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October 02, 2018

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Today’s digest features a study on altered gut microbial composition in persons with chronic schizophrenia, a review of different approaches for discovering radical-dependent enzymes in the human gut microbiota and Nature podcast with the latest science news. Happy reading/listening!

Gut microbiome

*Differences in gut microbiome composition between persons with chronic schizophrenia and healthy comparison subjects – Tanya T. Nguyen – Schizophrenia Research

*Review: Discovering radical-dependent enzymes in the human gut microbiota – Benjamin J Levin and Emily P Balskus – Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Review: Air Pollution, Early Life Microbiome, and Development – Yvonne Vallès and M. Pilar Francino – Current Environmental Health Reports

Review: The implementation of omics technologies in cancer microbiome research – Benjamin H Mullish – Ecancermedicalscience

Skin microbiome

Skin microbiome modulation induced by probiotic solutions – Bernhard Paetzold – bioRxiv

Vaginal microbiome

Review: Alternative and complementary therapies for vulvovaginal candidiasis – Thais Chimati Felix – Folia Microbiologica

Animal microbiome

Review: Fish Gut Microbiome: Current Approaches and Future Perspectives – Chandni Talwar – Indian Journal of Microbiology

Review: The application of omics to rumen microbiota function – Stuart E Denman – Animal

Animal experiments

The circadian clock regulates the diurnal levels of microbial short‐chain fatty acids and their rhythmic effects on colon contractility in mice – Anneleen Segers – Acta Physiologie

Bioinformatics

Dynamic interaction network inference from longitudinal microbiome data – Jose Lugo-Martinez – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

6 Artificial Sweeteners That Can Hurt Your Microbiome Revealed in New Study – By Emma Betuel – Inverse

Study: Measuring Artificial Sweeteners Toxicity Using a Bioluminescent Bacterial Panel – Dorin Harpaz – Molecules

Podcast

*A wearable biosensor and a metamaterial’s strange behaviour – Benjamin Thompson and Shamini Bundell – Nature Podcast

September 15, 2018

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Have a nice weekend! Today, we have several papers, covering different aspects of the microbiome! Some highlights (in bold): the role of microbiota in cancer immunotherapy success; interesting study about the lung microbiota and smoking; changes in gut microbiota in asthma patients, microbiota changes in high-salt feces; an interesting article about the potential effect of dogs in veteran rehabilitation; a review about periodontitis and the microbiome; a ecophylogenetic study about mammalian microbiome, and more!

 

Human and General Microbiome

Metagenomic Approaches for Understanding New Concepts in Microbial Science – Luana de Fátima Alves – International Journal of Genomics

Review: Epigenetic Mechanisms Link Maternal Diets and Gut Microbiome to Obesity in the Offspring – Yuanyuan Li – Frontiers in Genetics

Review: NLRP3 inflammasome in colitis and colitis-associated colorectal cancer – Agampodi Promoda Perera – Mammalian Genome

Oral Microbiome Shifts From Caries-Free to Caries-Affected Status in 3-Year-Old Chinese Children: A Longitudinal Study – He Xu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Roles of intestinal microbiota in response to cancer immunotherapy – Jing Cong – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Intestinal dysbiosis and hormonal neuroendocrine secretion in the fibromyalgic patient: Relationship and correlations – Giovanni Tomasello – Biomedical Papers

Macroecology to Unite All Life, Large and Small – Ashley Shade – Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Dichotomous development of the gut microbiome in preterm infants – Thao T. B. Ho – Microbiome

Smoking is associated with quantifiable differences in the human lung DNA virome and metabolome – Ann C. Gregory – Respiratory Research

A metagenome-wide association study of gut microbiota in asthma in UK adults – Qi Wang – BMC Microbiology

The Cutaneous Microbiome and Wounds: New Molecular Targets to Promote Wound Healing – Taylor R. Johnson – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Phthalate Exposure and Odds of Bacterial Vaginosis Among U.S. Reproductive-Aged Women, NHANES 2001-2004 – Ruth J.Geller – Reproductive Toxicology

Para-cresol production by Clostridium difficile affects microbial diversity and membrane integrity of Gram-negative bacteria – Ian J. Passmore – PLoS Pathogens

Salt in stools is associated with obesity, gut halophilic microbiota and Akkermansia muciniphila depletion in humans – E. H. Seck – International Journal of Obesity

The local microbiome after pediatric bladder augmentation: intestinal segments and the native urinary bladder host similar mucosal microbiota – Z.F. Kispal – Journal of Pediatric Urology

The Gut-Brain Axis in Alzheimer’s Disease and Omega-3. A Critical Overview of Clinical Trials – Francesca La Rosa – Nutrients

Associations between Flavonoid Intakes and Gut Microbiota in a Group of Adults with Cystic Fibrosis – Li Li – Nutrients

Review: Insights into the Human Virome Using CRISPR Spacers from Microbiomes – Claudio Hidalgo-Cantabrana – Viruses

Review: Probiotics in the Treatment of Colorectal Cancer –  Robert Hendler – Medicines

Airway Microbiota Dynamics Uncover a Critical Window for Interplay of Pathogenic Bacteria and Allergy in Childhood Respiratory Disease – Shu Mei Teo – Cell Host and Microbe

Human skin volatiles: Passive sampling and GC × GC-ToFMS analysis as a tool to investigate the skin microbiome and interactions with anthropophilic mosquito disease vectors – Alexis P. Roodt – Journal of Chromatography B

Commentary: Regulating stool for microbiota transplantation – Pilar N. Ossorio – Gut Microbes

Associations between the gut microbiota and host responses to high altitude – J. Philip Karl – Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Exploring service dogs for rehabilitation of veterans with PTSD: A microbiome perspective – Andrew J.,Billera Hoisington – Rehabilitation Psychology

Mucosal associated invariant T cells from human breast ducts mediate a Th17-skewed response to bacterially exposed breast carcinoma cells – Nicholas A. Zumwalde – Breast Cancer Research

Periodontitis and the microbiome: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Fabrizio Guerra – Minerva Stomatologica

Formal Comment: The microbiome and the human: A reply to Parke and colleagues – Tobias Rees – PLoS Biology

Microbiota-gut-brain research: a critical analysis – Katarzyna B. Hooks – Behavioral and Brain Sciences

 

Animal Microbiome

Ecophylogenetics Clarifies the Evolutionary Association between Mammals and Their Gut Microbiota – Christopher A. Gaulke – mBio

The Inhibitory Innate Immune Sensor NLRP12 Maintains a Threshold against Obesity by Regulating Gut Microbiota Homeostasis – Agnieszka D. Truax – Cell Host and Microbe

