Category Archives: Human reproductive or urinary

June 16, 2023

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Today’s digest features indigenous chicken in Ethiopia, drug effects on gut microbiome, beach water microbial risk assessment, and more. See you at #MVIF next week!

Microbial ecology

Guild and Niche Determination Enable Targeted Alteration of the Microbiome – Oriane Moyne – bioRxiv

Genital microbiome

Interaction of genital microbiota in infertile couples – David Baud – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

Emergence of community behaviors in the gut microbiota upon drug treatment – Sarela Garcia-Santamarina – bioRxiv

Skin microbiome

Skin microbiome differentiates into distinct cutotypes with unique metabolic functions upon exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – Marcus H. Y. Leung – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia – Laura Glendinning – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Effects of fenbendazole on fecal microbiome in BPH/5 mice, a model of hypertension and obesity, a brief report – Kalie F. Beckers – Plos One

Gut microbiota and cognitive development in infant mice: Quantity and source of potable water – Chong-Su Kim and Dong-Mi Shin – Plos One

Plant microbiome

Globally consistent response of plant microbiome diversity across hosts and continents to soil nutrients and herbivores – Eric W. Seabloom – Nature Communications

Methodology

Processing and Storage Methods Affect Oral and Gut Microbiome Composition – Dorothy K. Superdock – bioRxiv

QMRA of beach water by Nanopore sequencing-based viability-metagenomics absolute quantification – Yu Yang – Water Research

Bioinformatics

ResFinderFG v2.0: a database of antibiotic resistance genes obtained by functional metagenomics – Rémi Gschwind – Nucleic Acids Research

May 12, 2023

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Today’s digest features studies on human respiratory tract, mouse models, bovine milk microbiome, and more. See you at #MVIF next week!

Respiratory tract microbiome

Review: Ecology of the respiratory tract microbiome – Ana Elena Pérez-Cobas – Trends in Microbiology

Cervicovaginal microbiome

The cervical microbiota of Hispanics living in Puerto Rico is highly volatile and dominated by Lactobacillus iners regardless of HPV status – Daniela Vargas-Robles – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

Key determinants of success in fecal microbiota transplantation: From microbiome to clinic – Serena Porcari – Cell Host & Microbes

Profiling the human intestinal environment under physiological conditions – Dari Shalon – Nature

Interaction between gut microbiota and sex hormones and their relation to sexual dimorphism in metabolic diseases – Jose Antonio Santos-Marcos – Biology of Sex Differences

Persistent delay in maturation of the developing gut microbiota in infants with cystic fibrosis – Paige Salerno – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Metagenomic analysis of milk microbiota in the bovine subclinical mastitis – Giulia Alessandri – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

MetaPhlAn 4 profiling of unknown species-level genome bins improves the characterization of diet-associated microbiome changes in mice – Paolo Manghi – Cell Reports

Bioinformatics

ResMiCo: Increasing the quality of metagenome-assembled genomes with deep learning – Olga Mineeva – Plos Computational Biology

Technique

Catch me if you can: capturing microbial community transformation by extracellular DNA using Hi-C sequencing – David Calderón-Franco – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Built environment

The microbiome of an outpatient rehabilitation clinic and predictors of contamination: A pilot study – Gabriella Brigando – PlosOne

April 19, 2023

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Pregnancy and early life

[REVIEW]The maternal gut microbiome during pregnancy and its role in maternal and infant health – Sinha et al. – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Independent Effects of HIV and Antiretroviral Therapy on the Oral Microbiome Identified by Multivariate Analyses – Beall et al. – mBio

[REVIEW]Oral microbial changes and oral disease management before and after the treatment of hematological malignancies: a narrative review – Lin et al. – Clinical Oral Investigations

Human vaginal microbiome

[REVIEW]Gardnerella Revisited: Species Heterogeneity, Virulence Factors, Mucosal Immune Responses, and Contributions to Bacterial Vaginosis – Shvartsman et al. – Infection and Immunity

Human gut microbiome/virome

[REVIEW]Intrahost evolution of the gut microbiota – Barreta & Gordo – Nature Reviews Microbiology

The gut microbiota contributes to the pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa in humans and mice – Fan et al. – Nature Microbiology

Altered human gut virome in patients undergoing antibiotics therapy for Helicobacter pylori – Wang et al. – Nature Communications

Antibiotic treatment using amoxicillin-clavulanic acid impairs gut mycobiota development through modification of the bacterial ecosystem – Spatz et al. – Microbiome

