Category Archives: Bik’s Non-Microbiology Picks

July 12, 2018

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Bacteria in desert soils, mycobacteria in showerhead biofilms, metabolic diversity of microbes from commercial probiotics.

Human gut microbiome

Pre-print: Evaluating bacterial and functional diversity of human gut microbiota by complementary metagenomics and metatranscriptomics – Ravi Ranjan – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Pre-print: Olive fruit fly rearing procedures affect the vertical transmission of the bacterial symbiont Candidatus Erwinia dacicola – Patrizia Sacchetti – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Survey of bacteria associated with western corn rootworm life stages reveals no difference between insects reared in different soils – Dalton C Ludwick – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Influences of fertilization on soil environment and microorganism in continuous cropping based on high-throughput sequencing – Zhang YiJie – Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology

Review: Consortia of cyanobacteria/microalgae and bacteria in desert soils: an underexplored microbiota – Isiri Perera – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Effects of cover crop in an apple orchard on microbial community composition, networks, and potential genes involved with degradation of crop residues in soil – Wei Zheng – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Microbial Community Level Physiological Profiles of Active Mud Volcano Soils in Andaman and Nicobar Islands – N Amaresan – National Academy Science Letters

Water and extremophile microbiome

Pre-print: Interspecies interactions mediated by conductive minerals in the sediments of the ferruginous Lake La Cruz, Spain – Amelia-Elena Rotaru – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Microbial community structure and microbial networks correspond to nutrient gradients within coastal wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes – Dean J Horton – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Hidden in plain sight – highly abundant and diverse planktonic freshwater Chloroflexi – Maliheh Mehrshad – bioRxiv

Built environment

Pre-print: Ecological analyses of mycobacteria in showerhead biofilms and their relevance to human health – Matthew Gebert – bioRxiv

Probiotics/prebiotics

Pre-print: Metabolic diversity of bacteria and yeast from commercial probiotic products illustrated by phenotypic profiling – Juliana Mastronunzio Ansari – bioRxiv

Phages and viruses

Pre-print: Quality control implementation for universal characterization of DNA and RNA viruses in clinical respiratory samples using single metagenomic next-generation sequencing workflow – Antonin Bal – bioRxiv

More microbes

Species-specific activity of antibacterial drug combinations – Ana Rita Brochado – Nature

Science, career, and publishing

Hot streaks in artistic, cultural, and scientific careers – Lu Liu – Nature

Amy’s non-microbiology picks

Reprogramming human T cell function and specificity with non-viral genome targeting – Theodore L Roth – Nature

July 9, 2018

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Today’s Digest features new insights into the microbial communities associated with shisha (water pipe), microbial mats, and tropical marine ecosystems. In addition, there are some new techniques and benchmarks to read about, including domain intelligible models for mining ‘omics data and the potential of giant viruses to introduce errors into metagenomic binning. I also highlighted some non-microbiology picks about the potential role for robots in autism therapies and photographs of a brand new planet taken at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy!

Human gut microbiome
Faecal microbiota transplantation alters gut microbiota in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: results from a randomised, double-blind placebo-controlled study – Sofie Ingdam Halkjær – Gut

Animal experiments
Early-life sickness may predispose Siberian hamsters to behavioral changes following alterations of the gut microbiome in adulthood – Kristyn E. Sylvia – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Deficiency in class III PI3-kinase confers postnatal lethality with IBD-like features in zebrafish – Shaoyang Zhao – Nature Communications

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Shisha microbiota: the good, the bad and the not so ugly – Julia Hani – BMC Research Notes

Disentangling the drivers of functional complexity at the metagenomic level in Shark Bay microbial mat microbiomes – Hon Lun Wong – The ISME Journal

Water and extremophile microbiome
A long-standing complex tropical dipole shapes marine microbial biogeography – Wei Yan – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics
Probiotic Lactobacillus paracasei HII01 protects rats against obese-insulin resistance-induced kidney injury and impaired renal organic anion transporter 3 (Oat3) function – Keerati Wanchai – Clinical Science

Bioinformatics
Domain Intelligible Models – Sultan Imangaliyev – Methods

Techniques
Metagenomic binning reconstruction coupled with automatic pipeline annotation and giant viruses: a potential source of mistake in annotations – Julien Andreani – Virus Research

Does universal 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of environmental communities provide an accurate description of nitrifying guilds? – Vaibhav Diwan – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Linking uncultivated microbial populations with benthic carbon turnover using quantitative stable isotope probing – Ömer K. Coskun – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Determining lineage-specific bacterial growth curves with a novel approach based on amplicon reads normalization using internal standard (ARNIS) – Kasia Piwosz – The ISME Journal

Alyson’s non-microbiology picks
Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapy – Ognjen Rudovic – Science Robotics

Scientists Capture First Birth Of A Planet – M. Keppler – via NPR

July 6, 2018

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Today’s digest includes the spleen microbiome of wild mammals, the microbial phylogenetic diversity of natural clay, and the effects of non-nutritive sweeteners on the mouse gut microbiome. It also includes Nature’s picks for June’s best science images.

Pregnancy and early life

Maternal diet during pregnancy is related with the infant stool microbiome in a delivery mode-dependent manner – Sara N. Lundgren – Microbiome

Human skin microbiome

Skin commensal bacteria S. epidermidis promote survival of melanocytes bearing UVB‐induced DNA damage, while bacteria P. acnes inhibit survival of melanocytes by increasing apoptosis – Zhenping Wang – Photodermatology, Photoimmunology, and Photomedicine

Human gut microbiome

Review: Gut microbiota‐immune‐brain interactions in chemotherapy‐associated behavioral comorbidities – Kelley R. Jordan – Cancer

Involvement of T helper 17 cells in inflammatory arthritis depends on the host intestinal microbiota – Heather Evans‐Marin – Arthritis and Rheumatology

Analysis of the Gut Microbiome of Rural and Urban Healthy Indians Living in Sea Level and High Altitude Areas – Bhabatosh Das – Scientific Reports