American ginseng microbial metabolites attenuate DSS-induced colitis and abdominal pain – Chong-Zhi Wang – International Immunopharmacology

Impact of violacein from Chromobacterium violaceum on the mammalian gut microbiome – Heidi Pauer – PLoS ONE

Bacterial community composition in the salivary glands of triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) – Michele Souza Lima – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Postnatal Administration of Lactobacillus rhamnosus HN001 Ameliorates Perinatal Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic-Induced Reduction in Myelopoiesis and T cell Activation in Mouse Pups – Eva Fuglsang – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Absorption of Codonopsis pilosula Saponins by Coexisting Polysaccharides Alleviates Gut Microbial Dysbiosis with Dextran Sulfate Sodium-Induced Colitis in Model Mice – Yaping Jing – BioMed Research International

Tributyrin Supplementation Protects Immune Responses and Vasculature and Reduces Oxidative Stress in the Proximal Colon of Mice Exposed to Chronic-Binge Ethanol Feeding – B. Glueck – Journal of Immunology Research

Fecal Hyodeoxycholic Acid Is Correlated With Tylosin-Induced Microbiome Changes in Growing Pigs – Michaela P. Trudeau – Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Yeast Probiotics Shape the Gut Microbiome and Improve the Health of Early-Weaned Piglets – Jinqiang Xu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Probiotic Bacillus amyloliquefaciens C-1 Improves Growth Performance, Stimulates GH/IGF-1, and Regulates the Gut Microbiota of Growth-Retarded Beef Calves – Renjia Du – Frontiers in Microbiology

The Microbiome of the Gastrointestinal Tract of a Range-Shifting Marine Herbivorous Fish – Jacquelyn Jones – Frontiers in Microbiology

Intestinal Microbiome-Metabolome Responses to Essential Oils in Piglets – Yuan Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Managing the Microbial Community of Marine Fish Larvae: A Holistic Perspective for Larviculture – Olav Vadstein – Frontiers in Microbiology

Functional modulation of caecal fermentation and microbiota in rat by feeding bean husk as a dietary fibre supplement – H. Myint – Beneficial Microbes

Effects of short-term fasting on in vivo rumen microbiota and in vitro rumen fermentation characteristics – Jong Nam Kim – Asian-Australian Journal of Animal Sciences

The effect of exposure to high altitude and low oxygen on intestinal microbial communities in mice – Wei Zhang – PLoS ONE

 

Food Microbiome

Lactic Acid Bacterium Population Dynamics in Artisan Sourdoughs Over One Year of Daily Propagations Is Mainly Driven by Flour Microbiota and Nutrients – Fabio Minervini – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effect of Pressure, Reconstituted RTE Meat Microbiota, and Antimicrobials on Survival and Post-pressure Growth of Listeria monocytogenes on Ham – Januana S. Teixeira – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Plant Microbiome

G3 PhyloChip Analysis Confirms the Promise of Plant-Based Culture Media for Unlocking the Composition and Diversity of the Maize Root Microbiome and for Recovering Unculturable Candidate Divisions/Phyla – Mohamed S. Sarhan – Microbes and Environments

Root exudates drive the soil-borne legacy of aboveground pathogen infection – Jun Yuan – Microbiome

Review: Mycorrhizal microbiomes – Mika T. Tarkka – Mycorrhiza

 

Bioinformatics

GePMI: A statistical model for personal intestinal microbiome identification – Zicheng Wang – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Web of microbes (WoM): a curated microbial exometabolomics database for linking chemistry and microbes – Suzanne M. Kosina – BMC Microbiology

 

Other

Temporal variability and stability of the fecal microbiome: the Multiethnic Cohort Study – Benjamin C Fu – Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention

A flavin-based extracellular electron transfer mechanism in diverse Gram-positive bacteria – Samuel H. Light – Nature

 

September 8, 2018

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Have a nice weekend! Today, in Microbiome Digest: an interesting study remarking the importance of personalization in the efficient use of probiotics, given their individualized impact in gut microbiota (Zmora et al., Cell); another interesting paper about the application of autologous FMT in patients in Post-Antibiotic use and a worsening effect of Probiotics (Suez et al., Cell). Today, we have also papers about the dysbiosis in coronary artery disease, a metagenome of the female reproductive tract, a trial about the role of antibiotics in IBS risk and more!

Human and General Microbiome

Post-Antibiotic Gut Mucosal Microbiome Reconstitution Is Impaired by Probiotics and Improved by Autologous FMT – Jotham Suez – Cell

Personalized Gut Mucosal Colonization Resistance to Empiric Probiotics Is Associated with Unique Host and Microbiome Features – Niv Zmora – Cell

The metagenome of the female upper reproductive tract – Chen Chen – GigaScience

Dysbiosis signatures of gut microbiota in coronary artery disease – Qi Zhu – Physiological Genomics

Review: The immunomodulatory role of probiotics in allergy therapy – Jafar Hajavi – Journal of Cellular Physiology

Efficient isolation and observation of the most complex human commensal, Demodex spp. – B. M. Clanner-Engelshofen – Experimental and Applied Acarology

Research Highlight: Boost microbiota studies – Wenjie Sun – Nature Nanotechnology

Reliability of a participant-friendly fecal collection method for microbiome analyses: a step towards large sample size investigation – Joanna W. Szopinska – BMC Microbiology

Alterations and structural resilience of the gut microbiota under dietary fat perturbations – Cong Liu – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Antibiotics: a risk factor for irritable bowel syndrome in a population-based cohort – Laura Rindom Krogsgaard – Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

Inter-relationship between diet, lifestyle habits, gut microflora, and the equol-producer phenotype: baseline findings from a placebo-controlled intervention trial – Remi Yoshikata – Menopause

Review: Effects of Sourdough on FODMAPs in Bread and Potential Outcomes on Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients and Healthy Subjects – Leidiane A. A. Menezes – Frontiers in Microbiology

Alteration of the cutaneous microbiome in psoriasis and potential role in Th17 polarization – Hsin-Wen Chang – Microbiome

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Early-life exposure to gut microbiota from disease protected mice does not impact disease outcome in type 1 diabetes susceptible NOD mice – Jane A. Mullaney – Immunology and Cell Biology

Shifts in the Skin-Associated Microbiota of Hatchery-Reared Common Snook Centropomus undecimalis During Acclimation to the Wild – Andrea M. Tarnecki – Microbial Ecology

Habitat environments impacted the gut microbiome of long-distance migratory swan geese but central species conserved – Yueni Wu – Scientific Reports

