Category Archives: Water microbiome

June 4, 2019

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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

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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

May 29, 2019

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Changes to the pig gut microbiome based on age, gut bacteria community composition in aquatic invertebrates, fungal diversity on limestone cathedral walls, chalk-talk vs PowerPoint in large microbiology lectures.

Human oral microbiome

Applications of the oral microbiome in personalized dentistry – Georgios N Belibasakis – Archives of Oral Biology

Human vaginal microbiome

Detection of Methanobrevibacter smithii in vaginal samples collected from women diagnosed with bacterial vaginosis – Ghiles Grine – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Human gut microbiome

Gut Microbial Dataset of a foraging tribe from rural West Bengal – insights into unadulterated and transitional microbial abundance – Sayak Ganguli – Data in Brief

Gut microbiome of pre-adolescent children of two ethnicities residing in three distant cities – Wei Wei Thwe Khine – Scientific Reports

The eradication of Helicobacter pylori restores rather than disturbs the gastrointestinal microbiota in asymptomatic young adults – Cong He – Helicobacter

Pre-print: Cytometric fingerprints of gut microbiota predict Crohn’s disease state – Peter Rubbens – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Rapamycin modulates tissue aging and lifespan independently of the gut microbiota in Drosophila – Joseph M Schinaman – Scientific Reports

Age-based dynamic changes of phylogenetic composition and interaction networks of health pig gut microbiome feeding in a uniformed condition – Shanlin Ke – BMC Veterinary Research

Pre-print: Effects of Five Products on Gut Microbiota and Short-Chain Fatty Acids of Obese Rats – Simin Tan – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Effect of different forage-to-concentrate ratios on ruminal bacterial structure and real-time methane production in sheep – Runhang Li – PLOS ONE

Pre-print: Microbiomes from feces vs. gut in aquatic vertebrates: distinct community compositions between substrates and preservation methods – Sten Anslan – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Glycoside Hydrolase Genes Are Required for Virulence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens on Bryophyllum daigremontiana and Tomato – Stephanie L Mathews – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Effect of water-driven changes in rice rhizosphere on Cd lability in three soils with different pH – Jinjin Wang – Journal of Environmental Sciences

Impact of AMF Claroideoglomus etunicatum on the structure of fungal communities in the tomato rhizosphere – Agnieszka Jamiołkowska – Acta Mycologica

Effect of land use and carbonates on organic matter stabilization and microbial communities in Mediterranean soils – Mireia Martí-Roura – Geoderma

Pre-print: Close-Range Interactions Favor Growth in Random-Paired Extracted Soil Bacteria – Manupriyam Dubey – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome

New microbial lineages capable of carbon fixation and nutrient cycling in deep-sea sediments of the northern South China Sea – Jiao-Mei Huang – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Pre-print: Spatial variations of microbial communities in abyssal and hadal sediments across the Challenger Deep – Guojie Cui – PeerJ

Taxonomic structure and potential nitrogen metabolism of microbial assemblage in a large hypereutrophic steppe lake – Xiaodong Qu – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Built environment

Fungal diversity and distribution across distinct biodeterioration phenomena in limestone walls of the old cathedral of Coimbra, UNESCO World Heritage Site – João Trovão – International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation

Probiotics/prebiotics

Dietary probiotics have different effects on the composition of fecal microbiota in farmed raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) and silver fox (Vulpes vulpes fulva) – Yongjia Peng – BMC Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Microbiome therapies could be the next frontier in medicine. But how exactly do you make them? – Kate Sheridan – STAT

Possible link between infant gut microbiome and development of allergies – Bob Yirka – Medical Xpress

Science, career, and publishing

Pre-print: Rock the Chalk: A five-year comparative analysis of a large microbiology lecture course reveals improved outcomes of chalk-talk compared to PowerPoint – Christopher M Waters – bioRxiv

May 28, 2019

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Today’s digest is about metaproteomics in microbial communities, infant and child microbiome and association with diseases, coral ecosphere, microbial biospherics and updates on new techniques to analyze microbiome sequencing data.

