Friday, July 19th

Happy Friday! Today’s digest includes the microbiome of plankton, viral diversity of ticks, and a review of microbiome engineering. Enjoy!

General microbiome

Homeorhesis and ecological succession quantified in synthetic microbial ecosystems – Chuang – PNAS

Human nearly-sterile sites

Insights into the Microbiome of Breast Implants and Periprosthetic Tissue in Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma – Walker – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Review: Precision Medicine Goes Microscopic: Engineering the Microbiome to Improve Drug Outcomes – Lam – Cell Host & Microbe

A structured weight loss program increases gut microbiota phylogenetic diversity and reduces levels of Collinsella in obese type 2 diabetics: A pilot study – Frost – PLoS One

Animal experiments

Changes in cecal microbiota community of suckling piglets infected with porcine epidemic diarrhea virus – Tan – PLoS One

Animal microbiome

Cicadae pupa promotes metabolites synthesis of Isaria cicadae, a dominant species in cicada flowers microbiota – Chunyu – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Experimental Evidence for Adaptation to Species-Specific Gut Microbiota in House Mice – Moeller – mSphere

Fecal microbiota of different reproductive stages of the central population of the lesser-long nosed bat, Leptonycteris yerbabuenae – Gaona – PLoS One

Diel transcriptional response of a California Current plankton microbiome to light, low iron, and enduring viral infection – Kolody – ISME

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Preprint: Maize residues changes soil fungal composition and decrease soil microbial co-ocurrence networks complexity – Cobo-Diaz – BioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

Impacts of continuous inflow of low concentrations of silver nanoparticles on biological performance and microbial communities of aerobic heterotrophic wastewater biofilm – Alizadeh – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Phages and viruses

Preprint: Metagenomic exploration of viral diversity and virus-host interactions in a deep freshwater lake – Okazaki – BioRxiv

Preprint: Identification and evolution of avian endogenous foamy viruses – Chen – BioRxiv

Viral Diversity of Tick Species Parasitizing Cattle and Dogs in Trinidad and Tobago – Sameroff – Scientific Reports

Bioinformatics

Predictive metabolomic profiling of microbial communities using amplicon or metagenomic sequences – Mallick – Nature Communications

Heterogeneity spacers in 16S rDNA primers improve analysis of mouse gut microbiomes via greater nucleotide diversity – Jensen – BioTechniques

July 18, 2019

Have a nice Thursday! Today in this Digest, we have papers with clinical implications for the use of microbiota in disease analysis; for example: a paper presenting a model for the use of gut microbiota for disease classification, or an article showing the impact of microbiota in cardiometabolic risk. Today we have several papers about animal microbiome or studies in animal models, including an interesting article showing a relationship between wasp adaptation and their microbiota. And, of course, more papers!

 

Human and General Microbiome

* Establishment and evaluation of prediction model for multiple disease classification based on gut microbial data – Sohyun Bang – Scientific Reports

* Gut microbiota composition explains more variance in the host cardiometabolic risk than genetic ancestry – Sandra J. Guzmán-Castañeda – Gut Microbes 

Species Deletions from Microbiome Consortia Reveal Key Metabolic Interactions between Gut Microbes – Natalia Gutiérrez – mSystems

The association between pneumococcal vaccination, ethnicity, and the nasopharyngeal microbiota of children in Fiji – Laura K. Boelsen – Microbiome

Crypt- and Mucosa-Associated Core Microbiotas in Humans and Their Alteration in Colon Cancer PatientsAzadeh Saffarian – mBio

A Bacteriophage Cocktail Eliminates Salmonella Typhimurium from the Human Colonic Microbiome while Preserving Cytokine Signaling and Preventing Attachment to and Invasion of Human Cells by Salmonella In Vitro – Zachary D. Moye – Journal of Food Protection

Discovery of potential genes contributing to the biosynthesis of short-chain fatty acids and lactate in gut microbiota from systematic investigation in E. coli – Chunhua Zhao – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Altered in Vitro Metabolomic Response of the Human Microbiota to Sweeteners – Emanuel Vamanu – Genes

Research Highlight: Microbiota supplements to improve metabolic health – Anna Kriebs – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Review: Ketogenic Diet and Microbiota: Friends or Enemies? – Antonio Paoli – Genes

Review: Supporting a Healthy Microbiome for the Primary Prevention of Eczema – Sofia Szari – Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology

A Comparative Analysis of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters in Lean and Obese Humans – Shengqin Wang – BioMed Research International

 

Animal Models / Animal Experiments

* Phylosymbiosis Impacts Adaptive Traits in Nasonia Wasps – Edward J. van Opstal – mBio

The microbiota protects from viral-induced neurologic damage through microglia-intrinsic TLR signaling – D Garrett Brown – eLife

Pregnancy and lactation interfere with the response of autoimmunity to modulation of gut microbiota – Qinghui Mu – Microbiome

