December 10, 2023

General and Human Microbiome

Altered gut microbiome associated with metabolic-associated fatty liver disease in Chinese children – Jing Ji – Clinical Nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Airway environment drives the selection of quorum sensing mutants and promote Staphylococcus aureus chronic lifestyle – Xiongqi Ding – Nature Communications

Review: Gut microbiota in overweight and obesity: crosstalk with adipose tissue – Patrice D Cani – Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Review: Recent advances in single-cell engineered live biotherapeutic products research for skin repair and disease treatment – Muhamad Aidilfitri Mohamad Roslan – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Metaproteomic assessment of gut microbial and host functional perturbations in Helicobacter pylori-infected patients subjected to an antimicrobial protocol – Marcello Abbondio – Gut Microbes

The facial microbiome and metabolome across different geographic regions – Rong Tao – Microbiology Spectrum

Periodontitis salivary microbiota exacerbates colitis-induced anxiety-like behavior via gut microbiota – Jun Qian – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide plays a key role in the microbial-neuroimmune control of intestinal motility – Xiaopeng Bai – Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Multi-omics analyses reveal bacteria and catalase associated with keloid disease – Mengjie Shan – EBioMedicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Genomic and Phenotypic Insight into the Probiotic Potential of Lactic Acid Bacterial spp. Associated with the Human Gut Mucosa – Kanwal Aziz – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Review: A review on the use of prebiotics in ulcerative colitis – James M Kennedy – Trends in Microbiology

Oral magnesium prevents acetaminophen-induced acute liver injury by modulating microbial metabolism – Dongping Li – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Akkermansia muciniphila and Alcohol-Related Liver Diseases. A Systematic Review – Lydie Sparfel – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Review: Triangulating nutrigenomics, metabolomics and microbiomics toward personalized nutrition and healthy living – George Lagoumintzis – Human Genomics

Non-Model Animal Microbiome 

The role of diet and host species in shaping the seasonal dynamics of the gut microbiome – Claire E Williams – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Increased environmental microbial diversity reduces the disease risk of a mosquitocidal pathogen – Zhiwei Kang – mBio

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Characterization of microbial contamination in agricultural soil: A public health perspective – Xiaodi Li – The Science of the Total Environment

Metagenomics reveals effects of fluctuating water conditions on functional pathways in plant litter microbial community – Matevž Likar – Scientific Reports

Crop rotation and native microbiome inoculation restore soil capacity to suppress a root disease – Yanyan Zhou – Nature Communications

Environmental Microbiome

Environmental determinants and demographic influences on global urban microbiomes, antimicrobial resistance and pathogenicity – Yang Chen – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Multiple spatial scales of bacterial and fungal structural and functional traits affect carbon mineralization – Zhiyuan Ma – Molecular Ecology

Microbiome Analysis: tools, techniques and resources

Review: Establishing genetic manipulation for novel strains of human gut bacteria – Paul O Sheridan – Microbiome Research Reports

December 6, 2023

Human salivary microbiome

Salivary microbiome changes distinguish response to chemoradiotherapy in patients with oral cancer – de Medeiros et al. – Microbiome

Human skin microbiome

[PREPRINT]Commensal skin bacteria exacerbate inflammation and delay skin healing – Khadka et al. – bioRxiv

Human vaginal microbiome

Integrating compositional and functional content to describe vaginal microbiomes in health and disease – Holm et al. – Microbiome

Comparison of vaginal microbiota between women with inflammatory bowel disease and healthy controls – Bar et al. – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Engraftment of essential functions through multiple fecal microbiota transplants in chronic antibiotic-resistant pouchitis—a case study using metatranscriptomics – Deng et al. – Microbiome

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

Vitamin D modulation of brain-gut-virome disorder caused by polystyrene nanoplastics exposure in zebrafish (Danio rerio) – Teng et al – Microbiome

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Diversity of gut microbiome in Rocky Mountainsnail across its native range – Chalifour, Elder & Li – PLOS One

