Category Archives: Metagenomics & Bioinformatics

May 4, 2019

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Have a good weekend! Today, in this MB, we have interesting papers about different aspects of the microbiome. For example, we have a review overviewing the relationship between epigenetic changes, microbiome and metabolic diseases, as well as a paper focused in the use of a microbial metabolite in the prognosis of coronary issues. We have also the publication of an interesting study authored by the MB founder Elisabeth Bik.

There are also some papers about coral microbiome and an study about the homogenization of the microbiome between both US Air Force cadets and their built environment.

 

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Epigenetic Markers and Microbiota/Metabolite-Induced Epigenetic Modifications in the Pathogenesis of Obesity, Metabolic Syndrome, Type 2 Diabetes, and Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Daniela Stols-Gonçalves – Current Diabetes Reports

A novel sequencing-based vaginal health assay combining self-sampling, HPV detection and genotyping, STI detection, and vaginal microbiome analysis – Elisabeth Bik – PLoS ONE

Trimethyllysine, a trimethylamine N-oxide precursor, provides near- and long-term prognostic value in patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes – Xinmin S Li – European Heart Journal

Review: The interaction between Entamoeba histolytica and enterobacteria shed light on an ancient antibacterial response – Nancy Guillén – Cellular Microbiology

PCR Characterization of Microbiota on Contracted and Non-Contracted Breast Capsules – Yara Bachour – Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Decreased Cephalosporin Susceptibility of Oropharyngeal Neisseria Species in Antibiotic-Using Men-who-have-sex-with-men of Hanoi, Vietnam– Huan V Dong – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Review: Smoking and periodontal microorganisms – Takashi Hanioka – Japanese Dental Science Review

The influence of the vaginal microbiota on preterm birth: A systematic review and recommendations for a minimum dataset for future research – Myrthe JCS. Peelen – Placenta

Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease: Emerging Diagnostic Opportunities – Aonghus Lavelle – Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Laryngotracheal Microbiota in Adult Laryngotracheal Stenosis – Alexander T. Hillel – mSphere

Antibiotic Resistance Gene Diversity and Virulence Gene Diversity Are Correlated in Human Gut and Environmental Microbiomes – Pedro Escudeiro –  mSphere

 

Beneficial Microbes

Review: Changing our microbiome: Probiotics in dermatology – Y. Yu – British Journal of Dermatology

Amelioration of obesity-related biomarkers by Lactobacillus sakei CJLS03 in a high-fat diet-induced obese murine model – Josep Ji – Scientific Reports

 

Animal Models / Animal Microbiome

Age-related analysis of the gut microbiome in a purebred dog colony – Keijiro Mizukami – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Addition of plant dietary fibre to a raw red meat high protein, high fat diet, alters the faecal bacteriome and organic acid profiles of the domestic cat (Felis catus) – Christina F. Butowski – PLoS ONE

Effects of diet on gut microbiota of soil collembolans – Qian Xiang – Science of The Total Environment

Multiple stressors interact primarily through antagonism to drive changes in the coral microbiome – Rebecca L. Maher – Scientific Reports

Structure and stability of the coral microbiome in space and time – Courtney M. Dunphy – Scientific Reports

The effect of dissolved nickel and copper on the adult coral Acropora muricata and its microbiome – Francesca Gissi – Environmental Pollution

 

Food Microbiome

Microbiota and Chemical Compounds in Fermented Pinelliae Rhizoma (Banxiaqu) from Different Areas in the Sichuan Province, China – Bo Shu – Polish Journal of Microbiology

 

Built Environment

Longitudinal homogenization of the microbiome between both occupants and the built environment in a cohort of United States Air Force Cadets –  Anukriti Sharma – Microbiome

 

Environmental Microbiome

The Influence of Temperature and Nitrogen Source on Cellulolytic Potential of Microbiota Isolated from Natural Environment –  Agnieszka Wita  – Polish Journal of Microbiology

 

Techniques

The potential of nanoflow liquid chromatography-nano electrospray ionisation-mass spectrometry for global profiling the faecal metabolome – Andrew J. Chetwynd – Journal of Chromatography A

May 2, 2019

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In today’s digest read about variations in milk and infant fecal microbiome (Ethiopia, Gambia, USA, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, Spain, and Sweden), the microbiome, metabolome, and lipidome of obese and non-obese horses (USA), and Bacteroides fragilis adaptive evolution (Western countries and China). Happy reading!

Pregnancy and birth

*What’s normal? Microbiomes in human milk and infant feces are related to each other but vary geographically: the INSPIRE study – Kimberly A. Lackey – Frontiers in Nutrition

Progesterone Increases Bifidobacterium Relative Abundance during Late Pregnancy – Meital Nuriel-Ohayon – Cell Reports

Gut microbiome

Neonatal Vitamin A Supplementation and Vitamin A Status Are Associated with Gut Microbiome Composition in Bangladeshi Infants in Early Infancy and at 2 Years of Age – M Nazmul Huda – The Journal of nutrition

Fungi form interkingdom microbial communities in the primordial human gut that develop with gestational age – Kent A. Willis – bioRxiv

*Adaptive Evolution within Gut Microbiomes of Healthy People – Shijie Zhao – Cell Host & Microbe

Small intestinal microbial dysbiosis underlies symptoms associated with functional gastrointestinal disorders – George B. Saffouri – Nature Communications

Oral microbiome

Review: The Role of Exopolysaccharides in Oral Biofilms – C. Cugini – Journal of Dental Research

Human Salivary Amylase Gene Copy Number Impacts Oral and Gut Microbiomes – Angela C. Poole – Cell Host & Microbe

Animal microbiome

*Comparison of the microbiome, metabolome, and lipidome of obese and non-obese horses – Michelle C. Coleman – PlosOne

Utilizing the fecal microbiota to understand foal gut transitions from birth to weaning – Ubaldo De La Torre – PlosOne

