Category Archives: Microbes in the News

May 29, 2018

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Today we have an interesting review discussing the best practices for performing a microbiome study by R. Knight, “Microbial wars” – a brief overview on microbial competition by M.A. Bauer. Check many other interesting papers, particularly “crowded” section of Soil microbes, while in news you can read how scientists tested bacteria’s power to boost broccoli growth in space. Enjoy!

General microbiome

Review: Best practices for analysing microbiomes – Rob Knight – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Microbial wars: Competition in ecological niches and within the microbiome – Maria A. Bauer – Microbial Cell

Review: Concepts and Methods to Access Novel Antibiotics from Actinomycetes – Joachim J. Hug  – Antibiotics

 

 

Human gut microbiome

Gut Microbiota and Human Health: Insights From Ecological Restoration – Matthew R. Orr – The Quarterly Review of Biology

Maternal omega-3 fatty acids regulate offspring obesity through persistent modulation of gut microbiota – Ruairi C. Robertson – Microbiome

Current Evidence for the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Using Fecal Microbiota Transplantation – Seong Ran Jeon – Current Infectious Disease Reports

The contribution of culturomics to the repertoire of isolated human bacterial and archaeal species – Melhem Bilen – Microbiome

Animal experiments

Gut microbes contribute to variation in solid organ transplant outcomes in mice – Christine M. McIntosh – Microbiome

Animal microbiome 

Necessary Sequencing Depth and Clustering Method to Obtain Relatively Stable Diversity Patterns in Studying Fish Gut Microbiota – Fanshu Xiao – Current Microbiology

Microbial shifts in the swine nasal microbiota in response to parenteral antimicrobial administration – Mohamed Zeineldin – Microbial Pathogenesis

Photobacterium malacitanum sp. nov., and Photobacterium andalusiense sp. nov., two new bacteria isolated from diseased farmed fish in Southern Spain – Alejandro M. Labella – Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of genetically modified Burkholderia pyrrocinia JK-SH007E1 on soil microbial community in poplar rhizosphere – L. He – Forest Pathology

Dynamics of soil nitrogen fractions and their relationship with soil microbial communities in two forest species of northern China – Dong Liu – PLOS One

Short-term transcriptional response of microbial communities to N-fertilization in a pine forest soil – Michaeline B.N. Albright – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Spatial structuring of soil microbial communities in commercial apple orchards – Greg Deakin – Applied Soil Ecology

Dynamics of soil nitrogen fractions and their relationship with soil microbial communities in two forest species of northern China – Dong Liu – PLOS One

Effects of winter snowpack and nitrogen addition on the soil microbial community in a temperate forest in northeastern China – Guoyong Yan – Ecological Indicators

Responses of soil bacterial communities to Conyza canadensis invasion with different cover classes along a climatic gradient* – Congyan Wang – CLEAN Soil Water

Shifts in microbial community structure and soil nitrogen mineralization following short-term soil amendment with the ammonifier Bacillus amyloliquefaciens DT – Cai Hui – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Restoration with pioneer plants changes soil properties and remodels the diversity and structure of bacterial communities in rhizosphere and bulk soil of copper mine tailings in Jiangxi Province, China – Xiaoyan Sun – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Enhancer assisted-phytoremediation of mercury-contaminated soils by Oxalis corniculata L., and rhizosphere microorganism distribution of Oxalis corniculata L. – Zhongchuang Liu – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Draft Genome Sequence of the Plant Growth-Promoting Sphingobium sp. Strain AEW4, Isolated from the Rhizosphere of the Beachgrass Ammophila breviligulata – Abanoub E. Wanees – Genome Announcements

Cultivar-specific response of bacterial community to cadmium contamination in the rhizosphere of rice (Oryza sativa L.)  – Dandi Hou – Environmental Pollution

Elevated CO2 increases the abundance but simplifies networks of soybean rhizosphere fungal community in Mollisol soils – Zhenhua Yu – Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Suppression of Alternaria blight disease and plant growth promotion of mustard (Brassica juncea L.) by antagonistic rhizosphere bacteria – R. Sharma – Applied Soil Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Salipaludibacillus halalkaliphilus sp. nov., a moderately haloalkaliphilic bacterium from a coastal-marine wetland – Mohammad Ali Amoozegar – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Insights into Brevibacillus borstelensis AK1 through Whole Genome Sequencing: A Thermophilic Bacterium Isolated from a Hot Spring in Saudi Arabia – Amjad B. Khalil – BioMed Research International

Seasonal dynamics of bacterioplankton community in a large, shallow, highly dynamic freshwater lake – Zhaoyu Kong – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Sediment microbial communities influenced by cool hydrothermal fluid migration – Laura A. Zinke – Frontiers in Microbiology / Extreme Microbiology

Microbial interactions with dissolved organic matter drive carbon dynamics and community succession’ – Xiaoqin Wu – Frontiers in Microbiology / Microbiological Chemistry and Geomicrobiology

Metabolites change of Scenedesmus obliquus exerted by AgNPs – Pu Wang – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Built environment

Cultivable microbial diversity associated with cellular phones – Rashmi Kurli – Frontiers in Microbiology / Systems Microbiology

Food microbiology

A bioinformatics pipeline integrating predictive metagenomics profiling for the analysis of 16S rDNA/rRNA sequencing data originated from foods – Marios Mataragas – Food Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Identification of a bacteriophage from an environmental multidrug-resistant E. coli isolate and its function in horizontal transfer of ARGs – Qiang Wang – Science of The Total Environment

Metagenomic analysis of the RNA fraction of the fecal virome indicates high diversity in pigs infected by porcine endemic diarrhea virus in the United States – Qi Chen – Virology Journal

Bioinformatics

Evaluating the use of diversity indices to distinguish between microbial communities with different traits – Sergey Feranchuka – Research in Microbiology

Taxonomic and functional compositions impacted by the quality of metatranscriptomic assemblies – Maggie Lau – Frontiers in Microbiology – Microbiological Chemistry and Geomicrobiology

Biotechnology

Practical applications of PCR primers in detection of anammox bacteria effectively from different types of samples – Zhichao Zhou – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Systems analysis of phosphate-limitation-induced lipid accumulation by the oleaginous yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides – Yanan Wang – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Review: A decade of understanding secondary metabolism in Pseudomonas spp. for sustainable agriculture and pharmaceutical applications – Izzah Shahid – Environmental Sustainability

Microbes in the news

Could we work together with our bacteria to stop infection?

