Today’s digest includes the gut microbiome of sea turtles, microbes on a guyot in the Pacific Ocean, and a review of microbiome animal models. Enjoy!
General microbiome
Review: Simple animal models for microbiome research – Douglas – Nature Reviews Microbiology
Review: An Ecological Loop: Host Microbiomes across Multitrophic Interactions – Liu – Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Review: The antibody/microbiota interface in health and disease – Sterlin – Mucosal Immunology
Pregnancy and early life
Early-life gut microbiome modulation reduces the abundance of antibiotic-resistant bacteria – Casaburi – Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
Human skin microbiome
The prevalence of the culturable human skin aerobic bacteria in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Shami – BMC Microbiology
Animal experiments
Oral Administration of Clinically Relevant Antimalarial Drugs Does Not Modify the Murine Gut Microbiota – Denny & Schmidt – Scientific Reports
Animal microbiome
New insights into the gut microbiome in loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta stranded on the Mediterranean coast – Arizza – PLoS One
Outcomes of a low birth weight phenotype on piglet gut microbial composition and intestinal transcriptomic profile – Fouhse – Canadian Journal of Animal Science
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Deciphering rhizosphere microbiome assembly of wild and modern common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in native and agricultural soils from Colombia – Pérez-Jaramillo – Microbiome
Preprint: Exploring the microbial diversity in oil-contaminated mangrove sediments using 16S rRNA metagenomics – Ghanbari – BioRxiv
Plant-microorganisms interaction promotes removal of air pollutants in Milan (Italy) urban area – Franzetti – Journal of Hazardous Materials
Effects of natural vegetative restoration on soil fungal and bacterial communities in bare patches of the southern Taihang Mountains – Zhao – Ecology and Evolution
Water and extremophile microbiome
The differentiation of iron-reducing bacterial community and iron-reduction activity between riverine and marine sediments in the Yellow River estuary – Zhang – Marine Life Science & Technology
Bacterial Community on a Guyot in the Northwest Pacific Ocean Influenced by Physical Dynamics and Environmental Variables – Liu – JGR: Biogeosciences
Microdiversity ensures the maintenance of functional microbial communities under changing environmental conditions – García-García – ISME
Built environment
Seasonal diversity of the bacterial communities associated with petroglyphs sites from the Negev Desert, Israel – Nir – Annals of Microbiology
Antibiotic fermentation residue for biohydrogen production using different pretreated cultures: Performance evaluation and microbial community analysis – Yang – Bioresource Technology
Bioinformatics
Metagenomic approaches: effective tools for monitoring the structure and functionality of microbiomes in anaerobic digestion systems – Carabeo-Pérez – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology
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