[PREPRINT]Testing the effectiveness of a commercially sold probiotic on restoring the gut microbiota of honey bees: a field study – Damico et al. – bioRxiv

Core gut microbes Cloacibacterium and Aeromonas associated with different gastropod species could be persistently transmitted across multiple generations – Lin et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of multiple N, P, and K fertilizer combinations on strawberry growth and the microbial community – Bai et al. – PLOS One

Comparison of microbial community assemblages in the rhizosphere of three Amaranthus spp. – Chee-Sanford & Connor – PLOS One

Bioinformatics

Phantom oscillations in principal component analysis – Shinn – PNAS
This phenomenon is not new (e.g. know as horseshoe effect) but Shinn gives a very understandable explanation.

The MAGMA pipeline for comprehensive genomic analyses of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis samples – Heupink et al. – PLOS Computational Biology

[PREPRINT]metaExpertPro: a computational workflow for metaproteomics spectral library construction and data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry data analysis – Sun et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]MolPad: An R-Shiny Package for Cluster Co-Expression Analysis in Longitudinal Microbiomics – Ma, Thairu & Sankaran

November 28, 2023

Pregnancy and early life

[PREPRINT]Delivery mode impacts gut bacteriophage colonization during infancy – Subramanian et al. – medRxiv

Human oral microbiome

Oral microbiota analyses of paediatric Saudi population reveals signatures of dental caries – Alyousef et al. – BMC Oral Health

Human gut microbiome

Gastric coinfection with thiopeptide-positive Cutibacterium acnes decreases FOXM1 and pro-inflammatory biomarker expression in a murine model of Helicobacter pylori-induced gastric cancer – Lunger et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

[REVIEW]Butterflies in the gut: the interplay between intestinal microbiota and stress – Lai et al. – Journal of Biomedical Science

[REVIEW]Genetics, Nutrition, and Health: A New Frontier in Disease Prevention – Agrawal et al. – Journal of the American Nutrition Association

Age-dependent changes in the gut microbiota and serum metabolome correlate with renal function and human aging – Sun et al. – Aging Cell

The changes of gut microbiota and metabolites in different drug-induced liver injuries – Zhu et al. – Journal of Medical Microbiology

[PREPRINT]The differing prevalences of propionate and butyrate producing bacteria in the human gut microbiota – Christensen et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]The Parkinson’s drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration – Pereira et al. – bioRxiv

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

Mutual modulation of gut microbiota and the immune system in type 1 diabetes models – Rosell-Mases et al. – Nature Communications

[PREPRINT]Microbiota-dependent early life programming of gastrointestinal motility – Frith et al. – bioRxiv

Horizontal transmission of gut microbiota attenuates mortality in lung fibrosis – Gurczynski et al. – JCI insight

High-altitude and low-altitude adapted chicken gut-microbes have different functional diversity – Bhagat et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Introducing an environmental microbiome to axenic Aedes aegypti mosquitoes documents bacterial responses to a blood meal – LaReau et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Altered microbiota, antimicrobial resistance genes, and functional enzyme profiles in the rumen of yak calves fed with milk replacer – Zhuang et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[PREPRINT]Global patterns in gene content of soil microbiomes emerge from microbial interactions – Crocker et al. – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Metagenomic analysis reveals diverse microbial community and potential functional roles in Baner rivulet, India – Brar et al. – Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Bioinformatics

mb-PHENIX: Diffusion and Supervised Uniform Manifold Approximation for denoising microbiota data – Padron-Manrique et al. – Bioinformatics

Facilitating bioinformatics reproducibility with QIIME 2 provenance Replay – Keefe et al. – PLOS Computational Biology

Techniques

High-throughput identification and quantification of bacterial cells in the microbiota based on 16S rRNA sequencing with single-base accuracy using BarBIQ – Jin, Yamamoto & Shiroguchi

November 27, 2023

Human and General Microbiome

Multi-site microbiota alteration is a hallmark of kidney stone formation – Kait F Al – Microbiome

Culturing the unculturables: strategies, challenges, and opportunities for gut microbiome study – Asha Yadav – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Trans-vaccenic acid reprograms CD8(+) T cells and anti-tumour immunity – Hao Fan – Nature