Effects of mixed lactic acid bacteria on intestinal microbiota of mice infected with Staphylococcus aureus – Dayong Ren – BMC Microbiology

Green tea polyphenols modify gut-microbiota dependent metabolisms of energy, bile constituents and micronutrients in female Sprague-Dawley rats – Jun Zhou – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Time-restricted feeding causes irreversible metabolic disorders and gut microbiota shift in pediatric mice – Dandan Hu – Pediatric Research

Compositional and predicted functional analysis of the gut microbiota of Radix auricularia (Linnaeus) via high-throughput Illumina sequencing – Zongfu Hu – PeerJ

The Effect of Co-infection of Food-Borne Pathogenic Bacteria on the Progression of Campylobacter jejuni Infection in Mice – Gang Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Structural and Functional Alterations in the Microbial Community and Immunological Consequences in a Mouse Model of Antibiotic-Induced Dysbiosis – Ying Shi – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Plant Microbiome

Endophytic Bacterial Community Structure and Function of Herbaceous Plants From Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated and Non-contaminated Sites – Rhea Lumactud – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Environmental Microbiome

The effects of emerging environmental contaminants on Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolated from drinking water in planktonic and sessile states – Inês B.Gomes – Science of The Total Environment

Genetic and Functional Diversity of Bacterial Microbiome in Soils With Long Term Impacts of Petroleum Hydrocarbons – Anna Gałązka – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

August 13, 2018

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Today’s Digest is full of amazing research from focusing on causation in microbiome studies to increased efficacy of BLAST searches in the age of high throughput sequencing.

General Microbiome

Microbiome: Focus on Causation and Mechanism.Fischbach MA. Cell.

Effect of Antibiotic-Mediated Microbiome Modulation on Rotavirus Vaccine Immunogenicity: A Human, Randomized-Control Proof-of-Concept Trial.Harris VC. Cell Host and Microbe

Enhancing Rotavirus Vaccination: A Microbial Fix? Parker EPK. Cell Host and Microbe

Snapshot of an early Paleoproterozoic ecosystem: Two diverse microfossil communities from the Turee Creek Group, Western Australia. Barlow EV. Geobiology.

Background levels of microorganisms in the busy urban environment of transport hubs.Patel KV. Journal of Applied Microbiology.

Immunomodulation as Therapy for Fungal Infection: Are We Closer?Sam QH. Frontiers in Microbiology

Profiling of Bacterial and Fungal Microbial Communities in Cystic Fibrosis Sputum Using RNA.Grahl N. mSphere.

Oral Microbiome

Comparison of oral microbiota in orthodontic patients and healthy individuals.Sun F. Microbial Pathogenesis

Skin Microbiome

Mud therapy and skin microbiome: a review.Antonelli M. International Journal of Biometeorology

Gut Microbiome

Phylogeny-corrected identification of microbial gene families relevant to human gut colonization.Bradley PH. PLoS Computational Biology

Dynamic changes in human-gut microbiome in relation to a placebo-controlled anthelminthic trial in Indonesia.Martin I. PLoS Neglected Tropical Disease.

Faecal Microbiome

Effects of metal and metalloid pollutants on the microbiota composition of feces obtained from twelve commercial pig farms across China.Peng Z. Science Total Environment

Fecal Microbiota Alterations Associated With Diarrhea-Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome.Zhuang X. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Plant, Soils, and Air Microbiome

Environmental variables better explain changes in potential nitrification and denitrification activities than microbial properties in fertilized forest soils.Tang Y. Science of Total Environment

Metagenomic analysis of rhizosphere microflora of oil-contaminated soil planted with barley and alfalfa. Kumar V. PLoS One.

Trichoderma polysporum selectively inhibits white-nose syndrome fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans amidst soil microbes.Singh A. Microbiome.

Tissue Microbiome of Norway Spruce Affected by Heterobasidion-Induced Wood Decay.Ren F. Microbial Ecology

Evidence for complete nitrification in enrichment culture of tidal sediments and diversity analysis of clade a comammox Nitrospira in natural environments. Yu C. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Traits-Based Integration of Multi-Species Inoculants Facilitates Shifts of Indigenous Soil Bacterial Community.Wang J. Frontier in Microbiology

Spatial Patterns and Drivers of Microbial Taxa in a Karst Broadleaf Forest.Song M. Frontiers in Microbiology

Water Microbiome

Response of Microbial Communities to Changing Climate Conditions During Summer Cyanobacterial Blooms in the Baltic Sea.Berner C. Frontiers in Microbiology

Coral Microbiome Database: Integration of sequences reveals high diversity and relatedness of coral-associated microbes.Huggett MJ. Environmental Microbiology Reports

Animal Experiments and Microbiome

Diet and other environmental factors shape the bacterial communities of fish gut in an eutrophic lake. Kashinskaya EN. Journal of Applied Microbiology

Yeast-like microorganisms in the scale insect Kermes quercus (Insecta, Hemiptera, Coccomorpha: Kermesidae). Newly acquired symbionts?Podsiadło E. Arthropod Structure and Development

Initial description of the core ocular surface microbiome in dogs: Bacterial community diversity and composition in a defined canine population.Leis ML. Veterinary Ophthalmology

High-Throughput Analysis Reveals Seasonal Variation of the Gut Microbiota Composition Within Forest Musk Deer (<i>Moschus berezovskii</i>).Hu X. Frontiers in Microbiology

A Comprehensive Research on Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Microbiota of Aquatic Animals.Hong B. Frontiers in Microbiology

Identification of spider-mite species and their endosymbionts using multiplex PCR.Zélé F. Experimental and Applied Acarology

Soil microarthropods alter the outcome of plant-soil feedback experiments.Kuťáková E. Scientific Reports

Techniques/Bioinformatics 

Metagenome complexity and template length are the main causes of bias in PCR-based bacteria community analysis.Peng W. Journal of Basic Microbiology

Single-cell RNA sequencing technologies and bioinformatics pipelines.Hwang B. Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Negative Binomial Mixed Models for Analyzing Longitudinal Microbiome Data.Zhang X. Frontiers in Microbiology

Stationary and portable sequencing-based approaches for tracing wastewater contamination in urban stormwater systems. Hu Y. Scientific Reports

CrocoBLAST: Running BLAST efficiently in the age of next-generation sequencing.Tristão Ramos RJ. Bioinformatics

August 9, 2018

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Horizontal gene transfer in microbiomes, metabolic study of the microbiota isolated from the camel rumen, a review on the bacteriophage virome in IBD.

