March 31, 2024

Human Microbiome

The effects of antibiotic exposures on the gut resistome during hematopoietic cell transplantation in children – Sarah M Heston – Gut Microbes

Clinically used broad-spectrum antibiotics compromise inflammatory monocyte-dependent antibacterial defense in the lung – Patrick J Dörner – Nature Communications

The gut metabolite indole-3-propionic acid activates ERK1 to restore social function and hippocampal inhibitory synaptic transmission in a 16p11.2 microdeletion mouse model – Jian Jiang – Microbiome

Vaginal microbiomes of breast cancer survivors treated with aromatase inhibitors with and without vulvovaginal symptoms – Pimpun Prasanchit – Scientific Reports

Integrated analysis of gut metabolome, microbiome, and brain function reveal the role of gut-brain axis in longevity – Bin Jiao – Gut Microbes

Exploring the diversity of vaginal microbiota between healthy women and cervical cancer patients in India – Ashwini Kamble – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Oral pathobiont Klebsiella chaperon usher pili provide site-specific adaptation for the inflamed gut mucosa – Yijie Guo – Gut Microbes

Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae employs genomic island encoded toxins against bacterial competitors in the gut – Yi Han Tan – The ISME Journal

Review: Microbiome bacterial influencers of host immunity and response to immunotherapy – Yeganeh Yousefi – Cell Reports. Medicine

Beneficial Microbes

Review: Unlocking the Potential of Probiotics: A Comprehensive Review on Research, Production, and Regulation of Probiotics – Tales Fernando da Silva – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Mulberry leaf and konjac flour compound dietary fiber improves digestion and metabolism in elderly mice with high-fish-protein diet by regulating gut microbiota structure and intestinal tissue repair – Liling Deng – Food Chemistry: X

Gut Microbiota and Blood Metabolites Related to Fiber Intake and Type 2 Diabetes – Zheng Wang – Circulation Research

Animal Microbiome (model and non-model)

Colitis reduces active social engagement in mice and is ameliorated by supplementation with human microbiota members – D Garrett Brown – Nature Communications

Disentangling direct vs indirect effects of microbiome manipulations in a habitat-forming marine holobiont – Alexander Harry McGrath – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Microplastics dampen the self-renewal of hematopoietic stem cells by disrupting the gut microbiota-hypoxanthine-Wnt axis – Lingli Jiang – Cell Discovery

Review: Immune interactions between mosquitoes and microbes during midgut colonization – Julia A Cai – Current Opinion in Insect Science

Microbiome Analysis

A microbial knowledge graph-based deep learning model for predicting candidate microbes for target hosts – Jie Pan – Briefings in Bioinformatics

Towards a unified medical microbiome ecology of the OMU for metagenomes and the OTU for microbes – Zhanshan Sam Ma – BMC Bioinformatics

An in-depth evaluation of metagenomic classifiers for soil microbiomes – Niranjana Rose Edwin – Environmental Microbiome

Generalized reporter score-based enrichment analysis for omics data – Chen Peng – Briefings in Bioinformatics

March 27, 2024

Built environment microbiome

Genomic, functional, and metabolic enhancements in multidrug-resistant Enterobacter bugandensis facilitating its persistence and succession in the International Space Station – Pratyay Sengupta et al – BMC Microbiome

An overview of the bacterial microbiome of public transportation systems-risks, detection, and countermeasures – Yen-Tran Ly et al – Frontiers in Public Health

Bioinformatics and computational methods

Contigs directed gene annotation (ConDiGA) for accurate protein sequence database construction in metaproteomics – Enhui Wu et al – BMC Microbiome

Amplidiff: an optimized amplicon sequencing approach to estimating lineage abundances in viral metagenomes – Jasper van Bemmelen et al – BMC Bioinformatics

Multi-omic integration of microbiome data for identifying disease-associated modules – Efrat Muller – Nature Communications

Animal experiments

Gender affirming hormone therapy preserves skeletal maturation in young mice via the gut microbiome – Subhashis Pal et al – Journal of Clinical Investigation

Microbiota-derived indoles alleviate intestinal inflammation and modulate microbiome by microbial cross-feeding – Gang Wang et al – BMC Microbiome

[PREPRINT] Akkermansia muciniphila identified as key strain to alleviate gut barrier injury through Wnt signaling pathway – Xin Ma et al – bioRxiv

Microbiota from human infants consuming secretors or non-secretors mothers’ milk impacts the gut and immune system in mice – Manoj Gurung et al – mSystems

Plant and soil microbiome

Lose-lose consequences of bacterial community-driven invasions in soil – Xipeng Liu & Joana Falcão Salles – BMC Microbiome

Manipulating the physical distance between cells during soil colonization reveals the importance of biotic interactions in microbial community assembly – Sana Romdhane et al – BMC Environmental Microbiome