Multi-omics analysis of hospital-acquired diarrhoeal patients reveals biomarkers of enterococcal proliferation and Clostridioides difficile infection – Marijana Bosnjak – Nature Communications

Why are so many enteric pathogen infections asymptomatic? Pathogen and gut microbiome characteristics associated with diarrhea symptoms and carriage of diarrheagenic E. coli in northern Ecuador – Kelsey J Jesser – Gut Microbes

Gut microbiome and frailty: insight from genetic correlation and mendelian randomization – Guanghui Cui – Gut Microbes

Review: Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities – Christian Kost – Nature Microbiology

Review: Evolution of a Pathogenic Microbiome – Pui Yin Wong – Journal of Clinical Medicine

Review: Evidence for the contribution of the gut microbiome to obesity and its reversal – Douwe F de Wit – Science Translational Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Parabacteroides distasonis ameliorates insulin resistance via activation of intestinal GPR109a – Yonggan Sun – Nature Communications

Galactooligosaccharide Mediates NF-κB Pathway to Improve Intestinal Barrier Function and Intestinal Microbiota – Menglu Xi – Molecules 

A self-stabilized and water-responsive deliverable coenzyme-based polymer binary elastomer adhesive patch for treating oral ulcer – Chunyan Cui – Nature Communications

A key genetic factor governing arabinan utilization in the gut microbiome alleviates constipation – Chengcheng Zhang – Cell Host & Microbe

Meta-analysis: Fiber intake and fiber intervention in depression and anxiety: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies and randomized controlled trials – Hajara Aslam – Nutrition Reviews

Animal Microbiome

Identification of peptides from honeybee gut symbionts as potential antimicrobial agents against Melissococcus plutonius – Haoyu Lang – Nature Communications

A coral-associated actinobacterium mitigates coral bleaching under heat stress – Jie Li – Environmental Microbiome

Symbiodiniaceae photophysiology and stress resilience is enhanced by microbial associations – Jennifer L Matthews – Scientific Reports

Associations of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis with skin bacteria and fungi on Asian amphibian hosts – Dan Sun – ISME Communications

Experimental mining plumes and ocean warming trigger stress in a deep pelagic jellyfish – Vanessa I Stenvers – Nature Communications

Gut microbiomes of cycad-feeding insects tolerant to β-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) are rich in siderophore biosynthesis – Karina Gutiérrez-García – ISME Communications

Environmental Factors and the Symbiont Cardinium Influence the Bacterial Microbiome of Spider Mites Across the Landscape – Huan-Huan Liu – Microbial Ecology

Animal Model Microbiome

Gut microbiota-bile acid crosstalk regulates murine lipid metabolism via the intestinal FXR-FGF19 axis in diet-induced humanized dyslipidemia – Hongtao Xu – Microbiome

Multi-omics data reveals aberrant gut microbiota-host glycerophospholipid metabolism in association with neuroinflammation in APP/PS1 mice – Xiaohang Qian – Gut Microbes

Plant and Environmental Microbiome

Combined application of microbial inoculant and kelp-soaking wastewater promotes wheat seedlings growth and improves structural diversity of rhizosphere microbial community – Xin Song – Scientific Reports

Contribution of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria to nitrogen transformation in a soil fertilized with urea and organic amendments – Yajun Yang – Scientific Reports

Genomic evidence that microbial carbon degradation is dominated by iron redox metabolism in thawing permafrost – Karl J Romanowicz – ISME Communications

Microbiome Analysis: tools, techniques, and resources

PanDelos-frags: A methodology for discovering pangenomic content of incomplete microbial assemblies – Vincenzo Bonnici – Journal of Biomedical Informatics

PLM-ARG: antibiotic resistance gene identification using a pretrained protein language model – Jun Wu – Bioinformatics

Sparsity of higher-order landscape interactions enables learning and prediction for microbiomes – Shreya Arya – PNAS

