Category Archives: Human gut

January 25, 2023

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Human oral microbiome

Microbiological profile of peri-implantitis: Analyses of microbiome within dental implants – Kensara et al. – Journal of Prosthodontics

Human gut microbiome

Integrated Multi-Cohort Analysis of the Parkinson’s Disease Gut Metagenome – Boktor et al. – Movement Disorders

Gut microbiota and microbiota-derived metabolites promotes endometriosis – Chadchan et al. – Cell Death Discovery

Immune communication between the intestinal microbiota and the cardiovascular system – Ren et al. – Immunology Letters

Animal microbiome

The structure and diversity of microbial communities in Paederus fuscipes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): from ecological paradigm to pathobiome – Chamanakar et al. – Microbiome

The gastrointestinal microbiome in dairy cattle is constrained by the deterministic driver of the region and the modified effect of diet – Lin et al. – Microbiome

Fecal Microbiota Was Reshaped in UCP1 Knock-In Pigs via the Adipose-Liver-Gut Axis and Contributed to Less Fat Deposition – Pan et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Gut microbiota of skywalker hoolock gibbons (Hoolock tianxing) from different habitats and in captivity: Implications for gibbon health – Lan et al. – American Journal of Primatology

Housing temperature plays a critical role in determining gut microbiome composition in research mice: Implications for experimental reproducibility – Hylander et al. – Biochimie

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

The biogeography and co-occurrence network patterns of bacteria and microeukaryotes in the estuarine and coastal waters – Wu et al. – Marine Environmental Research

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]Capturing the dynamics of microbiomes using individual-specific networks – Yousefi et al. – bioRxiv

PhaTYP: predicting the lifestyle for bacteriophages using BERT – Shang, Tang & Sun – Briefings in Bioinformatics

January 13, 2023

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The very first 2023 digest features HMOs, antimicrobials and the neonatal gut microbiota, cheese community, cow rumen microbiome, SemiBin2, and more. Happy Friday and see you next week at #MVIF!

Food microbiome

*Longitudinal, Multi-Platform Metagenomics Yields a High-Quality Genomic Catalog and Guides an In Vitro Model for Cheese Communities – Christina C. Saak – mSystems

Gut microbiome

*Human milk oligosaccharides, antimicrobial drugs, and the gut microbiota of term neonates: observations from the KOALA birth cohort study – D.J.M Barnett – Gut microbes

The gut microbiota in multiple sclerosis varies with disease activity – Florence Thirion – Genome Medicine

Review: Intestinal gas production by the gut microbiota: A review – Erasme Mutuyemungu – Journal of Functional Foods

Gestational diabetes is driven by microbiota-induced inflammation months before diagnosis – Yishay Pinto – Gut

Review: The gut microbiota is an emerging target for improving brain health during ageing – Marcus Boehme – Gut microbiome

Vaginal microbiome

Commensal Lactobacilli Metabolically Contribute to Cervical Epithelial Homeostasis in a Species-Specific Manner – Nicole R. Jimenez – mSphere

Preterm birth is associated with xenobiotics and predicted by the vaginal metabolome – William F. Kindschuh – Nature Microbiology

Animal experiment

Gut microbiota of the young ameliorates physical fitness of the aged in mice – Kwang H. Kim – Microbiome

Catheterization of mice triggers resurgent urinary tract infection seeded by a bladder reservoir of Acinetobacter baumannii – Jennie E. Hazen – Science Translational Medicine

Prebiotic intervention with HAMSAB in untreated essential hypertensive patients assessed in a phase II randomized trial – Hamdi A. Jama – Nature Cardiovascular Research

Akkermansia muciniphila protects mice against an emerging tick-borne viral pathogen – Jinyan Xie – Nature Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Beehives possess their own distinct microbiomes – Lorenzo A. Santorelli – Environmental Microbiome

*Differential carbon utilization enables co-existence of recently speciated Campylobacteraceae in the cow rumen epithelial microbiome – Cameron R. Strachan – Nature Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Ecological landscapes guide the assembly of optimal microbial communities – Ashish B. George and Kirill S. Korolev – Plos Computational Biology

Over-optimism in unsupervised microbiome analysis: Insights from network learning and clustering – Theresa Ullmann – Plos Computational Biology

Ten simple rules for using public biological data for your research – Vishal H. Oza – Plos Computational Biology

*SemiBin2: self-supervised contrastive learning leads to better MAGs for short- and long-read sequencing – Shaojun Pan – bioRxiv

December 30, 2022

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Happy New Year from the Microbiome Digest Team!