Scientists test bacteria’s power to boost broccoli growth in space

May 25, 2018

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Microbes and climate change, molecules from the microbiota and the gut-brain axis, C. albicans respiration changes lead to differences in macrophage recognition.

Animal experiments

The Gut Microbiota Mediates the Anti-Seizure Effects of the Ketogenic Diet – Christine A Olson – Cell

Microbial signals drive pre-leukaemic myeloproliferation in a Tet2-deficient host – Marlies Meisel – Nature

Pre-print: Temporal changes in gut microbiota and signaling molecules of the gut-brain axis in mice fed meat protein diets – Yunting Jie – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

Detection and Genetic Characterization of Bacteria of the Genus Pseudomonas from Microbial Communities of Lake Baikal – N L Bel’kova – Russian Journal of Genetics

More microbes

Review: Microbial Function on Climate Change – A Review – Endeshaw Abatenh – Environment Pollution and Climate Change

Pre-print: Inhibition of classical and alternative modes of respiration in C. albicans leads to cell wall remodelling and increased macrophage recognition – Lucian Duvenage – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

How gut microbes are joining the fight against cancer – Giorgia Guglielmi – Nature

May 12, 2018

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Today’s highlights in our Microbiology picks: Antibacterial activity of nested concentric patterns, relationship between the microbiota epitopes and antigenic epitopes, a book chapter on N-Acetyl transferase microbes, core microbiota for de novo IBD, soil microbes and disease suppression, fungi of office dust, microbes of potable  water from the Himalayan region, articles from ‘Techniques’ section.

Today’s highlights in our non-microbes picks: Epidemiology is important, recent on-goings on harassment, mental health awareness in academia, mimicking the prebiotic chemistry using flow chemistry, step taken by Wellcome Trust against misconduct in academia including harassment, Horizon 2020 budget for 2021-27.

 

Events and jobs

Laboratory Manager : New York, NY, United States – Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Deadline: 18 May 2018

General microbiome

Supramolecular Kandinsky circles with high antibacterial activity – H Wang – Nature Communications

Microbiota epitope similarity either dampens or enhances the immunogenicity of disease-associated antigenic epitopes – SC Pro – PLoS One

Genomic evolution of Staphylococcus aureus isolates colonizing the nares and progressing to bacteremia – JB Benoit – PLoS One

Book chapter: N-Acetyltransferases Microorganisms – S Boukouvala – Arylamine N-acetyltransferases in Health and Disease:From Pharmacogenetics to Drug Discovery and Diagnostics

 

Human vaginal microbiome

Preprint: Metatranscriptome analysis of the vaginal microbiota reveals potential mechanisms for protection against metronidazole in bacterial vaginosis – Z-L Deng – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Preprint: Variability of core microbiota in newly diagnosed treatment-naïve paediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease patients – TGJ de Meij – bioRxiv

Compositional and Functional Differences in the Human Gut Microbiome Correlate with Clinical Outcome following Infection with Wild-Type Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi – Y Zhang – mBio

Animal experiments 

Preprint: Bottlenecks in the transmission of Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV1) to naïve pigs and quasi-species variation during infection in partially immune pigs – M Cortey – bioRxiv

Lactobacillus gasseri PA-3 utilizes the purines GMP and guanosine and decreases their absorption in rats – N Yamada – Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids

An exclusive metabolic niche enables strain engraftment in the gut microbiota – ES Sheperd – Nature

Interleukin 1α-Deficient Mice Have an Altered Gut Microbiota Leading to Protection from Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Colitis – M Nunberg – mSystems

Animal microbiome 

Low bacterial community diversity in two introduced aphid pests revealed with 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing – F Zepeda-Paulo – PeerJ

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effect of land use and soil organic matter quality on the structure and function of microbial communities in pastoral soils: Implications for disease suppression – BEA Dignam – PLoS One

Relations between bacterial communities and enzyme functions of two paddy soils – X Luo – European Journal of Soil Science

Nematophagus fungi increasing phosphorus uptake and promoting plant growth – TSA Monteiro – Biological Control

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Effect of elevated pressure on ferric iron reduction coupled to sulfur oxidation by biomining microorganisms – R Zhang – Hydrometallurgy

Halophilic & halotolerant prokaryotes in humans – EH Seck – Future Medicine

Preprint: Structural variability and functional association in the epiphytic bacteria assemblies of freshwater macrophytes (Myriophyllum spicatum) – L Xian – bioRxiv

Investigation of nutrients and faecal coliforms removal in wastewater using a hydroponic system – SF Ndulini – Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Parts A/B/C

Built environment 

Characterization of fungi in office dust: comparing results of microbial secondary metabolites, fungal ITS region sequencing, viable culture, and other microbial indices – J-H Park – Indoor Air

 

Phages and viruses

Preprint: First report on Bacterial Diversity of Potable Spring water of Indian Himalayan Region – AK Singh – bioRxiv

Preprint: “In plaque-mass spectrometry imaging” reveals a major metabolic shift towards odd-chain fatty acid lipids induced by host-virus interactions – G Schleyer – bioRxiv

Preprint: Adventitious viruses persistently infect three commonly used mosquito cell lines – J Weger-Lucarelli – bioRxiv

Techniques

Preprint: High-resolution ISR amplicon sequencing reveals personalized oral microbiome – C Mukherjee – bioRxiv

Preprint: Transcriptome Analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae During Natural Infection Reveals Differential Expression of Antibiotic Resistance Determinants Between Men and Women – K Nudel – bioRxiv

Designer cells programming quorum-sensing interference with microbes – F Sedlmeyer – Nature Communications

A comprehensive model for assessment of liver stage therapies targeting Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium falciparum – A Roth – Nature Communications

Preprint: Detection and quantification of the heterogeneity of S. aureus bacterial populations to identify antibiotic-induced persistence – MH Hasan – bioRxiv

Rapid isolation of fast-growing methanotrophs from environmental samples using continuous cultivation with gradually increased dilution rates – J Kim – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbes in the news

