April 17, 2024

Good morning and welcome to another MicrobiomeDigest! Did you know that one group of scientists is using video games to crowdsource puzzle solutions to improve microbiome research? What a neat way to approach citizen science! On deck today we have a study about pesticide exposure and the gut microbiome, a review of the emerging field of skin microbiome-focused cosmetics, insights into the viral diversity of bats and rodents in East Africa, an editorial exploring research into microbial symbiosis through the lens of modern tools, and more.

Human microbiome

Modulation of the gut microbiome and Firmicutes phylum reduction by a nutraceutical blend in the obesity mouse model and overweight humans: A double-blind clinical trial – Victor Nehmi-Filho et al – Food Science & Nutrition

Ambient long-term exposure to organophosphorus pesticides and the human gut microbiome: an observational study – Keren Zhang et al – BMC Environmental Health

[REVIEW] Skin Deep: The Potential of Microbiome Cosmetics – Ju Hee Han & Hei Sung Kim – Journal of Microbiology

Metabolic Interaction Between Host and the Gut Microbiota During High-Fat Diet-Induced Colorectal Cancer – Chaeeun Lee et al – Journal of Microbiology

Longitudinal microbiome changes in children exposed to proton pump inhibitors – Jason Yanjia Zhang et al – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

High temperature and humidity in the environment disrupt bile acid metabolism, the gut microbiome, and GLP-1 secretion in mice – Song Chen et al – Nature Communications Biology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Exploring the interplay between the core microbiota, physicochemical factors, agrobiochemical cycles in the soil of the historic tokaj mád wine region – Judit Remenyik et al – PLOS One

[PREPRINT] Metabolic interactions underpinning high methane fluxes across terrestrial freshwater wetlands – Emily Bechtold et al – bioRxiv

An in-depth evaluation of metagenomic classifiers for soil microbiomes – Niranjana Rose Edwin – BMC Environmental Microbiome

Animal microbiome

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

Association between the gut microbiome and carotenoid plumage phenotype in an avian hybrid zone – Marcella D. Baiz et al – Proceedings of the Royal Soc. of Biological Sciences

Effects of removing in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide on the taxonomy and functionality of the microbiota in post weaning pigs – Juan M Ortiz Sanjuan et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Integrated analysis of gut metabolome, microbiome, and exfoliome data in an equine model of intestinal injury – C.M. Whitfield-Gargile et al – BMC Microbiome

Responses of the coral reef cryptobiome to environmental gradients in the Red Sea – Rodrigo Villalobos et al – PLOS One

Microbial ecology

[EDITORIAL] Symbiosis: In search of a deeper understanding – Thomas A Richards & Nancy A Moran – PLOS Biology

Bioinformatics & techniques

Randomized feature selection based semi-supervised latent Dirichlet allocation for microbiome analysis – Namitha Pais et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Improving microbial phylogeny with citizen science within a mass-market video game – Roman Sarrazin-Gendron et al – Nature Biotechnology

March 13, 2024

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiota–tryptophan metabolism–GLP-1 axis participates in β-cell regeneration induced by dapagliflozin – Yafei Jiang et al – Diabetes

Inhibition of inosine metabolism of the gut microbiota decreases testosterone secretion in the testis – Lei Tang et al – mSystems

[REVIEW] Exploring the gut microbiota and its potential as a biomarker in gliomas – Dana Aljarrah et al – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Comparative prebiotic potential of galacto- and fructo-oligosaccharides, native inulin and acacia gum in Kenyan infant gut microbiota during iron supplementation – Paula Momo Cabera et al – ISME Communications

A bacterial sialidase mediates early-life colonization by a pioneering gut commensal – Ekaterina Buzun et al – Cell Host and Microbe

Animal Microbiome

Dietary carbohydrate sources differently prime the microbial ecosystem but not the epithelial gene expression profile along the complete gut of young calves – Thomas Hartinger et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Multi-omics reveals that alkaline mineral water improves the respiratory health and growth performance of transported calves – Jiancheng Qi et al – BMC Microbiome

Efficacy of a novel multi-enzyme feed additive on growth performance, nutrient digestibility and gut microbiome of weanling pigs fed corn-wheat or wheat-barley based diet – Ayodeji S Aderibigbe et al – Journal of Animal Science

