Category Archives: Plant Root Soil microbiome

July 23, 2017

Posted on by

General microbiome

Systems biology of lactic acid bacteria: For food and thought – Bas Teusink, Current Opinion in Systems Biology

Insights into the red algae and eukaryotic evolution from the genome of Porphyra umbilicalis (Bangiophyceae, Rhodophyta) – Susan H. Brawley, PNAS

Parasite Microbiome Project: Systematic Investigation of Microbiome Dynamics within and across Parasite-Host Interactions – Nolwenn M. Dheilly, mSystems

Human respiratory microbiome

Airway microbiota signals anabolic and catabolic remodeling in the transplanted lung – Stéphane Mouraux, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Human skin microbiome

The Skin Microbiome of Cohabiting Couples – Ashley A. Ross, mSystems

Human oral microbiome

Metabolic Fingerprints from the Human Oral Microbiome Reveal a Vast Knowledge Gap of Secreted Small Peptidic Molecules – Anna Edlund, mSystems

Human gut microbiome

Sequencing the gut metagenome as a non-invasive diagnosis for advanced nonalcoholic steatohepatitis – Lixin Zhu, Hepatology

Molecular Characterization of the Human Stomach Microbiota in Gastric Cancer Patients – Guoqin Yu, Frontiers in Microbiology

Inulin-type fructans and whey protein both modulate appetite but only fructans alter gut microbiota in adults with overweight/obesity: a randomized controlled trial – Raylene A. Reimer, Molecular Research and Food Research

Incomplete metabolism of phytoestrogens by gut microbiota from children under the age of three – Pilar Gaya, International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Animal experiments

An In Vitro Chicken Gut Model Demonstrates Transfer of a Multidrug Resistance Plasmid from Salmonella to Commensal Escherichia coli – Roderick M. Card, mBio

Maternally-transmitted microbiota affects odor emission and preference in Drosophila larva – Jean-Pierre Farine, Scientific Reports

Burn Injury Leads to Increase in Relative Abundance of Opportunistic Pathogens in the Rat Gastrointestinal Microbiome – Guangtao Huang, Scientific Reports

Linking Sex Differences in Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease to Bile Acid Signaling, Gut Microbiota, and High Fat Diet  – John Y.L. Chiang, The American Journal of Pathology

Early-life disruption of amphibian microbiota decreases later-life resistance to parasites – Sarah A. Knutie, Nature Communication

In vitro characteristics of an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) hind gut microbial community in relation to different dietary treatments – Kamarul Zaman Zarkasia,  Research in Microbiology

Effects of coconut oil on glycemia, inflammation, and urogenital microbial parameters in female Ossabaw mini-pigs – Annie E. Newell-Fugate, PLoS ONE

Effect of acute ozone exposure on the lung metabolomes of obese and lean mice – Joel Andrew Mathews, PLoS ONE

Animal microbiome

Skin Bacterial Community Reorganization Following Metamorphosis of the Fire-Bellied Toad (Bombina orientalis) – Arnaud Bataille, Microbial Ecology

Inferring microbial interactions in thermophilic and mesophilic anaerobic digestion of hog waste – Grace Tzun-Wen Shaw, PLoS ONE

Ninety-nine de novo assembled genomes from the moose (Alces alces) rumen microbiome provide new insights into microbial plant biomass degradation – Olov Svartström, ISME

Genome Sequences of Two Shewanella spp. Isolated from the Gut of the Sea Cucumber Apostichopus japonicus (Selenka, 1867) – Hyun-Hee Hong, Genome Anouncements

Feather-Degrading Bacteria: Their Biochemical and Genetic Characteristics – Paweł Kowalczyk, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

The tree species matters: Belowground carbon input and utilization in the myco-rhizosphere – Janine Sommera, European Journal of Soil Biology

Soil bacterial community response to vegetation succession after fencing in the grassland of China – Quanchao Zeng, Science of The Total Environment

Drought Stress Results in a Compartment-Specific Restructuring of the Rice Root-Associated Microbiomes – Christian Santos-Medellín, mBio

Improved grain yield of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) under water deficit after inoculation with Bradyrhizobium elkaniiand Rhizophagus irregularis – Rui S. Oliveira, Crop and Pasture Science

Understanding the holobiont: the interdependence of plants and their microbiome – Carmen Sánchez-Cañizares, Current Opinion in Microbiology

Pseudomonas fluorescens R68 assisted enhancement in growth and fertilizer utilization of Amaranthus tricolor (L.) – C. Jimtha John, 3Biotech

Ecological guild and enzyme activities of rhizosphere soil microbial communities associated with Bt-maize cultivation under field conditions in North West Province of South Africa – Deidré A. B. van Wyk, Journal of Basic Microbiology

A genomic perspective on stoichiometric regulation of soil carbon cycling – Wyatt H Hartman, ISME

The rhizosphere microbiome of burned holm-oak: potential role of the genus Arthrobacter in the recovery of burned soils – Antonio J. Fernández-González, Scientific Reports

Biological control of potential antagonistic bacteria isolates to restrict Magnaporthe grisea infection on rice – David P. Tokpah, African Journal of Microbiology Research

Bacteria associated to plants naturally selected in a historical PCB polluted soil show potential to sustain natural attenuation – Lorenzo Vergani, Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Unraveling the Microbial Interactions and Metabolic Potentials in Pre- and Post-treated Sludge from a Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Metagenomic Studies – Chandni Sidhu, Frontiers in Microbiology

Metagenomics of urban sewage identifies an extensively shared antibiotic resistome in China – Jian-Qiang Su, Microbiome

Microbial Community Structure and Function Decoupling Across a Phosphorus Gradient in Streams – Erick S. LeBrun, Microbial Ecology

Microbial communities and their predicted metabolic functions in growth laminae of a unique large conical mat from Lake Untersee, East Antarctica – Hyunmin Koo, Frontiers in Microbiology