Stanley Falkow, Who Saw How Bacteria Cause Disease, Dies at 84 – NY Times

How the Bugs In Your Gut Could Affect Your Blood Vessels – Live Science

Faeces transplant: The best cure for severe diarrhoea may be more faeces – Times Live

Cancer-killing viruses show promise — and draw billion-dollar investment – Nature

Does where we live affect our skin microbiome? – Medical News Bulletin

Non-Microbiology Picks

Editorial: Epidemiology is a science of high importance – Nature Communications

Mimicking the surface and prebiotic chemistry of early Earth using flow chemistry – DJ Ritson – Nature Communications

I’d whisper to my student self: you are not alone – D Reay – Nature

Harassment should count as scientific misconduct – E Marín-Spiotta – Nature

€100-billion budget proposed for Europe’s next big research programme – I Vesper – Nature

Editorial: The #MeToo campaign is gaining ground in China – Nature

Editorial: What to do to improve postgraduate mental health – Nature

Report harassment or risk losing funding, says top UK science funder – H Else – Nature

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest – C Shipton – Nature Communications

KACST Impact – Nature Communications

 

May 10, 2018

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Today we have quite a few interesting papers in “Water microbiome”, there you can read about: drift in the community structuring of bacteria and microbial eukaryotes by R.Logares; phylogeny‐based database “EukRef–Ciliophora” by V. Boscaro;  diverse bacterial and viral populations in agricultural freshwater pond by J. Chopyk. In a “Bioinformatics” section you can read about “MIMOSA: Algorithms for Microbial Profiling” (by O. U. Nalbantoglu) and about use of SplinectomeR package in longitudinal microbiome studies by R.R. Shields- Cutler. Enjoy!

Jobs

PhD position for anaerobic microbiology of the Black Sea, Netherlands

General microbiome

Cargo Transport Shapes the Spatial Organization of a Microbial Community – Abhishek Shrivastava – bioRxiv

The Effect of Berberine on the Transcriptome and Proteome of E. coli – Zhang Shilei – bioRxiv

Predator-by-Environment Interactions Mediate Bacterial Competition in the Dictyostelium discoideum Microbiome – R. Fredrik Inglis – Frontiers in Microbiology / Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

Diversity time-period and diversity-time-area relationships exemplified by the human microbiome – Zhanshan (Sam) Ma – Scientific Reports

Pregnancy and early life

Microbial Biomarkers of Intestinal Barrier Maturation in Preterm Infants – Bing Ma – bioRxiv

Influence of human milk oligosaccharides on adherence of bifidobacteria and clostridia to cell lines – Musilova Sarka  – Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica

 

Oral microbiome

Research on oral microbiota of monozygotic twins with discordant caries experience – in vitro and in vivo study – Hongle Wu – Scientific Reports

Glycemic Status Affects the Subgingival Microbiome of Diabetic Patients – Priscila Larcher Longo – Journal of Clinical Periodontology

Research on oral microbiota of monozygotic twins with discordant caries experience – in vitro and in vivo study – Hongle Wu – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Fecal microbiota transplantation in experimental ulcerative colitis reveals associated gut microbial and host metabolic reprogramming – Zhixiang Yan – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Fecal microbiota transplantation treatment for refractory ulcerative colitis with allergy to 5-aminosalicylic acid: A case report – Hong-Gang Wang – Medicine

Review: Influence of Commensal Microbiota on the Enteric Nervous System and Its Role in Neurodegenerative Diseases – Endres K. – Journal of Innate Immunology

Loss of Ethanolamine Utilization in Enterococcus faecalis Increases Gastrointestinal Tract Colonization – Karan Gautam Kavala – mBio

Compositional and Functional Differences in the Human Gut Microbiome Correlate with Clinical Outcome following Infection with Wild-Type Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi – Yan Zhang – mBio

Animal experiments

Effects of gut microbiota and time of treatment on tissue levels of green tea polyphenols in mice – Anna B. Liu – BioFactors

Gastrointestinal microbiota and mucosal immune gene expression in neonatal pigs reared in a cross-fostering model – Nidia Maradiaga – Microbial Pathogenesis

Prolonged restraint stressor exposure in outbred CD-1 mice impacts microbiota, colonic inflammation, and short chain fatty acids – Ross M. Maltz – PLOS One

Review: Biomarkers for monitoring intestinal health in poultry: present status and future perspective – Richard Ducatelle – Veterinary Research

Animal microbiome 

Near full-length 16S rRNA gene next-generation sequencing revealed Asaia as a common midgut bacterium of wild and domesticated Queensland fruit fly larvae – Ania T. Deutscher – Microbiome

Crown-of-thorns sea star, Acanthaster cf. solaris, have tissue-characteristic microbiomes with potential roles in health and reproduction – Lone Høja – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Multilevel social structure and diet shape the gut microbiota of the gelada monkey, the only grazing primate – Pål Trosvik – Microbiome

Antimicrobial activity in culturable gut microbial communities of springtails – Valeria Agamennone  – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Diversity and antimicrobial potential in sea anemone and holothurian microbiomes – Elizabeth León-Palmero  – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Niche partition of phenanthrene-degrading bacteria along a Phragmites australis rhizosphere gradient – Xiaofei Lv – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems – Toju H -Nature Plants

Determination of agricultural impact on soil microbial activity using δ18OP HCl and respiration experiments – Katherine Polain – ACS Earth and Space Chemistry

Seasonal dynamics of bacterial communities in a Betula albosinensis forest – C. Du – European Journal of Soil Science

Niche partition of phenanthrene-degrading bacteria along a Phragmites australis rhizosphere gradient – Xiaofei Lv – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Water and extremophile microbiome

Effects of Xiantao sewage treatment on microbial community structure of shallow groundwater in wetland – Shu-Fen Song – bioRxiv

Unexpected versatility in the metabolism and ecophysiology of globally relevant nitrite-oxidizing Nitrotoga bacteria – Andrew Boddicker – bioRxiv

Long-term seasonality of marine photoheterotrophic bacteria reveals low cohesiveness within the different phylogroups – Adrià Auladell – bioRxiv

Molecular cloning of glutathione peroxidase gene of Antarctic ice microalga Chlamydomonas sp. ICE‐L and its expression changes under temperature and salinity stress – Jin Hui Wang – Phycological Research

