July 2, 2019

This Tuesday, read about the fecal microbial transplantation for cardiometabolic syndrome treatment, oral microbiome of early stage Parkinson’s disease, Finnish Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) project, and more. Happy reading!

General microbiome

Review: Defining Division of Labour in Microbial Communities – Samir Giri – JMB

Review: Selective pressures during chronic infection drive microbial competition and cooperation – Jiwasmika Baishya & Catherine A. Wakeman – Biofilms and Microbiomes

Gut microbiome

*Review: Fecal Microbial Transplantation and Its Potential Application in Cardiometabolic Syndrome – Avner Leshem – Frontiers in Immunology

Review: The Microbiome and Irritable Bowel Syndrome – A Review on the Pathophysiology, Current Research and Future Therapy – Pei Pei Chong – Frontiers in Microbiology

Alterations of the bile microbiome in primary sclerosing cholangitis – Timur Liwinski – BMJ Gut Microbiota

Selective and suppressive effects of antibiotics on donor and recipient bacterial strains in gut microbiota determine transmission efficiency of blaNDM-1-bearing plasmids – Lianwei Ye – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Pregnancy and early life

Contributions to human breast milk microbiome and enteromammary transfer of Bifidobacterium breve – Kattayoun Kordy – bioRxiv

Experimental support for multidrug resistance transfer potential in the preterm infant gut microbiota – Mari Hagbø – Paediatric research

*Cohort profile: Finnish Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) longitudinal birth cohort – Katri Korpela – BMJ Paediatrics

Oral microbiome

*The oral microbiome of early stage Parkinson’s disease and its relationship with functional measures of motor and non-motor function – Dragos Mihaila – PlosOne

Phages and viruses

What is (not) known about the dynamics of the human gut virome in health and disease – Leen Beller Jelle Matthijnssens – Current Opinion in Virology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Characterization of indigenous bacteria from radon-rich groundwater and their tolerance to physicochemical stress – T. Nayak – International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Sewage effluent from an Indian hospital harbors novel carbapenemases and integron-borne antibiotic resistance genes – Nachiket P. Marathe – Microbiome

Techniques

Primer-free FISH probes from metagenomics/metatranscriptomics data permit the study of uncharacterised taxa in complex microbial communities – Shi Ming Tan – Biofilms and microbiomes

Bioinformatics

Use and abuse of correlation analyses in microbial ecology – Alex Carr – ISME Journal

Education

From trainees to trainers to instructors: Sustainably building a national capacity in bioinformatics training – Annette McGrath – Plos Computational Biology

Ten quick tips for effective dimensionality reduction – Lan Huong Nguyen and Susan Holmes – Plos Computational Biology

July 1, 2019

Today’s Monday digest is about microbiome changes in diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease; review on importance of pig microbiota and impact of fecal storage protocols on microbial diversity and composition.

General microbiome

The pig microbiota and the potential for harnessing the power of the microbiome to improve growth and health – Nirosh D Aluthge – Journal of Animal Science

Microbial genes and pathways in inflammatory bowel disease – Melanie Schirmer – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Human microbiome

Changes in Gut Microbiome after Bariatric Surgery Versus Medical Weight Loss in a Pilot Randomized Trial – Clare J. Lee – Obesity Surgery

Microbiome Signatures Associated with Steatohepatitis and Moderate to Severe Fibrosis in Children With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Jeffrey B. Schwimmer – Gastroenterology

Altered gut microbiota and mucosal immunity in patients with schizophrenia – Ruihuan Xu – Brain Behavior and Immunity

Patients Eligible for Trials of Microbe-based Therapeutics do not Represent the Population With Recurrent Clostridioides difficile Infection – Colleen R. Kelly – Clinical Gastoenterology and Hepatology

A role for the mammalian female reproductive tract microbiome in pregnancy outcomes – Babiche A. Heil – Physiological Genomics

Altered intestinal microbiota associated with colorectal cancer – Hong Zhang – Frontiers of Medicine

Gut microbiota is associated with adiposity markers and probiotics may impact specific genera – Aline Corado Gomes – European Journal of Nutrition

Consistent alterations in faecal microbiomes of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis independent of associated colitis – Malte Ruhlemann – Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Altered gut microbiota and inflammatory cytokine responses in patients with Parkinson’s disease – Chin-Hsien Lin – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Animal experiments

Hypergravity disrupts murine intestinal microbiota – Corentine Alauzet – Scientific Reports