Polysaccharide A-Dependent Opposing Effects of Mucosal and Systemic Exposures to Human Gut Commensal Bacteroides Fragilis in Type 1 Diabetes – M. Hanief – Diabetes

Heart failure developed after myocardial infarction does not affect gut microbiota composition in the rat – Renata Maria Lataro – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Effect of chrysin on changes in intestinal environment and microbiome induced by fructose-feeding in rats – Nelson Andrade – Food & Function

Microbiota of periodontal pockets and root canals in induced experimental periodontal disease in dogs – Cícero R. Gadê‐Neto – Journal of Investigative and Clinical Dentistry

Frontline Science: Abnormalities in the gut mucosa of non-obese diabetic mice precede the onset of type 1 diabetes – Mariana Camila Gonçalves Miranda – Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Early Feeding Regime of Waste Milk, Milk, and Milk Replacer for Calves Has Different Effects on Rumen Fermentation and the Bacterial Community – Rong Zhang – Animals

 

Beneficial Compounds and Microbes

Modified apple polysaccharide regulates microbial dysbiosis to suppress high-fat diet-induced obesity in C57BL/6J mice – Yuhua Li – European Journal of Nutrition

Mulberry leaves ameliorate obesity through enhancing brown adipose tissue activity and modulating gut microbiota – Yao Sheng – Food & Function

 

Plant Microbiome

Root-specific camalexin biosynthesis controls the plant growth-promoting effects of multiple bacterial strains – Anna Koprivova – PNAS

 

Environmental Microbiome

An RNA-based quantitative and compositional study of ammonium-oxidizing bacteria and archaea in Lake Taihu, a eutrophic freshwater lake – Tong-tong Liu – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Exploring Biodiversity and Arsenic Metabolism of Microbiota Inhabiting Arsenic-Rich Groundwaters in Northern Italy – Lucia Cavalca – Frontiers in Microbiology

July 1, 2019

Today’s Monday digest is about microbiome changes in diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease; review on importance of pig microbiota and impact of fecal storage protocols on microbial diversity and composition.

General microbiome

The pig microbiota and the potential for harnessing the power of the microbiome to improve growth and health – Nirosh D Aluthge – Journal of Animal Science

Microbial genes and pathways in inflammatory bowel disease – Melanie Schirmer – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Human microbiome

Changes in Gut Microbiome after Bariatric Surgery Versus Medical Weight Loss in a Pilot Randomized Trial – Clare J. Lee – Obesity Surgery

Microbiome Signatures Associated with Steatohepatitis and Moderate to Severe Fibrosis in Children With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Jeffrey B. Schwimmer – Gastroenterology

Altered gut microbiota and mucosal immunity in patients with schizophrenia – Ruihuan Xu – Brain Behavior and Immunity

Patients Eligible for Trials of Microbe-based Therapeutics do not Represent the Population With Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection – Colleen R. Kelly – Clinical Gastoenterology and Hepatology

A role for the mammalian female reproductive tract microbiome in pregnancy outcomes – Babiche A. Heil – Physiological Genomics

Altered intestinal microbiota associated with colorectal cancer – Hong Zhang – Frontiers of Medicine

Gut microbiota is associated with adiposity markers and probiotics may impact specific genera – Aline Corado Gomes – European Journal of Nutrition

Consistent alterations in faecal microbiomes of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis independent of associated colitis – Malte Ruhlemann – Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Altered gut microbiota and inflammatory cytokine responses in patients with Parkinson’s disease – Chin-Hsien Lin – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Animal experiments

Hypergravity disrupts murine intestinal microbiota – Corentine Alauzet – Scientific Reports

Dietary fructose-induced gut dysbiosis promotes mouse hippocampal neuroinflammation: a benefit of short-chain fatty acids – Jian-Mei Li – Microbiome

Gut microbiota depletion from early adolescence alters adult immunological and neurobehavioral responses in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis – Maryam Zeraati – Neuropharmacology

Enrichment of intestinal Lactobacillus by enhanced secretory IgA coating alters glucose homeostasis in P2rx7−/− mice – Lisa Perruzza – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Higher stochasticity of microbiota composition in seedlings of domesticated wheat compared to wild wheat – Ezgi Özkurt – BioRxiv

Emphasis on the deep or shallow parts of the tree provides a new characterization of phylogenetic distances – Julia Fukuyama – Genome Biology

Techniques

Assessment of the impact of different fecal storage protocols on the microbiota diversity and composition: a pilot study – Shirin Moossavi – BMC Mirobiology

Microbes and the market

Microbiome Sequencing Market players include: Biolog Inc., CosmosID Inc., Illumina Inc., Metabiomics and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd – News Exterior

Global Microbiome Drugs Market NEWS 2019 By Types Probiotics, Prebiotics, Small Molecules, Biological Drugs – Market Reports

 

June 29, 2019

Happy Saturday! Today, in this Digest: a review about the relationship between hypertension and the gut (including the microbiome as a key player) and a systematic review of the associations between vaginal microbiota, HPV and cervical dysplasia. Today we have also several papers about bioinformatic tools, methods, and techniques associated with microbiome research, including the analysis of well-to-well contamination during microbiome research. And of course, many more papers!

