage Sludge Promotes the Accumulation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Tomato Xylem – Wen-Jing Li – Environmental Science and Technology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Plastic and terrestrial organic matter degradation by the humic lake microbiome continues throughout the seasons – Jussi S. Vesamäki – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Coral microbiomes are structured by environmental gradients in deep waters – Samuel A. Vohsen – BMC Environmental Microbiome

June 7, 2024

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Today’s digest features AMPSphere, Candida pathogenesis, rhizosphere microbiome in the Himalayas, imaging of oral microbiome, and more.
See you at #MVIF special event on women’s health!

Global microbiome

Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning – Célio Dias Santos-Júnior and Marcelo D.T. Torres – Cell

Bioenergetic mapping of ‘healthy microbiomes’ via compound processing potential imprinted in gut and soil metagenomes – Craig Liddicoat – Science of The Total Environment

Infant microbiome

The impact of perinatal maternal stress on the maternal and infant gut and human milk microbiomes: A scoping review protocol – Niamh Ryan – Plos One

Oral microbiome

Improved Visualization of Oral Microbial Consortia – S.T. Ramirez-Puebla – Journal of Dental Research

Animal microbiome

Changes of faecal bacterial communities and microbial fibrolytic activity in horses aged from 6 to 30 years old – Marylou Baraille – Plos One

Compendium of 5810 genomes of sheep and goat gut microbiomes provides new insights into the glycan and mucin utilization – Ke Zhang – Microbiome

Animal experiments

Bacteroides uniformis CECT 7771 requires adaptive immunity to improve glucose tolerance but not to prevent body weight gain in diet-induced obese mice – Marina Romaní-Pérez – Microbiome

The impact of microplastics polystyrene on the microscopic structure of mouse intestine, tight junction genes and gut microbiota – Qi-Ling Su – Plos One

Epithelial hypoxia maintains colonization resistance against Candida albicans – Hannah P. Savage – Cell Host & Microbe

Viruses and phages

Characterizing the gut phageome and phage-borne antimicrobial resistance genes in pigs – Jun Hu – Microbiome

Water microbiome

Deep long-read metagenomic sequencing reveals niche differentiation in carbon cycling potential between benthic and planktonic microbial populations – Tomeu Viver – bioRxiv

Root, soil, plant microbiome

Altitude-Dependent Influence of Artemisia brevifolia on its Rhizosphere Microbiome in Ladakh Region of the Western Himalayas – Manzoor Hussain – Rhizosphere

Bioinformatics

Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read sequenced metagenomes with Lemur and Magnet – Nicolae Sapoval – bioRxiv

Comprehensive profiling of genomic invertons in defined gut microbial community reveals associations with intestinal colonization and surface adhesion – Xiaofan Jin – bioRxiv

June 5, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome and inflammation among athletes in wheelchair in a crossover randomized pilot trial of probiotic and prebiotic interventions – Ezra Valido – Nature Scientific Reports

A microbiota-directed complementary food intervention in 12-18-month-old Bangladeshi children improves linear growth – Ishita Mostafa – eBioMedicine

Gut microbiome shifts in people with type 1 diabetes are associated with glycaemic control: an INNODIA study – Tommi Vatanen – Diabetologia

Association of methyl donor nutrients dietary intake and sleep disorders in the elderly revealed by the intestinal microbiome – Qianqian Chen – Food & Function

[REVIEW] The human gut microbiome and aging – Evan Bradley & John Haran – Gut Microbes

[REVIEW] Nurturing gut health: role of m6A RNA methylation in upholding the intestinal barrier – Shuaijie Wang – Cell Death Discovery

Persistent dysbiosis of duodenal microbiota in patients with controlled pediatric Crohn’s disease after resolution of inflammation – Rebecca Pierce – Nature Scientific Reports

Dysfunctional circadian clock accelerates cancer metastasis by intestinal microbiota triggering accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells – Jing-Lin Liu – Cell Metabolism

Human respiratory microbiome

Longitudinal multicompartment characterization of host-microbiota interactions in patients with acute respiratory failure – Georgios D. Kitsios – Nature Communications

Lack of correlation between in vitro and within patient measures of P. aeruginosa biofilms in cystic fibrosis – Amanda J Morris – Cell Heliyon

