Category Archives: Phages and viruses

November 15, 2018

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Here’s your Thursday Digest. Highlights include a photo competition to showcase your research, Titanium ion enhancing fresh flower longevity, and an update on the UNITE database for fungal classification.

Event

** BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition – deadline tomorrow, November 16.

General microbiology

Review: The birth, evolution and death of metabolic gene clusters in fungi – Antonis Rokas et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Considerations When Designing a Microbiome Study: Implications for Nursing Science – Katherine A. Maki et al. – Biological Research For Nursing

Review: Probiotics in human health and disease: from nutribiotics to pharmabiotics – Eun-Sook Lee et al. – Journal of Microbiology

Antimicrobial resistance

Review: Genome-based prediction of bacterial antibiotic resistance – Michelle Su et al. – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Colonization of Cutibacterium avidum during infant gut microbiota establishment – Vanesa Natalin Rocha Martin et al. – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Human skin microbiome

The proteomic and metabolomic characterization of exercise-induced sweat for human performance monitoring: A pilot investigation – Sean W. Harshman et al. – PLoS One

Human oral microbiome

In vitro: The effect of the stress hormone cortisol on the metatranscriptome of the oral microbiome – Ana E. Duran-Pinedo et al. – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Human gut microbiome

Alterations of fecal bacterial communities in patients with lung cancer – Wei-Quan Zhang et al. – American Journal of Translational Research

Temporal Variability of Escherichia coli Diversity in the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Tanzanian Children with and without Exposure to Antibiotics – Taylor K. S. Richter et al. – mSphere

Review: An insight into the intestinal web of mucosal immunity, microbiota, ​and diet and their role in inflammation and infection – Eliana Marino & Yu Anne Yap – Frontiers in Immunology

Human multisite microbiome

Determinants of the urinary and serum metabolome in children from six European populations – Chung-Ho E. Lau et al. – BMC Medicine

Human gut-microbiome-brain axis

Alteration of gut microbiota-associated epitopes in children with autism spectrum disorders – Mingbang Wang et al. – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Metabolomics

Metabolomic biomarkers and novel dietary factors associated with gestational diabetes in China – Xuyang Chen et al. – Metabolomics

Animal experiments

An Interleukin-23-Interleukin-22 Axis Regulates Intestinal Microbial Homeostasis to Protect from Diet-Induced Atherosclerosis – Aliia R. Fatkhullina et al. – Immunity

Gut microbiota dysbiosis correlates with a low-dose PCB126-induced dyslipidemia and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease – Yulang Chi et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Animal microbiome

The Cloacal Microbiome of Five Wild Duck Species Varies by Species and Influenza A Virus Infection Status – Sarah M. Hird et al. – mSphere

Milk Metabolomics Data Reveal the Energy Balance of Individual Dairy Cows in Early Lactation – Wei Xu et al. – Scientific Reports

Food microbiome

An integrated metagenomic/metaproteomic investigation of microbiota in dajiang-meju, a traditional fermented soybean product in Northeast China – Mengxi Xie et al. – Food Research International

Plant, root and soil microbiome

The ability of plants to produce strigolactones affects rhizosphere community composition of fungi but not bacteria – Lilia Costa Carvalhais et al. – Rhizosphere

Root exudates induce soil macroaggregation facilitated by fungi in subsoil – Vera L. Baumert et al. – Frontiers in Environmental Science

Long-term combined application of manure and chemical fertilizer sustained higher nutrient status and rhizospheric bacterial diversity in reddish paddy soil of Central South China – Xinwei Cui et al. – Scientific Reports

** Titanium Ions Inhibit the Bacteria in Vase Solutions of Freshly Cut Gerbera jamesonii and Extend the Flower Longevity – Cai-Xia Li et al. – Microbial Ecology

Ectomycorrhizal fungi inoculation alleviates simulated acid rain effects on soil ammonia oxidizers and denitrifiers in Masson pine forest – Yan Li et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Compounded disturbance chronology modulates the resilience of soil microbial communities and N-cycle related functions – Kadiya Calderón et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Long-term elevated CO2 shifts composition of soil microbial communities in a Californian annual grassland, reducing growth and N utilization potentials – Sihang Yang et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Silver Toxicity Thresholds for Multiple Soil Microbial Biomarkers – Sotirios Vasileiadis et al. – Environmental Science & Technology

Ectomycorrhizal fungal communities and their functional traits mediate plant-soil interactions in trace element contaminated soils – Marta Gil-Martínez et al. – Frontiers in Plant Science

Modulation of litter decomposition by the soil microbial food web under influence of land use change – Amber Heijboer et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Response and recovery of microbial communities subjected to oxidative and biological treatments of 1,4-dioxane and co-contaminants – Yu Miao et al. – Water Research

In situ real-time quantification of microbial communities: Applications to cold and dry volcanic habitats – Linda S.Powers et al. – Global Ecology and Conservation

Long-term investigation of microbial community composition and transcription patterns in a biogas plant undergoing ammonia crisis – Martin Alexander Fischer et al. – Microbial Biotechnology

Importance of soil texture to the fate of pathogens introduced by irrigation with treated wastewater – Olabiyi Obayomi et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Active pathways of anaerobic methane oxidation across contrasting riverbeds – Li-dong Shen et al. – The ISME Journal

Drying and rainfall shape the structure and functioning of nitrifying microbial communities in riverbed sediments – Maria Isabel Arce et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbes in space

Inner Workings: Hunting for microbial life throughout the solar system – Adam Mann – PNAS

Confirmation of Microbial Ingress from Space – N. C. Wickramasinghe et al. – Advances in Astrophysics

Phages and viruses

Review: Targeting mechanisms of tailed bacteriophages – Franklin L. Nobrega et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Viral diversity of Rhipicephalus microplus parasitizing cattle in southern Brazil – William Marciel de Souza et al. – Scientific Reports

Review: Respiratory Viral Infection-induced Microbiome Alterations and Secondary Bacterial Pneumonia – Shigeo Hanada et al. – Frontiers in Immunology

Technology

Review: Model Microbial Consortia as Tools for Understanding Complex Microbial Communities – Haruta, Shin & Yamamoto, Kyosuke – Current Genomics

Re-purposing 16S rRNA gene sequence data from within case paired tumor biopsy and tumor-adjacent biopsy or fecal samples to identify microbial markers for colorectal cancer – Manasi S. Shah et al. – PLoS One

Bioinformatics

** The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi: handling dark taxa and parallel taxonomic classifications – Rolf Henrik Nilsson et al. – Nucleic Acids Research

Bioinformatics tools to assess metagenomic data for applied microbiology – Otávio G. G. Almeida & Elaine C. P. De Martinis – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Pan-genomic analysis provides novel insights into the association of E. coli with human host and its minimal genome – Zhi-Kai Yang et al. – Bioinformatics

Microbes in the news

You Are What Your Bacteria Eat – Patricia Conway & Jorgen Schlundt – Innovation Magazine

November 14, 2018

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Today’s digest is about how dietary shifts and low gluten diet changes the intestinal microbiome, fecal microbiota transplant in intestinal disorders, characterization of the most abundant bacteriophage family in the human gut, and Raman spectroscopy based method for fast identification of antibiotic resistance bugs.