Human and General Microbiome

Microbiome Characteristics in Early Threatened Miscarriage Study (MCETMS): a study protocol for a prospective cohort investigation in China – Xiaofeng Chen – BMJ Open

Mapping the early life gut microbiome in neonates with critical congenital heart disease: multiomics insights and implications for host metabolic and immunological health – Yuan Huang – Microbiome

Metagenomic analysis reveals unexplored diversity of archaeal virome in the human gut – Ran Li – Nature Communications

Fecal level of butyric acid, a microbiome-derived metabolite, is increased in patients with severe carotid atherosclerosis – Kristine Stø – Scientific Reports

Transition in vaginal Lactobacillus species during pregnancy and prediction of preterm birth in Korean women – Young-Ah You – Scientific Reports

Evaluating the ecological hypothesis: early life salivary microbiome assembly predicts dental caries in a longitudinal case-control study – Freida Blostein – Microbiome

Systematic Review: The effects of microbiota abundance on symptom severity in Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review – Eliša Papić – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Systematic Review: A systematic review of microbiome-derived biomarkers for early colorectal cancer detection – Florine H Zwezerijnen-Jiwa – Neoplasia

Review: Current insights into skin lipids and their roles in cutaneous health and disease – Anna Nicolaou – Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Akkermansia supplementation reverses the tumor-promoting effect of the fecal microbiota transplantation in ovarian cancer – Zizhuo Wang – Cell Reports

Review: A novel approach to Lactiplantibacillus plantarum: From probiotic properties to the omics insights – Noemí Echegaray – Microbiological Research

Animal Microbiome

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities associated with coral species have high host specificity in the South China Sea – Keke Cheng – The Science of the Total Environment

Assessing the causes and consequences of gut mycobiome variation in a wild population of the Seychelles warbler – Sarah F Worsley – Microbiome

Gut microbe Lactiplantibacillus plantarum undergoes different evolutionary trajectories between insects and mammals – Elisa Maritan – BMC Biology

Environmental Microbiome

Permafrost in the Cretaceous supergreenhouse – Juan Pedro Rodríguez-López – Nature Communications

Degradation pathways for organic matter of terrestrial origin are widespread and expressed in Arctic Ocean microbiomes – Thomas Grevesse – Microbiome

Temporary establishment of bacteria from indoor plant leaves and soil on human skin – Gwynne Á Mhuireach – Environmental Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis

Stochastic variational variable selection for high-dimensional microbiome data – Tung Dang – Microbiome

December 19, 2022

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Highlights!

Multi-omic interactions in the gut of children at the onset of islet autoimmunity – Patrick G Gavin – Microbiome

“Here, we apply an integrative approach to combine comprehensive fecal virome, microbiome, and metaproteome data sampled before and at the onset of islet autoimmunity in 40 children at increased risk of T1D […] We show a functional remodeling of the gut microbiota accompanies both islet autoimmunity and viral infection with a switch in function in Faecalibacterium occurring at the onset of islet autoimmunity.”

Human and General Microbiome

Review: The microbiota-gut-brain axis in pathogenesis of depression: a narrative review – Hui Yao – Physiology & Behavior

Review: Environmental enteric dysfunction: gut and microbiota adaptation in pregnancy and infancy – Carrie A Cowardin – Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Review: Gastrointestinal Tract, Microbiota and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and the Link Between Gut Microbiota and CNS – Bahman Yousefi – Current Microbiology

Effect of proton pump inhibitors in infants with esophageal atresia on the gut microbiome: a pilot cohort – Nele Brusselaers – Gut Pathogens

Endodontic microbial communities in apical periodontitis – Alessio Buonavoglia – Journal of Endodontics

Gut Microbiota-Generated Phenylacetylglutamine and Heart Failure – Kymberleigh A Romano – Circulation. Heart Failure