Human oral microbiome

The oral microbiome and oral and upper gastrointestinal diseases – Sifan Liu – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Comprehensive analysis of the oral microbiota and metabolome change in patients of burning mouth syndrome with psychiatric symptoms – Shihong Luo – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis – Elena Lindemann-Perez – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Animal experiments

Prevotella copri transplantation promotes neurorehabilitation in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury – Nina Gu – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Spatial recovery of the murine gut microbiota after antibiotics perturbation – M. Taguer – mBio

Water and extremophile microbiome

Global biogeography of microbes driving ocean ecological status under climate change – Zhenyan Zhang – Nature Communications

Macroalgal eukaryotic microbiome composition indicates novel phylogenetic diversity and broad host spectrum of oomycete pathogens – Natalia Timanikova – Environmental Microbiology

Viruses & phages

Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study – Jean-Paul Pirnay – Nature Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Environmental and structural factors associated with bacterial diversity in household dust across the Arizona-Sonora border – Lauren D. Benton – Nature Scientific Reports

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Tibetan Plateau grasslands might increase sequestration of microbial necromass carbon under future warming – Qinwei Zhang – Nature Communications Biology

Assembly of Endophytic Communities of Setaria viridis Plants when Grown in Different Soils and Derived from Different Seeds – Carolina Escobar Rodríguez – Phytobiomes

[PREPRINT] Hybrid xyloglucan utilisation loci are prevalent among plant-associated Bacteroidota – Hannah Martin – bioRxiv

Microbial ecology

Cooperative growth in microbial communities is a driver of multistability – William Lopes – Nature Communications

Bioenergetic mapping of ‘healthy microbiomes’ via compound processing potential imprinted in gut and soil metagenomes – Craig Liddicoat – Science of the Total Environment

Temporal dynamics of fecal microbiota community succession in broiler chickens, calves, and piglets under aerobic exposure – Paul Oladele – Microbiology Spectrum

May 17, 2024

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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.

See you at #MVIF!

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

May 15, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

A shared group of bacterial taxa in the duodenal microbiota of undernourished Pakistani children with environmental enteric dysfunction – Najeeha T Iqbal – mSphere

Gut microbiota, blood metabolites, and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in US Hispanics/Latinos – Kai Luo – BMC Microbiome

Co-localization of antibiotic resistance genes is widespread in the infant gut microbiome and associates with an immature gut microbial composition – Xuanji Li – BMC Microbiome

Impact of the gut microbiome composition on social decision-making – Marie Falkenstein – PNAS Nexus

Veillonella and Bacteroides are associated with gestational diabetes mellitus exposure and gut microbiota immaturity – Fernanda Valdez-Palomares – PLOS One

[REVIEW] The neonatal gut microbiome and global health – Pinaki Panigrahi – Gut Microbes

Functional characterization of helminth-associated Clostridiales reveals covariates of Treg differentiation – Shusan Sargisan – BMC Microbiome

Vaginal microbiome

16S rRNA female reproductive microbiome investigation reveals Dalfopristin, Clorgyline, and Hydrazine as potential therapeutics for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis – Sudeepti Kulshrestha – Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Fecal transplant from vaginally seeded infants decreases intraabdominal adiposity in mice – Sivaranjani Namasivayam – Gut Microbes

Animal microbiome

Viruses contribute to microbial diversification in the rumen ecosystem and are associated with certain animal production traits – Ming Yan & Zhongtang Yu – BMC Microbiome

Quantitative microbiome profiling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) guts is predictive of winter colony loss in northern Virginia (USA) – David B. Carlini – Nature Scientific Reports

How do phytophagous insects affect phyllosphere fungi? Tracking fungi from milkweed to monarch caterpillar frass reveals communities dominated by fungal yeast – Ryoko Oono – Environmental Microbiology

Beneficial microbes & compounds

The gut lactic acid bacteria metabolite, 10-oxo- cis-6, trans-11-octadecadienoic acid, suppresses inflammatory bowel disease in mice by modulating the NRF2 pathway and GPCR-signaling – Miki Ando – Frotiers in Immunology

Effect of weight loss program using prebiotics and probiotics on body composition, physique, and metabolic products: longitudinal intervention study – Nayera E Hassan – Nature Scientific Reports