General microbiome

Review: Monitoring plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer in microbiomes: recent advances and future perspectives – Rafael Pinilla-Redondo – Plasmid

Review: Learning from bacterial competition in the host to develop antimicrobials – Manuela Raffatellu – Nature Medicine

Pregnancy and early life

Early life colonization of the human gut: microbes matter everywhere – Katri Korpela – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Determinants of the Nasal Microbiome: Pilot Study of Effects of Intranasal Medication Use – Vijay R Ramakrishnan – Allergy & Rhinology

Human skin microbiome

Sensitive scalp is associated with excessive sebum and perturbed microbiome – Li Ma – Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology

Animal experiments

Effects of host genetics and environmental conditions on fecal microbiota composition of pigs – Tereza Kubasova – PLOS ONE

Animal microbiome

A metagenomic analysis of the camel rumen’s microbiome identifies the major microbes responsible for lignocellulose degradation and fermentation – Javad Gharechahi – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Nitrogen fixation in a landrace of maize is supported by a mucilage-associated diazotrophic microbiota – Allen Van Deynze – PLOS Biology

Brazilian Ironstone Plant Communities as Reservoirs of Culturable Bacteria With Diverse Biotechnological Potential – Washington L Caneschi – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Coupling biogeochemical process rates and metagenomic blueprints of coastal bacterial assemblages in the context of environmental change – Trine Markussen – Environmental Microbiology

Pre-print: Resource diversity structures aquatic bacterial communities – Mario E Muscarella – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Modular assembly of polysaccharide-degrading microbial communities in the ocean – Tim N Enke – bioRxiv

Food microbiology

Review: Bakery yeasts, a new model for studies in ecology and evolution – Belen Carbonetto – Yeast

Inferences from inventories of microbes in ecological vineyard settings – Hans-Josef Schroers – International Journal of Environmental Quality

Phages and viruses

Review: Bacteriophage virome in IBD – Clemens Thoma – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Bioinformatics

Synthetic microbe communities provide internal reference standards for metagenome sequencing and analysis – Simon A Hardwick – Nature Communications

August 2, 2018

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In today’s Microbiome Digest you can read about: the connection of mother’s microbiota and development of psychiatric disorders by M.G. Codagnone; pulmonary microbiome by A.N. Costa; microbiome and allergic diseases by M.Pascal; olfactory communication via microbiota in birds by O. Maraci; global topsoil microbiome by M. Bahram and many more. Enjoy your hot summer read!

Pregnancy and early life

Review: Programming Bugs: Microbiota and the Developmental Origins of Brain Health and Disease – Martin G.Codagnone – Biological Psychiatry

Human respiratory microbiome

The pulmonary microbiome: challenges of a new paradigm – André Nathan Costa – Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia

Oral microbiology

Are the mutans streptococci still considered relevant to understanding the microbial etiology of dental caries? – Jeffrey A. Banas – BMC Oral Health

Predicting oral malodour based on the microbiota in saliva samples using a deep learning approach – Yoshio Nakano – BMC Oral Health

Human skin microbiome

The Environmental Exposures and Inner- and Intercity Traffic Flows of the Metro System May Contribute to the Skin Microbiome and Resistome – Kang Kang – Cell Reports

Human gut microbiome

Alterations in the Gut Microbiota of Rats Chronically Exposed to Volatilized Cocaine and Its Active Adulterants Caffeine and Phenacetin – Cecilia Scorza – Neurotoxicity Research

Origination, change, and modulation of geriatric disease-related gut microbiota during life – Muhammad Shahid Riaz Rajoka – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Rapid gastrointestinal loss of Clostridial Clusters IV and XIVa in the ICU associates with an expansion of gut pathogens – Alexandra E. Livanos – PLOS One

Minireview: Microbiome and Allergic Diseases – Mariona Pascal – Frontiers in Immunology / Mucosal Immunity

Comparison of Microbiota in Patients Treated by Surgery or Chemotherapy by 16S rRNA Sequencing Reveals Potential Biomarkers for Colorectal Cancer Therapy – Xingming Deng – Frontiers in Microbiology / Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy

Moxibustion treatment modulates the gut microbiota and immune function in a dextran sulphate sodium-induced colitis rat model – Qin Qi – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Helicobacter pylori in human health and disease: Mechanisms for local gastric and systemic effects – Denisse Bravo – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Acquisition of MACPF domain-encoding genes is the main contributor to LPS glycan diversity in gut Bacteroides species – Valentina Laclare McEneany – The ISME Journal

Drivers of Microbiome Biodiversity: A Review of General Rules, Feces, and Ignorance – Aspen T. Reese – mBio

Effects of prebiotic inulin-type fructans on blood metabolite and hormone concentrations and faecal microbiota and metabolites in overweight dogs – Celeste Alexander – British Journal of Nutrition

Standardization of gut microbiota analysis: Variability in samples taken at different times from single case and the effect of the freezing the sample – F. Saglam – International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Culture- and metagenomics-enabled analyses of the Methanosphaera genus reveals their monophyletic origin and differentiation according to genome size – Emily C. Hoedt – The ISME journal

Animal experiments 

A Polysaccharide Isolated from Dictyophora indusiata Promotes Recovery from Antibiotic-Driven Intestinal Dysbiosis and Improves Gut Epithelial Barrier Function in a Mouse Model – Sadia Kanwal – Nutrients

High Dose Vitamin D supplementation alters faecal microbiome and predisposes mice to more severe colitis – Simon Ghaly – Scientific Reports

Treatment with camu camu (Myrciaria dubia) prevents obesity by altering the gut microbiota and increasing energy expenditure in diet-induced obese mice – Fernando F Anhê – Gut Microbiota

Whole genome sequencing and function prediction of 133 gut anaerobes isolated from chicken caecum in pure cultures – Matej Medvecky – BMC Genomics

Addition of arabinoxylan and mixed linkage glucans in porcine diets affects the large intestinal bacterial populations – John B. Gorham – European Journal of Nutrition

Animal microbiome 

A prokaryotic-eukaryotic relation in the fat body of Bombus terrestris – Anneleen Parmentier – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Olfactory Communication via Microbiota: What Is Known in Birds? – Öncü Maraci – Genes

Unprecedented Diversity of ssDNA Phages from the Family Microviridae Detected within the Gut of a Protochordate Model Organism (Ciona robusta) – Alexandria Creasy – Viruses

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Description of ‘Candidatus Methylocucumis oryzae’, a novel Type I methanotroph with large cells and pale pink colour, isolated from an Indian rice field – Pranitha S. Pandit – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Long-term effects of untreated wastewater on soil bacterial communities – Tianlin Shen – Science of The Total Environment