Dietary fructose-induced gut dysbiosis promotes mouse hippocampal neuroinflammation: a benefit of short-chain fatty acids – Jian-Mei Li – Microbiome

Gut microbiota depletion from early adolescence alters adult immunological and neurobehavioral responses in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis – Maryam Zeraati – Neuropharmacology

Enrichment of intestinal Lactobacillus by enhanced secretory IgA coating alters glucose homeostasis in P2rx7−/− mice – Lisa Perruzza – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Higher stochasticity of microbiota composition in seedlings of domesticated wheat compared to wild wheat – Ezgi Özkurt – BioRxiv

Emphasis on the deep or shallow parts of the tree provides a new characterization of phylogenetic distances – Julia Fukuyama – Genome Biology

Techniques

Assessment of the impact of different fecal storage protocols on the microbiota diversity and composition: a pilot study – Shirin Moossavi – BMC Mirobiology

Microbes and the market

Microbiome Sequencing Market players include: Biolog Inc., CosmosID Inc., Illumina Inc., Metabiomics and Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd – News Exterior

Global Microbiome Drugs Market NEWS 2019 By Types Probiotics, Prebiotics, Small Molecules, Biological Drugs – Market Reports

 

June 29, 2019

Happy Saturday! Today, in this Digest: a review about the relationship between hypertension and the gut (including the microbiome as a key player) and a systematic review of the associations between vaginal microbiota, HPV and cervical dysplasia. Today we have also several papers about bioinformatic tools, methods, and techniques associated with microbiome research, including the analysis of well-to-well contamination during microbiome research. And of course, many more papers!

 

Human or General Microbiome

Review: Hypertension as a Metabolic Disorder and the Novel Role of the Gut – Masami Tanaka – Current Hypertension Reports

Minireview: Antibiotics and immunotherapy in gastrointestinal tumors: Friend or foe? – Cong Yan – World Journal of Clinical Cases

Review: Proton pump inhibitors and dysbiosis: Current knowledge and aspects to be clarified – Giovanni Bruno – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Systematic Review: The vaginal microbiota, HPV and cervical dysplasia: a systematic review and network meta-analysis – Johanna Norenhag – BJOG

Microbiota therapy acts via a regulatory T cell MyD88/RORγt pathway to suppress food allergy – Azza Abdel-Gadir – Nature Medicine

Exploration of the Vaginal and Gut Microbiome in African American Women by Body Mass Index, Class of Obesity, and Gestational Weight Gain: A Pilot Study – Mary Ann Faucher - American Journal of Perinatology

Banking feces: a new frontier for public blood banks? – Simon Mark Dahl Jørgensen – Transfusion

Diet-microbiota-metabolite interaction networks reveal key players in inflammatory bowel disease – Yijie Weng – Journal of Digestive Diseases

The microbiome of calcium-based urinary stones – Ryan A. Dornbier – Urolithiasis

Scientometric analysis of the term “microbiota” in research publications (1999-2017): A second youth of a century-old concept – Lesya Baudoin – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Microbiome analysis as a platform R&D tool for parasitic nematode disease management – Glenn Hogan – The ISME Journal

Is the Oral Microbiome Associated with Blood Pressure in Older Women? – Joshua H. Gordon – High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention

An untargeted fecal and urine metabolomics analysis of the interplay between the gut microbiome, diet and human metabolism in Indian and Chinese adults – Abhishek Jain – Scientific Reports

Gut Microbiota Alteration is Characterized by a Proteobacteria and Fusobacteria Bloom in Kwashiorkor and a Bacteroidetes Paucity in Marasmus – Thi-Phuong-Thao Pham – Scientific Reports

The effects of perineal disinfection on infant’s oral microflora after transvaginal examination during delivery – Hongping Li – BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Metagenomic analysis of bile salt biotransformation in the human gut microbiome – Promi Das – BMC Genomics

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Metagenomic assessment of the Cebus apella gut microbiota – Jenni Firrman – American Journal of Primatology

Multipartner Symbiosis across Biological Domains: Looking at the Eukaryotic Associations from a Microbial Perspective – Marta Turon – mSystems

Arthropod-bacteria interactions influence assembly of aquatic host microbiome and pathogen defense – Sasha E. Greenspan – Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Intestinal microbiota contributes to altered glucose metabolism in simulated microgravity mouse model – Yifan Wang – The FASEB Journal

Impact of Low-dose Ionising Radiation on the Composition of the Gut Microbiota of Mice – Xiaodan Liu – Toxicological Sciences

