Category Archives: Human oral

June 19, 2024

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Oral and respiratory microbiota

Safety, Feasibility, and Advantages of Oral Microbiota Transplantation: The First Clinical Case – Oleg V. Goloschapov – Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Oral microbial dysbiosis in patients with oral cavity cancers – Ozge Unlu – Clinical Oral Investigations

Nasal cathelicidin is expressed in early life and is increased during mild, but not severe respiratory syncytial virus infection – Sofia Sintoris – Nature Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Tissue-resident bacteria in metabolic diseases: emerging evidence and challenges – Lucas Masier – Nature Metabolism

Faecal microbiota of schoolchildren is associated with nutritional status and markers of inflammation: a double-blinded cluster-randomized controlled trial using multi-micronutrient fortified rice – Yohannes Seyoum – Nature Communications

Beneficial microbes and compounds

Short-chain fatty acid valerate reduces voluntary alcohol intake in male mice – Suresh C. Bokoliya – BMC Microbiome

Sleep promoting and omics exploration on probiotics fermented Gastrodia elata Blume – Chao-Qi Zhang – NPJ Science of Food

Animal microbiome

Metagenomic approach revealed the mobility and co-occurrence of antibiotic resistomes between non-intensive aquaculture environment and human – Li Tian – BMC Microbiome

Water and extremophile microbiome

Bacterial community and cyanotoxin gene distribution of the Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria, Kenya – Katelyn M. Brown – Environmental Microbiology

Genome-wide screen of genetic determinants that govern Escherichia coli growth and persistence in lake water – Nataliya Teteneva – ISME Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiomes

Root-associated Streptomyces produce galbonolides to modulate plant immunity and promote rhizosphere colonization – Clément Nicolle – ISME Journal

Organic fertilization co-selects genetically linked antibiotic and metal(loid) resistance genes in global soil microbiome – Zi-Teng Liu – Nature Communications

Conceptualizing soil fauna effects on labile and stabilized soil organic matter – Gerrit Angst – Nature Communications

Fungi

The first ITS1 profiling of honey samples from the Southeast Asian region Lombok, Bali and Banggi Island – Saeed Ullah – Nature Scientific Reports

Archaea

Asgard archaeal selenoproteome reveals a roadmap for the archaea-to-eukaryote transition of selenocysteine incorporation machinery – Biyan Huang – ISME Journal

Microbial Ecology

Strain tracking in complex microbiomes using synteny analysis reveals per-species modes of evolution – Hagay Enav – Nature Biotechnology

Methods

High-throughput single-cell transcriptomics of bacteria using combinatorial barcoding – Karl D. Gaisser – Nature Protocols

Commentary and opinions

SeqCode in the golden age of prokaryotic systematics – Diego Javier Jiménez – ISME Journal

Digestive Disease Week 2024 – Katrina Ray – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Barriers and enablers to the effective implementation of omics research in low- and middle-income countries – Jacus S. Nacis – Nature Biotechnology

June 7, 2024

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Today’s digest features AMPSphere, Candida pathogenesis, rhizosphere microbiome in the Himalayas, imaging of oral microbiome, and more.
See you at #MVIF special event on women’s health!

Global microbiome

Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning – Célio Dias Santos-Júnior and Marcelo D.T. Torres – Cell

Bioenergetic mapping of ‘healthy microbiomes’ via compound processing potential imprinted in gut and soil metagenomes – Craig Liddicoat – Science of The Total Environment

Infant microbiome

The impact of perinatal maternal stress on the maternal and infant gut and human milk microbiomes: A scoping review protocol – Niamh Ryan – Plos One

Oral microbiome

Improved Visualization of Oral Microbial Consortia – S.T. Ramirez-Puebla – Journal of Dental Research

Animal microbiome

Changes of faecal bacterial communities and microbial fibrolytic activity in horses aged from 6 to 30 years old – Marylou Baraille – Plos One

Compendium of 5810 genomes of sheep and goat gut microbiomes provides new insights into the glycan and mucin utilization – Ke Zhang – Microbiome