Vaccinomics-aided next-generation novel multi-epitope-based vaccine engineering against multidrug resistant Shigella sonnei: Immunoinformatics and chemoinformatics approaches – Sara Aiman – PloS One

Detecting host responses to microbial stimulation using primary epithelial organoids – Jette Bornholdt – Gut Microbes

Review: Exploring microbial worlds: a review of whole genome sequencing and its application in characterizing the microbial communities – Suleiman Aminu – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

November 20, 2023

Human and General Microbiome

Association between microbiome and the development of adverse posttraumatic neuropsychiatric sequelae after traumatic stress exposure – Abigail L Zeamer – Translational Psychiatry

The preterm human milk microbiota fluctuates by postpartum week and is characterized by gestational age and maternal BMI – Evgenia Jen Filatava – mBio

Strain-resolved metagenomic analysis of the gut as a reservoir for bloodstream infection pathogens among premature infants in Singapore – Sarah M Heston – Gut Pathogens

Porphyromonas gingivalis as a promotor in the development of the alcoholic liver disease via ferroptosis – Chao Yao – Microbes and Infection

The core phageome and its interrelationship with preterm human milk lipids – Wen C Yew – Cell Reports

Longitudinal analysis at three oral sites links oral microbiota to clinical outcomes in allogeneic hematopoietic stem-cell transplant – Vitor Heidrich – Microbiology Spectrum

Gut inflammation associated with age and Alzheimer’s disease pathology: a human cohort study – Margo B Heston – Scientific Reports

Robust airway microbiome signatures in acute respiratory failure and hospital-acquired pneumonia – Emmanuel Montassier – Nature Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Systematic mining of the human microbiome identifies antimicrobial peptides with diverse activity spectra – Andrew M King – Nature Microbiology

Skin benefits of postbiotics derived from Micrococcus luteus derived from human skin: an untapped potential for dermatological health – Young Mok Heo – Genes & Genomics

Akkermansia muciniphila attenuated lipopolysaccharide-induced acute lung injury by modulating the gut microbiota and SCFAs in mice – Jian Shen – Food & Function

Review: The Potential of Meta-Proteomics and Artificial Intelligence to Establish the Next Generation of Probiotics for Personalized Healthcare – Arpita Das – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Review: Gut microbiome in healthy aging versus those associated with frailty – Mi Young Lim – Gut Microbes

Animal Microbiome

Host species and habitat shape fish-associated bacterial communities: phylosymbiosis between fish and their microbiome – Javad Sadeghi – Microbiome

Aedes aegypti microbiome composition covaries with the density of Wolbachia infection – Jane Pascar – Microbiome

Sequential host-bacteria and bacteria-bacteria interactions determine the microbiome establishment of Nematostella vectensis – H Domin – Microbiome

Microbial symbionts are shared between ants and their associated beetles – Catalina Valdivia – Environmental Microbiology

The gut microbiome mediates adaptation to scarce food in Coleoptera – Oana Teodora Moldovan – Environmental Microbiome

Animal Model Microbiome

Interplay of gut microbiota and host epithelial mitochondrial dysfunction is necessary for the development of spontaneous intestinal inflammation in mice – Kibrom M Alula – Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome

Microbial diversity and community structure dynamics in acid mine drainage: Acidic fire with dissolved heavy metals – Wasim Sajjad – The Science of the Total Environment

Polar lake microbiomes have distinct evolutionary histories – Bjorn Tytgat – Science Advances

Plant Microbiome

PSKR1 balances the plant growth-defence trade-off in the rhizosphere microbiome – Siyu Song – Nature Plants

Streptomyces alleviate abiotic stress in plant by producing pteridic acids – Zhijie Yang – Nature Communications

Microbiome Analysis: tools, techniques and resources

The pan-microbiome profiling system Taxa4Meta identifies clinical dysbiotic features and classifies diarrheal disease – Qinglong Wu – The Journal of Clinical Investigation

Review: Machine learning for microbiologists – Francesco Asnicar – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

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November 10, 2023

Read about new species discovered in the female genitourinary tract Lactobacillus isalae, Gardnerella pickettii and Gardnerella greenwoodii, and important UTI and other latest microbiome science news.
Happy Friday! And see you next week at MVIF!

