November 02, 2022

General microbiome

[RETRACTION]Metagenomic analysis exploring taxonomic and functional diversity of bacterial communities of a Himalayan urban fresh water lake – Ahmad et al. – PLOS One

Pregnancy and early life

A distinct clade of Bifidobacterium longum in the gut of Bangladeshi children thrives during weaning – Vatanen et al. – Clee

Multi-site human microbiome

[REVIEW]Recent advances in systemic lupus erythematosus and microbiota: from bench to bedside – Zhan et al. –

Human vaginal microbiome

Identification of shared bacterial strains in the vaginal microbiota of related and unrelated reproductive-age mothers and daughters using genome-resolved metagenomics – France et al. – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome dysbiosis in antibiotic-treated COVID-19 patients is associated with microbial translocation and bacteremia – Bernard-Raichon et al. – Nature Communications

Gut microbiota and myocardial fibrosis – Xu, Yang & Bao – European Journal of Pharmacology

Assessing the relationship between physical activity and the gut microbiome in a large, population-based sample of Wisconsin adults – Holzhausen et al. – PLOS One

Challenges and costs of donor screening for fecal microbiota transplantations – Bernard et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Gut colonization by Proteobacteria alters host metabolism and modulates cocaine neurobehavioral responses – Cuesta et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

Enriching captivity conditions with natural elements does not prevent the loss of wild-like gut microbiota but shapes its compositional variation in two small mammals – Koziol et al. – Microbiology Open

Understanding the Dynamic of POMS Infection and the Role of Microbiota Composition in the Survival of Pacific Oysters, Crassostrea gigas – Delisle et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Changes in Gut Microbiota Structure: A Potential Pathway for Silver Nanoparticles to Affect the Host Metabolism – Wang et al. – ACS Nano

Skin microbiota of oxazolone-induced contact hypersensitivity mouse model – Mäenpää et al. – PLOS One

Effects of a farm-specific fecal microbial transplant (FMT) product on clinical outcomes and fecal microbiome composition in preweaned dairy calves – Slanzon et al. – PLOS One

Multiomics Characterization of the Canada Goose Fecal Microbiome Reveals Selective Efficacy of Simulated Metagenomes – Gil & Hird – Microbiology Spectrum

Uropygial gland microbiota differ between free-living and captive songbirds – Grieves et al. – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Crop management shapes the diversity and activity of DNA and RNA viruses in the rhizosphere – Muscatt et al. – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

CRAMdb: a comprehensive database for composition and roles of microbiome in animals – Lei et al. – NAR

Techniques

DNA extraction bias is more pronounced for microbial eukaryotes than for prokaryotes – Brauer & Bengtsson – Microbiology Open

synDNA—a Synthetic DNA Spike-in Method for Absolute Quantification of Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing – Zaramela et al. – mSystems

October 26, 2022

General microbiome

[BOOK]Human Microbiome in Health and Disease – Part B – Progress in Molecular Biology and Translational Science

Pregnancy and early life

Relationships of the very low birth weight infant microbiome with neurodevelopment at 2 and 4 years of age – Sarkar et al. – Developmental Psychobiology

Human respiratory microbiome

The lower airways microbiota and antimicrobial peptides indicate dysbiosis in sarcoidosis – Knudsen et al. – Microbiome

Human gut microbiome

Profiling the fungal microbiome after FMT for graft-versus-host disease: insights from a phase 1 interventional study – van Lier et al. – Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

Colorectal cancer, Vitamin D and microbiota: A double-blind Phase II randomized trial (ColoViD) in colorectal cancer patients – Bellerba et al. – Neoplasia

Natural and after colon washing fecal samples: the two sides of the coin for investigating the human gut microbiome – Piancone et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

[DATA]Effects of heat stress on 16S rDNA, metagenome and metabolome in Holstein cows at different growth stages – Feng et al. – Scientific data

Tick transmission of Borrelia burgdorferi to the murine host is not influenced by environmentally acquired midgut microbiota – Narasimhan et al. – Microbiome

Mining the microbiota to identify gut commensals modulating neuroinflammation in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis – Bianchimano et al. – Microbiome

Microbiomes associated with avian malaria survival differ between susceptible Hawaiian honeycreepers and sympatric malaria-resistant introduced birds – Navine et al. – Molecular Ecology

Impact of Germinated Brown Rice and Brown Rice on Metabolism, Inflammation, and Gut Microbiome in High Fat Diet-Induced Insulin Resistant Mice – Zhao et al. – J. Agric. Food Chem.