Animal experiments

Bacteroides uniformis CECT 7771 requires adaptive immunity to improve glucose tolerance but not to prevent body weight gain in diet-induced obese mice – Marina Romaní-Pérez – Microbiome

The impact of microplastics polystyrene on the microscopic structure of mouse intestine, tight junction genes and gut microbiota – Qi-Ling Su – Plos One

Epithelial hypoxia maintains colonization resistance against Candida albicans – Hannah P. Savage – Cell Host & Microbe

Viruses and phages

Characterizing the gut phageome and phage-borne antimicrobial resistance genes in pigs – Jun Hu – Microbiome

Water microbiome

Deep long-read metagenomic sequencing reveals niche differentiation in carbon cycling potential between benthic and planktonic microbial populations – Tomeu Viver – bioRxiv

Root, soil, plant microbiome

Altitude-Dependent Influence of Artemisia brevifolia on its Rhizosphere Microbiome in Ladakh Region of the Western Himalayas – Manzoor Hussain – Rhizosphere

Bioinformatics

Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read sequenced metagenomes with Lemur and Magnet – Nicolae Sapoval – bioRxiv

Comprehensive profiling of genomic invertons in defined gut microbial community reveals associations with intestinal colonization and surface adhesion – Xiaofan Jin – bioRxiv

June 5, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome and inflammation among athletes in wheelchair in a crossover randomized pilot trial of probiotic and prebiotic interventions – Ezra Valido – Nature Scientific Reports

A microbiota-directed complementary food intervention in 12-18-month-old Bangladeshi children improves linear growth – Ishita Mostafa – eBioMedicine

Gut microbiome shifts in people with type 1 diabetes are associated with glycaemic control: an INNODIA study – Tommi Vatanen – Diabetologia

Association of methyl donor nutrients dietary intake and sleep disorders in the elderly revealed by the intestinal microbiome – Qianqian Chen – Food & Function

[REVIEW] The human gut microbiome and aging – Evan Bradley & John Haran – Gut Microbes

[REVIEW] Nurturing gut health: role of m6A RNA methylation in upholding the intestinal barrier – Shuaijie Wang – Cell Death Discovery

Persistent dysbiosis of duodenal microbiota in patients with controlled pediatric Crohn’s disease after resolution of inflammation – Rebecca Pierce – Nature Scientific Reports

Dysfunctional circadian clock accelerates cancer metastasis by intestinal microbiota triggering accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells – Jing-Lin Liu – Cell Metabolism

Human respiratory microbiome

Longitudinal multicompartment characterization of host-microbiota interactions in patients with acute respiratory failure – Georgios D. Kitsios – Nature Communications

Lack of correlation between in vitro and within patient measures of P. aeruginosa biofilms in cystic fibrosis – Amanda J Morris – Cell Heliyon

Human oral microbiome

The oral microbiome and oral and upper gastrointestinal diseases – Sifan Liu – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Comprehensive analysis of the oral microbiota and metabolome change in patients of burning mouth syndrome with psychiatric symptoms – Shihong Luo – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis – Elena Lindemann-Perez – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Animal experiments

Prevotella copri transplantation promotes neurorehabilitation in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury – Nina Gu – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Spatial recovery of the murine gut microbiota after antibiotics perturbation – M. Taguer – mBio

Water and extremophile microbiome

Global biogeography of microbes driving ocean ecological status under climate change – Zhenyan Zhang – Nature Communications

Macroalgal eukaryotic microbiome composition indicates novel phylogenetic diversity and broad host spectrum of oomycete pathogens – Natalia Timanikova – Environmental Microbiology

Viruses & phages

Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study – Jean-Paul Pirnay – Nature Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Environmental and structural factors associated with bacterial diversity in household dust across the Arizona-Sonora border – Lauren D. Benton – Nature Scientific Reports

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Tibetan Plateau grasslands might increase sequestration of microbial necromass carbon under future warming – Qinwei Zhang – Nature Communications Biology

Assembly of Endophytic Communities of Setaria viridis Plants when Grown in Different Soils and Derived from Different Seeds – Carolina Escobar Rodríguez – Phytobiomes