Microbiome characterization of poultry products based on the poultry part and production label – Sang In Lee – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Metagenomic analysis of isolation methods of a targeted microbe, Campylobacter jejuni, from chicken feces with high microbial contamination – Junhyung Kim – Microbiome

Invited review: Advances and challenges in application of feedomics to improve dairy cow production and health – H.Z.Sun – Journal of Dairy Science

Characterization of pig saliva as the major natural habitat of Streptococcus suis by analyzing oral, fecal, vaginal, and environmental microbiota – Kazunori Murase – PlosOne

Insight into the microbial world of Bemisia tabaci cryptic species complex and its relationships with its host – Hua-Ling Wang – Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

The Plastisphere – Uncovering tightly attached plastic “specific” microorganisms – Inga Vanessa Kirstein – PlosOne

The cooling tower water microbiota: Seasonal dynamics and co-occurrence of bacterial and protist phylotypes – Han-Fei Tsao – Water Research

Modular Assembly of Polysaccharide-Degrading Marine Microbial Communities – Tim N.Enke – Current Biology

Impact of a river flood on marine water quality and planktonic microbial communities – Annamaria Zoppini – Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Microbial ecological processes in MBBR biofilms for biological phosphorus removal from wastewater – Knut Rudi – Water Science & Technology

Highly diverse fungal communities in carbon-rich aquifers of two contrasting lakes in Northeast Germany – Anita Perkins – bioRxiv

Plant/root/soil microbiome

The rice leaf microbiome has a conserved community structure controlled by complex host-microbe interactions – Veronica Roman-Reyna – bioRxiv

Spatial vs. temporal controls over soil fungal community similarity at continental and global scales – Colin Averil – The ISME Journal

Metabolomics Reveal that Engineered Nanomaterial Exposure in Soil Alters Both Soil Rhizosphere Metabolite Profiles and Maize Metabolic Pathways – Lijuan Zhao – Environmental Science: Nano

High-throughput sequencing reveals the diversity and community structure of rhizosphere fungi of Ferula Sinkiangensis at different soil depths – Tao Zhang – Scientific Reports

Microplastics can change soil properties and affect plant performance – Anderson Abel de Souza Machado – Environmental Science and Technology

April 29, 2019

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Today’s Monday morning digest is about correlations of human gut microbiome with circulating metabolites, coronary artery disease severity; microbial communities in biogas plants, and proteomic profiling of gut microbiota-associated bile salt hydrolase activity.

Human gut microbiome

Correlation of Gut Microbiome Between ASD Children and Mothers and Potential Biomarkers for Risk Assessment – Ning Li – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Neonatal Vitamin A Supplementation and Vitamin A Status Are Associated with Gut Microbiome Composition in Bangladeshi Infants in Early Infancy and at 2 Years of Age – M Nazmul Huda – Journal of Nutrition

Diversification and evolution of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium during intestinal domination – Krista A. Dubin – Infection and Immunity

Microbiota as a cornerstone in the development of primary sclerosing cholangitis: paving the path for translational diagnostic and therapeutic approaches – Catherine Mooser – Gut

Alterations in the gut microbiome and metabolism with coronary artery disease severity – Honghong Liu – Microbiome

Deciphering the complex interplay between microbiota, HPV, inflammation and cancer through cervicovaginal metabolic profiling – Zehra Esra Ilhan – EBio Medicine

Relationship between gut microbiota and circulating metabolites in population-based cohorts – Dina Vojinovic – BioRxiv

Animal experiments

Antibiotics-induced perturbations in gut microbial diversity influence metabolic phenotypes in a murine model of high-fat diet-induced obesity – Dongmin Liu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Composition, diversity and function of gastrointestinal microbiota in wild red-billed choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) – Wen Wang – International Microbiology

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Antioxidant activity changes of exopolysaccharides with different carbon sources from Lactobacillus plantarum LPC-1 and its metabolomic analysis – Xin Cheng – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Effects of grassland afforestation on structure and function of soil bacterial and fungal communities – Kaibo Wang – Science of the Total Environment

Water microbiome and extremophiles

Effect of applied voltage and temperature on methane production and microbial community in microbial electrochemical anaerobic digestion systems treating swine manure – Jaecheul Yu – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Metaproteome analysis reveals that syntrophy, competition, and phage-host interaction shape microbial communities in biogas plants – R. Heyer – Microbiome

Techniques

Improving Assignment of Microbial Genetic Polymorphisms Assignments in Complex Samples by Bayesian Estimation – Jiarui Li – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Accounting for Biological Variation With Linear Mixed-effects Modelling Improves the Quality of Clinical Metabolomics Data – Kwanjeera Wanichthanarak – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Chemoproteomic Profiling of Gut Microbiota-Associated Bile Salt Hydrolase Activity – Bibudha Parasar – ACS Central Science

Microbiome in news

Human Microbiome Therapeutics Market Research Methodology- Prominent Players Enterome Bioscience, Yakult Honsha Co. Ltd., DuPont – The Market Bureau

The Week That Wasn’t: See-Through Skulls, Fecal Soup, Microbiome Pill – Medscape

Non-Microbiology Picks

The incretin system in healthy humans: the role of GIP and GLP-1 – Jens Juul Holst – Metabolism

April 28, 2019

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Human Gut and General Microbiome

Review: Stereotypes About Enterotype: the Old and New Ideas – Mingyue Cheng – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Review: Gut Microbiota Regulation of T Cells During Inflammation and Autoimmunity – Eric M. Brown –  Annual Review of Immunology

Review: The Microbiome and Food Allergy – Onyinye I. Iweala – Annual Review of Immunology

Review: An Updated Review of Clostridium difficile Treatment in Pediatrics – Christopher T. Campbel –  The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Review: Pediatric inflammatory bowel disease: continuous lessons for adult inflammatory bowel disease – Shahzad Ahmed – Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Review: Intestinal Microbiota in Cardiovascular Health and Disease: JACC State-of-the-Art Review – W.H. Wilson Tang – Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Review: The role of the gut microbiome in sex differences in arterial pressure – Anna L. Beale – Biology of Sex Differences