 

Human or General Microbiome

Review: Hypertension as a Metabolic Disorder and the Novel Role of the Gut – Masami Tanaka – Current Hypertension Reports

Minireview: Antibiotics and immunotherapy in gastrointestinal tumors: Friend or foe? – Cong Yan – World Journal of Clinical Cases

Review: Proton pump inhibitors and dysbiosis: Current knowledge and aspects to be clarified – Giovanni Bruno – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Systematic Review: The vaginal microbiota, HPV and cervical dysplasia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis – Johanna Norenhag – BJOG

Microbiota therapy acts via a regulatory T cell MyD88/RORγt pathway to suppress food allergy – Azza Abdel-Gadir – Nature Medicine

Exploration of the Vaginal and Gut Microbiome in African American Women by Body Mass Index, Class of Obesity, and Gestational Weight Gain: A Pilot Study – Mary Ann Faucher - American Journal of Perinatology

Banking feces: a new frontier for public blood banks? – Simon Mark Dahl Jørgensen – Transfusion

Diet-microbiota-metabolite interaction networks reveal key players in inflammatory bowel disease – Yijie Weng – Journal of Digestive Diseases

The microbiome of calcium-based urinary stones – Ryan A. Dornbier – Urolithiasis

Scientometric analysis of the term “microbiota” in research publications (1999-2017): A second youth of a century-old concept – Lesya Baudoin – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Microbiome analysis as a platform R&D tool for parasitic nematode disease management – Glenn Hogan – The ISME Journal

Is the Oral Microbiome Associated with Blood Pressure in Older Women? – Joshua H. Gordon – High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention

An untargeted fecal and urine metabolomics analysis of the interplay between the gut microbiome, diet and human metabolism in Indian and Chinese adults – Abhishek Jain – Scientific Reports

Gut Microbiota Alteration is Characterized by a Proteobacteria and Fusobacteria Bloom in Kwashiorkor and a Bacteroidetes Paucity in Marasmus – Thi-Phuong-Thao Pham – Scientific Reports

The effects of perineal disinfection on infant’s oral microflora after transvaginal examination during delivery – Hongping Li – BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Metagenomic analysis of bile salt biotransformation in the human gut microbiome – Promi Das – BMC Genomics

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Metagenomic assessment of the Cebus apella gut microbiota – Jenni Firrman – American Journal of Primatology

Multipartner Symbiosis across Biological Domains: Looking at the Eukaryotic Associations from a Microbial Perspective – Marta Turon – mSystems

Arthropod-bacteria interactions influence assembly of aquatic host microbiome and pathogen defense – Sasha E. Greenspan – Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Intestinal microbiota contributes to altered glucose metabolism in simulated microgravity mouse model – Yifan Wang – The FASEB Journal

Impact of Low-dose Ionising Radiation on the Composition of the Gut Microbiota of Mice – Xiaodan Liu – Toxicological Sciences

Habitat fragmentation is associated with dietary shifts and microbiota variability in common vampire bats – Melissa R. Ingala – Ecology and Evolution

 

Microbiome and Therapeutics (Compounds, Microbes or Procedures)

Review: Effects of Fish n-3 PUFAs on Intestinal Microbiota and Immune System – Cinzia Parolini – Marine Drugs

Review: Updates in Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection – Tanveer Singh – Journal of Clinical Medicine Research

Synbiotics suppress colitis-induced tumorigenesis in a colon-specific cancer mouse model – Yasufumi Saito – PLOS One

Roles of Chinese Medicine and Gut Microbiota in Chronic Constipation – Zhenyuan Xu – Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Increasing the Dose and/or Repeating Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) Increases the Response in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) – Magdy El-Salhy – Nutrients

Interleukin-37 sensitize the elderly type 2 diabetic patients to insulin therapy through suppressing the gut microbiota dysbiosis – Tianyi Li – Molecular Immunology

Skin microbiome modulation induced by probiotic solutions – Bernhard Paetzold – Microbiome

Evaluation of Predation Capability of Periodontopathogens Bacteria by Bdellovibrio Bacteriovorus HD100. An in Vitro Study – Romeo Patini – Materials

 

Bioinformatics, Methods and Techniques

Quantifying and Understanding Well-to-Well Contamination in Microbiome Research – Jeremiah J. Minich – mSystems

Associated commentary: A Lot on Your Plate? Well-to-Well Contamination as an Additional Confounder in Microbiome Sequence Analyses – Alan W. Walker – mSystems

redbiom: a Rapid Sample Discovery and Feature Characterization System – Daniel McDonald – mSystems