Dietary Lactobacillus reuteri prevent from inflammation mediated apoptosis of liver via improving intestinal microbiota and bile acid metabolism – Lin et al. – Food Chemistry

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Specific metabolites drive the deterministic assembly of diseased rhizosphere microbiome through weakening microbial degradation of autotoxin – Wen et al. – Microbiome

Low-abundance populations distinguish microbiome performance in plant cell wall deconstruction – Tom et al. – Microbiome

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

Community assembly patterns and processes of microbiome responses to habitats and Mytilopsis sallei invasion in the tidal zones of the Pearl River Estuary – Guo et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Bioinformatics

LotuS2: an ultrafast and highly accurate tool for amplicon sequencing analysis – Özkurt et al. – Microbiome

Techniques

[PREPRINT]Double emulsions as a high-throughput enrichment and isolation platform for slower-growing microbes – McCully et al. – bioRxiv

A novel metagenome-derived viral RNA polymerase and its application in a cell-free expression system for metagenome screening – Han et al. – Scientif Reports

October 24, 2022

Human and General Microbiome

The Association Between Microplastics and Microbiota in Placentas and Meconium: The First Evidence in Humans – Shaojie Liu – Environmental Science & Technology

The salivary microbiome shows a high prevalence of core bacterial members yet variability across human populations – Xinwei Ruan – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Role of mucus-bacteria interactions in Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) H10407 virulence and interplay with human microbiome – Thomas Sauvaitre – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Commensal oral microbiota impacts ulcerative oral mucositis clinical course in allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients – Julia S Bruno – Scientific Reports

Review: Gut microbiota in COVID-19: key microbial changes, potential mechanisms and clinical applications – Raphaela I Lau – Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Review: The microbiota and aging microenvironment in pancreatic cancer: Cell origin and fate – Zhou Chen – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

Review: New perspectives into the vaginal microbiome with systems biology – Christina Y Lee – Trends in Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Oral supplementation with selected Lactobacillus acidophilus triggers IL-17-dependent innate defense response, activation of innate lymphoid cells type 3 and improves colitis – Jiří Hrdý – Scientific Reports

Animal Model Microbiome

The Benefits of Switching to a Healthy Diet on Metabolic, Cognitive and Gut Microbiome Parameters are Preserved in Adult Rat Offspring of Mothers Fed a High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet – Michael D Kendig – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Jatrorrhizine alleviates ulcerative colitis via regulating gut microbiota and NOS2 expression – Jia Ling Zhang – Gut Pathogens

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Identification of 146 Metagenome-assembled Genomes from the Rumen Microbiome of Cattle in Japan – Yoshiaki Sato – Microbes and Environments

Fidelity varies in the symbiosis between a gutless marine worm and its microbial consortium – Yui Sato – Microbiome

Effects of heat stress on 16S rDNA, metagenome and metabolome in Holstein cows at different growth stages – Lei Feng – Scientific data

Screening Salamanders for Symbionts – Elli Vickers – Methods in Molecular Biology

Gut microbiota differs between two cold-climate lizards distributed in thermally different regions – Jun-Qiong Chen – BMC Ecology and Evolution

Microbial community in resistant and susceptible Churra sheep infected by Teladorsagia circumcincta – Verónica Castilla Gómez de Agüero – Scientific Reports

Genome Evolution of a Symbiont Population for Pathogen Defence in Honeybees – Karl Dyrhage – Genome Biology and Evolution

Plant Microbiome

Diverse MarR bacterial regulators of auxin catabolism in the plant microbiome – Jonathan M Conway – Nature Microbiology

Phytohormones producing rhizobacteria alleviate heavy metals stress in soybean through multilayered response –  Husna – Microbiological Research

Review: Linking plant functional genes to rhizosphere microbes: a review – Qi Liu – Plant Biotechnology Journal

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis Techniques 

Resampling-based inferences for compositional regression with application to beef cattle microbiomes – Sujin Lee – Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Review: Methods used for the study of endophytic fungi: a review on methodologies and challenges, and associated tips – Jefferson Brendon Almeida Dos Reis – Archives of Microbiology