Habitat fragmentation is associated with dietary shifts and microbiota variability in common vampire bats – Melissa R. Ingala – Ecology and Evolution

 

Microbiome and Therapeutics (Compounds, Microbes or Procedures)

Review: Effects of Fish n-3 PUFAs on Intestinal Microbiota and Immune System – Cinzia Parolini – Marine Drugs

Review: Updates in Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection – Tanveer Singh – Journal of Clinical Medicine Research

Synbiotics suppress colitis-induced tumorigenesis in a colon-specific cancer mouse model – Yasufumi Saito – PLOS One

Roles of Chinese Medicine and Gut Microbiota in Chronic Constipation – Zhenyuan Xu – Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Increasing the Dose and/or Repeating Faecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) Increases the Response in Patients with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) – Magdy El-Salhy – Nutrients

Interleukin-37 sensitize the elderly type 2 diabetic patients to insulin therapy through suppressing the gut microbiota dysbiosis – Tianyi Li – Molecular Immunology

Skin microbiome modulation induced by probiotic solutions – Bernhard Paetzold – Microbiome

Evaluation of Predation Capability of Periodontopathogens Bacteria by Bdellovibrio Bacteriovorus HD100. An in Vitro Study – Romeo Patini – Materials

 

Bioinformatics, Methods and Techniques

Quantifying and Understanding Well-to-Well Contamination in Microbiome Research – Jeremiah J. Minich – mSystems

Associated commentary: A Lot on Your Plate? Well-to-Well Contamination as an Additional Confounder in Microbiome Sequence Analyses – Alan W. Walker – mSystems

redbiom: a Rapid Sample Discovery and Feature Characterization System – Daniel McDonald – mSystems

Review: Methods and basic concepts for microbiota assessment – Marcio Costa – The Veterinary Journal

Long-read based de novo assembly of low-complexity metagenome samples results in finished genomes and reveals insights into strain diversity and an active phage system – Vincent Somerville – BMC Microbiology

Robust biomarker discovery for microbiome-wide association studies – Qiang Zhu – Methods

A Method for Comprehensive Proteomic Analysis of Human Faecal Samples to Investigate Gut Dysbiosis in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis – Griet Debyser – Emerging Sample Treatments in Proteomics

metaQuantome: An integrated, quantitative metaproteomics approach reveals connections between taxonomy and protein function in complex microbiomes – Caleb W. Easterly – Molecular & Cellular Proteomics

Review: The dark side of technological advances in analysis of microbial ecosystems – Mick Bailey – Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology

June 27, 2019

This Thursday, read about the well-to-well contamination in microbiome research, antibiotic resistance gene pool in avian microbiomes, a novel robust taxonomic framework (AutoTax), and more. Happy reading!

General microbiome

*Quantifying and Understanding Well-to-Well Contamination in Microbiome Research – Jeremiah J. Minich – mSystems

Controlling for Contaminants in Low-Biomass 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing Experiments – Lisa Karstens – mSystems

Skin microbiome

The impact of skin care products on skin chemistry and microbiome dynamics – Amina Bouslimani – BMC Biology

Animal microbiome

*Meta-transcriptomics reveals a diverse antibiotic resistance gene pool in avian microbiomes – Vanessa R. Marcelin – BMC Biology

Soil microbiome

Defoliation management and grass growth habits modulated the soil microbial community of turfgrass systems – Qing Xia – PlosOne

Comparative overview of red kidney bean (Phaseolus valgaris) rhizospheric bacterial diversity in perspective of altitudinal variations – Deep Chandra Suyal – Biologia

Animal experiments

Puerarin prevents high-fat diet-induced obesity by enriching Akkermansia muciniphila in the gut microbiota of mice – Lei Wang – PlosOne

Water and extremophile microbiome

The anaerobic digestion microbiome: a collection of 1600 metagenome-assembled genomes shows high species diversity related to methane production – Stefano Campanaroa – bioRxiv

In situ transformation of ethoxylate and glycol surfactants by shale-colonizing microorganisms during hydraulic fracturing – Morgan V. Evans – ISME Journal

Bioinformatics

*Comprehensive ecosystem-specific 16S rRNA gene databases with automated taxonomy assignment (AutoTax) provide species-level resolution in microbial ecology – Morten Simonsen Dueholm – bioRxiv

June 24, 2019

Happy Monday! In today’s Digest, you’ll find a primer on metabolomics, a description of the fungal and bacterial communities involved in coffee fermentation, and several studies on extremophile communities.