[PREPRINT] Hybrid xyloglucan utilisation loci are prevalent among plant-associated Bacteroidota – Hannah Martin – bioRxiv

Microbial ecology

Cooperative growth in microbial communities is a driver of multistability – William Lopes – Nature Communications

Bioenergetic mapping of ‘healthy microbiomes’ via compound processing potential imprinted in gut and soil metagenomes – Craig Liddicoat – Science of the Total Environment

Temporal dynamics of fecal microbiota community succession in broiler chickens, calves, and piglets under aerobic exposure – Paul Oladele – Microbiology Spectrum

May 29, 2024

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Human microbiomes

Gut microbiome remodeling and metabolomic profile improves in response to protein pacing with intermittent fasting versus continuous caloric restriction – Alex E. Mohr – Nature Communications

[PREPRINT] Towards a Health-Associated Core Keystone (HACK) index for the human gut microbiome – Abishek Goel – bioRxiv

Exposure to environmental pollutants selects for xenobiotic-degrading functions in the human gut microbiome – Francesca De Fillipis – Nature Communications

The interrelation between microbial immunoglobulin coating, vaginal microbiota, ethnicity, and preterm birth – H.J. Schuster – BMC Microbiome

Porphyromonas gingivalis, a bridge between oral health and immune evasion in gastric cancer – Matías Muñoz-Medel – Frontiers in Oncology

Differences in maternal subgingival microbiome between preterm and term births: The MOHEPI study – Jung Soo Park – Journal of Periodontal Resaerch

Animal microbiome

Integrating uterine microbiome and metabolome to advance the understanding of the uterine environment in dairy cows with metritis – S. Casaro – BMC Animal Microbiome

Responses of nutrient utilization, rumen fermentation and microorganisms to different roughage of dairy buffaloes – Shichun He – BMC Microbiology

Identification of the mutual gliding locus as a factor for gut colonization in non-native bee hosts using the ARTP mutagenesis – Yujie Meng – BMC Microbiome

Co-habiting ants and silverfish display a converging feeding ecology – Thomas Parmentier – BMC Biology

Temperature-dependent differences in mouse gut motility are mediated by stress – Alvin Han – Nature Lab Animal

Food microbiome

Evaluation of microbiota-induced changes in biochemical, sensory properties and volatile profile of kombucha produced by reformed microbial community – Hilal Kilmanoglu – Food Chemistry X

Plant, soil, and root microbiome

Microbial polyphenol metabolism is part of the thawing permafrost carbon cycle – Bridget B. McGivern – Nature Microbiology

[PREPRINT] Soil viral community dynamics over seven years of heat disturbance: spatial variation exceeds temporal in annually sampled soils – Samuel E. Barnett & Ashley Shade – bioRxiv

Global soil metagenomics reveals distribution and predominance of Deltaproteobacteria in nitrogen-fixing microbiome – Yoko Masuda – BMC Microbiome

Water & extremophile microbiome

Bacterial dynamics of the plastisphere microbiome exposed to sub-lethal antibiotic pollution – Brune Jounnard & Concepcion Sanchez-Cid – BMC Microbiome

Exploring potential polysaccharide utilization loci involved in the degradation of typical marine seaweed polysaccharides by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron – Biao Yu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Organic matter degradation in the deep, sulfidic waters of the Black Sea: insights into the ecophysiology of novel anaerobic bacteria – Subhash Yadav – BMC Microbiome

May 17, 2024

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Today’s digest features bioinformatics binning methods, healthy dogs, lakes in South Africa, and more. For the human gut microbiome studies, check out the latest digest (May 15, 2024) by Grace Deitzler.

See you at #MVIF!