Human gut microbiome

Fecal microbiota transplantation for refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated colitis – Yinghong Wang – Nature Medicine

A low-gluten diet induces changes in the intestinal microbiome of healthy Danish adults – Lea BS Hansen – Nature Communications

Resilience of human gut microbial communities for the long stay with multiple dietary shifts – Hong Liu – Gut

Microbiome and its relation to gestational diabetes – Ramon V. Cortez – Endocrine

Effect of bifidobacterium breve A-1 on anxiety and depressive symptoms in schizophrenia: A proof-of-concept study – Ryo Okubo – Journal of Affective Disorders

Fecal Akkermansia muciniphila Is Associated with Body Composition and Microbiota Diversity in Overweight and Obese Women with Breast Cancer Participating in a Presurgical Weight Loss Trial – Andrew D Fruge – Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

An Open-Labeled Study on Fecal Microbiota Transfer in Irritable Bowel Syndrome Patients Reveals Improvement in Abdominal Pain Associated with the Relative Abundance of Akkermansia Muciniphila – Cruz-Aguliar RM – Digestion

Animal experiments

Berberine alleviates insulin resistance by reducing peripheral branched-chain amino acids – Shi-Jun Yue – American Journal of Physiology Endocrinology and Metabolism

Air microbiome

A long-term survey unveils strong seasonal patterns in the airborne microbiome coupled to general and regional atmospheric circulations – Joan Cáliz – PNAS

Phages and viruses

ΦCrAss001 represents the most abundant bacteriophage family in the human gut and infects Bacteroides intestinalis – Andrey N Shkoporov – Nature Communications

Techniques

Quantifying and comparing bacterial growth dynamics in multiple metagenomic samples – Yuan Gao – Nature Methods

Dynamic linear models guide design and analysis of microbiota studies within artificial human guts – Justin D Silverman – Microbiome

Microbes in the news

Chinese scientists develop novel instrument for rapid profiling of antimicrobial resistance – EurekaAlert

Microbes on the market

Chr. Hansen Receives Joint Innovation Fund Grant to Develop Next Generation Microbial Solutions for Agriculture – Microbiome times

Non-microbiology picks

Remission of Human Type 2 Diabetes Requires Decrease in Liver and Pancreas Fat Content but Is Dependent upon Capacity for β Cell Recovery – Roy Taylor – Cell Metabolism

 

November 7, 2018

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There’s lots of new work to catch up on! Some highlights include the skin virome in patients with immune deficiency, a mechanism for host-microbe mutualism in zebrafish, ecological pressures in soil that lead to smaller genomes, and a book chapter about the future of microbial forensics.

General Microbiome
Genotype to phenotype: Diet-by-mitochondrial DNA haplotype interactions drive metabolic flexibility and organismal fitness – Wen C. Aw – PLOS Genetics

Antifungal immune responses: emerging host–pathogen interactions and translational implications – Vinod Kumar – Genome Medicine

Pregnancy and early life
Childhood Adversity Impact on Gut Microbiota and Inflammatory Response to Stress During Pregnancy. – Liisa Hantsoo – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Enabling precision medicine in neonatology, an integrated repository for preterm birth research – Marina Sirota – Scientific Data

Associations of birth mode with cord blood cytokines, white blood cells, and newborn intestinal bifidobacteria – Isabel Cristina Ribas Werlang – PLOS One

HPV infection and bacterial microbiota in breast milk and infant oral mucosa – Heidi Tuominen – PLOS One

Human skin microbiome
Expanded skin virome in DOCK8-deficient patients – Osnat Tirosh – Nature Medicine

Microbiological Profile of Sarecycline: A Novel Targeted Spectrum Tetracycline for the Treatment of Acne Vulgaris – George Zhanel – Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Human vaginal microbiome
Preprint: Glycan cross-feeding drives mutualism between Fusobacterium and the vaginal microbiota – Kavita Agarwal – bioRxiv

Human multi-site microbiome
The altered human serum metabolome induced by a marathon – Zinandré Stander – Metabolomics

The unsolved problem of otitis media in indigenous populations: a systematic review of upper respiratory and middle ear microbiology in indigenous children with otitis media
Andrea Coleman
Microbiome

Human gut microbiome
An exploration of Prevotella-rich microbiomes in HIV and men who have sex with men – Abigail J. S. Armstrong – Microbiome

Safety and preliminary efficacy of orally administered lyophilized fecal microbiota product compared with frozen product given by enema for recurrent Clostridium difficile infection: A randomized clinical trial – Zhi-Dong Jiang – PLOS One

The long term effect of metabolic profile and microbiota status in early gastric cancer patients after subtotal gastrectomy – Xi-Hsuan Lin – PLOS One

Animal experiments
A bacterial immunomodulatory protein with lipocalin-like domains facilitates host–bacteria mutualism in larval zebrafish – Annah S Rolig – eLife

Gut microbiota and intestinal FXR mediate the clinical benefits of metformin – Lulu Sun – Nature Medicine

Interactions between Roseburia intestinalis and diet modulate atherogenesis in a murine model – Kazuyuki Kasahara – Nature Microbiology

Enteric infection coupled with chronic Notch pathway inhibition alters colonic mucus composition leading to dysbiosis, barrier disruption and colitis – Ishfaq Ahmed – PLOS One

Toxoplasma gondii infection triggers chronic cachexia and sustained commensal dysbiosis in mice – Jessica A. Hatter – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Ecological selection for small microbial genomes along a temperate-to-thermal soil gradient – Jackson W. Sorensen – Nature Microbiology

Decomposition responses to climate depend on microbial community composition -Sydney I. Glassman – PNAS

The nanotechnology among US: are metal and metal oxides nanoparticles a nano or mega risk for soil microbial communities? – J. Parada – Critical Reviews in Biotechnology

Water and extremophile microbiome
Diversity and Coding Potential of the Microbiota in the Photic and Aphotic Zones of Tropical Man-Made Lake with Intensive Aquaculture Activities: a Case Study on Temengor Lake, Malaysia. – Nyok-Sean Lau – Microbial Ecology

Quantifying the changes in genetic diversity within sequence-discrete bacterial populations across a spatial and temporal riverine gradient – Alexandra Meziti – The ISME Journal

Probiotics
Anti-diabetic effects of Lactobacillus casei fermented-yogurt through re-shaping gut microbiota structure in type 2 diabetic rats – Ling Qu – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Probiotics-fermented Massa Medicata Fermentata ameliorates weaning stress in piglets related to improving intestinal homeostasis – Yanbo Wang – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Techniques
Impact of DNA extraction method and targeted 16S-rRNA hypervariable region on oral microbiota profiling – Fei Teng – Scientific Reports

Science career/training and publishing
Preprint: The CURE for Culturing Fastidious Microbes – Arundhati Bakshi – bioRxiv

Meeting Report: Current progress and future opportunities in applications of bioinformatics for biodefense and pathogen detection: report from the Winter Mid-Atlantic Microbiome Meet-up, College Park, MD, January 10, 2018. – Jacquelyn S. Meisel -Microbiome

In win for open access, two major funders won’t cover publishing in hybrid journals

Microbial Forensics
Book Chapter: Unique Individualistic Microflora: The Future of DNA Fingerprinting Technique – Pankaj Shrivastava – DNA Fingerprinting: Advancements and Future Endeavors

Alyson’s non-microbiology picks
Science candidates prevail in US midterm elections

November 2, 2018

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Your Friday Digest features plentiful of soil/plant and gut microbiome papers. Highlights include correlation between infant metabolic functions and diet/gestational weight gain, profiling human gut microbiomes across India, and the absence of a placenta microbiota. There are many other more articles worth reading, enjoy!