General Microbiome
Staring into the void: Demystifying microbial metabolomics – Cynthia M Grim – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Bacterial metabolism-inspired molecules to modulate antibiotic efficacy – Yuan Liu – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Deterministic processes structure bacterial genetic communities across an urban landscape – J. M. Hassell – Nature Communications

Gut Microbiome
Bifidobacterium dentium Fortifies the Intestinal Mucus Layer via Autophagy and Calcium Signaling Pathways – Melinda A. Engevik – mBio

Lipopolysaccharides modulate intestinal epithelial permeability and inflammation in a species-specific manner – Matthew Stephens – Gut Microbes

Fecal Microbiome Data Distinguish Liver Recipients with Normal and Abnormal Liver Function from Healthy Controls – Hai-feng Lu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human Microbiota and Personalized Cancer Treatments: Role of Commensal Microbes in Treatment Outcomes for Cancer Patients – Stephen Gately – Precision Medicine in Cancer Therapy

Animal Experiments
Intervening Effects of Total Alkaloids of Corydalis saxicola Bunting on Rats With Antibiotic-Induced Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Based on 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing and Untargeted Metabolomics Analyses – Xi Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal Microbiome
Gestation alters the gut microbiota of an oviparous lizard – Brian K Trevelline – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Diversity of deep-water coral associated bacteria and comparison across depth gradients – Sigmund Jensen – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Plant, Root, and Soil Microbiome
Bacterial and archaeal spatial distribution and its environmental drivers in an extremely haloalkaline soil at the landscape scale – Martha Adriana Martínez-Olivas – PeerJ

The microbial community in an alkaline saline sediment of a former maar lake bed – Claudia L. Ibarra-Sánchez – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Impacts on soil microbial characteristics and their restorability with different soil disinfestation approaches in intensively cropped greenhouse soils – Tianzhu Meng – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Nonylphenol causes shifts in microbial communities and nitrogen mineralization in soil microcosms – Stefania Mattana – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Changes in Plant Rhizosphere Microbial Communities under Different Vegetation Restoration Patterns in Karst and Non-karst Ecosystems – Zhouzhou Fan – Scientific Reports

Water and Extremophile Microbiome
Culture independent bacterial diversity of Changme Khang and Changme Khangpu glaciers of North Sikkim, India – Mingma Thundu Sherpa – Environmental Sustainability

Selection of a Microbial Community in the Course of Formation of Acid Mine Drainage – V. V. Kadnikov – Microbiology

Thermophilic Bacteria in Lake Baikal Bottom Sediments Associated with Hydrocarbon Discharge – O. N. Pavlova – Microbiology

Bacterial alkylquinolone signaling contributes to structuring microbial communities in the ocean – Kristen E. Whalen – Microbiome

Food Microbiology
First description of bacterial and fungal communities in Colombian coffee beans fermentation analysed using Illumina-based amplicon sequencing – Ana C. de Oliveira Junqueira – Scientific Reports

Techniques
Functional Gene Array-Based Ultrasensitive and Quantitative Detection of Microbial Populations in Complex Communities – Zhou Shi – mSystems

June 22, 2019

Have a nice Saturday! Today, in this Digest: A set of reviews about the relationship between the microbiome and autism-related complications, Helicobacter infection, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and hypertension; a study about potential microbiome changes on fibromyalgia, the microbiota of milk in primates, the relationship between genomic and microbiome content in pigs and an interesting report about the effect of microbiota on cirrhosis-associated neuroinflammation.

 

Human and General Microbiome

Review: Can we reduce autism-related gastrointestinal and behavior problems by gut microbiota based dietary modulation? A review – Nalan Hakime Nogay – Nutritional Neuroscience

Review: A Novel View of Human Helicobacter pylori Infections: Interplay between Microbiota and Beta-Defensins – Raffaela Pero – Biomolecules

Review: Fecal Microbial Transplantation For Diseases Beyond Recurrent Clostridium Difficile Infection – Geert R. D’Haens – Gastroenterology

Review: Microbiota and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: promising prospects for clinical interventions? – Christelle Knudsen – Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Review: Impaired Autonomic Nervous System-Microbiome Circuit in Hypertension – Jasenka Zubcevic – Circulation Research

Altered microbiome composition in individuals with fibromyalgia – Amir Minerbi – Pain