Animal experiments

Non-nutritive sweeteners possess a bacteriostatic effect and alter gut microbiota in mice – Qiao-Ping Wang – PLoS One

Effects of naturally-produced lovastatin on feed digestibility, rumen fermentation, microbiota and methane emissions in goats over a 12-week treatment period – Su Chui Len Candyrine – PLoS One

Perinatal short-chain fructooligosaccharides program intestinal microbiota and improve enteroinsular axis function and inflammatory status in high-fat diet-fed adult pigs – Cindy Le Bourgot – FASEB

Bifidobacterium bifidum TMC3115 Can Characteristically Influence Glucose and Lipid Profile and Intestinal Microbiota in the Middle-Aged and Elderly – Ke Wang – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Isoquercetin and inulin synergistically modulate the gut microbiome to prevent development of the metabolic syndrome in mice fed a high fat diet – Si Tan – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

The spleen microbiota of small wild mammals reveals distinct patterns with tick-borne bacteria – Yan Ge – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Drosophila melanogaster establishes a species-specific mutualistic interaction with stable gut-colonizing bacteria – Inês S. Pais – PLoS Biology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Phylogenetic diversity and metabolic potential of microbiome of natural healing clay from Chamliyal (J&K) – Sakshi Sharma – Archives of Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Taxonomic and Functional Compositions Impacted by the Quality of Metatranscriptomic Assemblies – Maggie C. Y. Lau – Frontiers in Microbiology

Techniques

Development of outbred CD1 mouse colonies with distinct standardized gut microbiota profiles for use in complex microbiota targeted studies – Marcia L. Hart – Scientific Reports

Non-microbiology picks

Astronauts, atmospheres and axolotls — June’s best science images – Nature

July 5, 2018

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Today’s microbiology picks have articles on sampling source effect on the gut microbial diversity, whether resistant starch in mothers could benefit the offsprings, protective role of the gut bacteria of firebugs, microbial community shift during different stages in anaerobic membrane bioreactor, NanoAmpli-Seq as well as articles from plant-root-soil microbiome. Precision medicine, genetics of social interaction and isolation, “ethics dumping ” among our non-microbiology picks.

 

Events and jobs

John Maddox Prize 2018 nomination – Deadline: 13th August 2018 – Check their website for more details

General microbiome

Human-associated microbial populations as evidence in forensic casework – Frederike C.A. Quaak – Forensic Science International: Genetics

The Mammalian Intestinal Microbiome: Composition, Interaction with the Immune System, Significance for Vaccine Efficacy, and Potential for Disease Therapy.  – U Desselberger – MDPI

244 Analysis of microbiome prostatic secretion in depending of levels total testosterone in blood serum – M.I. Kogan – The Journal of Sexual Medicine

Triclosan and triclocarban exposure, infectious disease symptoms and antibiotic prescription in infants—A community-based randomized intervention – Catherine Ley – PLoS One

 

Human skin microbiome

Microbiome analysis of forehead skin in patients with atopic dermatitis and healthy subjects: Implication of Staphylococcus and Corynebacterium –  Masutaka Furue – The Journal of Dermatology

Human vaginal microbiome

Trichomonas vaginalis: Pathogenesis, Symbiont Interactions, and Host Cell Immune Responses – Frances Mercer – Trends in Parasitology

Human gut microbiome

More of the Gut in the Lung: How Two Microbiomes Meet in ARDS – Samiran Mukherjee – Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

The Influence of Gut Microbial Metabolism on the Development and Progression of Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Wei Jia – Obesity, Fatty Liver and Liver Cancer

Severe Defects in the Macrophage Barrier to Gut Microflora in Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Colon Cancer. – Carlos A. Rubiro – Anticancer Research

Animal experiments 

Feeding sows resistant starch during gestation and lactation impacts their faecal microbiota and milk composition but shows limited effects on their progeny – Julie Leblois – PLoS One

Animal microbiome

The cotton stainer’s gut microbiota suppresses infection of a co‐transmitted trypanosomatid parasite – Thomas O Onchuru – Molecular Ecology

Gut microbial diversity in two insectivorous bats: Insights into the effect of different sampling sources – Haonan Wu – Microbiology Open

Evidence for multiple ecological roles of Leptographium abietinum, a symbiotic fungus associated with the North American spruce beetle – Thomas S Davis – Fungal Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics reveals that Saccharibacteria utilize microbially-processed plant-derived carbon – Evan P Starr – Microbiome

Swift Acid Rain Sensing by Synergistic Rhizospheric Bioelectrochemical Responses – Tian Li – ACS Sensors

Crop Rotation and Straw Application Impact Microbial Communities in Italian and Philippine Soils and the Rhizosphere of Zea mays – Saarah A Maarastawi – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant growth promoting bacteria associated with corm of Crocus sativus during three growth stages – Ranjit Kour – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Fungal Diversity of Rhizosphere Soil from 11 Varieties of Grapevines at Maturity Stage from Two Vineyards in China – Ping Zhao – Journal of Biobased Materials and Bioenergy

Disruption of microbial community composition and identification of plant growth promoting microorganisms after exposure of soil to rapeseed-derived glucosinolates – Meike Siebers – PLoS One

The value of wet leaves – Todd E. Dawson – New Phytologist

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Biofilm and planktonic bacterial communities in a drinking water distribution system supplied with untreated groundwater – Jianfei Chen – Archives of Microbiology

Marine Environmental Epigenetics – Jose M. Eirin-Lopez – Annual Reviews

Disentangling the complexity of permafrost soil by using high resolution profiling of microbial community composition, key functions and respiration ratesDisentangling the complexity of permafrost soil by using high resolution profiling of microbial community composition, key functions and respiration rates – Oliver Müller – Environmental Microbiology

Effect of different carbon sources on denitrification performance, microbial community structure and denitrification genes – Zhongshuo Xu – Science of The Total Environment

Built environment 

Characterization and Dynamic Shift of Microbial Communities during Start-Up, Overloading and Steady-State in an Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactor –  Nsanzumukiza Martin Vincent – MDPI

Food microbiology

Inactivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella and Native Microbiota on Fresh Strawberries by Antimicrobial Washing and Coating – Mingming Guo – Journal of Food Protection

