August 16, 2015

So many new papers, that I need to do a Sunday post as well. Human nose microbiota changes during rhinovirus infection. tsrimethylamine and human gut microbiome, gut microbiota in sloths, and effect of timber harvesting on forest soils.

Human oral microbiome

Long-term evaluation of the antimicrobial susceptibility and microbial profile of subgingival biofilms in individuals with aggressive periodontitis – Talita Gomes Baêta Lourenco – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

The human oral metaproteome reveals potential biomarkers for caries disease – Pedro Belda-Ferre – Proteomics

Human respiratory microbiome

Changes in microbiota during experimental human Rhinovirus infection – J. J. Hofstra – BMC Infectious Disease

Human gut microbiome

The Microbiome and Osteosarcopenic Obesity in Older Individuals in Long-Term Care Facilities – Julia E. Inglis – Current Osteoporosis Reports

Review: Microbiology Meets Big Data: The Case of Gut Microbiota–Derived Trimethylamine – Gwen Falony – Annual Review of Microbiology

Review: Gut microbiota modulate the immune effect against hepatitis B virus infection – D. Xu – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Microbiome models

Osteopontin Deficiency Accelerates Spontaneous Colitis in Mice with Disrupted Gut Microbiota and Macrophage Phagocytic Activity – Takahiko Toyonaga – PLOS ONE

Prolonged antibiotic treatment induces a diabetogenic intestinal microbiome that accelerates diabetes in NOD mice – Kirsty Brown – ISME Journal

Prebiotic effects of diet supplemented with the cultivated red seaweed Chondrus crispus or with fructo-oligo-saccharide on host immunity, colonic microbiota and gut microbial metabolites – Jinghua Liu – BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Animal microbiome

Metagenome Sequencing of the Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) Rumen Microbiome – Anita N. Dube – Genome Announcements

Diet specialization selects for an unusual and simplified gut microbiota in two- and three-toed sloths – Kimberly A. Dill-McFarland – Environmental Microbiology

Microbiome Variation Across Amphibian Skin Regions: Implications for Chytridiomycosis Mitigation Efforts – Arnaud Bataille – Microbial Ecology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Molecular screening of microbial communities for candidate indicators of multiple metal impacts in marine sediments from Northern Australia – Alyssa M. Cornall – Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Response of Archaeal and Bacterial Soil Communities to Changes Associated with Outdoor Cattle Overwintering – Alica Chroňáková – PLOS ONE

Long-term effects of timber harvesting on hemicellulolytic microbial populations in coniferous forest soils – Hilary T C Leung – ISME Journal

Microbial Community Composition and Extracellular Enzyme Activities Associated with Juncus roemerianus and Spartina alterniflora Vegetated Sediments in Louisiana Saltmarshes – Anthony J. Rietl – Microbial Ecology

Water microbiome

Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time-series and global field samples – Alma Parada – Environmental Microbiology

Diversity of Synechococcus at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory: Insights from Culture Isolations, Clone Libraries, and Flow Cytometry – Kristen R. Hunter-Cevera – Microbial Ecology

Built environment microbiome

The Effectiveness of Three Home Products in Cleaning and Disinfection of S. aureus and E. coli on Home Environmental Surfaces – Nancy Goodyear – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Geochemical influences and mercury methylation of a dental wastewater microbiome – Asha Rani – Scientific Reports

Metagenomics

Research Highlights: An encrypted growth signature – Naomi Attar – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Archaea / Metabolomics

Untargeted metabolomics studies employing NMR and LC–MS reveal metabolic coupling between Nanoarcheum equitans and its archaeal host Ignicoccus hospitalis – Timothy Hamerly – Metabolomics

Microbes in the news

Toxoplasma parasite’s greedy appetite may be its downfall – University of Melbourne – EurekAlert

Let’s hope the stock photo was not related to the techniques used in this study:
Computerized ‘fishing expedition’ hooks 12,500 virus genomes – Brooks Hays – UPI

New Beach Act aims for faster results on bacteria tests – Dan Radel – APP.com

Swedish infant infects four others with resistant bacteria – New Straits Times

What’s lurking in your lungs? Surprising findings emerge from U-M microbiome research – Health Canal

Science, publishing, and career

Fixing the Leaky Bucket: What Tech Companies Must Do to Retain Their Best Female Talent – Belle Beth Cooper – Huffington Post

Bik’s Picks

Here’s How To Call The International Space Station – Gizmodo

Playing Tetris for 3 minutes could reduce your worst cravings – IBN Live

Teenagers are making themselves DIY braces and it is horrifying – Amy Willis – Metro.co.uk

How the internet of things is having an impact in Africa – HTXT Africa

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August 8, 2015

Lung and oral microbiomes in setting of HIV infection, cell biology of the plant–microbe interface, deep see prokaryotes, bacterial succession during grape fermentation, and correcting amplicon errors with Dada2.

Pregnancy and birth microbiome

Is abnormal vaginal microflora a risk factor for intrauterine fetal growth restriction? – Natalija Vedmedovska – Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction

Multiple Opportunistic Pathogens, but Not Pre-existing Inflammation, May Be Associated with Necrotizing Enterocolitis – Steven T. Leach – Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Review: Nutrient availability, the microbiome and intestinal transport during pregnancy – Stuart Astbury – Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism

Human oral and lung microbiome

Multi-center Comparison of Lung and Oral Microbiomes of HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected Individuals – James M. Beck – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Review: Microbial protection and virulence in periodontal tissue as a function of polymicrobial communities: symbiosis and dysbiosis – Frank A. Roberts and Richard P. Darveau – Periodontology 2000

Needs assessment for emerging oral microbiome knowledge in dental hygiene education – R. Constance Wiener – Journal of Epidemiological Research

Human reproductive microbiome

Is abnormal vaginal microflora a risk factor for intrauterine fetal growth restriction? – Natalija Vedmedovska – Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction

Human gut microbiome

Alterations of mucosal microbiota in the colon of patients with inflammatory bowel disease revealed by real time polymerase chain reaction amplification of 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid – Jayakanthan Kabeerdoss – Indian J Med Res

An In Vitro Method to Assess Soil Arsenic Metabolism by Human Gut Microbiota: Arsenic Speciation and Distribution – Naiyi Yin – Environmental Science & Technology

Review: Does a low FODMAP diet help IBS? – Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin

Microbiome models

Modulation of intestinal microbiota in mice by kefir administration – Dong-Hyeon Kim – Food Science and Biotechnology

High nutrient availability reduces the diversity and stability of the equine caecal microbiota – Naja C. K. Hansen – Microbial Ecology in Health & Disease