Review: Precision Nutrition and the Microbiome, Part I: Current State of the Science – Susan Mills – Nutrients

Review: Impact of bariatric surgery on type 2 diabetes: contribution of inflammation and gut microbiome? – Jean Debédat – Seminars in Immunopathology

Review: The Gut Microbiota-Host Partnership as a Potential Driver of Kawasaki Syndrome – Susanna Esposito – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Review: A Review of Mixed Strain Clostridium difficile Colonization and Infection – Pete Dayananda – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Patients With Cirrhosis – Gaurav Ghosh – Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology

Perspective: Effect of Metformin on Antipsychotic-Induced Metabolic Dysfunction: The Potential Role of Gut-Brain Axis – Chao Luo –  Frontiers in Pharmacology

Antibiotic Treatment Drives the Diversification of the Human Gut Resistome – Jun Li – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Contribution of Non-immune Cells to Activation and Modulation of the Intestinal Inflammation – Renata Curciarello – Frontiers in Immunology

Environmental DNA metabarcoding to detect pathogenic Leptospira and associated organisms in leptospirosis-endemic areas of Japan – Yukuto Sato – Scientific Reports

The short-chain fatty acid propionate increases glucagon and FABP4 production, impairing insulin action in mice and humans – Amir Tirosh – Science Translational Medicine

 

Cancer and Microbiome

The diversity of gut microbiome is associated with favorable responses to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy in Chinese non-small cell lung cancer patients – Yueping Jin – Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Gut Microbiota as a Positive Potential Therapeutic Factor in Carcinogenesis: an Overview of Microbiota-Targeted Therapy – Farahnaz Joukar – Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer

Detection of Fusobacterium nucleatum in stool and colonic tissues from Norwegian colorectal cancer patients – Hege Smith Tunsjø – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

 

Oral Microbiome

Gender-Specific Associations Between Saliva Microbiota and Body Size  – Sajan C. Raju – Frontiers in Microbiology

Chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis is associated with detrimental bacterial dysbiosis – Bo-Young Hong – Microbiome

 

Respiratory Tract Microbiome

The airway microbiota in children newly diagnosed with bronchiectasis largely retains its diversity – Naveen Pillarisetti – European Respiratory Journal

Performance of the Biomark HD real-time qPCR System (Fluidigm) for the detection of nasopharyngeal bacterial pathogens and Streptococcus pneumoniae typing – Courtney P. Olwagen – Scientific Reports

 

Mother and Child Microbiome

Systematic Review: Repertoire of human breast and milk microbiota: a systematic review – Amadou Togo – Future Medicine

Variation of cultured skin microbiota in mothers and their infants during the first year postpartum – Georgios Gaitanis – Pediatric Dermatology

 

Correlation of Gut Microbiome Between ASD Children and Mothers and Potential Biomarkers for Risk Assessment – Ning Li – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

 

Reproductive tract Microbiome

Impact of reproductive aging on the vaginal microbiome and soluble immune mediators in women living with and at-risk for HIV infection – Kerry Murphy – PLoS ONE

The Vaginal and Urinary Microbiomes in Premenopausal Women With Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome as Compared to Unaffected Controls: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study – Kate V. Meriwether – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Microorganisms in the healthy upper reproductive tract: from denial to beneficial assignments for reproductive biology – Rebekka Einenkel – Reproductive Biology

 

Animal Microbiome

Structural shifts in the intestinal microbiota of rats treated with cyclosporine A after orthotropic liver transplantation – Junjun Jia – Frontiers of Medicine

Composition, diversity and function of gastrointestinal microbiota in wild red-billed choughs (Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax) – Wen Wang – International Microbiology

Antibiotics-induced perturbations in gut microbial diversity influence metabolic phenotypes in a murine model of high-fat diet-induced obesity – Dongmin Liu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Rumen fermentation, intramuscular fat fatty acid profiles and related rumen bacterial populations of Holstein bulls fed diets with different energy levels – Haibo Wang – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

The Gut Microbiome on a Periodized Low-Protein Diet Is Associated With Improved Metabolic Health – Zhencheng Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human activity can influence the gut microbiota of Darwin’s finches in the Galapagos Islands – Sarah A. Knutie – Molecular Ecology

Diversity and composition of the gut microbiota of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) farmed in Irish waters – Colin Fogarty – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Metagenomic analysis revealed beneficial effects of probiotics in improving the composition and function of the gut microbiota in dogs with diarrhoea – Haiyan Xu – Food & Nutrition

Microbiome analysis of Ixodes scapularis ticks from New York and Connecticut – Rafal Tokarz – Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Human gut microbiota transferred to germ-free NOD mice modulate the progression towards type 1 diabetes regardless of the pace of beta cell function loss in the donor – Vit Neuman – Diabetologia

Gut microbiome composition of wild western lowland gorillas is associated with individual age and sex factors – Barbora Pafčo – American Journal of Physical Anthropology

The bumble bee microbiome increases survival of bees exposed to selenate toxicity – Jason A. Rothman – Environmental Microbiology

Effect of probiotic supplementation on seizure activity and cognitive performance in PTZ-induced chemical kindling – Samaneh Bagheri – Epilepsy and Behavior

Inulin Can Alleviate Metabolism Disorders in ob/ob Mice by Partially Restoring Leptin-Related Pathways Mediated by Gut Microbiota – Xiaofeng Song – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Supplementation with compound polysaccharides contributes to the development and metabolic activity of young rat intestinal microbiota – Mengxia Wang – Food & Nutrition

A Risky Business? Habitat and Social Behavior Impact Skin and Gut Microbiomes in Caribbean Cleaning Gobies – Raquel Xavier – Frontiers in Microbiology

