July 28, 2018

Have a good weekend! For this Saturday, we have more than 60 articles! 

Including: A set of reviews about mother, delivery and neonate microbiome; relationship between microbiome and cancer and Alzheimer; microbiome in primate models, reviews about pathogens and more…

 

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Gut Mycobiota and Fungal Metabolites in Human Homeostasis – Izabella Mogilnicka – Current Drug Targets

Review: Dietary Protein and Muscle in Aging People: The Potential Role of the Gut Microbiome – Mary Ni Lochlainn – Nutrients

Review: The interplay between neutrophils and microbiota in cancer – Carolyne K. Smith – Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Review: Flux, Impact, and Fate of Halogenated Xenobiotic Compounds in the Gut – Siavash Atashgahi – Frontiers in Physiology

Review: Akkermansia muciniphila in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract: When, Where, and How? – Sharon Y. Geerlings – Microorganisms

Review: Considering gut microbiota disturbance in the management of Helicobacter pylori infection – Loris R. Lopetuso – Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Microbiome Analyses for Toxicological Studies – Jacquelynn Benjamino – Current Protocols in Toxicology

Editorial: Caesarean-Section and Neonatal Gut Microbiome: Short and Long Term Effects and New Targets for Early Prevention – Giannattasio A. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: C-section and the Neonatal Gut Microbiome Acquisition: Consequences for Future Health – Arboleya S. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: Birth Mode-Related Differences in Gut Microbiota Colonization and Immune System Development – Francino M.P.  – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: Intervention for Dysbiosis in Children Born by C-Section – Francavilla R. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: Gut Microbiota Composition in Healthy Japanese Infants and Young Adults Born by C-Section – Nagpal R. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: Dysbiosis in Children Born by Caesarean Section – Salas Garcia M.C. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

 

Human Gut

Association between Alzheimer’s Disease and Oral and Gut Microbiota: Are Pore Forming Proteins the Missing Link? – Aguayo, Sebastian –  Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

Gut microbiome analysis as a tool towards targeted non-invasive biomarkers for early hepatocellular carcinoma – Zhigang Ren – Gut

A Multi-omic Association Study of Trimethylamine N-Oxide – Ohad Manor – Cell Reports

Gut Bacterial Microbiota and its Resistome Rapidly Recover to Basal State Levels after Short-term Amoxicillin-Clavulanic Acid Treatment in Healthy Adults – Chad W. MacPherson – Scientific Reports

Cost-effectiveness analysis of ribotype-guided fecal microbiota transplantation in Chinese patients with severe Clostridium difficile infection – Minghuan Jiang – PLoS ONE

Microbiota Quality and Mitochondrial Activity Link with Occurrence of Muscle Cramps in Hemodialysis Patients using Citrate Dialysate: A Pilot Study – Durand P.-Y. – Blood Purification

Gut microbiota, dietary intakes and intestinal permeability reflected by serum zonulin in women – S. Mörkl – European Journal of Nutrition

Analysis of the Enteric Microbiome: First Tentative Steps Towards a Comprehensive Work-up of Prostate Cancer? – Ilaria Cavarretta – European Urology

 

Human Respiratory Tract

Respiratory Microbiome Profiling for Etiologic Diagnosis of Pneumonia in Mechanically Ventilated Patients – Georgios D. Kitsios – Frontiers in Microbiology

Oropharyngeal microbiome evaluation highlights Neisseria abundance in active celiac patients – Laura Iaffaldano – Scientific Reports

 

Newborn and Mother Microbiome

Maternal antimicrobial use at delivery has a stronger impact than mode of delivery on bifidobacterial colonization in infants: a pilot study – Naruaki Imoto – Journal of Perinatology

 

Human Urinary/Reproductive Tract

Endocervical and vaginal microbiota in South African adolescents with asymptomatic Chlamydia trachomatis infection – Christina Balle – Scientific Reports

Introduction: Microbes in the female reproductive function, do they matter? – Carlos Simon – Fertility and Sterility

 

Human Skin

Relations between epidermal barrier dysregulation and staphylococci-dominated microbiome dysbiosis in atopic dermatitis – Can Altunbulakli – Atopic Dermatitis Research

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Associations Between Nutrition, Gut Microbiome, and Health in A Novel Nonhuman Primate Model – Jonathan B. Clayton – Scientific Reports

Diarrhea-Associated Intestinal Microbiota in Captive Sichuan Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) – Hui Zhu – Microbes and Environments

An orally administered oral pathobiont and commensal have comparable and innocuous systemic effects in germ-free mice – Keisuke Sato – Journal of Periodontal Disease

Effects of dietary tryptophan supplementation in the acetic acid-induced colitis mouse model – Shuai Chen – Food and Nutrition

Early-life stress leads to sex-dependent changes in pubertal timing in rats that are reversed by a probiotic formulation – Caitlin S. M. Cowan – Developmental Psychobiology

A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway – Emilie U. Andersen-Ranberg – Microorganisms

Gut microbiota influences Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis by regulating acetate in Drosophila model – Yan Kong – Future Microbiology

Elevated Seawater Temperatures Decrease Microbial Diversity in the Gut of Mytilus coruscus – Yi-Feng Li – Frontiers in Physiology

Microbiome-metabolomics Analysis of the Impacts of Long-term Dietary Advanced Glycation End Products Consumption on the C57BL/6 Mouse Fecal Microbiota and Metabolite Perturbation – Wanting Qu – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Papio spp. Colon microbiome and its link to obesity in pregnancy – XuanJi Li – Journal of Medical Primatology

Combination of Aronia, Red Ginseng, Shiitake Mushroom and Nattokinase Potentiated Insulin Secretion and Reduced Insulin Resistance with Improving Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis in Insulin Deficient Type 2 Diabetic Rats – Hye Jeong Yang – Nutrients

Short and long-term effects of a synbiotic on clinical signs, the fecal microbiome, and metabolomic profiles in healthy research cats receiving clindamycin: a randomized, controlled trial – Jacqueline C. Whittemore​ – PeerJ

Lactobacillus plantarum ZDY04 exhibits a strain-specific property of lowering TMAO via the modulation of gut microbiota in mice – Liang Qiu – Food and Function

Diet induced maternal obesity affects offspring gut microbiota and persists into young adulthood – Yanjie Guo – Food and Function

Antibiotic-induced acceleration of type 1 diabetes alters maturation of innate intestinal immunity – Xue-Song Zhang – eLife

Clostridium butyricum Attenuates Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress-Induced Depressive-Like Behavior in Mice via the Gut-Brain Axis – Jing Sun – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

 

Food Microbiome

Analysis of Fish Commonly Sold in Local Supermarkets Reveals the Presence of Pathogenic and Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Communities – Ama Okyere – Microbiology Insights

Short communication: Profiling white wine seed vinegar bacterial diversity through viable counting, metagenomic sequencing and PCR-DGGE – Vesna Milanović – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Acyl-homoserine-lactones receptor LuxR of Shewanella baltica involved in the development of microbiota and spoilage of refrigerated shrimp – Jinxin Jie – Journal of Food Science and Technology

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Probiotics against airway allergy: host factors to consider – Irina Spacova – Disease Model and Mechanisms

Abundance of gut Prevotella at baseline and metabolic response to barley prebiotics – Jonna Sandberg – European Journal of Nutrition

Letter: Effect of Metformin or Chinese Herbal Formula in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Hyperlipidemia: A Reassessment – Venu Gopal Jonnalagadda – mBio

Coreopsis Tinctoria Modulates Lipid Metabolism by Decreasing Low-Density Lipoprotein and Improving Gut Microbiota – Ren Z. – Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry

 

Pathogen Research

Review: Recent insights into Shigella – Stephen Baker – Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Review: Cholera: recent updates – Ana A. Weil – Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

 

Soil and Plant Microbiome

Microbial community assembly differs across minerals in a rhizosphere microcosm – Thea Whitman – Environmental Microbiology

Bipartite interactions, antibiotic production and biosynthetic potential of the Arabidopsis leaf microbiome – Eric J. N. Helfrich – Nature Microbiology

Vineyard under-vine floor management alters soil microbial composition, while the fruit microbiome shows no corresponding shifts – Ming-Yi Chou – Scientific Reports

 

Methods

Methodology: A two-stage microbial association mapping framework with advanced FDR control – Jiyuan Hu – Microbiome

A Comprehensive Study on Predicting Functional Role of Metagenomes Using Machine Learning Methods – Jyotsna Talreja Wassan – IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Generalized Linear Models with Linear Constraints for Microbiome Compositional Data – Jiarui Lu – Biometrics

Analyzing differences between microbiome communities using mixture distributions – Konstantin Shestopaloff – Statistics in Medicine

Pathomimetic modeling of human intestinal diseases and underlying host-gut microbiome interactions in a gut-on-a-chip – Woojung Shin – Methods in Cell Biology

 

Other

A year of monitoring 20 mesophilic full-scale bioreactors reveals the existence of stable but different core microbiomes in bio-waste and wastewater anaerobic digestion systems – Magdalena Calusinska – Biotechnology for Biofuels

 

July 26, 2018

Altered intestinal phage populations in murine colitis, degradation of aromatic compounds by the wheat rhizosphere, barley products change the gut microbiota composition of rats.