Plant and soil microbiome

Formation of a constructed microbial community in a nutrient-rich environment indicates bacterial interspecific competition – Jia Wang et al – mSystems

Plasma Treatment Modifies Element Distribution in Seed Coating and Affects Further Germination and Plant Growth through Interaction with Soil Microbiome – Tetiana Kalachova et al – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Soil Microbiomes and their Arsenic Functional Genes in Chronically High-Arsenic Contaminated Soils – Prinpida Sonthiphand et al – Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Taxonomic resolution of different 16S rRNA variable regions varies strongly across plant-associated bacteria – Katarina Hrovat et al – ISME Communications

Root microbiota analysis of Oryza rufipogon and Oryza sativa reveals an orientation selection during the domestication process – Liqun Jiang et al – Microbiology Spectrum

Diversity and distribution of biosynthetic gene clusters in agricultural soil microbiomes – Ziguo Zhang et al – mSystems

Sugar transporters spatially organize microbiota colonization along the longitudinal root axis of Arabidopsis – Eliza P.-I. Loo et al – Cell Host and Microbe

Built environment microbiome

Microbiome analysis of the restricted bacteria in radioactive element-containing water at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station – Tomoro Warashina et al – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Bioinformatics and Techniques

The astounding exhaustiveness and speed of the Astral mass analyzer for highly complex samples is a quantum leap in the functional analysis of microbiomes – Thibaut Dumas et al – BMC Microbiome

Proportion-based normalizations outperform compositional data transformations in machine learning applications – Aaron Yerke et al – BMC Microbiome

A method to correct for local alterations in DNA copy number that bias functional genomics assays applied to antibiotic-treated bacteria – Geraldine J. Sullivan et al – mSystems

[PREPRINT] Bacterial strain nomenclature in the genomic era: Life Identification Numbers using a gene-by-gene approach – Federica Palma et al – bioRXiv

February 21, 2024

Human nasal microbiome

[PREPRINT]Nasal commensals reduce Staphylococcus aureus proliferation by restricting siderophore availability – Zhao et al. – bioRxiv

Human oral microbiome

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

Human gut microbiome

Horizontal gene transfer after faecal microbiota transplantation in adolescents with obesity – Behling et al. – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Psychological stress-induced microbial metabolite indole-3-acetate disrupts intestinal cell lineage commitment – Wei et al. – Cell Metabolism

Gut microbiota contributes to bisphenol A-induced maternal intestinal and placental apoptosis, oxidative stress, and fetal growth restriction in pregnant ewe model by regulating gut-placental axis – Zhang et al. – Microbiome

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

Novel insights into the rhizosphere and seawater microbiome of Zostera marina in diverse mariculture zones – Sun et al. – Microbiome

Alteration of bacterial community composition in the sediments of an urban artificial river caused by sewage discharge – Li et al. – PeerJ

The exometabolome of microbial communities inhabiting bare ice surfaces on the southern Greenland Ice Sheet – Doting et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Searching for microbial contribution to micritization of shallow marine sediments – Garuglieri et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Food microbiology

Unveiling the microbial communities and metabolic pathways of Keem, a traditional starter culture, through whole-genome sequencing – Rana et al. – Scientific Reports

Phages and viruses

[PREPRINT]Fecal Virome Transplantation (FVT) from healthy humans remodels the gut bacteriome and virome and reduces metabolic syndrome in mice – Cervantes-Echeverría et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Discovering and exploring the hidden diversity of human gut viruses using highly enriched virome samples – Zolfo et al. – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news (popular press, EurekAlert, ScienceDaily, Youtube, NPR, etc)

Why addressing how our brain and our gut talk to each other matter for IBS – Gut microbiota for health

January 8, 2024

The microbiome digest team, Juan Pablo Cardenas Astudillo, Axel Künstner and Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic (it’s me), wishes you happy and healthy 2024! Also, we wish to have more members in our team in order to cover all daily microbiome science news: if you are interested in reviewing microbiome papers at your convenience (with our support!) and digest them for the community, feel free to contact us. We are happy to welcome you!

And, yes, see you at MVIF #25!