Impact of Dietary Fiber/Starch Ratio in Shaping Cecal Microbiota in Rabbits – YanLi Zhu – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Electrical Retrieval of Living Microorganisms from Cryopreserved Marine Sponges Using a Potential-Controlled Electrode – Sumihiro Koyama – Marine Biotechnology

PhD Thesis: Reproduction, Sex Ratio and Bacterial Communities of the Coffee Berry Borer Hypothenemus Hampei F. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) – Mariño Cárdenas – Universidad de Puerto Rico

Effect of starch source (corn, oats or wheat) and concentration on fermentation by equine fecal microbiota in vitro – Brittany E. Harlow – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Role of peptidases of the intestinal microflora and prey in temperature adaptations of the digestive system in planktivorous and benthivorous fish – V. V. Kuz’mina – Fish Physiology and Biochemistry

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Environmental conditions rather than microbial inoculum composition determine the bacterial composition, microbial biomass and enzymatic activity of reconstructed soil microbial communities – Weibing Xun – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Editorial: Introduction to a Virtual Special Issue on cell biology at the plant–microbe interface – Ralph Panstruga and Hannah Kuhn – New Phytologist

Influence of 34-years of fertilization on bacterial communities in an intensively cultivated black soil in northeast China – Jing Zhou – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Functional and structural responses of methanogenic microbial communities in Uruguayan soils to intermittent drainage – Yang Ji – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Effects of pasture management on soil fertility and microbial communities in the semi-arid grasslands of Inner Mongolia – Jun Liu – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Antibiotic resistance differentiates Echinacea purpurea endophytic bacterial communities with respect to plant organs – Alessio Mengoni – Research in Microbiology

Effect of combined microbes on plant tolerance to Zn–Pb contaminations – Anna Ogar – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

From mesophilic to thermophilic digestion: the transitions of anaerobic bacterial, archaeal, and fungal community structures in sludge and manure samples – Weimin Sun – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Water microbiome

Metagenome-based diversity analyses suggest a significant contribution of non-cyanobacterial lineages to carbonate precipitation in modern microbialites – Aurélien Saghaï – Frontiers in Microbiology

Thesis: Geobiological interactions of archaeal populations in acidic and alkaline geothermal springs of Yellowstone National Park, WY, USA – Jacob Preston Beam – Montana State University

Global diversity and biogeography of deep-sea pelagic prokaryotes – Guillem Salazar – ISME Journal

Built environment microbiology

Halophilic microbial communities in deteriorated buildings – Justyna Adamiak – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Food microbiology

Insights into the bacterial community and its temporal succession during the fermentation of wine grapes – Hailan Piao – Frontiers in Microbiology

Identification of key microorganisms involved in Douchi fermentation by statistical analysis and their use in an experimental fermentation – Chen Chen – Journal of Applied Microbiology

In vitro fermentation of lupin seeds (Lupinus albus) and broad beans (Vicia faba): dynamic modulation of the intestinal microbiota and metabolomic output – Patricia Gullón – Food & Function

Bioinformatics

DADA2: High resolution sample inference from amplicon data – Benjamin J Callahan

Transcriptomics

Molecular and chemical dialogues in bacteria-protozoa interactions – Chunxu Song – Scientific Reports

Techniques

Methods for Improving Human Gut Microbiome Data by Reducing Variability through Sample Processing and Storage of Stool – Monika A. Gorzelak – PLOS ONE

Microbes in the News

Prestigious Japanese university comes up with cheesecake … made with Gorilla bacteria! – RocketNews

Lambton College research project proves successful in eliminating bacteria in firefighting gear – Lambton College

Where the sausage gets made – Holly Ganz – MicroBEnet

Calgary diseases expert on the importance of studying our guts – The Globe and Mail

Bik’s Picks

Creepers’ peepers: Why animals’ pupils have different shapes – Nicholas St. Fleur – Seattle Times

Venomous frogs discovered during painful scientific mishap: Frogs head-butt enemies with their spines to inject toxic venom – CBC News

ISS Astronauts to Sample Leafy Greens Grown on Space Station – NDTV

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August 6, 2015

Obesity in Korean adolescents, banana rhizosphere, rare taxa and Deepwater Horizon spill, leaking septic tanks, and visualization of ‘omics data.

Events

BioMicroWorld 2015: International Conference on Environmental, Industrial and Applied Microbiology, 28-30 October 2015, Barcelona, Spain – Has a workshop called: “Modelling bacterial dynamics using the R software”

Human oral and gut microbiome

Oral and faecal microbiota in volunteers with hypertension in a double blind, randomised placebo controlled trial with probiotics and fermented bilberries – Jie Xu – Journal of Functional Foods

Obesity Alters the Microbial Community Profile in Korean Adolescents – Hae-Jin Hu – PLOS ONE

Microbiome models

Rescue of Fructose-Induced Metabolic Syndrome by Antibiotics or Faecal Transplantation in a Rat Model of Obesity – Blanda Di Luccia – PLOS ONE

Plants, roots, and soil microbiome

Manipulating the banana rhizosphere microbiome for biological control of Panama disease – Chao Xue – Scientific Reports

Review: Roots Shaping Their Microbiome: Global Hotspots for Microbial Activity – Barbara Reinhold-Hurek – Annual Review of Phytopathology

Effect of Agricultural Amendments on Cajanus cajan (Pigeon Pea) and Its Rhizospheric Microbial Communities – A Comparison between Chemical Fertilizers and Bioinoculants – Rashi Gupta – PLOS ONE

Effect of genetically modified rice producing resveratrol on the soil microbial communities – Soo-In Sohn – Journal of the Korean Society for Applied Biological Chemistry

Water microbiome

Diverse, rare microbial taxa responded to the Deepwater Horizon deep-sea hydrocarbon plume – Sara Kleindienst – The ISME Journal

Linking fecal bacteria in rivers to landscape, geochemical, and hydrologic factors and sources at the basin scale – Marc P. Verhougstraete – PNAS

Toolbox approaches using molecular markers and 16S rDNA amplicon datasets for the identification of fecal pollution in surface water – W. Ahmed – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Anvi’o: An advanced analysis and visualization platform for ‘omics data – A. Murat Eren – Peer J

InteMAP: Integrated metagenomic assembly pipeline for NGS short reads – Binbin Lai – BMC Bioinformatics

MiRKAT peeks at associations between the microbiome and disease – —JM Kocarnik – Fred Hutch