Microbial quality of ice cream sold by retail outlets in Erzurum. –  S Çubukçı – CAB Direct

 

Techniques

Preprint: NanoAmpli-Seq: A workflow for amplicon sequencing for mixed microbial communities on the nanopore sequencing platform – Szymon T Calus – bioRxiv

Preprint: Genetic insight into zinc and antimicrobial toxicity uncovers a glycerol phosphate modification on streptococcal rhamnose polysaccharides – Rebecca J. Edgar – bioRxiv

Preprint: Nano-particles from Chaetomium against Rice Blast – Jiao Jiao Song – bioRxiv

Seamless assembly of recombinant adenoviral genomes from high-copy plasmids – Jessica J. Miciak – PLoS One

Twenty-seven years of screening for Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in a university hospital. Brussels, Belgium, 1987-2014 – Klara De Rauw – PLoS One

Microbes in the news

Bacteria Fight Competitors by Turning them Against Each Other – Technology Networks

Non-microbiology Picks

Personalized medicine should not be restricted to the wealthy – Nature

Elucidating the genetic basis of social interaction and isolation – Nature Communications

Evaluation woes: we’re on it, responds DORA – Nature

Italy is squeezing out wet biology research – Nature

Europe’s biggest research fund cracks down on ‘ethics dumping’ – Nature

 

July 04, 2018

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Today’s Digest is about association of the microbiome at various mucosal sites with different diseases in humans, germ-free chicken and microbial community in anoxic inter-tidal zone of Earth to study Lacustrine system of Mars. You can also read about BacStalk- software to analyze bacterial images, Chinese baby project and how air pollution is contributing to incidence of diabetes.

General microbiome

Review: Gut associated bacteria are critical to metabolism, inflammation and health – Philip Newsholme – Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Review: The Microbiome and Acute Kidney Injury – H Rabb – Nephron

Multi-site human microbiome

Review: Cariogenic microbiome and microbiota of the early primary dentition: a contemporary overview – Kausar Sadia Fakhruddin – Oral Diseases

Dysbiosis of oral microbiota and its association with salivary immunological biomarkers in autoimmune liver disease – Kazumichi Abe – PlosOne

Human respiratory microbiome

Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea is Associated with Alterations in the Nasal Microbiome and Increase in Inflammation – Benjamin G Wu – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Microbiota Composition and the Integration of Exogenous and Endogenous Signals in Reactive Nasal Inflammation – Francesco Antonio Salzano – Journal of Immunology Research

Human skin microbiome

Inflammatory cytokines and biofilm production sustain Staphylococcus aureus outgrowth and persistence: a pivotal interplay in the pathogenesis of Atopic Dermatitis – E.G.Di Domenico – Scientific reports

Human vaginal microbiome

Complex ecological interactions of Staphylococcus aureus in tampons during menstruation – Isaline Jacquemond – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Altered Intestinal Microbiota with Increased Abundance of Prevotella Is Associated with High Risk of Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Tingting Su – Gastroenterology Research and Practice

The presence of genetic risk variants within PTPN2 and PTPN22 is associated with intestinal microbiota alterations in Swiss IBD cohort patients – Bahtiyar Yilmaz – PlosOne

Animal experiments 

Gut Microbial succession during conventionalization of germfree chicken – Thomas Milton – bioRxiv

Early-life antibiotics attenuate regulatory T cell generation and increase the severity of murine house dust mite-induced asthma – Alexander J. Adami – Pediatric Research

Changes in intestinal gene expression and microbiota composition during late pregnancy are mouse strain dependent – Marlies Elderman – Scientific Reports

Critical Roles for Microbiota-Mediated Regulation of the Immune System in a Prenatal Immune Activation Model of Autism – Catherine R. Lammert – The Journal of Immunology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Cascading effects of elevated ozone on wheat rhizosphere microbial communities depend on temperature and cultivar sensitivity – F. Changey – Environmental Pollution

Litter quality drives the differentiation of microbial communities in the litter horizon across an alpine treeline ecotone in the eastern Tibetan Plateau – Haifeng Zheng – Scientific Reports

Identification of a Novel Feruloyl Esterase by Functional Screening of a Soil Metagenomic Library – Xuanxuan Li – Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Quorum sensing and iron regulate a two-for-one siderophore gene cluster in Vibrio harveyi – Darcy L. McRose – PNAS

Identifying labile DOM components in a coastal ocean through depleted bacterial transcripts and chemical signals – Alexey Vorobev – Environmental Microbiology

Metabolic potential of microbial communities from ferruginous sediments – Aurele Vuillemin – Environmental Microbiology

Microbes in space

The Microbial Community of a Terrestrial Anoxic Inter-Tidal Zone: A Model for Laboratory-Based Studies of Potentially Habitable Ancient Lacustrine Systems on Mars – Elliot Curtis-Harper – Microorganisms

Phages and viruses

Development of a high-throughput assay to detect antibody inhibition of low pH induced conformational changes of influenza virus hemagglutinin – Jessica F. Trost – PlosOne

Techniques

Review: Errors during Gene Expression: Single-Cell Heterogeneity, Stress Resistance, and Microbe-Host Interactions – Christpher R. Evans – mBio

BacStalk: a comprehensive and interactive image analysis software tool for bacterial cell biology – Raimo Hartmann – bioRxiv

Assessing the Mouse Intestinal Microbiota in Settings of Type-2 Immune Responses – Mei San Tang – Type 2 Immunity

Microbes in the news

Bacteria can ‘divide and conquer’ to vanquish their enemies – Science Daily

Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data – Nature News

Non-microbiology picks

The 2016 global and national burden of diabetes mellitus attributable to PM2·5 air pollution – Benjamin Bowe – The Lancet Planetary Health

June 25, 2018

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Today’s Microbiome Digest features the sea turtle microbiome, the bacteria responsible for degrading bioplastics, a new clinical center for phage therapy, the gut-microbiome-brain axis in an Alzheimer’s Disease model, and a preprint about image duplication in scientific publishing.