Origin of the neonatal gut microbiota and probiotic intervention: a randomized controlled trial – Zhe Li – Frontiers in Nutrition

Effectiveness of probiotic- and fish oil-loaded water-in-oil-in-water (W1/O/W2) emulsions at alleviating ulcerative colitis – Qingzhao Gu – Food & Function

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Competition mode and soil nutrient status shape the role of soil microbes in the diversity–invasibility relationship – Haokun Li – Ecology and Evolution

Dynamics and drivers of fungal communities in a multipartite ant-plant association – Veronica Barrajon-Santos – BMC Biology

Quorum sensing related activities of beneficial and pathogenic bacteria have important implications for plant and human health – Anton Hartmann – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Impacts of vegetable processing and cheese making effluent on soil microbial functional diversity, community structure, and denitrification potential of land treatment systems – Geoffrey S. Siemering – Water Environment Research

Role of Bacillus subtilis exopolymeric genes in modulating rhizosphere microbiome assembly – Caroline Sayuri Nishisaka – BMC Environmental Microbiome

The predominant lactic acid bacteria and yeasts involved in the spontaneous fermentation of millet during the production of the traditional porridge Hausa koko in Ghana – Amy Atter – BMC Microbiology

Bioinformatics & Tools

Multi-class boosting for the analysis of multiple incomplete views on microbiome data – Andrea Simeon – BMC Bioinformatics

PrimerEvalPy: a tool for in-silico evaluation of primers for targeting the microbiome – Lara Vázquez-González – BMC Bioinformatics

Readsynth: short-read simulation for consideration of composition-biases in reduced metagenome sequencing approaches – Ryan Kuster – BMC Bioinformatics

May 8, 2024

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Happy Wednesday folks, we’re halfway through the week! Today’s blog features a number of interesting articles – it was difficult to pick just a few to highlight. Read on to learn about a new study that unveils the environment-specificity of secondary successional dynamics following microbiota disruption, a review summarizing the literature on how pesticide exposure affects the microbiota-gut-brain-axis, an investigation of how host phylogeny, diet, and anthropogenic factors shape the Cetacea gut microbiome – and more!

Human Microbiome

Diet-omics in the Study of Urban and Rural Crohn disease Evolution (SOURCE) cohort – Tzipi Braun – Nature Communications

Improvements in Gut Microbiome Composition and Clinical Symptoms Following Familial Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in a Nineteen-Year-Old Adolescent With Severe Autism – Sabine Hazan – Journal of Medical Cases

[PREPRINT] Interplay between particle size and microbial ecology in the gut microbiome – Jeffrey Letourneau – bioRxiv

Shotgun metagenomic analysis of saliva microbiome suggests Mogibacterium as a factor associated with chronic bacterial osteomyelitis – Hiroko Yahara – PLOS One

[REVIEW] Pesticide exposure and the microbiota-gut-brain axis – Rie Matsuzaki – ISME Journal

Animal Experiments

Short-term exposure to antibiotics begets long-term disturbance in gut microbial metabolism and molecular ecological networks – Yuehui Hong – BMC Microbiome

Microbial Ecology

Synthesis of recovery patterns in microbial communities across environments – Stephanie D. Jurburg – BMC Microbiome

Cooperative interactions between invader and resident microbial community members weaken the negative diversity-invasion relationship – Johanna Vendermaesen – Ecology Letters

High speciation rate of niche specialists in hot springs – Qing He – ISME Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of reduced snowpack due to climate warming on abiotic and biotic soil properties in alpine and boreal forest systems – Anastasiia Kosolapova – PLOS Climate

Microbiota recovery in a chronosquences of impoverished Cerrado soils with biosolids applications – Laibin Huang – Science of the Total Environment

Melatonin promotes the recovery of apple plants after waterlogging by shaping the structure and function of the rhizosphere microbiome – Yang Cao – Plant, Cell & Environment

Antimony efflux underpins phosphorus cycling and resistance of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in mining soils – Shengwei Liu – ISME Journal

Animal Microbiome

Antibiotic exposure alters the honeybee gut microbiota and may interfere with the honeybee behavioral caste transition – Zijing Zhang – Insect Science

Meta-analysis of the Cetacea gut microbiome: Diversity, co-evolution, and interaction with the anthropogenic pathobiome – Elena Radaelli – Science of the Total Environment