Contrasting prevalence of selection and drift in the community structuring of bacteria and microbial eukaryotes – Ramiro Logares – Environmental Microbiology

EukRef–Ciliophora: A manually curated, phylogeny‐based database of small subunit rRNA gene sequences of ciliates – Vittorio Boscaro – Environmental Microbiology

Novel human-associated Lachnospiraceae genetic markers improve detection of fecal pollution sources in urban waters – Shuchen Feng – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Municipal wastewater treatment potential and metal accumulation strategies of Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott and Typha latifolia L. in a constructed wetland – Vivek Rana – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Agricultural Freshwater Pond Supports Diverse and Dynamic Bacterial and Viral Populations – Jessica Chopyk – Frontiers in Microbiology / Aquatic Microbiology

Characterization of a Highly Enriched Microbial Consortium Reductively Dechlorinating 2,3-Dichlorophenol and 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol and the Corresponding cprA Genes from River Sediment – Wael S. El-Sayed – Polish Journal of Microbiology

Built environment

Characterization of fungi in office dust: comparing results of microbial secondary metabolites, fungal ITS region sequencing, viable culture, and other microbial indices – Ju Hyeong Park – Indoor Air

Investigation of the Active Biofilm Communities on Polypropylene Filter Media in a Fixed Biofilm Reactor for Wastewater Treatment – Iffat Naz – Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology

Food microbiology

Characterization of the contaminant bacterial communities in sugarcane first-generation industrial ethanol production – Maria L. Bonatelli – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Probiotics / prebiotics

Phylotype-level profiling of lactobacilli in highly complex environments by means of an ITS-based metagenomic approach – Christian Milani – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Comparative Genomics Reveals the Regulatory Complexity of Bifidobacterial Arabinose and Arabino-Oligosaccharide Utilization – Aleksandr A. Arzamasov – Frontiers in Microbiology /Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

 

Bioinformatics

MIMOSA: Algorithms for Microbial Profiling – Ozkan Ufuk Nalbantoglu – IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

SplinectomeR Enables Group Comparisons in Longitudinal Microbiome Studies – Robin R. Shields-Cutler – Frontiers in Microbiology / Systems Microbiology

Metagenome enrichment approach used for selection of oil-degrading bacteria consortia for drill cutting residue bioremediation – Alaine B.Guerra – Environmental Pollution

Biotechnology

Microbial co-culturing systems: butanol production from organic wastes through consolidated bioprocessing – Yujia Jiang – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Techniques

Sensitive detection of Live Escherichia coli by bacteriophage amplification-coupled immunoassay on the Luminex® MAGPIX instrument – Tomotaka Mido – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Scientists use dietary seaweed to manipulate gut bacteria in mice

Microbes are savvy investors when contributing to the common good

 

May 8, 2018

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Today’s Digest is again short and sweet. Human RNA interacts with oral commensals, viral communities diverge between different delivery modes, and Wash U researchers reveal how soil bacteria can digest antibiotics.Today’s Digest is again short and sweet. Human RNA interacts with oral commensals, viral communities diverge between different delivery modes, and Wash U researchers reveal how soil bacteria can digest antibiotics.

Jobs and Events

Microbial Sequencing and Analytics Core Director – Cleveland Clinic – Cleveland, OH, United States

Microbial Culturing and Engineering Core Director – Cleveland Clinic – Cleveland, OH, United States

Personalization and the microbiome in precision medicine: Probiota Americas 2018 program revealed – Stephen Daniells – NutraIngredients-USA

Pregnancy and early life

Preprint: The developing premature infant gut microbiome is a major factor shaping the microbiome of neonatal intensive care unit rooms – Brandon Brooks et al. – bioRxiv

Human oral microbiome

** Human tRNA-Derived Small RNAs Modulate Host–Oral Microbial Interactions – X He & F Li et al. – Journal of Dental Research

Press: UCLA researchers discover cellular messengers communicate with bacteria in the mouth – Brianna Aldrich – UCLA Newsroom

Animal experiments

Mouse: Frontline Science: Microbiota reconstitution restores intestinal integrity after cisplatin therapy – Alfredo Perales‐Puchalt & Jairo Perez‐Sanz et al. – Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Preprint: Antibiotic-induced dysbiosis predicts mortality in an animal model of Clostridium difficile infection – Charles Burdet et al. – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

Screening of polyhydroxyalkanoate- producing bacteria and PhaC-encoding genes in two hypersaline microbial mats from Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico – Carolina A. Martı ́nez-Gutie ́rrez et al. – PeerJ

Phages and viruses
** Viromes of one year old infants reveal the impact of birth mode on microbiome diversity – Angela McCann, Feargal J. Ryan, & Stephen R. Stockdale et al. – PeerJ

Microbes in the news

Are the gut microbiota determined by genes or the environment? – C.I. Villamil – Medical News Bulletin

The Skin microbiota: a target for Next Generation active ingredients – M. Bey, E. Filaire and JY. Berthon – Premium Beauty News

AI Detects Patterns Of Gut Microbes for Cholera Risk – Marla Vacek Broadfoot – Duke Today

Catheter-associated Infections: Prevention using Polymers – Christine Kelly

Faecal bacteria found in coffee shop ice after random checks – BBC

** Wash U researchers reveal how some bacteria are able to eat antibiotics –  Shahla Farzan – St. Louis Public Radio

Superbugs: are we returning to an era where bacteria are a major killer without a cure? – Anthony McDonnell – LSE blogs

What does ape dung tell us about human health? Gut bacteria in primates’ faeces suggests we are deficient in fibre – Alexandra Thompson – Daily Mail

Vegan Kimchi Is Microbially Pretty Close to the Original – Marissa Fessenden – Smithsonian Mag

Calf gut health starts at birth – Jennifer Carrico – High Plains Journal

Microbes on the market

Amway signs R&D partnership – Rachel Watson – GRBJ

May 6, 2018

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Brassicaceae plants-fungi associations, a feature on PCR bias during microbiome analysis, a thesis about viruses; preprints about Mobile-CRISPRi system on bacteria, what may happen to the intestinal microbiota when Lactobacillus reuteri intervenes; few non-microbio picks covering mental health, conservation policy, stem cell policy; and a lot more for our digest from Sunday.