October 17, 2022

Human and General Microbiome

Comparison of microbial signatures between paired faecal and rectal biopsy samples from healthy volunteers using next-generation sequencing and culturomics – Indrani Mukhopadhya – Microbiome

Depression and fatigue in active IBD from a microbiome perspective-a Bayesian approach to faecal metagenomics – Anne Kerstin Thomann – BMC Medicine

Dynamics of human milk oligosaccharides in early lactation and relation with growth and appetitive traits of Filipino breastfed infants – Tinu M Samuel – Scientific Reports

The gut microbiome-metabolome dataset collection: a curated resource for integrative meta-analysis – Efrat Muller – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Review: Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species – Ryan Caldwell – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Gut bacterial extracellular vesicles: important players in regulating intestinal microenvironment – Xiao Liang – Gut Microbes

Brief overview of dietary intake, some types of gut microbiota, metabolic markers and research opportunities in sample of Egyptian women – Nayera E Hassan – Scientific Reports

Profile of gut microbiota and serum metabolites associated with metabolic syndrome in a remote island most afflicted by obesity in Japan – Tsugumi Uema – Scientific Reports

The intestinal clock drives the microbiome to maintain gastrointestinal homeostasis – Marjolein Heddes – Nature Communications

Identification of bacterial lipopeptides as key players in IBS – Camille Petitfils – Gut

Gut-innervating nociceptors regulate the intestinal microbiota to promote tissue protection – Wen Zhang – Cell

BefA, a microbiota-secreted membrane disrupter, disseminates to the pancreas and increases β cell mass – Jennifer Hampton Hill – Cell Metabolism

Alterations in the nasopharyngeal microbiome associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection status and disease severity – Nick P G Gauthier – PloS one

preprint: Ultra-deep Sequencing of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Recovers Vanishing Gut Microbes – Bryan D Merrill – bioRxiv

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Long-term use of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei N1115 from early life alleviates high-fat-diet-induced obesity and dysmetabolism in mice – Z H Miao – Beneficial Microbes

Animal Model Microbiome

Trimethylamine, a gut bacteria metabolite and air pollutant, increases blood pressure and markers of kidney damage including proteinuria and KIM-1 in rats – Klaudia M Maksymiuk – Journal of Translational Medicine

Animal Microbiome

Molecular detection of Coxiella-like endosymbionts and absence of Coxiella burnetii in Amblyomma mixtum from Veracruz, Mexico – Estefanía Grostieta – Experimental & Applied Acarology

Environmental Microbiome

An enriched ammonia-oxidizing microbiota enables high removal efficiency of ammonia in antibiotic production wastewater – Jiamin Chen – Chemosphere

October 14, 2022

Today’s digest features manipulation of crop microbiome to minimise impact of climate change on agricultural productivity, turtle microbiome, #microber2022, and more. Happy Friday!

See you next week at #MVIF!

Human microbiome

Review: Microbiome epidemiology and association studies in human health – Hannah VanEvery – Nature Reviews Genetics

Gut microbiome

The effects of fermented vegetable consumption on the composition of the intestinal microbiota and levels of inflammatory markers in women: A pilot and feasibility study – Amy E. Galena – PlosOne

Functional screens of barcoded expression libraries uncover new gene functions in carbon utilization among gut Bacteroidales – Yolanda Y. Huang – bioRxiv

Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time – Nicola Procházková – Gut

Food Additive Emulsifiers and Their Impact on Gut Microbiome, Permeability, and Inflammation: Mechanistic Insights in Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Aaron S Bancil – Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis

Influence of the microbiome, diet and genetics on inter-individual variation in the human plasma metabolome – Lianmin Chen – Nature Medicine

Vaginal microbiome

N-glycosylation of cervicovaginal fluid reflects microbial community, immune activity, and pregnancy status – Gang Wu – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

*More than just hitchhikers: a survey of bacterial communities associated with diatoms originating from sea turtles Get access Arrow – Klara Filek – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Plant microbiome

*Next generation tools for crop-microbiome manipulation to mitigate the impact of climate change – Bruna D. Batista & Brajesh K. Singh – Environmental Microbiology

Soil microbiome

Defending Earth’s terrestrial microbiome – Colin Averill – Nature Microbiology

Bioinformatics

GTDB-Tk v2: memory friendly classification with the Genome Taxonomy Database – Pierre-Alain – Bioinformatics

binny: an automated binning algorithm to recover high-quality genomes from complex metagenomic datasets – Oskar Hickl – bioRxiv