Skin microbiome

Intraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes – Christopher P. Mancuso – bioRxiv

Oral microbiome

Oral microbiota of patients with phenylketonuria: A nation-based cross-sectional study – Memduh Bingöl – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Urinary microbiome

Microbroth dilution method for antibiotic susceptibility testing of fastidious and anaerobic bacteria of the urinary microbiome – Wilson Geaman – Microbiology Spectrum

Respiratory tract

Meta-analysis of the human upper respiratory tract microbiome reveals robust taxonomic associations with health and disease – Nick Quinn-Bohmann – BMC Biology

Food microbiome

Microbial community structure of plant-based meat alternatives – Franz-Ferdinand Rochn – pj Science of Food

Plan, root, soil

Functional team selection: a framework for local adaptation in plants and their belowground microbiomes – Nancy Collins Johnson and César Marín – ecoevoRxiv

Life on the edge: microbial diversity, resistome, and virulome in soils from the Union Glacier cold desert – Patricio Arros – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Microbiota of healthy dogs demonstrate a significant decrease in richness and changes in specific bacterial groups in response to supplementation with resistant starch, but not psyllium or methylcellulose, in a randomized cross-over trial – Silke Salavati Schmitz – Access Microbiology

Early-life factors shaping the gut microbiota of Common buzzard nestlings – Hugo Pereira – Animal Microbiome

Animal experiment

13C-Stable isotope resolved metabolomics uncovers dynamic biochemical landscape of gut microbiome-host organ communications in mice – Xia Xiao – Microbiome

Water microbiome

Metagenomics datasets of water and sediments from eutrophication-impacted artificial lakes in South Africa – Grace Nkechinyere Ijoma – Scientific Data

Bioinformatics

Fairy: fast approximate coverage for multi-sample metagenomic binning – Jim Shaw and Yun William Yu – bioRxiv

Highly accurate metagenome-assembled genomes from human gut microbiota using long-read assembly, binning, and consolidation methods – Daniel M Portik – biorXiv

Using short-read 16S rRNA sequencing of multiple variable regions to generate high-quality results to a species level – Amy S Graham – bioRxiv

Full factorial construction of synthetic microbial communities – Juan Diaz-Colunga – bioRxiv

ARGNet: using deep neural networks for robust identification and classification of antibiotic resistance genes from sequences – Yao Pei – Microbiome

April 12, 2024

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Today’s digest features human gut microbiome studies on dietary fiber and fasting glucose, ocean microbiome, pangenome approaches, and more.

See you at #MVIF!

Oral microbiome

Saliva sampling method influences oral microbiome composition and taxa distribution associated with oral diseases – Cristian Roca – PlosOne

Gut microbiome

Changes in the intestinal microbiota of individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease based on sequencing: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis – Wenpin Cai – PlosOne

Gut microbiota differences in stunted and normal-lenght children aged 36–45 months in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia – Ingrid S. Surono – PlosOne

Integrating research on bacterial pathogens and commensals to fight infections—an ecological perspective – Lisa Maier – The Lancet Microbe

Recommendations for the Use of Dietary Fiber to Improve Blood Pressure Control – Hamdi A. Jama – Hypertension

Review: Prebiotic selection influencing inflammatory bowel disease treatment outcomes: a review of the preclinical and clinical evidence – Amin Ariaee – eGastroenterology

Overcoming donor variability and risks associated with fecal microbiota transplants through bacteriophage-mediated treatments – Torben Soelbeck Rasmussen – bioRxiv

Continuous glucose monitoring and intrapersonal variability in fasting glucose – Smadar Shilo – Nature Medicine

Animal microbiome

Intestinal microbiome profiles in broiler chickens raised without antibiotics exhibit altered microbiome dynamics relative to conventionally raised chickens – Seyed Hossien Kairmi – PlosOne

Microbial signatures and enterotype clusters in fattening pigs: implications for nitrogen utilization efficiency – Naomi Sarpong – Frontiers in Microbiology

A genome-centric view of the role of the Acropora kenti microbiome in coral health and resilience – Lauren F. Messer – Nature Communications

Varied microbial community assembly and specialization patterns driven by early life microbiome perturbation and modulation in young ruminants – Zhe Pan – ISME Communications

Ocean microbiome

Decoding populations in the ocean microbiome – Ramiro Logares – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

High-resolution Profiling of Bacterial and Fungal Communities using Pangenome-Informed Taxon-Specific Long-Read Amplicons – Luzia Stalder – bioRxiv

CELEBRIMBOR: Pangenomes from metagenomes – Joel Hellewell – bioRxiv

April 10, 2024

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Good morning microbiome enthusiasts! Today’s MD is on the shorter side but we still have some really interesting articles picked out for you to peruse – including a microbiome-sparing targeted P. aeruginosa compound, effective probiotics for restoring a healthy coral microbiome, and a study characterizing the microbiome of metastatic cancers in over 4,000 biopsies. Plus, don’t forget that April’s Microbiome Virtual International Forum is happening next week!