Animal Microbiome

Midgut Bacterial Microbiota of 12 Fish Species from a Marine Protected Area in the Aegean Sea (Greece) – Konstantinos Kormas – Microbial Ecology

Guts within guts: the microbiome of the intestinal helminth parasite Ascaris suum is derived but distinct from its host – Ankur Midha – Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Multifaceted roles of flavonoids mediating plant-microbe interactions – Lanxiang Wang – Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis and Techniques

An economic and robust TMT labeling approach for high throughput proteomic and metaproteomic analysis – Marybeth Creskey – Proteomics

Machine learning-derived gut microbiome signature predicts fatty liver disease in the presence of insulin resistance – Baeki E Kang – Scientific Reports

Pseudomonas-specific 16S rRNA insect gut-microbiome profiling using next-generation sequencing – Ayushi Gupta – STAR Protocols

December 16, 2022

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Highlights!

A microbiome-dependent gut-brain pathway regulates motivation for exercise – Lenka Dohnalová – Nature 

Here, we report on the discovery of a gut–brain connection in mice that enhances exercise performance by augmenting dopamine signalling during physical activity. We find that microbiome-dependent production of endocannabinoid metabolites in the gut stimulates the activity of TRPV1-expressing sensory neurons and thereby elevates dopamine levels in the ventral striatum during exercise.

Gut microbiota in the early stage of Crohn’s disease has unique characteristics – Xianzong Ma – Gut Pathogens

The present study aimed to identify dysbacteriosis in patients with early Crohn’s Disease (CD) and explore specific gut bacteria related to the progression of CD.

Human and General Microbiome

Longitudinal multi-omics analyses of the gut-liver axis reveals metabolic dysregulation in hepatitis C infection and cirrhosis – Rabab O Ali – Nature Microbiology

Impact of HIV infection and integrase strand transfer inhibitors-based treatment on the gut virome – Pablo Villoslada-Blanco – Scientific Reports

Consequences of collagen induced inflammatory arthritis on circadian regulation of the gut microbiome – Devin Amanda Simpkins – FASEB Journal

Isolation and characterization of a novel choline degrading Citrobacter amalonaticus strain from the human gut – Jyoti Kashyap – Current Research in Microbial Sciences

HIV-Positive Patients on Antiretroviral Therapy Have an Altered Mucosal Intestinal but Not Oral Microbiome – Jingjing Meng – Microbiology Spectrum

Gut dysbiosis and bacterial translocation in the aneurysmal wall and blood in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm – Ken Nakayama – PloS One

Review: Female reproductive tract microbiome and early miscarriages – Olga Lebedeva – APMIS

Review: Emerging roles of intratumor microbiota in cancer metastasis – Aikun Fu – Trends in Cell Biology

In Brief: Urine microbiota differ in bladder cancer – Louise Stone – Nature Reviews. Urology

Animal Microbiome

Characterization of the bacterial microbiome of Amblyomma scalpturatum and Amblyomma ovale collected from Tapirus terrestris and Amblyomma sabanerae collected from Chelonoidis denticulata, Madre de Dios- Peru – Jesús Rojas-Jaimes – BMC Microbiology

Increased Proportion of Fiber-Degrading Microbes and Enhanced Cecum Development Jointly Promote Host To Digest Appropriate High-Fiber Diets – Guang Pu – mSystems

Review: Involvement of Microbiota in Insect Physiology: Focus on B Vitamins – Javier Serrato-Salas – mBio

Plant Microbiome

The Endophytic Root Microbiome Is Different in Healthy and Ralstonia solanacearum-Infected Plants and Is Regulated by a Consortium Containing Beneficial Endophytic Bacteria – Yiting Li – Microbiology Spectrum

Microbiome Analysis and Methods

Interpreting tree ensemble machine learning models with endoR – Albane Ruaud – PLoS Computational Biology

Analysis of Ancient Microbial DNA – Olivier Gorgé – Methods in Molecular Biology (Book)

Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy Approach to Investigate Plant-Fungal Interactions – F Fracchia – Methods in Molecular Biology (Book)

December 12, 2022

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Today’s digest has the kind of articles I like best–they are all focused on the unique relationship between microbial communities and their niche environments. These environments span everything from rice seeds to the Mariana Trench to the gut microbiome and even Appalachian coalbeds. Happy reading!


Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome of helminth-infected indigenous Malaysians is context dependent – Tee et al. – Microbiome

Animal experiments

Taurine metabolism is modulated in Vibrio-infected Penaeus vannamei to shape shrimp antibacterial response and survival – Wang et al. – Microbiome


Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Multi-genome metabolic modeling predicts functional inter-dependencies in the Arabidopsis root microbiome – Mataigne et al. – Microbiome

Dynamics of rice microbiomes reveal core vertically transmitted seed endophytes – Zhang et al. – Microbiome


Water and extremophile microbiome

Comparison of prokaryotes between Mount Everest and the Mariana Trench – Liu et al. – Microbiome


Built environment

Predominance of Methanomicrobiales and diverse hydrocarbon-degrading taxa in the Appalachian coalbed biosphere revealed through metagenomics and genome-resolved metabolisms – Ross et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Evaluation of the Microbial Community and Geochemistry in Produced Waters Collected from CO2 EOR in the Niagaran Pinnacle Reef – Stemple et al. – ACS Earth Space Chem

December 9, 2022

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Today’s digest features global antimicrobial resistance, comammox and anammox bacteria in wastewater treatment, mOTUs3, and more. Check out Elisa Granato & Christoph Ziegenhain’s story about postdoc life. Happy Friday and see you next week at #MVIF!

Global microbiome & resistome

Experimental temperatures shape host microbiome diversity and composition – Jingdi Li – Global Change Biology

Global biogeography and projection of soil antibiotic resistance genes – Zheng et al. – Science Advances

*Genomic analysis of sewage from 101 countries reveals global landscape of antimicrobial resistance – Patrick Munk – Nature Communications

Blood microbiome

No evidence for a common blood microbiome based on a population study of 9,770 healthy humans – Cedric C.S. Tan – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

Effects of dog ownership on the gut microbiota of elderly owners – Chaona Jiang – Plos One

Prokaryotic and viral genomes recovered from 787 Japanese gut metagenomes revealed microbial features linked to diets, populations, and diseases – Yoshihiko Tomofuji – Cell Genomics

Gut microbiome-wide association study of depressive symptoms – Djawad Radjabzadeh – Nature Communications

Development of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis is associated with gut microbiota but not oxysterol synthesis – Jacqueline Wyss – bioRxiv

The microbiome’s fiber degradation profile and its relationship with the host diet – Yotam Cohen & Elhanan Borenstein – BMC Biology

Animal microbiome

Lactobacillus reuteri improves the development and maturation of fecal microbiota in piglets through mother-to-infant microbe and metabolite vertical transmission – Gang Wang – Microbiome

Live biotherapeutics

Development of a live biotherapeutic throat spray with lactobacilli targeting respiratory viral infections – Irina Spacova – Microbial Biotechnology

Soil/root/plant microbiome

Differential microbial assembly processes and co-occurrence networks in the soil-root continuum along an environmental gradient – Yangquanwei Zhong – iMeta

Water microbiome

*Co-occurrence and cooperation between comammox and anammox bacteria in a full-scale attached growth municipal wastewater treatment process – Katherine J Vilardi – bioRxiv

Full-scale activated sludge transplantation reveals a highly resilient community structure – Giulia Dottorini – Water Research

Bioinformatics

Towards complete representation of bacterial contents in metagenomic samples – Xiaowen Feng, Heng Li – arXiv

*Cultivation-independent genomes greatly expand taxonomic-profiling capabilities of mOTUs across various environments – Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh – Microbiome

Database Resources of the National Genomics Data Center, China National Center for Bioinformation in 2023 – CNCB-NGDC Members and Partners – Nucleic Acids Research

Nanopore long-read-only metagenomics enables complete and high-quality genome reconstruction from mock and complex metagenomes – Lei Liu – Microbiome

November 30, 2022

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Human respiratory microbiome

Airway microecology in rifampicin-resistant and rifampicin-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis patients – Cai et al. – BMC Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Oral Bacteriome and Mycobiome across Stages of Oral Carcinogenesis – Heng et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Double-edged sword: impact of fecal microbiome transplants on the gut resistome – Hallowell, Gao & Suez – Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Targeted suppression of human IBD-associated gut microbiota commensals by phage consortia for treatment of intestinal inflammation – Federici et al. – Cell