General microbiome

Metaproteomics: Much More than Measuring Gene Expression in Microbial Communities – Manuel Kleiner – mSystems

Associational effects in the microbial neighborhood – Anja Worrich – ISME Journal

Uncovering complex molecular networks in host–pathogen interactions using systems biology – Joshua M. Peters – Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

Human microbiome

The skin microbiome of vertebrates – Ashley A. Ross – Microbiome

Patterns in the longitudinal oropharyngeal microbiome evolution related to ventilator-associated pneumonia – Rami Sommerstein – Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Microbial composition of the human nasopharynx varies according to influenza virus type and vaccination status – Tao Ding -BioRxiv

Cytometric fingerprints of gut microbiota predict Crohn’s disease state – Peter Rubbens – BioRxiv

Dynamic colonization of microbes and their functions after fecal microbiota transplantation for inflammatory bowel disease – Nathaniel D. Chu – BioRxiv

Pregnancy and infant microbiome

Paediatrician’s perspective of infant gut microbiome research: current status and challenges – Paul MacDaragh Ryan – Archives of Disease in Childhood

The Salivary Microbiome Is Altered in Children With Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Correlates With Disease Activity – Hiremath Girish – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Influence of own mother’s milk and different proportions of formula on intestinal microbiota of very preterm newborns – Adriana Zanella – PlosOne

Influence of a Serratia marcescens outbreak on the gut microbiota establishment process in low-weight preterm neonates – Esperanza Escribano – PlosOne

Reviewing the evidence on breast milk composition and immunological outcomes – Alba Boix-Amorós – Nutrition Reviews

Characterization of Stool Virome in Children Newly Diagnosed With Moderate to Severe Ulcerative Colitis – Rafal Tokarz – Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Animal experiments

Effect of intestinal tapeworms on the gut microbiota of the common carp, Cyprinus carpio – Pei P. Fu – Parasites and Vectors

Comparison of Bacterial Populations in the Ceca of Swine at Two Different Stages and their Functional Annotations – Himanshu Kumar – Genes

Toll‐like receptor 2 and toll‐like receptor 4 responses regulate neutrophil infiltration into the junctional epithelium and significantly contribute to the composition of the oral microbiota – Ana M. Chang – Journal of Periodontology

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Mediterranean grassland soil C–N compound turnover is dependent on rainfall and depth, and is mediated by genomically divergent microorganisms – Spencer Diamond – Nature Microbiology

Rhizosphere microbiomes diverge among Populus trichocarpa plant-host genotypes and chemotypes, but it depends on soil origin – Allison M. Veach – Microbiome

Microbial community drivers of PK/NRP gene diversity in selected global soils – Chiara Borsetto – Microbiome

Decreased temporary turnover of bacterial communities along soil depth gradient during a 35-year grazing exclusion period in a semiarid grassland – Chao Zhang – Geoderma

Soil bacterial community dynamics following surfactant addition and bioaugmentation in pyrene-contaminated soils – D.C.Wolf – Chemosphere

Structural and Functional Responses of Soil Microbial Communities to Biodegradable Plastic Film Mulching in Two Agroecosystems – Sreejata Bandopadhyay – BioRxiv

Ecological and genomic attributes of novel bacterial taxa that thrive in subsurface soil horizons – Tess E. Brewer – BioRxiv

Water microbiome and extremophiles

The coral ecosphere: A unique coral reef habitat that fosters coral–microbial interactions – Laura Weber – Limnology and Oceanography

Tide driven microbial dynamics through virus-host interactions in the estuarine ecosystem – Xiaowei Chen – Water Research

Microbial biofilm formation and community structure on low-density polyethylene microparticles in lake water microcosms – Mengting Gong – Environmental Pollution

Diversity and relative abundance of ammonia- and nitrite-oxidizing microorganisms in the offshore Namibian hypoxic zone – Evan Lau – PlosOne

Consistent metagenome-derived metrics verify and define bacterial species boundaries – Matthew R. Olm – BioRxiv

Techniques

Competitive interaction with keystone taxa induced negative priming under biochar amendments – Lijun Chen – Microbiome

Strengthening Insights in Microbial Ecological Networks from Theory to Applications – Xiaofei Lv – mSystems

Microbial biospherics: The experimental study of ecosystem function and evolution – Matthias C. Rillig – PNAS