Vaginal microbiome

Vaginal Lactobacillus fatty acid response mechanisms reveal a novel strategy for bacterial vaginosis treatment – Meilin Zhu – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

BilR is a gut microbial enzyme that reduces bilirubin to urobilinogen – Brantley Hall – Nature Microbiology

Influence of feeding practices in the composition and functionality of infant gut microbiota and its relationship with health – Misael Martínez-Martínez – PlosOne

Mucin-degrading gut bacteria promote anti-parasitic immunity – Mathis Wolter – bioRxiv

Host genetic regulation of human gut microbial structural variation – Daria V. Zhernakova – Nature

Animal microbiome

Deciphering the gut microbiome of grass carp through multi-omics approach – Ming Li – Microbiome

Spotting disease disrupts the microbiome of infected purple sea urchins, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus – Chloe G. Shaw – BMC Microbiology

Animal experiments

Desulfovibrio vulgaris interacts with novel gut epithelial immune receptor LRRC19 and exacerbates colitis – Runxiang Xie – Microbiome

Individualized microbiotas dictate the impact of dietary fiber on colitis sensitivity – Erica Bonazzi – Microbiome

A consortia of clinical E. coli strains with distinct in vitro adherent/invasive properties establish their own co-colonization niche and shape the intestinal microbiota in inflammation-susceptible mice – Rachel M. Bleich – Microbiome

Environmental microbiome

A unified compendium of prokaryotic and viral genomes from over 300 anaerobic digestion microbiomes – Victor Borin Centurion – Environmental Microbiome

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Unraveling the interplay between root exudates, microbiota, and rhizosheath formation in pearl millet – Abdelrahman Alahmad – Microbiome

Methods

mEnrich-seq: methylation-guided enrichment sequencing of bacterial taxa of interest from microbiome – Lei Cao – Nature Methods

Bioinformatics

A catalogue of small proteins from the global microbiome – Yiqian Duan – bioRxiv

December 6, 2023

Human salivary microbiome

Salivary microbiome changes distinguish response to chemoradiotherapy in patients with oral cancer – de Medeiros et al. – Microbiome

Human skin microbiome

[PREPRINT]Commensal skin bacteria exacerbate inflammation and delay skin healing – Khadka et al. – bioRxiv

Human vaginal microbiome

Integrating compositional and functional content to describe vaginal microbiomes in health and disease – Holm et al. – Microbiome

Comparison of vaginal microbiota between women with inflammatory bowel disease and healthy controls – Bar et al. – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Engraftment of essential functions through multiple fecal microbiota transplants in chronic antibiotic-resistant pouchitis—a case study using metatranscriptomics – Deng et al. – Microbiome

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

Vitamin D modulation of brain-gut-virome disorder caused by polystyrene nanoplastics exposure in zebrafish (Danio rerio) – Teng et al – Microbiome

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Diversity of gut microbiome in Rocky Mountainsnail across its native range – Chalifour, Elder & Li – PLOS One

[PREPRINT]Testing the effectiveness of a commercially sold probiotic on restoring the gut microbiota of honey bees: a field study – Damico et al. – bioRxiv

Core gut microbes Cloacibacterium and Aeromonas associated with different gastropod species could be persistently transmitted across multiple generations – Lin et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of multiple N, P, and K fertilizer combinations on strawberry growth and the microbial community – Bai et al. – PLOS One

Comparison of microbial community assemblages in the rhizosphere of three Amaranthus spp. – Chee-Sanford & Connor – PLOS One

Bioinformatics

Phantom oscillations in principal component analysis – Shinn – PNAS
This phenomenon is not new (e.g. know as horseshoe effect) but Shinn gives a very understandable explanation.

The MAGMA pipeline for comprehensive genomic analyses of clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis samples – Heupink et al. – PLOS Computational Biology

[PREPRINT]metaExpertPro: a computational workflow for metaproteomics spectral library construction and data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry data analysis – Sun et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]MolPad: An R-Shiny Package for Cluster Co-Expression Analysis in Longitudinal Microbiomics – Ma, Thairu & Sankaran

May 12, 2023

Today’s digest features studies on human respiratory tract, mouse models, bovine milk microbiome, and more. See you at #MVIF next week!

