Highlights: how microbes influence the system they inhabit, maternal microbial metabolism, gut microbiota in pancreatic disease and other metabolic disorders, core and staphylococcal microbiota in skin & nose of pigs, wheat head microbiome bacteria, abundant & rare biospheres of hot springs, antibiotic degradation by microbes, virome.
General microbiome
Review: Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit – Ed K. Hall – Nature Microbiology
Male Bladder Microbiome Relates to Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms – Petar Bajic – European Urology Focus
Pregnancy and early life
Is maternal microbial metabolism an early-life determinant of health? – Kymberleigh A. Romano – LabAnimal
Human oral microbiome
The oral microbiome in oral lichen planus during a one‐year randomized clinical trial – Camilla Kragelund – Oral Diseases
Human respiratory microbiome
Interaction between the microbiome and TP53 in human lung cancer – K. Leigh Greathouse – Genome Biology
Human gut microbiome
The Gut Microbiome in Pancreatic Disease – Venkata S. Akshintala – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology
FXR-Dependent Modulation of the Human Small Intestinal Microbiome by the Bile Acid Derivative Obeticholic Acid – Elliot S. Friedman – Gastroenterology
Review: Role of gut microbiota in chronic low‐grade inflammation as potential driver for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a systematic review of human studies – I. C. L. van den Munckhof – Obesity Reviews
Bile acid homeostasis and intestinal dysbiosis in alcoholic hepatitis – Dragos Ciocan – Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Characterization and induction of prophages in human gut-associated Bifidobacterium hosts – Travis N. Mavrich – Scientific Reports
In Vitro Ecological Response of the Human Gut Microbiome to Bioactive Extracts from Edible Wild Mushrooms – Emanuel Vamanu – Molecules
Review: The journey of gut microbiome – An introduction and its influence on metabolic disorders –
Animal experiments
Sulfated polysaccharide from sea cucumber modulates the gut microbiota and its metabolites in normal mice – Zhenjun Zhu – International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Chitin-based barrier immunity and its loss predated mucus-colonization by indigenous gut microbiota – Keisuke Nakashima – Nature Communications
Reduced particle size wheat bran is efficiently colonized by lactic acid producing community and reduces Enterobacteriaceae levels in the cecal microbiota of broilers – Karen Vermeulen – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
A High Salt Diet Modulates the Gut Microbiota and Short Chain Fatty Acids Production in a Salt-Sensitive Hypertension Rat Model – Ariel Bier – Nutrients
Animal microbiome
A detailed investigation of the porcine skin and nose microbiome using universal and Staphylococcus specific primers – Mikael Lenz Strube – Scientific Reports
Characterization of bacterial microbiota compositions along the intestinal tract in pigs and their interactions and functions – Daniel Crespo-Piazuelo – Scientific Reports
Cnidarian Interaction with Microbial Communities: From Aid to Animal’s Health to Rejection Responses – Loredana Stabili – Marine Drugs
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Wheat microbiome bacteria can reduce virulence of a plant pathogenic fungus by altering histone acetylation – Yun Chen – Nature Communications
Biodegradation of oxytetracycline and enrofloxacin by autochthonous microbial communities from estuarine sediments – Malek Harrabi – Science of The Total Environment
Soil micro-food web interactions and rhizosphere priming effectSoil micro-food web interactions and rhizosphere priming effect –
Burkholderia pseudomallei-absent soil bacterial community results in secondary metabolites that kill this pathogen – Chotima Potisap – AMB Express
Variation in the leaf and root microbiome of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) at an elevational range limit – Jessica Wallace – PeerJ
Contrasting responses of the bacterial communities in ectomycorrhizal roots and rhizosphere soils to defoliation or winter hardening – Hironari Izumi – Rhizosphere
Water and extremophile microbiome
Abundant and rare microbial biospheres respond differently to environmental and spatial factors in Tibetan hot springs – Yanmin Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology
Built environment
Review: Microbiology of the built environment – Jack A Gilbert – Nature Reviews
Application of hybrid anaerobic reactor: Treatment of increasing cyanide containing effluents and microbial composition identification – Pragya Gupta – Journal of Environmental Management
A little breath of fresh air into an anaerobic system: How microaeration facilitates anaerobic digestion process – Duc Nguyen – Biotechnology Advances
Managing microbial communities in membrane biofilm reactors –
Phages and viruses
Preprint: May the phage be with you? Prophage-like elements in the genomes of Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae (Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp.) – Robert Czajkowski – bioRxiv
Occurrence, integrity and functionality of AcaML1–like viruses infecting extreme acidophiles of the Acidithiobacillus species complex – Paulo C. Covarrubias – Research in Microbiology
Chapter: Robust Analysis of Time Series in Virome Metagenomics –
Chapter: A Method for Isolation of the Virome from Plasma Samples –
Chapter: Virome Sequencing of Stool Samples –
Chapter: Protocol for Generating Infectious RNA Viromes from Complex Biological Samples –
Techniques
Chapter: Flow Cytometry and Direct Sequencing of Viruses –
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