Draft genome sequence of Exiguobacterium aurantiacumstrain PN47 isolate from saline ponds, known as “Salar del Huasco”, located in the Altiplano in the North of Chile – Erwin Strahsburger, Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Diversity of culturable filamentous Ascomycetes in the eastern South Pacific Ocean off Chile – Jeanett Vera, World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Salinity Drives the Virioplankton Abundance but Not Production in Tropical Coastal Lagoons – Pedro C. Junger, Microbial Ecology

Characterization of a cold-adapted DNA photolyase from C. psychrerythraea 34H – Sudipto Munshi, Extremophiles

Marine archaeal dynamics and interactions with the microbial community over 5 years from surface to seafloor – Alma E Parada, ISME

Unusual metabolic diversity of hyperalkaliphilic microbial communities associated with subterranean serpentinization at The Cedars – Shino Suzuki, ISME

Comparative Omics and Trait Analyses of Marine Pseudoalteromonas Phages Advance the Phage OTU Concept – Melissa B. Duhaime, Frontier in Microbiology

Effects of Physiochemical Factors on Prokaryotic Biodiversity in Malaysian Circumneutral Hot Springs – Chia S. Chan, Frontiers in Microbiology

Climate oscillations reflected within the microbiome of Arabian Sea sediments – William D. Orsi, Scientific Reports

Microbiome of Trichodesmium Colonies from the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre – Mary R. Gradoville, Frontiers in Microbiology

Antarctic sea ice region as a source of biogenic organic nitrogen in aerosols – Manuel Dall’Osto, Scientific Reports

Built environment

A role for microbial selection in frescoes’ deterioration in Tomba degli Scudi in Tarquinia, Italy – Maria Cristina Tomassetti, Scientific Reports

Food microbiology

An Exploration into the Bacterial Community under Different Pasteurization Conditions during Substrate Preparation (Composting–Phase II) for Agaricus bisporus Cultivation – Fabricio Rocha Vieira, Microbial Ecology

Metagenome-based surveillance and diagnostic approaches to studying the microbial ecology of food production and processing environments – Conor J Doyle, Environmental Microbiology

Draft Genome Sequences of Three Lactobacillusparacasei Strains, Members of the Nonstarter Microbiota of Mature Cheddar Cheese – Ewelina Stefanovic, Genome Anouncements

Bioinformatics

Cohesion: a method for quantifying the connectivity of microbial communities – Cristina M Herren, ISME

Developing integrative systematics in the informatics and genomic era, and calling for a global Biodiversity Cyberbank – Jun Wen, Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Techniques

Rapid differentiation of bacterial communities using high resolution melting analysis – Steven Everman, Journal of Microbiological Methods

Proteomics in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Approach Using Animal Models – Fadi H. Mourad, Digestive Diseases and Sciences

July 22, 2017

Posted on by

General microbiome

Evolutionary genetic analysis uncovers multiple species with distinct habitat preferences and antibiotic resistance phenotypes in the Stenotrophomonas maltophilia complex – LE Ochoa-Sanchez – bioRxiv

Review: Regulation of inflammation by microbiota interactions with the host – JM Blanders – Nature Immunology

Dramatic expansion of microbial groups that shape the global sulfur cycle – K Anantharaman – bioRxiv

The importance of species identity and interactions on multifunctionality depends on how ecosystem functions are valued – EM Slade – Ecology

The potential of anti-infectives and immunomodulators as therapies for asthma and asthma exacerbations – MR Edwards – Allergy

Pest categorisation of Pseudocercospora angolensis – EPH – EFSA Journal

Vascular complications in diabetes: old messages, new thoughts – JM Forbes – Diabetologia

Deciphering functional diversification within the lichen microbiota by meta-omics – T Cernava – Microbiome

 

Human oral microbiome

Saliva and tooth biofilm bacterial microbiota in adolescents in a low caries community – L Erikkson – Scientific Reports

 

Animal microbiome

Using MinION to characterize dog skin microbiota through full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing approach – A Cusco – bioRxiv

Context-dependent Requirements for FimH and Other Canonical Virulence Factors in Gut Colonization by Extraintestinal Pathogenic Escherichia coli – CW Russell – bioRxiv

Graded replacement of maize grain with molassed sugar beet pulp modulated ruminal microbial community and fermentation profile in vitro – M Münnich – J Sci Food Agric.

Microbial Communities in Different Tissues of Atta sexdens rubropilosa Leaf-cutting Ants – AS Vieira – Current Microbiology

Fecal excretion of Maillard reaction products and the gut microbiota composition of rats fed with bread crust or bread crumb – C Helou – Food & Function

The salivary microbiome as an indicator of carcinogenesis in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A pilot study – A Wolf – Scientific Reports

16S rRNA gene-based association study identified microbial taxa associated with pork intramuscular fat content in feces and cecum lumen – S Fang – BMC Microbiology

 

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Environmental drivers of viral community composition in Antarctic soils identified by viromics – EM Adriaenssens – Microbiome

 

Water microbiome and extremophiles

Metabolic Network Analysis and Metatranscriptomics Reveals Auxotrophies and Nutrient Sources of the Cosmopolitan Freshwater Microbial Lineage acI – JJ Hamilton – bioRxiv

 

Techniques

Effective identification of Lactobacillus casei group species: genome-based selection of the gene mutL as the target of a novel multiplex PCR assay – B Bottari – Microbiology

Comparative analysis of vaginal microbiota sampling using 16S rRNA gene analysis – S Virtanen – PLoS One

 

Microbes in news

UCONN RESEARCH: IN FROGS, EARLY ACTIVITY OF GUT MICROBIOME SHAPES LATER HEALTH – UConn

Fecal bacteria found in drinks at UK branches of McDonald’s, Burger King and KFC – D Reid – CNBC

Google’s Verily Trying to Debug Fresno with Bacteria-Treated Mosquitoes – C Wallentine – Invisiverse

South Florida hiker contracts flesh-eating bacteria – R Lowe – WSVN

 

 

July 20, 2017

Posted on by

A study of chemical interactions between fungi and ants by imaging mass spectrometry, characterization of forty-six Arthrobacter phages, influence of fruit fungal infestation on vertebrate fruit preferences.

