Library prep technology, skin communities in urban and rural populations, rarity in aquatic microbes, and the microbiome of solar panels.
Pregnancy and birth
The commensal infant gut meta-mobilome as a potential reservoir for persistent multidrug resistance integrons – Anuradha Ravi – Scientific Reports
Associations between human milk oligosaccharides and infant body composition in the first 6 mo of life – Tanya L Alderete – The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Human skin microbiome
The Influence of Age and Gender on Skin-Associated Microbial Communities in Urban and Rural Human Populations – Shi Ying – PLOS ONE
Human respiratory microbiome
Review: A comprehensive review of the nasal microbiome in chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) – Mahboobeh Mahdavinia – Clinical & Experimental Allergy
Human gut microbiome
Lactobacillus casei Shirota Supplementation Does Not Restore Gut Microbiota Composition and Gut Barrier in Metabolic Syndrome: A Randomized Pilot Study – Vanessa Stadlbauer – PLOS ONE
DGGE: The duodenal microbiota composition in children with active coeliac disease is influenced for the degree of enteropathy – F. Girón Fernández-Crehuet – Anales de Pediatría (English Edition)
Review: The microbiome and its pharmacological targets: therapeutic avenues in cardiometabolic diseases – Ana Luisa Neves – Current Opinion in Pharmacology
Review: Microbiome impact on metabolism and function of sex, thyroid,
growth and parathyroid hormones – Michał Kunc – Acta Biochimica Polonica
Review: Intestinal Microbiota: From Inflammatory Bowel Disease to Bone Marrow Transplantation – Ernst Holler – Blood
Review: Dysbiotic gut microbiome: A key element of Crohn’s disease – Styrk Furnes Øyri – Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Infection microbiology
Serum bacterial DNA detection in patients with cholangitis after Kasai procedure – Qianfu Luo – Pediatrics International
Deceiving title (not about microbiome but infection): Breast Implant–Associated Infections: The Role of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program and the Local Microbiome – Cohen, Justin B. – Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Influence of microbiome species in hard-to-heal wounds on disease severity and treatment duration – Dagmar Chudobova – The Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Animal and bioreactor models
The gut microbiota plays a protective role in the host defence against pneumococcal pneumonia – Tim J Schuijt – Gut
In mice: The Intestinal Microbiota Contributes to the Ability of Helminths to Modulate Allergic Inflammation – Mario M. Zaiss – Cell
Normalization of Host Intestinal Mucus Layers Requires Long-Term Microbial Colonization – Malin E.V. Johansson – Cell Host & Microbe
Microbiota-Dependent Hepatic Lipogenesis Mediated by Stearoyl CoA Desaturase 1 (SCD1) Promotes Metabolic Syndrome in TLR5-Deficient Mice – Vishal Singh – Cell Metabolism
Influences of graphene on microbial community and antibiotic resistance genes in mouse gut as determined by high-throughput sequencing – Yongchao Xie – Chemosphere
The longitudinal effect of a multi-strain probiotic on the intestinal bacterial microbiota of neonatal foals – A. Schoster – Equine Veterinary Journal
A longitudinal assessment of changes in bacterial community composition associated with the development of periodontal disease in dogs – Corrin Wallis – Veterinary Microbiology
Assessment of prebiotic potential of Akpan-yoghurt-like product and effects on the human intestinal microbiota – Beatriz Gullón – Journal of Functional Foods
Relationship between inflammation, the gut microbiota, and metabolic osteoarthritis development: studies in a rat model – K.H. Collins – Osteoarthritis and Cartilage
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Long-term reactive nitrogen loading alters soil carbon and microbial community properties in a subalpine forest ecosystem – Claudia M. Boot – Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi stabilize litter-derived carbon in soil? – Erik Verbruggen – Journal of Ecology
Editorial: Does Microbial Diversity Confound General Predictions? – Marie Duhamel – Trends in Plant Science
Water microbiome
Review: Rarity in aquatic microbes: placing protists on the map – Ramiro Logares – Research in Microbiology
Waste microbiology
Functional responses and adaptation of mesophilic microbial communities to psychrophilic anaerobic digestion – Eoin Gunnigle – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
An ‘omics’ approach towards the characterisation of laboratory scale anaerobic digesters treating municipal sewage sludge – D.J. Beale – Water Research
Extremophile microbiome
Functional analysis of the archaea, bacteria, and viruses from a halite endolithic microbial community – Alexander Crits-Christoph – BioRxiv
A highly diverse, desert-like microbial biocenosis on solar panels in a Mediterranean city – Pedro Dorado-Morales – BioRxiv
Food microbiology
Microbial community dynamics in thermophilic undefined milk starter cultures – Eugenio Parente – International Journal of Food Microbiology
Metagenomics and bioinformatics
ARK: Aggregation of Reads by K-Means for Estimation of Bacterial Community Composition – David Koslicki – PLOS ONE
Linear-time superbubble identification algorithm for genome assembly – Ljiljana Brankovic – Theoretical Computer Science
Bifidobacteria exhibit social behavior through carbohydrate resource sharing in the gut – Christian Milani – Scientific Reports
Power law analysis of the human microbiome – Zhanshan (Sam) Ma – Molecular Ecology
More microbiology
Bioactive natural products from novel microbial sources – Victoria L. Challinor – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Conference report: Bacterial Networks in Cells and Communities – Victor Sourjik – Journal of Molecular Biology
Self-establishing communities enable cooperative metabolite exchange in a eukaryote – Kate Campbell – eLife
Techniques
Library preparation methodology can influence genomic and functional predictions in human microbiome research – Marcus B. Jones – PNAS
Microbes in the news
Scientists Urge National Initiative on Microbiomes – Carl Zimmer – New York Times
Fecal transplant pills: Large-scale production begins: Nonprofit stool bank launched by MIT researchers completes first dose-finding study – GlobeNewsWire
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