Soil fungal communities varied across aspects of restored grassland in former mining areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau – Xioaqing Li et al – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Exploring the potential effects of forest urbanization on the interplay between small mammal communities and their gut microbiota – Marie Bouilloud et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Bats, Bacteria, and Bat Smell V.2.0: Repeatable Sex-Specific Differences in Scent Organ Microbiota – Öncü Maraci et al – Microbial Ecology

Characterization of the skin microbiome in normal and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma affected cats and dogs – Jacoba I. Bromfield et al – mSphere

Phylosymbiosis and metabolomics resolve phenotypically plastic and cryptic sponge species in the genus Agelas across the Caribbean basin – M.S. Pankey et al – Molecular Ecology

Naturally occurring fire coral clones demonstrate a genetic and environmental basis of microbiome composition – C. E. Dubé et al – Nature Communications

March 24, 2024

Human Microbiome

A host-microbiota interactome reveals extensive transkingdom connectivity – Nicole D Sonnert – Nature

A distinct Fusobacterium nucleatum clade dominates the colorectal cancer niche – Martha Zepeda-Rivera – Nature

Cluster-specific associations between the gut microbiota and behavioral outcomes in preschool-aged children – Marcel van de Wouw – Microbiome

Association between oral and fecal microbiome dysbiosis and treatment complications in pediatric patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation – M Faraci – Scientific Reports

Design of a proteolytic module for improved metabolic modeling of Bacteroides caccae – Amandine Paulay – mSystems

Cataloging the phylogenetic diversity of human bladder bacterial isolates – Jingjie Du – Genome Biology

Integrative metagenomic and metabolomic analyses reveal the potential of gut microbiota to exacerbate acute pancreatitis – Jianjun Liu – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Extracellular vesicles from vaginal Gardnerella vaginalis and Mobiluncus mulieris contain distinct proteomic cargo and induce inflammatory pathways – Andrea Joseph – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

A specific enterotype derived from gut microbiome of older individuals enables favorable responses to immune checkpoint blockade therapy – Xiaoqiang Zhu – Cell Host & Microbe

Opposing diet, microbiome, and metabolite mechanisms regulate inflammatory bowel disease in a genetically susceptible host – Gabriel Vasconcelos Pereira – Cell Host & Microbe

HPV-associated cervicovaginal microbiome and host metabolome characteristics – Yao Zhang – BMC Microbiology

Review: Mediterranean diet: a potential player in the link between oral microbiome and oral diseases – Giuseppina Augimeri – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Exopolysaccharides Produced by Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum YS108R Ameliorates DSS-Induced Ulcerative Colitis in Mice by Improving the Gut Barrier and Regulating the Gut Microbiota – Huizhen Li – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG ameliorates hyperuricemia in a novel model – Yang Fu – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Specific vaginal and gut microbiome and the anti-tumor effect of butyrate in cervical cancer women – Mengzhen Han – Translational Oncology

Harnessing the Power Within: Engineering the Microbiome for Enhanced Gynecologic Health – Caitriona Brennan – Reproduction & Fertility

Animal Microbiome (including Model species)

Hadza Prevotella require diet-derived microbiota-accessible carbohydrates to persist in mice – Rebecca H Gellman – Cell Reports

The crosstalk between intestinal microbiota and MDSCs fuels colitis associated cancer development – Hadas Ashkenazi-Preiser – Cancer Research Communications

Integrating microbial abundance time series with fermentation dynamics of the rumen microbiome via mathematical modelling – Mohsen Davoudkhani – PloS ONE

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties – Xiaoming He – Nature Plants

The evolutionary genomics of adaptation to stress in wild rhizobium bacteria – Hanna Kehlet-Delgado – PNAS

Investigating eco-evolutionary processes of microbial community assembly in the wild using a model leaf litter system – Kristin Barbour – The ISME Journal

Environmental Microbiome

Genome analysis and biogeographic distribution of the earliest divergent Frankia clade in the southern hemisphere – Fede Berckx – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Host population crashes disrupt the diversity of associated marine microbiomes – William S Pearman – Environmental Microbiology

Microplastic-antifouling paint particle contamination alters microbial communities in surrounding marine sediment – A S Tagg – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis

MCSS: microbial community simulator based on structure – Xingqi Hui – Frontiers in Microbiology

Datathons: fostering equitability in data reuse in ecology – Stephanie D Jurburg – Trends in Microbiology

March 20, 2024

Human gut and general microbiome

Prevotella copri and microbiota members mediate the beneficial effects of a therapeutic food for malnutrition – Hao-Wei Chang et al – Nature Microbiology

Outcomes after Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in combination with Bezlotoxumab for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Recurrent C. difficile Infection – Jessica R Allegretti – American Journal of Gastroenterology