Human gut microbiome

The essential genomic landscape of the commensal Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 – Lorena Ruiz – Scientific Reports

Animal experiments

Fat binding capacity and modulation of the gut microbiota both determine the effect of wheat bran fractions on adiposity – Francesco Suriano – Scientific Reports

Effects of dietary supplementation with two alternatives to antibiotics on intestinal microbiota of preweaned calves challenged with Escherichia coli K99 – Yanliang Bi – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Imaging mass spectrometry and MS/MS molecular networking reveals chemical interactions among cuticular bacteria and pathogenic fungi associated with fungus-growing ants – Cristopher A Boya P – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Population structure of an orchid mycorrhizal fungus with genus-wide specificity – M P Ruibal – Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

Review: Cultivation of microbes from the deep-sea environments – Zenghu Zhang – Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Food microbiology

Fungal infestation boosts fruit aroma and fruit removal by mammals and birds – Josep E Peris – Scientific Reports

Pre-print: Resilience mechanisms of small intestinal lactobacilli to the toxicity of soybean oil fatty acids – Sara C Di Rienzi – bioRxiv

Probiotics/prebiotics

Dietary lipid content reorganizes gut microbiota and probiotic L. rhamnosus attenuates obesity and enhances catabolic hormonal milieu in zebrafish – Silvia Falcinelli – Scientific Reports

Phages and viruses

Tales of diversity: Genomic and morphological characteristics of forty-six Arthrobacter phages – Karen K Klyczek – PLOS ONE

Pre-print: Isolation and characterization of BpL1, a broad acting lytic bacteriophage against Brucella – Vimlesh Gupta – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Bac-for good: Bacteria passed between generations benefits you more than others – Phys.org

Microbes on the market

Verily Releases Bacteria-Infected Mosquitoes To Fight Zika And Dengue: Is Wolbachia Technique Safe For Humans? – Allan Adamson – Tech Times

Science, career, and publishing

Climate scientists flock to France’s call – Declan Butler – Nature

July 19, 2017

Posted on by

Today’s digest is a long one! There is high diversity of studies, with a high abundance of gut microbiome studies, a few publications on fecal transplant, and some very interesting early life/pregnancy/mother-infant science.  A normal serving of animal studies, of course a nice colony of environmental microbial studies, and a study reporting the presence of bacteria in Alzheimer’s post-mortem brains.

Events and jobs

Postdoctoral research fellow in translational microbiome research – Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology (MTC) at Karolinska Institutet

General microbiome

Commensal bacteria modulate the tumor microenvironment – Theofilos Poutahidis – Cancer Letters

[Review]  The human microbiome – Hubert E. Blum – Advances in Medical Sciences

Microbiome and Metabolome Data Integration Provides Insight Into Health and Disease – Michael Shaffer – Translational Research

Metabolic potential and taxonomic assessment of bacterial community of an environment to chronic industrial discharge – Neelam Devpura – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Impact of the Microbiota on Bacterial Infections during Cancer Treatment – Jessica Galloway-Peña – Trends in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

** The Bacterial Ecosystem of Mother’s Milk and Infant’s Mouth and Gut – Elana Biagi – Frontiers in Microbiology | Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

* What’s Normal? Immune Profiling of Human Milk from Healthy Women Living in Different Geographical and Socioeconomic Settings – Lorena Ruiz – Frontiers in Immunology | Nutritional Immunology

Microbiome Associated with Severe Caries in Canadian First Nations Children – M. Agnello – Journal of Dental Research

* Bacterial communities found in placental tissues are associated with severe chorioamnionitis and adverse birth outcomes – Ronan M. Doyle – PLoS One

Human oral microbiome

Characterization of Oral Microbiota in Removable Dental Prosthesis Users: Influence of Arterial Hypertension – Leila Maria Marchi-Alves – BioMed Research International

Human vaginal microbiome

The association between ethnicity and vaginal microbiota composition in Amsterdam, the Netherlands – Hanneke Borgdorff – PLoS One

Human nearly-sterile sites

** 16S rRNA Next Generation Sequencing Analysis Shows Bacteria in Alzheimer’s Post-Mortem Brain – David C. Emery – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Human gut microbiome

The Gut Microbiota of Healthy Chilean Subjects Reveals a High Abundance of the Phylum Verrucomicrobia – Sayaka Fujio-Vejar – Frontiers in Microbiology | Microbial Symbioses

*[Review] Significance of Microbiota in Obesity and Metabolic Diseases and the Modulatory Potential by Medicinal Plant and Food Ingredients – Hoda M. Eid – Frontiers in Pharmacology | Ethnopharmacology

MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF FECAL MICROBIOTA OF HEALTHY CHINESE TOBACCO SMOKER SUBJECTS IN SHAANXI PROVINCE, XI’AN CHINA – Ishaq HM – Journal of Ayub Medical College

The Microbiome in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Trauma-Exposed Controls: An Exploratory Study – Hemmings, Sian M.J – Psychosomatic Medicine

The Impact of Gut Microbiota on Gender-Specific Differences in Immunity – Floris Fransen – Frontiers in Immunology | Nutritional Immunology

Involvement of gut microbiota in the association between gastrointestinal motility and 5‑HT expression/M2 macrophage abundance in the gastrointestinal tract – Mo Yang – Molecular Medicine Reports

Correspondence: Fecal Microbiota Transplant from a Rational Stool Donor Improves Hepatic Encephalopathy: A Randomized Clinical Trial – Benjamin H Mullish – Hepatology