Ovarian progesterone suppresses depression and anxiety-like behaviors by increasing the Lactobacillus population of gut microbiota in ovariectomized mice – Watcharin N.Sovijit – Neuroscience Research

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Meta-analysis: Probiotics improve glucose and lipid metabolism in pregnant women: a meta-analysis – Man-Man Han – Annals of Translational Medicine

Probiotic Bifidobacterium lactis V9 Regulates the Secretion of Sex Hormones in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Patients through the Gut-Brain Axis – Jiachao Zhang – mSystem

Major Traditional Probiotics: Comparative Genomic Analyses and Roles in Gut Microbiome of Eight Cohorts – Guangwen Luo – Frontiers in Microbiology

The beneficial effects of purple yam (Dioscorea alata L.) resistant starch on hyperlipidemia in high-fat-fed hamsters – Tao Li – Food & Nutrition

Restoration of Bacterial Microbiome Composition and Diversity Among Treatment Responders in a Phase 2 Trial of RBX2660: An Investigational Microbiome Restoration Therapeutic – Ken F Blount – Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 – A comparative study on the effect of probiotics and lysates on human skin – I. Khmaladze – Experimental Dermatology

 

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Nodulation induces systemic resistance of Medicago truncatula and Pisum sativum against Erysiphe pisi and primes for powdery mildew-triggered salicylic acid accumulation – Lara Smigielski – IS-MPMI

Land Use and Seasonal Effects on the Soil Microbiome of a Brazilian Dry Forest – Gileno V. Lacerda-Júnior – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Diversity in the Edible Gall on White Bamboo Formed by the Interaction between Ustilago esculenta and Zizania latifolia – Zhihao Tu – Current Microbiology

Species-specific response of the soil collembolan gut microbiome and resistome to soil oxytetracycline pollution – Qi Zhang – Science of The Total Environment

 

Food Microbiome

Gamma Irradiation Influences the Survival and Regrowth of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and Antibiotic-Resistance Genes on Romaine Lettuce – Vaishali Dharmarha – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Bioinformatics

How Microbes Shape Their Communities? A Microbial Community Model Based on Functional Genes – Xiaoqing Jiang – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Phy-PMRFI: Phylogeny-aware Prediction of Metagenomic Functions using Random Forest Feature Importance – Jyotsna Talreja Wassan – IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience

 

Other

Flood Season Microbiota from the Amazon Basin Lakes: Analysis with Metagenome Sequencing – Célio Dias Santos Júnior – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Genome-resolved metagenomics of an autotrophic thiocyanate-remediating microbial bioreactor consortium – Mathew P. Watts – Water Research

April 24, 2019

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Today’s rich Digest features a report on how an invasive fungus restructures bat skin microbiome and a review on how plant-based culture media might come about. How is authorship determined? Enjoy reading!

Human gut microbiome

Review: Gut Microbiota in Alzheimer’s Disease, Depression, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Role of Oxidative Stress – Maria Luca et al. – Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity

Cancer microbiome

Review: Exploring the emerging role of the microbiome in cancer immunotherapy – Jessica Fessler & Vyara Matson et al. – Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Salivary Microbial Dysbiosis is Associated with Systemic Inflammatory Markers and Predicted Oral Metabolites in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients – Weiquan Zhang et al. – Journal of Cancer

Metabolomics

Review: Systems Biology and Multi-Omics Integration: Viewpoints from the Metabolomics Research Community – Farhana R. Pinu et al. – Metabolites

BLANKA: an Algorithm for Blank Subtraction in Mass Spectrometry of Complex Biological Samples – Jessica L. Cleary et al. – Journal of The American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Review: Comparative genomics and metagenomics of the metallomes – Yan Zhang et al. – Metallomics

Animal experiments

Analysis of the In Vivo Transcriptome of Bordetella pertussis during Infection of Mice – Ting Y. Wong et al. – mSphere

Structural modulation of gut microbiota reveals Coix seed contributes to weight loss in mice – Sheng Liu et al. – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Supplementation with compound polysaccharides contributes to the development and metabolic activity of young rat intestinal microbiota – Mengxia Wang et al. – Food & Function

Animal microbiome

Closely-related Photobacterium strains comprise the majority of bacteria in the gut of migrating Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) – Typhaine Le Doujet et al. – Microbiome

Comparative analysis of intestinal bacteria among venom secretion and non-secrection snakes – Zuodong Qin et al. – Scientific Reports

Parallel sequencing of porA reveals a complex pattern of Campylobacter genotypes that differs between broiler and broiler breeder chickens – Frances. M. Colles et al. – Scientific Reports

** Preprint: White-nose syndrome restructures bat skin microbiomes – Meghan A. Ange-Stark et al. – bioRxiv

Food microbiome

Establishment limitation constrains the abundance of lactic acid bacteria in the Napa cabbage phyllosphere – Esther R. Miller et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Unprecedented bacterial community richness in soybean nodules vary with cultivar and water status – Hazem Sharaf et al. – Microbiome

Fungi Originating From Tree Leaves Contribute to Fungal Diversity of Litter in Streams – Pirjo Koivusaari et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Successional trajectories of soil bacterial communities in mine tailings: The role of plant functional traits – Yannick Colin et al. – Journal of Environmental Management

Elevated CO2, chlorpyrifos and biochar influence nitrification and microbial abundance in the rhizosphere of wheat cultivated in a tropical vertisol – Bharati Kollah et al. – Rhizosphere

Increasing livestock wastewater application in alternate-furrow irrigation reduces nitrification gene abundance but not nitrification rate in rhizosphere – Yuan Liu et al. – Biology and Fertility of Soils

** Review: Culturomics of the plant prokaryotic microbiome and the dawn of plant-based culture media – A review – Mohamed S. Sarhan et al. – Journal of Advanced Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Coupling growth kinetics modeling with machine learning reveals microbial immigration impacts and identifies key environmental parameters in a biological wastewater treatment process – Ran Mei et al. – Microbiome