Pregnancy and early life

Late-onset Sepsis in Preterm Infants Can Be Detected Preclinically by Fecal Volatile Organic Compound Analysis: A Prospective, Multicenter Cohort Study. – Daniel J C Berkhout- Clinical Infectious Diseases

Human vaginal microbiome

Abnormal vaginal microbioma is associated with severity of localized provoked vulvodynia. Role of aerobic vaginitis and Candida in the pathogenesis of vulvodynia. – Gilbert G. G. Donders- European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

* Gut microbiota regulates maturation of the adult enteric nervous system via enteric serotonin networks – Filipe De Vadder – PNAS

Linking the Gut Microbiota to a Brain Neurotransmitter – Kelly G. Jameson – Trends in Neurosciences

Can epilepsy be treated by antibiotics? – Hilde M. H. Braakman – Journal of Neurology

* Changes in intestinal microbiota in HIV-1-infected subjects following cART initiation: influence of CD4+ T cell count – Yongjia Ji – Emerging Microbes & Infections

Review: Human gut microbiome: hopes, threats and promises – Patrice D Cani – Gut

Review: New treatments and therapeutic targets for IBS and other functional bowel disorders – Magnus Simrén – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Animal experiments

Effects of chronic noise exposure on the microbiome-gut-brain axis in senescence-accelerated prone mice: implications for Alzheimer’s disease – Bo Cui – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Bacterial methionine metabolism genes influence Drosophila melanogaster starvation resistance – Alec M. Judd – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The benign helminth Hymenolepis diminuta ameliorates chemically induced colitis in a rat model system – Kateřina Jirků Pomajbíková – Parasitology

Protective role of commensal bacteria in Sjögren Syndrome – Mahira Zaheer – Journal of Autoimmunity

Lactobacillus murinus HF12 colonizes neonatal gut and protects rats from necrotizing enterocolitis. – Mubina Isani – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Identification of bacteria present in ulcerative stomatitis lesions of captive sea turtles Chelonia mydas – D. X. Vega-Manriquez – Veterinary Research Communications

Characterization of the Microbiota of Oyster Larvae (Crassostrea virginica) and Tank Water from an Aquaculture System with High and Low Larval Survival Rates – Padmini Ramachandran – Genome Announcements

Early colonisation and temporal dynamics of the gut microbial ecosystem in Standardbred foals – S. Quercia – Equine Veterinary Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbial communities responsible for the degradation of poly(lactic acid)/poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) blend mulches in soil burial respirometric tests – Lenka Jeszeová – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Phylogenetic diversity and investigation of plant growth-promoting traits of actinobacteria in coastal salt marsh plant rhizospheres from Jiangsu, China – Yuan Gong – Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Dynamics of soil microbial recovery from cropland to orchard along a 20-year chronosequence in a degraded karst ecosystem. – Hongkai Liao – Science of The Total Environment

Investigation of viable taxa in the deep terrestrial biosphere suggests high rates of nutrient recycling. – Margarita Lopez-Fernandez – FEMS Microbial Ecology

Distinct impacts of reductive soil disinfestation and chemical soil disinfestation on soil fungal communities and memberships. – Jun Zhao – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

* Dispersal-competition tradeoff in microbiomes in the quest for land colonization – Francisco Dini-Andreote – Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

Linking patterns of net community production and marine microbial community structure in the western North Atlantic. – Seaver Wang – The ISME Journal

Probiotics/Prebiotics

Composition and metabolism of fecal microbiota from normal and overweight children are differentially affected by melibiose, raffinose and raffinose-derived fructans. – Kaarel Adamberg – Anaerobe

Review: Nutraceuticals in Colorectal Cancer: A Mechanistic Approach – Marco Rossi – European Journal of Pharmacology

Science, publishing, and career

* Analysis and Correction of Inappropriate Image Duplication: The Molecular and Cellular Biology Experience – Arturo Casadevall – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

U.S. center will fight infections with viruses – Kelly Servick – Science

Alyson’s non-microbiology pick

Neanderthal brain organoids come to life – Jon Cohen – Science

June 20, 2018

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This digest has a study on the human hair microbiome, lots of animal studies and experiments, the normal long list of soil/plant publications, some water/extremophile studies, and a few interesting bioinformatics articles.  Enjoy!

Events and jobs

There were some very cool events to check out from my employer, GENEWIZ, this past month.  Every year here there is a celebration with a number of different events called GENEWIZ Week.  Check out this past set of events below:

GENEWIZ Week

GENEWIZ Webinars – definitely check these cool talks out.  You can access past talks, like mine on Metagenomics from 2017, at GENEWIZ Webinars Archive and my past webinar here: Metagenomics for Biomarker Discovery: Precision Medicine Applications

GENEWIZ DNA Award Winners

GENEWIZ Scientist of the Day

General microbiome

[pre-print] Free-living Bacterial Communities Are Mostly Dominated by Oligotrophs – Yingnan Gao – bioxRiv

Pregnancy and early life

Pilot assessment of probiotics for pregnant women in Rwanda – Amy McMillan – PLOS ONE

Human respiratory microbiome

* The respiratory virome in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Marian Garcia-Nuñez – Future Medicine

TRANSPLANTING THE PULMONARY VIROME: DYNAMICS OF TRANSIENT POPULATIONS – Alicia B Mitchell – The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Human skin microbiome

** Spatial and Environmental Variation of the Human Hair Microbiota – Lauren Brinkac – Scientific Reports

Human oral microbiome

Denture-Associated Oral Microbiome and Periodontal Disease Causing an Anaerobic Pyogenic Liver Abscess in an Immunocompetent Patient: A Case report and Review of the Literature – Muhammad Bader Hammami – Gastroenterology Research

Human gut microbiome

Changes in Gastric Microbiota during Gastric Carcinogenesis – Sun-Young Lee – KoreaMed Synapse

ADTU-05 Gut microbial composition in the migrant south-asian IBD population in UK – Mohammed Quraishi – BMJ Journals (Gut)

Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis and Diarrhea in Kidney Transplant Recipients – Lee JR – American Journal of Transplantation