Going to the Bank: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Pediatrics – Elaine Barfield – Clinical Pediatrics

INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GUT MICROBIOTA AND HOST: Paradigms, Role in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Future Prospects – Villarraso JC – CNS & Neurological Disorders Drug Targets

Faecal microbiota transplant: a novel biological approach to extensively drug-resistant organism-related non-relapse mortality – Innes AJ – Bone Marrow Transplantation

* Gut microbiota is critical for the induction of chemotherapy-induced pain – Shiqian Shen – Nature Neuroscience

Relationships between Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Blood Group Antigens – Anuhya Gampa – Physiological Genomics

[Masters Thesis] Evaluating the Effectiveness of Select Bacteria Against Clostridium difficile – Choquette, Kelsey Rose – Iowa State University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing

* Potential and active functions in the gut microbiota of a healthy human cohort – Alessandro Tanca – Microbiome

[Letter to Editor] The necessity of gut microbiome characterization in diseases prevention and therapy – Sama Rezasoltani – Gastroenterology and Hepatology from Bed to Bench

[Review Article] The Intricate Interaction between Enteric Microbiota and Brain: Principles and Clinical Implications – Giovanni Gherardi – Journal of Digestive Diseases and Hepatology

Gut microbiota dysbiosis associated with glucose metabolism disorders and the metabolic syndrome in older adults – K Lippert – Beneficial Microbes

Animal experiments

Western Diet–Induced Dysbiosis in Farnesoid X Receptor Knockout Mice Causes Persistent Hepatic Inflammation after Antibiotic Treatment – Prasant K – The American Journal of Pathology

Grape pomace improves performance, antioxidant status, fecal microbiota and meat quality of piglets – I. Kafantaris – Animal

Animal microbiome

Microorganisms of the Intestinal Microbiota of Oncorhynchus Mykiss Produce Antagonistic Substances Against Bacteria Contaminating Food and Causing Disease in Humans – Lobos O – Italian Journal of Food Safety

Population-Specific Responses to Interspecific Competition in the Gut Microbiota of Two Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Populations – Xiaoping He – Microbial Ecology

Habitat and indigenous gut microbes contribute to the plasticity of gut microbiome in oriental river prawn during rapid environmental change – Cheng-Yu Chen – PLoS One

Vertically and horizontally transmitted microbial symbionts shape the gut microbiota ontogenesis of a skin-mucus feeding discus fish progeny – François-Étienne Sylvain – Scientific Reports

Microbiome overview in swine lungs – Franciele Maboni Siqueira – PLoS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Integrated metagenomics and molecular ecological network analysis of bacterial community composition during the phytoremediation of cadmium-contaminated soils by bioenergy crops – Zhaojin Chen – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Dynamics of Soil Bacterial Communities Over a Vegetation Season Relate to Both Soil Nutrient Status and Plant Growth Phenology – Davide Francioli – Microbial Ecology

* Microbial Populations of Stony Meteorites: Substrate Controls on First Colonizers – Alastair W. Tait – Frontiers in Microbiology | Extreme Microbiology

Microbial functional diversity covaries with permafrost thaw-induced environmental heterogeneity in tundra soil – Mengting M. Yuan – Global Change Biology

[PrePrint] Conditionally rare taxa contribute but do not account for prokaryotic community changes in soils – Rachel Kaminsky – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Performance and bacterial community structure of a 10-years old constructed mangrove wetland – Tingting Tian – Marine Pollution Bulletin

A comparative study revealed first insights into the diversity and metabolisms of the microbial communities in the sediments of Pacmanus and Desmos hydrothermal fields – Hai-liang Wang – PLoS One

Microbial Composition and Diversity Patterns in Deep Hyperthermal Aquifers from the Western Plain of Romania – Cecilia M. Chiriac – Microbiology of Aquatic Systems

Built environment

Pilot study to determine if microbial contamination levels in hospital washrooms are associated with hand drying method – Mark H. Wilcox – Journal of Hospital Infection

Probiotics / prebiotics

Arachidonic acid sex-dependently affects obesity through linking gut microbiota-driven inflammation to hypothalamus-adipose-liver axis – Pan Zhuang – BBA

Functional Characterization of Novel Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Strains Isolated from Healthy Volunteers: A Step Forward in the Use of F. prausnitzii as a Next-Generation Probiotic – Rebeca Martin – Frontiers in Microbiology | Food Microbiology

Bioinformatics

* Abundance estimation and differential testing on strain level in metagenomics data – Martina Fischer – Bioinformatics

Techniques

Development and Use of a Real-Time Quantitative PCR Method for Detecting and Quantifying Equol-Producing Bacteria in Human Faecal Samples and Slurry Cultures – Lucía Vázquez – Frontiers in Microbiology | Food Microbiology

Next-generation Sequencing of the DNA Virome from Fecal Samples – Monaco CL – Bio-protocol

Synthetic multispecies microbial communities reveals shifts in secondary metabolism and facilitates cryptic natural product discovery – Yutong Shi – Environmental Microbiology

Whole-genome sequencing of eukaryotes: From sequencing of DNA fragments to a genome assembly – K. S. Zadesenets – Russian Journal of Genetics

Microbes on the market

Microbiome Sequencing Services Market: trends, analysis, Overview, forecast up to 2021

Ed’s non-microbiology picks

Heavy metal accumulation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells armed with metal binding hexapeptides targeted to the inner face of the plasma membrane – Lavinia Liliana Ruta –Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Fracking can contaminate rivers and lakes with radioactive material, study finds

Subacute normobaric oxygen and hyperbaric oxygen therapy in drowning, reversal of brain volume loss: a case report – Paul G Harch – Medical Gas Research

No Effect of Commercial Cognitive Training on Neural Activity During Decision-Making – Joseph W. Kable – Journal of Neuroscience

Health Insurance Expansion and Incidence of Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Pilot Study in a US Metropolitan Community – Eric C. Stecker – Journal of the American Heart Association

17, July 2017

Posted on by

In today’s digest, we learn more about how cloud-based computing is making it easier to analyses big datasets, and stochastic bottlenecks control bacterial colonization in animal host.