Review: Methods and basic concepts for microbiota assessment – Marcio Costa – The Veterinary Journal

Long-read based de novo assembly of low-complexity metagenome samples results in finished genomes and reveals insights into strain diversity and an active phage system – Vincent Somerville – BMC Microbiology

Robust biomarker discovery for microbiome-wide association studies – Qiang Zhu – Methods

A Method for Comprehensive Proteomic Analysis of Human Faecal Samples to Investigate Gut Dysbiosis in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis – Griet Debyser – Emerging Sample Treatments in Proteomics

metaQuantome: An integrated, quantitative metaproteomics approach reveals connections between taxonomy and protein function in complex microbiomes – Caleb W. Easterly – Molecular & Cellular Proteomics

Review: The dark side of technological advances in analysis of microbial ecosystems – Mick Bailey – Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

June 27, 2019

This Thursday, read about the well-to-well contamination in microbiome research, antibiotic resistance gene pool in avian microbiomes, a novel robust taxonomic framework (AutoTax), and more. Happy reading!

General microbiome

*Quantifying and Understanding Well-to-Well Contamination in Microbiome Research – Jeremiah J. Minich – mSystems

Controlling for Contaminants in Low-Biomass 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Experiments – Lisa Karstens – mSystems

Skin microbiome

The impact of skin care products on skin chemistry and microbiome dynamics – Amina Bouslimani – BMC Biology

Animal microbiome

*Meta-transcriptomics reveals a diverse antibiotic resistance gene pool in avian microbiomes – Vanessa R. Marcelin – BMC Biology

Soil microbiome

Defoliation management and grass growth habits modulated the soil microbial community of turfgrass systems – Qing Xia – PlosOne

Comparative overview of red kidney bean (Phaseolus valgaris) rhizospheric bacterial diversity in perspective of altitudinal variations – Deep Chandra Suyal – Biologia

Animal experiments

Puerarin prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity by enriching Akkermansia muciniphila in the gut microbiota of mice – Lei Wang – PlosOne

Water and extremophile microbiome

The anaerobic digestion microbiome: a collection of 1600 metagenome-assembled genomes shows high species diversity related to methane production – Stefano Campanaroa – bioRxiv

In situ transformation of ethoxylate and glycol surfactants by shale-colonizing microorganisms during hydraulic fracturing – Morgan V. Evans – ISME Journal

Bioinformatics

*Comprehensive ecosystem-specific 16S rRNA gene databases with automated taxonomy assignment (AutoTax) provide species-level resolution in microbial ecology – Morten Simonsen Dueholm – bioRxiv

June 24, 2019

Happy Monday! In today’s Digest, you’ll find a primer on metabolomics, a description of the fungal and bacterial communities involved in coffee fermentation, and several studies on extremophile communities.

General Microbiome
Staring into the void: Demystifying microbial metabolomics – Cynthia M Grim – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Bacterial metabolism-inspired molecules to modulate antibiotic efficacy – Yuan Liu – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Deterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape – J. M. Hassell – Nature Communications

Gut Microbiome
Bifidobacterium dentium Fortifies the Intestinal Mucus Layer via Autophagy and Calcium Signaling Pathways – Melinda A. Engevik – mBio

Lipopolysaccharides modulate intestinal epithelial permeability and inflammation in a species-specific manner – Matthew Stephens – Gut Microbes

Fecal Microbiome Data Distinguish Liver Recipients with Normal and Abnormal Liver Function from Healthy Controls – Hai-feng Lu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human Microbiota and Personalized Cancer Treatments: Role of Commensal Microbes in Treatment Outcomes for Cancer Patients – Stephen Gately – Precision Medicine in Cancer Therapy

Animal Experiments
Intervening Effects of Total Alkaloids of Corydalis saxicola Bunting on Rats With Antibiotic-Induced Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Based on 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and Untargeted Metabolomics Analyses – Xi Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal Microbiome
Gestation alters the gut microbiota of an oviparous lizard – Brian K Trevelline – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Diversity of deep-water coral associated bacteria and comparison across depth gradients – Sigmund Jensen – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Plant, Root, and Soil Microbiome
Bacterial and archaeal spatial distribution and its environmental drivers in an extremely haloalkaline soil at the landscape scale – Martha Adriana Martínez-Olivas – PeerJ

The microbial community in an alkaline saline sediment of a former maar lake bed – Claudia L. Ibarra-Sánchez – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Impacts on soil microbial characteristics and their restorability with different soil disinfestation approaches in intensively cropped greenhouse soils – Tianzhu Meng – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Nonylphenol causes shifts in microbial communities and nitrogen mineralization in soil microcosms – Stefania Mattana – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Changes in Plant Rhizosphere Microbial Communities under Different Vegetation Restoration Patterns in Karst and Non-karst Ecosystems – Zhouzhou Fan – Scientific Reports