The microbiome in autoimmune diseases – Fabrizio De Luca – Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Suppression of IL-17F, but not of IL-17A, provides protection against colitis by inducing Treg cells through modification of the intestinal microbiota – Ce Tang – Nature Immunology

* Characteristics of the bacterial microbiome in association with common intestinal parasites in irritable bowel syndrome – Laura Rindom Krogsgaard – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection – Susy S. Hota – CMAJ

(not just human) The Expensive-Tissue Hypothesis in Vertebrates: Gut Microbiota Effect, a Review – Chun Hua Huang – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Mediterranean Diet Score: Associations with Metabolic Products of the Intestinal Microbiome, Carotid Plaque Burden, and Renal Function – Michael Pignanelli – Nutrients

Animal experiments

Rumen Microbial Community of Saanen Goats Adapted to a High‐Fiber Diet in the Northeast of Iran – S.H. Ebrahimi – Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science

Humic substances alter ammonia production and the microbial populations within a RUSITEC fed a mixed hay – concentrate diet – Stephanie A. Terry – Frontiers in Microbiology

Intestinal Microbiota Ecological Response to Oral Administrations of Hydrogen-Rich Water and Lactulose in Female Piglets Fed a Fusarium Toxin-Contaminated Diet – Weijiang Zheng – Toxins

Animal microbiome

Archaeal and bacterial diversity and community composition from 18 phylogenetically divergent sponge species in Vietnam – Ton That Huu Dat​ – PeerJ Microbiology

Gut bacterial and fungal communities of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori) and wild mulberry-feeding relatives – Bosheng Chen – The ISME Journal

Gut bacterial and fungal communities of the domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori) and wild mulberry-feeding relatives – Bosheng Chen – The ISME Journal

Aetiological Characterization of the Cutaneous Ulcer Syndrome in Papua New Guinea using Shotgun Metagenomics – Marc Noguera-Julian – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Inter-population variation in the Atlantic salmon microbiome reflects environmental and genetic diversity – Tamsyn M. Uren Webster – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Influence of Belowground Herbivory on The Dynamics of Root and Rhizosphere Microbial Communities – Morgane Ourry – Frontiers of Ecological Evolution

* Plant species and heavy metals affect biodiversity of microbial communities associated with metal-tolerant plants in metalliferous soils – Sławomir Borymski – Frontiers in Microbiology

Functional Microbial Features Driving Community Assembly During Seed Germination and Emergence – Torres-Cortés Gloria – Frontiers in Plant Science

Influence of the Chemical Form of Antimony on Soil Microbial Community Structure and Arsenite Oxidation Activity – Kataoka T – Europe PMC

Recognizing Patterns: Spatial Analysis of Observed Microbial Colonization on Root Surfaces – Hannes Schmidt – Frontiers in Environmental Science

Microbial diversity of tobacco rhizosphere soil in different growth stages of marigold-tobacco intercropping system –  Xia TiYuan – Editorial Department of Southwest China Journal of Agricultural Sciences

Differences in rice rhizosphere bacterial community structure by application of lignocellulolytic plant-probiotic bacteria with rapid composting traits – Thounaojam Nevita – Ecological Engineering

Data on molecular identification, phylogeny and in vitro characterization of bacteria isolated from maize rhizosphere in Cameroon – Tchuisseu Tchakounté Gylaine Vanissa – Data in Brief

[pre-print] A comprehensive mycofloral diversity of pedosphere, phyllosphere and aerosphere of Som. (Persea bombycina Kost.) -Manjit Kumar Ray  – bioRxiv

Rhizosphere Microbiomes Modulated by Pre-crops Assisted Plants in Defense Against Plant-Parasitic Nematodes – Ahmed Elhady – Frontiers in Microbiology

The culturable endophytic fungal communities of switchgrass grown on a coal-mining site and their effects on plant growth – Ye Xia – PLOS ONE

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stimulate organic phosphate mobilization associated with changing bacterial community structure under field conditions – Lin Zhang – Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Metagenomic insights into diazotrophic communities across Arctic glacier forefields – Maisie V. Nash – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbial community shifts in response to acid mine drainage pollution within a natural wetland ecosystem – Oscar E. Aguinaga – Frontiers in Microbiology

Heterogeneity of interactions of microbial communities in regions of Taihu Lake with different nutrient loadings: A network analysis – Xinyi Cao – Scientific Reports

Diversity and functionality of archaeal, bacterial and fungal communities in deep Archaean bedrock groundwater – Lotta Purkamo – FEMS Microbial Ecology

Reduced arsenic availability and plant uptake and improved soil microbial diversity through combined addition of ferrihydrite and Trichoderma asperellum SM-12F1 – Hongxiang Zhang – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Fungi from Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctica) Soils and Marine Sediments – Lia Costa Pinto Wentzel – Microbial Ecology

Bioinformatics

When old metagenomic data meet newly sequenced genomes, a case study – Xin Li – PLOS ONE

PERFect: PERmutation Filtering test for microbiome data – Ekaterina Smirnova – Biostatistics

Ed’s non-microbiology picks

Photochemistry beyond the red limit in chlorophyll f–containing photosystems –  Dennis J. Nürnberg – Science

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change

LACK OF PAID SICK LEAVE INCREASES POVERTY

Toxic toads could devastate Madagascar’s biodiversity – Science

Effects of 8-hour time restricted feeding on body weight and metabolic disease risk factors in obese adults: A pilot study – Kelsey Gabel – Nutrition and Healthy Aging

Forget in a Flash: A Further Investigation of the Photo-Taking-Impairment Effect – Julia S. Soares – Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

New discovery about the brain’s water system may prove beneficial in stroke

DNA repair processes are critical mediators of p53-dependent tumor suppression – Ana Janic – Nature Medicine

Astronomers find a galaxy unchanged since the early universe

June 19, 2018

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In today’s digest you can read about: the field of CRISPR-CAS antimicrobials by E. Pursey, “microbiota influencers” by G. Rizzatti, bioplastic producing bacterial communities by V. Kumar, mixotrophic behavior of the harmful benthic dinoflagellate by B. Lee and many many diverse and interesting articles. Enjoy!