General microbiome

Preprint: Mobile-CRISPRi: Enabling Genetic Analysis of Diverse Bacteria – JM Peters – bioRxiv

Preprint: Effect of Lactobacillus reuteri on intestinal microflora and immune parameters: involvement of sex differences – J He – biorXiv

Review: The Interplay Between the Microbiome and Cardiovascular Risk – BA Minnifield – Current Genetic Medicine Reports

Klebsiella pneumoniae as a key trafficker of drug resistance genes from environmental to clinically important bacteria – KL Wyres – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Proteomic studies on lactic acid bacteria: A review – KS Vinusha – Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports

Multi-site human microbiome

Distinct shifts in the oral microbiota are associated with the progression and aggravation of mucositis during radiotherapy – J Hou – Radiotherapy and Oncology

Human skin microbiome

Skin microbiome changes in patients with interdigital tinea pedis – R  Wang – British Journal of Dermatology

Human vaginal microbiome

The Vaginal Eukaryotic DNA Virome and Preterm Birth  – KM Wylie – American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Systematic Review: The vaginal microbiota and its association with Human Papillomavirus, Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhea and Mycoplasma genitalium infections: a systematic review and meta-analysis – J Tamarelle – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Human gut microbiome

Review: Methods for studying gut microbiota: A primer for physicians – AN Sarangi – Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology

Review: Effects of the Gut microbiota on Amygdalin and its use as an anti-cancer therapy: Substantial review on the key components involved in altering dose efficacy and toxicity – V Jaiswal – Biochemistry and Biophysics Reports

The ability of human intestinal anaerobes to metabolize different oligosaccharides: Novel means for microbiota modulation? – R Ose – Anaerobe

Clostridium difficile cure with fecal microbiota transplantation in a child with Pompe disease: a case report – DE Dow – Journal of Medical Case Reports

Association Between Bacteremia from Specific Microbes and Subsequent Diagnosis of Colorectal Cancer  – TNY Kwong – Gastroenterology

Animal experiments 

Tributyltin exposure induces gut microbiome dysbiosis with increased body weight gain and dyslipidemia in mice – H Guo – Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology

Inhibition Effect of Glycyrrhiza Polysaccharide (GCP) on Tumor Growth through Regulation of the Gut Microbiota Composition – X Zhang – Journal of Pharmacological Sciences

Ketogenic diet enhances neurovascular function with altered gut microbiome in young healthy mice – D Ma – Scientific Reports

Preprint: Efficacy of fecal sampling as a gut proxy in the study of chicken gut microbiota – W Yan – bioRxiv

Acute exposure to PBDEs at an environmentally realistic concentration causes abrupt changes in the gut microbiota and host health of zebrafish – L Chen – Environmental Pollution

Animal microbiome 

Integrated metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics for the characterization of bacterial microbiota in unfed Ixodes ricinus – A Hernández-Jarguín – Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Metatranscriptome analysis of the intestinal microorganisms in Pardosa pseudoannulata in response to cadmium stress – H Yang – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Beneficial associations between Brassicaceae plants and fungal endophytes under nutrient-limiting conditions: evolutionary origins and host–symbiont molecular mechanisms – K Hiruma – Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Cross-kingdom lipid transfer in arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis and beyond – A Keymer – Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Isolation of local Bacillus spp. from Afghanistan soils and their potential in suppressing the root-knot nematodes on tomato – AS Jamily – J-Stage

Effect of community-based soil and water conservation practices on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi types, spore densities, root colonization, and soil nutrients in the northern highlands of Ethiopia – M Welemariam – Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture

Biocontrol mechanisms of Bacillus sp., isolated from tomato rhizosphere, against Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici – M Jangir – Biological Control

Root Exudates Dominate the Colonization of Pathogen and Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria – J Yuan – Root Biology

Unfolding the Role of Rhizomicrobiome Toward Sustainable Agriculture – S Kaul – Root Biology

Litter breakdown as a tool for assessment of the efficiency of afforestation and ash-aided phytostabilization on metal-contaminated soils functioning in Northern France – J Leclercq-Dransart – Environmental Science and Pollution Research 

Sugars en route to the roots. Transport, metabolism and storage within plant roots and towards microorganisms of the rhizosphere – N Hennion – Physiologia Plantarum

Salt marsh sediment bacterial communities maintain original population structure after transplantation across a latitudinal gradient – A Angermeyer – PeerJ

Impact of slope exposure on chemical and microbiological properties of Norway spruce deadwood and underlying soil during early stages of decomposition in the Italian Alps – T Bardelli – CATENA

Built environment 

A comparative study of eubacterial communities by PCR-DGGE fingerprints in anoxic and aerobic biotrickling filters used for biogas desulfurization – A Valle – Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering

Food microbiology

Microbial community dynamics of Dan’er barley grain during the industrial malting process – X Li – Food Microbiology

Physicochemical, microbiological and sensory acceptance alterations of strawberries caused by gamma radiation and storage time – M de Jesus Filho – Scientia Horticulturae

Evaluation of critical points of mould growth and mycotoxin production in the stored barley ecosystem with a hazardous initial microbiological state of grain – J Wawrzyniak – Journal of Stored Products Research

Viruses and phages

Thesis: Virology By The Numbers: A Quantitative Exploration of Viral Energetics, Genomics, and Ecology – G Mahmoudabadi – Caltech THESIS

 

Techniques

Microbiology: making the best of PCR bias – M  Eisenstein – Nature

Anton Chekhov and Robert Koch Cheek to Cheek: A Proteomic Study – A D’Amato – Proteomics

Microbes in the news

Future of Microbiome Drugs Market including key players Pfizer, Second Genome, Seres Therapeutics – Technical Progress News

Pattern hair loss could be due to gut bacteria – Science Nordic

Legionella bacteria has been detected at the problem-plagued Perth Children’s Hospital. – SBS News

Connections Between Art And Science Explored – The Enterprise

Non-microbiology picks

Arctic ice carries heavy freight of plastic – Nature

Brazil’s lawmakers renew push to weaken environmental rules – Nature

Feeling overwhelmed by academia? You are not alone – Nature

Real-world illness requires medical multitasking – Nature

Announcement: stem-cell policy – Nature

May 4, 2018

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Today we have many interesting news and many papers in “Plant, root, and soil microbiome” section. Enjoy your friday read!