NUFEB: A Massively Parallel Simulator for Individual-based Modelling of Microbial Communities – Bowen Li – BioRxiv

Detecting interaction networks in the human microbiome with conditional Granger causality – Kumar Mainali – Plos Computational Biology

M1CR0B1AL1Z3R—a user-friendly web server for the analysis of large-scale microbial genomics data – Oren Avram – Nucleic Acids Research

End-to-end assessment of fecal bacteriome analysis: from sample processing to DNA sequencing and bioinformatics results – Ana Paula Christoff – BioRxiv

Microbiome in news

Antibiotics may help curb Alzheimer’s symptoms – Medical News Today

SANISCALP®, to preserve the Microbiome for a soothed and healthy scalp! – Cosmetics desgin.com – Mamamia

Mother Dirt Expands Biome-Friendly Skincare Range With New Body Care Line – Mid Daily News

Microbes and the market

Global Microbiome Drugs Market Forecast 2019-2025: MaaT Pharma, Pfizer, Second Genome, Seres Therapeutics – Technology Market

Microbiome Therapeutics Market 2019 – By Future Growth, Trends Plans, Top Key Players, Business Opportunities, Region, Pricing Analysis, Opportunities and Forecast to 2024 – Norwalk Daily

Global Human Microbiome Modulators Market Report 2019: Trends and Opportunities for the Business Prediction over 2024 – Current News Magazine

Microbiome Sequencing Services Market 2019 Report Shows the Competitive Situation Among the Top Manufacturers, With Sales, Revenue and Share – Augusta Observer

 

May 23, 2019

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Composition of the human mucosa-associated microbiota, changes in gut microbial diversity with social rank in cichlid fish, microbes supporting sustainable rice production, the effects of tweeting on article engagement in medical education.

General microbiome

Global change microbiology — big questions about small life for our future – Antje Boetius – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

Review: The Structure of Dental Plaque Microbial Communities in the Transition from Health to Dental Caries and Periodontal Disease – Alex M Valm – Journal of Molecular Biology

Human gut microbiome

Within-host evolution of Helicobacter pylori shaped by niche-specific adaptation, intragastric migrations and selective sweeps – Florent Ailloud – Nature Communications

Pre-print: Complete genome assembly of clinical multidrug resistant Bacteroides fragilis isolates enables comprehensive identification of antimicrobial resistance genes and plasmids – Thomas V Syndenham – bioRxiv

Composition of the mucosa-associated microbiota along the entire gastrointestinal tract of human individuals – FER Vuik – United European Gastroenterology Journal

Animal experiments

Loss of function dysbiosis associated with antibiotics and high fat, high sugar diet – Aaron W Miller – The ISME Journal

Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745 changes lipidemic profile and gut microbiota in a hamster hypercholesterolemic model – F Briand – Beneficial Microbes

Animal microbiome

Gut microbial diversity increases with social rank in the African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni – Avehi Singh – Animal Behaviour

Amphibian Host and Skin Microbiota Response to a Common Agricultural Antimicrobial and Internal Parasite – Obed Hernández-Gómez – Microbial Ecology

Pre-print: Space, time, and captivity: quantifying the factors influencing the fecal microbiome of an alpine ungulate – Sarah E Haworth – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Interaction between root hairs and soil phosphorus on rhizosphere priming of soil organic matter – Gabriel Boilard – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Green manures of Indian mustard and wild rocket enhance cucumber resistance to Fusarium wilt through modulating rhizosphere bacterial community composition – Xue Jin – Plant and Soil

Ozone dose-response relationships for soil microbial dynamics of winter wheat in North China – Enzhu Hu – Atmospheric Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome

Filamentous calcareous alga provides substrate for coral-competitive macroalgae in the degraded lagoon of Dongsha Atoll, Taiwan – Carolin Nieder – PLOS ONE

Food microbiology

Roles of microbes in supporting sustainable rice production using the system of rice intensification – Febri Doni – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbes in the news

Airway microbiome appears altered in severe asthma linked to neutrophils – EurekAlert

Coffee Consumption Alters Microbiome and Improves Gut Motility – Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News

