Two new papers on multiple sclerosis and breast tissue, cross-respiration, the Boston urban transit microbiome, and plastic debris.
Human respiratory microbiome
Review: The respiratory microbiome of HIV-infected individuals – MB Lawawni – Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy
Human skin microbiome
The microbiota of breast tissue and its association with tumours – Camilla Urbaniak – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Human gut microbiome
Alterations of the human gut microbiome in multiple sclerosis – Sushrut Jangi – Nature Communications
Review: Gut microbiota and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: where do we stand? – D Zama – Bone Marrow Transplantation
Review: The neuropharmacology of butyrate: The bread and butter of the microbiota-gut-brain axis? – Roman M. Stilling – Neurochemistry International
Animal and in vitro experiments
A Commensal Bacterium Promotes Virulence of an Opportunistic Pathogen via Cross-Respiration – Apollo Stacy – mBio
Press: Cross-respiration between oral bacteria leads to worse infections – EurekAlert
Microbiota-Regulated IL-25 Increases Eosinophil Number to Provide Protection during Clostridium difficile Infection – Erica L. Buonomo – Cell Reports
Animal microbiome
Genome-wide survey of gut fungi (Harpellales) reveals the first horizontally transferred ubiquitin gene from a mosquito host – Yan Wang – Molecular Biology and Evolution
In barn swallows: Stress response, gut microbial diversity and sexual signals correlate with social interactions – Iris I. Levin – Biology Letters
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Plant Host and Geographic Location Drive Endophyte Community Composition in the Face of Perturbation – Natalie Christian – Microbial Ecology
Perspective: Soil immune responses – Jos M. Raaijmakers – Science
Water and extremophile microbiome
Microbes in mercury-enriched geothermal springs in western North America – Gill G. Geese – Science of The Total Environment
Environmental Disturbances Decrease the Variability of Microbial Populations within Periphyton – Cristina M. Herren – mSystems
Metagenomics unveils the attributes of the alginolytic guilds of sediments from four distant cold coastal environments – Marina N. Mato – Environmental Microbiology
Built environment microbiome
Commentary: Avoiding Pandemic Fears in the Subway and Conquering the Platypus – A. Gonzalez – mSystems
Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ by Surface Type and Interaction with Humans and the Environment – Tiffany Hsu – mSystems
Press: ‘Bugs’ on the subway: Monitoring the microbial environment to improve public health – EurekAlert
Diversity and Activity of Communities Inhabiting Plastic Debris in the North Pacific Gyre – Jessica A. Bryant – mSystems
Food microbiology
Culture-independent bacterial community profiling of carbon dioxide treated raw milk – Raquel Lo – International Journal of Food Microbiology
Metagenomics and bioinformatics
MetaPalette: a k-mer Painting Approach for Metagenomic Taxonomic Profiling and Quantification of Novel Strain Variation – David Koslicki – mSystems
Bayesian identification of bacterial strains from sequencing data – Aravind Sankar – Microbial Genomics
MetaTreeMap: An Alternative Visualization Method for Displaying Metagenomic Phylogenic Trees – Maxime Hebrard – PLOS ONE
Proteomics and metabolomics
MPLEx: a Robust and Universal Protocol for Single-Sample Integrative Proteomic, Metabolomic, and Lipidomic Analyses – Ernesto S. Nakayasu – mSystems
An Integrated Metabolomic and Genomic Mining Workflow To Uncover the Biosynthetic Potential of Bacteria – Maria Maansson – mSystems
Techniques
16S rRNA gene sequencing of mock microbial populations- impact of DNA extraction method, primer choice and sequencing platform – Fiona Fouhy – BMC Microbiology
Preservation Methods Differ in Fecal Microbiome Stability, Affecting Suitability for Field Studies – Se Jin Song – mSystems
Moleculo Long-Read Sequencing Facilitates Assembly and Genomic Binning from Complex Soil Metagenomes – Richard Allen White III – mSystems
A Universal Next-Generation Sequencing Protocol To Generate Noninfectious Barcoded cDNA Libraries from High-Containment RNA Viruses – Lindsey A. Moser- mSystems
Fungal identification biases in microbiome projects – Leho Tedersoo – Environmental Microbiology Reports
Microbes in the news
Germs in the Subway Are the Harmless Kind – Nicholas Bakalar – New York Times
An Industrial Microbiologist Who Adds Biofuel to the Fire – Nandita Jayaraj – The Wire India
Interview of Faculty of Clinical Microbiology, Prof. Generalov Igor Ivanovich, at VSMU, Belarus – LinkedIn
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