General microbiome

Uncovering the drivers of host-associated microbiota with joint species distribution modeling – Johannes R. Björk – bioRxiv

Competence Inhibition by the XrpA Peptide Encoded Within the comX Gene of Streptococcus mutans – Justin Kaspar – bioRxiv

Microbiota and metabolic diseases – Alessia Pascale – Endocrine

Human respiratory microbiome

The Gut-Lung Axis and Pulmonary Responses to Ozone – Judith A Voynow – American Journal of Respiratory and Molecular Biology

 

Human skin microbiome

Microbial host interactions and impaired wound healing in mice and humans: defining a role for BD14 and NOD2 – Helen Williams – Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Human nearly-sterile sites

The Role of Microbiota in Retinal Disease – Sheldon Rowan – Retinal Degenerative Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Immune Cells and Microbiota Response to Iron Starvation – Marcello Chieppa – Frontiers in Medicine / Gastroenterology

The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Colorectal Cancer – Grace Y. Chen – Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery

Enterococcus faecalis AHG0090 is a Genetically Tractable Bacterium and Produces a Secreted Peptidic Bioactive that Suppresses Nuclear Factor Kappa B Activation in Human Gut Epithelial Cells – Páraic Ó Cuív – Frontiers in Immunology /  Microbial Immunology

Animal experiments

Core gut microbiota in Jinhua pigs and its correlation with strain, farm and weaning age – Hua Yang – Journal of Microbiology

Animal microbiome 

Gut microbiomes of wild great apes fluctuate seasonally in response to diet – Allison L. Hicks – Nature Communications

Stochastic processes govern bacterial communities from the blood of pikas and from their arthropod vectors – Huan Li – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

An in vitro evaluation of browser and grazer fermentation efficiency and microbiota using European moose spring and summer foods – Sophie J. Krizsan – Ecology & Evolution

The effect of gut microbiota elimination in Drosophila melanogaster: A how-to guide for host–microbiota studies – Chloe Heys  – Ecology & Evolution

Urea hydrolysis by gut bacteria in a hibernating frog: evidence for urea-nitrogen recycling in Amphibia – James M. Wiebler – Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Highly diverse endophytes in roots of Cycas bifida (Cycadaceae), an ancient but endangered gymnosperm – Ying Zheng – Journal of Microbiology

Soil metabarcoding identifies season indicators and differentiators of pig and Agrostis/Festuca spp. decomposition – Ayodeji O.Olakanye – Forensic Science International

Modulation of plant chemistry by beneficial root microbiota – Desalegn W. Etalo  –  Natural Product Reports

Highly diverse endophytes in roots of Cycas bifida (Cycadaceae), an ancient but endangered gymnosperm – Ying Zheng – Journal of Microbiology

A global atlas of the dominant bacteria found in soil – Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo – Science

Variations of Bacterial Community Diversity Within the Rhizosphere of Three Phylogenetically Related Perennial Shrub Plant Species Across Environmental Gradients – Xiaofan Na –  Frontiers in Microbiology

Combined effects of phosphate-solubilizing bacterium XMT-5 (Rhizobium sp.) and submerged macrophyte Ceratophyllum demersum on phosphorus release in eutrophic lake sediments – Haifeng Li – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Successful phytoremediation of crude-oil contaminated soil at an oil exploration and production company by plants-bacterial synergism – Kaneez Fatima – International Journal of Phytoremediation

Alginate-perlite encapsulated Pseudomonas putida A (ATCC 12633) cells: preparation, characterization and potential use as plant inoculants – Andrés S. Liffourrena – Journal of Biotechnology

Variations of Bacterial Community Diversity Within the Rhizosphere of Three Phylogenetically Related Perennial Shrub Plant Species Across Environmental Gradients – Xiaofan Na – Frontiers in Microbiology / Terrestrial Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Conductive Particles Enable Syntrophic Acetate Oxidation between Geobacter and Methanosarcina from Coastal Sediments – Amelia-Elena Rotaru – mBio

Mind the gut: genomic insights to population divergence and gut microbial composition of two marine keystone species – Katharina Fietz – BMC Microbiome

Enhanced degradation of phenol in floating treatment wetlands by plant-bacterial synergism – Hamna Saleem – International Journal of Phytoremediation

Bacterial community diversity in a full scale biofilter treating wastewater odor – M. J. Allievi – Water Science & Technology

Food microbiology

Sausage fermentation and starter cultures in the era of molecular biology methods – Irene Franciosa – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Contribution of the novel sulfur-producing adjunct Lactobacillus nodensis to flavor development in Gouda cheese – Elaine O’Brien – Journal of Dairy Science

Probiotics / prebiotics

Probiotics drive gut microbiome triggering emotional brain signatures – Deepika Bagga – Gut Microbiome

Phages and viruses

Reactivation of latent HIV-1 in vitro using an alcoholic extract from Euphorbia umbellata (Euphorbiaceae) latex – Ana L Valadao – bioRxiv

Mycobacteria recycle their peptidoglycan via a novel pathway which influences antimicrobial resistance and limits proliferation in macrophages – Patrick J. Moynihan – bioRxiv

Biotechnology

Microbiological aspects of thermophile pretreatment of activated sludge inhibiting electricity generation of microbial fuel cell – Yang-Guo Zhao – Water Science & Technology

Methane-yielding microbial communities processing lactate-rich substrates: a piece of the anaerobic digestion puzzle – Anna Detman – BMC Biotechnology for Biofuels

Microbes in the news 

Researchers find a gene that lets bacteria kill all male flies

Targeting Gut Bacteria to Reduce Disease

Applying live bacteria to skin improves eczema

Walnuts impact gut microbiome and improve health

By wrapping itself in antibodies, this bacterium may become a stable, beneficial part of the gut

A healthy digestive system is all you need in life

 

 

May 2, 2018

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In our 2nd May Digest there are many interesting Jobs, News and papers, among which few recommendations: the review on human oral microbiota by Yangheng Zhang, bacterial versus human thymidylate synthas by Zahidul Islam, gut metabolome meets microbiome by Santosh Lamichhane and GET_PHYLOMARKERS – a new software package for phylogenomics and inferring pan-genome phylogenies. Enjoy!