Urinary microbiome

A human urothelial microtissue model reveals shared colonization and survival strategies between uropathogens and commensals – Carlos Flores – Science Advances

Gardnerella pickettii sp. nov. (formerly Gardnerella genomic species 3) and Gardnerella greenwoodii sp. nov. (formerly Gardnerella genomic species 8) isolated from female urinary microbiome – Márcia Sousa – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Vaginal microbiome

Lactobacillus isalae sp. nov., isolated from the female reproductive tract – Tom Eilers – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Identification of a DNA-cytosine methyltransferase that impacts global transcription to promote group B streptococcal vaginal colonization – Haider S. Manzer – mBio

Gut microbiome

Aggression: A gut reaction? The effects of the gut microbiome on aggression – Atara Uzan-Yulzari – bioRxiv

Oral microbiome

Establishment of tongue microbiota by 18 months of age and determinants of its microbial profile – Shinya Kageyama – mBio

Animal microbiome

Pet cats may shape the antibiotic resistome of their owner’s gut and living environment – Yiwen Yang – Microbiome

The impact of kit, environment and sampling contamination on the observed microbiome of bovine milk – Christopher J Dean – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Early life exposure to broccoli sprouts confers stronger protection against enterocolitis development in an immunological mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease – Lola Holcomb – mSystems

Daily fluctuation of colonic microbiome in response to nutrient substrates in a pig model – Hongyu Wang – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Water microbiome

Assessing the impact of anti-microbial showerheads on the prevalence and abundance of opportunistic pathogens in shower water and shower water-associated aerosols – Sarah Pitell, Sarah-Jane Haig – Frontiers in Microbiomes

Global abundance patterns, diversity, and ecology of Patescibacteria in wastewater treatment plants – Huifeng Hu – bioRxiv

Technique

A high-throughput and low-waste viability assay for microbes – Christian T. Meyer – Nature Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Comparison of gene clustering criteria reveals intrinsic uncertainty in pangenome analyses – Saioa Manzano-Morales – Genome Biology

ACR: metagenome-assembled prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome refinement tool – Hoon Je Seong – Briefings in Bioinformatics


November 6, 2023

Human Gut Microbiome

Altered Gut Microbiota and Short-chain Fatty Acids in Chinese Children with Constipated Autism Spectrum Disorder – Jianquan He – Scientific Reports

Clostridium butyricum and Clostridium tyrobutyricum: angel or devil for necrotizing enterocolitis? – Ruizhi Tao – mSystems

Gut microbiota composition and diversity before, during, and two months after rifamycin-based tuberculosis preventive therapy – Marie Nancy Séraphin – Scientific Reports

Genomic analyses of Bacteroides fragilis: subdivisions I and II represent distinct species – Jamie English – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Bacterial SNPs in the human gut microbiome associate with host BMI – Liron Zahavi – Nature Medicine

Fecal short-chain fatty acids in non-constipated irritable bowel syndrome: a potential clinically relevant stratification factor based on catabotyping analysis – Giorgio Gargari – Gut Microbes

Characterizing alterations in the gut microbiota following postpartum weight change – Bridget N Chalifour – mSystems

Core-genome multilocus sequence typing and core-SNP analysis of Clostridium neonatale strains isolated in different spatio-temporal settings – Victoria Mesa – Microbiology Spectrum

Human Microbiome (outside the gut)

Identification of root canal microbiota profiles of periapical tissue diseases using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer – Mete Ahlat – Anaerobe

Gardnerella pickettii sp. nov. (formerly Gardnerella genomic species 3) and Gardnerella greenwoodii sp. nov. (formerly Gardnerella genomic species 8) isolated from female urinary microbiome – Márcia Sousa – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Smoking and salivary microbiota: a cross-sectional analysis of an Italian alpine population – Giacomo Antonello – Scientific Reports