Controlling intestinal colonization of high-risk haematology patients with ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae: a randomized, placebo-controlled, multicentre, Phase II trial (CLEAR) – Vassiliki Dimitriou – The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Editorial: Microbiota and the clock: sexual dimorphism matters! – Benjamin D. Weger – Aging

Microbiomes, Community Ecology, and the Comparative Method – Sarah M. Hird – mSystems

Technology Feature: Engineers embrace microbiome messiness – Vivien Marx – Nature Methods

Urolithin B suppresses tumor growth in hepatocellular carcinoma through inducing the inactivation of Wnt/β-catenin signaling – Min‐yi Lv – Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

 

Animal Microbiome / Animal Experiments

Diversity and temporal dynamics of primate milk microbiomes – Carly R. Muletz‐Wolz – American Journal of Primatology

Association between the pig genome and its gut microbiota composition – Daniel Crespo-Piazuelo – Scientific Reports

Misoprostol protects mice against severe Clostridium difficile infection and promotes recovery of the gut microbiota after antibiotic perturbation – Joseph P. Zackular – Anaerobe

Neuroinflammation in Murine Cirrhosis is Dependent on the Gut Microbiome and is Attenuated by Fecal Transplant – Runping Liu – Hepatology

Modulation of Lactobacillus acidophilus KLDS 1.0738 on intestinal SCFAs metabolism and GPR41/43 expression in β-lactoglobulin-sensitized mice – Jun‐juan Wang – Microbiology and Immunology

Effect of a proanthocyanidin-rich polyphenol extract from avocado on the production of amino acid-derived bacterial metabolites and the microbiota composition in rats fed a high-protein diet – María José Cires – Food & Nutrition

Environmental microcystin targets the microbiome and increases the risk of intestinal inflammatory pathology via NOX2 in underlying murine model of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease – Sutapa Sarkar – Scientific Reports

Probiotic supplementation improves the cognitive function and the anxiety-like behaviors in the stressed rats Mahsa Hadizadeh – Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences

 

Bioinformatics

MetaNN: accurate classification of host phenotypes from metagenomic data using neural networks – Chieh Lo – BMC Bioinformatics

Screening methods for detection of ancient Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex fingerprints in next-generation sequencing data derived from skeletal samples – Paulina Borówka – Gigascience

June 20, 2019

After a week, our Microbiome Digest is back online with a rich collection of articles in all fields microbiome. Highlights include a review on colonization resistance to bacterial pathogens in the gut, a report on daily sampling of the individual microbiome response to similar diets, and, have you heard of the FAIR principles for scientific data? Happy reading!

General microbiology

Bacillus cereus infection in neonates and the absence of evidence for the role of banked human milk: Case reports and literature review – Antoine Lewin et al. – Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

Comment: Multiple levels of the unknown in microbiome research – Andrew Maltez Thomas & Nicola Segata – BMC Biology

Comparative genome analysis reveals niche-specific genome expansion in Acinetobacter baumannii strains – Harshita Yakkala & Devyani Samantarrai et al. – PLoS One

Antimicrobial resistance

Definitions and guidelines for research on antibiotic persistence – Nathalie Q. Balaban et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: Genomic and metagenomic approaches for predictive surveillance of emerging pathogens and antibiotic resistance – Kimberley V. Sukhum et al. – Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Review: Antimicrobial Tolerance and Metabolic Adaptations in Microbial Biofilms – Aurélie Crabbé et al. – Trends in Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Dysbiotic salivary microbiota in dry mouth and primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients – S. Rusthen et al. – PLoS One

Human gut microbiome

** Review: Gut Microbiota and Colonization Resistance against Bacterial Enteric Infection – Q. R. Ducarmon et al. – Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Review: Gastrointestinal Microbiota in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review – SeonYoon Chung et al. – Advances in Nutrition

Gut Microbial Associations to Plasma Metabolites Linked to Cardiovascular Phenotypes and Risk – Alexander Kurilshikov et al. – Circulation Research

Commentary: The Microbiome, Plasma Metabolites, Dietary Habits, and Cardiovascular Risk Unravelling Their Interplay – Dariush Mozaffarian – Circulation Research

Review: Macronutrient metabolism by the human gut microbiome: major fermentation by-products and their impact on host health – Kaitlyn Oliphant & Emma Allen-Vercoe – Microbiome

Review: Lactose digestion in humans: intestinal lactase appears to be constitutive whereas the colonic microbiome is adaptable – Richard A Forsgård – The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