General microbiology

Suboptimal community growth mediated through metabolite crossfeeding promotes species diversity in the gut microbiota – Michael A. Henson & Poonam Phalak – PLoS Computational Biology

A cohabiting bacterium alters the spectrum of short RNAs secreted by Escherichia coli – Olga V Alikina et al. – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Pregnancy and early life

Long-lasting effect of oral azithromycin taken by women during labour on infant nutrition: Follow-up cohort of a randomized clinical trial in western Gambia – Anna Roca et al. – PLoS One

** Infant diet and maternal gestational weight gain predict early metabolic maturation of gut microbiomes – Aimee M. Baumann-Dudenhoeffer et al. – Nature Medicine

Antibiotic and acid-suppression medications during early childhood are associated with obesity – Christopher M Stark et al. – Gut

** Lack of detection of a human placenta microbiome in samples from preterm and term deliveries – Jacob S. Leiby et al. – Microbiome

Human oral microbiome

Multi-species oral biofilm promotes reconstructed human gingiva epithelial barrier function – Lin Shang et al. – Scientific Reports

Review: Administration of systemic antibiotics during non-surgical periodontal therapy—a consensus report – B. Pretzl et al. – Clinical Oral Investigations

Human repiratory microbiome

Sputum Microbiome is Associated with 1-Year Mortality Following COPD Hospitalizations – Fernando Sergio Leitao Filho et al. – American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Human gut microbiome

The co-existence of elevated high sensitivity C-reactive protein and homocysteine levels is associated with increased risk of metabolic syndrome: A 6-year follow-up study – Jinkwan Kim & Sangshin Pyo – PLoS One

** LogMPIE, pan-India profiling of the human gut microbiome using 16S rRNA sequencing – Ashok Kumar Dubey et al. – Scientific Data

Association between Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio and Gut Microbiota in a Large Population: a Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study – Hee-Young Yoon et al. – Scientific Reports

Microbial nitrogen limitation in the mammalian large intestine – Aspen T. Reese et al. – Nature Microbiology

Analysis of 1135 gut metagenomes identifies sex-specific resistome profiles – Trishla Sinha et al. – Gut Microbes

Anti-Inflammatory Activities of Pentaherbs formula and Its Influence on Gut Microbiota in Allergic Asthma – Miranda Sin-Man Tsang et al. – Molecules

Identification of TMAO-producer phenotype and host–diet–gut dysbiosis by carnitine challenge test in human and germ-free mice – Wei-Kai Wu et al. – Gut

Campylobacter jejuni promotes colorectal tumorigenesis through the action of cytolethal distending toxin – Zhen He et al. – Gut

Distinct microbes, metabolites, and ecologies define the microbiome in deficient and proficient mismatch repair colorectal cancers – Vanessa L. Hale et al. – Genome Medicine

Comment: Targeting the microbiome: from probiotics to fecal microbiota transplantation – Alexander Khoruts – Genome Medicine

Human vaginal microbiome

Review: Endometrial microbes and microbiome: Recent insights on the inflammatory and immune “players” of the human endometrium – Silvia D’Ippolito et al. – American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Animal experiments

Effect of dietary fiber content on nutrient digestibility and fecal microbiota composition in growing-finishing pigs – Mathilde Le Sciellour et al. – PLoS One

Effects of ultraviolet radiation and nutrient level on the physiological response and organic matter release of the scleractinian coral Pocillopora damicornis following thermal stress – Lucile Courtial et al. – PLoS One

Dog: Balance of saccharolysis and proteolysis underpins improvements in stool quality induced by adding a fiber bundle containing bound polyphenols to either hydrolyzed meat or grain-rich foods – Matthew I. Jackson & Dennis E. Jewell – Gut Microbes

Ventilator-induced lung injury is aggravated by antibiotic mediated microbiota depletion in mice – Sandra-Maria Wienhold & Mario Macrì et al. – Critical Care

Mouse: Dioxin-like PCB 126 increases intestinal inflammation and disrupts gut microbiota and metabolic homeostasis – Michael C. Petriello et al. – Environmental Pollution

Review: Innate Immune Influences on the Gut Microbiome: Lessons from Mouse Models – Susan J. Robertson et al. – Trends in Immunology

Animal microbiome

Milk microbiome diversity and bacterial group prevalence in a comparison between healthy Holstein Friesian and Rendena cows – Paola Cremonesi & Camilla Ceccarani et al. – PLoS One

Comparing the bacterial communities of wild and captive golden mantella frogs: Implications for amphibian conservation – Luiza F. Passos et al. – PLoS One

Insect anal droplets contain diverse proteins related to gut homeostasis – Tianzhong Jing et al. – BMC Genomics

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Putative Nitrogen-fixing bacteria Associated with The Rhizosphere and Root Endosphere of wheat plants grown in an Andisol from southern Chile – Joaquin I. Rilling et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Land-use intensity rather than plant functional identity shapes bacterial and fungal rhizosphere communities – Ricardo Schöps et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial expression profiles in the rhizosphere of two maize lines differing in N use efficiency – Shamina Imran Pathan et al. – Plant and Soil

The rhizosphere of the halophytic grass Sporobolus robustus Kunth hosts rhizobium genospecies that are efficient on Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC and Vachellia seyal (Del.) P.J.H. Hurter seedlings – Fatoumata Fall et al. – Systematic and Applied Microbiology

Rhizosphere responses to environmental conditions in Radix pseudostellariae under continuous monoculture regimes – Hongmiao Wu et al. – Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Plant-microbe interactions endorse growth by uplifting microbial community structure of Bacopa monnieri rhizosphere under nematode stress – Rupali Gupta et al. – Microbiological Research

Review: Multifaceted interactions between endophytes and plant: Developments and Prospects – Naveen K. Arora et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Enhancing phytoextraction of HMs at real scale, by combining Salicaceae Trees with microbial consortia – CARMINE GUARINO et al. – Frontiers in Environmental Science

PhD Dissertation: Implications of land-use legacy on soil microbiomes of urban grasslands – Grant Lafayette Thompson – Cornell University

Body size determines soil community assembly in a tropical forest – Lucie Zinger et al. Molecular Ecology

Existing Climate Change Will Lead to Pronounced Shifts in the Diversity of Soil Prokaryotes – Joshua Ladau et al. – mSystems

Water and extremophile microbiome

Microbial diversity and antibiotic resistance in a final effluent-receiving lake – Kinga Bondarczuk & Zofia Piotrowska-Seget – Science of The Total Environment