Prolonged mask wearing changed nasal microbial characterization of young adults during the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai, China – Guoxiu Xiang – Frontiers in Immunology

Beneficial Microbes, Compounds and Interventions

Inulin-enriched Megamonas funiformis ameliorates metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease by producing propionic acid – Xinyue Yang – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

A gut microbial metabolite of linoleic acid ameliorates liver fibrosis by inhibiting TGF-β signaling in hepatic stellate cells – Nanaho Kasahara – Scientific Reports

Fecal microbiota transplantation promotes reduction of antimicrobial resistance by strain replacement – Michael H Woodworth – Science Translational Medicine

Animal Microbiome

Revealing the developmental characterization of rumen microbiome and its host in newly received cattle during receiving period contributes to formulating precise nutritional strategies – Yanjiao Li – Microbiome

Shifts in the coral microbiome in response to in situ experimental deoxygenation – Rachel D Howard – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Limitation of amino acid availability by bacterial populations during enhanced colitis in IBD mouse model – Tanner G Richie – mSystems

Estradiol mediates colonic epithelial protection in aged mice after stroke and is associated with shifts in the gut microbiome – Juneyoung Lee – Gut Microbes

Functional potential and evolutionary response to long-term heat selection of bacterial associates of coral photosymbionts – Justin Maire – mSystems

Gut bacteria mediated adaptation of diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella, to secondary metabolites of host plants – Xiaofeng Xia – mSystems

Environmental Microbiome

Microbial hitchhikers harbouring antimicrobial-resistance genes in the riverine plastisphere – Vinko Zadjelovic – Microbiome

Taxonomic distribution of metabolic functions in bacteria associated with Trichodesmium consortia – Coco Koedooder – mSystems

Review: Microbial ecology of drinking water from source to tap – Leili Abkar – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Food4healthKG: Knowledge graphs for food recommendations based on gut microbiota and mental health – Chengcheng Fu – Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Testing latent classes in gut microbiome data using generalized Poisson regression models – Xinhui Qiao – Statistics in Medicine

October 30, 2023

Human and General Microbiome

Amino acid auxotrophies in human gut bacteria are linked to higher microbiome diversity and long-term stability – Svenja Starke – The ISME Journal

Gut microbiota impacts bone via Bacteroides vulgatus-valeric acid-related pathways – Xu Lin – Nature Communications

The global burden of antimicrobial resistance – urinary tract infections – Sibylle Von Vietinghoff – Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation

Class I HLA Allele Predicted Restricted Antigenic Coverages for Fap2 Protein of Fusobacterium nucleatum Are Associated with Colorectal Cancer Incidence – Mustapha Zeddou – Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Microbial-dependent recruitment of immature myeloid cells promotes intestinal regeneration – Zhengyu Jiang – Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Prior antibiotic administration disrupts anti-PD-1 responses in advanced gastric cancer by altering the gut microbiome and systemic immune response – Chang Gon Kim – Cell Reports Medicine

Gut microbiome dynamics in index patients colonized with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacterales after hospital discharge and their household contacts – Janetta Top – Microbiology Spectrum

White-nose syndrome restructures bat skin microbiomes – Meghan Ange-Stark – Microbiology Spectrum

Linking Clinical Blood Metabogram and Gut Microbiota – Petr G Lokhov – Metabolites

A citizen-science-enabled catalogue of the vaginal microbiome and associated factors – Sarah Lebeer – Nature Microbiology

Low-dose ethanol consumption inhibits neutrophil extracellular traps formation to alleviate rheumatoid arthritis – Lin Jin – Communications Biology

Community composition and the environment modulate the population dynamics of type VI secretion in human gut bacteria – Sophie Robitaille – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Extension of the Segatella copri complex to 13 species with distinct large extrachromosomal elements and associations with host conditions – Aitor Blanco-Míguez – Cell Host & Microbe

Gut microbe-metabolite profiles are associated with microbial pathways of longevity in women: a cross-sectional study conducted in China – Qinren Zhang – Gerontology

Longitudinal analysis of vaginal microbiota during IVF fresh embryo transfer and in early pregnancy – Sofia Väinämö – Microbiology Spectrum