General microbiome

CRISPR-Cas antimicrobials: Challenges and future prospects – Elizabeth Pursey – PLOS Pathogens

Considering Microbial CO2 during Microbe-Plant Cocultivation – Birgit Piechulla – Plant Physiology

Metabolic model-based analysis of the emergence of bacterial cross-feeding via extensive gene loss – Colin P. McNally  – BMC Systems Biology

Pregnancy and early life

Prevalence of antibiotic resistance in commensal Escherichia coli among the children in rural hill communities of Northeast India – Ashish Kumar Singh – PLOS One

Shared and Distinct Features of Human Milk and Infant Stool Viromes – Pia S. Pannaraj – Frontiers in Microbiology

Preterm infant gut microbial patterns related to the development of necrotizing enterocolitis – Tristan P. Lindberg – The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Human respiratory microbiome

Multi-omic profiling to assess the effect of iron starvation in Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4 – Irene Jiménez-Munguía – PeerJ

Human gut microbiome

Addendum: “I will survive”: A tale of bacteriophage-bacteria coevolution in the gut – Luisa De Sordi – Gut Microbes

The Gut-Associated Microbiome of the Eastern Spruce Budworm Does Not Influence Larval Growth or Survival – Melbert T Schwarz – bioRxiv

Prioritizing and modelling of putative drug target proteins of Candida albicans by systems biology approach – Tariq Ismail – Acta Biochimica Polonica

Antibiotic and Modulation of Microbiota: A New Paradigm? – Gianenrico Rizzatti – Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Streptomyces, shared microbiome member of soil and gut, as “old friends” against colon cancer – Alireza Bolourian – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Gut Microbial-related Choline Metabolite Trimethylamine-N-oxide is Associated with Progression of Carotid Artery Atherosclerosis in HIV Infection – Zhilei Shan – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Role of Microbiota in Sexually Dimorphic Immunity – Marlies Elderman – Frontiers in Immunology

Early results of fecal microbial transplantation protocol implementation at a community-based university hospital – Rodrigo Duarte-Chavez – Journal of Global Infectious Diseases

Gut microbiota modulate neurobehavior through changes in brain insulin sensitivity and metabolism – Marion Soto – Molecular Psychiatry

The Rise and Rise of Eosinophilic Gut Diseases Including Eosinophilic Esophagitis Is Probably Not Explained by the Disappearance of Helicobacter pylori, so Who or What’s to Blame? – Nicholas J. Talley – The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Effect of administration of a probiotic preparation on gut microbiota and immune response in healthy women in India: an open-label, single-arm pilot study – Ankita Singh – BMC Gastroenterology

Animal experiments

Toxin-positive Clostridium difficile latently infect mouse colonies and protect against highly pathogenic C. difficile – Lucie Etienne-Mesmin – Gut microbiome

Animal microbiome

A comparative analysis of microbial profile of Guinea fowl and chicken using metagenomic approach – Sarayu Bhogoju – PLOS One

Tracking sources of Clostridium botulinum type E contamination in seal meat – Daniel Leclair – International Journal of Circumpolar Health

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Applying predictive models to decipher rhizobacterial modifications in common reed die-back affected populations – Giovanni Bacci – Science of The Total Environment

Bioplastic reservoir of diverse bacterial communities revealed along altitude gradient of Pangi-Chamba trans-Himalayan region – Vijay Kumar – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Antagonism and antibiotic resistance drive a species-specific plant microbiota differentiation in Echinacea spp – Valentina Maggini – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Divergent Responses of the Diazotrophic Microbiome to Elevated CO2 in Two Rice Cultivars – Yongjie Yu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Synthesis and detoxification of nitric oxide in the plant beneficial rhizobacterium Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SQR9 and its effect on biofilm formation – Xiaoyan Dong – Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Understanding the Strategies to Overcome Phosphorus–Deficiency and Aluminum–Toxicity by Ryegrass Endophytic and Rhizosphere Phosphobacteria – Patricio J. Barra – Frontiers in Microbiology

Soil viruses are underexplored players in ecosystem carbon processing – Gareth Trubl – bioRxiv

Dispersal limitation and thermodynamic constraints govern spatial structure of permafrost microbial communities –  Eric M Bottos – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Changes of soil microbial and enzyme activities are linked to soil C, N and P stoichiometry in afforested ecosystems – F.Z. Zhao – Forest Ecology and Management

Responses of soil microbial communities to nutrient limitation in the desert-grassland ecological transition zone – Cui Y – The Science of the Total Environment

Observed metabolic asymmetry within soybean root nodules reflects unexpected complexity in rhizobacteria-legume metabolite exchange – Dušan Veličković – The ISME Journal

Antibacterial activity of soil bacteria isolated from Kochi, India and their molecular identification – Davis Gislin – Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Brassica napus Growth in Lead-Polluted Soil: Bioaccumulation in Plant Organs at Different Ontogenetic Stages and Lead Fractionation in Soil – Gisele V. Ferreyroa – Water, Air, & Soil Pollution

Editorial: “Plant-Microbe-Insect Interaction: Source for Bio-fertilizers, Bio-medicines and Agent Research” – Gero Benckiser – Frontiers in Plant Science

Broad-spectrum antimicrobial activity by Burkholderia cenocepacia TAtl-371, a strain isolated from the tomato rhizosphere – Fernando Uriel Rojas-Rojas – Microbiology

Improvement of Ni phytoextraction by Alyssum murale and its rhizosphere microbial activities by applying nitrogen fertilizer – Ali Kanso – Ecological Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Abundance determines the functional role of bacterial phylotypes in complex communities – Damian W. Rivett  – Nature Microbiology

Metabolic Diversity within the Globally Abundant Marine Group II Euryarchaea Drives Ecological Patterns – Benjamin J Tully – bioRxiv

Diversity of bacterial communities and dissolved organic matter in a temperate estuary – Helena Osterholz – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Clean Low-Biomass Procedures and Their Application to Ancient Ice Core Microorganisms – Zhi-Ping Zhong – Frontiers in Microbiology