Metabolic independence drives gut microbial colonization and resilience in health and disease – Watson et al. – Microbiome

Development of the gut microbiota in the first 14 years of life and its relations to internalizing and externalizing difficulties and social anxiety during puberty – Ou et al. – European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Reconstructing the landscape of gut microbial species across 29,000 diverse individuals – Segota et al. – NAR

Microbiomic profiles of bile in patients with benign and malignant pancreaticobiliary disease – Poudel et al. – PLOS One

Seasonal variations in gut microbiota and disease course in patients with inflammatory bowel disease – Tani et al. – PLOS One

The convergent application of metabolites from Avena sativa and gut microbiota to ameliorate non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a network pharmacology study – Oh et al. – Journal of Translational Medicine volume

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Effects of Extended Cage Component Sanitation Interval on the Microenvironment, Health, and Gastrointestinal Microbiome of Rats (Rattus norvegicus) – Taylor et al. – Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science

Music-based interventions in the feeding environment on the gut microbiota of mice – Niu et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Characterisation of the koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) pouch microbiota in a captive population reveals a dysbiotic compositional profile associated with neonatal mortality – Maidment et al. – Microbiome

[PREPRINT]Microbiome variability of mosquito lines is consistent over time and across environments – Accoti et al. – bioRxiv

Differences in the luminal and mucosal gut microbiomes and metabolomes of oriental rat snake (Ptyas mucosus) – Wei et al. – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Bioinformatics

Improved eukaryotic detection compatible with large-scale automated analysis of metagenomes – Bazant et al. – Microbiome

Techniques

Functional gene-guided enrichment plus in situ microsphere cultivation enables isolation of new crucial ureolytic bacteria from the rumen of cattle – Liu et al. – Microbiome

April 14, 2023

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Today’s reading recommendation includes microbiome from sites with low anthropogenic impact, drinking water microbiome, and more.

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See you at #MVIF next week!

Global resistome

Global trends in antimicrobial resistance on organic and conventional farms – Eldon Ager – bioRxiv

*Microbiome diversity: A barrier to the environmental spread of antimicrobial resistance? – Uli Klümper – bioRxiv

Mother-to-infant microbiome

Mother-to-infant microbiota transmission and infant microbiota development across multiple body sites – Debby Bogaert – Cell Host & Microbe

Human gut microbiome

The Local Tumor Microbiome Is Associated with Survival in Late-Stage Colorectal Cancer Patients – Justine W. Debelius – Microbiology Spectrum

Exploring Bifidobacterium species community and functional variations with human gut microbiome structure and health beyond infancy – Ruben Ladeira, Julien Tap, Muriel Derrien – Microbiome Research Reports

Water microbiome

The microbial dark matter and “wanted list” in worldwide wastewater treatment plants – Yulin Zhang – Microbiome

*Microbiome, resistome and mobilome of chlorine-free drinking water treatment systems – David Calderón-Franco – Water Research

Animal experiment

Probiotics of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei SD1 and Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus SD11 attenuate inflammation and β-cell death in streptozotocin-induced type 1 diabetic mice – Jongdee Nopparat – PlosOne

Antibiotic treatment using amoxicillin-clavulanic acid impairs gut mycobiota development through modification of the bacterial ecosystem – Madeleine Spatz – Microbiome

*Experimental Factors Influence Diversity Metrics of the Gut Microbiome in Laboratory Mice – Rikeish R. Muralitharan – bioRxiv

Virome & phages

Expanding known viral diversity in the healthy infant gut – Shiraz A. Shah – Nature Microbiology

Large-scale phage cultivation for commensal human gut bacteria – Juntao Shen – Cell Host & Microbe

Methodology

Reducing bias in microbiome research: Comparing methods from sample collection to sequencing – Jolanda Kool – Frontiers in Microbiology

In Vitro Modelling of Oral Microbial Invasion in the Human Colon – Lucie Etienne-Mesmin – Microbiology Spectrum

Bioinformatics

Improved eukaryotic detection compatible with large-scale automated analysis of metagenomes – Wojtek Bazant – Microbiome

March 9, 2023

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Today’s digest features studies on latent and established antibiotic resistance genes in microbiomes, newborn skin microbiome, drinking water microbiome after COVID-19 pandemic, and more. Listen to the science behind The Last of Us!