VEBA: a modular end-to-end suite for in silico recovery, clustering, and analysis of prokaryotic, microeukaryotic, and viral genomes from metagenomes – Josh L. Espinoza & Chris L. Dupont – BMC Bioinformatics

October 12, 2022

General microbiome

Global airborne bacterial community—interactions with Earth’s microbiomes and anthropogenic activities – Zhao et al. – PNAS

Tumor microbiome links cellular programs and immunity in pancreatic cancer – Cancer Cell – Ghaddar et al. – Cancer Cell

Human wound microbiome

The Wound Microbiome – White & Grice – Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Human gut microbiome

Pivotal interplays between fecal metabolome and gut microbiome reveal functional signatures in cerebral ischemic stroke – Zhou et al. – Journal of Translational Medicine volume

Gut-Testis Axis: Microbiota Prime Metabolome To Increase Sperm Quality in Young Type 2 Diabetes – Yan et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Multi-angle meta-analysis of the gut microbiome in Autism Spectrum Disorder: a step toward understanding patient subgroups – West et al. – Scientific Reports

[REVIEW]The role of the gut microbiota in health and cardiovascular diseases – Wang et al. – Molecular Biomedicine

Animal microbiome

Airborne polystyrene microplastics and nanoplastics induce nasal and lung microbial dysbiosis in mice – Zha et al. – Chemosphere

Effects of urban particulate matter on gut microbiome and partial schizophrenia-like symptoms in mice: Evidence from shotgun metagenomic and metabolomic profiling – Yi et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Lactococcus lactis’ Effect on the Intestinal Microbiota of Streptococcus agalactiae-Infected Zebrafish (Danio rerio) – Tan et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Exploring AI-2-mediated interspecies communications within rumen microbial communities – Liu et al. – Microbiome

Microbiome-driven breeding strategy potentially improves beef fatty acid profile benefiting human health and reduces methane emissions – Martinez-Alvaro et al. – Microbiome

Chicken intestinal microbiota modulation of resistance to nephropathogenic infectious bronchitis virus infection through IFN-I – Yin et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[CORRESONDENCE]Functionally-explicit sampling can answer key questions about the specificity of plant–microbe interactions – Fleishman et al. – Environmental Microbiome

Dissecting the cotranscriptome landscape of plants and their microbiota – Nobori et al. – EMBO Reports

Bioinformatics

MiMeDB: the Human Microbial Metabolome Database – Wishart et al. – NAR

gutMDisorder v2.0: a comprehensive database for dysbiosis of gut microbiota in phenotypes and interventions – Qi et al. – NAR

October 10, 2022

Human and General Microbiome

The hallmarks of dietary intervention-resilient gut microbiome – Natalia S Klimenko – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Nutrition and Microbiome Interactions in Human Cancer – Phillip J Daschner – Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Differences in the microbiota of oral rinse, lesion, and normal site samples from patients with mucosal abnormalities on the tongue – Yawaka Shitozawa – Scientific Reports

Dynamic changes in host immune system and gut microbiota are associated with the production of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies – Maozhen Han – Gut

Antibiotics and probiotics impact gut antimicrobial resistance gene reservoir in COVID-19 patients – Qi Su – Gut Microbes

Fibre is good for the microbiome: but what is the evidence? – Kevin Whelan – The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Model Animal Microbiome

Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities – Afrizal Afrizal – Cell Host & Microbe

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Convergent evolution of the gut microbiome in marine carnivores – Xibao Wang – Ecology and Evolution

Gut microbiota shift in layer pullets fed on black soldier fly larvae-based feeds towards enhancing healthy gut microbial community – Evalyne W Ndotono – Scientific Reports

Succession of the intestinal bacterial community in Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) larvae – Akito Taniguchi – PloS One

Plant Microbiome

Bacterial community in soil and tree roots of Picea abies shows little response to clearcutting – Tijana Martinović – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Environmental Microbiome

Size-fractionated microbiome observed during an eight-month long sampling in Jiaozhou Bay and the Yellow Sea – Jianchang Tao – Scientific Data

Food Microbiome

Microbiome of rehydrated corn and sorghum grain silages treated with microbial inoculants in different fermentation periods – Mariele Cristina Nascimento Agarussi – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis

Quantification and characterization of mouse and human tissue-resident microbiota by qPCR and 16S sequencing – Bingqing Yao – STAR Protocols

October 05, 2022

Pregnancy and early life

Multi-omic factors associated with future wheezing in infants – Beheshti et al. – Pediatric Research

Multi-site human microbiome

Race is a key determinant of the human intratumor microbiome – Lua et al. – Cancer Cell

Human respiratory microbiome

Alterations in the respiratory tract microbiome in COVID-19: current observations and potential significance – Merenstein, Bushman & Collman – Microbiome

Human milk microbiome

Maternal weight status and the composition of the human milk microbiome: A scoping review – Daiy et al. – PLOS One

Human oral microbiome

Functional changes in the oral microbiome after use of fluoride and arginine containing dentifrices: a metagenomic and metatranscriptomic study – Carda-Dieguez, Mazzez & Mira – Microbiome

Remembering St. Louis individual—structural violence and acute bacterial infections in a historical anatomical collection – Austin et al. – Communications Biology

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]SARS-CoV-2-associated gut microbiome alteration; A new contributor to colorectal cancer pathogenesis – Mozaffari et al. – Pathology – Research and Practice

Population structure discovery in meta-analyzed microbial communities and inflammatory bowel disease using MMUPHin – Ma et al. – Genome Biology

Microbiota imbalance induced by dietary sugar disrupts immune-mediated protection from metabolic syndrome – Kawano et al. – Cell

Rural environment reduces allergic inflammation by modulating the gut microbiota – Yang et al. – Gut Microbes

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

Six types of tea extracts attenuated high-fat diet-induced metabolic syndrome via modulating gut microbiota in rats – Zhou et al. – Food Research International

Adaptation of the gut holobiont to malnutrition during mouse pregnancy depends on the type of nutritional adversity – Connor et al. – The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

A global phylogenomic and metabolic reconstruction of the large intestine bacterial community of domesticated cattle – Teseo et al. – Microbiome

Comparative multiomics study of the effects of Ellagic acid on the gut environment in young and adult mice – Duan et al. – Food Research International

[REVIEW]Crosstalk between the microbiota and insect postembryonic development – Girard et al. – Trends in Microbiology

Culturomic, metagenomic, and transcriptomic-based characterization of commensal lactic acid bacteria isolated from domestic dogs using Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for aging – Kang et al. – Journal of Animal Science

Plant, root, sponge and soil microbiome

Recruitment of specific microbes through exudates affects cadmium activation and accumulation in Brassica napus – Wu et al. – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Novel trends of genome evolution in highly complex tropical sponge microbiomes – Kelly et al. – Microbiome

[Petroleum pollution affects soil chemistry and reshapes the diversity and networks of microbial communities](Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety) – Li et al. –

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

Marine DNA methylation patterns are associated with microbial community composition and inform virus-host dynamics – Seong et al. – Microbiome

Untangling microbial diversity and assembly patterns in rare earth element mine drainage in South China – Chen et al. – Water Research

Bioinformatics/Software

Benchmarking Community-Wide Estimates of Growth Potential from Metagenomes Using Codon Usage Statistics – Weissman et al. – mSystems

[SOFTWARE]PhyloDM is a high-performance library that converts a phylogenetic tree into a pairwise distance matrix. – Aaron Mussig – github

October 3, 2022

Human and General Microbiome

Mucus-degrading Bacteroides link carbapenems to aggravated graft-versus-host disease – Eiko Hayase – Cell

Pan-cancer analyses reveal cancer-type-specific fungal ecologies and bacteriome interactions – Lian Narunsky-Haziza – Cell

A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors – Anders B Dohlman – Cell

Gut microbiota of hepatitis B virus-infected patients in the immune-tolerant and immune-active phases and their implications in metabolite changes – Ya-Nan Li – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Streptococcus mutans promotes tumor progression in oral squamous cell carcinoma – Ming-Shao Tsai – Journal of Cancer

Short-chain fatty acid concentrations in the incidence and risk-stratification of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Ehsan Alvandi – BMC Medicine

Mycobacterium potentiates protection from colorectal cancer by gut microbial alterations – Yu-Mi Kim – Immunology

Nutrition, Immunosenescence, and Infectious Disease: An Overview of the Scientific Evidence on Micronutrients and on Modulation of the Gut Microbiota – Philip C Calder – Advances in Nutrition 