Genetic diversity and co-occurrence patterns of marine cyanopodoviruses and picocyanobacteria – Yingting Sun – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Proteome response of a metabolically flexible anoxygenic phototroph to Fe(II) oxidation – Casey Bryce – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Genome rearrangement shapes Prochlorococcus ecological adaptation – Wei Yan – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

High CO2 Under Nutrient Fertilization Increases Primary Production and Biomass in Subtropical Phytoplankton Communities: A Mesocosm Approach – Nauzet Hernández-Hernández – Frontiers in Microbiology

Genetic Analyses of the rbcL and psaA Genes From Single Cells Demonstrate a Rhodophyte Origin of the Prey in the Toxic Benthic Dinoflagellate Ostreopsis – Bora Lee – Frontiers in Marine Science

Ubiquitous abundance distribution of non-dominant plankton across the global ocean – Enrico Ser-Giacomi – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Copiotrophic marine bacteria are associated with strong iron‐binding ligand production during phytoplankton blooms – Shane L. Hogle – Limnology and Oceanography

Dynamics and interactions of highly resolved marine plankton via automated high-frequency sampling – David M. Needham – The ISME Journal

Distinct patterns and processes of abundant and rare eukaryotic plankton communities following a reservoir cyanobacterial bloom – Yuanyuan Xue – The ISME Journal

Coral Microbiomes as Bioindicators of Reef Health – Sofia Roitman – Population Genomics

Microbial community structure and functional potential along a hypersaline gradient – Jeffrey A. Kimbrel – Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparative genomics of Pseudomonas sp. strain SI-3 associated with macroalga Ulva prolifera, the causative species for green tide in the Yellow Sea – Huihui Fu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Pilot assessment of probiotics for pregnant women in Rwanda – Amy McMillan – PLOS One

Phages and viruses

Low spatial structure and selection against secreted virulence factors attenuates pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa – Elisa T Granato – bioRxiv

Identification of anti-norovirus genes in mouse and human cells using genome-wide CRISPR activation screening –  Robert Orchard – bioRxiv

Biotechnology

Simultaneous autotrophic removal of sulphate and nitrate at different voltages in a bioelectrochemical reactor (BER): Evaluation of degradation efficiency and characterization of microbial communities – Hao Xua – Bioresource Technology

Evaluation of A Novel Split-Feeding Anaerobic/Oxic Baffled Reactor (A/OBR) For Foodwaste Anaerobic Digestate: Performance, Modeling and Bacterial Community – Shaojie Wang – Scientific Reports

Viewpoint: Synthetic Biology for Natural Compounds – Xinrui Zhao – Biochemistry

Bioinformatics

iMetaLab 1.0: A web platform for metaproteomics data analysis – Bo Liao – Bioinformatics

Taxonomy annotation and guide tree errors in 16S rRNA databases – Robert Edgar​ – PeerJ

The Microbial Genomes Atlas (MiGA) webserver: taxonomic and gene diversity analysis of Archaea and Bacteria at the whole genome level – Luis M Rodriguez-R – Nucleic Acids Research

Techniques

Whole-Cell MALDI-TOF MS Versus 16S rRNA Gene Analysis for Identification and Dereplication of Recurrent Bacterial Isolates – Michal Strejcek – Frontiers in Microbiology

Low-power portable devices for metagenomics analysis: Fog computing makes bioinformatics ready for the Internet of Things –  Ivan Merelli – Future Generation Computer Systems

Microbes in the news 

Unique microbe could thrive on Mars, help future manned missions

In a Warming World, Deadly Bacteria Are More Resistant to Antibiotics

Microbes on the market

Startup aims to make allies of human gut’s microbes

Department of Energy Announces $40 Million for Bio-Based Research

Tina’s non-microbiology picks

Towards an Evolutionary Perspective in Teaching and Popularizing Microbiology – Fernando Bueno Ferreira Fonseca de Fraga – Journal of  Microbiology & Biology Education

 

June 7, 2018

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Today’s microbiology highlights: Microbiome in pregnancies, microbiome of SLE, Mycobacteria of a karst region, skin microbiome of non-human mammals. And lab diversity, potential problem in big data, Paris climate agreement of 1.5⁰C increase among the non-microbe highlights.

 

General microbiome

Biochemical, molecular and antibiotic resistance profile of multi-potential toluene metabolizing bacteria isolated from tannery effluents – F Muccee – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Microbiome in normal and pathological pregnancies: A literature overview – CR Taddei – AJRI

Multi-site human microbiome

Multidrug resistant pathogens respond differently to the presence of co-pathogen, commensal, probiotic and host cells – AP Chan – Scientific Reports

 

Human gut microbiome

Proton Pump Inhibitor Initiation and Withdrawal affects Gut Microbiota and Readmission Risk in Cirrhosis – JS Bajaj – AJG

Review: Early-Life Food Nutrition, Microbiota Maturation and Immune Development Shape Life-Long Health – X Zhou – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Animal experiments

Intermittent Fasting Confers Protection in CNS Autoimmunity by Altering the Gut Microbiota – F Cignarella – Cell Metabolism

The Microbiome and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – JT Rosenbaum – The New England Journal of Medicine

Review: The probiotic effectiveness in experimental colitis is correlated with gut microbiome and host genetic features – S Suwal – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome 

Comprehensive skin microbiome analysis reveals the uniqueness of human skin and evidence for phylosymbiosis within the class Mammalia – AA Ross – PNAS

Alterations in the gut (Gallus gallus) microbiota following the consumption of zinc biofortified wheat (Triticum aestivum) -based diet – S Reed – ACS

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Nontuberculous mycobacteria in the environment of Hranice Abyss, the world’s deepest flooded cave (Hranice karst, Czech Republic) – I Pavlik – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Built environment 

Toxicity assessment of pharmaceutical compounds on mixed culture from activated sludge using respirometric technique: The role of microbial community structure – IA Vasiliadou – Science of The Total Environment