Diosmin alleviates ulcerative colitis in mice by increasing Akkermansia muciniphila abundance, improving intestinal barrier function, and modulating the NF-κB and Nrf2 pathways – Maha Badr Salem et al – Cell Heliyon

Gut microbiota profiling in obese children from Southeastern China – Jingjing Wang et al – BMC Pediatrics

A flexible high-throughput cultivation protocol to assess the response of individuals’ gut microbiota to diet-, drug-, and host-related factors – Janina N Zünd et al – ISME Communications

Animal experiments

Intact lung tissue and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid are both suitable for the evaluation of murine lung microbiome in acute lung injury – Lijun Zheng et al – BMC Microbiome

Microbiota-derived indoles alleviate intestinal inflammation and modulate microbiome by microbial cross-feeding – Gang Wang et al – BMC Microbiome

Plant, soil, and environmental microbiome

Microbial species pool-mediated diazotrophic community assembly in crop microbiomes during plant development – Chao Xiong et al – mSystems

Bacterial communities associated with an island radiation of lichen-forming fungi – Miguel Blázquez et al – PLOS ONE

Built environment microbiome

Early assessment of fungal and oomycete pathogens in greenhouse irrigation water using Oxford nanopore amplicon sequencing – Enoch Narh Kudjordjie et al – PLOS One

The composition of the bacterial communities collected from the PM10 samples inside the Seoul subway and railway station – Shambhavi Sharma et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Bioinformatics

Differential network connectivity analysis for microbiome data adjusted for clinical covariates using jackknife pseudo-values – Seungjun Ahn & Somnath Datta – BMC Bioinformatics

Beneficial microbes & microbial metabolites
Natural intestinal metabolite xylitol reduces BRD4 levels to mitigate renal fibrosis – Zhouke Tan et al – Clinical and Translational Science

Probiotics supplementation during pregnancy or infancy on multiple food allergies and gut microbiota: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Lan Jiang et al – Nutrition Reviews

Non-Microbiome Microbiology

Koch’s curse: How models of extreme pathology bias studies of host–pathogen interactions – Kalyan K. Dewan & Eric T. Harvill – PLOS Pathogens

February 28, 2024

Human gut microbiome

Distinct intestinal microbial signatures linked to accelerated systemic and intestinal biological aging – Shalini Singh – BMC Microbiome

Safety, feasibility, and impact on the gut microbiome of kefir administration in critically ill adults – Vinod K. Gupta – BMC Medicine

Dissecting Gut-Microbial Community Interactions using a Gut Microbiome-on-a-Chip – Jeeyon Lee – Advanced Science

Animal experiments

CRB1-associated retinal degeneration is dependent on bacterial translocation from the gut – Shanzhen Peng – Cell

Amino acid formula induces microbiota dysbiosis and depressive-like behavior in mice – Ji Hu – Cell Reports

Bacteroides fragilis aggravates high-fat diet-induced non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by regulating lipid metabolism and remodeling gut microbiota – Yumei Huang – Microbiology Spectrum

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiota modulation enhances the immune capacity of lizards under climate warming – Jing Yang – BMC Microbiome

Gut microbiota contribute to variations in honey bee foraging intensity – Cassondra L Vernier – ISME Journal

Virome diversity shaped by genetic evolution and ecological landscape of Haemaphysalis longicornis – Run-Ze Ye – BMC Microbiome

Multi-omics reveal mechanisms of high enteral starch diet mediated colonic dysbiosis via microbiome-host interactions in young ruminant – Chunjia Jin – BMC Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[PREPRINT] Cover Crop Root Exudates Impact Soil Microbiome Functional Trajectories in Agricultural Soils – Valerie A Seitz – Research Square

Stronger compensatory thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration with higher substrate availability – Lingrui Qu – ISME Journal

Built environment

Effects of operational parameters on bacterial communities in Hong Kong and global wastewater treatment plants – Yulin Zhang – mSystems

Water and extremophile microbiome

Novel functional insights into the microbiome inhabiting marine plastic debris: critical considerations to counteract the challenges of thin biofilms using multi-omics and comparative metaproteomics – Lauren F. Messer – BMC Microbiome

Particle-attached bacteria act as gatekeepers in the decomposition of complex phytoplankton polysaccharides – Feng-Qing Wang – BMC Microbiome

Dynamics of Gut Bacteria Across Different Zooplankton Genera in the Baltic Sea – Tianshuo Zu – Microbial Ecology

Beneficial microbes

[PREPRINT] Enhancing Recovery from Gut Microbiome Dysbiosis and Alleviating DSS-Induced Colitis in Mice with a Consortium of Rare Short-Chain Fatty Acid-Producing Bacteria – Achuthan Ambat – bioRxiv