General microbiome

Defining microbiome function – Jonathan L Klassen – Nature Microbiology

Electroactive microorganisms and microbial consortia – Enrico Marsili – Bioelectrochemistry

Humanome Versus Microbiome: Games of Dominance and Pan-Biosurveillance in the Omics Universe – Manousos E Kambouris – OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

Human respiratory microbiome

The nasopharyngeal microbiota in patients with viral respiratory tract infections is enriched in bacterial pathogens – Sophie Edouard – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Human oral microbiome

Paired analysis of the microbiota between surface tissue swabs and biopsies from pediatric patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy – James Johnston – International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Bacterial endotoxins and microorganisms in the oral cavities of patients on cancer therapy – J Mathews – Microbial Pathogenesis

Human gut microbiome

Assessing the Viability of a Synthetic Bacterial Consortium on the In Vitro Gut Host-microbe Interface – Marta Calatayud Arroyo – Journal of Visualized Experiments

Altered gut microbiota profile in patients with generalized anxiety disorder – Hai-yin Jiang – Journal of Psychiatric Research

Animal experiments

Beneficial changes of gut microbiota and metabolism in weaned rats with Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM and Bifidobacterium lactis Bi-07 supplementation – Mengxia Wang – Journal of Functional Foods

Diammonium Glycyrrhizinate Protects against Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in mice through modulation of gut microbiota and restoring intestinal barrier – Yun Li – Molecular Pharmaceuticals

Animal microbiome

Altering the Gut Microbiome of Cattle: Considerations of Host-Microbiome Interactions for Persistent Microbiome Manipulation – Brooke A Clemmons – Microbial Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbial community response to growing season and plant nutrient optimisation in a boreal Norway spruce forest – Julia C Haas – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Diversity and Co-occurrence Patterns of Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in Seven Intercropping Systems – Sen Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Metatranscriptome Analysis Deciphers Multifunctional Genes and Enzymes Linked With the Degradation of Aromatic Compounds and Pesticides in the Wheat Rhizosphere – Dhananjaya P Singh – Frontiers in Microbiology

Genome variations between rhizosphere and bulk soil ecotypes of a Pseudomonas koreensis population – Lucas Dantas Lopes – Environmental Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Comparative microbial communities in tidal flats sediment on Incheon, South Korea – Hye Jin Choi – The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Food microbiology

Fucoidan alleviates dyslipidemia and modulates gut microbiota in high-fat diet-induced mice – Min Liu – Journal of Functional Foods

Polyphenolic derivatives from mango (Mangifera Indica L.) modulate fecal microbiome, short-chain fatty acids production and the HDAC1/AMPK/LC3 axis in rats with DSS-induced colitis – Hyemee Kim – Journal of Functional Foods

Jaboticaba berry peel intake increases short chain fatty acids production and prevent hepatic steatosis in mice fed high-fat diet – Ângela Giovana Batista – Journal of Functional Foods

Bioavailability of Isoflavone Metabolites After Korean Fermented Soybean Paste (Doenjang) Ingestion in Estrogen‐Deficient Rats – Da-Hye Lee – Journal of Food Science

Barley Products of Different Fibre Composition Selectively Change Microbiota Composition in Rats – Cristina Teixeira – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Probiotics/prebiotics

A soy-based probiotic drink modulates the microbiota and reduces body weight gain in diet-induced obese mice – Juliana de Carvalho Marchesin – Journal of Functional Foods

Probiotics in cystic fibrosis patients: A double blind crossover placebo controlled study: Pilot study from the ESPGHAN Working Group on Pancreas/CF – Stephanie Van Biervliet – Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

Probiotics in Pediatric Gastroenterology: Emerging Indications – Elena Scarpato – Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Phages and viruses

Murine colitis reveals a disease-associated bacteriophage community – Breck A Duerkop – Nature Microbiology

Widespread anti-CRISPR proteins in virulent bacteriophages inhibit a range of Cas9 proteins – Alexander P Hynes – Nature Communications

Bioinformatics

A marginalized two-part Beta regression model for microbiome compositional data – Haitao Chai – PLOS Computational Biology

Metabolomics

Simultaneous HS-SPME GC-MS determination of short chain fatty acids, trimethylamine and trimethylamine N-oxide for gut microbiota metabolic profile – Jessica Fiori – Talanta

Techniques

Balances: a New Perspective for Microbiome Analysis – J Rivera-Pinto – mSystems

Coupling magnetic-nanoparticle mediated isolation (MMI) and stable isotope probing (SIP) for identifying and isolating the active microbes involved in phenanthrene degradation in wastewater with higher resolution and accuracy – Jibing Li – Water Research

July 25, 2018

Today’s digest consists of opinion paper from European MyNewGut project, review article on gut microbiota dysbiosis, and meta-analysis to find association between antibiotic associated microbiota perturbation and childhood obesity. Also includes application of contraceptive rings and probiotic capsules to increase vaginal lactobacilli, and how preprint publishing could create confusion in public journalism!

General microbiome

Towards microbiome-informed dietary recommendations for promoting metabolic and mental health: Opinion papers of the MyNewGut project – Yolanda Sanz – Clinical Nutrition

Review: The gut microbiota: A new target in the management of alcohol dependence? – Sophie Leclercq – Alcohol

Review: Low diversity gut microbiota dysbiosis: drivers, functional implications and recovery – Michael Kriss – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: Environmental factors, gut microbiota, and colorectal cancer prevention – Mingyang Song – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Review: The association between antibiotic use in infancy and childhood overweight or obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis – SA Miller – Obesity Reviews

Multi-site human microbiome

Unique subgingival microbiota associated with periodontitis in cirrhosis patients – Anders Jensen – Scientific Reports

Human respiratory microbiome

A Metagenomic Comparison of Tracheal Aspirate and Mini-Bronchial Alveolar Lavage for Assessment of Respiratory Microbiota – Katrina Kalantar – bioRxiv

Human vaginal microbiome

Contraceptive rings promote vaginal lactobacilli in a high bacterial vaginosis prevalence population: A randomised, open-label longitudinal study in Rwandan women – Tania Crucitti – PlosOne

Comparative phase I randomized open-label pilot clinical trial of Gynophilus® (Lcr regenerans®) immediate release capsules versus slow release muco-adhesive tablets – Caroline Dausset – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Association Between Intestinal Microbiota Collected at Hospital Admission and Outcomes of Patients with Cirrhosis – Jasmohan S Bajaj – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Animal experiments

Butyrate regulates inflammatory cytokine expression without affecting oxidative respiration in primary astrocytes from spontaneously hypertensive rats – Tao Yang – Physiological Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Quantitative stable isotope probing with H218O reveals that most bacterial taxa in soil synthesize new ribosomal RNA – Katerina Papp – The ISME Journal

Community structure and plant growth-promoting potential of cultivable bacteria isolated from Cameroon soil – Gylaine VT Tchakounte – Microbiological Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Effects of mercury addition on microbial community composition and nitrate removal inside permeable reactive barriers – Kenly Hiller-Bittrolff – Environmental Pollution

Food microbiology

Food Chemicals Disrupt Human Gut Microbiota Activity And Impact Intestinal Homeostasis As Revealed By In Vitro Systems – Clemence Defois – Scientific Reports

Polyol-producing lactic acid bacteria isolated from sourdough and their application to reduce sugar in a quinoa-based milk substitute – Stephanie Jeske – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Probiotics in cystic fibrosis patients: A double blind crossover placebo controlled study: Pilot study from the ESPGHAN Working Group on Pancreas/CF – Stephanie Van Biervliet – Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

Phages and viruses

Parvovirus Minute Virus of Mice Interacts with Sites of Cellular DNA Damage to Establish and Amplify its Lytic Infection – Kinjal Majumder – eLife

Techniques

Review: The evolving interface between synthetic biology and functional metagenomics – Eric Van der Helm – Nature Chemical Biology

Targeted analysis of microbial-generated phenolic acid metabolites derived from grape flavanols by gas chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry – Eileen Carry – Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Science, publishing, and career 

Preprints could promote confusion and distortion – Nature News

Science-adjacent’ conferences and why they matter – Nature News

Tulika’s non-microbiology picks

Metformin inhibits gluconeogenesis via a redox-dependent mechanism in vivo – Anila K Madiraju – Nature Medicine

 

July 21, 2018

Have a good weekend! Today we have a very interesting list of reviews about different aspects of the microbiome. We have also: the effects of edible crickets on microbiota, steatosis in mice induced by obese human microbiota, the effect of probiotics on patients with fibromyalgia, food chemicals and human microbiota and more…  

 

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Host-Gut Microbiota Crosstalk in Intestinal Adaptation – Justine Marchix – CMGH