Fungal Community Composition and Potential Depth-Related Driving Factors Impacting Distribution Pattern and Trophic Modes from Epi- to Abyssopelagic Zones of the Western Pacific Ocean – Wei Li et al. – Microbial Ecology

Different response of bacteria, archaea and fungi to process parameters in nine full-scale anaerobic digesters – Susanne G. Langer et al. – Microbial Biotechnology

Increasing livestock wastewater application in alternate-furrow irrigation reduces nitrification gene abundance but not nitrification rate in rhizosphere – Yuan Liu et al. – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Oil Hydrocarbon Degradation by Caspian Sea Microbial Communities – John I. Miller et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Community 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Characterizes Riverine Microbial Impact on Lake Michigan – Cindy H. Nakatsu et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Patterns of bacterial and archaeal communities in sediments in response to dam construction and sewage discharge in Lhasa River – Ke Tao et al. – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Potentially toxic metal contamination and microbial community analysis in an abandoned Pb and Zn mining waste deposit – M.C. Kasemodel et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Structure and function of microbial community associated with phenol co-substrate in degradation of benzo[a]pyrene in coking wastewater – Haizhen Wu et al. – Chemosphere

Phages and viruses

Distribution and Phylogeny of Erythrocytic Necrosis Virus (ENV) in Salmon Suggests Marine Origin – Veronica A. Pagowski et al. – Viruses

Interaction of RNA viruses of the natural virome with the African malaria vector, Anopheles coluzzii – Ferdinand Nanfack-Minkeu et al. – Scientific Reports

Technology

Active harvesting enhances energy recovery and function of electroactive microbiomes in microbial fuel cells – Lu Lu et al. – Applied Energy

Bioinformatics

Letter to Editor: Towards precision quantification of contamination in metagenomic sequencing experiments – M. S. Zinter et al. – Microbiome

Annotated bacterial chromosomes from frame-shift-corrected long-read metagenomic data – Krithika Arumugam et al. – Microbiome

Review: Evolution of biosequence search algorithms: a brief survey – Gregory Kucherov – Bioinformatics

Microbes in the news

Two new studies reveal universal gut microbiome signatures in colorectal cancer – Andreu Prados – Gut Microbiota for Health

Prime the Pump – Robert B Corbett – Bovine Vet Online

Germ-Killing Brands Now Want to Sell You Germs – Caroline Winter – Bloomberg

Podcast: What is Functional Medicine’s Role In Gut Healing? – The Microbiome Report

Microbes on the market

Viome Raised $25M for its Microbiome-based Dietary Guide Platform – Chris Albrecht – The Spoon

Non-microbiology pick

** Preprint: A qualitative study exploring researchers’ perspectives on authorship decision-making – Lauren A Maggio et al. – bioRxiv

April 13, 2019

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In today’s digest read about diverse population of bacteria and fungi on the International Space Station, how antidepressants affect gut microbiota, and check out a new framework for comparing and assessing taxonomic profilers (OPAL). Happy weekend!

Vaginal microbiome

Defining characteristics of genital health in South African adolescent girls and young women at high risk for HIV infection – Smritee Dabee – PlosOne

Detection of ureaplasmas and bacterial vaginosis associated bacteria and their association with non-gonococcal urethritis in men – Maria Frølund – PlosOne

Group B streptococcal screening, intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis, and neonatal early-onset infection rates in an Australian local health district: 2006-2016 – Kathryn Braye – PlosOne

Gut microbiome

Long-term benefit of Microbiota Transfer Therapy on autism symptoms and gut microbiota – Dae-Wook Kang – Scientific Reports

The Prevotella copri complex comprises four distinct clades that are underrepresented in Westernised populations – Adrian Tett – bioRxiv

Fecal short-chain fatty acids are not predictive of colonic tumor status and cannot be predicted based on bacterial community structure – Marc A. Sze – bioRxiv

Evidence for a multi-level trophic organization of the human gut microbiome – Tong Wang – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Comparative analysis of amplicon and metagenomic sequencing methods reveals key features in the evolution of animal metaorganisms – Philipp Rausch – bioRxiv

Metagenomic Analysis of the Whole Gut Microbiota in Brazilian Termitidae Termites Cornitermes cumulans, Cyrilliotermes strictinasus, Syntermes dirus, Nasutitermes jaraguae, Nasutitermes aquilinus, Grigiotermes bequaerti, and Orthognathotermes mirim – Maria B. Grieco – Current Microbiolgy

The sponge microbiome within the greater coral reef microbial metacommunity – Daniel F. R. Cleary – Nature Communications

Insights into the intestinal microbiota of several aquatic organisms and association with the surrounding environment – Fulin Sun – Aquaculture

Animal experiments

*Antidepressants affect gut microbiota and Ruminococcus flavefaciens is able to abolish their effects on depressive-like behavior – Iva Lukić – Translational Psychiatry

Chronic paradoxical sleep deprivation-induced depression­like behavior, energy metabolism and microbial changes in rats – Weini Ma – Life Sciences

Ability of bifidobacteria to metabolize chitin-glucan and its impact on the gut microbiota – Giulia Alessandri – Scientific Reports

Probiotics

Fasting breath H2 and gut microbiota metabolic potential are associated with the response to a fermented milk product in irritable bowel syndrome – Boris Le Nevé – PlosOne

Lactobacillus fermentum and Lactobacillus plantarum increased gut microbiota diversity and functionality, and mitigated Enterobacteriaceae, in a mouse model – C. Linninge – Beneficial Microbes

Complex responses to inflammatory oxidants by the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri – Poulami Basu Thaku – bioRxiv

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Urban traffic changes the biodiversity, abundance, and activity of phyllospheric nitrogen-fixing bacteria – Yang Li – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Comparative analysis of the rhizomicrobiome of the wild versus cultivated crop: insights from rice and soybean – Shaohua Shi – Archives of Microbiology