Non‐random processes determine the colonization of groundwater sediments by microbial communities in a pristine porous aquifer – Lucas Fillinger et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Food microbiome

Changes of microbial community and metabolite in kimchi inoculated with different microbial community starters – Seong-Eun Park et al. – Food Chemistry

Phages and viruses

Quality control implementation for universal characterization of DNA and RNA viruses in clinical respiratory samples using single metagenomic next-generation sequencing workflow – A. Bal et al. – BMC Infectious Diseases

Technology

A high-throughput sequencing assay to comprehensively detect and characterize unicellular eukaryotes and helminths from biological and environmental samples – Matthew V. Cannon et al. – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

RefSeq database growth influences the accuracy of k-mer-based lowest common ancestor species identification – Daniel J. Nasko et al. – Genome Biology

* Species-level functional profiling of metagenomes and metatranscriptomes – Eric A. Franzosa et al. – Nature Methods

Striped UniFrac: enabling microbiome analysis at unprecedented scale – Daniel McDonald et al. – Nature Methods

Mechanistic microbiota models – Tal Nawy – Nature Methods

Microbes in the news

Club STEAM Powered students study bacteria, genetics – Cassie Gibb – The Southeast Sun

Media alert: New articles in The CRISPR Journal – MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC. – EurekAlert!

Electric shocks kill bacteria – Vienna University of Technology – PHYS.org

The Mad Science of Fermentation’s Funky Flavors – Joe Ray – Wired

How Nuclear Testing Transformed the Land in Nevada and New Mexico – Kealey Boyd – Hyperallergic

October 28, 2018

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Featured today: Social & population health science approaches towards human microbiome; sinus microbiome; gut microbiota-dietary phytoestrogen relationship in captive rhinos; halophytes- soil microbiome link in the river delta; microbial shift in bioreactor during methanogenesis; gut bacterium of fruit fly alters locomotory activity by one of its isomerases.

General microbiome

Review: Feather degradation by keratinolytic bacteria and biofertilizing potential for sustainable agricultural production – K. Tamreihao – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Social and population health science approaches to understand the human microbiome – Pamela Herd – Nature Human Behaviour

Human respiratory microbiome

The effect of maxillary sinus antrostomy size on the sinus microbiome – Alexander S. Kim BSE – International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology

Human oral microbiome

Parvimonas micra stimulates expression of gingipains from Porphyromonas gingivalis in multi-species communities – Jessica Neilands – Anaerobe

Human gut microbiome

Microbiota stability in healthy individuals after single-dose lactulose challenge—A randomized controlled study – Sandra Y. Wotzka – PLoS One

Timing for the second fecal microbiota transplantation to maintain the long-term benefit from the first treatment for Crohn’s disease – Pan Li – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Spatial and Temporal Analysis of the Stomach and Small Intestinal Microbiota in Fasted Healthy Humans – Anna Seekatz – bioRxiv

Prospective Study of Oral Microbiome and Colorectal Cancer Risk in Low‐income and African American Populations – Yaohua Yang – International Journal of Cancer

Distinct mucosal microbial communities in infants with surgical necrotizing enterocolitis correlate with age and antibiotic exposure – Joann Romano-Keeler – PLoS One

Animal experiments 

Effects of water decontamination methods and bedding material on the gut microbiota – Willie A. Bidot – PLoS One

The Oral Microbiota Is Modified by Systemic Diseases – DT Graves – Journal of Dental Research

Gut microbiome disruption altered the biotransformation and liver toxicity of arsenic in mice – Liang Chi – Archives of Toxicology

Salmonella shedding status of the sow affects the microbiota of their piglets at weaning – Guillaume Larrivière‐Gauthier – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Mixture of Two Lactobacillus plantarum Strains Modulates the Gut Microbiota Structure and Regulatory T Cell Response in Diet‐Induced Obese Mice – Jieun Lee – Molecular Nutrition and Food Research

Animal microbiome 

Habitat-specific variation in gut microbial communities and pathogen prevalence in bumblebee queens (Bombus terrestris) – L Bosmans – PLoS One

Influence of midgut microbiota in Anopheles stephensi on Plasmodium berghei infections – Devaiah Monnanda Kalappa – Malaria Journal

Host blood meal source has a strong impact on gut microbiota of Aedes aegypti – Ephantus J Muturi – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Gut microbiota and phytoestrogen-associated infertility in southern white rhinoceros – Candace L Williams – bioRxiv

Phenotypic characterization and whole genome analysis of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing bacteria isolated from dogs in Germany – Tim Boehmer – PLoS One

Proteome and microbiota analysis reveals alterations of liver-gut axis under different stocking density of Peking ducks – Yuqin Wu – PLoS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Oxygen loss from seagrass roots coincides with colonisation of sulphide-oxidising cable bacteria and reduces sulphide stress – Belinda C. Martin – The ISME Journal

Coastal halophytes alter properties and microbial community structure of the saline soils in the Yellow River Delta, China – Changliang Jing – Applied Soil Ecology

Enumeration, Antagonism and Enzymatic Activities of Microorganisms Isolated from Railway Station Soil – Megha Sharma – bioRxiv

Bacterial survival strategies in an alkaline tailing site and the physiological mechanisms of dominant phylotypes as revealed by metagenomic analyses – Weimen Sun – Environmental Science & Technology

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Assessment of Anthropogenic Influence on Antarctic Mycobiota in Areas of Russian Polar Stations – I. Yu. Kirtsideli – Contemporary Problems of Ecology

Built environment 

Simulation of in situ oil reservoir conditions in a laboratory bioreactor testing for methanogenic conversion of crude oil and analysis of the microbial community – Dan Xu – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Phages and viruses

Bacteriophages shift the focus of the mammalian microbiota – Breck A. Duerkop – PLoS Pathogens

Virome Analysis Reveals No Association of Head and Neck Vascular Anomalies with an Active Viral Infection – Nora Franke – In Vivo

Bacteriophages dynamically modulate the gut microbiota and metabolome – Bryan B. Hsu – bioRxiv

Techniques

Rapid differentiation of Lactobacillus species via metabolic profiling – Kundi Yang – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Modelling the role of microbial p-cresol in colorectal genotoxicity – Eiman Abdulla Al Hinai – Gut Microbes

Microbes in the news

Gut microbes alter the walking activity of fruit flies – Nature

October 27, 2018

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Have a good weekend!

Today, in this Digest we have a good amount of articles, including: a study showing the importance of the gut microbiota in the development of thrombosis; the effect of a probiotic on patients with coronary artery disease; a study about vaginal microbiota and menopause; a study gaining insights about the natural microbiota transmission;  associations between microbiota and exercise, and more!