Comparative analysis of gut microbiome of mangrove brachyuran crabs revealed patterns of phylosymbiosis and codiversification – Chandlar Tsz To Tsang – Molecular Ecology

Techniques & Methodology

A perfusion host-microbe bioreactor (HMB) system that captures dynamic interactions of secreted metabolites between epithelial cells cocultured with a human gut anaerobe – Jingyun Yang – Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Stable, fluorescent markers for tracking synthetic communities and assembly dynamics – Beatriz Jorrin – BMC Microbiome

Sterile sentinels and MinION sequencing capture active soil microbial communities that differentiate crop rotations – Sonya R. Erlandson – BMC Environmental Microbiome

April 30, 2024

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Human microbiome

Safety and efficacy of faecal microbiota transplantation in patients with mild to moderate Parkinson’s disease (GUT-PARFECT): a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised, phase 2 trial – Anout Bruggeman – eClinicalMedicine

Implications of intestinal microecology and immune function alterations for immunotherapy outcomes in advanced unresectable lung adenocarcinoma – Shuang He – Clinical Respiratory Journal

Recipient microbiome-related features predicting metabolic improvement following fecal microbiota transplantation in adults with severe obesity and metabolic syndrome: a secondary analysis of a phase 2 clinical trial – Zhengxiao Zhang – Gut Microbes

Gut microbiome composition and metabolic activity in women with diverticulitis – Wenjie Ma – Nature Communications

Microbiome confounders and quantitative profiling challenge predicted microbial targets in colorectal cancer development – Raúl Y. Tito – Nature Medicine

Prediction and causal inference of hyperuricemia using gut microbiota – Yuna Miyajima – Scientific Reports

Early-life gut microbiota associates with allergic rhinitis during 13-year follow-up in a Finnish probiotic intervention cohort – Sampo Kallio – Microbiology Spectrum

Food microbiome

The detailed analysis of the microbiome and resistome of artisanal blue-veined cheeses provides evidence on sources and patterns of succession linked with quality and safety traits – Elena A. Alexa – BMC Microbiome

Animal experiments

Sodium Propionate Oral Supplementation ameliorates Depressive-Like Behavior through Gut Microbiome and Histone 3 Epigenetic Regulation – Luiza Marques Prates Behrens – Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Colon impairments and inflammation driven by an altered gut microbiota leads to social behavior deficits rescued by hyaluronic acid and celecoxib – Oryan Agronyoni – BMC Medicine

Dissecting the respective roles of microbiota and host genetics in the susceptibility of Card9−/− mice to colitis – C. Danne – BMC Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Synergistic resistance of honeybee (Apis mellifera) and their gut microorganisms to fluvalinate stress – Jianhui Liu – Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology

Determinants of microbiome composition: Insights from free-ranging hybrid zebras (Equus quagga × grevyi) – Joel O. Abraham – Molecular Ecology

Water & extremophile microbiomes

Phytoplankton-derived polysaccharides and microbial peptidoglycans are key nutrients for deep-sea microbes in the Mariana Trench – Yan-Ru Dang – BMC Microbiome

Rhizospheric bacteria from the Atacama Desert hyper-arid core: cultured community dynamics and plant growth promotion – Juan Castro-Severyn – Microbiology Spectrum

Tools & techniques

Variability and bias in microbiome metagenomic sequencing: an interlaboratory study comparing experimental protocols – Samuel P. Forry – Scientific Reports

Nanopore and Illumina sequencing reveal different viral populations from human gut samples – Ryan Cook – Microbial Genomics

April 12, 2024

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Today’s digest features human gut microbiome studies on dietary fiber and fasting glucose, ocean microbiome, pangenome approaches, and more.

See you at #MVIF!