Review: The Brain-Gut-Microbiome Axis – Clair R. Martin – CMGH

Brief Report: A Gut Feeling: A Hypothesis of the Role of the Microbiome in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorders – Xue Ming – Child Neurology Open

Preview: Intestinal Tolerance, with a Little Help from Our Microbial Friends – Hélène Descamps – Immunity

Review: Re-framing the theory of autoimmunity in the era of the microbiome: persistent pathogens, autoantibodies, and molecular mimicry – Amy D Proal – Discovery Medicine

Review: The gut microbiota in neuropsychiatric disorders – Marta Grochowska – Acta Neurobiologiciae Expermentalis

Review: Gut Microbiota and Mucosal Immunity in the Neonate – Majda Dzidic – Medical Sciences

Food Chemicals Disrupt Human Gut Microbiota Activity And Impact Intestinal Homeostasis As Revealed By In Vitro Systems – Clémence Defois – Scientific Reports

Research Highlight: Delivery of the gut microbiome – Ashley York – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: Microbiota-Host Crosstalk: A Bridge Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Diet, and Cardiovascular Disease – Jacques Amar – American Journal of Hypertension

Metaproteomics reveals associations between microbiome and intestinal extracellular vesicle proteins in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease – Xu Zhang – Nature Communications

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Non-canonicaly recruited TCRαβCD8αα IELs recognize microbial antigens – Lukasz Wojciech – Scientific Reports

Bilophila wadsworthia aggravates high fat diet induced metabolic dysfunctions in mice – Jane M. Natividad – Nature Communications

Beneficial Impact and Molecular Mechanism of Bacillus coagulans on Piglets’ Intestine – Tao Wu – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Collaborating genomic, transcriptomic and microbiomic alterations lead to canine extreme intestinal polyposis – Jin Wang – Oncotarget

Effects of Intravenous Infusion With Sodium Butyrate on Colonic Microbiota, Intestinal Development- and Mucosal Immune-Related Gene Expression in Normal Growing Pigs – Xue Chen – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbiome Composition in Both Wild-Type and Disease Model Mice Is Heavily Influenced by Mouse Facility – Kristopher D. Parker – Frontiers in Microbiology

Genetically Obese Human Gut Microbiota Induces Liver Steatosis in Germ-Free Mice Fed on Normal Diet – Ruirui Wang  – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Community Composition Reveals Spatial Variation and Distinctive Core Microbiome of the Weaver Ant Oecophylla smaragdina in Malaysia – Kah-Ooi Chua – Scientific Reports

Antibiotic-induced microbiome depletion alters metabolic homeostasis by affecting gut signaling and colonic metabolism – Amir Zarrinpar –  Nature Communications

 

Food Microbiome

Analysis of microbiota on lettuce (Lactuca sativa) cultivated in South Korea to identify foodborne pathogens – Yeon-Cheol – Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Impact of chlorine dioxide disinfection of irrigation water on the epiphytic bacterial community of baby spinach and underlying soil – Pilar Truchado – PLoS One

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Perspective: Green and black tea phenolics – Bioavailability, transformation by colonic microbiota, and modulation of colonic microbiota – Zhibin Liu – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Therapeutic effects of probiotics on neurotoxicity induced by clindamycin and propionic acid in juvenile hamsters – Nora Al-Orf – Metabolic Brain Disease

Impact of Edible Cricket Consumption on Gut Microbiota in Healthy Adults, a Double-blind, Randomized Crossover Trial – Valerie J. Stull – Scientific Reports

Nisin, a potent bacteriocin and anti-bacterial peptide, attenuates expression of metastatic genes in colorectal cancer cell lines – Zohreh Norouzi – Microbial Pathogenesis

A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial to Explore Cognitive and Emotional Effects of Probiotics in Fibromyalgia – Pablo Roman – Scientific Reports

Fiber Supplements Derived From Sugarcane Stem, Wheat Dextrin and Psyllium Husk Have Different In Vitro Effects on the Human Gut Microbiota – Hasinika K. A. H. Gamage –  Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Environmental Microbiology

Effects of Pseudomonas chenduensis and biochar on cadmium availability and microbial community in the paddy soil – Lingjuan Li – Science of The Total Environment

Breeding for soil-borne pathogen resistance impacts active rhizosphere microbiome of common bean – Lucas William Mendes – The ISME Journal

 

Pathogen Research

Exopolysaccharide protects Vibrio cholerae from exogenous attacks by the type 6 secretion system – Jonida Toska – PNAS

The Synergistic Effect of Exogenous Glutamine and Rifampicin Against Mycobacterium Persisters – Xue Huang – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Bioinformatics

Preprint: MetaMaps – Strain-level metagenomic assignment and compositional estimation for long reads – Alexander Dilthey – BioRxiv

 

July 19, 2018

An all-around Digest today features newly discovered Wolbachia in Anopheles mosquitoes that can lead to probiotic therapy for malaria, a novel mechanism for the plants to control rhizosphere microbiota, growth and defense, and fascinating art produced entirely by microbes. Enjoy!

General microbiology

Review: Large noncoding RNAs in bacteria – Kimberly A. Harris & Ronald R. Breaker – Microbiology spectrum

Bioremediation and microbial metabolism of benzo(a)pyrene – E M Ostrem Loss & J H Yu – Molecular Microbiology

Changing of the Genomic Pattern of Salmonella Enteritidis Strains Isolated in Brazil Over a 48 year-period revealed by Whole Genome SNP Analyses – Fábio Campioni et al. – Scientific Reports

Preprint: Host adaptation and convergent evolution increases antibiotic resistance without loss of virulence in a major human pathogen – Alicia Fajardo-Lubian et al. – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

Pregestational overweight and obesity are associated with differences in gut microbiota composition and systemic inflammation in the third trimester – María Florencia Zacarías et al. – PLoS One

Mini-Review: Antibiotics and lactation: An overview of relative infant doses and a systematic assessment of clinical studies – J.J. van Wattum et al. – Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

Human respiratory microbiome

Characterisation of the nasal microbiota in granulomatosis with polyangiitis – Rennie L Rhee et al. – Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Human skin microbiome

Human skin commensals augment Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis – Emma Boldock et al. – Nature Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Unique subgingival microbiota associated with periodontitis in cirrhosis patients – Anders Jensen et al. – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

ACI‐1 beta‐lactamase is widespread across human gut microbiomes in Negativicutes due to transposons harboured by tailed prophages – Chris M Rands et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Review: Recent advances in probiotics as live biotherapeutics against gastrointestinal diseases – Kota RK et al. – Current Pharmaceutical Design

Review: Microbiota–Host Crosstalk: A Bridge Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Diet, and Cardiovascular Disease – Jacques Amar – American Journal of Hypertension

Human built environment microbiome

β-Lactam and Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Recovered from the Environment of Human and Veterinary Tertiary Care Hospitals – Dimitria A. Mathys et al. – Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Metabolomics

Quantitative metabolomics comparison of traditional blood draws and TAP capillary blood collection – Alexis Catala et al. – Metabolomics

Functional genetic discovery of enzymes using full-scan mass spectrometry metabolomics – Amy A. Caudy et al. – Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Animal experiments

Dietary L-Arginine Supplementation Alleviates the Intestinal Injury and Modulates the Gut microbiota in Broiler Chickens Challenged by Clostridium perfringens – Beibei Zhang et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Dissertation: Recent Evolution of Host Genetic Control of Microbiota in Cichlid Fishes and Humans – Kaitlin Patricia Coyle – North Carolina State University

Mouse: Gut Microbiota-Stimulated Innate Lymphoid Cells Support b-Defensin 14 Expression in Pancreatic Endocrine Cells, Preventing Autoimmune Diabetes – Michela Miani et al. – Cell Metabolism

Mouse: In vitro probiotic properties of vaginal Lactobacillus fermentum MG901 and Lactobacillus plantarum MG989 against Candida albicans – Chang-Ho Kang et al. – European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Betaine Improves Intestinal Functions by Enhancing Digestive Enzymes, Ameliorating Intestinal Morphology, and Enriching Intestinal Microbiota in High-salt stressed Rats – Haichao Wang et al. – Nutrients

The evolution of ecological facilitation within mixed-species biofilms in the mouse gastrointestinal tract – Xiaoxi B. Lin et al. – The ISME Journal

Differences Between the Intestinal Lumen Microbiota of Aberrant Crypt Foci (ACF)-Bearing and Non-bearing Rats – Xiuli Xiao et al. – Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Mouse: A selective gut bacterial bile salt hydrolase alters host metabolism – Lina Yao et al. – eLife

Diabetes-Associated Alterations in the Cecal Microbiome and Metabolome are Independent of Diet or Environment in the UC Davis Type 2-Diabetes Mellitus Rat Model – Brian D. Piccolo et al. – American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism

Animal microbiome

Effects of dietary energy levels on rumen bacterial community composition in Holstein heifers under the same forage to concentrate ratio condition – Yanliang Bi et al. – BMC Microbiology