Fungi and microbiomes

Noisy neighbourhoods: quorum sensing in fungal polymicrobial infections – Emily F. Dixon – Cellular Microbiology

Metabarcoding analysis of home composts reveals distinctive fungal communities with a high number of unassigned sequences – Adrian Langarica-Fuentes – Microbiology

More microbes

Review: Next-generation sequencing for pathogen detection and identification – Kenneth G. Frey – Methods in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

University of Missouri hosts open house at DNA sequencing center – Megan Favignano – Columbia Tribune

Detective work traces bacteria in Michigan rivers back to leaky septic tanks – Rebecca Williams – Michigan Radio

Bacteria that may cause spotty liver disease in chickens identified – Farmers Weekly

Bik’s Picks

World’s first ant map launched in Hong Kong:geographic locations of nearly 15,000 types of ant – Business Insider

Seeds That Defied Romans, Pirates, and Nazis – Robert Krulwich – National Geographic

The dark side of the moon sails across Earth in new NASA video – Deborah Netburn – Los Angeles Times

 

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August 1, 2015

So many new papers, so here is another Saturday installment of The Digest. Several papers on microbiome during pregnancy or the first months of life, ear infections, having older siblings, rhizosphere on volcanic islands, and aquatic fungal communities.

General human microbiome

A Year of Infection in the Intensive Care Unit: Prospective Whole Genome Sequencing of Bacterial Clinical Isolates Reveals Cryptic Transmissions and Novel Microbiota – David J. Roach – PLOS Genetics

Opinion: The human–microbe metaorganism, evolution and extraterrestrial colonization – Leonard A Mermel – Future Microbiology

Frailty and the Microbiome – Meehan C.J. – Frailty in Aging

Pregnancy and birth microbiome

Secretor Status Is Strongly Associated with Microbial Alterations Observed during Pregnancy – Himanshu Kumar – PLOS ONE

Longitudinal Survey of Microbiota in Hospitalized Preterm Very Low Birth Weight Infants – Patel, Aloka L. – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition

Lactation and Intestinal Microbiota: How Early Diet Shapes the Infant Gut
Felicia Goldsmith – Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia

DGGE: Distinctive Intestinal Lactobacillus Communities in Six-Month-Old Infants From Rural Malawi and South-Western Finland – Aakko, Juhani – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition

Early Gut Colonization with Lactobacilli and Staphylococcus in Infants: the Hygiene Hypothesis Extended – Salminen, Seppo – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition

Association between positive urine cultures and necrotizing enterocolitis in a large cohort of hospitalized infants – Leslie C. Pineda – Early Human Development

Human oral microbiome

Strains of Enterococcus faecalis differ in their ability to coexist in biofilms with other root canal bacteria – L. E. Chávez de Paz – International Endodontic Journal

Human respiratory microbiome

Pediatric Cystic Fibrosis Sputum Can Be Chemically Dynamic, Anoxic, and Extremely Reduced Due to Hydrogen Sulfide Formation – Elise S. Cowley – mBio

Human skin and ear microbiome

The microbiome of otitis media with effusion in Indigenous Australian children – Jake Jervis-Bardy – International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology

Review: Probiotics in personal care products – Mei-Chiung Jo Huang – Microbiology Discovery

Human gut microbiome

Having older siblings is associated with gut microbiota development during early childhood – Martin Frederik Laursen – BMC Microbiology

Serum Trimethylamine-N-Oxide is Elevated in CKD and Correlates with Coronary Atherosclerosis Burden – Jason R. Stubbs – Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Probiotics modify human intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota in patients with colorectal cancer – Zhiguang Gao – Molecular Medicine Reports

A Survey on the Developmental Intestinal Microbiota Research in China: the history, funding, and frontiers of gut bacteria – Hui Min Chen – Journal of Digestive Diseases

Review: Gut microorganisms as promising targets for the management of type 2 diabetes – Nathalie M. Delzenne – Diabetologia

Microbiome models

Systems Modeling of Interactions between Mucosal Immunity and the Gut Microbiome during Clostridium difficile Infection – Andrew Leber – PLOS ONE

Evaluation of mucositis induced by irinotecan after microbial colonization in germ-free mice – Silvia H S P Pedroso – Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Exploring the microbial diversity of the distal intestinal lumen and mucosa of farmed rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum) using next generation sequencing (NGS) – Philip P. Lyons – Aquaculture Research

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Rhizosphere on volcanic islands: Metagenomic analysis of soil fungal communities on Ulleungdo and Dokdo Islands – Yoon-Jong Nam – The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Effect of Agricultural Amendments on Cajanus cajan (Pigeon Pea) and Its Rhizospheric Microbial Communities – A Comparison between Chemical Fertilizers and Bioinoculants – Rashi Gupta – PLOS ONE

Vulnerability of Soil and Its Associated Organic Matter to Degradation in a Subtropical Region: A Study From São Paulo State, Brazil – Alexandre Marco da Silva – Environment Quality Management

Effects of historical logging on soil microbial communities in a subtropical forest in southern China – Piao Song – Plant and Soil

Effects of rotifers, copepods and chironomid larvae on microbial communities in peatlands – Tomasz Mieczan – European Journal of Protistology

Methanogenic microbial community of the Eastern Paris Basin: Potential for energy production from organic-rich shales – Margaux Meslé – International Journal of Coal Geology

All ecosystems potentially host electrogenic bacteria – Nicolas Chabert – Bioelectrochemistry

Phylogenetic structure of arbuscular mycorrhizal community shifts in response to increasing soil fertility – Yongjun Liu – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Water and extremophile microbiome

Phytoplankton–bacterial interactions mediate micronutrient colimitation at the coastal Antarctic sea ice edge – Erin M. Bertrand – PNAS

Effects of hydrostatic pressure on yeasts isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents – Gaëtan Burgaud- Research in Microbiology

Identification of Habitat-Specific Biomes of Aquatic Fungal Communities Using a Comprehensive Nearly Full-Length 18S rRNA Dataset Enriched with Contextual Data – Katrin Panzer – PLOS ONE

Metaproteomics of aquatic microbial communities in a deep and stratified estuary – David Colatriano – Proteomics

Waste treatment microbiology

Review: Meta-omics approaches to understand and improve wastewater treatment systems – Elisa Rodríguez – Reviews in Environmental Science and Bio/Technology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Growth dynamics of gut microbiota in health and disease inferred from single metagenomic samples – Tal Korem – Science

Spaced seeds improve k-mer-based metagenomic classification – Karel Břinda – Bioinformatics