 

Gut Microbiome

Microbial Transplantation With Human Gut Commensals Containing CutC Is Sufficient to Transmit Enhanced Platelet Reactivity and Thrombosis Potential – Sarah M. Skye  – Circulation Research. Comment about this paper in the Editorial: Microbiota-Derived Trimethylamine, The Missing Jigsaw Piece in Thrombosis? – Klytaimnistra Kiouptsi

Gut microbiome and type 2 diabetes: where we are and where to go? – Sapna Sharma – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

The gut microbiome of Mexican children affected by obesity – Otoniel Maya-Lucas – Anaerobe

Endurance exercise and gut microbiota: A review – Núria Mach – Journal of Sport and Health Science

Fecal microbiota transplantation confers beneficial metabolic effects of diet and exercise on diet-induced obese mice – Zi-Lun Lai – Scientific Reports

Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality – Chanavuth Kanitsoraphan – Current Nutrition Reports

A comprehensive analysis of the faecal microbiome and metabolome of Strongyloides stercoralis infected volunteers from a non-endemic area – Timothy P. Jenkins – Scientific Reports

Clostridioides difficile uses amino acids associated with gut microbial dysbiosis in a subset of patients with diarrhea – Eric J. Battaglioli – Science Translational Medicine

Opportunistic bacteria confer the ability to ferment prebiotic starch in the adult cystic fibrosis gut – Yanan Wang – Gut Microbes

Towards an Individualized Nutrition Treatment: Role of the Gastrointestinal Microbiome in the Interplay Between Diet and Obesity – Solveig A. Adalsteinsdottir – Current Obesity Reports

Increasing Dietary Fiber Intake Is Associated with a Distinct Esophageal Microbiome – Yael R. Nobel – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Clostridial Butyrate Biosynthesis Enzymes Are Significantly Depleted in the Gut Microbiota of Nonobese Diabetic Mice – Alessandro Tanca – mSphere

Modelling the role of microbial p-cresol in colorectal genotoxicity – Eiman Abdulla Al Hinai – Gut Microbes

Diet and Psychosis: A Scoping Review – M. Aucoin – Neuropsychobiology

Minireview: Inflammation and Gut-Brain Axis During Type 2 Diabetes: Focus on the Crosstalk Between Intestinal Immune Cells and Enteric Nervous System – Arnaud Bessac – Frontiers in Neuroscience

Effects of water decontamination methods and bedding material on the gut microbiota – Willie A. Bidot – PLOS One

Timing for the second fecal microbiota transplantation to maintain the long-term benefit from the first treatment for Crohn’s disease – Pan Li – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Gut microbiome disruption altered the biotransformation and liver toxicity of arsenic in mice – Liang Chi – Archives of Toxicology

 

Early Life Microbiome

Gut Microbiota in the First 2 Years of Life and the Association with Body Mass Index at Age 12 in a Norwegian Birth Cohort – Maggie A. Stanislawski – mBio

Differences in the fecal microbiota of neonates born at home or in the hospital – Joan L. Combellick – Scientific Reports

Distinct mucosal microbial communities in infants with surgical necrotizing enterocolitis correlate with age and antibiotic exposure – Joann Romano-Keeler – PLOS One

 

Oral, Nasal and Respiratory Tract Microbiome

Keystone Species in Pregnancy Gingivitis: A Snapshot of Oral Microbiome During Pregnancy and Postpartum Period – Preethi Balan – Frontiers in Microbiology

The Oral Microbiota Is Modified by Systemic Diseases – D.T. Graves – Journal of Dental Research

Prospective Study of Oral Microbiome and Colorectal Cancer Risk in Low-income and African American Populations – Yaohua Yang – International Journal of Cancer

Species-level bacterial community profiling of the healthy sinonasal microbiome using Pacific Biosciences sequencing of full-length 16S rRNA genes – Joshua P. Earl – Microbiome

The effect of maxillary sinus antrostomy size on the sinus microbiome – Alexander S. Kim – International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology

Microbiome dataset from the upper respiratory tract of patients living with HIV, HIV/TB and TB from Myanmar – Kyaw Soe Htun – Data in Brief

Variations of the lung microbiome and immune response in mechanically ventilated surgical patients – Ryan M. Huebinger – PLOS One

Root Microbiota in Primary and Secondary Apical Periodontitis – Serge Bouillaguet – Frontiers in Microbiology

 

Reproductive / Urinary Tract Microbiome and Health

Association between the vaginal microbiota, menopause status, and signs of vulvovaginal atrophy – Rebecca M. Brotman – Menopause

Association of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease with Risk of Endometriosis: A Nationwide Cohort Study Involving 141,460 Individuals – Fei-Wu Tai – Journal of Clinical Medicine

 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Lactobacillus plantarum 299v Supplementation Improves Vascular Endothelial Function and Reduces Inflammatory Biomarkers in Men With Stable Coronary Artery Disease – Mobin Malik – Circulation Research. About this article: The Microbiome and Endothelial Function – Jhansi L. Leslie 

Probiotics for gastrointestinal and liver diseases: an updated review of the published literature – Francis E. Dailey – Endocrine, Metabolic & Immune Disorders – Drug Targets

Review: Immunological Tolerance and Function: Associations Between Intestinal Bacteria, Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Phages – Luis Vitetta – Frontiers in Immunology

Protective Effect of Pediococcus pentosaceus LI05 Against Clostridium difficile Infection in a Mouse Model – Qiaomai Xu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Mixture of Two Lactobacillus plantarum Strains Modulates the Gut Microbiota Structure and Regulatory T Cell Response in Diet-Induced Obese Mice – Jieun Lee – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Microbiota stability in healthy individuals after single-dose lactulose challenge-A randomized controlled study – Sandra Y. Wotzka – PLOS One

Review: Interactions of Surface Exopolysaccharides From Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus Within the Intestinal Environment – Nuria Castro-Bravo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Rapid differentiation of Lactobacillus species via metabolic profiling – Kundi Yang – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Combining probiotics and an angiotensin-II type 1 receptor blocker has beneficial effects on hepatic fibrogenesis in a rat model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis – Yasuhiko Sawada – Hepatology Research

Antidepressant Effects of Rosemary Extracts Associate With Anti-inflammatory Effect and Rebalance of Gut Microbiota – Ying Guo – Frontiers in Pharmacology

Association of dietary fibre intake and gut microbiota in adults – Daniel Lin – British Journal of Nutrition

Effect of prebiotic and probiotic supplementation on neurodevelopment in preterm very low birth weight infants: findings from a meta-analysis – Ravi Prakash Upadhyay – Pediatric Research

Potential of Maintaining a Healthy Vaginal Environment by Two Lactobacillus Strains Isolated from Cocoa Fermentation – Ana Clara Correia Melgaço – BioMed Research International

Viability of microencapsulated Akkermansia muciniphila and Lactobacillus plantarum during freeze-drying, storage and in vitro simulated upper gastrointestinal tract passage – Martín Sebastián Marcial-Coba – Food & Function

Single probiotic supplement suppresses colitis-associated colorectal tumourigenesis by modulating inflammatory development and microbial homeostasis – Jingjing Rong – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Exploring Effects of Chitosan Oligosaccharides on Mice Gut Microbiota in in vitro Fermentation and Animal Model – Chen Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis of Biofilms of Silver Nanoparticle-Dispersed Silane-Based Coated Carbon Steel Using a Next-Generation Sequencing Technique – Akiko Ogawa – Antibiotics

