January 24, 2024

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Crosstalk between gut microbiome and neuroinflammation in pathogenesis of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder – Chen et al. – Journal of the Neurological Sciences

Purified diet affects intestinal epithelial proliferation and barrier functions through gut microbial alterations – Shiratori et al. – International Immunology

[PREPRINT]Gut environmental factors explain variations in the gut microbiome composition and metabolism within and between healthy adults – Prochazkova et al. – bioRxiv

Causal relationship between gut microbiota and gastrointestinal diseases: a mendelian randomization study – Wu et al. – Journal of Translational Medicine

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

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

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

[PREPRINT]Effect of composting and storage on the microbiome and resistome of cattle manure from a commercial dairy farm in Poland – Zalewska et al. – bioRxiv

Assessing the microbiota of the snail intermediate host of trematodes, Galba truncatula – McCann et al. – Parasites & Vectors

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Host genotype, soil composition, and geo-climatic factors shape the fonio seed microbiome – Tabassum et al. – Microbiome

A tripartite bacterial-fungal-plant symbiosis in the mycorrhiza-shaped microbiome drives plant growth and mycorrhization – Zhang et al. – Microbiome

Built environment (subways, indoor surfaces)

[PREPRINT]Identification and classification of the genomes of novel Microviruses in a poultry slaughterhouse – Xie et al. – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]iVirP: An integrative, efficient, and user-friendly pipeline to annotate viral contigs from raw reads of metagenome or VLP sequencing – Li, Jiao and liang – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Microbiome-based correction for random errors in nutrient profiles derived from self-reported dietary assessments – Wang et al. – bioRxiv

Techniques

[PREPRINT]MicroFisher: Fungal taxonomic classification for metatranscriptomic and metagenomic data using multiple short hypervariable markers – Wang et al. – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

How does chronic stress harm the gut? New clues emerge – Kozlov – Nature

January 17, 2024

Pregnancy and early life

Human milk cream alters intestinal microbiome of preterm infants: a prospective cohort study – Adeniyi-Ipadeola et al. – Pediatric Research

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

Multi-site human microbiome

[DATA]Multi-cohort shotgun metagenomic analysis of oral and gut microbiota overlap in healthy adults – Rashidi et al. – Scientific Data

Human respiratory microbiome

[REVIEW]Positioning the preventive potential of microbiome treatments for cystic fibrosis in the context of current therapies – Cauwenberghs et al. – Cell Reports Medicine

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

The gut microbiota modulate locomotion via vagus-dependent glucagon-like peptide-1 signaling – Lai et al. – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes volume

Nonylphenol induces depressive behavior in rats and affects gut microbiota: A dose–dependent effect – Pan et al. – Environmental Pollution

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Ocular mucosal homeostasis of teleost fish provides insight into the coevolution between microbiome and mucosal immunity – Kong et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

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

Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica – Varliero et al. – Microbiome

Microbes in space

[PREPRINT]Testing microbial biomining from asteroidal material onboard the International Space Station – Santomartino et al. – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]AnnoView enables large-scale analysis, comparison, and visualization of microbial gene neighborhoods – Wei et al. – bioRxiv

Techniques

Comparison of the DNBSEQ platform and Illumina HiSeq 2000 for bacterial genome assembly – Hu et al. – Scientific Reports

December 15, 2023

Today’s digest features house mice gut microbiome, infant gut DNA bacteriophage strain persistence, maternal gut microbiome in pregnancy, and more.

Do not miss Francine Marques’s opinion on rethinking culture to unlock the potential of research.

See you at #MVIF next week!

Respiratory microbiome

Review: Winds of change a tale of: asthma and microbiome – David Galeana-Cadena – Frontiers in Microbiology

Gut microbiome

Review: The maternal gut microbiome in pregnancy: implications for the developing immune system – Omry Koren – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Bioactive glycans in a microbiome-directed food for children with malnutrition – Matthew C. Hibberd – Nature

Shotgun metagenomics reveals interkingdom association between intestinal bacteria and fungi involving competition for nutrients – Zixuan Xie – Microbiome

Gut microbiota-related metabolite alpha-linolenic acid mitigates intestinal inflammation induced by oral infection with Toxoplasma gondii Jing Yang – Microbiome

Fiber-deficient diet inhibits colitis through the regulation of the niche and metabolism of a gut pathobiont – Peter Kuffa – Cell Host & Microbe

Animal microbiome

Subspecies divergence, hybridisation and the spatial environment shape phylosymbiosis in the microbiome of house mice – Susana C. M. Ferreira – bioRxiv