** Daily Sampling Reveals Personalized Diet-Microbiome Associations in Humans – Abigail J. Johnson et al – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: HIV, Cancer, and the Microbiota: Common Pathways Influencing Different Diseases – Sergio Serrano-Villar et al. – Frontiers in Immunology

IDDF2019-ABS-0157 Fecal microbiota transplantations reconstitute gut fungal and viral microbiota in graft-versus-host disease – Fen Zhang et al. – Gut

Exploring the impact of Helicobacter pylori on gut microbiome composition – Nihar Ranjan Dash et al. – PLoS One

Metabolomics

Review: Translational Metabolomics: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities – Farhana R. Pinu et al. – Metabolites

Animal experiments

Consumption of post-fermented Jing-Wei Fuzhuan brick tea alleviates liver dysfunction and intestinal microbiota dysbiosis in high fructose diet-fed mice – Xiangnan Zhang et al. – RSC Advance

Mouse: B vitamin sharing promotes stability of gut microbial communities – Vandana Sharma et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Variability of the ability of complex microbial communities to exclude microbes carrying antibiotic resistance genes in rabbits – caroline s. achard et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effects of BARLEYmax and high-β-glucan barley line on short-chain fatty acids production and microbiota from the cecum to the distal colon in rats – Seiichiro Aoe et al. – PLoS One

Animal microbiome

The “wildness” of the giant panda gut microbiome and its relevance to effective translocation – Ran Yao & Liangliang Xu et al. – Global Ecology and Conservation

Host genetics influence the rumen microbiota and heritable rumen microbial features associate with feed efficiency in cattle – Fuyong Li et al – Microbiome

Mosquito: Host species and site of collection shape the microbiota of Rift Valley fever vectors in Kenya – David P. Tchouassi et al – PLoS NTD

Longitudinal microbiome profiling reveals impermanence of probiotic bacteria in domestic pigeons – Kirsten Grond, Julie M. Perreau & Wesley T. Loo et al. – PLoS One

Food microbiome

Ground beef microbiome changes with antimicrobial decontamination interventions and product storage – Margaret D. Weinroth et al. – PLoS One

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Biocontrol of Root Diseases and Growth Promotion of the Tuberous Plant Aconitum carmichaelii Induced by Actinomycetes Are Related to Shifts in the Rhizosphere Microbiota – Yulong Li et al. – Microbial Ecology

Microbial communities from different soil types respond differently to organic waste input – Sophie Sadet-Bourgeteau et al. – Applied Soil Ecology

Plant-based oil-sorbents harbor native microbial communities effective in spilled oil-bioremediation under nitrogen starvation and heavy metal-stresses – N. Dashti et al. – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Effects of agricultural management on rhizosphere microbial structure and function in processing tomato – Jennifer E. Schmidt et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Microbial diversity in bulk and rhizosphere soil of Ranunculus glacialis along a high-alpine altitudinal gradient – Nadine Praeg et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Tripartite Interactions Between Endophytic Fungi, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, and Leymus chinensis – Hui Liu et al. – Microbial Ecology

Review: Plant host-associated mechanisms for microbial selection – Piet Jones et al. – Frontiers in Plant Science

Soil Microbial Biomass and Fungi Reduced with Canola Introduced into Long-Term Monoculture Wheat Rotations – Jeremy C. Hansen et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pearls: Microbiota-mediated disease resistance in plants – Nathan Vannier et al. – PLoS Pathogens

Effects of maize rotation on the physicochemical properties and microbial communities of American ginseng cultivated soil – Xiao-Lin Jiao et al. – Scientific Reports

Linking the response of soil microbial community structure in soils to long-term wastewater irrigation and soil depth – Qiuling Dang et al. – Science of the Total Environment

One-time nitrogen fertilization shifts switchgrass soil microbiomes within a context of larger spatial and temporal variation – Huaihai Chen et al. – PLoS One

Water and extremophile microbiome

Comparison of bacterial community structure and potential functions in hypoxic and non-hypoxic zones of the Changjiang Estuary – Dong-Mei Wu & Qiu-Ping Dai et al. – PLoS One

Review: Progress and promise of omics for predicting the impacts of climate change on harmful algal blooms – Gwenn M.M.Hennon & Sonya T.Dyhrman – Harmful Algae

Position-specific metabolic probing and metagenomics of microbial communities reveal conserved central carbon metabolic network activities at high temperatures – Scott C. Thomas et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Chemical composition of extracellular polymeric substances and evolution of microbial community in activated sludge exposed to ibuprofen – Guangqing Zhou et al. – Journal of Environmental Management