Researchers receive $1.94 million to study connection between autism, microbiome – EurekAlert

Novel Autonomous Biosampler Will Foster In Situ Aquatic Microbiome Monitoring – Eunice Sousa – Science Trends

Meta-study suggests anxiety can be reduced by altering gut bacteria, but not with probiotics – Rich Haridy – New Atlas

Science, career, and publishing

Pre-print: To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That is the Question: A Randomized Trial of Twitter Effects on Article Engagement in Medical Education – Lauren A Maggio – bioRxiv

May 22, 2019

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Today’s Digest is full of new perspectives on appropriate models and techniques, including the future of gnotobiotics and using unbiased metagenomics to find RNA viruses. There are also several plant, root, and soil papers, particularly examining the interplay between bacterial and fungal communities. Finally, enjoy a preprint about the cartography of antibiotic resistance genes in a hospital, a study examining the microbiota in larval mosquito vectors of malaria, and a paper about the microeukaryotes associated with coral reefs.

General Microbiome
Review: Antibiotics versus biofilm: an emerging battleground in microbial communities – Divakar Sharma – Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

Review: Gnotobiotics: Past, present and future – Marijana Basic – Laboratory Animals

Review: The use of non-rodent model species in microbiota studies – Aaron C. Ericsson – Laboratory Animals

Pregnancy and Early Life
Influence of a Serratia marcescens outbreak on the gut microbiota establishment process in low-weight preterm neonates – Esperanza Escribano – PLoS One

Human Vaginal Microbiome
Vaginal microbiota and mucosal pharmacokinetics of tenofovir in healthy women using tenofovir and tenofovir/levonorgestrel vaginal rings – Andrea Ries Thurman – PLoS One

Human Oral Microbiome
Aerodigestive sampling reveals altered microbial exchange between lung, oropharyngeal, and gastric microbiomes in children with impaired swallow function – Claire Duvallet – PLoS One

Animal Microbiome
Color morphology of Diaphorina citri influences interactions with its bacterial endosymbionts and ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ – Saeed Hosseinzadeh – PLoS One

Conspecific coprophagy stimulates normal development in a germ-free model invertebrate – Benjamin C. Jahnes – PeerJ

Malaria vector species in Amazonian Peru co-occur in larval habitats but have distinct larval microbial communities – Catharine Prussing – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Animal Experiments
Gut and immune effects of bioactive milk factors in preterm pigs exposed to prenatal inflammation – Shuqiang Ren – American Journal of Physiology-Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology

Effects of oregano essential oil on the ruminal pH and microbial population of sheep – Rui Zhou – PLoS One

Plant, Root, and Soil Microbiome
Characterizing the intra-vineyard variation of soil bacterial and fungal communities – Hebin Liang – Frontiers in Microbiology

The role of fungi in heterogeneous sediment microbial networks – Jenny Marie Booth – Scientific Reports

Altering N2O emissions by manipulating wheat root bacterial community – Alla Usyskin-Tonne – Scientific Reports

Sphingomonas sp. Cra20 Increases Plant Growth Rate and Alters Rhizosphere Microbial Community Structure of Arabidopsis Thaliana Under Drought Stress – Yang Luo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Enrichment of soil rare bacteria in root by an invasive plant Ageratina adenophora – Lin Chen – Science of the Total Environment

Effect of rhizospheric and endophytic bacteria with multiple plant growth promoting traits on wheat growth – Somayeh Emami – Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Water and Extremophile Microbiome
A comparison of microeukaryote communities inhabiting sponges and seawater in a Taiwanese coral reef system – Daniel Francis Richard Cleary – Annals of Microbiology

An integrated insight into the response of bacterial communities to anthropogenic contaminants in a river: A case study of the Wonderfonteinspruit catchment area, South Africa – K. Jordaan – PLoS One

Built Environment
Preprint: Cartography of opportunistic pathogens and antibiotic resistance genes in a tertiary hospital environment – Kern Rei Chng – bioRxiv

Fungal community composition analysis of 24 different urban parks in Shanghai, China – Jing Zhang – Urban Ecosystems

Techniques
Expanding the RNA Virosphere by Unbiased Metagenomics – Yong-Zhen Zhang – Annual Review of Virology