Turnover of strain-level diversity modulates functional traits in the honeybee gut microbiome between nurses and foragers – Gilles L. C. Baud – Genome Biology

Seasonal and environmental factors contribute to the variation in the gut microbiome: a large-scale study of a small bird – Martta Liukkonen – bioRxiv

Plant-Root-Soil microbiome

Genome-resolved metatranscriptomics reveals conserved root colonization determinants in a synthetic microbiota – Nathan Vannier – Nature Communications

Virome

Infant gut DNA bacteriophage strain persistence during the first 3 years of life – Yue Clare Lou – Cell Host & Microbe

Techniques

High-throughput anaerobic screening for identifying compounds acting against gut bacteria in monocultures or communities – Patrick Müller – Nature Protocols

Bioinformatics

MAGqual: A standalone pipeline to assess the quality of metagenome-assembled genomes – James P.J. Chong – bioRxiv

December 6, 2023

Human salivary microbiome

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

Human skin microbiome

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

Human vaginal microbiome

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

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

Human gut microbiome

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

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

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

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

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

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

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

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

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

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

Bioinformatics

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

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

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

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

November 28, 2023

Pregnancy and early life

[PREPRINT]Delivery mode impacts gut bacteriophage colonization during infancy – Subramanian et al. – medRxiv

Human oral microbiome

Oral microbiota analyses of paediatric Saudi population reveals signatures of dental caries – Alyousef et al. – BMC Oral Health

Human gut microbiome

Gastric coinfection with thiopeptide-positive Cutibacterium acnes decreases FOXM1 and pro-inflammatory biomarker expression in a murine model of Helicobacter pylori-induced gastric cancer – Lunger et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

[REVIEW]Butterflies in the gut: the interplay between intestinal microbiota and stress – Lai et al. – Journal of Biomedical Science

[REVIEW]Genetics, Nutrition, and Health: A New Frontier in Disease Prevention – Agrawal et al. – Journal of the American Nutrition Association

Age-dependent changes in the gut microbiota and serum metabolome correlate with renal function and human aging – Sun et al. – Aging Cell

The changes of gut microbiota and metabolites in different drug-induced liver injuries – Zhu et al. – Journal of Medical Microbiology

[PREPRINT]The differing prevalences of propionate and butyrate producing bacteria in the human gut microbiota – Christensen et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]The Parkinson’s drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration – Pereira et al. – bioRxiv

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

Mutual modulation of gut microbiota and the immune system in type 1 diabetes models – Rosell-Mases et al. – Nature Communications

[PREPRINT]Microbiota-dependent early life programming of gastrointestinal motility – Frith et al. – bioRxiv

Horizontal transmission of gut microbiota attenuates mortality in lung fibrosis – Gurczynski et al. – JCI insight

High-altitude and low-altitude adapted chicken gut-microbes have different functional diversity – Bhagat et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Introducing an environmental microbiome to axenic Aedes aegypti mosquitoes documents bacterial responses to a blood meal – LaReau et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Altered microbiota, antimicrobial resistance genes, and functional enzyme profiles in the rumen of yak calves fed with milk replacer – Zhuang et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[PREPRINT]Global patterns in gene content of soil microbiomes emerge from microbial interactions – Crocker et al. – bioRxiv

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

Metagenomic analysis reveals diverse microbial community and potential functional roles in Baner rivulet, India – Brar et al. – Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Bioinformatics

mb-PHENIX: Diffusion and Supervised Uniform Manifold Approximation for denoising microbiota data – Padron-Manrique et al. – Bioinformatics

Facilitating bioinformatics reproducibility with QIIME 2 provenance Replay – Keefe et al. – PLOS Computational Biology

Techniques

High-throughput identification and quantification of bacterial cells in the microbiota based on 16S rRNA sequencing with single-base accuracy using BarBIQ – Jin, Yamamoto & Shiroguchi

October 13, 2023

Today’s digest features the Chinese Gut Microbiome Resource, plate readers in the anaerobic chamber, seasonal stability of sponge microbiomes, and more.

Also, you can support the outreachy bugsigdb project by sharing your study to be curated (more info here https://www.outreachy.org/apply/project-selection/#bioconductor or contact me). See you at #MVIF next week!