Gut microbiome alterations in preclinical Alzheimer’s disease – Jung et al. – PLOS One

[REVIEW]Sex, puberty, and the gut microbiome – Sisk-Hackworth, Kelley & Thackray

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

Lactobacillus reuteri tryptophan metabolism promotes host susceptibility to CNS autoimmunity – Montgomery et al. – Microbiome

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Genomic and Environmental Factors Shape the Active Gill Bacterial Community of an Amazonian Teleost Holobiont – Sylvain et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Lack of host phylogenetic structure in the gut bacterial communities of New Zealand cicadas and their interspecific hybrids – Haji et al. – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Unveiling the Wheat Microbiome under Varied Agricultural Field Conditions – Jaiswal et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Changes of the microbial community in kiwifruit during storage after postharvest application of Wickerhamomyces anomalus – Zhao et al. – Food Chemistry

Food microbiology

[PREPRINT]A dark matter in sake brewing: Origin of microbes producing a Kimoto-style fermentation starter – Ito et al. – bioRxiv

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 21, 2022

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Highlights!

The cancer chemotherapeutic 5-fluorouracil is a potent Fusobacterium nucleatum inhibitor and its activity is modified by intratumoral microbiota – Kaitlyn D LaCourse – Cell Reports

Enterococci enhance Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis – Alexander B Smith – Nature

Host biology, ecology and the environment influence microbial biomass and diversity in 101 marine fish species – Jeremiah J Minich – Nature Communications

Genomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave – Gabriele Scorrano – Communications Biology

Human and General Microbiome

Gut microbiota analysis for prediction of clinical relapse in Crohn’s disease – Sylvie Buffet-Bataillon – Scientific Reports

Implications of oral streptococcal bacteriophages in autism spectrum disorder – Zhan Tong – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Reproducible changes in the anorexia nervosa gut microbiota following inpatient therapy remain distinct from non-eating disorder controls – Farnaz Fouladi – Gut Microbes

Nasal microbiome disruption and recovery after mupirocin treatment in Staphylococcus aureus carriers and noncarriers – Valérie O Baede – Scientific Reports

BlpC-mediated selfish program leads to rapid loss of Streptococcus pneumoniae clonal diversity during infection – Surya D Aggarwal – Cell host & Microbe

Treasures from trash in cancer research – Fabiano Cordeiro Moreira – Oncotarget

Human Gut Metagenomes Encode Diverse GH156 Sialidases – Evan Mann – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Species-Specific Patterns of Gut Metabolic Modules in Dutch Individuals with Different Dietary Habits – Sudarshan A Shetty – mSphere

Effect of the intratumoral microbiota on spatial and cellular heterogeneity in cancer – Jorge Luis Galeano Niño – Nature

Broad-spectrum antibiotics associated gut microbiome disturbance impairs T cell immunity and promotes lung cancer metastasis: a retrospective study – Ke Xu – BMC Cancer

Diet-induced modifications to human microbiome reshape colonic homeostasis in irritable bowel syndrome – Hadar Bootz-Maoz – Cell Reports

Review: The dynamic lung microbiome in health and disease – Jake G Natalini – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Non-model Animal Microbiome 

Modulation of gut microbiota, blood metabolites, and disease resistance by dietary β-glucan in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) – Simon Menanteau-Ledouble – Animal Microbiome

Living in honey: bacterial and fungal communities in honey of sympatric populations of Apis mellifera and the stingless bee Melipona beecheii, in Yucatan, Mexico – Diana Fátima Jacinto-Castillo – Archives of Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

Review: The involvement of organic acids in soil fertility, plant health and environment sustainability – Satyavir S Sindhu – Archives of Microbiology

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Investigating the impact of database choice on the accuracy of metagenomic read classification for the rumen microbiome – Rebecca H Smith – Animal Microbiome

dbCAN-seq update: CAZyme gene clusters and substrates in microbiomes – Jinfang Zheng – Nucleic Acids Research

Gene co-expression network analysis of the human gut commensal bacterium Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in R-Shiny – Sandrine Auger – PloS One