Preprint: Next-generation sequencing of double stranded RNA is greatly improved by treatment with the inexpensive denaturing reagent DMSO – Alexander H. Wilcox – bioRxiv

Development of an autonomous biosampler to capture in situ aquatic microbiomes – Hugo Ribeiro – PLoS One

May 21, 2019

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Today’s digest is short and sweet but includes interesting articles. A brilliant essay on multidisciplinarity in microbiome research 🥰

General Microbiome

ESSAY: Multidisciplinarity in Microbiome Research: A Challenge and Opportunity to Rethink Causation, Variability, and Scale. KR Amato – BioEssays

REVIEW:Contribution of the Mucosal Microbiota to Bovine Respiratory HealthM Zeineldin. Trends in Microbiology

Characterization of a novel salt-, xylose-and alkali-tolerant GH43 bifunctional β-xylosidase/α-l-arabinofuranosidase from the gut bacterial genome. B Xu. Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Gut Microbiome

Circulating Microbiota-Based Metagenomic Signature for Detection of Hepatocellular CarcinomaEJ Cho. Scientific Reports

The bacterial communities of the small intestine and stool in children with short bowel syndrome. SL Zeichner. PLOS ONE

Isolation of novel gut bifidobacteria using a combination of metagenomic and cultivation approachesGA Lugli. BMC Genome Biology

Plant, Soil, and Water Microbiome

Microbial production and consumption of dissolved organic matter in glacial ecosystems on the Tibetan PlateauL Zhou. Water Research

Engineering banana endosphere microbiome to improve Fusarium wilt resistance in banana. Y Liu.Microbiome
Toxic responses of metabolites, organelles and gut microorganisms of Eisenia fetida in a soil with chromium contaminationR Tang. Environmental Pollution

Roles of microbes in supporting sustainable rice production using the system of rice intensificationF Doni. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Cover crop species have contrasting influence upon soil structural genesis and microbial community phenotype.A Bacq-Labreuil. Scientific Reports

Preprint

Treatment-Specific Composition of Gut Microbiota Is Associated with Disease Remission in a Pediatric Crohn’s Disease Cohort . Daniel Sprockett. bioRxiv posted 19 May 2019

May 20, 2019

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This Monday, read about the stability within gut resident clonal populations of Enterobacteriaceae, significance of microbiome in personalized medicine, and impacts of intermittent supply on the drinking water microbiome. Happy reading!

General microbiome

Defining Microbiome Health through a Host Lens – Sean M. Gibbonsa – mSystems

*Review: The significance of microbiome in personalized medicine – Ava Behrouzi – Clinical and Translational Medicine

Moving towards a Robust Definition for a “Healthy” Indoor Microbiome – Karen C. Dannemiller – mSystems

Gut microbiome

*Rethinking gut microbiome residency and the Enterobacteriaceae in healthy human adults – Jonathan N. V. Martinson – ISME Journal

Rectal swabs in critically-ill patients provide discordant representations of the gut microbiome compared to stool samples: a brief methodologic report – Katherine Fair – bioRxiv

Development of a Covalent Inhibitor of Gut Bacterial Bile Salt Hydrolases – Arijit A. Adhikari – bioRxiv

Temporal Gut Microbial Changes Predict Recurrent Clostridium difficile in Patients with and without Ulcerative Colitis – Allen A. Lee – boRxiv

Alteration of Gut Microbiome in Lung Cancer Patients – Li Ming – bioRxiv

Respiratory microbiome

Microbiome disturbance and resilience dynamics of the upper respiratory tract in response to influenza A virus infection in humans and ferrets – Drishti Kaul – bioRxiv

High mortality from viral pneumonia in patients with cancer – Youn-Jung Ki – Infectious Diseases

Water microbiome

Global diversity and biogeography of bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants – Linwei Wu – Nature Microbiology

*Understanding the impacts of intermittent supply on the drinking water microbiome – Quyen Melina Bautista-de los Santos – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Animal microbiome

Exploration of the rumen microbial diversity and carbohydrate active enzyme profile of black Bengal goat using metagenomic approach – Prashant R. Suryawanshi – Animal Biotechnology