General

From hype to hope: considerations in conducting robust microbiome science – Amelia J McGuinness – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Global

Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics – Georgios A. Pavlopoulos – Nature

Human gut microbiome

Integration of 168,000 samples reveals global patterns of the human gut microbiome – Richard J. Abdill – bioRxiv

Analysis of strain, sex, and diet-dependent modulation of gut microbiota reveals candidate keystone organisms driving microbial diversity in response to American and ketogenic diets – Anna C. Salvador – Microbiome

Gut microbial genomes with paired isolates from China signify probiotic and cardiometabolic effects – Pan Huang – bioRxiv

Gut microbiota profiles in feces and paired tumor and non-tumor tissues from Colorectal Cancer patients. Relationship to the Body Mass Index – Sofía Tesolato – PlosOne

Tracking gut microbiome and bloodstream infection in critically ill adults – Christopher H. Gu – PlosOne

Human milk

Human milk oligosaccharides modify the strength of priority effects in the Bifidobacterium community assembly during infancy – Martin F. Laursen & Henrik M. Roager – The ISME Journal

Antibiotic Resistome

Metagenome meta-analysis reveals an increase in the abundance of some multidrug efflux pumps and mobile genetic elements in chemically polluted environments – Jessica Subirats – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Plant microbiome

Characterization of Differences of Seed Endophytic Microbiome in Conventional and Organic Rice by Amplicon-based Sequencing and Culturing Methods – Sabin Khana – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Microbiome species diversity and seasonal stability of two temperate marine sponges Hymeniacidon perlevis and Suberites massa – Claire E. Lamb & Joy E. M. Watts – Environmental Microbiome

An observational study of the presence and variability of the microbiota composition of goat herd milk related to mainstream and artisanal farm management – Rita A. H. Hoving-Bolink – PlosOne

Technique

Cultivating efficiency: High-throughput growth analysis of anaerobic bacteria in compact microplate readers – Oona L.O. Snoeyenbos-West – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

On the relationship between protist metabarcoding and protist metagenome-assembled genomes – Daryna Zavadska – bioRxiv

Track, Analyze, Visualize: Unravel Your Microbiome’s Temporal Tale with MicrobiomeStat – Chen Yang & MicrobiomeStat team

October 4, 2023

General microbiome

[OPINION]Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence – Custer, Bresciani & Dini-Andreote – Trends in Microbiology

Statistically learning the functional landscape of microbial communities – Skwara et al. – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Human skin microbiome

Skin microbiota secretomes modulate cutaneous innate immunity against Borrelia burgdorferi s.s – Baquer et al. – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Temporal changes in fecal microbiota of patients infected with COVID-19: a longitudinal cohort – Galperine et al. – BMC Infectious Diseases

Association Between Bowel-Movement Pattern and Cognitive Function: Prospective Cohort Study and a Metagenomic Analysis of the Gut Microbiome – Ma et al. – Neurology

[REVIEW]The gut microbiome tango in the progression of chronic kidney disease and potential therapeutic strategies – Tang, Yu & Pan – Journal of Translational Medicine

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

Microbiota-gut-brain axis drives overeating disorder – Fan et al. – Cell Metabolism

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Exploring gut microbiota in adult Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Associations with gut health and dietary prebiotics – Wang et al. – Animal Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Using wasps as a tool to restore a functioning vine grape mycobiota and preserve the mycobial “terroir” – Di Paola et al. – Scientific Reports

Soil microbes mediate the effects of resource variability on plant invasion – Zhang et al. – Ecology

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]Deepurify: a multi-modal deep language model to remove contamination from metagenome-assembled genomes – Zou et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]BATTER: Accurate Prediction of Rho-dependent and Rho-independent Transcription Terminators in Metagenomes – Jin et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Gut Microbiome Wellness Index 2 for Enhanced Health Status Prediction from Gut Microbiome Taxonomic Profiles – Chang et al. – bioRxiv

Techniques

INVADEseq to identify cell-adherent or invasive bacteria and the associated host transcriptome at single-cell-level resolution – Nino et al. – Nature Protocols

September 13, 2023

General microbiome

[Resource]BugSigDB captures patterns of differential abundance across a broad range of host-associated microbial signatures – Geistlinger et al. – Nature Biotechnology

Human oral microbiome

[REVIEW]The oral microbiome: diversity, biogeography and human health – Baker et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Dysbiosis of oral microbiome persists after dental treatment-induced remission of periodontal disease and dental caries – Yama et al. – mSystems

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

Proton pump inhibitor treatment aggravates bacterial translocation in patients with advanced cirrhosis and portal hypertension – Sturm et al. – mBio

Human gut microbiome

A faecal metabolite signature of impaired fasting glucose: results from two independent population-based cohorts – Nogal et al. – Diabetes