Water and Extremophile Microbiome
Culture independent bacterial diversity of Changme Khang and Changme Khangpu glaciers of North Sikkim, India – Mingma Thundu Sherpa – Environmental Sustainability

Selection of a Microbial Community in the Course of Formation of Acid Mine Drainage – V. V. Kadnikov – Microbiology

Thermophilic Bacteria in Lake Baikal Bottom Sediments Associated with Hydrocarbon Discharge – O. N. Pavlova – Microbiology

Bacterial alkylquinolone signaling contributes to structuring microbial communities in the ocean – Kristen E. Whalen – Microbiome

Food Microbiology
First description of bacterial and fungal communities in Colombian coffee beans fermentation analysed using Illumina-based amplicon sequencing – Ana C. de Oliveira Junqueira – Scientific Reports

Techniques
Functional Gene Array-Based Ultrasensitive and Quantitative Detection of Microbial Populations in Complex Communities – Zhou Shi – mSystems

June 22, 2019

Have a nice Saturday! Today, in this Digest: A set of reviews about the relationship between the microbiome and autism-related complications, Helicobacter infection, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and hypertension; a study about potential microbiome changes on fibromyalgia, the microbiota of milk in primates, the relationship between genomic and microbiome content in pigs and an interesting report about the effect of microbiota on cirrhosis-associated neuroinflammation.

 

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Can we reduce autism-related gastrointestinal and behavior problems by gut microbiota based dietary modulation? A review – Nalan Hakime Nogay – Nutritional Neuroscience

Review: A Novel View of Human Helicobacter pylori Infections: Interplay between Microbiota and Beta-Defensins – Raffaela Pero – Biomolecules

Review: Fecal Microbial Transplantation For Diseases Beyond Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection – Geert R. D’Haens – Gastroenterology

Review: Microbiota and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: promising prospects for clinical interventions? – Christelle Knudsen – Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Review: Impaired Autonomic Nervous System-Microbiome Circuit in Hypertension – Jasenka Zubcevic – Circulation Research

Altered microbiome composition in individuals with fibromyalgia – Amir Minerbi – Pain

Controlling intestinal colonization of high-risk haematology patients with ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae: a randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre, Phase II trial (CLEAR) – Vassiliki Dimitriou – The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Editorial: Microbiota and the clock: sexual dimorphism matters! – Benjamin D. Weger – Aging

Microbiomes, Community Ecology, and the Comparative Method – Sarah M. Hird – mSystems

Technology Feature: Engineers embrace microbiome messiness – Vivien Marx – Nature Methods

Urolithin B suppresses tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma through inducing the inactivation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling – Min‐yi Lv – Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Diversity and temporal dynamics of primate milk microbiomes – Carly R. Muletz‐Wolz – American Journal of Primatology

Association between the pig genome and its gut microbiota composition – Daniel Crespo-Piazuelo – Scientific Reports

Misoprostol protects mice against severe Clostridium difficile infection and promotes recovery of the gut microbiota after antibiotic perturbation – Joseph P. Zackular – Anaerobe

Neuroinflammation in Murine Cirrhosis is Dependent on the Gut Microbiome and is Attenuated by Fecal Transplant – Runping Liu – Hepatology

Modulation of Lactobacillus acidophilus KLDS 1.0738 on intestinal SCFAs metabolism and GPR41/43 expression in β-lactoglobulin-sensitized mice – Jun‐juan Wang – Microbiology and Immunology

Effect of a proanthocyanidin-rich polyphenol extract from avocado on the production of amino acid-derived bacterial metabolites and the microbiota composition in rats fed a high-protein diet – María José Cires – Food & Nutrition

Environmental microcystin targets the microbiome and increases the risk of intestinal inflammatory pathology via NOX2 in underlying murine model of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Sutapa Sarkar – Scientific Reports

Probiotic supplementation improves the cognitive function and the anxiety-like behaviors in the stressed rats Mahsa Hadizadeh – Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences

 

Bioinformatics

MetaNN: accurate classification of host phenotypes from metagenomic data using neural networks – Chieh Lo – BMC Bioinformatics

Screening methods for detection of ancient Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex fingerprints in next-generation sequencing data derived from skeletal samples – Paulina Borówka – Gigascience

June 20, 2019

After a week, our Microbiome Digest is back online with a rich collection of articles in all fields microbiome. Highlights include a review on colonization resistance to bacterial pathogens in the gut, a report on daily sampling of the individual microbiome response to similar diets, and, have you heard of the FAIR principles for scientific data? Happy reading!