General Microbiome and Microbiology

New perspectives on dandruff and seborrheic dermatitis: lessons we learned from bacterial and fungal skin microbiota.

Paulino LC. European journal of dermatology

Harnessing microbiome‐based biotechnologies for sustainable mitigation of nitrous oxide emissions

Hu HW.Microbial Biotechnology

Human gut microbiome

Comparisons of Gut Microbiota Among Healthy Control, Patients With Conventional Adenoma, Sessile Serrated Adenoma, and Colorectal Cancer. Yoon H. Journal of Cancer Prevention

Genome-resolved metaproteomic characterization of preterm infant gut microbiota development reveals species-specific metabolic shifts and variabilities during early life. Xiong W. Microbiome

Assessing the impact of protein extraction methods for human gut metaproteomics

Zhang  X.Journal of Proteomics

Longitudinal development of the gut microbiome and metabolome in preterm neonates with late onset sepsis and healthy controls

Stewart CJ. Microbiome

Animal and insect microbiome

Host–Microbe Interactions: Winning the Colonization Lottery

Lazzaro BP and GM Fox. Current Biology

Strategies for managing rival bacterial communities: lessons from burying beetles.

Kilner RM. Journal of Animal Ecology

Changes in the Gut Microbial Communities Following Addition of Walnuts to the Diet. Byerley, LO. Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Microbiome modelling

The Microbiome and Big Data

Navas-Molina JA. Current Opinion in Systems Biology

Plant, soil, and air microbiome

Differences in soil biological activity by terrain types at the sub-field scale in central Iowa US.

Kaleita AL.PloS one

Intercropping affects genetic potential for inorganic nitrogen cycling by root-associated microorganisms in Medicago sativa and Dactylis glomerata

Zhao M. Applied Soil Ecology

Changes in microbial community composition following phytostabilization of an extremely acidic Cu mine tailings

Yang T. Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Effects of between‐site variation in soil microbial communities and plant‐soil feedbacks on the productivity and composition of plant communities.   Bauer JT.Journal of Applied Ecology

Response of soil microbial communities to elevated antimony and arsenic contamination indicates the relationship between the innate microbiota and contaminant fractions. Sun W. Environmental Science and Technology

Marine and inland waters

The contribution of microbial biotechnology to mitigating coral reef degradation Damjanovic. Microbial Biotechnology

Metagenomic binning of a marine sponge microbiome reveals unity in defense but metabolic specialization

Slaby BM. The ISME Journal

Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Viruses Compensate for Microbial Metabolism in Virus-Host Interactions

He T.  mBio

Built Microbiome

Microbial communities on painted wet and dry external surfaces of a historic fortress in Niterói, Brazil. Ogawa A. Journal of International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Preprint

Short reads from honey bee (Apis sp.) sequencing projects reflect microbial associate diversity.Gerth M.PeerJ

July 14, 2017

Posted on by
Events and jobs

Postdoc, Lieberman Lab

General microbiome

Assembly of Microbial Communities in Replicate Nutrient-Cycling Model Ecosystems Follows Divergent Trajectories, Leading to Alternate Stable States – Eulyn Pagaling – Environmental Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Influence of lung CT changes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on the human lung microbiome – Marion Engel – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Gut bacterial peptides with autoimmunity potential as environmental trigger for late onset complex diseases: In–silico study – Sapna Negi – PLOS ONE

Impact of environmental microbiota on human microbiota of workers in academic mouse research facilities: An observational study – Peggy S. Lai – PLOS ONE

Reduced Mass and Diversity of the Colonic Microbiome in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis and Their Improvement with Ketogenic Diet – Alexander Swidsinski – Frontiers in Microbiology

Longitudinal development of the gut microbiome and metabolome in preterm neonates with late onset sepsis and healthy controls – Christopher J. Stewart – Microbiome

Other Human microbiome

The oral bacterial microbiome of occlusal surfaces in children and its association with diet and caries – Apoena Aguiar Ribeiro – PLOS ONE

The oral fungal mycobiome: characteristics and relation to periodontitis in a pilot study – Brandilyn A. Peters – BMC Microbiology

Animal experiments

Three distinct pneumotypes characterize the microbiome of the lung in BALB/cJ mice – Julia Scheiermann – PLOS ONE

Assessment of gut microbiota populations in lean and obese Zucker rats – Reza Hakkak – PLOS ONE

Preparing the Gut with Antibiotics Enhances Gut Microbiota Reprogramming Efficiency by Promoting Xenomicrobiota Colonization – Shou K. Ji – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

On the core bacterial flora of Ixodes persulcatus (Taiga tick) – Shuo Sui – PLOS ONE

Skin microbiota in frogs from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: Species, forest type, and potential against pathogens – Ananda Brito de Assis – PLOS ONE

Brackish habitat dictates cultivable Actinobacterial diversity from marine sponges – Gregory A. Ellis – PLOS ONE

Effects of Kluyveromyces marxianus supplementation on immune responses, intestinal structure and microbiota in broiler chickens – Weiwei Wang – PLOS ONE

Dominance-function relationships in the amphibian skin microbiome – Jenifer B. Walke – Environmental Microbiology

Microbial community sequencing analysis of the calf eye microbiota and relationship to infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis – J.N.Cullen – Veterinary Microbiology

Bacterial community composition in Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae) and Chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarctica) Penguin stomach contents from Signy Island, South Orkney Islands – W. C. Yew – Polar Biology

Taxon abundance, diversity, co-occurrence and network analysis of the ruminal microbiota in response to dietary changes in dairy cows – Ilma Tapio – PLOS ONE

