November 09, 2022

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General microbiome

[REVIEW]
Compartmentalization of the host microbiome: how tumor microbiota shapes checkpoint immunotherapy outcome and offers therapeutic prospects – Boesch et al. – Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer

Human respiratory microbiome

The Upper-Airway Microbiome as a Biomarker of Asthma Exacerbations despite Inhaled Corticosteroid Treatment – Perez-Garcia – Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Human gut microbiome

Manipulating the microbiome to enhance oral tolerance in food allergy – Gonzalez-Visiedo – Cellular Immunology

Longitudinal transkingdom gut microbial approach towards decompensation in outpatients with cirrhosis – Bajaj et al. – Hepatology

Happy ageing by trusting our gut microbes – Jayaraman & Pettersson – Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

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

Curcumin improves insulin sensitivity in high-fat diet-fed mice through gut microbiota – Zhong et al. – Nutrition & Metabolism

Short-Term Tomato Consumption Alters the Pig Gut Microbiome toward a More Favorable Profile – Goggans et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

[PREPRINT]Lifelong temporal dynamics of the gut microbiome associated with longevity in mice – Takayasu et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]The gut microbiome has sexually dimorphic effects on bone tissue energy metabolism and multiscale bone quality in C57BL/6J mice – Vahidi et al. – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Food provisioning results in functional, but not compositional, convergence of the gut microbiomes of two wild Rhinopithecus species: Evidence of functional redundancy in the gut microbiome – Li et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Phages and viruses

Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages – Neri et al. – Cell

Bioinformatics

C3NA: correlation and consensus-based cross-taxonomy network analysis for compositional microbial data – Song & Zhou – BMC Bioinformatics

November 8, 2022

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Greetings from Pittsburgh, PA!

It’s election day here, which means I have low grade nausea and am looking for a distraction. If you’re in the same boat, check out today’s awesome articles on a holobiont deep sea shrimp, plant-microbiome assemblies of poplar trees, and viral community-wide auxiliary metabolic genes. I also included a few interesting preprints, my favorite of which is noted below and uses a microbiome public dataset to compare different normalization and transformation methods.

Animal microbiome

A novel and dual digestive symbiosis scales up the nutrition and immune system of the holobiont Rimicaris exoculata – Aubé et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Plant sex affects plant-microbiome assemblies of dioecious Populus cathayana trees under different soil nitrogen conditions – Guo et al. – Microbiome

Phages and viruses

Viral community-wide auxiliary metabolic genes differ by lifestyles, habitats, and hosts – Luo et al. – Microbiome

Techniques

*Preprint: Alpha and beta-diversities performance comparison between different normalization methods and centered log-ratio transformation in a microbiome public dataset – Bars-Cortina – bioRxiv

Preprint: Noise reduction strategies in metagenomic chromosome confirmation capture to link antibiotic resistance genes to microbial hosts – McCallum et al. – bioRxiv

Preprint: Targeted metagenomics using probe capture detects a larger diversity of nitrogen and methane cycling genes in complex microbial communities than traditional metagenomics – Siljanen et al. – bioRxiv

November 7, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Immunomodulatory fecal metabolites are associated with mortality in COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure – Matthew R Stutz – Nature Communications

Taxonomic Abundance in Primary and Secondary Root Canal Infections – Ronald Ordinola-Zapata – International Endodontic Journal

Review: The intestinal barrier in disorders of the central nervous system – Carolina Pellegrini – The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Review: Resistance is futile? Mucosal immune mechanisms in the context of microbial ecology and evolution – Emma Slack – Mucosal Immunology

Correspondence: A critical analysis of eating disorders and the gut microbiome – Sydney M Terry – Journal of Eating Disorders

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Bifidobacterial carbohydrate/nucleoside metabolism enhances oxidative phosphorylation in white adipose tissue to protect against diet-induced obesity – Gihyeon Kim – Microbiome

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG supernatant promotes intestinal mucin production through regulating 5-HT4R and gut microbiota – Yu Gu – Food & Function

Animal Model Microbiome

Genetic and environmental circadian disruption induce weight gain through changes in the gut microbiome – Baraa Altaha – Molecular Metabolism

Strains producing different short-chain fatty acids alleviate DSS-induced ulcerative colitis by regulating intestinal microecology – Shuo Yang – Food & Function

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Microbiome assembly and maintenance across the lifespan of bumble bee workers – Tobin J Hammer – Molecular Ecology

The gut microbiome reflects ancestry despite dietary shifts across a hybrid zone – Danny P Nielsen – Ecology Letters

Characterization of the core gut microbiota of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus): indication of a putative novel Cetobacterium species and analysis of its potential function on nutrition – Ziyue Zhang – Archives of Microbiology

Forensic Microbiome

Sampling from four geographically divergent young female populations demonstrates forensic geolocation potential in microbiomes – Thomas Clarke – Scientific Reports

Plant Microbiome

Insights into the potential for mutualistic and harmful host-microbe interactions affecting brown alga freshwater acclimation – Hetty KleinJan – Molecular Ecology

Built Environment Microbiome

Review: Microplastics in urban waters and its effects on microbial communities: a critical review – Saber Entezari – Environmental Science and Pollution Research International

Microbiome Analysis and Techniques

Assessing the Dark Field of Metaproteome – Haonan Duan – Analytical Chemistry

November 4, 2022

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Today’s digest features a 30-color colorblind friendly color palette and functions for mapping color to hierarchical/nested data, ecosystem-specific reference databases, stoma samples for a very effective way of small intestinal microbiome characterization, and a reminder that 16S rRNA gene sequencing is NOT metagenomics. Happy Friday!

Join the next #MVIF when Sarah Lebeer will talk about citizen science and vaginal microbiome!!

Global resistome

Sharing of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes between Humans and Food Animals – Huiluo Cao – mSystems

Gut microbiome

Host-microbiome interactions: Gut-Liver axis and its connection with other organs – Swadha Anand & Sharmila S. Mande – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Gut microbiota bacterial strain richness is species specific and limits therapeutic engraftment – Alice Chen-Liaw – bioRxiv

Effects of different amoxicillin treatment durations on microbiome diversity and composition in the gut – Katrine Lekang – Plos One

The microbiota promotes social behavior by modulating microglial remodeling of forebrain neurons – Joseph J. Bruckner – Plos Biology

Strain-specific impacts of probiotics are a significant driver of gut microbiome development in very preterm infants – Lauren C. Beck – Nature Microbiology

*Plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota – Bahtiyar Yilmaz – Cell Host & Microbe


Bioinformatics

MIDAS2: Metagenomic Intra-species Diversity Analysis System – Chunyu Zhao – Bioinformatics

Automated identification of sequence-tailored Cas9 proteins using massive metagenomic data – Matteo Ciciani – Nature Communications

*microshades: An R Package for Improving Color Accessibility and Organization of Microbiome Data – Erin M. Dahl – Microbiology Resource Announcements

*Application of ecosystem-specific reference databases for increased taxonomic resolution in soil microbial profiling – Christina Karmisholt Overgaard – Frontiers in Microbiology


November 02, 2022

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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