Gut microbiota and autism spectrum disorders: where do we stand? – Sa’ed H Zyoud – Gut Pathogens

Host fecal DNA specific methylation signatures mark gut dysbiosis and inflammation in children affected by autism spectrum disorder – Mariella Cuomo – Scientific Reports

Gut microbiome-derived ammonia modulates stress vulnerability in the host – Pei Wang – Nature Metabolism

Nanobodies against C. difficile TcdA and TcdB reveal unexpected neutralizing epitopes and provide a toolkit for toxin quantitation in vivo – Shannon L Kordus – PLoS Pathogens

Review: Microbiome-based therapies for periodontitis and peri-implantitis – Xindi Wei – Oral Diseases

Animal Microbiome

Distinct gut microbial communities and functional predictions in divergent ophiuroid species: host differentiation, ecological niches, and adaptation to cold-water habitats – Yue Dong – Microbiology Spectrum

Integrated multi-omics analysis reveals the positive leverage of citrus flavonoids on hindgut microbiota and host homeostasis by modulating sphingolipid metabolism in mid-lactation dairy cows consuming a high-starch diet – Yuchao Zhao – Microbiome

More Microbes

Review: Update on novel validly published taxa of bacteria isolated from domestic animals described in 2022 – Sara D Lawhon – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

Location: root architecture structures rhizosphere microbial associations – Tania Galindo-Castañeda – Journal of Experimental Botany

Environmental Microbiome

Virus diversity and activity is driven by snowmelt and host dynamics in a high-altitude watershed soil ecosystem – Clement Coclet – Microbiome

Shotgun metagenomics and computational profiling of the plastisphere microbiome: unveiling the potential of enzymatic production and plastic degradation – Mahnoor Saleem – Archives of Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Machine-learning analysis of cross-study samples according to the gut microbiome in 12 infant cohorts – Petri Vänni – mSystems

Analyzing microbial evolution through gene and genome phylogenies – Sarah Teichman – Biostatistics

AnimalMetaOmics: a multi-omics data resources for exploring animal microbial genomes and microbiomes – Ruirui Hu – Nucleic Acids Research

SPIRE: a Searchable, Planetary-scale mIcrobiome REsource – Thomas S B Schmidt – Nucleic Acids Research

ACR: metagenome-assembled prokaryotic and eukaryotic genome refinement tool – Hoon Je Seong – Briefings in Bioinformatics

dbAPIS: a database of anti-prokaryotic immune system genes – Yuchen Yan – Nucleic Acids Research

Cellsnake: a user-friendly tool for single-cell RNA sequencing analysis – Sinan U Umu – GigaScience

aMeta: an accurate and memory-efficient ancient metagenomic profiling workflow – Zoé Pochon – Genome Biology

October 23, 2023

Human and General Microbiome

Secretory IgA impacts the microbiota density in the human nose – Rob van Dalen – Microbiome

Disease-specific loss of microbial cross-feeding interactions in the human gut – Vanessa R Marcelino – Nature Communications

Feasibility of a dietary intervention to modify gut microbial metabolism in patients with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation – Mary M Riwes – Nature Medicine

Four functional profiles for fibre and mucin metabolism in the human gut microbiome – Simon Labarthe – Microbiome

The airway microbiota of neonates colonized with asthma-associated pathogenic bacteria – Jonathan Thorsen – Nature Communications

Multiomic profiling of cutaneous leishmaniasis infections reveals microbiota-driven mechanisms underlying disease severity – Camila Farias Amorim – Science Translational Medicine

Tumor-resident Lactobacillus iners confer chemoradiation resistance through lactate-induced metabolic rewiring – Lauren E Colbert – Cancer Cell

Analysis of the influence of host lifestyle (coffee consumption, drinking, and smoking) on Korean oral microbiome – Kyeong-Min Yu – Forensic Science International. Genetics

Potential roles of gut microbiota in metal mixture and bone mineral density and osteoporosis risk association: an epidemiologic study in Wuhan – Jianli Zhang – Environmental Science and Pollution Research International