Microbial Ecology

Resource pulses can alleviate the biodiversity–invasion relationship in soil microbial communities – Cyrus A. Mallon – Ecology

Not sure if I like this term: Tritagonist as a new term for uncharacterised microorganisms in environmental systems – Florian M Freimoser – ISME Journal

Microbes in the news

Bacteria on chicken, turkey, pork linked to bladder infections – Lynne Terry – Oregon Live

Byproduct of intestinal bacteria may jeopardize heart health in kidney disease patients – Medical Xpress

Oregon architecture researchers to study indoor air quality in 72 homes – EurekAlert

Research spotlights a previously unknown microbial ‘drama’ playing in the Southern Ocean – Science Daily

Government of Canada Invests in New Western Canadian Microbiome Centre – Sys-Con Media

A Video of the destruction can be seen hereWood-Decay Fungus Identified as Culprit Consuming Pomona Family’s Home – LA Testing

Microbes and Art

Don’t Be Grossed Out, The Bacteria On These Petri Dish Plates Is Art – Andrew Liszewski – Gizmodo

Call for Entries! ASM’s 2015 Agar Art Contest: Submit your work by September 3th – MicrobeWorld

Bik’s Picks: drought edition

Puget Sound sweltering from the drought and Blob – Department of Ecology – Courier Herald

Extreme Droughts Weaken Trees’ Ability to Soak Up Carbon – William R L Anderegg – Gizmodo

It’s Raining Spiders! Weirdest Effects of California Drought – Tia Ghose – Live Science

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July 30, 2015

Correct vocabulary of microbiome research, microbiome during mosquito development, microbes on Granada’s Royal Chapel stone, and microbes in Atacama desert.

General microbiome

About the proper use of “16S”, “microbiome”, and “microbiota”, and why “microflora” is not correct. Note Elies: But “microbiota” is a plant too!
The vocabulary of microbiome research: a proposal – Julian R. Marchesi – Microbiome

Human oral microbiome

Host response mechanisms in periodontal diseases – Nora Silva – Journal of Applied Oral Science

Human respiratory microbiome

The airway microbiome in patients with severe asthma: Associations with disease features and severity – Yvonne J. Huang – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Human gastric microbiome

The Evolution of Stomach Acidity and Its Relevance to the Human Microbiome – DeAnna E. Beasley – PLOS ONE

Microbiome models

Network analysis of temporal functionalities of the gut induced by perturbations in new-born piglets – Nirupama Benis – BMC Genomics

Animal microbiome

Developmental succession of the microbiome of Culex mosquitoes – Dagne Duguma – BMC Microbiology

Review: The Microbiome: The Trillions of Microorganisms That Maintain Health and Cause Disease in Humans and Companion Animals – A. Rodrigues Hoffmann – Veterinary Pathology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi affect plant community structure under various nutrient conditions and stabilize the community productivity – Gaowen Yang – Oikos

Complementarity in both plant and mycorrhizal fungal communities are not necessarily increased by diversity in the other – Cameron Wagg – Journal of Ecology

Diversity of endophytic and rhizoplane bacterial communities associated with exotic Spartina alterniflora and native mangrove using Illumina amplicon sequencing
Youwei Hong – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Genetic analysis reveals diversity and genetic relationship among Trichoderma isolates from potting media, cultivated soil and uncultivated soil – Abdullah M. Al-Sadi – BMC Microbiology

Mineralogy: Geochemical evidence of microbial activity within ooids – Mara R. Diaz – Sedimentology

Phylogenetic Diversity of Diazotrophs along an Experimental Nutrient Gradient in Mangrove Sediments – Isabel C. Romero – Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Inexplicable Arsenic: Human Dimensions of Soil, Water, Food and Microbial
Resources – Ramakrishnan B – Journal of Environmetnal and Analytical Toxicology

Water microbiome

Structure of the archaeal community in the Black Sea photic zone – A. Y. Merkel – Microbiology

Review: Bridging the gap between omics and earth system science to better understand how environmental change impacts marine microbes – Thomas Mock – Global Change Microbiology

Extremophiles

Bacterial Diversity in Microbial Mats and Sediments from the Atacama Desert – Maria Cecilia Rasuk – Microbial Ecology

Thesis: Microbial Ecology, Biogeochemistry, and Signatures of Life at Low Temperature in Arctic Thermokarst Lake Sediments and High Sierra Snow Fields – Matheus Carnevali, Paula B – University of Nevada, Reno

Waste and built environment microbiology

Temporal and Spatial Stability of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in Aquarium Biofilters – Samik Bagchi – PLOS ONE

Molecular Tools for Monitoring the Ecological Sustainability of a Stone Bio-Consolidation Treatment at the Royal Chapel, Granada – Fadwa Jroundi – PLOS ONE

Seasonal Variation on Microbial Community and Methane Production during Anaerobic Digestion of Cattle Manure in Brazil – Juliana Alves Resende – Microbial Ecology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

deFUME: Dynamic exploration of functional metagenomic sequencing data – Eric van der Helm – BMC Research Notes

Microbial Ecology

An Economic Framework of Microbial Trade – Joshua Tasoff – PLOS ONE

Microbes in the news

Kingdoms are so 20th century: The tree of life gets a makeover: Schoolroom kingdoms are taking a backseat to life’s supergroups – Susan Milius – Science News

Soil-Dwelling Fungus Rode Joplin Tornado to Unexpected Human Home – Jennifer Frazer – Scientific American

Agave extracts show ability to shift gut microbiota: Ingredion study – Stephen DANIELLS – Nutraingredients

Bacterial Find Sheds Light on Digestive Issues, Diabetes, Obesity – American Crystallographic Association

Water At Some Olympic Venues In Rio de Janeiro Reportedly Contain Virus Levels On Par With Raw Sewage – Brad Brooks and Jeny Barchfield – Huffington Post

LASA students developing bacteria to improve carbon monoxide detectors – Calily Bien – KXAN

Bik’s Picks

A tragic death leaves just four northern white rhinos living and little hope for the species – Rachel Feltman – Washington Post

‘Once in a Blue Moon’ Happens on Friday — Why? – Geoff Gaherty – Discovery

How did you get that job: designing a parachute for NASA’s Mars rover – Elizabeth Lopatto – The Verge

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July 29, 2015

Pack hunting by soil amoeba, microbiota of meconium and uterus, transcriptomics of oral phages, no differences in antibiotic resistance gene content in organic or regular pigs, and effects of IBD associated microbes on mouse physiology.