Jobs

Research assistant in Microbial Systems and Synthetic Biology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Research Scientist Engineer, University of Washington, WA, US

Post-Doctoral Research Scientist – Molecular Biology/Biochemistry, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK

Post-doc position, Universite Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Dijon, France

General microbiome

Novel Antimicrobials for the Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection – Nicola Petrosillo – Frontiers in Medicine

Metagenomic assessment of the interplay between the environment and the genetic diversification of Acinetobacter – Marc Garcia-Garcera – Environmental Microbiology

Further expansion of methane metabolism in the Archaea – Yulin Wang – bioRxiv

Bacterial versus human thymidylate synthase: Kinetics and functionality – Zahidul Islam – PLOS One

Humans as holobionts: implications for prevention and therapy – Maarten van de Guchte – Microbiome

Genomewide characterisation of the genetic diversity of carotenogenesis in bacteria of the order Sphingomonadales – Shivakumara Siddaramappa – Microbial Genomics

Pregnancy and early life

Spleen development is modulated by neonatal gut microbiota – M. Manuela Rosado – Immunology Letters

HIV antiretroviral exposure in pregnancy induces detrimental placenta vascular changes that are rescued by progesterone supplementation – Hakimeh Mohammadi – Scientific Reports

Human respiratory microbiome

Biological exacerbation clusters demonstrate asthma and COPD overlap with distinct mediator and microbiome profiles  – Michael A. Ghebre – Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Oral microbiome

Review: Human oral microbiota and its modulation for oral health – Yangheng Zhang – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Oral Administration of Probiotics Increases Paneth Cells and Intestinal Antimicrobial Activity – Silvia I. Cazorla – Frontiers in Microbiology /Food Microbiology

Oral microbiota reveals signs of acculturation in Mexican American women – Kristi L. Hoffman – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Gut metabolome meets microbiome: A methodological perspective to understand the relationship between host and microbe – Santosh Lamichhane – Methods

Linking gut microbiota to cardiovascular disease and hypertension: Lessons from chronic kidney disease – B. Meijers – Pharmacological Research

PGRP-LB homolog acts as a negative modulator of immunity in maintaining the gut-microbe symbiosis of red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier – Bishnu Dawadi – Developmental & Comparative Immunology

Imbalance of gut microbiome and intestinal epithelial barrier dysfunction in cardiovascular disease  – Judith N. Lezutekong – Clinical Science

Intestinal Immunomodulatory Cells (T Lymphocytes): A Bridge between Gut Microbiota and Diabetes – Qingwei Li – Mediators of Inflammation

In Vitro Fermentation Behaviour of Isomalto/Malto‐Polysaccharides Using Human Faecal Inoculum Indicates Prebiotic Potential – Fangjie Gu – Molecular Nutrition & food Research

A repeat offender: Recurrent extraintestinal Clostridium difficile infection following fecal microbiota transplantation – Bradley J.Gardiner – Anaerobe

Illuminating the microbiome’s dark matter: a functional genomic toolkit for the study of human gut Actinobacteria – Jordan E Bisanz – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Astragalus affects fecal microbial composition of young hens as determined by 16S rRNA sequencing – Hongxing Qiao – AMB Express

Omeprazole Minimally Alters the Fecal Microbial Community in Six Cats: A Pilot Study – Sarah M. Schmid – Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Resveratrol Prevents the Development of Hypertension Programmed by Maternal Plus Post‐Weaning High‐Fructose Consumption Through Modulation of Oxidative Stress, Nutrient‐Sensing Signals, and Gut Microbiota – You-Lin Tain – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

DNA microarray-based assessment of virulence potential of Shiga toxin gene-carrying Escherichia coli O104:H7 isolated from feedlot cattle feces – Pragathi B. Shridhar – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Comparative metabolomics of aging in a long-lived bat: Insights into the physiology of extreme longevity – Hope C. Ball – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Identification of chemotaxis compounds in root exudates and their sensing chemoreceptors in plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria Bacillus amyloliquefaciens SQR9 – Haichao Feng – Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions

Shared strategies for β-lactam catabolism in the soil microbiome – Terence S. Crofts – Nature Chemical Biology

Review: Molecular networks in plant-pathogen holobiont – Tatsuya Nobori – FEBS Letters

Importance of Soil Temperature for the Growth of Temperate Crops under a Tropical Climate and Functional Role of Soil Microbial Diversity – Nurul Syazwani Ahmad Sabri – Microbes and Environments

The Impact of Remediation Through Stabilizing Amendments on Taxonomic and Metabolic Patterns of Bacteria and Archaea in Cadmium-Contaminated Paddy Fields in Southwestern China – Yi Chen – bioRxiv

Cas9/CRISPR genome editing to demonstrate the contribution of Cyp51A Gly138Ser to azole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus – Takashi Umeyama – bioRxiv

Short-term microbial effects of a large-scale mine-tailing storage facility collapse on the local natural environment – Heath W. Garris –  PLOS One

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Effect of the natural arsenic gradient on the diversity and arsenic resistance of bacterial communities of the sediments of Camarones River (Atacama Desert, Chile) – Carla G. Leon – PLOS One

The association of diet, gut microbiota and colorectal cancer: what we eat may imply what we get – Jia Yang – Protein & Cell

Marine-influenced microbial communities inhabit terrestrial hot springs on a remote island volcano – Lucy C. Stewart – Extremophiles

Lignite coal burning seam in the remote Altai Mountains harbors a hydrogen-driven thermophilic microbial community – Vitaly V. Kadnikov – Scientific Reports

Effects of Fecal Source Input, Environmental Conditions, and Environmental Sources on Enterococci Concentrations in a Coastal Ecosystem – Derek Rothenheber – bioRxiv

Precipitation of Calcium Carbonate Mineral Induced by Viral Lysis of Cyanobacteria – Hengchao Xu – Biogeosciences

Food microbiology

Probiotic and Technological Properties of Exopolysaccharide Producing Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated from Cereal-based Nigerian Fermented Food Products – A.T. Adesulu-Dahunsi – Food Control

Phages and viruses

Human enteric bacteria and viruses in five wastewater treatment plants in the Eastern Cape, South Africa – Olayinka Osuolale – Journal of Infection and Public Health

Dissecting the herpesvirus architecture by targeted proteolysis – Gina Rose Daniel – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