General microbiology

Bacillus cereus infection in neonates and the absence of evidence for the role of banked human milk: Case reports and literature review – Antoine Lewin et al. – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Comment: Multiple levels of the unknown in microbiome research – Andrew Maltez Thomas & Nicola Segata – BMC Biology

Comparative genome analysis reveals niche-specific genome expansion in Acinetobacter baumannii strains – Harshita Yakkala & Devyani Samantarrai et al. – PLoS One

Antimicrobial resistance

Definitions and guidelines for research on antibiotic persistence – Nathalie Q. Balaban et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: Genomic and metagenomic approaches for predictive surveillance of emerging pathogens and antibiotic resistance – Kimberley V. Sukhum et al. – Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Review: Antimicrobial Tolerance and Metabolic Adaptations in Microbial Biofilms – Aurélie Crabbé et al. – Trends in Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Dysbiotic salivary microbiota in dry mouth and primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients – S. Rusthen et al. – PLoS One

Human gut microbiome

** Review: Gut Microbiota and Colonization Resistance against Bacterial Enteric Infection – Q. R. Ducarmon et al. – Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Review: Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review – SeonYoon Chung et al. – Advances in Nutrition

Gut Microbial Associations to Plasma Metabolites Linked to Cardiovascular Phenotypes and Risk – Alexander Kurilshikov et al. – Circulation Research

Commentary: The Microbiome, Plasma Metabolites, Dietary Habits, and Cardiovascular Risk Unravelling Their Interplay – Dariush Mozaffarian – Circulation Research

Review: Macronutrient metabolism by the human gut microbiome: major fermentation by-products and their impact on host health – Kaitlyn Oliphant & Emma Allen-Vercoe – Microbiome

Review: Lactose digestion in humans: intestinal lactase appears to be constitutive whereas the colonic microbiome is adaptable – Richard A Forsgård – The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

** Daily Sampling Reveals Personalized Diet-Microbiome Associations in Humans – Abigail J. Johnson et al – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: HIV, Cancer, and the Microbiota: Common Pathways Influencing Different Diseases – Sergio Serrano-Villar et al. – Frontiers in Immunology

IDDF2019-ABS-0157 Fecal microbiota transplantations reconstitute gut fungal and viral microbiota in graft-versus-host disease – Fen Zhang et al. – Gut

Exploring the impact of Helicobacter pylori on gut microbiome composition – Nihar Ranjan Dash et al. – PLoS One

Metabolomics

Review: Translational Metabolomics: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities – Farhana R. Pinu et al. – Metabolites

Animal experiments

Consumption of post-fermented Jing-Wei Fuzhuan brick tea alleviates liver dysfunction and intestinal microbiota dysbiosis in high fructose diet-fed mice – Xiangnan Zhang et al. – RSC Advance

Mouse: B vitamin sharing promotes stability of gut microbial communities – Vandana Sharma et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Variability of the ability of complex microbial communities to exclude microbes carrying antibiotic resistance genes in rabbits – caroline s. achard et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of BARLEYmax and high-β-glucan barley line on short-chain fatty acids production and microbiota from the cecum to the distal colon in rats – Seiichiro Aoe et al. – PLoS One

Animal microbiome

The “wildness” of the giant panda gut microbiome and its relevance to effective translocation – Ran Yao & Liangliang Xu et al. – Global Ecology and Conservation

Host genetics influence the rumen microbiota and heritable rumen microbial features associate with feed efficiency in cattle – Fuyong Li et al – Microbiome

Mosquito: Host species and site of collection shape the microbiota of Rift Valley fever vectors in Kenya – David P. Tchouassi et al – PLoS NTD

Longitudinal microbiome profiling reveals impermanence of probiotic bacteria in domestic pigeons – Kirsten Grond, Julie M. Perreau & Wesley T. Loo et al. – PLoS One

Food microbiome

Ground beef microbiome changes with antimicrobial decontamination interventions and product storage – Margaret D. Weinroth et al. – PLoS One

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Biocontrol of Root Diseases and Growth Promotion of the Tuberous Plant Aconitum carmichaelii Induced by Actinomycetes Are Related to Shifts in the Rhizosphere Microbiota – Yulong Li et al. – Microbial Ecology

Microbial communities from different soil types respond differently to organic waste input – Sophie Sadet-Bourgeteau et al. – Applied Soil Ecology

Plant-based oil-sorbents harbor native microbial communities effective in spilled oil-bioremediation under nitrogen starvation and heavy metal-stresses – N. Dashti et al. – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Effects of agricultural management on rhizosphere microbial structure and function in processing tomato – Jennifer E. Schmidt et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Microbial diversity in bulk and rhizosphere soil of Ranunculus glacialis along a high-alpine altitudinal gradient – Nadine Praeg et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Tripartite Interactions Between Endophytic Fungi, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Leymus chinensis – Hui Liu et al. – Microbial Ecology

Review: Plant host-associated mechanisms for microbial selection – Piet Jones et al. – Frontiers in Plant Science