Copper and zinc in rhizospheric soil of wild plants growing in long-term acid vineyard soils – C.Campillo-Cora – Science of The Total Environment

Review: Soil microbiome: a key player for conservation of soil health under changing climate – Anamika Dubey – Biodiversity and Conservation

Rhizosphere microbiota compositional changes reflect potato blackleg disease – Lutian Mao – Applied Soil Ecology

Pseudomonas urumqiensis sp. nov., isolated from rhizosphere soil of Alhagi sparsifolia – Yuanyuan Zou – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Insights gained from metagenomic shotgun sequencing of apple fruit epiphytic microbiota – Dario Angeli – Postharvest Biology and Technology

Extremophile microbiome

*Characterization of the total and viable bacterial and fungal communities associated with the International Space Station surfaces – Aleksandra Checinska Sielaff – Microbiome

Techniques

Review: Untargeted LC/MS-based metabolic phenotyping (metabonomics/metabolomics): The state of the art – Helen Gika – Journal of Chromatography B

Bioinformatics

*Assessing taxonomic metagenome profilers with OPAL – Fernando Meyer – Genome Biology

Analysis of error profiles in deep next-generation sequencing data – Xiaotu Ma – Genome Biology

clonealign: statistical integration of independent single-cell RNA and DNA sequencing data from human cancers – Kieran R. Campbell – Genome Biology

RnBeads 2.0: comprehensive analysis of DNA methylation data – Fabian Müller – Genome Biology

Review: Big data analytics for personalized medicine – Davide Cirillo and Alfonso Valencia – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Meta-network: optimized species-species network analysis for microbial communities – Pengshuo Yang – BMC Genomics

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General Microbiome

Coevolutionary dynamics shape the structure of bacteria-phage infection networks. Fortuna MA.Evolution.

High proportions of bacteria are culturable across major biomes. Martiny AC. ISME Journal

The complexity of an optimal vaginal biome. Eschenbach DA. BJOG

The lung microbiome, vitamin D, and the tuberculous granuloma: A balance triangle. Balcells ME. Microbial Pathogenesis

Gut Microbiome

The parasitic worm product ES-62 normalises the gut microbiota bone marrow axis in inflammatory arthritis. Doonan J. Nature Communications

Culture-enriched human gut microbiomes reveal core and accessory resistance genes. Raymond F.Microbiome.

Plant, Soil, Water, and Air Microbiome

Temperature and soil moisture control microbial community composition in an arctic-alpine ecosystem along elevational and micro-topographic gradients.Frindte K. ISME Journal

Root traits and belowground herbivores relate to plant-soil feedback variation among congeners.Wilschut RA. Nature Communications

A Polyphasic Approach for Assessing Eco-System Connectivity Demonstrates that Perturbation Remodels Network Architecture in Soil Microcosms.Stamou GP. Microbial Ecology

Effect of stock density on the microbial community in biofloc water and Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei) gut microbiota.Deng Y. Applied Microbiology Biotechnology

Rapid and stable microbial community assembly in the headwaters of third-order stream. Teachey ME. Applied Environmental Microbiology

Comparative Metagenomics Reveals Enhanced Nutrient Cycling Potential After Two Years of Biochar Amendment in a Tropical Oxisol. Yu J. Applied Environmental Microbiology

Animal Experiments and Microbiome

Effect of a low protein diet on chicken ceca microbiome and productive performances. De Cesare A. Poultry Science

Impact of a probiotic-based cleaning product on the microbiological profile of broiler litters and chicken caeca microbiota.De Cesare P. Poultry Science

Metagenomic Analysis of the Whole Gut Microbiota in Brazilian Termitidae Termites Cornitermes cumulans, Cyrilliotermes strictinasus, Syntermes dirus, Nasutitermes jaraguae, Nasutitermes aquilinus, Grigiotermes bequaerti, and Orthognathotermes mirim. Grieco MB. Current Microbiology.

The hemolymph microbiome of insects. Blow F. Journal Of Insect Physiology

Musa basjoo regulates the gut microbiota in mice by rebalancing the abundance of probiotic and pathogen. Wei T. Microbial Pathogenesis

Investigating the influence of organic acid marinades, storage temperature and time on the survival/inactivation interface of Salmonella on chicken breast fillets.

Lytou AE. International Journal of Food Microbiology.

April 1, 2019

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In today’s digest read about covert pathogenesis in urinary tract, microbial fuel cells in treatment of organic acid fermentation wastewater, gut microbial metabolism in weanling pigs, and more. Enjoy!

Urinary microbiome

*Covert pathogenesis: Transient exposures to microbes as triggers of disease – Nicole M. Gilbert, Amanda L. Lewis – PlosPathogens

Evaluation of antibacterial efficacy of sulfur nanoparticles alone and in combination with antibiotics against multidrug-resistant uropathogenic bacteria – Priti Paralikar – Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part A

Review: A Comprehensive Review of Overactive Bladder Pathophysiology: On the Way to Tailored Treatment – Benoit Peyronnet – European Urology

Vaginal microbiome

Effect of progesterone on Candida albicans biofilm formation under acidic conditions: a transcriptomic analysis – Bruna Gonçalves – bioRxiv

Skin microbiome

Cutibacterium acnes antibiotic production shapes niche competition in the human skin microbiome – Jan Claesen – bioRxiv

Neutral Processes Drive Seasonal Assembly of the Skin Mycobiome – Xinzhao Tong – mSystems

Gut Microbiome

The Perturbation of Infant Gut Microbiota Caused by Cesarean Delivery Is Partially Restored by Exclusive Breastfeeding – Yu Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Gut Microbiome Functional and Taxonomic Diversity within an Amazonian semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer group – Liliane Costa Conteville – bioRxiv

Risk of inflammatory bowel disease after Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter concisus infection: a population-based cohort study – Hans Mittle Nielsen – Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Unilateral ureteral obstruction causes gut microbial dysbiosis and metabolome disorders contributing to tubulointerstitial fibrosis – Lin Chen – Experimental & Molecular Medicine