General microbiome

Editorial: News Feature: Microbes on the mind – Helen H. Shen – PNAS

Microbiome of pregnancy and birth

Note: just one sample was PCR positiveFirst-Pass Meconium Samples from Healthy Term Vaginally-Delivered Neonates: An Analysis of the Microbiota – Richard Hansen – PLOS ONE

Understanding the Biologic Therapies of Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics: Exploring Current Evidence for Use in Premature Infants for the Prevention of Necrotizing Enterocolitis – Asmerom, Mussie – Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing

Human oral microbiome

Transcriptome analysis of bacteriophage communities in periodontal health and disease – Tasha M. Santiago-Rodriguez – BMC Genomics

Human respiratory microbiome

Paired analysis of the microbiota of surface mucus and whole-tissue specimens in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis – Raymond J.T. Kim – International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology

Human genital microbiome

Characterisation of the human uterine microbiome in non-pregnant women through deep sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene – Hans Verstaelen – PeerJ

Human skin microbiome

Review: Regulation of T cell immunity in atopic dermatitis by microbes: the Yin and Yang of cutaneous inflammation – Tilo Biedermann – Frontiers in Immunology

Human gut microbiome

Ruminococcal cellulosomes: molecular Lego to deconstruct microcrystalline cellulose in human gut – Gurvan Michel – Environmental Microbiology

Influence of galacto-oligosaccharide mixture (B-GOS) on gut microbiota, immune parameters and metabonomics in elderly persons – Jelena Vulevic – British Journal of Nutrition

Review: Microbiome influences on allergy in mice and humans – Benjamin J Marsland – Current Opinion in Immunology

Editorial: Gut microbiota: Microbiota and neuroimmune signalling—Metchnikoff to microglia – John F. Cryan & Timothy G. Dinan

Review: A Survey on the Developmental Intestinal Microbiota Research in China: the history, funding, and frontiers of gut bacteria – Hui Min Chen – Journal of Digestive Diseases

EditorialStool microbiome changes in VEGF-TKI-induced diarrhoea – Nature Reviews Urology

Models of microbiome research

Microorganisms linked to inflammatory bowel disease-associated dysbiosis differentially impact host physiology in gnotobiotic mice – Thomas W Hoffmann – ISME Journal

The Role of Curcumin in Modulating Colonic Microbiota During Colitis and Colon Cancer Prevention – Rita-Marie McFadden – Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Intestinal microbiota of mice influences resistance to Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia
Stefanie Gauguet – Infection and Immunity

Oral Administration of P. gingivalis Induces Dysbiosis of Gut Microbiota and Impaired Barrier Function Leading to Dissemination of Enterobacteria to the Liver – Mayuka Nakajima – PLOS ONE

Fecal microbiota transplantation and bacterial consortium transplantation have comparable effects on the re-establishment of mucosal barrier function in mice with intestinal dysbiosis – Ming Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Symbiotic maple saps minimize disruption of the mice intestinal microbiota after oral antibiotic administration – Riadh Hammami – International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Animal microbiome

Characterization of Antibiotic Resistance Gene Abundance and Microbiota Composition in Feces of Organic and Conventional Pigs from Four EU Countries – Lenka Gerzova – PLOS ONE

Symbiotic bacteria enable olive fly larvae to overcome host defences – Michael Ben-Yosef – Royal Society Open Science

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Not sure where to file this one under, but pretty cool: Pack hunting by a common soil amoeba on nematodes – Stefan Geisen – Environmental Microbiology

Anaerobic degradation pathway of the novel chiral insecticide Paichongding and its impact on bacterial communities in soils – Zhiqiang Cai – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Exploiting topic modeling to boost metagenomic reads binning – Ruichang Zhang – BMC Bioinformatics

Metabolomics and Proteomics

Effects of Dietary Different Doses of Copper and High Fructose Feeding on Rat Fecal Metabolome – Xiaoli Wei – Journal of Proteome Research

Science, publishing, and career

Let’s Make Gender Diversity in Data Science a Priority Right from the Start – Francine D. Berman – PLOS Biology

Microbes in the news

What are ‘eye crusties’ made of? uBiome asking for participants to use their eye kit

Bacteria Hysteria

Germaphobes look away! Your gym bag might contain high levels of bacteria usually found in faeces – Irish Examiner

Bik’s Picks

A Skeleton, a Catholic Relic, and a Mystery About American Origins – Adrienne Lafrance – The Atlantic

The confounding case of the missing carbon – Michael Casey – CBS News

Washington Is Finally Getting What It Deserves As It Sinks Into The Sea – Kate Sheppard – Huffington Post

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July 28, 2015

A review of the human hand microbiome, microbiome and anxiety in mouse models, diabetes, bacteria in thrombolites, how plants recruits microbial symbionts, towards a standard in microbial genome annotation, and an article about the lab of Jill Banfield.

Microbiome of pregnancy and birth

Prevalence of oral Candida in the first year of life – C. Stecksén-Blicks – Mycoses

Cross-colonization of infants with probiotic organisms in a neonatal unit – L. Hickey – Journal of Hospital Infection

Human oral microbiome

Periodontal microbiota and phospholipases: The Oral Infections and Vascular Disease Epidemiology Study (INVEST) – Adrien Boillot – Atherosclerosis

Review: Alterations of the oral microbiota and oral clinical findings in dry mouth – Y. Hayashi – Journal of Oral Biosciences

Human skin and eye microbiome

Review of Human Hand Microbiome Research – Sarah L. Edmonds-Wilson – Journal of Dermatological Research

Correspondence: Harnessing the microbiome in glaucoma and uveitis – Ankur Gupta – Medical Hypotheses

Human respiratory microbiome

High diversity of non-sporulating moulds in respiratory specimens of immunocompromised patients: should all the species be reported when diagnosing invasive aspergillosis? – Dea Garcia-Hermoso – Mycoses

 

Human gut microbiome

The oral and gut microbiomes are perturbed in rheumatoid arthritis and partly normalized after treatment – Xuan Zhang – Nature Medicine

A tough pill to swallow (perspective): Ready for Oral Fecal Microbiota Pill in Clinical Practice? – Timothy Nguyen – The Journal for Nurse Practitioners

Review: The human gut microbiota and virome: potential therapeutic implications – Emidio Scarpellini – Digestive and Liver Disease

Review: Intestinal Immunity and Gut Microbiota as Therapeutic Targets for Preventing Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases – Tomoya Yamashita – Circulation Journal

Microbiome models

Microbiota and host determinants of behavioural phenotype in maternally separated mice – G. De Palma – Nature Communications