The cecal microbiome of commercial broiler chickens varies significantly by season – Brian B Oakley et al. – Poultry Science

American beaver: Metagenomics reveals functional synergy and novel polysaccharide utilization loci in the Castor canadensis fecal microbiome – Zachary Armstrong et al. – The ISME Journal

High Gut Microbiota Diversity Provides Lower Resistance against Infection by an Intestinal Parasite in Bumblebees – Kathrin Näpflin & Paul Schmid-Hempel – The American Naturalist

Effect of Dietary Fructooligosaccharide (FOS) Supplementation on Ileal Microbiota in Broiler Chickens – Yue Shang et al. – Poultry Science

Arrival date and microorganisms in barn swallows – Z. Al Rubaiee et al. – Journal of Avian Biology

* Preprint: Novel Wolbachia strains in Anopheles malaria vectors from Sub-Saharan Africa – Claire L Jeffries et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Metabolomics analysis of Cajanus cajan L. seedlings unravelled amelioration of stress induced responses to salinity after halopriming of seeds – Sabarni Biswas, Asok K. Biswas & Bratati De – Plant Signaling & Behavior

* Root exudate metabolites drive plant-soil feedbacks on growth and defense by shaping the rhizosphere microbiota – Lingfei Hu et al. – Nature Communications

Water and extremophile microbiome

Abstract: Exploring the relative importance of surficial cyanobacteria communities versus physical, chemical and bioloigical processes at depth on sulfur cycling in two microbial mat environments – Maya Gomes et al. – Caltech Authors

Temperature driven changes in benthic microbial diversity influences biogeochemical cycling in coastal sediments – Natalie Hicks et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Resistance and Recovery of Methane-Oxidizing Communities depends on Stress Regime and History; a Microcosm Study – Henri van Kruistum et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Enterococci Concentrations in a Coastal Ecosystem are a Function of Fecal Source Input, Environmental Conditions, and Environmental Sources – Derek Rothenheber & Stephen Jones – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Agulhas Current properties shape microbial community diversity and potential functionality – Sandra Phoma et al. – Scientific Reports

Microscale ecology regulates particulate organic matter turnover in model marine microbial communities – Tim N. Enke et al. – Nature Communications

Abundance and diversity of prokaryotes in ephemeral hypersaline lake Chott El Jerid using Illumina Miseq sequencing, DGGE and qPCR assays – Manel Ben Abdallah et al. – Extremophiles

Microplastic bacterial communities in the Bay of Brest: Influence of polymer type and size – Laura Frère et al. – Environmental Pollution

Systematic, continental scale temporal monitoring of marine pelagic microbiota by the Australian Marine Microbial Biodiversity Initiative – Mark V. Brown et al. – Scientific Data

Microbes in space

The influence of bioregenerative life‐support system (BLSS) dietary structure and lifestyle on the gut microbiota: A 105‐day ground‐based space simulation in Lunar Palace 1 – Zikai Hao et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics

Harms Reporting in Randomized Controlled Trials of Interventions Aimed at Modifying Microbiota: A Systematic Review – Aïda Bafeta et al. – Annals of Internal Medicine

Lactobacillus acidophilus and Clostridium butyricum ameliorate colitis in murine by strengthening the gut barrier function and decreasing inflammatory factors – Y. Wang et al. – Beneficial Microbes

Technology

Review: Interkingdom microbial consortia mechanisms to guide biotechnological applications – Shu Zhang et al. – Microbial Biotechnology

Establishing a mucosal gut microbial community in vitro using an artificial simulator – LinShu Liu et al. – PLoS One

Bioinformatics

Minimizing confounders and increasing data quality in murine models for studies of the gut microbiome – Jun Miyoshi et al. – PeerJ

Preprint: Macroecological relationships in the dynamics of gut microbiota – Brian W. Ji et al. – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Designer microbiomes – Alfie Gleeson & Abigail Sawyer – BioTechniques

* You need to see this award-winning artwork made entirely from microbes – Irish News

Disgusting Things You Never Knew Your Pets Are Bringing Into Your Home – Amanda Harding – Cheat Sheet

Scientific education

Preprint: Long term impact of intensive post graduate laboratory training at the Cold Spring Harbor Neurobiology of Drosophila summer course – Sarah Ly et al. – bioRxiv

June 26, 2018

Today’s Microbiome Digest cover the topics on bioinformatics; methods and models; trials and therapies; infection and immunity; microbiome of human gut, human vagina, insect, animals, plant, marine; food and nutrition; bioremediation and metabolomics.

 

EVENTS- JOBS – PhD POSITIONS:

Event – Organoids: Modelling Organ Development and Disease in 3D Culture – EMBO| EMBL Symposia

 

NEWS and VIEWS:

Pairing off: a bottom-up approach to the human gut microbiome– Clare Abreu – Molecular Systems Biology

 

BIOINFORMATICS:
Zero-inflated generalized Dirichlet multinomial regression model for microbiome compositional data analysis – Tang ZZ – Biostatistics

 

METHODS and MODELS:

Book Chapter – Methods for Microbiota Analysis: Sample Collection and Laboratory Methods – Saleh Ibrahim – The Microbiome in Rheumatic Diseases and Infection

Review: Culturing the human microbiota and culturomics – Lagier JC – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Using glycolysis enzyme sequences to inform Lactobacillus phylogeny – Katelyn Brandt – Microbial Genomics

Multicenter study establishing the clinical validity of a nucleic-acid amplification-based assay for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis – Cartwright CP – Diagnostics Microbiology and Infectious Disease.

PATENT – SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DEVELOPING AND USING A MICROBIOME-BASED ACTION COMPONENT FOR PATIENT HEALTH – Warren Tracy, Jantzen Tammi Gregory Katherine

 

TRIALS and THERAPIES:

Antimicrobial photodynamic therapy as a new approach for the treatment of vulvovaginal candidiasis: preliminary results – Aline Silva Sousa – Lasers in Medical Science

Review – Prevention of Cystitis: Travelling between the Imaginary and Reality – Vecchio M – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

 

INFECTIONS and IMMUNITY:

Book Chapter – The Impact of Infections on Reproduction and Fertility – VE Jones – Clinical Reproductive Science

Intestinal barrier disruption and dysregulated mucosal immunity contribute to kidney fibrosis in chronic kidney disease – Yang J – Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

In Press: Treatment and Prevention of Recurrent Lower Urinary Tract Infections in Women: A Rapid Review with Practice Recommendations – Ariana l Smith – The Journal of Urology

Book Chapter – Immunology of the Microbiome: Implications for Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Autoimmune Diseases – Daniel M Altmann – The Microbiome in Rheumatic Diseases and Infection

 

VAGINAL MICROBIOME:

Description of three new Peptoniphilus species cultured in the vaginal fluid of a woman diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis: Peptoniphilus pacaensis sp. nov., Peptoniphilus raoultii sp. nov., and Peptoniphilus vaginalis sp. nov. – Diop K – Microbiology Open

 

GUT MICROBIOME: 

Preview – Gut microbiota as a missing link between nutrients and traits of human – Hea-Jong Chung – Frontiers in Microbiology

Preview – The gut-brain axis, the human gut microbiota and their integration in the development of obesity – Edward S Bliss – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review – The Gut Microbiome as a Target for the Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes – Ömrüm Aydin – Current Diabetes reports

Beneficial metabolic effects of 2’, 3’, 5’-tri-acetyl-N6-(3-hydroxylaniline) adenosine in multiple biological matrices and intestinal flora of hyperlipidemic hamsters– Tianqi Li – Journal of Proteome Research

 

ANIMAL MICROBIOME:

Preview – Dynamics of gut microbiota diversity during the early development of an avian host: evidence from a cross-foster experiment – Aimeric Teyssier – Frontiers in Microbiology

Enterococcus faecium WEFA23 from infant lessens high-fat-diet-induced hyperlipidemia via cholesterol 7-alpha-hydroxylase gene by altering the composition of gut microbiota in rats – Fuqing Huang – ScienceDirect

Evaluation of the impact of dental prophylaxis on the oral microbiota of dogs – Flancman R – PloS One

Microbial diversity and community composition of caecal microbiota in commercial and indigenous Indian chickens determined using 16s rDNA amplicon sequencing – Ramesh J Pandit – Microbiome

 

GENERAL MICROBIOME:

Review – Role of nutrition, infection, and the microbiota in the efficacy of oral vaccines – Amrita Bhattacharjee – Clinical Science

Commensal Microbiota Enhance Both Osteoclast and Osteoblast Activities – Yoko Uchida – Molecules

 

PLANT/ROOT/SOIL MICROBIOME:

Editorial – The contribution of plant microbiota to economy growth – Angela Sessitsch – Microbial Biotechnology

Colonization cues of leaf- and root-inhabiting bacterial microbiota of Atractylodes lancea derived in vitro and in vivo – Yong Jia – Plant and Soil

Preview – Complete Genome Sequence of Industrial Biocontrol Strain Paenibacillus polymyxa HY96-2 and Further Analysis of Its Biocontrol Mechanism – Yuanchan Luo – – Frontiers in Microbiology