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Antibiotic resistome

*Latent antibiotic resistance genes are abundant, diverse, and mobile in human, animal, and environmental microbiomes – Juan Salvador Inda-Díaz – Microbiome

Human skin

*The skin microbiome in the first year of life and its association with atopic dermatitis – Alexis Rapin – Allergy

Urinary tract

Review: Microbiome in urological diseases: Axis crosstalk and bladder disorders – Hae Woong Choi – Investigative and Clinical Urology

Human gut

Human microbiome variance is underestimated – Fergus Shanahan – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Population-level impacts of antibiotic usage on the human gut microbiome – Kihyun Lee – Nature Communications

Microbial community-scale metabolic modeling predicts personalized short-chain-fatty-acid production profiles in the human gut – Nick Bohmann – bioRxiv

Review: Milk glycan metabolism by intestinal bifidobacteria: insights from comparative genomics – Aleksandr A. Arzamasov & Andrei L. Osterman – Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Guts Imbalance Imbalances the Brain: A Review of Gut Microbiota Association With Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders – Laura Mitrea – Frontiers in Medicine

Drinking water

*Gradual Recovery of Building Plumbing-Associated Microbial Communities after Extended Periods of Altered Water Demand during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Solize Vosloo – Environmental Science & Technology

February 13, 2023

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Today’s reading recommendation is a microbiota review collection edited by Lindsay Hall and Melanie Schirmer.

Happy Monday and see you at #MVIF!

Vaginal microbiome

Gardnerella Diversity and Ecology in Pregnancy and Preterm Birth – Hanna L. Berman – bioRxiv

Heterogeneity of the group B streptococcal type VII secretion system and influence on colonization of the female genital tract – Brady L. Spencer – bioRxiv

Urinary microbiome

Comparative Genomic Study of Streptococcus anginosus Reveals Distinct Group of Urinary Strains – Ananya Prasad – mSphere

Human gut

Gut microbes predominantly act as symbiotic partners rather than raw nutrients – Nuno Felipe da Silva Soares – bioRxiv

Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota – Lisa E Lamberte, Willem van Schaik – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Identifying glycan consumers in human gut microbiota samples using metabolic labeling coupled with fluorescence-activated cell sorting – Lharbi Dridi – Nature Communications

Animal experiments

Over supplementation with vitamin B12 alters microbe-host interactions in the gut leading to accelerated Citrobacter rodentium colonization and pathogenesis in mice – Andrew J. Forgie – Microbiome

Disturbance of lipid metabolism in germ-free mice transplanted with gut microbiota of DSS-induced colitis mice – Chungho Lee – Plos One

Bioinformatics

Accurate and fast graph-based pangenome annotation and clustering with ggCaller – Samuel T. Horsfield – bioRxiv

Brief report: uBin – a manual refining tool for genomes from metagenomes – Till L V Bornemann – Environmental Microbiology

In-situ metagenomics: A platform for rapid sequencing and analysis of metagenomes in less than one day – Javier Tamames – bioRxiv

The virtual microbiome: A computational framework to evaluate microbiome analyses – Belén Serrano-Antón – Plos One

November 23, 2022

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General microbiome

[PREPRINT]Patterns and determinants of the global herbivorous mycobiome – Meili et al. – bioRxiv

[EDITORIAL]Helicobacter pylori: Have potential benefits been overlooked? – Schubert et al. – JGH Open

Pregnancy and early life

Mechanisms affecting the gut of preterm infants in enteral feeding trials: a nested cohort within a randomised controlled trial of lactoferrin – Young et al. – Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed

Human oral microbiome

Ancient oral microbiomes support gradual Neolithic dietary shifts towards agriculture – Quagliariello et al. – Nature Communications

Human vaginal microbiome

[PREPRINT]Longitudinal dynamics of the human vaginal ecosystem across the reproductive cycle – Costello et al. – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Maternal obesity and resistance to breast cancer treatments among offspring: Link to gut dysbiosis – Andrade, Verma & Hilakivi-Clark

Atypical enteropathogenic E. coli are associated with disease activity in ulcerative colitis – Baumgartner et al. – Gut Microbes

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Impact of antibiotic perturbation on fecal viral communities in mice – Anderson et al. – G3

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Assessing Fungal Diversity and Abundance in the Black Soldier Fly and its Environment – Vitenberg & Opatovsky – Journal of Insect Science

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Bacterial communities vary across populations and tissue type in red mangroves (Rhizophora mangle, Rhizophoraceae) along an expanding front – Scherer, Mason & Rast – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Bioinformatics

proGenomes3: approaching one million accurately and consistently annotated high-quality prokaryotic genomes – Fullam et al. – NAR

[PREPRINT]Sparsification of Large Ultrametric Matrices: Insights into the Microbial Tree of Life – Gorman & Lladser