Soil Microbial Biomass and Fungi Reduced with Canola Introduced into Long-Term Monoculture Wheat Rotations – Jeremy C. Hansen et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pearls: Microbiota-mediated disease resistance in plants – Nathan Vannier et al. – PLoS Pathogens

Effects of maize rotation on the physicochemical properties and microbial communities of American ginseng cultivated soil – Xiao-Lin Jiao et al. – Scientific Reports

Linking the response of soil microbial community structure in soils to long-term wastewater irrigation and soil depth – Qiuling Dang et al. – Science of the Total Environment

One-time nitrogen fertilization shifts switchgrass soil microbiomes within a context of larger spatial and temporal variation – Huaihai Chen et al. – PLoS One

Water and extremophile microbiome

Comparison of bacterial community structure and potential functions in hypoxic and non-hypoxic zones of the Changjiang Estuary – Dong-Mei Wu & Qiu-Ping Dai et al. – PLoS One

Review: Progress and promise of omics for predicting the impacts of climate change on harmful algal blooms – Gwenn M.M.Hennon & Sonya T.Dyhrman – Harmful Algae

Position-specific metabolic probing and metagenomics of microbial communities reveal conserved central carbon metabolic network activities at high temperatures – Scott C. Thomas et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Chemical composition of extracellular polymeric substances and evolution of microbial community in activated sludge exposed to ibuprofen – Guangqing Zhou et al. – Journal of Environmental Management

Enhancement of facultative anaerobic denitrifying communities by oxygen release from roots of the macrophyte in constructed wetlands – Haishu Sun et al. – Journal of Environmental Management

How does environmental inter-annual variability shape aquatic microbial communities? A 40-year annual record of sedimentary DNA from a boreal lake (Nylandssjön, Sweden) – Eric Capo et al. – Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Phages and viruses

Review: Virome and bacteriome: two sides of the same coin – Jonathan Stern et al. – Current Opinion in Virology

Technology

Gut microbiome analysis by post: Evaluation of the optimal method to collect stool samples from infants within a national cohort study – Georgina M. Williams et al. – PLoS One

Microbiota data from low biomass milk samples is markedly affected by laboratory and reagent contamination – Josef Dahlberg et al. – PLoS One

Bioinformatics

GRASP2: fast and memory-efficient gene-centric assembly and homolog search for metagenomic sequencing data – Cuncong Zhong et al. – BMC Bioinformatics

Proficiency testing of virus diagnostics based on bioinformatics analysis of simulated in silico high-throughput sequencing datasets – Annika Brinkmann et al. – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Microbes in the news

FDA recalls certain tattoo inks for bacterial contamination – Fox 13 News

Viruses found to use intricate ‘treadmill’ to move cargo across bacterial cells – ScienceDaily

USDA issues reminder about how to safely meal prep – Erica Chayes Wida – Today

Highlights and key takeaways from the 2019 Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) – Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D. – News Medical

Non-microbiology picks

** The State of Open Data Report 2018

Network analysis to evaluate the impact of research funding on research community consolidation – Daniel J. Hicks et al. – PLoS One

June 11, 2019

Today’s digest is about microbiome and Alzheimer’s disease association, global survey of arsenic related genes in soil microbiome,  Bifidobacterium bifidus in infant gut and a preprint on selection in host microbiome evolution.

General microbiome

Understanding the Role of the Gut Microbiome and Microbial Metabolites in Obesity and Obesity-Associated Metabolic Disorders: Current Evidence and Perspectives – Natalia Vallianou – Current Obesity Reports

Alzheimer’s disease and symbiotic microbiota: an evolutionary medicine perspective – Molly Fox – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Biogeography of the Oral Microbiome: The Site-Specialist Hypothesis – Jessica L. Mark Welch – Annual Review of Microbiology

Human microbiome

Colonic mucosal and exfoliome transcriptomic profiling and fecal microbiome response to a flaxseed lignan extract intervention in humans – Johanna W. Lampe – American journal of Clinical Nutrition

Analysis of Transcriptionally Active Bacteria Throughout the Gastrointestinal Tract of Healthy Individuals – Riccardo Vasapolli – Gastroenterology

Identification of Salivary Microbiota and its Association with Host Inflammatory Mediators in Periodontitis – Anna Lundmark – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Effect of the Degree of Polymerization of Fructans on Ex Vivo Fermented Human Gut Microbiome – Erola Astó – Nutrients

Inflammatory skin is associated with changes in the skin microbiota composition on the back of severe acne patients – Marie-Ange Dagnelie – Experimental Dermatology

Gut microbiota development of preterm infants hospitalised in intensive care units – H. Tauchi – Beneficial Microbes

Animal experiments

Antibiotic treatment in feedlot cattle: a longitudinal study of the effect of oxytetracycline and tulathromycin on the fecal and nasopharyngeal microbiota – Devin B. Holman – Microbiome