Minireview: Rhizoremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons: a model system for plant microbiome manipulation – Sara Correa-García – Microbial Biotechnology

Soil pre-fumigation could effectively improve the disease suppressiveness of biofertilizer to banana Fusarium wilt disease by reshaping the soil microbiome – Zongzhuan Shen – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Structure and function of the global topsoil microbiome – Mohammad Bahram – Nature

Globally rising soil heterotrophic respiration over recent decades – Ben Bond-Lamberty – Nature

Water and extremophile microbiome

Distinct Oceanic Microbiomes From Viruses to Protists Located Near the Antarctic Circumpolar Current – Flavia Flaviani – Frontiers in Microbiology / Aquatic Microbiology

Evaluation of biomethane potential of waste algal biomass collected from eutrophied lake: effect of source of inocula, co-substrate, and VS loading – Pushpendar Kumar – Journal of Applied Phycology

Distinct molecular signatures in dissolved organic matter produced by viral lysis of marine cyanobacteria – Xiufeng Ma – Environmental Microbiology

Increased biofilm formation due to high-temperature adaptation in marine Roseobacter – Alyssa G. Kent – Nature Microbiology

Adaptive mechanisms that provide competitive advantages to marine bacteroidetes during microalgal blooms – Frank Unfried – The ISME Journal

The anchoring effect—long-term dormancy and genetic population structure – Lisa Sundqvist – The ISME Journal

Genome biology of a novel lineage of planctomycetes widespread in anoxic aquatic environments – Stefan Spring – Environmental Microbiology

The distribution of active iron‐cycling bacteria in marine and freshwater sediments is decoupled from geochemical gradients – Julia M. Otte – Environmental Microbiology

Temporal and spatial dynamics in microbial community composition within a temperate stream network – Norman Hassell – Environmental Microbiology

Diel dynamics and coupling of heterotrophic prokaryotes and dissolved organic matter in epipelagic and mesopelagic waters of the central Red Sea – Francisca C. García – Environmental Microbiology

Probiotics / prebiotics

The effects of a multispecies probiotic on migraine and markers of intestinal permeability–results of a randomized placebo-controlled study – N M de Roos – European Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Phages and viruses

Eicosanoid biosynthesis influences the virulence of Candida parapsilosis – Tanmoy Chakraborty – Virulence

Competition between mobile genetic elements drives optimization of a phage-encoded CRISPR-Cas system: Insights from a natural arms-race – Amelia McKitterick – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

BARM and BalticMicrobeDB, a reference metagenome and interface to meta-omic data for the Baltic Sea – Johannes Alneberg – Scientific Data

Bacteria & Art

The Beautiful World of Bacteria

 

July 28, 2018

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Have a good weekend! For this Saturday, we have more than 60 articles! 

Including: A set of reviews about mother, delivery and neonate microbiome; relationship between microbiome and cancer and Alzheimer; microbiome in primate models, reviews about pathogens and more…

 

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Gut Mycobiota and Fungal Metabolites in Human Homeostasis – Izabella Mogilnicka – Current Drug Targets

Review: Dietary Protein and Muscle in Aging People: The Potential Role of the Gut Microbiome – Mary Ni Lochlainn – Nutrients

Review: The interplay between neutrophils and microbiota in cancer – Carolyne K. Smith – Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Review: Flux, Impact, and Fate of Halogenated Xenobiotic Compounds in the Gut – Siavash Atashgahi – Frontiers in Physiology

Review: Akkermansia muciniphila in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract: When, Where, and How? – Sharon Y. Geerlings – Microorganisms

Review: Considering gut microbiota disturbance in the management of Helicobacter pylori infection – Loris R. Lopetuso – Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Microbiome Analyses for Toxicological Studies – Jacquelynn Benjamino – Current Protocols in Toxicology

Editorial: Caesarean-Section and Neonatal Gut Microbiome: Short and Long Term Effects and New Targets for Early Prevention – Giannattasio A. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: C-section and the Neonatal Gut Microbiome Acquisition: Consequences for Future Health – Arboleya S. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: Birth Mode-Related Differences in Gut Microbiota Colonization and Immune System Development – Francino M.P.  – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: Intervention for Dysbiosis in Children Born by C-Section – Francavilla R. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: Gut Microbiota Composition in Healthy Japanese Infants and Young Adults Born by C-Section – Nagpal R. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

Review: Dysbiosis in Children Born by Caesarean Section – Salas Garcia M.C. – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

 

Human Gut

Association between Alzheimer’s Disease and Oral and Gut Microbiota: Are Pore Forming Proteins the Missing Link? – Aguayo, Sebastian –  Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

Gut microbiome analysis as a tool towards targeted non-invasive biomarkers for early hepatocellular carcinoma – Zhigang Ren – Gut

A Multi-omic Association Study of Trimethylamine N-Oxide – Ohad Manor – Cell Reports

Gut Bacterial Microbiota and its Resistome Rapidly Recover to Basal State Levels after Short-term Amoxicillin-Clavulanic Acid Treatment in Healthy Adults – Chad W. MacPherson – Scientific Reports

Cost-effectiveness analysis of ribotype-guided fecal microbiota transplantation in Chinese patients with severe Clostridium difficile infection – Minghuan Jiang – PLoS ONE

Microbiota Quality and Mitochondrial Activity Link with Occurrence of Muscle Cramps in Hemodialysis Patients using Citrate Dialysate: A Pilot Study – Durand P.-Y. – Blood Purification

Gut microbiota, dietary intakes and intestinal permeability reflected by serum zonulin in women – S. Mörkl – European Journal of Nutrition

Analysis of the Enteric Microbiome: First Tentative Steps Towards a Comprehensive Work-up of Prostate Cancer? – Ilaria Cavarretta – European Urology

 

Human Respiratory Tract

Respiratory Microbiome Profiling for Etiologic Diagnosis of Pneumonia in Mechanically Ventilated Patients – Georgios D. Kitsios – Frontiers in Microbiology

Oropharyngeal microbiome evaluation highlights Neisseria abundance in active celiac patients – Laura Iaffaldano – Scientific Reports

 

Newborn and Mother Microbiome

Maternal antimicrobial use at delivery has a stronger impact than mode of delivery on bifidobacterial colonization in infants: a pilot study – Naruaki Imoto – Journal of Perinatology

 

Human Urinary/Reproductive Tract

Endocervical and vaginal microbiota in South African adolescents with asymptomatic Chlamydia trachomatis infection – Christina Balle – Scientific Reports

Introduction: Microbes in the female reproductive function, do they matter? – Carlos Simon – Fertility and Sterility

 