Microbiota regulates type 1 diabetes – Michael P Burrows – PNAS

Gut microbiota facilitates dietary heme-induced epithelial hyperproliferation by opening the mucus barrier in colon – Noortje Ijssennagger – PNAS

Intestinal inhibition of Atg7 prevents tumour initiation through a microbiome-influenced immune response and suppresses tumour growth – Jonathan Lévy – Nature Cell Biology

Lactulose increases bacterial diversity and modulates the swine faecal microbiome as revealed by 454-pyrosequencing – Jong Pyo Chae – Animal Feed Science and Technology

Dynamic Metabonomic and Microbiological Response of Rats to Lincomycin Exposure: An Integrated Microbiology and Metabonomics Analysis – Manna Lin – RSC Advances

Green propolis modulates gut microbiota, reduces endotoxemia and expression of TLR4 pathway in mice fed a high-fat diet – Aline Rissetti Roquetto – Food Research International

Changes in the Swine Gut Microbiota in Response to Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Infection – Hyeon-Woo Koh – Microbes and Environments

Review: Interrelatedness Between Dysbiosis in the Gut Microbiota Due to Immunodeficiency and Disease Penetrance of Colitis – Avijit Ray – Immunology

Animal microbiome

Experimental studies of microbial populations and incidence of zoonotic pathogens in the faeces of red deer (Cervus elaphus) – Sebastian Gnat – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Yeast microbiota of natural cavities of manatees (Trichechus inunguis and T. manatus) in Brazil and its relevance for animal health and management in captivity – José J.C. Sidrim – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

An Efficient Strategy Developed for Next-Generation Sequencing of Endosymbiont Genomes Performed Using Crude DNA Isolated from Host Tissues: A Case Study of Blattabacterium cuenoti Inhabiting the Fat Bodies of Cockroaches – Yukihiro Kinjo – Microbes and Environments

Prokaryotic microbiota in the digestive cavity of the jellyfish Cotylorhiza tuberculata – Sara Cortés-Lara – Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Inner workings of thrombolites: spatial gradients of metabolic activity as revealed by metatranscriptome profiling – J. M. Mobberley – Scientific Reports

Changes in fungal community of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) needles along a latitudinal gradient in Sweden – Hanna Millberg – Fungal Ecology

Temporal dynamics of plant-soil feedback and root-associated fungal communities over 100 years of invasion by a non-native plant – Nicola J. Day – Journal of Ecology

Fungal colonization of the rooting system of the early land plant Asteroxylon mackiei from the 407-Myr-old Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK) – Christine Strullu-Derrien – Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Alder trees enhance crop productivity and soil microbial biomass in tea plantations – P.E. Mortimer – Applied Soil Ecology

Perspective: Plant genotype, microbial recruitment and nutritional security – Jai S. Patel – Frontiers in Plant Science

I don’t always have symbionts, but when I do, I prefer alphaproteobacteria: Endemic Mimosa species from Mexico prefer alphaproteobacterial rhizobial symbionts – Cyril Bontemps – New Phytologist

Conference abstract: Changes in rhizosphere microbiome from halotolerant tomato are correlated with physiological and biochemical parameters of oxidative stress in plants – Radu Liviu Sumalan – Journal of Biotechnology

ReviewRoot associated bacteria – Friends or enemies? A review – Gabriela Mihalache – Memoirs of the Scientific Sections of the Romanian Academy

Analysing the effect of soil organic matter on bacterial communities using T-RFLP fingerprinting: different methods, different stories? – A. Blaud – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Water microbiome

Phospholipids fatty acids of drinking water reservoir sedimentary microbial community: Structure and function responses to hydrostatic pressure and other physico-chemical properties – Bei-bei Chai – Journal of Environmental Biology

Extremophiles

Review: Microbial communities and primary succession in high altitude mountain environments – Sonia Ciccazzo – Annals of Microbiology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

FastQFS – A tool for evaluating and filtering paired-end sequencing data generated from high throughput sequencing – Rahul Sharma – Mycological Progress

Toward a standard in structural genome annotation for prokaryotes – H. James Tripp – Standards in Genomic Sciences

Development of Novel Random Network Theory-Based Approaches to Identify Network Interactions among Nitrifying Bacteria – Cindy Shi – SciTech Connect

Microbial Ecology

Socially mediated induction and suppression of antibiosis during bacterial coexistence
Monica I. Abrudan – PNAS

Microbes in the news

About work in the lab of Jill BanfieldAt Tiny Scales, a Giant Burst on Tree of Life – Kevin Hartnett – Quanta Magazine

Swan song for antibiotics? Can phage therapy and gene editing fill the gap? – Nicholas Staropoli – Genetic Literacy Project

Metagenomic Study Finds Differences in Oral, Gut Microbiomes of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients – Genome Web

Your Burger Is Full of Living Things, Even If It’s Vegetarian – Maddie Stone – Gizmodo

Title incorrect, it’s a Yersinia, but different speciesA Species Of Bacteria That Causes Bubonic Plague And Other Disease In Salmon May Also Be Able To Treat Cancer – Lecia Bushak – Medical Daily

Bacteria in gut profiling secret to healthy weight – Peta Bee – The Australian

Bacteria to protect Appenzeller cheese from fakes – Anand Chandrasekhar – SwissInfo

Grandparents largely to blame for China’s spiking childhood obesity, Microbiota treatment sees dramatic results in obese children – RJ Whitehead – FoodNavigator

Bik’s Picks

Reception of odors and repellents in mosquitoes – Anandasankar Ray – Current Opinion in Neurobiology

570 Sea Turtle Hatchlings Are Released Into Atlantic Ocean – Getty Images

Everything you need to know about lactose intolerance – with maps! – New Scientist

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July 25, 2015

Extracting DNA from the soil under a cadaver, metabolomics of periodontitis, HLA haplotypes and microbiome, and microbes using ancient carbon from melting permafrost.