Composition and functional profiles of gut microbiota reflect the treatment stage, severity, and etiology of acute pancreatitis – Wang et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Animal microbiome

Langerhans cells shape postnatal oral homeostasis in a mechanical-force-dependent but microbiota and IL17-independent manner – Jaber et al. – Nature Communications

Specific pathway abundances in the neonatal calf faecal microbiome are associated with susceptibility to Cryptosporidium parvum infection: a metagenomic analysis – Hares et al. – Animal Microbiome

Phage-microbe dynamics after sterile faecal filtrate transplantation in individuals with metabolic syndrome: a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled clinical trial assessing efficacy and safety – Wortelboer et al. – Nature Communications

Gut microbiota of old mice worsens neurological outcome after brain ischemia via increased valeric acid and IL-17 in the blood – Zeng et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Different bacterial and fungal community patterns in restored habitats in coal-mining subsidence areas – Wang et al. – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

June 16, 2023

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Today’s digest features indigenous chicken in Ethiopia, drug effects on gut microbiome, beach water microbial risk assessment, and more. See you at #MVIF next week!

Microbial ecology

Guild and Niche Determination Enable Targeted Alteration of the Microbiome – Oriane Moyne – bioRxiv

Genital microbiome

Interaction of genital microbiota in infertile couples – David Baud – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

Emergence of community behaviors in the gut microbiota upon drug treatment – Sarela Garcia-Santamarina – bioRxiv

Skin microbiome

Skin microbiome differentiates into distinct cutotypes with unique metabolic functions upon exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – Marcus H. Y. Leung – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia – Laura Glendinning – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Effects of fenbendazole on fecal microbiome in BPH/5 mice, a model of hypertension and obesity, a brief report – Kalie F. Beckers – Plos One

Gut microbiota and cognitive development in infant mice: Quantity and source of potable water – Chong-Su Kim and Dong-Mi Shin – Plos One

Plant microbiome

Globally consistent response of plant microbiome diversity across hosts and continents to soil nutrients and herbivores – Eric W. Seabloom – Nature Communications

Methodology

Processing and Storage Methods Affect Oral and Gut Microbiome Composition – Dorothy K. Superdock – bioRxiv

QMRA of beach water by Nanopore sequencing-based viability-metagenomics absolute quantification – Yu Yang – Water Research

Bioinformatics

ResFinderFG v2.0: a database of antibiotic resistance genes obtained by functional metagenomics – Rémi Gschwind – Nucleic Acids Research

April 26, 2023

General microbiome

[PREPRINT]Microbiome diversity: A barrier to the environmental spread of antimicrobial resistance? – Klümper et al. – bioRxiv

Pregnancy and early life

First-Day-of-Life Rectal Swabs Fail To Represent Meconial Microbiota Composition and Underestimate the Presence of Antibiotic Resistance Genes – Graspeuntner et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Human gut microbiome

Mucin-microbiome signatures shape the tumor microenvironment in gastric cancer – Oosterlinck et al. – Microbiome

[REVIEW]Fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent C. difficile infection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Porcari et al. – Journal of Autoimmunity

[REVIEW]Alcohol, the gut microbiome, and liver disease – Jew & Hsu – JGH

[REVIEW]Microbial metabolites in colorectal tumorigenesis and cancer therapy – Liu et al. – Gut Microbes

Human biliary microbiome

Neoadjuvant therapy does not impact the biliary microbiome in patients with pancreatic cancer – Behrens et al. – Journal of Surgical Oncology

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Indirect maternal effects via nest microbiome composition drive gut colonization in altricial chicks – Diez-Mendez et al. – Molecular Ecology

The gut microbiome of solitary bees is mainly affected by pathogen assemblage and partially by land use – de Landa et al. – Environmental Microbiome

Spatial Succession Underlies Microbial Contribution to Food Digestion in the Gut of an Algivorous Sea Urchin – Masasa et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

The microbiota in feces of domestic pigeons in Seoul, Korea – Oh et al. – Heliyon

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Characterization of the Rhizosphere Bacterial Microbiome and Coffee Bean Fermentation in the Castillo-Tambo and Bourbon Varieties in the Popayán-Colombia Plateau – Solis Pino et al. – BMC Plant Biology

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

Hydrochemical and Seasonally Conditioned Changes of Microbial Communities in the Tufa-Forming Freshwater Network Ecosystem – Cackovic et al. – mSphere

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]ggpicrust2: an R package for PICRUSt2 predicted functional profile analysis and visualization – Yang et al. – arXiv