Genome Sequence of Bacillus megaterium Strain YC4-R4, a Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacterium Isolated from a HighSalinity Environment – Juan Ignacio Vílchez – GenomeAnnouncements

 

INSECT MICROBIOME:

Exposure of soil collembolans to microplastics perturbs their gut microbiota and alters their isotopic composition – DongZhu – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

 

SKIN MICROBIOME:

Book Chapter – Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis – Madhura Castelino – The Microbiome in Rheumatic Diseases and Infection

 

MARINE MICROBIOME:
Metagenomics Sheds Light on the Ecology of Marine Microbes and Their Viruses – Felipe Hernandes Coutinho – Trends in Microbiology

 

NEONATAL/INFANT MICROBIOME:

Communication – Maternal Intrapartum Antibiotic Administration and Infantile Colic: Is there a Connection? – Leppälehto E – Neonatology

Review – Intrauterine Inflammation, Epigenetics, and Microbiome Influences on Preterm Infant Health – Lu L – Current Pathobiology Reports

 

CROSS – POPULATION MICROBIOME:
Similarities and differences in gut microbiome composition correlate with dietary patterns of Indian and Chinese adults – Abhishek Jain – AMB Express

 

PHAGES/VIRUSES:

Genome Sequence of the Pseudomonas protegens Phage GP100 – Jordan Vacheron – GenomeAnnouncements

 

FOOD and NUTRITION:

Plasma and urine metabolite profiling reveals the protective effect of Clinacanthus nutans in an ovalbumin-induced anaphylaxis model: 1H-NMR metabolomics approach – Leng Wei Khoo – Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Drivers that establish and assembly the lactic acid bacteria biota in cheeses – Marco Gobbetti – Trends in Food Science & Technology

The food safety of DP-356Ø43 soybeans on SD rats reflected by physiological variables and fecal microbiota during a 90-day feeding study – Zou S – Regul Toxicol Pharmacol

Fermented Soybean Suppresses Visceral Fat Accumulation in Mice – Kushida M – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Combined Use of C. butyricum Sx-01 and L. salivarius C-1-3 Improves Intestinal Health and Reduces the Amount of Lipids in Serum via Modulation of Gut Microbiota in Mice – Long M – Nutrients

Review – Dietary polyphenols: A novel strategy to modulate microbiota-gut-brain axis – Diana Serra – Trends in Food Science & Technology

 

METABOLOMICS:

Non-invasive urinary metabolomic profiles discriminate biliary atresia from infantile hepatitis syndrome – Wei-Wei Li – Metabolomics

Metabolomics of the amniotic fluid: Is it a feasible approach to evaluate the safety of Chinese medicine during pregnancy? – Jinjun Shan – Journal of Applied Toxicology

Article – A validated, fast method for quantification of sterols and gut microbiome derived 5α/β-stanols in human faeces by isotope dilution LC-high resolution MS – Schoett HF – Analytical Chemistry

 

BIOREMEDIATION:

Bioprospecting for microbes with potential hydrocarbon remediation activity on the northwest coast of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, using DNA sequencing – Mariela Beatriz Reyes-Sosa – Science of The Total Environment

 

ANTIBIOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY:
Skin and nasal vestibule colonisation by Staphylococcus aureus and its susceptibility to drugs in atopic dermatitis patients – Wrobel J – Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

 

 

June 21, 2018

Have a good Thursday! Today: Gut microbiome and brain injury, position statement from the European STI Guidelines Editorial Board about microbial pathogen testing, age-dependent patterns in obesity, bats microbiome changes by diet,  analysis of primate microbiome changes by different diets, and more…

 

Human and General Microbiome

Review: A Review of Traumatic Brain Injury and the Gut Microbiome: Insights into Novel Mechanisms of Secondary Brain Injury and Promising Targets for Neuroprotection –  Caroline S. Zhu – Brain Sciences

Review: Should we be testing for urogenital Mycoplasma hominis, Ureaplasma parvum and U. urealyticum in men and women? – a Position Statement from the European STI Guidelines Editorial Board –  P Horner – JEADV

Preview: What Came First: The Microbiota or the Tr(egg) Cells? – Tal Gefen – Immunity

Colorectal cancer mutational profiles correlate with defined microbial communities in the tumor microenvironment – Michael B. Burns – PLoS Genetics

Microbiome and Bile Acid Profiles in Duodenal Aspirates from Cirrhotics: The Microbiome, Microbial Markers and Liver Disease Study – Jonathan P. Jacobs – Hepatology Research

Phospholipase A2 of Microbiota as Pathogenetic Determinant to Induce Inflammatory States in Ulcerative Colitis: Therapeutic Implications of Phospholipase A2 Inhibitors – Stremmel W – Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases

Gut Microbiota Markers in Obese Adolescent and Adult Patients: Age-Dependent Differential Patterns – Federica Del Chierico – Frontiers in Microbiology

In Vitro Modeling of Bile Acid Processing by the Human Fecal Microbiota – Glynn Martin – Frontiers in Microbiology

Leishmania, microbiota and sand fly immunity – Erich Loza Telleria – Parasitology

 

Animal Microbiome

Intestinal microbial and metabolic profiling of mice fed with high-glucose and high-fructose diets – João C.P. Silva – Journal of Proteome Research

Protective Effects of Salvianolic Acid A against Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Acute Colitis in Rats – Kai Wang – Nutrients

Changes in bacterial diversity and composition in the faeces and colon of weaned piglets after feeding fermented soybean meal –  Jia-jia Zhu – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Fecal Bacteriome and Mycobiome in Bats with Diverse Diets in South China – Juan Li – Current Microbiology

Gut Microbiome Composition in Non-human Primates Consuming a Western or Mediterranean Diet – Ravinder Nagpal – Frontiers in Nutrition

Dietary Deoxynivalenol Contamination and Oral Lipopolysaccharide Challenge Alters the Cecal Microbiota of Broiler Chickens – Annegret Lucke – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbiome niche modification drives diurnal rumen community assembly, overpowering individual variability and diet effects – Yoav Shaani – The ISME Journal

Metabolomic signatures distinguish the impact of formula carbohydrates on disease outcome in a preterm piglet model of NEC – Lee Call – Microbiome

 

Environmental Microbiome

Dissecting Community Structure in Wild Blueberry Root and Soil Microbiome – Svetlana N. Yurgel – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Plant Microbiome

Review: Belowground Microbiota and the Health of Tree Crops – Jesús Mercado-Blanco – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Other papers

Aspergillus fumigatus Inhibits Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Co-culture: Implications of a Mutually Antagonistic Relationship on Virulence and Inflammation in the CF Airway – Emma Reece – Frontiers in Microbiology

Absolute quantitation of microbiota abundance in environmental samples – Andrzej Tkacz – Microbiome

March 28, 2018

The impact of the microbiota on bone marrow transplantation in mice, differences in phage infection efficiency in nearly identical hosts, bacterial diversity of Brazilian artisanal cheese.

Events and jobs

Research Associate in the Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, School of Life Cours – King’s College London

Research Associate in Department of Twin Research_School of Life Course Sciences – King’s College London

General microbiome

Variations in the relative abundance of Wolbachia in the gut of Nasutitermes arborum across life stages and castes – Michel Diouf – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Pregnancy and early life

HIV-exposure, early life feeding practices and delivery mode impacts on faecal bacterial profiles in a South African birth cohort – Shantelle Claassen-Weitz – Scientific Reports

Human respiratory microbiome

Exacerbation induces a microbiota shift in sputa of COPD patients – Eric Jubinville – PLOS ONE

Human oral microbiome

Review: Insights into the human oral microbiome – Digvijay Verma – Archives of Microbiology

Pre-print: Characterization of the salivary microbiome in people with obesity – Yujia Wu – PeerJ

Review: The oral microbiota – a mechanistic role for systemic diseases – G Jia – British Dental Journal

Human gut microbiome

Differences in epidemiological features between ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease: the early life-programmed versus late dysbiosis hypothesis – Laurent Beaugerie – Medical Hypotheses

Analysis of changes in intestinal flora and intravascular inflammation and coronary heart disease in obese patients – Xv Li – Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Animal experiments

Nutritional Support from the Intestinal Microbiota Improves Hematopoietic Reconstitution after Bone Marrow Transplantation in Mice – Anna Staffas – Cell Host & Microbe

High salt intake increases plasma trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) concentration and produces gut dysbiosis in rats – Klaudia Bielinska – Nutrition

High salt diet exacerbates colitis in mice by decreasing Lactobacillus levels and butyrate production – Pedro M Miranda – Microbiome

The Pancreatic Cancer Microbiome Promotes Oncogenesis by Induction of Innate and Adaptive Immune Suppression – Smruti Pushalkar – Cancer Discovery

Predominant gut Lactobacillus murinus strain mediates anti-inflammaging effects in calorie-restricted mice – Fengwei Pan – Microbiome