Human Skin

Relations between epidermal barrier dysregulation and staphylococci-dominated microbiome dysbiosis in atopic dermatitis – Can Altunbulakli – Atopic Dermatitis Research

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Associations Between Nutrition, Gut Microbiome, and Health in A Novel Nonhuman Primate Model – Jonathan B. Clayton – Scientific Reports

Diarrhea-Associated Intestinal Microbiota in Captive Sichuan Golden Snub-Nosed Monkeys (Rhinopithecus roxellana) – Hui Zhu – Microbes and Environments

An orally administered oral pathobiont and commensal have comparable and innocuous systemic effects in germ-free mice – Keisuke Sato – Journal of Periodontal Disease

Effects of dietary tryptophan supplementation in the acetic acid-induced colitis mouse model – Shuai Chen – Food and Nutrition

Early-life stress leads to sex-dependent changes in pubertal timing in rats that are reversed by a probiotic formulation – Caitlin S. M. Cowan – Developmental Psychobiology

A Comparative Study on the Faecal Bacterial Community and Potential Zoonotic Bacteria of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) in Northeast Greenland, Northwest Greenland and Norway – Emilie U. Andersen-Ranberg – Microorganisms

Gut microbiota influences Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis by regulating acetate in Drosophila model – Yan Kong – Future Microbiology

Elevated Seawater Temperatures Decrease Microbial Diversity in the Gut of Mytilus coruscus – Yi-Feng Li – Frontiers in Physiology

Microbiome-metabolomics Analysis of the Impacts of Long-term Dietary Advanced Glycation End Products Consumption on the C57BL/6 Mouse Fecal Microbiota and Metabolite Perturbation – Wanting Qu – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Papio spp. Colon microbiome and its link to obesity in pregnancy – XuanJi Li – Journal of Medical Primatology

Combination of Aronia, Red Ginseng, Shiitake Mushroom and Nattokinase Potentiated Insulin Secretion and Reduced Insulin Resistance with Improving Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis in Insulin Deficient Type 2 Diabetic Rats – Hye Jeong Yang – Nutrients

Short and long-term effects of a synbiotic on clinical signs, the fecal microbiome, and metabolomic profiles in healthy research cats receiving clindamycin: a randomized, controlled trial – Jacqueline C. Whittemore​ – PeerJ

Lactobacillus plantarum ZDY04 exhibits a strain-specific property of lowering TMAO via the modulation of gut microbiota in mice – Liang Qiu – Food and Function

Diet induced maternal obesity affects offspring gut microbiota and persists into young adulthood – Yanjie Guo – Food and Function

Antibiotic-induced acceleration of type 1 diabetes alters maturation of innate intestinal immunity – Xue-Song Zhang – eLife

Clostridium butyricum Attenuates Chronic Unpredictable Mild Stress-Induced Depressive-Like Behavior in Mice via the Gut-Brain Axis – Jing Sun – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

 

Food Microbiome

Analysis of Fish Commonly Sold in Local Supermarkets Reveals the Presence of Pathogenic and Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Communities – Ama Okyere – Microbiology Insights

Short communication: Profiling white wine seed vinegar bacterial diversity through viable counting, metagenomic sequencing and PCR-DGGE – Vesna Milanović – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Acyl-homoserine-lactones receptor LuxR of Shewanella baltica involved in the development of microbiota and spoilage of refrigerated shrimp – Jinxin Jie – Journal of Food Science and Technology

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Probiotics against airway allergy: host factors to consider – Irina Spacova – Disease Model and Mechanisms

Abundance of gut Prevotella at baseline and metabolic response to barley prebiotics – Jonna Sandberg – European Journal of Nutrition

Letter: Effect of Metformin or Chinese Herbal Formula in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Hyperlipidemia: A Reassessment – Venu Gopal Jonnalagadda – mBio

Coreopsis Tinctoria Modulates Lipid Metabolism by Decreasing Low-Density Lipoprotein and Improving Gut Microbiota – Ren Z. – Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry

 

Pathogen Research

Review: Recent insights into Shigella – Stephen Baker – Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Review: Cholera: recent updates – Ana A. Weil – Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

 

Soil and Plant Microbiome

Microbial community assembly differs across minerals in a rhizosphere microcosm – Thea Whitman – Environmental Microbiology

Bipartite interactions, antibiotic production and biosynthetic potential of the Arabidopsis leaf microbiome – Eric J. N. Helfrich – Nature Microbiology

Vineyard under-vine floor management alters soil microbial composition, while the fruit microbiome shows no corresponding shifts – Ming-Yi Chou – Scientific Reports

 

Methods

Methodology: A two-stage microbial association mapping framework with advanced FDR control – Jiyuan Hu – Microbiome

A Comprehensive Study on Predicting Functional Role of Metagenomes Using Machine Learning Methods – Jyotsna Talreja Wassan – IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Generalized Linear Models with Linear Constraints for Microbiome Compositional Data – Jiarui Lu – Biometrics

Analyzing differences between microbiome communities using mixture distributions – Konstantin Shestopaloff – Statistics in Medicine

Pathomimetic modeling of human intestinal diseases and underlying host-gut microbiome interactions in a gut-on-a-chip – Woojung Shin – Methods in Cell Biology

 

Other

A year of monitoring 20 mesophilic full-scale bioreactors reveals the existence of stable but different core microbiomes in bio-waste and wastewater anaerobic digestion systems – Magdalena Calusinska – Biotechnology for Biofuels

 

July 27, 2018

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Diversity and stability of the oyster microbiota, earthworm gut bacteria contribute to silicon acquisition by maize, metabolic function and composition of the gut microbiota regulated by IgA, a review on engineering live biotherapeutics.