Human Microbiome

Longitudinal multi-omics analysis uncovers the altered landscape of gut microbiota and plasma metabolome in response to high altitude – Yang Han et al – BMC Microbiome

Illuminating microflora: shedding light on the potential of blue light to modulate the cutaneous microbiome – Hannah J Serrage et al – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Evolutionary investigations of the biosynthetic diversity in the skin microbiome using lsaBGC – Rauf Salamzade et al – Microbial Genomics

A pan-cancer analysis of the microbiome in metastatic cancer – Thomas Battaglia et al – Cell

A Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus secretome induces immunoregulatory transcriptional, functional and immunometabolic signatures in human THP-1 monocytes – Michael P. Jeffrey et al – Nature Scientific Reports

The oral cavity and intestinal microbiome in children with functional constipation – Monika Kwiatkowska et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Characterization of the gut bacterial and viral microbiota in latent autoimmune diabetes in adults – Casper S. Poulsen et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Colonization during a key developmental window reveals microbiota-dependent shifts in growth and immunity during undernutrition – Yadeliz A. Serrano Matos et al – BMC Microbiome

Animal models

Dermal injury drives a skin to gut axis that disrupts the intestinal microbiome and intestinal immune homeostasis in mice – Tatsuya Dokoshi et al – Nature Communications

A folate inhibitor exploits metabolic differences in Pseudomonas aeruginosa for narrow-spectrum targeting – Connor Chain et al – Nature Microbiology

Animal microbiome

A genome-centric view of the role of the Acropora kenti microbiome in coral health and resilience – Lauren F. Messer et al – Nature Communications

Probiotics reshape the coral microbiome in situ without detectable off-target effects in the surrounding environment – Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez et al – Nature Communications Biology

Substantial viral diversity in bats and rodents from East Africa: insights into evolution, recombination, and cocirculation – Daxi Wang et al – BMC Microbiome

Plant, root & soil microbiome

Root volatiles manipulate bacterial biofilms – Waseem Raza & Gaofei Jiang – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysis of endophytic bacterial diversity in seeds of different genotypes of cotton and the suppression of Verticillium wilt pathogen infection by a synthetic microbial community – Chong-Die Wu et al – BMC Plant Biology

Bioinformatics & tools

Holomics – a user-friendly R shiny application for multi-omics data integration and analysis – Katharina Munk et al – BMC Bioinformatics

March 7, 2024

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General microbiome

[OPINION]Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence – Custer, Bresciani & Dini-Andreote – Trends in Microbiology

Studying mixed-species biofilms of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus using evolutionary game theory – Dühring & Schuster – PLOS One

Human oral microbiome

Microbial Communities and Functional Genes in Periodontitis and Healthy Controls – Ma et al. – International Dental Journal

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Unlocking the secrets: exploring the influence of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and microbiome on cancer development – Rayan et al. – Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters

Short term supplementation with cranberry extract modulates gut microbiota in human and displays a bifidogenic effect – Lessard-Lord et al. – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

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

Fecal microbiota impacts development of Cryptosporidium parvum in the mouse – Widmer & Creasey – Scientific reports

High fat diet is associated with gut microbiota dysbiosis and decreased gut microbial derived metabolites related to metabolic health in young Göttingen Minipigs – Lützhøft et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Gustatory Responsiveness of Honey Bees Colonized with a Defined or Conventional Gut Microbiota – Suenami, Sato & Miyazaki – Microbes and Environments

[REVIEW]Fungal infection of insects: molecular insights and prospects – Hong et al. – Trends in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbiome sequencing revealed the abundance of uncultured bacteria in the Phatthalung sago palm-growing soil – Nutaratat et al. – PLOS One