Oral microbiome

Polymicrobial synergy within oral biofilm promotes invasion of dendritic cells and survival of consortia members – Ahmed El-Awady – Biofilms and Microbiomes

Animal microbiome

*Metagenomic reconstructions of gut microbial metabolism in weanling pigs – Weilan Wang – Microbiome

Probiotics/Prebiotics

Strain-level diversity of commercial probiotic isolates of Bacillus, Lactobacillus, and Saccharomyces species illustrated by molecular identification and phenotypic profiling – Juliana M. Ansari – PlosOne

Biosurfactant Production by Lactic Acid Bacterium Pediococcus dextrinicus SHU1593 Grown on Different Carbon Sources: Strain Screening Followed by Product Characterization – Abouzar Ghasemi – Scientific Reports

Phages and viruses

Bacteriophage adherence to mucus mediates preventive protection against pathogenic bacteria – Gabriel MF Almeida – bioRxiv

Review: The gut virome: the ‘missing link’ between gut bacteria and host immunity? – Indrani Mukhopadhya – Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology

Soil microbiome

Shift of the microbial communities from exposed sandstone rocks to forest soils during pedogenesis – Yaping Liu – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Water and extremophile microbiome

Startup, performance, and microbial communities of an anammox reactor inoculated with indigenous sludge for the treatment of high-salinity and mesophilic underground brine – Nobuyuki Yokota – Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

*Power generation and microbial community analysis in microbial fuel cells: A promising system to treat organic acid fermentation wastewater – Tian Xia – Bioresource Technology

Techniques

Cultivating in situ triggers growth of previously uncultivated microorganisms via a growth initiation factor in nature – Dawoon Jung – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

Library preparation and sequencing platform introduce bias in metagenomics characterisation of microbial communities – Casper S. Poulse – bioRxiv

March 21, 2019

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Happy Spring! Today’s Digest features a megaphylogeny of mushrooms, new papers about the respiratory microbiome, fecal microbiome and metatranscriptomic analysis from nonhuman primates, and the microbial ecology of snow. Bonus: a pick about the first woman to win the Abel Prize.

General Microbiome
Megaphylogeny resolves global patterns of mushroom evolution – Torda Varga – Nature Ecology and Evolution

Fate of CMY-2-encoding plasmids introduced into the human fecal microbiota by exogenous Escherichia coli – Mehreen Anjum – Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Review: The impact of indigenous microbes on Parkinson’s disease – Timothy Sampson – Neurobiology of Disease

Pregnancy and Early Life
Michigan cohorts to determine associations of maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index with pregnancy and infant gastrointestinal microbial communities: Late pregnancy and early infancy – Kameron Y. Sugino – PLOS One

Human Respiratory Microbiome
Bacterial and viral respiratory tract microbiota and host characteristics in children with lower respiratory tract infections: a matched case-control study – Wing Ho Man – The Lancet Respiratory Medicine

The Yin and Yang of Streptococcus Lung Infections in Cystic Fibrosis: A Model for Studying Polymicrobial Interactions – Jessie E. Scott – Journal of Bacteriology

The nasal and oropharyngeal microbiomes of healthy livestock workers – Ashley E. Kates – PLOS One

Human Gut Microbiome
Review: Role of SCFAs in gut microbiome and glycolysis for colorectal cancer therapy – Gang Wang – Journal of Cellular Physiology

Review: Obesity, Motility, Diet, and Intestinal Microbiota—Connecting the Dots – Maya Fayfman – Current Gastroenterology Reports

Review: The gut microbiome and response to immune checkpoint inhibitors: preclinical and clinical strategies – Jun Gong – Clinical and Translational Medicine

The exosome secretion inhibitor neticonazole suppresses intestinal dysbacteriosis-induced tumorigenesis of colorectal cancer – Lei Gu – Investigational New Drugs

Glutamate interactions with obesity, insulin resistance, cognition and gut microbiota composition – María Encarnación Palomo-Buitrago – Acta Diabetologica

Understanding the gut–kidney axis among biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy, type 2 diabetes mellitus and healthy controls: an analysis of the gut microbiota composition – Sibei Tao – Acta Diabetologica

Identification of the microbial diversity after fecal microbiota transplantation therapy for chronic intractable constipation using 16s rRNA amplicon sequencing – Tadashi Ohara – PLOS One

Animal Experiments
Gut microbiota from infant with Cow’s Milk Allergy promotes clinical and immune features of atopy in a murine model – A. Mauras – Allergy

N-(1-carbamoyl-2-phenylethyl) butyramide reduces antibiotic-induced intestinal injury, innate immune activation and modulates microbiota composition – Adriano Lama – Scientific Reports

Immunosuppression-induced alterations in fish gut microbiota may increase the susceptibility to pathogens – Xiao-Zhou Qi – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Rifaximin Alters Intestinal Microbiota and Prevents Progression of Ankylosing Spondylitis in Mice – Lianjun Yang – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Hydroxytyrosol Improves Obesity and Insulin Resistance by Modulating Gut Microbiota in High-Fat Diet-Induced Obese Mice – Zhuoqun Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Dietary Fiber and Intestinal Health of Monogastric Animals – Rajesh Jha – Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Circadian disruption and divergent microbiota acquisition under extended photoperiod regimens in chicken – Anne-Sophie Charlotte Hieke – PeerJ

Animal Microbiome
Fecal metatranscriptomics of macaques with idiopathic chronic diarrhea reveals altered mucin degradation and fucose utilization – Samuel T. Westreich – Microbiome

Microbiome Profiles of Ligature-Induced Periodontitis in Nonhuman Primates Across the Lifespan – Sreenatha Kirakodu – Infection and Immunity

Diabetic cats have decreased gut microbial diversity and a lack of butyrate producing bacteria – Ida Nordang Kieler – Scientific Reports