Microbiome of pregnancy and health

Gut Bifidobacterium microbiota in one-month-old Brazilian newborns – Łukasz Grześkowiak – Anaerobe

Microbiome of death

Assessment of microbial DNA extraction methods of cadaver soil samples for criminal investigations – Sheree J. Finley – Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Human oral microbiome

Editorial: Targeting specific bacteria in the oral microbiome – Jorge Frias-Lopez – Trends in Microbiology

The human salivary microbiome exhibits temporal stability in bacterial diversity – Simon J. S. Cameron – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Association of Synergistetes and Cyclodipeptides with Periodontitis – J.T. Marchesan – Journal of Dental Research

Human urinary tract microbiome

Article in Russian: Microbial communities on kidney stones – YM Romanova – Mol Gen Mikrobiol Virusol

Human gut microbiome

The Influence of the Autoimmunity-Associated Ancestral HLA Haplotype AH8.1 on the Human Gut Microbiota: A Cross-Sectional Study – Johannes R. Hov – PLOS ONE

Clostridium amazonense sp. nov. an obliqately anaerobic bacterium isolated from a remote Amazonian community in Peru – Lindsey O’Neal – Anaerobe

Crohn-associated microbial communities from colonic mucosal biopsies in patients of the western Mediterranean – Roberto Vidal – Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Human eye microbiome

Bacteria Colonizing the Ocular Surface in Eyes With Boston Type 1 Keratoprosthesis: Analysis of Biofilm-Forming Capability and Vancomycin Tolerance – Sarmad H. Jassim – Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science

Microbiome models

Persistent hyperglycemia modulates gut immune function and microbiota in rats – Katsuya Mori – Journal of Intensive Care

Animal microbiome

16S rDNA analysis of archaea indicates dominance of Methanobacterium and high abundance of Methanomassiliicoccaceae in rumen of Nili-Ravi buffalo – S.S. Paul – Anaerobe

Developmental succession of the microbiome of Culex mosquitoes – Dagne Duguma – BMC Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Fungal colonization of the rooting system of the early land plant Asteroxylon mackiei from the 407-Myr-old Rhynie Chert (Scotland, UK)- Christine Strullu-Derrien – Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

Soils, microbes, and forest health: A qualitative analysis of social and institutional factors affecting genomic technology adoption – Sara E. Crann – Technology in Society

Assessment of microbial DNA extraction methods of cadaver soil samples for criminal investigations – Sheree J. Finley – Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences

Water microbiome

Spatial patterns of benthic bacterial communities in a large lake – Li-Xiang Liu – International Review of Hydrobiology

Extremophile microbiome

Utilization of ancient permafrost carbon in headwaters of Arctic fluvial networks – Paul J. Mann – Nature Communications

Waste water and bioreactor microbiology

Determination of the archaeal and bacterial communities in two-phase and single-stage anaerobic systems by 454 pyrosequencing – Yogananda Maspolim – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Influence of co-substrate on textile wastewater treatment and microbial community changes in the anaerobic biological sulfate reduction process – Kashif Rasool – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Metabolic networks

Metabolic interactions in microbial communities: untangling the Gordian knot – Olga Ponomarova – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Association of Synergistetes and Cyclodipeptides with Periodontitis – J.T. Marchesan – Journal of Dental Research

Microbes in the news

If the sea is dirty, the sand is worse. Beach sand contains more fecal bacteria than seawater – Megan Scudellari – Boston Globe

Bacteria Hysteria

The Best Way To Clean Your Purse From All That Dirty Bacteria – Madelyn Chung – Huffington Post Canada

Breast milk containing bacteria for sale on Craigslist in Upstate – Gabrielle Komorowski – WYFF4

Bik’s Picks

What San Diego Scientists Are Discovering About Dolphins And Diabetes – Megan Burke – KPBS

Bid to save dolphins in polluted Ganges – Nirmala Ganapathy – Straits Times

 

The SnotBot: Patrick Stewart Backs Drones That Collect Whale Snot – Keith Wagstaff – NBC News

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July 24, 2015

A review about small molecules produced by human microbiota, layers of microbial life in Dead Sea sediments, fungus making “hair ice”, exploring deep microbial life in the sea, and bacterial diversity at the North Pole.

Events

3rd Microbiome R&D and Business Collaboration Forum: USA, San Diego, September 10-11, 2015

WAO Symposium on Food Allergy & the Microbiome – 5-6 December 2015, Miami, FL

Microbiome reviews

Small molecules from the human microbiota – Mohamed S. Donia, Michael A. Fischbach – Science

Editorial: Microbiota-induced T cells block allergic inflammation – Yvonne Bordon – Nature Reviews Immunology

Perspective: Promise and pragmatism in clinical microbiome research – Nadim J. Ajami – Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry

Review: The Role of Intestinal Microbiota in Graft versus Host Disease – no authors listed – Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry

Editorial: Protective role of gut microbial SCFAs – Ellen F. Carney – Nature Reviews Nephrology

Human oral microbiome

In vitro work: Low-dose irradiation affects the functional behavior of oral microbiota in the context of mucositis – Barbara WA Vanhoecke – Experimental Biology and Medicine

Human gut microbiome

Agave Inulin Supplementation Affects the Fecal Microbiota of Healthy Adults Participating in a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Crossover Trial – Hannah D Holscher – Journal of Nutrition

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Impact of paleoclimate on the distribution of microbial communities in the subsurface sediment of the Dead Sea – C. Thomas – Geobiology

Evidence for biological shaping of hair ice – D. Hofmann – Biogeosciences

Water and extremophile microbiome

Exploring deep microbial life in coal-bearing sediment down to ~2.5 km below the ocean floor – F. Inagaki – Science

Morphological and phylogenetic diversity of thermophilic cyanobacteria in Algerian hot springs – Samia Amarouche-Yala – Extremophiles

Bacterial diversity in snow on North Pole ice floes – Aviaja L. Hauptmann – Extremophiles

Identifying the sources of nitrate contamination of groundwater in an agricultural area (Haean basin, Korea) using isotope and microbial community analyses – Heejung Kim – Science of the Total Environment

Selection Maintains Low Genomic GC Content in Marine SAR11 Lineages – Haiwei Luo – Molecular Biology and Evolution

Built environment microbiome

Microbiological characterization of 3193 French dwellings of Elfe cohort children – S. Rocchi – Science of The Total Environment

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

For plant/animal assemblages, but might be of interest: cati: an R package using functional traits to detect and quantify multi-level community assembly processes – Adrien Taudiere – Ecography

Metabolomics and proteomics

Metaproteomics and metabolomics analyses of chronically petroleum-polluted sites reveal the importance of general anaerobic processes uncoupled with degradation – Rafael Bargiela – Proteomics

Microbes in the news

‘It’s like going to Pluto and seeing McDonald’s: ‘These microbes live more than 2 kilometers below the sea floor off the coast of Japan – Mitch Leslie – Science

It takes a village… to ward off dangerous infections? New microbiome research suggests so – MedicalXpress

Pathogenic microbiome bacteria change shape to adapt to nasopharyngeal environment – American Microbiome Institute

Rotting Fungus Creates Beautiful, Glistening ‘Hair Ice’ – Elizabeth Goldbaum – LiveScience