Food microbiology

Effect of herbal feed additives on performance parameters, intestinal microbiota, intestinal morphology and meat lipid oxidation of broiler chickens – I Giannenas – British Poultry Science

 

Techniques

Identifying and Overcoming Threats to Reproducibility, Replicability, Robustness, and Generalizability in Microbiome Research – PD Schloss – mBio

Next-Generation Sequencing Could be a Promising Diagnostic Approach for Pathogen Detection: Pathogenic Analysis of Pediatric Bacterial Meningitis by Next-Generation Sequencing Technology Directly from Cerebrospinal Fluid Specimens – L Guo – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Media Advisory: Live exhibit of dance and song on tiny world of bacteria inside us comes to Buffalo Museum of Science – UB News Center

Non-microbiology picks

These labs are remarkably diverse — here’s why they’re winning at science – Nature

Big data little help in megafauna mysteries – Nature

What does it take to make an institution more diverse? – Nature

The many possible climates from the Paris Agreement’s aim of 1.5 °C warming – Nature

 

May 27, 2018

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Pharmacobiomics, liver-microbiome axis, starvation effect on gut microbiota of shrimp,  influence of gut microbiome on the larvae of a lepidopteran pest, microbiota of berries, building a local scientific community in data science and lots of articles for today’s digest.

General microbiome

Pharmacology in the age of the Holobiont – P Norvaisas – Current Opinion in Systems Biology

Dynamic bacterial and fungal microbiomes during sweet sorghum ensiling impact bioethanol production – D Gallagher – Bioresource Technology

Recovery of valuable metals from polymetallic mine tailings by natural microbial consortium – N Vardanyan – Environmental Technology

Variation in Electrode Redox Potential Selects for Different Microorganisms Under Cathodic Current Flow From Electrodes in Marine Sediments – BR Lam – Environmental Microbiology

Diurnal patterns of airborne algae in the Hawaiian Islands: a preliminary study – HW Singh – Aerobiologia

Novel human microbe-disease associations inference based on network consistency projection – S Zou – Scientific Reports

Multi-site human microbiome

Nitrate-responsive oral microbiome modulates nitric oxide homeostasis and blood pressure in humans – A Vanhatalo – Free Radical Biology and Medicine

Review: Biodiversity of the Human Oral Mycobiome in Health and Disease – HMHN Bandara – Oral Diseases

 

Human nearly-sterile sites 

Human pegivirus persistence in the human blood virome after allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation – D-L Vu – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Human gut microbiome

Review: Liver–Microbiome Axis in Health and Disease – TE Adolph – Trends in Immunology

Preprint: Crowdsourced study of children with autism and their typically developing siblings identifies differences in taxonomic and predicted function for stool-associated microbes using exact sequence variant analysis. – MM David – bioRxiv

Fecal and Mucosa-Associated Intestinal Microbiota in Patients with Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome – N Maharshak – Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Prevention and treatment of Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea by reconstitution of the microbiota – N Eliakim-Raz – Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics

Animal experiments 

Bifidobacterium spp. reshaping in the gut microbiota by low dose of juçara supplementation and hypothalamic insulin resistance in Wistar rats – G Jamar – Journal of Functional Foods

Salvianolic acid B alters the gut microbiota and mitigates colitis severity and associated inflammation – X Wu – Journal of Functional Foods

Metagenomics analysis of gut microbiota modulatory effect of green tea polyphenols by high fat diet-induced obesity mice model – X Zhang – Journal of Functional Foods

Starvation stress affects the interplay among shrimp gut microbiota, digestion and immune activities – W-F Dai – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Helicobacter pylori-infected C57BL/6 mice with different gastrointestinal microbiota have contrasting gastric pathology, microbial and host immune responses – Z Ge – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome 

Preprint: The Gut-Associated Microbiome of the Eastern Spruce Budworm Does Not Influence Larval Growth or Survival – MT Schwarz – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Review: High content analysis of sea buckthorn, black chokeberry, red and white currants microbiota – A pilot study – J Lukša – Food Research International

Microbial functional responses to long-term anthropogenic impact in mangrove soils – L Cabral – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Foliage application of nitrogen has less influence on soil microbial biomass and community composition than soil application of nitrogen – X Huang – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Long-term and high-concentration heavy-metal contamination strongly influences the microbiome and functional genes in Yellow River sediments – Y Chen – Science of The Total Environment

Responses of atrazine degradation and native bacterial community in soil to Arthrobacter sp. strain HB-5 – J Gao – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Root bacterial endophytes confer drought resistance and enhance expression and activity of a vacuolar H+‐pumping pyrophosphatase in pepper plants – G Vigani – Environmental Microbiology

Defining plant growth promoting rhizobacteria molecular and biochemical networks in beneficial plant-microbe interactions – A Rosier – Plant and Soil

Roles of Plant-Associated Microbiota in Traditional Herbal Medicine – W Huang – Trends in Plant Science

Spatial structuring of soil microbial communities in commercial apple orchards – G Deakin – Applied Soil Ecology

Effects of root colonization by zinc-solubilizing bacteria on rice plant (Oryza sativa MR219) growth – NMI Othman – Agriculture and Natural Resources

Promising filamentous native fungi isolated from paddy soils for arsenic mitigation in rice grains cultivated under flooded conditions – FR Segura – Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering

Soil respiration in Chinese tea gardens: autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration – LC Fan – European Journal of Soil Science

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Methanonatronarchaeum thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov. and ‘Candidatus Methanohalarchaeum thermophilum’, extremely halo(natrono)philic methyl-reducing methanogens from hypersaline lakes comprising a new euryarchaeal class Methanonatronarchaeia classis nov. – DY Sorokin – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

 

Food microbiology

The Genus Wallemia—From Contamination of Food to Health Threat – J Zajc- Microorganisms

Phages and viruses

Biological species in the viral world – L-M Bobay – PNAS

Genomic and ecological study of two distinctive freshwater bacteriophages infecting a Comamonadaceae bacterium – K Moon – Scientific Reports

 

Non-microbiology picks

Preprint: Building a local community of practice in scientific programming for Life Scientists – SLR Stevens – bioRxiv