Sequential changes in the host gut microbiota during infection with the intestinal parasitic nematode Strongyloides venezuelensis – Tanzila Afrin – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Plant, root, soil microbiome

A global survey of arsenic-related genes in soil microbiomes – Taylor K. Dunivin – BMC Biology

Geochemical-Compositional-Functional Changes in Arctic Soil Microbiomes Post Land Submergence Revealed by Metagenomics – Nengfei Wang – Microbes and Environments

Water microbiome and extremophiles

Comparison of the microbiomes of two drinking water distribution systems—with and without residual chloramine disinfection – Michael B. Waak – Microbiome

Probiotics

Probiotics may not prevent the deterioration of necrotizing enterocolitis from stage I to II/III – Zheng-Li Wang – BMC Pediatrics

Bifidobacterium bifidum and the infant gut microbiota: an intriguing case of microbe‐host co‐evolution – Sabrina Duranti – Environmental Microbiology

Techniques

NanoARG: a web service for detecting and contextualizing antimicrobial resistance genes from nanopore-derived metagenomes – G.A.Arango-Argoty – Microbiome

Metabolic route computation in organism communities – Markus Krummenacker – Microbiome

The role of multilevel selection in host microbiome evolution – Simon van Vliet – BioRxiv

Microbes and the market

Human Microbiome Therapeutics Market Analysis 2019: With Top 20 Countries data, Product Types, Segmentation, Market Share Analysis, Influential Trends And Challenges, Forecast To 2023 – Saginaw Daily

Global Human Microbiome Based Drugs and Diagnostics Market Potential Growth 2019 | Second Genome Inc., Enterome Bioscience, Yakult – Business Tech Hub

Human Microbiome Market 2024 Significant Development | Future Trends of Key Players by Size and Share – The Warren Daily

In-Depth Research Report of Global Microbiome Sequencing Services Market (2019 Version), with Types, Application, and Manufactures – the Pueblo Daily

Microbiome Sequencing Services Market Key Players, Industry Overview, Demand & Supply Chain Analysis, Forecast To 2024 – Burbank Observer

Human Microbiome Market Growth, Trend and Forecast 2018-2026 – Business Herald

 

June 2, 2019

Highlights: Harnessing principles of ecology and engineering in building microbiome, community ecology perspective of human microbiome, rhizospheric microbes, soil viruses and many more.

General microbiome

Regulating microbiome manipulation – Kjersti Aagaard – Nature Medicine

Towards a Better Understanding of Microbial Community Dynamics through High-Throughput Cultivation and Data Integration – Karoline Faust – mSystems

Reconciling Ecological and Engineering Design Principles for Building Microbiomes – Hans C. Bernstein – mSystems

Community ecology as a framework for human microbiome research – Jack A Gilbert – Nature Medicine

Multi-site human microbiome

Age-dependent dissimilarity of the nasopharyngeal and middle ear microbiota in children with acute otitis media – Silvio D. Brugger – Frontiers in Genetics

Human gut microbiome

Micronutrient requirements and sharing capabilities of the human gut microbiome – Dmitry A Rodionov – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal experiments 

Mouse microbiomes: overlooked culprits of experimental variability – Maria-Luisa Alegre – Genome Biology

Animal microbiome 

Microbial communities associated with the parasitic copepod Lepeophtheirus salmonis – S. Dalvin – Marine Genomics

Gut microbiome differences between wild and captive black rhinoceros – implications for rhino health – Keylie M. Gibson – Scientific Reports

Not all animals need a microbiome – Tobin J Hammer – FEMS Microbiology Letters

The Microbiome of the Maculinea-Myrmica Host-Parasite Interaction – Marco Di Salvo – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Soil photosynthetic microbial communities mediate aggregate stability: influence of cropping systems and herbicide use in an agricultural soil – Olivier Crouzet – Frontiers in Microbiology

Fluazinam positively affected the microbial communities in clubroot cabbage rhizosphere – Chunming Liu – Scientia Horticulturae

Soil microbiome mediates positive plant diversity‐productivity relationships in late successional grassland species – Guangzhou Wang – Ecology Letters

A water stress-adapted inoculum affects rhizosphere fungi, but not bacteria nor wheat – Charlotte Giard-Laliberté – Microbiology Ecology

Variations in phyllosphere microbial community along with the development of angular leaf-spot of cucumber – Luyun Luo – AMB Express

Built environment 

Effects of biochar on the phenol treatment performance and microbial communities shift in sequencing batch reactors – Shengnan Shi – Water Research

Effects of ozone treatment on performance and microbial community composition in biofiltration systems treating ethyl acetate vapours – Itzel Covarrubias-García – Chemosphere

Phages and viruses

Characterization of the virome of Paracoccus spp. (Alphaproteobacteria) by combined in silico and in vivo approaches – Przemyslaw Decewicz – Scientific Reports

Soil Viruses: A New Hope – Joanne B. Emerson – mSystems