Oral microbiome

Saliva sampling method influences oral microbiome composition and taxa distribution associated with oral diseases – Cristian Roca – PlosOne

Gut microbiome

Changes in the intestinal microbiota of individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease based on sequencing: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis – Wenpin Cai – PlosOne

Gut microbiota differences in stunted and normal-lenght children aged 36–45 months in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia – Ingrid S. Surono – PlosOne

Integrating research on bacterial pathogens and commensals to fight infections—an ecological perspective – Lisa Maier – The Lancet Microbe

Recommendations for the Use of Dietary Fiber to Improve Blood Pressure Control – Hamdi A. Jama – Hypertension

Review: Prebiotic selection influencing inflammatory bowel disease treatment outcomes: a review of the preclinical and clinical evidence – Amin Ariaee – eGastroenterology

Overcoming donor variability and risks associated with fecal microbiota transplants through bacteriophage-mediated treatments – Torben Soelbeck Rasmussen – bioRxiv

Continuous glucose monitoring and intrapersonal variability in fasting glucose – Smadar Shilo – Nature Medicine

Animal microbiome

Intestinal microbiome profiles in broiler chickens raised without antibiotics exhibit altered microbiome dynamics relative to conventionally raised chickens – Seyed Hossien Kairmi – PlosOne

Microbial signatures and enterotype clusters in fattening pigs: implications for nitrogen utilization efficiency – Naomi Sarpong – Frontiers in Microbiology

A genome-centric view of the role of the Acropora kenti microbiome in coral health and resilience – Lauren F. Messer – Nature Communications

Varied microbial community assembly and specialization patterns driven by early life microbiome perturbation and modulation in young ruminants – Zhe Pan – ISME Communications

Ocean microbiome

Decoding populations in the ocean microbiome – Ramiro Logares – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

High-resolution Profiling of Bacterial and Fungal Communities using Pangenome-Informed Taxon-Specific Long-Read Amplicons – Luzia Stalder – bioRxiv

CELEBRIMBOR: Pangenomes from metagenomes – Joel Hellewell – bioRxiv

April 10, 2024

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Good morning microbiome enthusiasts! Today’s MD is on the shorter side but we still have some really interesting articles picked out for you to peruse – including a microbiome-sparing targeted P. aeruginosa compound, effective probiotics for restoring a healthy coral microbiome, and a study characterizing the microbiome of metastatic cancers in over 4,000 biopsies. Plus, don’t forget that April’s Microbiome Virtual International Forum is happening next week!

Human Microbiome

Longitudinal multi-omics analysis uncovers the altered landscape of gut microbiota and plasma metabolome in response to high altitude – Yang Han et al – BMC Microbiome

Illuminating microflora: shedding light on the potential of blue light to modulate the cutaneous microbiome – Hannah J Serrage et al – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Evolutionary investigations of the biosynthetic diversity in the skin microbiome using lsaBGC – Rauf Salamzade et al – Microbial Genomics

A pan-cancer analysis of the microbiome in metastatic cancer – Thomas Battaglia et al – Cell

A Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus secretome induces immunoregulatory transcriptional, functional and immunometabolic signatures in human THP-1 monocytes – Michael P. Jeffrey et al – Nature Scientific Reports

The oral cavity and intestinal microbiome in children with functional constipation – Monika Kwiatkowska et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Characterization of the gut bacterial and viral microbiota in latent autoimmune diabetes in adults – Casper S. Poulsen et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Colonization during a key developmental window reveals microbiota-dependent shifts in growth and immunity during undernutrition – Yadeliz A. Serrano Matos et al – BMC Microbiome

Animal models

Dermal injury drives a skin to gut axis that disrupts the intestinal microbiome and intestinal immune homeostasis in mice – Tatsuya Dokoshi et al – Nature Communications

A folate inhibitor exploits metabolic differences in Pseudomonas aeruginosa for narrow-spectrum targeting – Connor Chain et al – Nature Microbiology

Animal microbiome

A genome-centric view of the role of the Acropora kenti microbiome in coral health and resilience – Lauren F. Messer et al – Nature Communications

Probiotics reshape the coral microbiome in situ without detectable off-target effects in the surrounding environment – Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez et al – Nature Communications Biology

Substantial viral diversity in bats and rodents from East Africa: insights into evolution, recombination, and cocirculation – Daxi Wang et al – BMC Microbiome

Plant, root & soil microbiome

Root volatiles manipulate bacterial biofilms – Waseem Raza & Gaofei Jiang – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysis of endophytic bacterial diversity in seeds of different genotypes of cotton and the suppression of Verticillium wilt pathogen infection by a synthetic microbial community – Chong-Die Wu et al – BMC Plant Biology

Bioinformatics & tools

Holomics – a user-friendly R shiny application for multi-omics data integration and analysis – Katharina Munk et al – BMC Bioinformatics