Deletion of choline acetyltransferase in enteric neurons results in postnatal intestinal dysmotility and dysbiosis – Carl D Johnson – The FASEB Journal

At-hatch administration of probiotic to chickens can introduce beneficial changes in gut microbiota – Stephen Baldwin – PLOS ONE

Impact of parenteral antimicrobial administration on the structure and diversity of the fecal microbiota of growing pigs – Mohamed Zeineldin – Microbial Pathogenesis

Pre-print: Metabolic retroconversion of trimethylamine N-oxide and the gut microbiota – Lesley Hoyles – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Isolation of a natural DNA virus of Drosophila melanogaster, and characterisation of host resistance and immune responses – William H Palmer – bioRxiv

Proanthocyanidin‐Rich Grape Seed Extract Modulates Intestinal Microbiota in Ovariectomized Mice – Guangwen Jin – Journal of Food Science

Evaluation of the nutrition and function of cow and goat milk based on intestinal microbiota by metagenomic analysis – Zhaoxia Wang – Food & Function

Animal microbiome

Pre-print: Characterisation of gut microbiota of farmed Chinook salmon using metabarcoding – Milica Ciric – bioRxiv

Variation in the microbiome of the urogenital tract of Chlamydia-free female koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) with and without ‘wet bottom’ – Alistair R Legione – PLOS ONE

Pre-print: Characterization of shifts of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) intestinal microbial communities associated with antibiotic treatment – Katherine E Dahlhausen – PeerJ

Comparison of gizzard and intestinal microbiota of wild neotropical birds – M Alexandra García-Amado – PLOS ONE

Fecal microbiota in the female prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster) – J Thomas Curtis – PLOS ONE

Disentangling factors that shape the gut microbiota in German Shepherd dogs – Åsa Vilson – PLOS ONE

Yeast culture dietary supplementation modulates gut microbiota, growth and biochemical parameters of grass carp – Han Liu – Microbial Biotechnology

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Gestating Sows and Neonatal Offspring Alters Lifetime Intestinal Microbiota and Growth in Offspring – Ursula M McCormack – mSystems

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Tetracycline resistance genes are more prevalent in wet soils than in dry soils – Yijun Kang – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Functional diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungal communities is reduced by trace element contamination – Álvaro López-García – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Long- and short-term effects of mercury pollution on the soil microbiome – Aline Frossard – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Structure of surface polysaccharides from Aeromonas sp. AMG272, a plant-growth promoting rhizobacterium isolated from rice rhizosphere – Rocío Contreras Sánchez-Matamoros – Carbohydrate Research

Review: Sniffing bacterial volatile compounds for healthier plants – Rouhallah Sharifi – Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi influence decomposition and the associated soil microbial community under different soil phosphorus availability – Jing Xu – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Water and extremophile microbiome

Habitat filtering of bacterioplankton communities above polymetallic nodule fields and sediments in the Clarion-Clipperton zone of the Pacific Ocean – Markus V Lindh – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Microbial communities in seawater from an Arctic and a temperate Norwegian fjord and their potentials for biodegradation of chemically dispersed oil at low seawater temperatures – Deni Ribicic – Marine Pollution Bulletin

Built environment

Pre-print: Half-lives of PAHs and temporal microbiota changes in commonly used urban landscaping materials – Marja I Roslund – PeerJ

Food microbiology

Interspecies variation in biofilm-forming capacity of psychrotrophic bacterial isolates from Chinese raw milk – Lei Yuan – Food Control

Bacterial diversity of artisanal cheese from the Amazonian region of Brazil during the dry and rainy seasons – Mayra Carla de Freitas Martins – Food Research International

Probiotics/prebiotics

Salecan stabilizes the microstructure and improves the rheological performance of yogurt – Renjie Fu – Food Hydrocolloids

Probiotic Lactobacillus casei Zhang (LCZ) alleviates respiratory, gastrointestinal & RBC abnormality via immuno-modulatory, anti-inflammatory & anti-oxidative actions – Yan-Yan Hor – Journal of Functional Foods

Routine Supplementation of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Risk of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Very Low Birth Weight Infants – Andrea F Kane – The Journal of Pediatrics

Phages and viruses

Continued Need for Comprehensive Genetic and Phenotypic Characterization of Viruses: Benefits of Complementing Sequence Analyses with Functional Determinations – Aaron C Brault – The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Detection of Hantaviruses and Arenaviruzses in three-toed jerboas from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China – Zhiqiang Wu – Emerging Microbes & Infections

Enteric Virome Sensing—Its Role in Intestinal Homeostasis and Immunity – Rebecca N Metzger – Viruses

Commentary: Bacteriophage transfer during faecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection is associated with treatment outcome – Blessing O Anonye – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Multiple mechanisms drive phage infection efficiency in nearly identical hosts – Cristina Howard-Verona – The ISME Journal

Early MinION™ nanopore single-molecule sequencing technology enables the characterization of hepatitis B virus genetic complexity in clinical samples – Virginie Sauvage – PLOS ONE

A metagenomic viral discovery approach identifies potential zoonotic and novel mammalian viruses in Neoromicia bats within South Africa – Marike Geldenhuys – PLOS ONE

Pre-print: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of viral plasticity – Melinda Choua – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

Pre-print: Taxonomy annotation errors in 16S rRNA and fungal ITS sequence databases – Robert C Edgar – bioRxiv

Metabolomics

Analysis of paper foxing by newly available omics techniques – Justyna Szulc – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Review: Targeting human urinary metabolome by LC–MS/MS: a review – Jose Rodríguez-Morató – Bioanalysis

GC-MS Based Metabolomics and NMR Spectroscopy Investigation of Food Intake Biomarkers for Milk and Cheese in Serum of Healthy Humans – Alessia Trimigno – Metabolites

Techniques

KatharoSeq Enables High-Throughput Microbiome Analysis from Low-Biomass Samples – Jeremiah J Minich – mSystems

eDNA from roots: a robust tool for determining Phytophthora communities in natural ecosystems – Ihsanul Khaliq – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

A silica sands-based method for faithful analysis of microbial communities and DNA isolation from a wide range of species – Xia Liu – Preparative Biochemistry and Biotechnology

More microbes

Review: New therapeutics from Nature: The odd case of the bacterial cytotoxic necrotizing factor 1 – Zaira Maroccia – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Pre-print: An attenuated CRISPR-Cas system in Enterococcus faecalis permits DNA acquisition – Karthik Hullahalli – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Here’s Why Antibiotics May Give Viruses a Leg Up – Christopher Wanjek – Live Science

‘Nanobot’ viruses tag and round up bacteria in food and water – Carolyn Wilke – ScienceNews

Your rubber ducky is probably crawling with bacteria, scientists say – STAT

Newly discovered bacteria can break down biomass – Phys.Org

Microbes on the market

Biocodex funds microbiome research on link between diet, colon cancer, IBD – Healio

Rebiotix’s Lee Jones to Receive TRUST 2018 Courageous Women in Health Care Award – PR Newswire

February 24, 2018

100+ alerts today with interesting papers across every category. Some highlights include choosing FMT donors, viral insulin-like peptides, and 2 papers on detecting duplicated figures.

General microbiome
Review: The microbiome in precision medicine: the way forward. – Joseph F Petrosino – Genome Medicine

Motivations of participants in the citizen science of microbiomics: data from the British Gut Project. – Lorenzo Del Savio – Genetics In Medicine : Official Journal Of The American College Of Medical Genetics

Pregnancy and early life
The Role of the Genitourinary Microbiome in Pediatric Urology: a Review. – Daniel Gerber – Current Urology Reports

Review: Reproductive outcome of patients undergoing in vitro fertilization treatment and diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis or abnormal vaginal microbiota: a systematic PRISMA review and meta-analysis. – Thor Haahr – Bjog : An International Journal Of Obstetrics And Gynaecology

Multi-site human microbiome
Review: The Vagus Nerve at the Interface of the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis. – Bruno Bonaz – Frontiers In Neuroscience

Human vaginal microbiome
Protein Content of Cervicovaginal Fluid Is Altered During Bacterial Vaginosis. – Carolina Sanitá Tafner Ferreira – Journal Of Lower Genital Tract Disease

Human nearly-sterile sites
Microbiome-Host Interactions in Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplant Recipients. – Tessa Andermann – Biology Of Blood And Marrow Transplantation : Journal Of The American Society For Blood And Marrow Transplantation

Human gut microbiome
** Competitively Selected Donor Fecal Microbiota Transplantation: Butyrate Concentration and Diversity as Measures of Donor Quality. – Danielle Barnes – Journal Of Pediatric Gastroenterology And Nutrition

Metagenomic Characterization of the Human Intestinal Microbiota in Fecal Samples from STEC-Infected Patients. – Federica Gigliucci – Frontiers In Cellular And Infection Microbiology

ReviewHuman Gut Microbiota and Gastrointestinal Cancer. – Changting Meng – Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics

Review: Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Intestinal Immunity Mediated by Tryptophan Metabolism. – Jing Gao – Frontiers In Cellular And Infection Microbiology

Microbial interactions
Competitive resource allocation to metabolic pathways contributes to overflow metabolisms and emergent properties in cross-feeding microbial consortia. – Ross P Carlson – Biochemical Society Transactions

Worlds Apart – Transcriptome Profiles of Key Oral Microbes in the Periodontal Pocket Compared to Single Laboratory Culture Reflect Synergistic Interactions. – Zhi-Luo Deng – Frontiers In Microbiology

Using niche breadth theory to explain generalization in mutualisms – Rebecca T. Batstone – Ecology

Metabolic division of labor in microbial systems – Ryan Tsoi – PNAS

Expanded diversity of microbial groups that shape the dissimilatory sulfur cycle – Karthik Anantharaman – ISME

Review: Bacterial – Fungal Interactions: ecology, mechanisms and challenges. – A Deveau – Fems Microbiology Reviews

Role of extracellular polymeric substances in polymicrobial biofilm infections of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Candida albicans modelled in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. – Jillian E Holt – Pathogens And Disease (older, from July 2017)

Animal experiments
Acute and repeated exposure to social stress reduces gut microbiota diversity in Syrian hamsters. – Katherine A Partrick – Behavioural Brain Research

1H NMR based identification of intestinally-absorbed metabolites by Ussing chamber analysis of the rat cecum. – Meredith Dinges – Analytical Chemistry

Influence of gemcitabine chemotherapy on the microbiota of pancreatic cancer xenografted mice. – Concetta Panebianco – Cancer Chemotherapy And Pharmacology

Grape seed proanthocyanidins influence gut microbiota and enteroendocrine secretions in female rats. – Àngela Casanova-Martí – Food & Function

Combined Dietary Anthocyanins, Flavonols, and Stilbenoids Alleviate Inflammatory Bowel Disease Symptoms in Mice. – Aurelia Scarano – Frontiers In Nutrition

Ubc9 overexpression and SUMO1 deficiency blunt inflammation after intestinal ischemia/reperfusion. – Jörn Karhausen – Laboratory Investigation; A Journal Of Technical Methods And Pathology

Glucocorticosteroids and ciclosporin do not significantly impact canine cutaneous microbiota. – Giovanni Widmer – Bmc Veterinary Research

The effects of high dose of two manganese supplements (organic and inorganic) on the rumen microbial ecosystem. – Svetlana Kišidayová – Plos One

Hydrogen peroxide production by lactobacilli promotes epithelial restitution during colitis. – Ashish K Singh – Redox Biology

Neuroprotective effects of fecal microbiota transplantation on MPTP-induced Parkinson’s disease mice: gut microbiota, glial reaction and TLR4/TNF-α signaling pathway. – Meng-Fei Sun – Brain, Behavior, And Immunity

Rotenone induces gastrointestinal pathology and microbiota alterations in a rat model of Parkinson’s disease. – Michaela E Johnson – Neurotoxicology

Prenatal Androgen Exposure Causes Hypertension and Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis. – Shermel Sherman – Gut Microbes

Dominance of Endozoicomonas bacteria throughout coral bleaching and mortality suggests structural inflexibility of the Pocillopora verrucosa microbiome – Claudia Pogoreutz – Ecology And Evolution

Gut microbiota modulates adoptive cell therapy via CD8α dendritic cells and IL-12. – Mireia Uribe-Herranz – Jci Insight

Animal microbiome
Spatial Heterogeneity and Co-occurrence of Mucosal and Luminal Microbiome across Swine Intestinal Tract. – Li Zhang – Frontiers In Microbiology

Characterization of gut bacterial flora of Apis mellifera from north-west Pakistan – Syed Ishtiaq Anjum – Saudi Journal Of Biological Sciences

A Member of the Roseobacter Clade, Octadecabacter sp., is the Dominant Symbiont in the Brittle Star Amphipholis squamata. – Kathleen M Morrow – Fems Microbiology Ecology

Alimentary microbes of winter-form Drosophila suzukii. – M T Fountain – Insect Molecular Biology

The development of gut microbiota in ostriches and its association with juvenile growth – Elin Videvall – bioRxiv

Review: Regulation of intestinal health by branched-chain amino acids. – Hua Zhou – Animal Science Journal = Nihon Chikusan Gakkaiho

Book chapter: Termite Gut Microbiome – Navodita Maurice – Sustainability in Plant and Crop Protection

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Compositional shifts in root-associated bacterial and archaeal microbiota track the plant life cycle in field-grown rice. – Joseph A Edwards – Plos Biology

Quantitative Genetic Analysis of the Maize Leaf Microbiome – Jason G. Wallace – bioRxiv

 

Variable response of nirK and nirS containing denitrifier communities to long term pH manipulation and cultivation. – Miriam B Herold – Fems Microbiology Letters

Landscape topography structures the soil microbiome in arctic polygonal tundra. – Neslihan Taş – Nature Communications

Effects of soil depth and plant-soil interaction on microbial community in temperate grasslands of northern China. – Xiaodong Yao – The Science Of The Total Environment

Seasonal dynamics in the community structure and trophic structure of testate amoebae inhabiting the Sanjiang peatlands, Northeast China. – Lihong Song – European Journal Of Protistology

Investigation of rhizospheric microbial communities in wheat, barley and two rice varieties at the seedling stage. – Tao Lu – Journal Of Agricultural And Food Chemistry

Increasing N deposition impacts neither diversity nor functions of deadwood-inhabiting fungal communities, but adaptation and functional redundancy warrants ecosystem function. – Witoon Purahong – Environmental Microbiology

Belowground Interactions Impact the Soil Bacterial Community, Soil Fertility, and Crop Yield in Maize/Peanut Intercropping Systems. – Qisong Li – International Journal Of Molecular Sciences

Lost in diversity: the interactions between soil-borne fungi, biodiversity and plant productivity. – Liesje Mommer – The New Phytologist

Isolation and characterization of N2 -fixing bacteria from giant reed and switchgrass for plant growth promotion and nutrient uptake – Jia Xu – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Structural diversity across arbuscular mycorrhizal, ectomycorrhizal, and endophytic plant-fungus networks – Hirokazu Toju – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome
Seasonal variability in the persistence of dissolved environmental DNA (eDNA) in a marine system: The role of microbial nutrient limitation. – Ian Salter – Plos One

Elevated temperature drives kelp microbiome dysbiosis, while elevated carbon dioxide induces water microbiome disruption. – Jeremiah J Minich – Plos One

Elevated seawater temperature disrupts the microbiome of an ecologically important bioeroding sponge. – Blake D Ramsby – Molecular Ecology

Microbial Diversity and Mineralogical-Mechanical Properties of Calcitic Cave Speleothems – Navdeep K Dhami – Frontiers In Microbiology

Microbial Community Structure and Function Indicate the Severity of Chromium Contamination of the Yellow River. – Yaxin Pei – Frontiers In Microbiology

Assessing the microbial communities inhabiting drinking water networks and nitrifying enrichments with special respect on nitrifying microorganisms. – Zsuzsanna Nagymáté – Acta Microbiologica Et Immunologica Hungarica

Microbial community composition along a 50,000 year lacustrine sediment sequence. – Aurèle Vuillemin – Fems Microbiology Ecology

Diversity of Rare and Abundant Prokaryotic Phylotypes in the Prony Hydrothermal Field and Comparison with Other Serpentinite-Hosted Ecosystems. – Eléonore Frouin – Frontiers In Microbiology

Sediment bacteria in an urban stream: Spatiotemporal patterns in community composition – Alescia A. Roberto – Water Research

Built environment
Dog introduction alters the home dust microbiota. – Alexandra Sitarik – Indoor Air

Urbanization Reduces Transfer of Diverse Environmental Microbiota Indoors. – Anirudra Parajuli – Frontiers In Microbiology

Removal of artificial sweeteners and their effects on microbial communities in sequencing batch reactors. – Shaoli Li – Scientific Reports

Microbes in space
Soil microbial habitats in an extreme desert Mars-analogue environment – Kimberley Warren-Rhodes – bioRxiv

Food microbiology
** Editorial: Microbiome Yarns: human milk oligosaccharides, Bifidobacterium and immunopowergames. – Kenneth Timmis – Microbial Biotechnology

Detection of Bacterial DNA During the Process of Sake Production Using Sokujo-Moto. – Momoka Terasaki – Current Microbiology

A Walnut-Enriched Diet Affects Gut Microbiome in Healthy Caucasian Subjects: A Randomized, Controlled Trial. – Charlotte Bamberger – Nutrients

Impact of Chemical and Biological Fungicides Applied to Grapevine on Grape Biofilm, Must, and Wine Microbial Diversity. – Rocío Escribano-Viana – Frontiers In Microbiology

Review: The Promising Pharmacological Effects and Therapeutic/Medicinal applications of Punica Granatum L. (Pomegranate) as a Functional Food in Humans and Animals. – Kuldeep Dhama – Recent Patents On Inflammation & Allergy Drug Discovery