Enhancement of facultative anaerobic denitrifying communities by oxygen release from roots of the macrophyte in constructed wetlands – Haishu Sun et al. – Journal of Environmental Management

How does environmental inter-annual variability shape aquatic microbial communities? A 40-year annual record of sedimentary DNA from a boreal lake (Nylandssjön, Sweden) – Eric Capo et al. – Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Phages and viruses

Review: Virome and bacteriome: two sides of the same coin – Jonathan Stern et al. – Current Opinion in Virology

Technology

Gut microbiome analysis by post: Evaluation of the optimal method to collect stool samples from infants within a national cohort study – Georgina M. Williams et al. – PLoS One

Microbiota data from low biomass milk samples is markedly affected by laboratory and reagent contamination – Josef Dahlberg et al. – PLoS One

Bioinformatics

GRASP2: fast and memory-efficient gene-centric assembly and homolog search for metagenomic sequencing data – Cuncong Zhong et al. – BMC Bioinformatics

Proficiency testing of virus diagnostics based on bioinformatics analysis of simulated in silico high-throughput sequencing datasets – Annika Brinkmann et al. – Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Microbes in the news

FDA recalls certain tattoo inks for bacterial contamination – Fox 13 News

Viruses found to use intricate ‘treadmill’ to move cargo across bacterial cells – ScienceDaily

USDA issues reminder about how to safely meal prep – Erica Chayes Wida – Today

Highlights and key takeaways from the 2019 Boston Bacterial Meeting (BBM) – Dr. Tomislav Meštrović, MD, Ph.D. – News Medical

Non-microbiology picks

** The State of Open Data Report 2018

Network analysis to evaluate the impact of research funding on research community consolidation – Daniel J. Hicks et al. – PLoS One

June 10, 2019

This Monday, read about the precision of microbiome wording, cryopreservation of the human gut microbiota, water infrastructure microbiomes, and more. Happy reading!

General microbiome

Determining Microbial Roles in Ecosystem Function: Redefining Microbial Food Webs and Transcending Kingdom Barriers – Kim M. Handley – mSystems

Digitalizing the Microbiome for Human Health – Kirti Nath and Christoph A. Thaiss – mSystems

New Approaches to Microbiome-Based Therapies – Andrea C. Wong and Maayan Levy – mSystems

Benefits and Costs of Animal Virulence for Microbes – Arturo Casadevall and Liise-anne Pirofski – mSystems

*Language, numeracy and logic in microbiome science – Fergus Shanahan and Colin Hill – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Gut microbiome

*Cryopreservation of the human gut microbiota: current state and perspectives – Daria V.Smirnovaa – International Journal of Medical Microbiology

Metaproteomics of the human gut microbiota: challenges and contributions to other OMICS – Ngom Issa Isaac – Clinical Mass Spectrometry

Mapping human microbiome drug metabolism by gut bacteria and their genes – Michael Zimmermann – Nature

MinION Sequencing of colorectal cancer tumour microbiomes – a comparison with amplicon-based and RNA-Sequencing – William S Taylor – bioRxiv

Assessment of Causal Direction Between Gut Microbiota-Dependent Metabolites and Cardiometabolic Health: Abi-Directional Mendelian Randomisation Analysis – Jinzhu Jia – Diabetes

Metagenomic and metabolomic analyses reveal distinct stage-specific phenotypes of the gut microbiota in colorectal cancer – Shinichi Yachida – Nature Medicine

Dysbiosis of gut microbiota in a selected population of Parkinson’s patients – Daniele Pietrucci – Parkinsonism & Related Disorders

Animal experiment

Heterochronic faecal transplantation boosts gut germinal centres in aged mice – Marisa Stebegg – Nature communications

High fat diet alters gut microbiota but not spatial working memory in early middle-aged Sprague Dawley rats – Nikita Girish Deshpande – PlosOne

Animal microbiome

Fibre digestion by rumen microbiota – a review of recent metagenomic and metatranscriptomic studies – Stephanie A Terry – Canadian Journal of Animal Science

Correlation between Disease Severity and the Intestinal Microbiome in Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Infected Rhesus Macaques – Sivaranjani Namasivayam – mBio

Water microbiome

*Integrating biotechnology and microbial ecology in urban water infrastructure through a microbiome continuum viewpoint – Lutgarde Raskin and Per Halkjær Nielsen – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Techniques

MOBN: an interactive database of multi-omics biological networks – Cheng Zhang – bioRxiv