Techniques

[PREPRINT]Soil metatranscriptomics: An improved RNA extraction method toward functional analysis using nanopore direct RNA sequencing – Poursalavati et al. – bioRxix

November 14, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Genetic regulation of serum IgA levels and susceptibility to common immune, infectious, kidney, and cardio-metabolic traits – Lili Liu – Nature Communications

Kidney microbiota dysbiosis contributes to the development of hypertension – Xin-Yu Liu – Gut Microbes

Gut mycobiota dysbiosis in drug-naïve, first-episode schizophrenia – Xiuxia Yuan – Schizophrenia Research

Transcriptomic analysis reveals an association of FCGBP with Parkinson’s disease – Pilar Gómez-Garre – NPJ Parkinson’s Disease

Integration of stool microbiota, proteome and amino acid profiles to discriminate patients with adenomas and colorectal cancer – Sofie Bosch – Gut Microbes

Human gut homeostasis and regeneration: the role of the gut microbiota and its metabolites – Claudia Marcela Arenas-Gómez – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Colibactin possessing E. coli isolates in association with colorectal cancer and their genetic diversity among Pakistani population – Habiba Tariq – PloS one

Intestinal toxicity to CTLA-4 blockade driven by IL-6 and myeloid infiltration – Yifan Zhou – The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Genome-microbiome interplay provides insight into the determinants of the human blood metabolome – Christian Diener – Nature Metabolism

Vaginal microbiota in women with spontaneous preterm labor versus those with term labor in Kenya: a case control study – Edgar Gulavi – BMC Microbiology

Characteristics of oral microbiome of healthcare workers in different clinical scenarios: a cross-sectional analysis – Zhixia Zhang – BMC Oral Health

Multi-kingdom gut microbiota analyses define COVID-19 severity and post-acute COVID-19 syndrome – Qin Liu – Nature Communications

Characterization of antibiotic-resistance traits in Akkermansia muciniphila strains of human origin – Rossella Filardi – Scientific Reports

Food Microbiome

Causality Verification for the Correlation between the Presence of Nonstarter Bacteria and Flavor Characteristics in Soft-Type Ripened Cheeses – Ryosuke Unno – Microbiology Spectrum

Animal Microbiome

Microbiota of healthy and bleached corals of the species Siderastrea stellata in response to river influx and seasonality in Brazilian northeast – Gustavo Vasconcelos Bastos Paulino – Environmental Science and Pollution Research International

Environmental Microbiome

Exploring structure, microbiota, and metagenome functions of epigean and hypogean black deposits by microscopic, molecular and bioinformatic approaches – Beatrice Farda – Scientific Reports

Plant Microbiome

High throughput method of 16S rRNA gene sequencing library preparation for plant root microbial community profiling – Kie Kumaishi – Scientific Reports

Sugarcane cultivation practices modulate rhizosphere microbial community composition and structure – Ana Paula Corrêa Moneda – Scientific Reports

Effects of Two Bacillus velezensis Microbial Inoculants on the Growth and Rhizosphere Soil Environment of Prunus davidiana – Huimin Shi – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Review: Climate change and plant pathogens – Muhammad M Raza – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Faecal microbiome-based machine learning for multi-class disease diagnosis – Qi Su – Nature Communications

Wochenende – modular and flexible alignment-based shotgun metagenome analysis – Ilona Rosenboom – BMC Genomics

De novo identification of microbial contaminants in low microbial biomass microbiomes with Squeegee – Yunxi Liu – Nature Communications

November 02, 2022

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General microbiome

[RETRACTION]Metagenomic analysis exploring taxonomic and functional diversity of bacterial communities of a Himalayan urban fresh water lake – Ahmad et al. – PLOS One

Pregnancy and early life

A distinct clade of Bifidobacterium longum in the gut of Bangladeshi children thrives during weaning – Vatanen et al. – Clee

Multi-site human microbiome

[REVIEW]Recent advances in systemic lupus erythematosus and microbiota: from bench to bedside – Zhan et al. –

Human vaginal microbiome

Identification of shared bacterial strains in the vaginal microbiota of related and unrelated reproductive-age mothers and daughters using genome-resolved metagenomics – France et al. – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome dysbiosis in antibiotic-treated COVID-19 patients is associated with microbial translocation and bacteremia – Bernard-Raichon et al. – Nature Communications

Gut microbiota and myocardial fibrosis – Xu, Yang & Bao – European Journal of Pharmacology

Assessing the relationship between physical activity and the gut microbiome in a large, population-based sample of Wisconsin adults – Holzhausen et al. – PLOS One