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

Assigning the unassigned: A signature-based classification of rDNA metabarcodes reveals new deep-sea diversity – Angeles et al. – PLOS One

February 29, 2024

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Human oral microbiome

Using formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue to characterize the microbiota in p16-positive and p16-negative tongue squamous cell carcinoma: a pilot study – Yuanbo et al. – BMC Oral Health

Human gut microbiome

Inflammation and bacteriophages affect DNA inversion states and functionality of the gut microbiota – Carasso et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

Integrated multi-omics analysis reveals gut microbiota dysbiosis and systemic disturbance in major depressive disorder – Xie et al. – Psychiatry Research

Long-term beneficial effect of faecal microbiota transplantation on colonisation of multidrug-resistant bacteria and resistome abundance in patients with recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection – Nooij et al. – Genome Medicine

Bacteroides salyersiae is a potent chondroitin sulfate-degrading species in the human gut microbiota – Wang et al. – Microbiome

Elemental iron protects gut microbiota against oxygen-induced dysbiosis – Ostrov et al. PLOS One

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

Fecal microbiota transplantation ameliorates abdominal obesity through inhibiting microbiota-mediated intestinal barrier damage and inflammation in mice – Zhu et al. – Microbiological Research

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Exploring the modulatory effects of brown seaweed meal and extracts on intestinal microbiota and morphology of broiler chickens challenged with heat stress – Oretomiloye & Adewole – Poultry Science

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Synthetic microbe-to-plant communication channels – Boo et al. Nature Communications

Time-shifted expression of acetoclastic and methylotrophic methanogenesis by a single Methanosarcina genomospecies predominates the methanogen dynamics in Philippine rice field soil – Li et al. – Microbiome

Influence of climatic variation on microbial communities during organic Pinot noir wine production – Ohwofasa et al. – PLOS One

February 23, 2024

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Today’s digest features the MetaPhlAn v4.1 & viral module, early life gut microbiome and diabetes, human milk oligosaccharides study, and more.

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Oral microbiome

Favorable subgingival plaque microbiome shifts are associated with clinical treatment for peri-implant diseases – Davide Bazzani – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Nasal microbiome

Nasal commensals reduce Staphylococcus aureus proliferation by restricting siderophore availability – Y Zhao – bioRxiv

Semen microbiome

Characterisation and comparison of semen microbiota and sperm function in men with infertility, recurrent miscarriage, or proven fertility – Shahriar Mowla – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

CRISPR-Cas-based identification of a sialylated human milk oligosaccharides utilization cluster in the infant gut commensal Bacteroides dorei – Sivan Kijner – Nature Communications

Microbiome features associated with performance measures in athletic and non-athletic individuals: A case-control study – Kinga Humińska-Lisowska – Plos One

The impact of iron supplementation on the preterm neonatal gut microbiome: A pilot study – Matthew VanOrmer – Plos One

Early-life exposures to specific commensal microbes prevent type 1 diabetes – Jamal Green – bioRxiv

Insights into gut microbiomes in stem cell transplantation by comprehensive shotgun long-read sequencing – Philipp Spohr – Scientific Reports

Donor-recipient intermicrobial interactions impact transfer of subspecies and fecal microbiota transplantation outcome – Qiyi Chen – Cell Host & Microbe

Animal experiment

The gut ileal mucosal virome is disturbed in patients with Crohn’s disease and exacerbates intestinal inflammation in mice – Zhirui Cao – Nature Communications

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiome diversity and function during hibernation and spring emergence in an aquatic frog – Ji-Eun Lee – Plos One

Unraveling the gut microbiota of Tibetan chickens: insights into highland adaptation and ecological advantages – Tao Zeng – bioRxiv

Water microbiome

A difficult coexistence: resolving the iron-induced nitrification delay in groundwater filters – Francesc Corbera-Rubio – bioRxiv

Human virome

Discovering and exploring the hidden diversity of human gut viruses using highly enriched virome samples – Moreno Zolfo – bioRxiv