Gaia and her microbiome, a walk in the park, ancient teeth, fillies, bats, ticks, frogs, moss, and high-altitude potatoes.
General microbiome
Gaia and Her Microbiome – John F. Stolz – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Human oral microbiome
Tracing back ancient oral microbiomes and oral pathogens using dental pulps from ancient teeth – Nicolás Rascovan – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiome
Influences of pH and iron on the salivary microbiome in individuals with and without caries – Jianye Zhou – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Human gut microbiome
Further analysis reveals new gut microbiome markers of type 2 diabetes mellitus – Xiaokai Wang – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Animal experiments
Intense Exercise and Aerobic Conditioning Associated with Chromium or L-Carnitine Supplementation Modified the Fecal Microbiota of Fillies – Maria Luiza Mendes de Almeida – PLOS ONE
Animal microbiome
Mosquitoes: Diversity of Cultivable Midgut Microbiota at Different Stages of the Asian Tiger Mosquito, Aedes albopictus from Tezpur, India – Kamlesh K. Yadav – PLOS ONE
Bats: Microbiome of the sexual scent organ of Leptonycteris yerbabuenae – Osiris Gaona – PeerJ
Ticks: Endosymbiont interference and microbial diversity of the Pacific coast tick, Dermacentor occidentalis, in San Diego County, California – Nikos Gurfield – PeerJ
Frogs: Environmental fluctuations and host skin bacteria shift survival advantage between frogs and their fungal pathogen – Ana V Longo – ISME Journal
Plant, root, and soil microbiology
Discovery of polyesterases from moss-associated microorganisms – Christina Andrea Müller – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
Combined use of network inference tools identifies ecologically meaningful bacterial associations in a paddy soil – Honggui Wang – Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Rhizosphere microbiomes of potato cultivated in the High Andes show stable and dynamic core microbiomes with different responses to plant development – Stefan Pfeiffer – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Composting-Like Conditions Are More Efficient for Enrichment and Diversity of Organisms Containing Cellulase-Encoding Genes than Submerged Cultures – Senta Heiss-Blanquet – PLOS ONE
Effects of root exudates of woody species on the soil antierodibility in the rhizosphere in a karst region, China – Zhen hong Wang – PeerJ Preprint
Water and extremophile microbiome
Patchiness of Ciliate Communities Sampled at Varying Spatial Scales along the New England Shelf – Jean-David Grattepanche – PLOS ONE
Spatiotemporal variation of bacterial and archaeal communities in sediments of a drinking reservoir, Beijing, China – Yongjuan Chen – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
Pristine but metal-rich Río Sucio (Dirty River) is dominated by Gallionella and other iron-sulfur oxidizing microbes – Alejandro Arce-Rodríguez – Extremophiles
Quantification of basal ice microbial cell delivery to the glacier margin – Mario Toubes-Rodrigo – Biogeosciences Discuss
Microbial Diversity of Source and Point-of-Use Water in Rural Haiti – A Pyrosequencing-Based Metagenomic Survey – Nabanita Mukherjee – PLOS ONE
Virus-host infection dynamics of marine single-celled eukaryotes resolved from metatranscriptomics – bioRxiv
Pollution
The Biologists’ Forum: Environmental microbial community analysis methods as applied to bioremediation – Hadassa Shira Guttman – BIOS
Food microbiology
Determination of Fungal Community Diversity in Fresh and Traditional Chinese Fermented Pepper by Pyrosequencing – Lingyan Zhao – FEMS Microbiology Letters
Metagenomics
Using Bacterial Genomes and Essential Genes for the Development of New Antibiotics – Francisco R. Fields – Biochemical Pharmacology
Antibiotic discovery is a walk in the park – Louis-Félix Nothias – PNAS
Metabolomics
Book: Microbial Metabolomics: Applications in Clinical, Environmental, and Industrial Microbiology – Editors: David J. Beale, Konstantinos A. Kouremenos, Enzo A. Palombo – Springer
Microbes in the news
Researchers find bacterial protein that boosts insulin-producing cells in zebrafish – Science Daily
A $5 fix for a nasty parasite: Attachment of Cryptosporidium parvum oocysts to environmental biofilms – EurekAlert
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