Respiratory tract microbiome

Review: Ecology of the respiratory tract microbiome – Ana Elena Pérez-Cobas – Trends in Microbiology

Cervicovaginal microbiome

The cervical microbiota of Hispanics living in Puerto Rico is highly volatile and dominated by Lactobacillus iners regardless of HPV status – Daniela Vargas-Robles – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

Key determinants of success in fecal microbiota transplantation: From microbiome to clinic – Serena Porcari – Cell Host & Microbes

Profiling the human intestinal environment under physiological conditions – Dari Shalon – Nature

Interaction between gut microbiota and sex hormones and their relation to sexual dimorphism in metabolic diseases – Jose Antonio Santos-Marcos – Biology of Sex Differences

Persistent delay in maturation of the developing gut microbiota in infants with cystic fibrosis – Paige Salerno – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Metagenomic analysis of milk microbiota in the bovine subclinical mastitis – Giulia Alessandri – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

MetaPhlAn 4 profiling of unknown species-level genome bins improves the characterization of diet-associated microbiome changes in mice – Paolo Manghi – Cell Reports

Bioinformatics

ResMiCo: Increasing the quality of metagenome-assembled genomes with deep learning – Olga Mineeva – Plos Computational Biology

Technique

Catch me if you can: capturing microbial community transformation by extracellular DNA using Hi-C sequencing – David Calderón-Franco – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Built environment

The microbiome of an outpatient rehabilitation clinic and predictors of contamination: A pilot study – Gabriella Brigando – PlosOne

February 13, 2023

Today’s reading recommendation is a microbiota review collection edited by Lindsay Hall and Melanie Schirmer.

Happy Monday and see you at #MVIF!

Vaginal microbiome

Gardnerella Diversity and Ecology in Pregnancy and Preterm Birth – Hanna L. Berman – bioRxiv

Heterogeneity of the group B streptococcal type VII secretion system and influence on colonization of the female genital tract – Brady L. Spencer – bioRxiv

Urinary microbiome

Comparative Genomic Study of Streptococcus anginosus Reveals Distinct Group of Urinary Strains – Ananya Prasad – mSphere

Human gut

Gut microbes predominantly act as symbiotic partners rather than raw nutrients – Nuno Felipe da Silva Soares – bioRxiv

Antibiotic resistance in the commensal human gut microbiota – Lisa E Lamberte, Willem van Schaik – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Identifying glycan consumers in human gut microbiota samples using metabolic labeling coupled with fluorescence-activated cell sorting – Lharbi Dridi – Nature Communications

Animal experiments

Over supplementation with vitamin B12 alters microbe-host interactions in the gut leading to accelerated Citrobacter rodentium colonization and pathogenesis in mice – Andrew J. Forgie – Microbiome

Disturbance of lipid metabolism in germ-free mice transplanted with gut microbiota of DSS-induced colitis mice – Chungho Lee – Plos One

Bioinformatics

Accurate and fast graph-based pangenome annotation and clustering with ggCaller – Samuel T. Horsfield – bioRxiv

Brief report: uBin – a manual refining tool for genomes from metagenomes – Till L V Bornemann – Environmental Microbiology

In-situ metagenomics: A platform for rapid sequencing and analysis of metagenomes in less than one day – Javier Tamames – bioRxiv

The virtual microbiome: A computational framework to evaluate microbiome analyses – Belén Serrano-Antón – Plos One

November 16, 2022

General microbiome

Enhancing nutritional niche and host defenses by modifying the gut microbiome – Sun et al. – Molecular Systems Biology

Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death – Klunk et al. – Nature

Pregnancy and early life

Cross-generational bacterial strain transfer to an infant after fecal microbiota transplantation to a pregnant patient: a case report – Wei et al. – Microbiome

Multi-site human microbiome

Age-Related Changes, Influencing Factors, and Crosstalk Between Vaginal and Gut Microbiota: A Cross-Sectional Comparative Study of Pre- and Postmenopausal Women – Yoshikata et al. – Journal of Women’s Health

Human oral microbiome

Characterization of oral microbiota in HPV and non-HPV head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and its association with patient outcomes – Chan et al. – Oral Oncology

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Making gut microbiomes from scratch – Tiang & Bisanz – Cell Host &Microbe

Impairments of intestinal arginine and NO metabolisms trigger aging-associated intestinal barrier dysfunction and ‘inflammaging’ – Brandt et al. – Redox Biology