Not endorsing this one, full of errors and false claims: Discovery of Microbiome “Third Brain” Confirmed by Scientific Research in Japan – BusinessWire

Science, publishing, and career

New life for old bones: inventing ways to apply the DNA sequencing revolution to tissues ravaged by time. – Elizabeth Culotta – Science

Songwriting and science: Pitching songs, however, has taught me a few practical lessons about pitching papers and grant proposals: – C. Neal Stewart Jr. – Science

Bik’s Picks

Comparisons of life-history parameters between free-ranging and captive killer whale (Orcinus orca) populations for application toward species management – Todd R. Robeck – Journal of Mammalogy

Kiwi genome provides insights into evolution of a nocturnal lifestyle – Diana Le Duc – Genome Biology

A medical-toxicological view of tattooing – Peter Laux – The Lancet

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July 21, 2015

Microbiome of a dead pig in the snow, two papers on oral microbiome in HIV infection, sweetener consumption and microbiome, proteomics of preterm infant colonization, sequencing platform and primer choices, and including microbial ecology in Pre-med programs.

Microbiology of death

Using Bacterial and Necrophagous Insect Dynamics for Post-Mortem Interval Estimation during Cold Season: Novel Case Study in Romania – Lavinia Iancu – Forensic Science International

Pregnancy and birth / Proteomics

Strain-resolved microbial community proteomics reveals simultaneous aerobic and anaerobic function during gastrointestinal tract colonization of a preterm infant – Brandon Brooks

Human oral microbiome

The Oral Microbiome in HIV-positive Individuals – James O. Kistler – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Exploring salivary microbiota in AIDS patients with different periodontal statuses using 454 GS-FLX Titanium pyrosequencing – Fang Zhang – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Review: Bacteria and Archaea Paleomicrobiology of the Dental Calculus: a Review – Hong T.T. Huynh – Molecular Oral Microbiology

Human urinary tract microbiome

Review: Intracellular Bacterial Communities: A Potential Etiology for Chronic Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms – Victoria C.S. Scott – Urology

Human gut microbiome

High-intensity sweetener consumption and gut microbiome content and predicted gene function in a cross-sectional study of adults in the United States – Cara L. Frankenfeld – Annals of Epidemiology

Pomegranate extract induces ellagitannin metabolite formation and changes stool microbiota in healthy volunteers – Zhaoping Li – Food & Function

Models of microbiome

Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin regulates gut microbiota of mice – Katsuya Mori – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Effect of Dietary Protein Levels on Composition of Odorous Compounds and Bacterial Ecology in Pig Manure – Sungback Cho – Asian Australas. J. Anim. Sci

Animal microbiome

Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing Reveals Functional Genes and Microbiome Associated with Bovine Digital Dermatitis – Martin Zinicola – PLOS ONE

Diversity and composition of the bacterial community in Amphioxus feces – Minming Pan – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Isolation, characterization, and antibiotic resistance of Vibrio spp. in sea turtles from Northwestern Mexico – Alan A. Zavala-Norzagaray – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Infections Are Associated with Embryo Mortality in Arctic-Nesting Geese – Cristina M. Hansen – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

An insight into the functional role of thioredoxin reductase, a selenoprotein, in maintaining normal native microbiota in the Gulf Coast tick (Amblyomma maculatum) – K. Budachetri – Insect Molecular Biology

Chemotaxis by natural populations of coral reef bacteria – Jessica Tout – The ISME Journal

Review: Exploring the avian gut microbiota: current trends and future directions – David W. Waite – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Lactic acid bacteria are endophytic components of durum wheat plant following the whole life cycle from plant to flour – Fabio Minervini – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Application of mesotrione at different doses in an amended soil: Dissipation and effect on the soil microbial biomass and activity – Eva Pose-Juan – Science of The Total Environment

Plant species richness does not attenuate responses of soil microbial and nematode communities to a flood event – Daniela Wagner – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Declined soil suppressiveness to Fusarium oxysporum by rhizosphere microflora of cotton in soil sickness – Xiaogang Li – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Water / extremophile microbiome

Diversity of methanogens and sulfate-reducing bacteria in the interfaces of five deep-sea anoxic brines of the Red Sea – Yue Guan – Research in Microbiology

Analysis of virus genomes from glacial environments reveals novel virus groups with unusual host interactions – Christopher M. Bellas – Frontiers in Microbiology

A Paleoarchean coastal hydrothermal field inhabited by diverse microbial communities: the Strelley Pool Formation, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia – K. Sugitani – Geobiology

Predicting the response of the deep-ocean microbiome to geochemical perturbations by hydrothermal vents – Daniel C Reed – The ISME Journal

Waste and bioreactor microbiology

GeoChip-based analysis of microbial community of a combined nitritation-anammox reactor treating anaerobic digestion supernatant – Jian Zhao – Water Research

Arsenic toxicity effects on microbial communities and nutrient cycling in indoor experimental channels mimicking a fluvial system – Baigal-Amar Tuulaikhuu – Aquatic Toxicology

Microbial ecology

Review: Ecological speciation in bacteria: reverse ecology approaches reveal the adaptive part of bacterial cladogenesis – Florent Lassalle – Research in Microbiology

Microbiology and Ecology Are Vitally Important to Premedical Curricula – Val H. Smith – Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health

Bioinformatics and metagenomics
MCaVoH: A toolkit for Mining, Classification and Visualization of Human Microbiota
Maryum Nisar – Journal of Microbiological Methods

An intriguing new bacterial phylum – Naomi Attar – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Metabolic networks

A biosynthetic pathway for a prominent class of microbiota-derived bile acids – A Sloan Devlin – Nature Chemical Biology

Methanogenic food web in the gut contents of methane-emitting earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae from Brazil – Kristin Schulz – The ISME Journal

Auxotrophy and intra-population complementary in the ‘interactome’ of a cultivated freshwater model community – Sarahi L Garcia – Molecular Ecology

Techniques

Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing – Julien Tremblay – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Programming Bacteria to Kill Cancer Cells – Lecia Bushak – Newsweek

Scientists keep finding more evidence that bacteria in your stomach are connected to your mood – Kevin Loria – Business Insider

#BacteriaHysteriaThe even grosser cause behind gross smelling feet – Stephanie Bell-Flynt

Bik’s Picks
One Migration from Siberia Peopled the Americas: Study – Discovery

Study: Women With Mild Memory Problem Worsen Faster Than Men – Lauran Neergaard – ABC News

Marijuana helps broken bones heal, says Israeli scientific team – Ruth Schuster – Haaretz

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