Formation of silver nanoparticles by human gut microbiota – Naiyi Yin – Science of The Total Environment

 

Skin Microbiome

Effect of an Emollient on the Mycobiome of Atopic Dermatitis Patients – Jyotsna Chandra – Journal of Drugs in Dermatology

 

General Microbiome

Transmission modes of the mammalian gut microbiota – Andrew H. Moeller – Science

Ecologically informed microbial biomarkers and accurate classification of mixed and unmixed samples in an extensive cross-study of human body sites – Janko Tackmann – Microbiome

Repertoire of the gut microbiota from stomach to colon using culturomics and next-generation sequencing – Morgane Mailhe – BMC Microbiology

gcMeta: a Global Catalogue of Metagenomics platform to support the archiving, standardization and analysis of microbiome data – W. Shi – Nucleic Acid Research

Antibiotics and autoimmune and allergy diseases: Causative factor or treatment? – Anna Strzępa – International Immunopharmacology

Pearls: Bacteriophages shift the focus of the mammalian microbiota – Breck A. Duerkop – PLOS Pathogens

 

Environmental Microbiome

Bleaching-Associated Changes in the Microbiome of Large Benthic Foraminifera of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia – Martina Prazeres – Frontiers in Microbiology

October 22, 2018

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Today’s digest features a novel fecal species [Prevotella rara sp. nov.], the virome in feces from healthy children from three Amerindian villages with minimal outside contact, a review of statistical challenges in the design and analysis of longitudinal microbiome studies, and more. Happy reading!

Gut microbiome

*Prevotella rara sp. nov., isolated from human faeces – Boris A. Efimov – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Six-Week Endurance Exercise Alters Gut Metagenome That Is not Reflected in Systemic Metabolism in Over-weight Women – Eveliina Munukka – Frontiers in Microbiology

Association of serum bilirubin in newborns affected by jaundice with gut microbiota dysbiosis – Shaoming Zhou – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Review: Gut-microbiota-on-a-chip: an enabling field for physiological research – Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago – MicroPhysiological Systems

Review: Microbiome and diabetes: Where are we now? – Natalia G. Vallianou – Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice

Oral microbiome

Review: Biology of Oral Streptococci – Jacqueline Abranches – Microbiology Spectrum

Animal and plant microbiome

Review: How Can We Define “Optimal Microbiota?”: A Comparative Review of Structure and Functions of Microbiota of Animals, Fish, and Plants in Agriculture – Wakako Ikeda-Ohtsubo – Frontiers in Nutrition

Water microbiome

Temperature-controlled thermophilic bacterial communities in hot springs of western Sichuan, China – Jie Tang – BMC Microbiology

In situ production of core and intact bacterial and archaeal tetraether lipids in groundwater – Su Ding – Organic Geochemistry

Phages and viruses

*Complex virome in feces from Amerindian children in isolated Amazonian villages – Juliana D. Siqueira – Nature Communications

Bioinformatics

*Preprint Review: Statistical Considerations in the Design and Analysis of Longitudinal Microbiome Studies – Justin D Silverman – bioRxiv

October 19, 2018

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Today’s Digest provides much food for thought. Highlights include how to identify keystone species, a seminal review on the long-term and short-term effects of C-section on mom and child’s health, and a new de novo assembler for short metagenomic reads.

General microbiology

Antibiotic export by efflux pumps affects growth of neighboring bacteria – Xi Wen et al. – Scientific Reports

Proteomic analysis of four Clostridium botulinum strains identifies proteins that link biological responses to proteomic signatures – Brooke L. Deatherage Kaiser et al. – PLoS One

Biodiversity‐function relationships in methanogenic communities – Pawel Sierocinski et al. – Molecular Ecology

Solubilization and degradation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) by naturally occurring facultative anaerobic bacteria – Gathanayana Pathiraja et al. – Science of the Total Environment

An improved neutral community model for temporal observations in microbial communities – Li Jie & Shen Xuzhu – Ecological Modelling

** Identifying Keystone Species In The Microbial Community Based On Cross-sectional Data – Min Li et al. – Current Gene Therapy

Does quorum sensing interference affect the fitness of bacterial pathogens in the real world? – Yiying Liu et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Microbiota and Derived Parameters in Fecal Samples of Infants with Non-IgE Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy under a Restricted Diet – María Díaz et al. – Nutrients

** Review: Short-term and long-term effects of caesarean section on the health of women and children – Jane Sandall et al. – Lancet

Human skin microbiome

The Skin Microbiota in Patients Hospitalized for Cellulitis and Association With Outcome – Duncan R Cranendonk et al. – Clinical Infectious Diseases

Human multi-site microbiome

Continuous Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Pediatric Urology – Douglas W.Storm et al. – Urologic Clinics of North America

Human gut microbiome

Impact of antibiotic use on survival in patients with advanced cancers treated on immune checkpoint inhibitor phase I clinical trials – S Sen et al. – Journal of Experimental Medicine

Review: Visceral pain: gut microbiota, a new hope? – Matteo M Pusceddu & Melanie G Gareau – Journal of Biomedical Science

Review: Vulnerability of long-term care facility residents to Clostridium difficile infection due to microbiome disruptions – Beth Burgwyn Fuchs et al. – Future Microbiology

Fecal Microbiota Transplant for Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Cho, Stanley et al. – Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Transcriptome meta-analysis identifies immune signature comprising of RNA binding proteins in ulcerative colitis patients – Saima Naz et al. – Cellular Immunology

Alterations of Gut Microbiome in the Patients With Severe Fever With Thrombocytopenia Syndrome – Honghai Xu et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Role of Gut Microbiota in the Development and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer – LIN C. et al. – Digestion

Human gut-microbiome-brain axis

A primer on investigating the role of the microbiome in brain and cognitive development – Caroline Kelsey et al. – Developmental Psychology

Animal experiments

Grape polyphenols reduce gut-localized reactive oxygen species associated with the development of metabolic syndrome in mice – Peter Kuhn et al. – PLoS One

Host developmental toxicity of BPA and BPA alternatives is inversely related to microbiota disruption in zebrafish – Tara R Catron et al. – Toxicological Sciences

Liver Injury, Endotoxemia, and Their Relationship to Intestinal Microbiota Composition in Alcohol-Preferring Rats – Brunella Posteraro et al. – Alcoholism Clinical & Experimental Research

Liver tumorigenesis is promoted by a high saturated-fat diet specifically in male mice and is associated with hepatic expression of the proto-oncogene Agap2 and enrichment of the intestinal microbiome with Coprococcus – Kim B Pedersen et al. – Carcinogenesis

Animal microbiome

Host species, pathogens and disease associated with divergent nasal microbial communities in tortoises – Chava L. Weitzman et al. – Royal Society Open Science

Review: Understanding the Milk Microbiota – Stephanie A.Metzger et al. – Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice

Evolution of the nasopharyngeal bacterial microbiota of beef calves from spring processing to 40 days after feedlot arrival – Christopher McMullen et al. – Veterinary Microbiology