Assessing key microbial communities determining nitrogen transformation in composting of cow manure using illumina high-throughput sequencing – Yu Sun – Waste Management

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Root microbiota assembly and adaptive differentiation among European Arabidopsis populations – Thorsten Thiergart – bioRxiv

Response of Microbial Communities and Their Metabolic Functions to Drying–Rewetting Stress in a Temperate Forest Soil – Dong Liu – Microorganisms

Review: Rhizosphere size and shape: Temporal dynamics and spatial stationarity – Yakov Kuzyakov & Bahar S. Razavi – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Phages and viruses

Production and characterization of novel ssRNA bacteriophage virus-like particles from metagenomic sequencing data – Ilva Lieknina – Journal of Nanobiotechnology

Techniques

PhenoGMM: Gaussian mixture modelling of microbial cytometry data enables efficient predictions of biodiversity – Peter Rubbens – bioRxiv

May 16, 2019

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Today’s digest includes the microbial communities of fruit peels, bacterial crude oil degradation, and the gut microbiome of sea cucumbers. Enjoy!

Pregnancy and early life

Preprint: Interactions between the gut microbiome and mucosal immunoglobulins A, M and G in the developing infant gut – Janzon – BioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Evolution of the gut microbiome following acute HIV-1 infection – Rocafort – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Evaluation of the Function of Wild Animal Gut Microbiomes Using Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics and its Relevance to Animal Conservation – Yao – Evolutionary Bioinformatics

High-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA amplicons characterizes gut microbiota shift of juvenile sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus feeding with three antibiotics – Zhao – Journal of Oceanology and Limnology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Contrasting patterns and drivers of soil fungal communities in subtropical deciduous and evergreen broadleaved forests – Chen – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Evaluation of microbial communities in peels of Brazilian tropical fruits by amplicon sequence analysis – Cruz – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology

Assembly mechanisms of soil bacterial communities in subalpine coniferous forests on the Loess Plateau, China – Zhao – Journal of Microbiology

Evaluating the effects of canine urine on urban soil microbial communities – Lee – Urban Ecosystems

Methane emission and soil microbial communities in early rice paddy as influenced by urea-N fertilization – Liu – Plant and Soil

Rhizosphere carbon supply accelerates soil organic matter decomposition in the presence of fresh organic substrates – Jackson – Plant and Soil

The relative contributions of pH, organic anions, and phosphatase to rhizosphere soil phosphorus mobilization and crop phosphorus uptake in maize/alfalfa polyculture – Sun – Plant and Soil

Diversity of anammox bacteria and abundance of functional genes for nitrogen cycling in the rhizosphere of submerged macrophytes in a freshwater lake in summer – Zhao – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Direct and indirect effects of elevated CO2 and nitrogen addition on soil microbial communities in the rhizosphere of Bothriochloa ischaemum – Xiao – Journal of Soils and Sediments

Rhizocompartments and environmental factors affect microbial composition and variation in native plants – Kang – Journal of Microbiology

The inhibitory effect of cadmium and/or mercury on soil enzyme activity, basal respiration, and microbial community structure in coal mine–affected agricultural soil – Zheng – Annals of Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Preprint: Metabolic Architecture of the Deep Ocean Microbiome – Acinas – BioRxiv

Production of Current by Syntrophy Between Exoelectrogenic and Fermentative Hyperthermophilic Microorganisms in Heterotrophic Biofilm from a Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Chimney – Pillot – Microbial Ecology

A glimpse of the prokaryotic diversity of the Large Aral Sea reveals novel extremophilic bacterial and archaeal groups – Shurigin – MicrobiologyOpen

Molecular analyses of bacterioplankton communities with highly abundant Vibrio clades: a case study in Bohai Sea coastal waters – Wang – Journal of Oceanology and Limnology

Archaeal communities in the deep-sea sediments of the South China Sea revealed by Illumina high-throughput sequencing – Li – Annals of Microbiology

Bacterial succession and co‐occurrence patterns of an enriched marine microbial community during light crude oil degradation in a batch reactor – Uribe‐Flores – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Microbial assemblages reflect environmental heterogeneity in alpine streams – Hotaling – Global Change Biology

Food microbiology

Bacterial community dynamics in lait caillé, a traditional product of spontaneous fermentation from Senegal – Groenenboom – PLoS One

May 2, 2019

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In today’s digest read about variations in milk and infant fecal microbiome (Ethiopia, Gambia, USA, Ghana, Kenya, Peru, Spain, and Sweden), the microbiome, metabolome, and lipidome of obese and non-obese horses (USA), and Bacteroides fragilis adaptive evolution (Western countries and China). Happy reading!