June 4, 2019

General microbiome
Rigorous Statistical Methods for Rigorous Microbiome Science – Amy D. Willis – mSystems

Understanding microbial community dynamics to improve optimal microbiome selection – Robyn J. Wright – Microbiome

Toward a Better Understanding of Species Interactions through Network Biology – Ryan S. McClure – mSystems

Human respiratory microbiome
Nasal commensal Staphylococcus epidermidis enhances interferon-λ-dependent immunity against influenza virus – Hyun Jik Kim – Microbiome

Human gut microbiome
A Multi-omics Approach to Unraveling the Microbiome-Mediated Effects of Arabinoxylan Oligosaccharides in Overweight Humans – Alfonso Benítez-Páez – mSystems

Gut microbiome identifies risk for colorectal polyps – Ezzat Dadkhah – BMJ Open Gastroenterology

Yogurt improves insulin resistance and liver fat in obese women with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and metabolic syndrome: a randomized controlled trial – Yang Chen – American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Preprint: Chemical Impacts of the Microbiome Across Scales Reveal Novel Conjugated Bile Acids – Robert A Quinn – bioRxiv

Animal models
Ruminal microbiome-host crosstalk stimulates the development of the ruminal epithelium in a lamb model – Limei Lin – Microbiome

Missing Links: the Role of Primates in Understanding the Human Microbiome – Katherine R. Amato – mSystems

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Collaborative involvement of woody plant roots and rhizosphere microorganisms in the formation of pedogenetic clays – Frank Reith – Annals of Botany

Water and extremophile microbiome
Effects of sulfamethoxazole and sulfamethoxazole-degrading bacteria on water quality and microbial communities in milkfish ponds – Bea-Ven Chang – Environmental Pollution

Preprint: Temporal dynamics of Bacteria, Archaea and protists in equatorial coastal waters – Caroline Chénard – bioRxiv

Built environment
Concurrent measurement of microbiome and allergens in the air of bedrooms of allergy disease patients in the Chicago area – Miles Richardson – Microbiome

Phages and viruses
Preprint: The human gut virome is highly diverse, stable and individual-specific – Andrey Shkoporov – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics
NG-meta-profiler: fast processing of metagenomes using NGLess, a domain-specific language – Luis Pedro Coelho – Microbiome

Science, publishing, and career
Preprint: The Mastery Rubric for Bioinformatics: supporting design and evaluation of career-spanning education and training – Rochelle E. Tractenberg – bioRxiv

Alyson’s non-microbiology picks
Why Your Metro Commute Is So Insanely Windy – Julie Bogen – The Atlantic

The 2019 Wellcome photography prize: close focus on the human condition – Sean O’Hagan – The Guardian

May 31, 2019

Happy Friday!! Today’s digest contains reviews on the role of microbiota in immune memory formation and bioinformatic tools for soil microbiome analysis

General microbiome

*Review: The microbiome and immune memory formation – Kathy D. McCoy – Immunology and Cell biology

Preprint – Investigating Transfusion-Related Sepsis using Culture-Independent Metagenomic Sequencing – Emily Crawford – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Response of Fish Gut Microbiota to Toxin-Containing Cyanobacterial Extracts: A Microcosm Study on the Medaka (Oryzias latipes) – Sébastien Duperron – Environmental Science & Technology Letters

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

*Book chapter : Bioinformatics Tools for Soil Microbiome Analysis – Rama Kant Dubey – Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science book series

Book chapter: Belowground Microbial Communities: Key Players for Soil and Environmental Sustainability – Rama Kant Dubey – Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science book series

Book chapter: Single-Cell Genomics and Metagenomics for Microbial Diversity Analysis – Rama Kant Dubey – Part of the SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science book series

In vitro digestion and fermentation of three polysaccharide fractions from Laminaria japonica and their impact on lipid metabolism-associated human gut microbiota – Jie Gao – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Preprint – Biogeographical patterns in soil bacterial communities across the Arctic region – Lucie A Malard – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient – Marie Simonin – Environmental Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Analysis of Spounaviruses as a Case Study for the Overdue Reclassification of Tailed Phages – Jakub Barylski – Systematic Biology

Techniques

Protocol: Analysis of Microbial Siderophores by Mass Spectrometry – Tomas Pluhacek – Part of the Methods in Molecular Biology

Review: A guide to visualizing the spatial epigenome with super‐resolution microscopy – Jianquan Xu – The FEBS Journal