Honeybee (Apis mellifera)-associated bacterial community affected by American foulbrood: detection of Paenibacillus larvae via microbiome analysis – Tomas Erban – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Shifts in the bacterial community composition along deep soil profiles in monospecific and mixed stands of Eucalyptus grandis and Acacia mangium – Arthur Prudêncio de Araujo Pereira – PLOS ONE

Maize Phyllosphere Microbial Community Niche Development Across Stages of Host Leaf Growth – Heather C. Manching – bioRxiv

Major phylum-level differences between porefluid and host rock bacterial communities in the terrestrial deep subsurface – Lily Momper – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Patterns of soil bacterial richness and composition tied to plant richness, soil nitrogen, and soil acidity in alpine tundra – Xia Yuan – Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Unravelling riverine microbial communities under wastewater treatment plant effluent discharge in large urban areas – Yang Huo – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Phages and viruses

Marine viruses discovered via metagenomics shed light on viral strategies throughout the oceans – Felipe H. Coutinho – Nature Communications

Science, publishing, and career

Jonathan Eisen named Faculty Director of the UC Davis Microbiome Initiative

July 6, 2017

Posted on by

The microbiota of spotted hyenas, a review of potential interactions between olfactory sensation and the microbiome-gut-brain axis, phylogenetic analysis of host-microbe symbioses to examine the evolution of dependence over time.

General microbiome

Synthetic Microbial Ecology: Engineering Habitats for Modular Consortia – Sami Ben Said – Frontiers in Microbiology

The evolution of host-symbiont dependence – Roberta M Fisher – Nature Communications

Review: The microbiota revolution: Excitement and caution – Maria Rescigno – European Journal of Immunology

Review: The Microbiome and Blood Pressure: Can Microbes Regulate Our Blood Pressure? – Souhaila Al Khodor – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Human oral microbiome

Suppression of αvβ6 Integrin Expression by Polymicrobial Oral Biofilms in Gingival Epithelial Cells – Jiarui Bi – Scientific Reports

Proteomic shifts in multi-species oral biofilms caused by Anaeroglobus geminatus – Kai Bao – Scientific Reports

Human vaginal microbiome

Quantifying the human vaginal community state types (CSTs) with the species specificity index – Zhanshan Ma – PeerJ

Animal experiments

Effects of iron supplementation on growth, gut microbiota, metabolomics and cognitive development of rat pups – Erica E Alexeev – PLOS ONE

Review: Disruptive physiology: olfaction and the microbiome-gut-brain axis – John Bienenstock – Biological Reviews Cambridge Philosophical Society

Effects of melanin from Sepiella Maindroni ink (MSMI) on the intestinal Microbiome of mice – Hui Dong – BMC Microbiology

Animal microbiome

The Intestinal Eukaryotic and Bacterial Biome of Spotted Hyenas: The Impact of Social Status and Age on Diversity and Composition – Emanuel Heitlinger – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Perspective: The deep, hot biosphere: Twenty-five years of retrospection – Daniel R Colman – PNAS

Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas koreensis CI12, a Bacillus cereus “Hitchhiker” from the Soybean Rhizosphere – Gabriel L Lozano – Genome Announcements

Warmer winters increase the rhizosphere carbon flow to mycorrhizal fungi more than to other microorganisms in a temperate grassland – Johanna Birgander – Global Change Biology

Negative plant-phyllosphere feedbacks in native Asteraceae hosts – a novel extension of the plant-soil feedback framework – Briana K Whitaker – Ecology Letters

Water and extremophile microbiome

Size and composition of subseafloor microbial community in the Benguela upwelling area examined from intact membrane lipid and DNA analysis – Thomas W Evans – Organic Geochemistry

FurukawaMarine microbes as a valuable resource for brand new industrial biocatalysts – Azadeh Beygmoradi – Biocatalysts and Agricultural Biotechnology

Antagonistic Interactions and Biofilm Forming Capabilities Among Bacterial Strains Isolated from the Egg Surfaces of Lake Sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) – M Fujimoto – Microbial Ecology

Probiotics/prebiotics

Effects of the probiotic Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis on the non-surgical treatment of periodontitis. A histomorphometric, microtomographic and immunohistochemical study in rats – Milla S T Ricoldi – PLOS ONE

Phages and viruses

Virus-host relationships of marine single-celled eukaryotes resolved from metatranscriptomics – Mohammad Moniruzzaman – Nature Communications

Occurrence of Bacillus thuringensis Bacteriophages in the Egyptian Arid Soil – Amel S M Abo-Senna – International Journal of Virology and Molecular Biology

Bioinformatics

A conceptual framework for quality assessment and management of biodiversity data – Allan Koch Veiga – PLOS ONE

Techniques

SParticle, an algorithm for the analysis of filamentous microorganisms in submerged cultures – Joost Willemse – bioRxiv

Mapping-based all-RNA-information sequencing analysis (ARIseq) pipeline simultaneously revealed taxonomic composition, gene expression, and their correlation in an acidic stream ecosystem – Arisa Tsuboi – bioRxiv

More microbes

Review: Metabolic engineering pathways for rare sugars biosynthesis, physiological functionalities, and applications – A review – Muhammad Bilal – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Microbes in the news

Microbes aren’t the enemy, they’re a big part of who we are – Amy Loughman – Medical Xpress

What Cheese Can Tell Us About Antibiotic Resistance – Jason Tetro – Huffington Post Canada

Cases of recurrent Clostridium difficile infection are soaring – Medical Xpress

Helium ions reveal how viruses attack bacteria – ScienceDaily

July 5, 2017

Posted on by

General microbiome

Letter to the editor: Introducing the sporobiota and sporobiome – George Tetz – Gut Pathogens

Human oral microbiome

Oropharyngeal and Sputum Microbiomes Are Similar Following Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – Hai-Yue Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Review: Respiratory microbiota and lower respiratory tract disease – Miguel Lanaspa – Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy

Human gut microbiome

Review: Feeding the microbiota: transducer of nutrient signals for the host – Fergus Shanahan – Gut

Animal microbiome

Early Postnatal Diets Affect the Bioregional Small Intestine Microbiome and Ileal Metabolome in Neonatal Pigs – Brian D Piccolo – The Journal of Nutrition

Variation between the oral and faecal microbiota in a free-living passerine bird, the great tit (Parus major) – Lucie Kropáčková – Plos One

Temperature variation, bacterial diversity, and fungal infection dynamics in the amphibian skin – Ana V. Longo – Molecular Ecology

Early-Life Diet Affects Host Microbiota and Later-Life Defenses Against Parasites in Frogs – Sarah A. Knutie – Integrative & Comparitive Biology

Animal experiments

Relative variations of gut microbiota in disordered cholesterol metabolism caused by high-cholesterol diet and host genetics – Tao Bo – Microbiology Open

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Nutrient and Rainfall Additions Shift Phylogenetically Estimated Traits of Soil Microbial Communities – Kelly Gravuer – Frontiers in Microbiology

Long-term rock phosphate fertilization impacts the microbial communities of maize rhizosphere – Ubiana C. Silva – Frontiers in Microbiology

Global change and the soil microbiome: A human-health perspective – Raúl Ochoa-Hueso – Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

The Impact of Hydration and Temperature on Bacterial Diversity in Arid Soil Mesocosms – Adam Št’ovíček – Frontiers in Microbiology

Contrasting bacterial communities in two indigenous Chionochloa (Poaceae) grassland soils in New Zealand – Jocelyn C. Griffith – Plos One

Water and extremophile microbiome

Bacterial diversity and population shifts driven by spotlight wastewater micropollutants in low-temperature highly nitrifying activated sludge – Antonina Kruglova – JScience of The Total Environment

Probiotics / prebiotics

The potential synergistic behaviour of inter- and intra-genus probiotic combinations in the pattern and rate of short chain fatty acids formation during fibre fermentation – Warnakulasuriya M. A. D. B. Fernando – International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Review: Structural features underlying prebiotic activity of conventional and potential prebiotic oligosaccharides in food and health – Subin R. C. K. Rajendran – Journal of Food Biochemistry

Phages and viruses

Case control comparison of enteric viromes in captive rhesus macaques with acute or idiopathic chronic diarrhea – Beatrix Kapusinszky – Journal of Virology

A viral metagenomic approach on a non-metagenomic experiment: Mining next generation sequencing datasets from pig DNA identified several porcine parvoviruses for a retrospective evaluation of viral infections – Samuele Bovo – Plos One

Bioinformatics

Does colorectal cancer significantly influence the assembly of gut microbial communities? – Lin Dai – PeerJ

Review: Using metagenomics to investigate human and environmental resistomes – Johan Bengtsson-Palme – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

RRmix: A method for simultaneous batch effect correction and analysis of metabolomics data in the absence of internal standards – Stephen Salerno Jr – Plos One

Predicting the ecological quality status of marine environments from eDNA metabarcoding data using supervised machine learning – Tristan Cordier – Environmental Science and Technology

Anitha’s non-microbiology picks

AI is changing how we do science. Get a glimpse

Scientists explain ancient Rome’s long-lasting concrete

July 1, 2017

Posted on by

General microbiome

The microbiome in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients and cancer patients: Opportunities for clinical advances that reduce infection – AY Koh – PLoS Pathogens

Research Highlight: New insights into the BAT–liver–gut axis – A Morris – Nature Reviews

Biodiversity and ecosystem function: making sense of numerous species interactions in multi-species communities – C Brophy – Ecology

Obstruction of pilus retraction stimulates bacterial surface sensing – CK Ellison – bioRxiv

 

Human gut microbiome

Hospital association of the gut microbiota mobilome in preterm infants – A Ravi – Pediatric Research

 

Human respiratory microbiome

Maturation of the Infant Respiratory Microbiota, Environmental Drivers and Health Consequences: A Prospective Cohort Study – AATM Bosch – Am J Respir Crit Care Med.

Review: Perna canaliculus and the Intestinal Microbiome – ET Saltzman – Marine Drugs

 

 

Animal microbiome

Host-specific associations affect the microbiome of Philornis downsi, an introduced parasite to the Galápagos Islands – MY Ben – Molecular Ecology

Comparative genome analysis of the Flavobacteriales bacterium strain UJ101, isolated from the gut of Atergatis reticulatus – JA Yang – Journal of Microbiology

 

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Ammonia oxidizer populations vary with nitrogen cycling across a tropical montane mean annual temperature gradient – S Pierre – Ecology

Bacterial periphytic communities related to mercury methylation within aquatic plant roots from a temperate freshwater lake (South-Western France) – S Gentès – Environ Sci Pollut Res Int.

Consistently inconsistent drivers of microbial diversity and abundance at macroecological scales – JN Hendershot – Ecology

Living cover crops have immediate impacts on soil microbial community structure and function – DM Finney – Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas koreensis CI12, a Bacillus cereus “Hitchhiker” from the Soybean Rhizosphere – GL Lozano – Genome Announcements

Colonization and Maize Growth Promotion Induced by Phosphate Solubilizing Bacterial Isolates – Y Li – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Biogeography and ecological diversity patterns of rare and abundant bacteria in oil-contaminated soils – S Jiao – Molecular Ecology

 

Water microbiome and extremophiles

Organohalide respiration with chlorinated ethenes under low pH conditions – Y Yang – Environmental Science & Technology

 

Microbes in news

These Cleaning Bots Can Zap Bacteria Out of Your Water Supply in Minutes – D Nield – Science Alert

Four strains of bacteria work together to produce pigment for food and cosmetics industry – ML Martialay – Phys.org