Exploring the bacteriome in anthropophilic ticks: To investigate the vectors for diagnosis – Aránzazu Portillo – PLOS One

Plant, Root, and Soil Microbiome
Microbiota in Non-flooded and Flooded Rice Culms – Hui-Ling Cui – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbial community structure in full scale anaerobic mono-and co-digesters treating food waste and animal waste – Taewoan Koo – Bioresource Technology

Variations in pH significantly affect cadmium uptake in grafted muskmelon (Cucumis melo L.) plants and drive the diversity of bacterial communities in a seedling substrate – Jian Zhang – Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Divergent microbial communities in groundwater and overlying soils exhibit functional redundancy for plant-polysaccharide degradation – Martin Taubert – PLOS One

Microbial diversity and soil physiochemical characteristic of higher altitude – Saurabh Kumar – PLOS One

Water and Extremophile Microbiome
Microbial Ecology of Snow Reveals Taxa-Specific Biogeographical Structure – Shawn P. Brown – Microbial Ecology

Bacterial community in cold and alkaline environments of Hoh Xil basin in Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and isolation of potential sources of microbiota – Rui Xing – Annals of Microbiology

Bacterial communities of the microbial mats of Chokrak sulfide springs – Ekaterina I. Burganskaya – Archives of Microbiology

Dynamics of microbial community in the bioreactor for bisphenol S removal – Wen-Cong Huang – Science of the Total Environment

High-throughput DNA sequencing reveals the dominance of pico- and other filamentous cyanobacteria in an urban freshwater Lake – Hanyan Li – Science of the Total Environment

A novel phenol and ammonia recovery process for coal gasification wastewater altering the bacterial community and increasing pollutants removal in anaerobic/anoxic/aerobic system – Xuefei Gui – Science of the Total Environment

Built Environment
Biodeterioration of mortar coating in historical buildings: Microclimatic characterization, material, and fungal community – Fernanda L. Guerra – Building and Environment

A different suite: The assemblage of distinct fungal communities in water-damaged units of a poorly-maintained public housing building – Iman A. Sylvain – PLOS One

Microbes in Space
Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-Analog Environment – Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes – Frontiers in Microbiology

Food Microbiology
Microbiome patterns reveal the transmission of pathogenic bacteria in hilsa fish (Tenualosa ilisha) marketed for human consumption in Bangladesh – Md Javed Foysal – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Impact of turning, pod storage and fermentation time on microbial ecology and volatile composition of cocoa beans – Yasmine Hamdouche – Food Research International

Probiotic potential of a Lactobacillus rhamnosus cheese isolate and its effect on the fecal microbiota of healthy volunteers – Joaquin Bautista-Gallego – Food Research International

Dynamics of biogenic amines and bacterial communities in a Thai fermented pork product Nham – Pannita Santiyanont – Food Research International

Probiotics/Prebiotics
16S rRNA gene profiling and genome reconstruction reveal community metabolic interactions and prebiotic potential of medicinal herbs used in neurodegenerative disease and as nootropics – Christine Tara Peterson – PLOS One

Phages and Viruses
Review: Phage therapy: What factors shape phage pharmacokinetics and bioavailability? Systematic and critical review – Krystyna Dąbrowska – Medicinal Research Reviews

Bioinformatics
MetaPheno: A Critical Evaluation of Deep Learning and Machine Learning in Metagenome-Based Disease Prediction – Nathan LaPierre – Methods

Assessing alignment-based taxonomic classification of ancient microbial DNA – Raphael Eisenhofer – PeerJ

Techniques
A comparison of storage methods for gut microbiome studies in teleosts: Insights from rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) – Mathis Hildonen – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Alyson’s Non-Microbiology Picks
Soap-bubble pioneer is first woman to win prestigious maths prize

Girls who share a womb with boys tend to make less money than those with twin sisters

 

March 20, 2019

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Today’s digest features a longitudinal survey of maternal anti-viral antibodies in newborns that provides a blueprint for understanding infectious disease susceptibility, a detailed overview of antimicrobial resistance identification and characterization methods (from traditional antimicrobial susceptibility testing to recent deep-learning methods), and more. Happy reading!

Gut microbiome

Gut microbiota plasticity is correlated with sustained weight loss on a low-carb or low-fat dietary intervention – Jessica A Grembi – bioRxiv

The intestinal microbiota programs diurnal rhythms in host metabolism through histone deacetylase 3 – Zheng Kuang – bioRxiv

*Neuronal programming by microbiota enables environmental regulation of intestinal motility – Yuuki Obata – bioRxiv

Probiotics

Growth Mode and Carbon Source Impact the Surfaceome Dynamics of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG – Kirsi Savijoki – bioRxiv

Nasal microbiome

The nasal and oropharyngeal microbiomes of healthy livestock workers – Ashley E. Kates – PlosOne

Vaginal microbiome

Mini review: Vaginal microbiota transplantation for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis: a conceptual analysis – Dongwen Ma – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Comparative study of vulva and abdominal skin microbiota of healthy females with high and average BMI – Rebecca Vongsa – BMC Microbiology

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Biosurfactant production by a rhizosphere bacteria Bacillus altitudinis MS16 and its promising emulsification and antifungal activity – Madhurankhi Goswami & Suresh Deka – Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces

Microbial diversity and soil physiochemical characteristic of higher altitude – Saurabh Kumar – PlosOne

Water microbiome

Ecological processes underpinning microbial community structure during exposure to subinhibitory level of triclosan – Seungdae Oh – Scientific Reports

Microbial Ecology of Snow Reveals Taxa-Specific Biogeographical Structure – Shawn P. Brown & Ari Jumpponen – Microbial Ecology

Phages and viruses

*The repertoire of maternal anti-viral antibodies in human newborns – Christian Pou – Nature Medicine

Methods

*Review: Sequencing-based methods and resources to study antimicrobial resistance – Manish Boolchandani – Nature Reviews Genetics