Challenges and costs of donor screening for fecal microbiota transplantations – Bernard et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Gut colonization by Proteobacteria alters host metabolism and modulates cocaine neurobehavioral responses – Cuesta et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

Enriching captivity conditions with natural elements does not prevent the loss of wild-like gut microbiota but shapes its compositional variation in two small mammals – Koziol et al. – Microbiology Open

Understanding the Dynamic of POMS Infection and the Role of Microbiota Composition in the Survival of Pacific Oysters, Crassostrea gigas – Delisle et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Changes in Gut Microbiota Structure: A Potential Pathway for Silver Nanoparticles to Affect the Host Metabolism – Wang et al. – ACS Nano

Skin microbiota of oxazolone-induced contact hypersensitivity mouse model – Mäenpää et al. – PLOS One

Effects of a farm-specific fecal microbial transplant (FMT) product on clinical outcomes and fecal microbiome composition in preweaned dairy calves – Slanzon et al. – PLOS One

Multiomics Characterization of the Canada Goose Fecal Microbiome Reveals Selective Efficacy of Simulated Metagenomes – Gil & Hird – Microbiology Spectrum

Uropygial gland microbiota differ between free-living and captive songbirds – Grieves et al. – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Crop management shapes the diversity and activity of DNA and RNA viruses in the rhizosphere – Muscatt et al. – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

CRAMdb: a comprehensive database for composition and roles of microbiome in animals – Lei et al. – NAR

Techniques

DNA extraction bias is more pronounced for microbial eukaryotes than for prokaryotes – Brauer & Bengtsson – Microbiology Open

synDNA—a Synthetic DNA Spike-in Method for Absolute Quantification of Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing – Zaramela et al. – mSystems

September 21, 2022

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Human respiratory microbiome

The Microbiota of Human Lung of Pulmonary Tuberculosis and the Alteration Caused by Anti-tuberculosis Drugs – Zhang et al. – Current Microbiology

Human urinary microbiome

Mechanisms of the intestinal and urinary microbiome in kidney stone disease – Miller et al. – Nature Reviews Urology

Human oral microbiome

Comparison of tumor-associated and nontumor-associated esophageal mucosa microbiota in patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma – Zhang et al. – Medicine

Human gut microbiome

Differential co-expression networks of the gut microbiota are associated with depression and anxiety treatment resistance among psychiatric inpatients – Thompson et al. – Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Early fecal microbiome transfer after donor defecation determines response in patients with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis – Singh et al. – Indian Journal of Gastroenterology

[REVIEW]Modulatory role of gut microbiota in cholesterol and glucose metabolism: Potential implications for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease Atherosclerosis – Roessler et al. – Atherosclerosis

Landscape of the gut archaeome in association with geography, ethnicity, urbanization, and diet in the Chinese population – Bai et al. – Microbiome

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Metabolic reconstitution of germ-free mice by a gnotobiotic microbiota varies over the circadian cycle – Hoces et al. – PLOS Biology

Inhibitory effects of antibiotic-induced gut microbiota depletion on acute itch behavior in mice – Zhang et al. – Brain Research Bulletin

RhoB affects colitis through modulating cell signaling and intestinal microbiome – Yang et al. – Microbiome

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Community and shotgun metagenomic analysis of Alligator mississippiensis oral cavity and GI tracts reveal complex ecosystems and potential reservoirs of antibiotic resistance – Perez-Marron et al. – Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Microbiome composition is shaped by geography and population structure in the parasitic wasp Asobara japonica, but not in the presence of the endosymbiont Wolbachia – Brinker et al. – Molecular Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Mangrove microbial community recovery and their role in early stages of forest recolonization within shrimp ponds – Loiola et al. – Science of The Total Environment

[REVIEW]Current understanding of plant-microbe interaction through the lenses of multi-omics approaches and their benefits in sustainable agriculture – Diwan, Rashid & Vaishnav – Microbiological Research

Mitigating abiotic stress: microbiome engineering for improving agricultural production and environmental sustainability – Phour & Sindhu – Planta

[OPINION]Plant microbiota dysbiosis and the Anna Karenina Principle – Arnault, Money & Vandenkoornhuyse

Food microbiology

Anthocyanin Addition to Kefir: Metagenomic Analysis of Microbial Community Structure – Aydin et al. – Current Microbiology

Metabolic framework of spontaneous and synthetic sourdough metacommunities to reveal microbial players responsible for resilience and performance – Calabrese et al. – Microbiome