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Review: The impact of microbes in the orchestration of plants’ resistance to biotic stress: a disease management approach – Matthew Chekwube Enebe & Olubukola Oluranti Babalola – pplied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Genome and evolution of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Diversispora epigaea (formerly Glomus versiforme) and its bacterial endosymbionts – Xuepeng Sun et al. New Phytologist

Facilitation promotes invasions in plant-associated microbial communities – Wei, Zhong et al. – Ecology Letters

Water and extremophile microbiome

Temperature Controls Crystalline Iron Oxide Utilization by Microbial Communities in Methanic Ferruginous Marine Sediment Incubations – David A. Aromokeye et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial community changes in a glacial-fed Tibetan lake are correlated with glacial melting – Keshao Liu et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Food microbiology

Review: Fermentation trip: amazing microbes, amazing metabolisms – Rong Feng et al. – Annals of Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Complete Genome Sequence of the Model Halovirus PhiH1 (ΦH1) – Mike Dyall-Smith et al. – Genes

Technology

Rapid identification of pathogens from positive blood culture bottles with the MinION nanopore sequencer – Sae Ashikawa et al. – Journal of Medical Microbiology

The use of broad-range bacterial PCR in the diagnosis of infectious diseases: a prospective cohort study – Jan Tkadlec et al. – Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Bioinformatics

BlasterJS: A novel interactive JavaScript visualisation component for BLAST alignment results – Aitor Blanco-Míguez et al. – PLoS One

Review: Integrating–omics data into genome-scale metabolic network models: principles and challenges – Charlotte Ramon et al. – Essays in Biochemistry

** High-quality genome sequences of uncultured microbes by assembly of read clouds – Alex Bishara et al. – Nature Biotechnology

Microbes in the news

Cecilia Jonsson Serenades Sewage Bacteria – Sofia Bergmann – Berlin Art Link

October 10, 2018

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Microbiota conservation and diversity in butterfly species, air and waterborne microbiota of a pharmaceutical plant, the a study on the oral microbiota of rugby players.

General microbiome

Preserving microbial diversity – Maria G Dominguez Bello – Science

Pregnancy and early life

Evaluation of patient- versus provider-collected vaginal swabs for microbiome analysis during pregnancy – Kristine M Wylie – BMC Research Notes

Human skin microbiome

The microbiome of the “sterile” pustules in palmoplantar pustulosis – Kana Masuda-Kuroki – Experimental Dermatology

Human oral microbiome

Oral health and microbiota status in professional rugby players: A case-control study – Matthieu Minty – Journal of Dentistry

Oral Bacteriome Compositions Identified by 16S rRNA Metagenomics in a Randomly Selected “Healthy” Nigerian Male and Female Subjects – Kingsley C Anukam – International Journal of Research and Reports in Dentistry

Human gut microbiome

Review: The Gut-Brain Axis and the Microbiome: Mechanisms and Clinical Implications – Vadim Osadchiy – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Animal experiments

Replication Study: Intestinal inflammation targets cancer-inducing activity of the microbiota – Kathryn Eaton – eLIFE

Animal microbiome

Pre-print: Conserved microbiota among young Heliconius butterfly species – Bas van Schooten – PeerJ

Gastrointestinal Microbial Flora in Wild and Captive Olive Baboons (Papio anubis) – Senelwa Davis Lugano – American Journal of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Rhizosphere microbiome structure alters to enable wilt resistance in tomato – Min-Jung Kwak – Nature Biotechnology

Apple rootstocks of different nitrogen tolerance affect the rhizosphere bacterial community composition – Xiaofen Chai – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Effects of consecutive monoculture of sweet potato on soil bacterial community as determined by pyrosequencing – Huan Li – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Ectomycorrhizal fungi may not act as a barrier inhibiting host plant absorption of heavy metals – Yangze Tang – Chemosphere

Pre-print: Co-occurrence patterns of litter decomposing communities in mangroves indicate a robust community resistant to disturbances – Rodrigo G Taketani – PeerJ

Water and extremophile microbiome

Structure of Microbial Mats in the Mramornaya Bay (Crimea) Coastal Areas – NV Pimenov – Microbiology

Pangenomic comparison of globally distributed Poribacteria associated with sponge hosts and marine particles – Sheila Powell – The ISME Journal

High diversity of thermophilic cyanobacteria in Rupite hot spring identified by microscopy, cultivation, single-cell PCR and amplicon sequencing – Otakar Strunecky – Extremophiles

Built environment

Air and waterborne microbiome of a pharmaceutical plant provide insights on spatiotemporal variations and community resilience after disturbance – Filippo Pacchioni – BMC Microbiology

Food microbiology

Review: The Effect of Gluten-Free Diet on Health and the Gut Microbiota Cannot Be Extrapolated from One Population to Others – Jose F Garcia-Marzcorro – Nutrients

Phages and viruses

Characterization of dog serum virome from Northeastern Brazil – MN Weber – Virology

Bioinformatics

‘NetShift’: a methodology for understanding ‘driver microbes’ from healthy and disease microbiome datasets – Bhusan K Kuntal – The ISME Journal

Techniques

A Simple In Vitro Gut Model for Studying the Interaction between Escherichia coli and the Intestinal Commensal Microbiota in Cecal Mucus – Matthew E Mokszycki – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Science, career, and publishing

Inoculating science against potential pandemics and information hazards – Kevin M Esvelt – PLOS Pathogens

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Pregnancy and early life

Gut Microbiota and Body Weight in School‐Aged Children: The KOALA Birth Cohort Study – Catherine A. Mbakwa – Obesity

Multi-site human microbiome

Grow With the Challenge – Microbial Effects on Epithelial Proliferation, Carcinogenesis, and Cancer Therapy – Jakob von Frieling – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Microbiome dataset from the upper respiratory tract of patients living with HIV, HIV/TB and TB from Myanmar – Kyaw SoeHtuna – Data in Brief

Human skin microbiome

The microbiome of the “sterile” pustules in palmoplantar pustulosis – Kana Masuda‐Kuroki – Experimental Dermatology

Human vaginal microbiome

Evaluation of patient- versus provider-collected vaginal swabs for microbiome analysis during pregnancy – Kristine M. Wylie – BMC Research Notes

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Animal experiments

Protective effects of a triple-fermented barley extract (FBe) against HCl/EtOH-induced gastric mucosa damage in mice – Jong‐Min Lim – Food Science & Nutrition

Guarana (Paullinia cupana Mart.) alters gut microbiota and modulates redox status, partially via caffeine in Wistar rats – Alexandre Kleber Silveira – Phytotherapy Research

Gut microbiota–dependent modulation of innate immunity and lymph node remodeling affects cardiac allograft outcomes – Jonathan S. Bromberg – JCI Insight

Prokaryotic communities of Indo-Pacific giant barrel sponges are more strongly influenced by geography than host phylogeny – T Swierts – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

In vitro experiments

A Simple In Vitro Gut Model for Studying the Interaction between Escherichia coli and the Intestinal Commensal Microbiota in Cecal Mucus – Matthew E Mokszycki – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Tissue-specific immune responses to Vibrio sp. infection in mussels (Perna canaliculus): A metabolomics approach – Thao V. Nguyen – Aquaculture