Pregnancy and birth

*What’s normal? Microbiomes in human milk and infant feces are related to each other but vary geographically: the INSPIRE study – Kimberly A. Lackey – Frontiers in Nutrition

Progesterone Increases Bifidobacterium Relative Abundance during Late Pregnancy – Meital Nuriel-Ohayon – Cell Reports

Gut microbiome

Neonatal Vitamin A Supplementation and Vitamin A Status Are Associated with Gut Microbiome Composition in Bangladeshi Infants in Early Infancy and at 2 Years of Age – M Nazmul Huda – The Journal of nutrition

Fungi form interkingdom microbial communities in the primordial human gut that develop with gestational age – Kent A. Willis – bioRxiv

*Adaptive Evolution within Gut Microbiomes of Healthy People – Shijie Zhao – Cell Host & Microbe

Small intestinal microbial dysbiosis underlies symptoms associated with functional gastrointestinal disorders – George B. Saffouri – Nature Communications

Oral microbiome

Review: The Role of Exopolysaccharides in Oral Biofilms – C. Cugini – Journal of Dental Research

Human Salivary Amylase Gene Copy Number Impacts Oral and Gut Microbiomes – Angela C. Poole – Cell Host & Microbe

Animal microbiome

*Comparison of the microbiome, metabolome, and lipidome of obese and non-obese horses – Michelle C. Coleman – PlosOne

Utilizing the fecal microbiota to understand foal gut transitions from birth to weaning – Ubaldo De La Torre – PlosOne

Microbiome characterization of poultry products based on the poultry part and production label – Sang In Lee – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Metagenomic analysis of isolation methods of a targeted microbe, Campylobacter jejuni, from chicken feces with high microbial contamination – Junhyung Kim – Microbiome

Invited review: Advances and challenges in application of feedomics to improve dairy cow production and health – H.Z.Sun – Journal of Dairy Science

Characterization of pig saliva as the major natural habitat of Streptococcus suis by analyzing oral, fecal, vaginal, and environmental microbiota – Kazunori Murase – PlosOne

Insight into the microbial world of Bemisia tabaci cryptic species complex and its relationships with its host – Hua-Ling Wang – Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

The Plastisphere – Uncovering tightly attached plastic “specific” microorganisms – Inga Vanessa Kirstein – PlosOne

The cooling tower water microbiota: Seasonal dynamics and co-occurrence of bacterial and protist phylotypes – Han-Fei Tsao – Water Research

Modular Assembly of Polysaccharide-Degrading Marine Microbial Communities – Tim N.Enke – Current Biology

Impact of a river flood on marine water quality and planktonic microbial communities – Annamaria Zoppini – Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Microbial ecological processes in MBBR biofilms for biological phosphorus removal from wastewater – Knut Rudi – Water Science & Technology

Highly diverse fungal communities in carbon-rich aquifers of two contrasting lakes in Northeast Germany – Anita Perkins – bioRxiv

Plant/root/soil microbiome

The rice leaf microbiome has a conserved community structure controlled by complex host-microbe interactions – Veronica Roman-Reyna – bioRxiv

Spatial vs. temporal controls over soil fungal community similarity at continental and global scales – Colin Averil – The ISME Journal

Metabolomics Reveal that Engineered Nanomaterial Exposure in Soil Alters Both Soil Rhizosphere Metabolite Profiles and Maize Metabolic Pathways – Lijuan Zhao – Environmental Science: Nano

High-throughput sequencing reveals the diversity and community structure of rhizosphere fungi of Ferula Sinkiangensis at different soil depths – Tao Zhang – Scientific Reports

Microplastics can change soil properties and affect plant performance – Anderson Abel de Souza Machado – Environmental Science and Technology