General microbiome

Review: Synthetic Biology and Engineered Live Biotherapeutics: Toward Increasing System Complexity – Tanel Ozdemir – Cell Systems

Pre-print: Fungal chromatin mapping identifies BasR, as the regulatory node of bacteria-induced fungal secondary metabolism – Juliane Fischer – bioRxiv

Multi-site human microbiome

Review: The Gut Microbiome as a Major Regulator of the Gut-Skin Axis – Iman Salem – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Identifying aerosolized cyanobacteria in the human respiratory tract: A proposed mechanism for cyanotoxin-associated diseases – Dominic N Facciponte – Science of the Total Environment

Human skin microbiome

Minor taxa in human skin microbiome contribute to the personal identification – Hikaru Watanabe – PLOS ONE

Animal experiments

Intestinal Microbiota Disruption Reduces Regulatory T Cells and Increases Respiratory Viral Infection Mortality Through Increased IFNγ Production – Mitchell H Grayson – Frontiers in Immunology

IgA regulates the composition and metabolic function of gut microbiota by promoting symbiosis between bacteria – Akira Nakajima – Journal of Experimental Medicine

Animal microbiome

Fecal bacterial communities from Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) – Elena Biagi – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Pre-print: Diversity and stability of microbiota are key factors associated to healthy and diseased Crassostrea gigas oysters – Camille Clerissi – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Earthworm gut bacteria increase silicon bioavailability and acquisition by maize – Lin Hu – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Digging mammals contribute to rhizosphere fungal community composition and seedling growth – Shannon J Dundas – Biodiversity and Conservation

Soil amendment alters soil physicochemical properties and bacterial community structure of a replanted apple orchard – Bowen Liang – Microbiological Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microbiome functioning depends on individual and interactive effects of the environment and community structure – Chloé Orland – The ISME Journal

Microbes in space

Pre-print: Water quality and microbial load: a double-threshold identification procedure intended for space applications – Stefano Amalfitano – bioRxiv

Food microbiology

A low FODMAP diet is associated with changes in the microbiota and reduction in breath hydrogen but not colonic volume in healthy subjects – Tim J Sloan – PLOS ONE

Profiling white wine seed vinegar bacterial diversity through viable counting, metagenomic sequencing and PCR-DGGE – Vesna Milanović – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Probiotics/prebiotics

Review: Adipose tissue inflammation and metabolic syndrome. The proactive role of probiotics – Sebastian Torres – European Journal of Nutrition

Techniques

Recognizing the reagent microbiome – Marcus C de Goffau – Nature Microbiology

More microbes

Metabolically engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum for bio-based production of chemicals, fuels, materials, and healthcare products – Judith Becker – Metabolic Engineering

Pre-print: A dual motif mediates outer-membrane translocation and packing of glycosidases into Bacteroides Outer Membrane Vesicles – Ezequiel Valguarnera – bioRxiv

The outer membrane is an essential load-bearing element in Gram-negative bacteria – Enrique R Rojas – Nature

Microbes in the news

Viruses cooperate to defeat bacteria – Aude Bernheim – Nature

July 19, 2018

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An all-around Digest today features newly discovered Wolbachia in Anopheles mosquitoes that can lead to probiotic therapy for malaria, a novel mechanism for the plants to control rhizosphere microbiota, growth and defense, and fascinating art produced entirely by microbes. Enjoy!

General microbiology

Review: Large noncoding RNAs in bacteria – Kimberly A. Harris & Ronald R. Breaker – Microbiology spectrum

Bioremediation and microbial metabolism of benzo(a)pyrene – E M Ostrem Loss & J H Yu – Molecular Microbiology

Changing of the Genomic Pattern of Salmonella Enteritidis Strains Isolated in Brazil Over a 48 year-period revealed by Whole Genome SNP Analyses – Fábio Campioni et al. – Scientific Reports

Preprint: Host adaptation and convergent evolution increases antibiotic resistance without loss of virulence in a major human pathogen – Alicia Fajardo-Lubian et al. – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

Pregestational overweight and obesity are associated with differences in gut microbiota composition and systemic inflammation in the third trimester – María Florencia Zacarías et al. – PLoS One

Mini-Review: Antibiotics and lactation: An overview of relative infant doses and a systematic assessment of clinical studies – J.J. van Wattum et al. – Basic & Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology

Human respiratory microbiome

Characterisation of the nasal microbiota in granulomatosis with polyangiitis – Rennie L Rhee et al. – Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Human skin microbiome

Human skin commensals augment Staphylococcus aureus pathogenesis – Emma Boldock et al. – Nature Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Unique subgingival microbiota associated with periodontitis in cirrhosis patients – Anders Jensen et al. – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

ACI‐1 beta‐lactamase is widespread across human gut microbiomes in Negativicutes due to transposons harboured by tailed prophages – Chris M Rands et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Review: Recent advances in probiotics as live biotherapeutics against gastrointestinal diseases – Kota RK et al. – Current Pharmaceutical Design

Review: Microbiota–Host Crosstalk: A Bridge Between Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Diet, and Cardiovascular Disease – Jacques Amar – American Journal of Hypertension

Human built environment microbiome

β-Lactam and Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Recovered from the Environment of Human and Veterinary Tertiary Care Hospitals – Dimitria A. Mathys et al. – Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Metabolomics

Quantitative metabolomics comparison of traditional blood draws and TAP capillary blood collection – Alexis Catala et al. – Metabolomics

Functional genetic discovery of enzymes using full-scan mass spectrometry metabolomics – Amy A. Caudy et al. – Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Animal experiments

Dietary L-Arginine Supplementation Alleviates the Intestinal Injury and Modulates the Gut microbiota in Broiler Chickens Challenged by Clostridium perfringens – Beibei Zhang et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Dissertation: Recent Evolution of Host Genetic Control of Microbiota in Cichlid Fishes and Humans – Kaitlin Patricia Coyle – North Carolina State University

Mouse: Gut Microbiota-Stimulated Innate Lymphoid Cells Support b-Defensin 14 Expression in Pancreatic Endocrine Cells, Preventing Autoimmune Diabetes – Michela Miani et al. – Cell Metabolism

Mouse: In vitro probiotic properties of vaginal Lactobacillus fermentum MG901 and Lactobacillus plantarum MG989 against Candida albicans – Chang-Ho Kang et al. – European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Betaine Improves Intestinal Functions by Enhancing Digestive Enzymes, Ameliorating Intestinal Morphology, and Enriching Intestinal Microbiota in High-salt stressed Rats – Haichao Wang et al. – Nutrients

The evolution of ecological facilitation within mixed-species biofilms in the mouse gastrointestinal tract – Xiaoxi B. Lin et al. – The ISME Journal

Differences Between the Intestinal Lumen Microbiota of Aberrant Crypt Foci (ACF)-Bearing and Non-bearing Rats – Xiuli Xiao et al. – Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Mouse: A selective gut bacterial bile salt hydrolase alters host metabolism – Lina Yao et al. – eLife

Diabetes-Associated Alterations in the Cecal Microbiome and Metabolome are Independent of Diet or Environment in the UC Davis Type 2-Diabetes Mellitus Rat Model – Brian D. Piccolo et al. – American Journal of Physiology-Endocrinology and Metabolism

Animal microbiome

Effects of dietary energy levels on rumen bacterial community composition in Holstein heifers under the same forage to concentrate ratio condition – Yanliang Bi et al. – BMC Microbiology

The cecal microbiome of commercial broiler chickens varies significantly by season – Brian B Oakley et al. – Poultry Science