Texas: Fecal bacteria levels at Gulf beaches ahead of Fourth of July holiday weekend – K Bradshaw – mySA

Gut microbiome’s link to the brain – S Downing – Nine.com

Breast Milk Bacteria are Important for Establishing Infant Gut Microbiome – S Parmar – Medical News Bulletin

Fig Enzyme could Help to fight Infection and Heal Wounds – DN Gameiro – Labiotech.eu

Gut Health: The Next Mega-Trend in Health and Wellness – H Schieber – Researchci

I spent three days as a hunter-gatherer to see if it would improve my gut health – T Spector – Medical Xpress

Altering gut bacteria pathways may stimulate fat tissue to prevent obesity – Medical Xpress

The broiler chicken intestine – an apt target for proteomic studies – E O’Reilly – BMC Blog Network

June 30, 2017

Posted on by

A few gut microbiome reviews, apparently a simple bacterial community in bullet ants, circadian rhythm of rhizosphere bacterial communities, and you might want to think twice before you step into the ocean for a swim this summer.

General microbiology

Mapping quorum sensing onto neural networks to understand collective decision making in heterogeneous microbial communities – Tahir Yusufaly & James Q. Boedicker – ePub in Physical Biology, first in arXiv

Cheating fosters species co-existence in well-mixed bacterial communities – Anne Leinweber, R Fredrik Inglis and Rolf Kümmerli – ISME Journal

One ligand, two regulators and three binding sites: How KDPG controls primary carbon metabolism in Pseudomonas – Rosaria Campilongo et al. – PLoS Genetics

PrePrint: Statistics and simulation of growth of single bacterial cells: illustrations with B. subtilis and E. coli – Johan H. van Heerden et al. – bioRxiv

Performance of electro-spun carbon nanofiber electrodes with conductive poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) coatings in bioelectrochemical systems – Juan J.L. Guzmana & Meryem O. Pehlivaner Kara et al. – Journal of Power Sources

Press: Bacteria-coated nanofiber electrodes digest pollutants – Blaine Friedlander – Phys.org

Human skin microbiome

Review: Keratinocytes as sensors and central players in the immune defense against Staphylococcus aureus in the skin – Katharina Bitschar et al. – Journal of Dermatological Science

Human gut microbiome

Review: The nutrition-gut microbiome-physiology axis and allergic diseases – Craig McKenzie – Immunological Reviews

16S sequencing and functional analysis of the fecal microbiome during treatment of newly diagnosed pediatric inflammatory bowel disease – Ashton JJ et al. – Medicine (Baltimore)

Review: The Critical Roles of Polysaccharides in Gut Microbial Ecology and Physiology – Nathan T. Porter and Eric C. Martens – Annual Reviews of Microbiology

Review: Gut Microbiota as a Target for Preventive and Therapeutic Intervention against Food Allergy – Rosita Aitoro et al. – Nutrients

Two distinct metacommunities characterize the gut microbiota in Crohn’s disease patients – Qing He & Yuan Gao et al. – GigaScience

Animal experiments

PrePrint: Clostridium difficile colonizes alternative nutrient niches during infection across distinct murine gut microbiomes – Matthew L Jenior et al. – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

PrePrint: Bacterial community profiles and Vibrio parahaemolyticus abundance in individual oysters and their association with estuarine ecology – Ashley L. Marcinkiewicz et al. – bioRxiv

Diversity and Persistence of the Gut Microbiome of the Giant Neotropical Bullet Ant – Corrie S. Moreau & Benjamin E. R. Rubin – Integrative and Comparative Biology

PrePrint: Gut microbiota in the burying beetle, Nicrophorus vespilloides, provide colonization resistance against larval bacterial pathogens – Yin Wang & Daniel Rozen – bioRxiv

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Effects of habitat constraints on soil microbial community function – Naoise Nunan et al. – Scientific Reports

Diurnal cycling of rhizosphere bacterial communities is associated with shifts in carbon metabolism – Christopher Staley et al. – Microbiome

Biological control of Pythium, Rhizoctonia and Sclerotinia in lettuce: the plant protective activity of the bacterium Paenibacillus alvei K165 is associated with the induction of systemic resistance – G. Fatouros et al. – Plant Pathology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Membrane biofilm communities in full-scale membrane bioreactors are not randomly assembled and consist of a core microbiome – Gerald K. Matar & Samik Bagchi et al. – Water Research

Comparison of two bioinformatics tools used to characterize the microbial diversity and predictive functional attributes of microbial mats from Lake Obersee, Antarctica – Hyunmin Koo et al. – Journal of Microbiological Methods

Built environment

Hospital Building and Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs) in terms of total contamination data and cases grouped by department/areas – Shadha M. Abbas Al Asadi – Scientific Journal of Medical Research

Microbes in the news

The Bugs That Keep Us Safe – Maria-Luisa Alegre – American Journal of Transplantation

Study on human skin microbiome finds archaea abundance associated with age – Phys.org

The Dust Storm Microbiome – Weismann Institute of Science – Laboratory Equipment

Starbucks’ iced coffee may have fecal bacteria in it — so do all these other things – Donovan Harrell – Miami Herald (BBC investigation)

Bacteria change a liquid’s properties and escape entrapment – Gail Mccormick – Phys.org

Only association: Gut feelings are real: Some people have stomach bacteria that makes them more anxious and stressed, study shows – DailyMail

Elevated bacteria counts found at 4 Island beaches – Rick Kelley – Valley Morning Star

Plasmids: traffickers of antibiotic resistance – Modernising Medical Microbiology – University of Oxford

Microbes on the market

Diabetes: J&J and Seventure Partners launch investment – tg – European Biotechnology

Global Microbiome Drugs Market 2017- Pfizer, Second Genome , Seres Therapeutics, MaaT Pharma, Enterome Bioscience – Nakul Shirke – Daily Hover