Conserved microbiota among young Heliconius butterfly species – Bas van Schooten – Peer J

Microbial community composition of nest-carton and adjoining soil of the ant Lasius fuliginosus and the role of host secretions in structuring microbial communities – Pina Brinker – Fungal Ecology

Comparative metagenomics of the gut microbiota in wild greylag geese (Anser anser) and ruddy shelducks (Tadorna ferruginea) – Wen Wang – Microbiology Open

Microbiome and Blood Analyte Differences Point to Community and Metabolic Signatures in Lean and Obese Horses – Amy S. Biddle – Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Determinants of Deadwood-Inhabiting Fungal Communities in Temperate Forests: Molecular Evidence From a Large Scale Deadwood Decomposition Experiment – Witoon Purahong –

Induction of defense mechanisms involved in disease resistance of onion blight disease caused by Botrytis allii – Mohamed M A Hussein – Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Ectomycorrhizal fungi may not act as a barrier inhibiting host plant absorption of heavy metals – Yangze Tang – Chemosphere

The impacts of deglaciation and human activity on the taxonomic structure of prokaryotic communities in Antarctic soils on King George Island – E.V. Pershina – Antarctic Science

Fungal, Bacterial, and Archaeal Diversity in Soils Beneath Native and Introduced Plants in Fiji, South Pacific – Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci – Microbial Ecology

Mangrove Sediment Microbiome: Adaptive Microbial Assemblages and Their Routed Biogeochemical Processes in Yunxiao Mangrove National Nature Reserve, China – Xiaolan Lin – Microbial Ecology

Draft Genome Sequence of Burkholderia reimsis BE51, a Plant-Associated Bacterium Isolated from Agricultural Rhizosphere – Qassim Esmaeel – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Rhizosphere microbial response to multiple metal(loid)s in different contaminated arable soils indicates crop-specific metal-microbe interactions – Weimin Sun – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Draft Genome Sequence of Burkholderia reimsis BE51, a Plant-Associated Bacterium Isolated from Agricultural Rhizosphere – Qassim Esmaeel – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Rhizosphere microbial response to multiple metal(loid)s in different contaminated arable soils indicates crop-specific metal-microbe interactions – Weimin Sun – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Apple rootstocks of different nitrogen tolerance affect the rhizosphere bacterial community composition – Xiaofen Chai – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas sp. Strain MWU13-2860, Isolated from a Wild Cranberry Bog in Truro, Massachusetts – Ghazal Ebadzadsahrai – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Biotechnological potential of plant growth-promoting bacteria from the roots and rhizospheres of endemic plants in ironstone vegetation in southeastern Brazil – Érica Barbosa Felestrino – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Effects of consecutive monoculture of sweet potato on soil bacterial community as determined by pyrosequencing – Huan Li – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Air and waterborne microbiome of a pharmaceutical plant provide insights on spatiotemporal variations and community resilience after disturbance – Filippo Pacchioni – BMC Microbiology

Spatial variability of microbial communities in a fractured sedimentary rock matrix impacted by a mixed organics plume – Gláucia da P. Lima – Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Modeling microbial communities from atrazine contaminated soils promotes the development of biostimulation solutions – Xihui Xu – The ISME Journal

Root growth, function and rhizosphere microbiome analyses show local rather than systemic effects in apple plant response to replant disease soil – Maik Lucas – PLOS One

Rhizosphere microbiome structure alters to enable wilt resistance in tomato – Min-Jung Kwak – Nature Biotechnology

Soil microbial community structure in the rhizosphere of Robinia pseudoacacia L. seedlings exposed to elevated air temperature and cadmium-contaminated soils for 4 years – X.Jia – Science of the Total Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome

Desiccation- and Saline-Tolerant Bacteria and Archaea in Kalahari Pan Sediments – Steffi Genderjahn – Frontiers in Microbiology

Air and waterborne microbiome of a pharmaceutical plant provide insights on spatiotemporal variations and community resilience after disturbance – Filippo Pacchioni – BMC Microbiology

High diversity of thermophilic cyanobacteria in Rupite hot spring identified by microscopy, cultivation, single-cell PCR and amplicon sequencing – Otakar Strunecký – Extremophiles

Structure of Microbial Mats in the Mramornaya Bay (Crimea) Coastal Areas – N. V. Pimenov – Microbiology

Characterization of a novel bacteriophage specific to Exiguobacterium indicum isolated from a plateau eutrophic lake – Shiying Zhang – Journal of Basic Biology

Pangenomic comparison of globally distributed Poribacteria associated with sponge hosts and marine particles – Sheila Podell – The ISME Journal

The impact of iron nanoparticles on technetium-contaminated groundwater and sediment microbial communities – Laura Newsome – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Microbial diversity and antibiotic resistance in a final effluent-receiving lake – Kinga Bondarczuk – Science of the Total Environment

Reduced chlorine in drinking water distribution systems impacts bacterial biodiversity in biofilms – Claire Bertelli – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Ecology

A Microbial Saga: How to Study an Unexpected Hot Spot of Microbial Biodiversity from Scratch? – Valeria Souza – Cuatro Ciénegas Ecology, Natural History and Microbiology

How Divergent Is the Cuatro Ciénegas Oasis? Genomic Studies of Microbial Populations and Niche Differentiation – Zulema Gomez-Lunar – Cuatro Ciénegas Ecology, Natural History and Microbiology

Trace metals supplementation enhanced microbiota and biohythane production by two-stage thermophilic fermentation – Chonticha Mamimin – International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Microcosms and Mesocosms: A Way to Test the Resilience of Microbial Communities in Cuatro Ciénegas – Nguyen E. López-Lozano – Cuatro Ciénegas Ecology, Natural History and Microbiology

Resistome

Candida albicans biofilm–induced vesicles confer drug resistance through matrix biogenesis – Robert Zarnowski – PLOS One

Microbes in space

Comparing Spore Resistance of Bacillus Strains Isolated from Hydrothermal Vents and Spacecraft Assembly Facilities to Environmental Stressors and Decontamination Treatments – Vincenzo Zammuto – Mary Ann Liebert Publishers

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Probiotics / prebiotics

Understanding mode of action can drive the translational pipeline towards more reliable health benefits for probiotics – Michiel Kleerebezem – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Systematic review with meta‐analysis: the efficacy of prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics and antibiotics in irritable bowel syndrome – Alexander C. Ford – Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Phages and viruses

Characterization of dog serum virome from Northeastern Brazil – M.N.Weber – Virology

Hyperdiverse Viral Communities in an Oligotrophic Oasis (Cuatro Ciénegas): Marine Affinities and Microgeographic Differentiation – P. Isa – Cuatro Ciénegas Ecology, Natural History and Microbiology

Bioinformatics

IMG/M v.5.0: an integrated data management and comparative analysis system for microbial genomes and microbiomes – I-Min A Chen – Nucleic Acids Research

Strain-GeMS: Optimized subspecies identification from microbiome data based on accurate variant modeling – Chongyang Tan – Bioinformatics

Strain-GeMS: Optimized subspecies identification from microbiome data based on accurate variant modeling – Chongyang Tan – Bioinformatics