Unfermented β-fructan fibers fuel inflammation in select inflammatory bowel disease patients – Heather K Armstrong – Gastroenterology

Machine-learning algorithms for asthma, COPD, and lung cancer risk assessment using circulating microbial extracellular vesicle data and their application to assess dietary effects – Andrea McDowell – Experimental & Molecular Medicine

Microbiome ethics, guiding principles for microbiome research, use and knowledge management – Lene Lange – Environmental Microbiome

Review: The gut mycobiome in health, disease, and clinical applications in association with the gut bacterial microbiome assembly – Fen Zhang – The Lancet. Microbe

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Tailoring gut microbiota with a combination of Vitamin K and probiotics as a possible adjuvant in the treatment of rheumatic arthritis: a systematic review – Luciana Pereira – Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

Dietary Isoflavones Alter Gut Microbiota and Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis to Reduce Inflammation – Sudeep Ghimire – Gut Microbes

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron rough-type lipopolysaccharide: The chemical structure and the immunological activity – Molly Dorothy Pither – Carbohydrate Polymers

Animal Microbiome

Study of cattle microbiota in different regions of Kazakhstan using 16S metabarcoding analysis – Aida Daugaliyeva – Scientific Reports

Microscopic marine invertebrates are reservoirs for cryptic and diverse protists and fungi – Corey C Holt – Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Review: Microbiomes in agroecosystem: Diversity, function and assembly mechanisms – Chao Xiong – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Integrating Phylogenetic and Functional Data in Microbiome Studies – Gavin M Douglas – Bioinformatics 

Higher off-target amplicon detection rate in MiSeq v3 compared to v2 reagent kits in the context of 16S-rRNA-sequencing – Mari-Lee Odendaal – Scientific Reports

September 28, 2022

General microbiome

[Personal View]Causal discovery for the microbiome – Corander, Hanage & Pensar – The Lancet Microbe

Integrative functional analysis uncovers metabolic differences between Candida species – Begum et al. – Communications Biology

Human skin microbiome

Evolution of the facial skin microbiome during puberty in normal and acne skin – Schneider et al. – JEADV

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Harnessing Microbiota to Improve Immunotherapy for Gastrointestinal Cancers – Goc & Sonnenberg – Cancer Immunol Res

[REVIEW]Gut microbiome in multiple sclerosis-related cognitive impairment – Ghadiri et al. – Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders

[REVIEW]The Microbiome in Gastrointestinal Cancers – White & Wargo – Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Human gut microbiota and its metabolites impact immune responses in COVID-19 and its complications – Nagata et al. – Gastroenterology

Gut microbial fermentation promotes the intestinal anti-inflammatory activity of Chinese yam polysaccharides – Bai et al. – Food Chemistry

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

The preventive effects of probiotic Akkermansia muciniphila on D-galactose/AlCl3 mediated Alzheimer’s disease-like rats – He et al. – Experimental Gerontology

Characterizing the chicken gut colonization ability of a diverse group of bacteria – Poudel et al. – Poultry Science

Obesity induced gut dysbiosis contributes to disease severity in an animal model of multiple sclerosis – Shahi et al. – Front. Immunol.

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Impact of aluminum exposure on oxidative stress, intestinal changes and immune responses in red swamp crayfish (Procambarus clarkii) – Zhang et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Network analysis reveals significant joint effects of microplastics and tetracycline on the gut than the gill microbiome of marine medaka – Liao et al. – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Xenobiotic estradiol-17ß alters gut microbiota of hatchling American Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) – Murphy et al. – Environmental Microbiology

Sustained Drought, but Not Short-Term Warming, Alters the Gut Microbiomes of Wild Anolis Lizards – Williams et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

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

Microbial Composition of Freshwater Marsh Sediment Responds more Strongly to Microcosm Seawater Addition than Simulated Nitrate or Phosphate Eutrophication – Weingarten & Jackson – Microbial Ecology

Built environment (subways, indoor surfaces)

Microbial community regulation and performance enhancement in gas biofilters by interrupting bacterial communication – Wang et al. – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

Identification of microbial features in multivariate regression under false discovery rate control – Srinivasan, Xue and Zhan – Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

Techniques

Strain-level resolution and pneumococcal carriage dynamics by single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing of the plyNCR marker: a longitudinal study in Swiss infants – Oyewole et al. – Microbiome