Characteristics of gut microbiota and metabolic phenotype in patients with major depressive disorder based on multi-omics analysis – Xianpeng Zu – Journal of Affective Disorders

The role of microbial interactions in dental caries: Dental plaque microbiota analysis – Qingyi Shao – Microbial Pathogenesis

A distinctive subgingival microbiome in patients with periodontitis and Alzheimer’s disease compared with cognitively unimpaired periodontitis patients – Hee Sam Na – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Review: On developmental programming of the immune system – Jun Young Hong – Trends in Immunology

Review: Regulation of pain perception by microbiota in Parkinson’s Disease – Zulmary Manjarres – Pharmacological Reviews

Review: Single-cell analysis and spatial resolution of the gut microbiome – Bhoomi Madhu – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Synbiotic Sapota-do-Solimões (Quararibea cordata Vischer) Juice Improves Gut Microbiota and Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production in an In Vitro Model – Rhonyele Maciel da Silva – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Limosilactobacillus fermentum HF06-derived paraprobiotic and postbiotic alleviate intestinal barrier damage and gut microbiota disruption in mice with ulcerative colitis – Chunhong Liu – Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Animal Microbiome (including Animal Models)

A comprehensive analysis of gut and skin microbiota in canine atopic dermatitis in Shiba Inu dogs – Mirja Thomsen – Microbiome

High soluble fiber promotes colorectal tumorigenesis through modulating gut microbiota and metabolites in mice – Jia Yang – Gastroenterology

Gut bacterial consortium enriched in a biofloc system protects shrimp against Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection – Haipeng Guo – Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome

Prokaryotic communities inhabiting a high-radon subterranean ecosystem (Castañar Cave, Spain): Environmental and substrate-driven controls – Tamara Martin-Pozas – Microbiological Research

Review: The interplay between microbial communities and soil properties – Laurent Philippot – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

Insights into accumulation of active ingredients and rhizosphere microorganisms between Salvia miltiorrhiza and S. castanea – Zishu Xu – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Microbiome and Evolution

Review: Hierarchical eco-evo dynamics mediated by the gut microbiome – Ellen Decaestecker – Trends in Ecology & Evolution

October 18, 2023

Human gut microbiome

Association between gut microbiota and influenza: a bidirectional two-sample mendelian randomization study – Xu et al. – BMC Infectious Diseases

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

LACC1 regulates changes in the intestinal flora in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease – Xu & Wang – BMC Gastroenterology

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

[PREPRINT]Sex-specific gut bacteria manipulation impacts offspring production in the honeybee parasite small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray – Biswas et al. – bioRxiv

Selective enrichment of founding reproductive microbiomes allows extensive vertical transmission in a fungus-farming termite – Sinotte et al. – Proc. R. Soc. B

Microbiome variations among age classes and diets of captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Thailand using full-length 16S rRNA nanopore sequencing – Klinsawat et al. – Scientific Reports

Temporal and spatial variations in body mass and thermogenic capacity associated with alterations in the gut microbiota and host transcriptome in mammalian herbivores – Ren et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Metagenome sequencing and recovery of 444 metagenome-assembled genomes from the biofloc aquaculture system – Rajeev et al. – Scientific Data

Net-spinning caddisflies create denitrifier-enriched niches in the stream microbiome – Bertagnolli et al. – ISME Communications

Parasites, Phages and viruses

Effects of heat tolerance on the gut microbiota of Sarcophaga peregrina (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) and impacts on the life history traits – Ren et al. – Parasites & Vectors

Bioinformatics / Techniques

[PREPRINT]Comprehensive Identification of Pathogenic Microbes and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Food Products Using Nanopore Sequencing-Based Metagenomics – Wing-Tung et al. – bioRxiv

Causal inference on microbiome-metabolome relations in observational host-microbiome data via in silico in vivo association pattern analyses – Hertel et al. – Cell Reports Methods

Rank selection for non-negative matrix factorization – Cai, Gu & Kenney