Dietary fiber ameliorates sleep disturbance connected to the gut–brain axis – Tang et al. – Food & Function

Meta-analysis of 16S rRNA microbial data identified alterations of the gut microbiota in COVID-19 patients during the acute and recovery phases – Cheng et al. – BMC Microbiology

Relationships between dietary diversity and gut microbial diversity in the elderly – Amamoto et al. – Beneficial Microbes

Alteration of the faecal microbiota composition in patients with constipation: evidence of American Gut Project – Xu et al. – Beneficial Microbes

Gut microbiome, cognitive function and brain structure: a multi-omics integration analysis – Liang et al. – Translational Neurodegeneration

Microbiome insights into pediatric familial adenomatous polyposis – Attard et al. – Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

[REVIEW]The crosstalk between intestinal bacterial microbiota and immune cells in colorectal cancer progression – Wen et al. – Clinical and Translational Oncology

[REVIEW]Epigenetic regulation by metabolites from the gut microbiome – Marin-Tello et al. – Benefical Microbes

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

A tetrapeptide from maize combined with probiotics exerted strong anti-inflammatory effects and modulated gut microbiota in DSS-induced colitis mice – Li et al. – Food & Function

IGF1R is a mediator of sex-specific metabolism in mice: Effects of age and high-fat diet – Perez-Matute et al. – Front. Endocrinol.

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Nutrient dynamics in coral symbiosis depend on both the relative and absolute abundance of Symbiodiniaceae species – McIlroy et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Function-Based Rhizosphere Assembly along a Gradient of Desiccation in the Former Aral Sea – Wicaksono et al. – mSystems

Bioinformatics

Metagenomics versus total RNA sequencing: most accurate data-processing tools, microbial identification accuracy and perspectives for ecological assessments – Hempel et al. – NAR

Metagenome-assembled genome extraction and analysis from microbiomes using KBase – Chivian et al. – Nature Protocols

SourceFinder: a Machine-Learning-Based Tool for Identification of Chromosomal, Plasmid, and Bacteriophage Sequences from Assemblies – Aytan-Aktug et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

TaxiBGC: a Taxonomy-Guided Approach for Profiling Experimentally Characterized Microbial Biosynthetic Gene Clusters and Secondary Metabolite Production Potential in Metagenomes – Gupta et al. – mSystems

Techniques

Optimization of Low-Biomass Sample Collection and Quantitative PCR-Based Titration Impact 16S rRNA Microbiome Resolution – Clokie et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

October 26, 2022

General microbiome

[BOOK]Human Microbiome in Health and Disease – Part B – Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science

Pregnancy and early life

Relationships of the very low birth weight infant microbiome with neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years of age – Sarkar et al. – Developmental Psychobiology

Human respiratory microbiome

The lower airways microbiota and antimicrobial peptides indicate dysbiosis in sarcoidosis – Knudsen et al. – Microbiome

Human gut microbiome

Profiling the fungal microbiome after FMT for graft-versus-host disease: insights from a phase 1 interventional study – van Lier et al. – Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Colorectal cancer, Vitamin D and microbiota: A double-blind Phase II randomized trial (ColoViD) in colorectal cancer patients – Bellerba et al. – Neoplasia

Natural and after colon washing fecal samples: the two sides of the coin for investigating the human gut microbiome – Piancone et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

[DATA]Effects of heat stress on 16S rDNA, metagenome and metabolome in Holstein cows at different growth stages – Feng et al. – Scientific data

Tick transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi to the murine host is not influenced by environmentally acquired midgut microbiota – Narasimhan et al. – Microbiome

Mining the microbiota to identify gut commensals modulating neuroinflammation in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis – Bianchimano et al. – Microbiome

Microbiomes associated with avian malaria survival differ between susceptible Hawaiian honeycreepers and sympatric malaria-resistant introduced birds – Navine et al. – Molecular Ecology

Impact of Germinated Brown Rice and Brown Rice on Metabolism, Inflammation, and Gut Microbiome in High Fat Diet-Induced Insulin Resistant Mice – Zhao et al. – J. Agric. Food Chem.