Probiotics / prebiotics / antibiotics
Bile-Salt-Hydrolases from the Probiotic Strain – Thibault Allain – Frontiers In Microbiology

** A reservoir of ‘historical’ antibiotic resistance genes in remote pristine Antarctic soils. – Marc W Van Goethem – Microbiome

PAHs accelerate the propagation of antibiotic resistance genes in coastal water microbial community. – Jing Wang – Environmental Pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)

Short-term Oral Antibiotics Treatment Promotes Inflammatory Activation of Colonic Invariant Natural Killer T and Conventional CD4 – Claudia Burrello – Frontiers In Medicine

Comparative genomic analysis of the multispecies probiotic-marketed product VSL#3 – François P. Douillard – Plos One

A probiotic complex, rosavin, zinc, and prebiotics ameliorate intestinal inflammation in an acute colitis mouse model. – Jin-Sil Park – Journal Of Translational Medicine

Phages and viruses
** Viral insulin-like peptides activate human insulin and IGF-1 receptor signaling: A paradigm shift for host-microbe interactions. – Emrah Altindis – Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America

Quantitative Viral Community DNA Analysis Reveals the Dominance of Single-Stranded DNA Viruses in Offshore Upper Bathyal Sediment from Tohoku, Japan. – Mitsuhiro Yoshida – Frontiers In Microbiology

A virus or more in (nearly) every cell: ubiquitous networks of virus-host interactions in extreme environments. – Jacob H Munson-McGee – The Isme Journal

Bioinformatics
MUGAN: Multi-GPU accelerated AmpliconNoise server for rapid microbial diversity assessment. – Byunghan Lee – Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

Techniques
Time Radically Alters Ex Situ Evidentiary Soil 16S Bacterial Profiles Produced Via Next-Generation Sequencing – Alyssa J. Badgley – Forensic Sciences

Non-biological synthetic spike-in controls and the AMPtk software pipeline improve mycobiome data – Jonathan M Palmer – bioRxiv

Genomes
Complete Genome Sequence and Genomic Characterization of – Won-Hyong Chung – Frontiers In Pharmacology

Luteimonas rhizosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from the rhizosphere of Triticum aestivum L. –  Guo-Yan Zhao – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Science, publishing, and career
Testing Hypotheses on Risk Factors for Scientific Misconduct via Matched-Control Analysis of Papers Containing Problematic Image Duplications – Daniele Fanelli – Scientific and Engineering Ethics

Bioscience-scale automated detection of figure element reuse – Daniel E Acuna – bioRxiv

November 6, 2017

Today we have an interesting digest with several articles about human microbiome. Additionally, today we also remark part of the recently release book “Understanding the Gut-Bone Signaling Axis”, with interesting chapters treating the connections between microbiota and bone health.

(Each file with an asterisk in the start contains open access to fulltext)

 

Human Microbiome

Bone Mechanical Function and the Gut Microbiota – C. J. Hernandez – Understanding the Gut-Bone Signaling Axis (SpringerLink)

Prebiotics and Bone – Corrie M. Whisner – Understanding the Gut-Bone Signaling Axis (SpringerLink)

Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Effects on Bone and Mechanisms – Francisco A. Sylvester – Understanding the Gut-Bone Signaling Axis (SpringerLink)

Immunology of Gut-Bone Signaling – Fraser L. Collins –  Understanding the Gut-Bone Signaling Axis (SpringerLink)

Gut Microbiota and Bone Health – Darin Quach – Understanding the Gut-Bone Signaling Axis (SpringerLink)

Increased stool immunoglobulin A level in children with autism spectrum disorders – Jiaxiu Zhou – Research in Developmental Disabilities (ScienceDirect)

Gut Microbiota and Cancer Patients: A Broad-Ranging Relationship – Giovanni Cammarota – Mayo Clinic Proceedings

* Less Invasive Screening for Colorectal Cancer by Microbiota Analysis: Is it a Reality or an Illusion? – Hisashi Onodera – EBIoMedicine

Safety and Efficacy of Fecal Microbiota Transplant for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection in Patients With Cancer Treated With Cytotoxic Chemotherapy: A Single-Institution Retrospective Case Series – Mehrdad Hefazi – Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Gastric microbial community profiling reveals a dysbiotic cancer-associated microbiota – Rui M Ferreira – Gut (BMJ)

Gut microbiota and hypertension: From pathogenesis to new therapeutic strategies – Yongbo Kang – Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology (ScienceDirect)

Associations Between Microbiota, Mitochondrial Function, and Cognition in Chronic Marijuana Users – Jun Panee – Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology

Genetic mannose binding lectin deficiency is associated with airway microbiota diversity and reduced exacerbation frequency in COPD – Alison J Dicker – Thorax (BMJ)

Molecular characterization of Multidrug Resistant Bacteroides isolates from Hungarian clinical samples – Károly Péter Sárvária – Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance (ScienceDirect)

* Commentary: Human Intestinal Microbiota and Colorectal Cancer: Moving Beyond Associative Studies – Christian Jobin – Gastroenterology

Faecal microbiota transplantation versus placebo for moderate-to-severe irritable bowel syndrome: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, single-centre trial – Peter Holger Johnsen – The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Estrogens and Female Liver Health – Karen L. Chena – Steroids (ScienceDirect)

 

Beneficial microbes

(Provisionally accepted, Full text available soon) Probiotic Bacteria Alter Pattern-Recognition Receptor Expression and Cytokine Profile in a Human Macrophage Model Challenged with Candida albicans and Lipopolysaccharide – Victor H. Matsubara – Frontiers in Microbiology

* Butyrate and propionate inhibit antigen-specific CD8+ T cell activation by suppressing IL-12 production by antigen-presenting cells – Claudia Nastasi – Scientific Reports (NPG)

 

Animal Microbiome

(Provisionally accepted, Full text available soon) The Gut Entomotype of Red Palm Weevil Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier (Coleoptera: Dryophthoridae) and Their Effect on Host Nutrition Metabolism – Abrar Muhammad – Frontiers in Microbiology

Porcine small and large intestinal microbiota rapidly hydrolyze the masked mycotoxin deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside and release deoxynivalenol in spiked batch cultures in vitro – Silvia W. Gratz – Applied and Environmental Microbiology (ASM)

A stable core gut microbiota across fresh- to saltwater transition for farmed Atlantic salmon – Knut Rudi – Applied and Environmental Microbiology (ASM)

Fecal microbiota transplant from highly feed efficient donors shows little effects on age-related changes in feed efficiency-associated fecal microbiota in chickens – Sina-Catherine Siegerstetter – Applied and Environmental Microbiology (ASM)

Short communication: The effect of heat treatment of bovine colostrum on the concentration of oligosaccharides in colostrum and in the intestine of neonatal male Holstein calves – Amanda J. Fischer – Journal of Dairy Science

* Progressive Colonization of Bacteria and Degradation of Rice Straw in the Rumen by Illumina Sequencing – Yanfen Cheng – Frontiers in Microbiology

* Neuroprotective effect of Ruminococcus albus on oxidatively stressed SH-SY5Y cells and animals – Jieun Park – Scientific Reports (NPG)

* Gut dysbiosis and impairment of immune system homeostasis in perinatally-exposed mice to Bisphenol A precede obese phenotype development – Yann Malaisé – Scientific Reports (NPG)

Impact of Enteric Health and Mucosal Permeability on Skeletal Health and Lameness in Poultry – L. R. Bielke – Understanding the Gut-Bone Signaling Axis (SpringerLink)

Gut Microbiota Are Disease-Modifying Factors After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury – Kristina A. Kigerl – Neurotherapeutics (SpringerLink)

 

Food Microbes

(Provisionally accepted, Full text available soon) Extractive Fermentation of Lactic Acid in Lactic Acid Bacteria Cultivation: A Review – Majdiah Othman – Frontiers in Microbiology

* Diversity within Italian Cheesemaking Brine-Associated Bacterial Communities Evidenced by Massive Parallel 16S rRNA Gene Tag Sequencing – Marilena Marino – Frontiers in Microbiology

The main spoilage-related psychrotrophic bacteria in refrigerated raw milk – J.C. Ribeiro Júnior – Journal of Dairy Science

* Preprint: Kombucha as a model system for multispecies microbial cooperation: theoretical promise, methodological challenges and new solutions ‘in solution’ – Alexander Niall May – BioRxiv

* New microbial resource: microbial diversity, function and dynamics in Chinese liquor starter – Yuhong Huang – Scientific Reports (NPG)

 

Environmental Microbes

(Provisionally accepted, Full text available soon) Illumina-Based Analysis of Endophytic and Rhizosphere Bacterial Diversity of the Coastal Halophyte Messerschmidia sibirica – Xueying Tian – Frontiers in Microbiology

Perturbation of seafloor bacterial community structure by drilling waste discharge – Tan T. Nguyen – Marine Pollution Bulletin