GET_PHYLOMARKERS, a Software Package to Select Optimal Orthologous Clusters for Phylogenomics and Inferring Pan-Genome Phylogenies, Used for a Critical Geno-Taxonomic Revision of the Genus Stenotrophomonas – Pablo Vinuesa – Frontiers in Microbiology / Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

Bioenergy

Genome-centric metatranscriptomes and ecological roles of the active microbial populations during cellulosic biomass anaerobic digestion – Yangyang Jia – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Meta-proteomic analysis of protein expression distinctive to electricity-generating biofilm communities in air-cathode microbial fuel cells – Jeremy F. Chignell – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Metagenome, metatranscriptome, and metaproteome approaches unraveled compositions and functional relationships of microbial communities residing in biogas plants – Julia Hassa – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Mini Review: New concepts in anaerobic digestion processes: recent advances and biological aspects – Antonio Castellano-Hinojosa – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Genome comparison of different Zymomonas mobilis strains provides insights on conservation of the evolution – Chen Chen – PLOS One

Microbes in the news

Microbes living in a toxic volcanic lake could hold clues to life on Mars

Researchers Finally Figure Out How Vaping Impacts Your Gut Bacteria

Bacteria eat antibiotics, and warn each other of threats

 

May 1, 2018

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A light Digest today with many bioRxiv articles and news pieces. The European Food Safety Authority warns about an emerging fungal pathogen for salamanders, heavy drinking doesn’t bode well for your oral microbiota, and a company is lifting the scientific bar for probiotics.

Jobs

Program Manager, Microbiology – Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – Ewing, NJ

General microbiology

** Risk of survival, establishment and spread of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) in the EU – EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare et al. – EFSA Journal

Preprint: Identification of small regulatory RNAs involved in persister formation – Shanshan Zhang et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Identification of novel genes including rpmF and yjjQ critical for Type II persister formation in Escherichia coli – Shuang Liu et al. – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

Preprint: Neonatal gut-microbiome-derived 12,13 DiHOME impedes tolerance and promotes childhood atopy and asthma – Sophia R Levan et al. – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Preprint: Changes in the gut microbiota and fermentation products associated with enhanced longevity in acarbose-treated mice – Byron J. Smith et al. – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Preprint: To B or not to B: Arsenophonus as a source of B-vitamins in whiteflies – Diego Santos-Garcia et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Preprint: Diversity of Culturable Endophytic bacteria from Wild and Cultivated Rice showed potential Plant Growth Promoting activities – Madhusmita Borah et al. – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

Exogenous acyl-homoserine lactones adjust community structures of bacteria and methanogens to ameliorate the performance of anaerobic granular sludge – Longyi Lv et al. – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Preprint: Parallel Evolution of Key Genomic Features and Cellular Bioenergetics Across the Marine Radiation of a Bacterial Phylum – Eric W Getz et al. – bioRxiv

Technology

Preprint: Genome Wide Identification Of Bacterial Genes Required For Plant Infection By Tn-Seq – Kevin Royet et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Longitudinal tracking of Plasmodium falciparum clones in complex infections by amplicon deep sequencing – Anita Lerch et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Diagnosis of Human Leptospirosis: High Resolution Melting Analysis for Direct Detection of Leptospira in the Early Stage of the Disease in a Clinical Setting – Lisa Marques Esteves et al. – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Does Gut Microbiota Manipulate Our Minds? – Sci-News

Pancreatic Cancer and the Microbiome — In the Clinic – C. Andrew Kistler – Cancer Therapy Advisor

University of Hohenheim to start microbiome research center – Feedstuffs

** Heavy drinking may increase ‘bad’ bacteria in your mouth, study finds – Jason Lemon – Atlanta Journal Constitution

Vapers and non-smokers have the same flourishing gut flora – Science Daily

Drink kills good bacteria, leaving you at the mercy of disease-causing ‘baddies’ – ELIZABETH MERAB – Healthy Nation

Clinical trial offers natural eczema treatment, using good bacteria to fight the bad – EurekAlert

Why some bacteria eat antibiotics and what we can do about it – Maggie Fox – NBC News

Mediterranean diet increases ‘good’ gut bacteria – Honor Whiteman – Medical News Today

Probiotics For Babies And Kids? New Research Explores Good Bacteria – Allison Aubrey – NPR

Microbes on the market

Evogene unit Biomica designs molecules to analyze bacteria – Gali Weinreb – Globes

** Seed could change the $50 billion probiotic market by relying on real science – Erin Brodwin – The Australian Financial Review

Scientific Communication

Preprint: High impact journals in ecology cover proportionally more statistically significant findings – Silvia Ceausu et al. – bioRxiv

April 30, 2018

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Articles from the section ‘Techniques’ are my suggested reads for today’s short digest!

General microbiome

Microbial interactions trigger the production of antibiotics – T Netzker – Current Opinion in Microbiology

 

Human nearly-sterile sites (blood, organs, brain)

Preprint: Transcriptome analysis in whole blood reveals increased microbial diversity in schizophrenia – LMO Loohuis – bioRxiv

 

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effectiveness of bacterial inoculation in alleviation of salinity on water status, mineral content, gas exchange and photosynthetic parameters of Viburnum tinus L. plants – MJ Gómez-Bellot – Scientia Horticulturae

Review: Where are we going with genomics in plant pathogenic bacteria? – J Xu – Genomics

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Preprint: Illuminating microbial metabolic activities in the dark deep ocean with metaproteomics – Z-X Xie – bioRxiv

 

Phages and viruses

Comparison of Staphylococcus Phage K with Close Phage Relatives Commonly Employed in Phage Therapeutics – J Ajuebor – Antibiotics

Techniques

Preprint: DivNet: Estimating diversity in networked communities – AD Willis – bioRxiv

A synthetic bacterial information transfer system functions in the mammalian gut – S Kim – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

A population that pollutes itself into extinction – NY Times

Why veterinarians say you shouldn’t feed your dog raw meat – Western Mass News

Soil protists: a fertile frontier in biology research – OUP Blog

China Industrial Microbiology market Research Report Released with growth, latest trends & forecasts till 2022 – bitzArena

Global Microbiome Therapeutics Market 2018 | Major Companies, Industry Dynamics and Growth Factors 2025 – The Expert Consulting