American beaver: Metagenomics reveals functional synergy and novel polysaccharide utilization loci in the Castor canadensis fecal microbiome – Zachary Armstrong et al. – The ISME Journal

High Gut Microbiota Diversity Provides Lower Resistance against Infection by an Intestinal Parasite in Bumblebees – Kathrin Näpflin & Paul Schmid-Hempel – The American Naturalist

Effect of Dietary Fructooligosaccharide (FOS) Supplementation on Ileal Microbiota in Broiler Chickens – Yue Shang et al. – Poultry Science

Arrival date and microorganisms in barn swallows – Z. Al Rubaiee et al. – Journal of Avian Biology

* Preprint: Novel Wolbachia strains in Anopheles malaria vectors from Sub-Saharan Africa – Claire L Jeffries et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Metabolomics analysis of Cajanus cajan L. seedlings unravelled amelioration of stress induced responses to salinity after halopriming of seeds – Sabarni Biswas, Asok K. Biswas & Bratati De – Plant Signaling & Behavior

* Root exudate metabolites drive plant-soil feedbacks on growth and defense by shaping the rhizosphere microbiota – Lingfei Hu et al. – Nature Communications

Water and extremophile microbiome

Abstract: Exploring the relative importance of surficial cyanobacteria communities versus physical, chemical and bioloigical processes at depth on sulfur cycling in two microbial mat environments – Maya Gomes et al. – Caltech Authors

Temperature driven changes in benthic microbial diversity influences biogeochemical cycling in coastal sediments – Natalie Hicks et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Resistance and Recovery of Methane-Oxidizing Communities depends on Stress Regime and History; a Microcosm Study – Henri van Kruistum et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Enterococci Concentrations in a Coastal Ecosystem are a Function of Fecal Source Input, Environmental Conditions, and Environmental Sources – Derek Rothenheber & Stephen Jones – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Agulhas Current properties shape microbial community diversity and potential functionality – Sandra Phoma et al. – Scientific Reports

Microscale ecology regulates particulate organic matter turnover in model marine microbial communities – Tim N. Enke et al. – Nature Communications

Abundance and diversity of prokaryotes in ephemeral hypersaline lake Chott El Jerid using Illumina Miseq sequencing, DGGE and qPCR assays – Manel Ben Abdallah et al. – Extremophiles

Microplastic bacterial communities in the Bay of Brest: Influence of polymer type and size – Laura Frère et al. – Environmental Pollution

Systematic, continental scale temporal monitoring of marine pelagic microbiota by the Australian Marine Microbial Biodiversity Initiative – Mark V. Brown et al. – Scientific Data

Microbes in space

The influence of bioregenerative life‐support system (BLSS) dietary structure and lifestyle on the gut microbiota: A 105‐day ground‐based space simulation in Lunar Palace 1 – Zikai Hao et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Probiotics, Prebiotics and Synbiotics

Harms Reporting in Randomized Controlled Trials of Interventions Aimed at Modifying Microbiota: A Systematic Review – Aïda Bafeta et al. – Annals of Internal Medicine

Lactobacillus acidophilus and Clostridium butyricum ameliorate colitis in murine by strengthening the gut barrier function and decreasing inflammatory factors – Y. Wang et al. – Beneficial Microbes

Technology

Review: Interkingdom microbial consortia mechanisms to guide biotechnological applications – Shu Zhang et al. – Microbial Biotechnology

Establishing a mucosal gut microbial community in vitro using an artificial simulator – LinShu Liu et al. – PLoS One

Bioinformatics

Minimizing confounders and increasing data quality in murine models for studies of the gut microbiome – Jun Miyoshi et al. – PeerJ

Preprint: Macroecological relationships in the dynamics of gut microbiota – Brian W. Ji et al. – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Designer microbiomes – Alfie Gleeson & Abigail Sawyer – BioTechniques

* You need to see this award-winning artwork made entirely from microbes – Irish News

Disgusting Things You Never Knew Your Pets Are Bringing Into Your Home – Amanda Harding – Cheat Sheet

Scientific education

Preprint: Long term impact of intensive post graduate laboratory training at the Cold Spring Harbor Neurobiology of Drosophila summer course – Sarah Ly et al. – bioRxiv

11 July, 2018

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Today’s digest is short but full of exciting research. Firstly, a look at how maternal diet can influence infant microbiome and a brilliant preprint highlighting the role women have played in science

General Microbiome

Maternal diet during pregnancy is related with the infant stool microbiome in a delivery mode-dependent manner. Lundgren SN. Microbiome.

Oral Microbiome

Dysbiosis of oral microbiota and its association with salivary immunological biomarkers in autoimmune liver disease.Kazumichi Abe. PLos ONE

Gut Microbiome

Gut microbiota-immune-brain interactions in chemotherapy-associated behavioral comorbidities.Jordan KR Cancer

Analysis of the Gut Microbiome of Rural and Urban Healthy Indians Living in Sea Level and High Altitude Areas. Das B. Scientific Reports

Commentary:Reducing Viability Bias in Analysis of Gut Microbiota in Preterm Infants at Risk of NEC and Sepsis.Agustí G. Frontier in Cellular and Infection Microbiology .

Animal Experiments and Microbiome

Non-nutritive sweeteners possess a bacteriostatic effect and alter gut microbiota in mice.Wang. PLoS One

The spleen microbiota of small wild mammals reveals distinct patterns with tick-borne bacteria. Ge Y. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Drosophila melanogaster establishes a species-specific mutualistic interaction with stable gut-colonizing bacteria.Pais IS. PLoS Biology

Plant, Soil, and Water Microbiome

Microbial community of tannery wastewater involved in nitrification revealed by Illumina MiSeq sequencing.Ma X. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Rhizosphere fungal community dynamics associated with Rehmannia glutinosa replant disease in a consecutive monoculture regime. Wu L Phytopathology.

Effects of soil erosion on agro-ecosystem services and soil functions: A multidisciplinary study in nineteen organically farmed European and Turkish vineyards. Costantini EAC. Journal of Environmental Management

Virome

Temporal dynamics of the lung and plasma viromes in lung transplant recipients Maia Segura-Wang. PLos ONE

Techniques

Mining Novel Constitutive Promoter Elements in Soil Metagenomic Libraries in <i>Escherichia coli</i>.Westmann CA. Frontier in Microbiology.

Taxonomic and Functional Compositions Impacted by the Quality of Metatranscriptomic Assemblies.Lau MCY. Frontiers in Microbiology.

Preprint

Illuminating women’s hidden contribution to the foundation of theoretical population genetics. Samantha Dung. bioRxiv