Dietary Lactobacillus reuteri prevent from inflammation mediated apoptosis of liver via improving intestinal microbiota and bile acid metabolism – Lin et al. – Food Chemistry

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Specific metabolites drive the deterministic assembly of diseased rhizosphere microbiome through weakening microbial degradation of autotoxin – Wen et al. – Microbiome

Low-abundance populations distinguish microbiome performance in plant cell wall deconstruction – Tom et al. – Microbiome

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

Community assembly patterns and processes of microbiome responses to habitats and Mytilopsis sallei invasion in the tidal zones of the Pearl River Estuary – Guo et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Bioinformatics

LotuS2: an ultrafast and highly accurate tool for amplicon sequencing analysis – Özkurt et al. – Microbiome

Techniques

[PREPRINT]Double emulsions as a high-throughput enrichment and isolation platform for slower-growing microbes – McCully et al. – bioRxiv

A novel metagenome-derived viral RNA polymerase and its application in a cell-free expression system for metagenome screening – Han et al. – Scientif Reports

September 18, 2022

Human and General Microbiome

Neisseria species as pathobionts in bronchiectasis – Liang Li – Cell Host & Microbe

The gut microbiome molecular complex in human health and disease – Paul Wilmes – Cell Host & Microbe

Codiversification of gut microbiota with humans – Taichi A Suzuki – Science

Gut microbiome of multiple sclerosis patients and paired household healthy controls reveal associations with disease risk and course – The iMSMS Consortium – Cell

Composition and diverse differences of intestinal microbiota in ulcerative colitis patients – Siying Zhu – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

A systematic review on omics data (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics) in the role of microbiome in gallbladder disease – Paola Di Carlo – Frontiers in Physiology

Variability of strain engraftment and predictability of microbiome composition after fecal microbiota transplantation across different diseases – Gianluca Ianiro – Nature Medicine

Drivers and determinants of strain dynamics following fecal microbiota transplantation – Thomas S B Schmidt – Nature Medicine

Long-term ecological and evolutionary dynamics in the gut microbiomes of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae colonized subjects – Jonathan T L Kang – Nature Microbiology

Structural and functional dysbiosis of gut microbiota in Tibetan subjects with coronary heart disease – Qi Cheng – Genomics

Growth of succinate consumer Dialister hominis is supported by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron – Mitsuo Sakamoto – Anaerobe

RhoB affects colitis through modulating cell signaling and intestinal microbiome – Jianming Yang – Microbiome

Review: Diet fuelling inflammatory bowel diseases: preclinical and clinical concepts – Timon E Adolph – Gut

Review: Recent findings in Akkermansia muciniphila-regulated metabolism and its role in intestinal diseases – Meng-Jie Liu – Clinical Nutrition

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Comprehensive analysis of microbiome, metabolome and transcriptome revealed the mechanisms of Moringa oleifera polysaccharide on preventing ulcerative colitis – Hanchen Tian – International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Probiotics ameliorates pulmonary inflammation via modulating gut microbiota and rectifying Th17/Treg imbalance in a rat model of PM2.5 induced lung injury – Yongcan Wu – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Short-term supplementation with ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids modulates primarily mucolytic species from the gut luminal mucin niche in a human fermentation system – Charlène Roussel – Gut Microbes

Model Animal Microbiome

Interactive Effect of Combined Intermittent and Sustained Hypoxia and High-Fat Diet on the Colonic Mucosal Microbiome and Host Gene Expression in Mice – Saif Mashaqi – Nature and Science of Sleep

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Fungi are more transient than bacteria in caterpillar gut microbiomes – Martin Šigut – Scientific Reports

Adapting to climate with limited genetic diversity: Nucleotide, DNA methylation and microbiome variation among populations of the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola – Anne Aagaard – Molecular Ecology

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Filtering ASVs/OTUs via mutual information-based microbiome network analysis – Elham Bayat Mokhtari – BMC Bioinformatics

Batch effects removal for microbiome data via conditional quantile regression – Wodan Ling – Nature Communications

Phylogenetic Analysis of Anti-CRISPR and Member Addition in the Families – Sweta Nidhi – Molecular Biotechnology

Shallow shotgun sequencing of the microbiome recapitulates 16S amplicon results and provides functional insights – Mason R Stothart – Molecular Ecology Resources

SnapShot: The Expobiome Map – Velma T E Aho – Cell Host & Microbe