Neuroprotective Effects of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis NJ241 in a Mouse Model of Parkinson’s Disease: Implications for Gut Microbiota and PGC-1α – Yuxuan Dong – Molecular Neurobiology

January 20, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Gut microbiome for predicting immune checkpoint blockade-associated adverse events – Muni Hu – Genome Medicine

The fusion of multi-omics profile and multimodal EEG data contributes to the personalized diagnostic strategy for neurocognitive disorders – Yan Han – Microbiome

Prediction of lung cancer using novel biomarkers based on microbiome profiling of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid – Gihyeon Kim – Scientific Reports

Exploring the intestinal ecosystem: from gut microbiota to associations with subtypes of inflammatory bowel disease – Fan Li – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Simulated digestions of free oligosaccharides and mucin-type O-glycans reveal a potential role for Clostridium perfringens – Andrew G McDonald – Scientific Reports

Oral microbiome associated with differential ratios of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Streptococcus cristatus – Qingguo Wang – Microbiology Spectrum

Impact of intratumoral microbiome on tumor immunity and prognosis in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma – Shohei Abe – Journal of Gastroenterology

Evaluation of gut microbiota predictive potential associated with phenotypic characteristics to identify multifactorial diseases – Danielle Cristina Fonseca – Gut Microbes

Review: The Gut Microbiome Affects Atherosclerosis by Regulating Reverse Cholesterol Transport – Yangyang Jiang – Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research

Review: Role of vertical and horizontal microbial transmission of antimicrobial resistance genes in early life: insights from maternal-infant dyads – Manuel Bernabeu – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Complement in breast milk modifies offspring gut microbiota to promote infant health – Dongqing Xu – Cell

An Oral Nanomedicine Elicits In Situ Vaccination Effect against Colorectal Cancer – Menghang Zu – ACS Nano

Model and Non-Model Animal Microbiome 

Oral bacteria accelerate pancreatic cancer development in mice – Elias Saba – Gut

Bacterial community and diversity in the rumen of 11 Mongolian cattle as revealed by 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing – Yijiu Jia – Scientific Reports

Novel taxonomic and functional diversity of eight bacteria from the upper digestive tract of chicken – Bibiana Rios-Galicia – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

A tripartite bacterial-fungal-plant symbiosis in the mycorrhiza-shaped microbiome drives plant growth and mycorrhization – Changfeng Zhang – Microbiome

Host genotype, soil composition, and geo-climatic factors shape the fonio seed microbiome – Naheed Tabassum – Microbiome

The role of plants in ironstone evolution: iron and aluminium cycling in the rhizosphere – Anat Paz – The Science of the Total Environment

Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota – Riccardo Soldan – Current Biology 

Inactivation of siderophore iron-chelating moieties by the fungal wheat root symbiont Pyrenophora biseptata – Katie S French – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Environmental Microbiome

New insights into inhibition of high Fe(III) content on anaerobic digestion of waste-activated sludge – Xuepeng Wang – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Drying as an effective method to store soil samples for DNA-based microbial community analyses: a comparative study – Emily Smenderovac – Scientific Reports

Mock community taxonomic classification performance of publicly available shotgun metagenomics pipelines – E Michael Valencia – Scientific Data

Metabolic model predictions enable targeted microbiome manipulation through precision prebiotics – Georgios Marinos – Microbiology Spectrum

Metagenomes and metagenome-assembled genomes from ex vivo fecal incubations of six unique donors – Adrienne B Narrowe – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Bioinformatic Approach to Investigate Larvae Gut Microbiota Cellulosimicrobium protaetiae via Whole-Genome Analysis – Han Le Ho – Molecular Biotechnology





January 14, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Linking microbial genes to plasma and stool metabolites uncovers host-microbial interactions underlying ulcerative colitis disease course – Melanie Schirmer – Cell Host & Microbe

Incorporating metabolic activity, taxonomy and community structure to improve microbiome-based predictive models for host phenotype prediction – Mahsa Monshizadeh – Gut Microbes

Microbiota and mucosal gene expression of fecal microbiota transplantation or placebo treated patients with chronic pouchitis – Anna K Hartikainen – Gut Microbes

A robust microbiome signature for autism spectrum disorder across different studies using machine learning – Lucia N Peralta-Marzal – Scientific Reports

Nasal lavage microbiome, but not nasal swab microbiome, correlates with sinonasal inflammation in children with cystic fibrosis – Jaehi Chung – Journal of Cystic Fibrosis

A Gpr35-tuned gut microbe-brain metabolic axis regulates depressive-like behavior – Lingsha Cheng – Cell Host & Microbe

The salivary microbiota of patients with acute lower respiratory tract infection-A multicenter cohort study – Matthew B Rogers – PloS One

The endometrial microbiota and early pregnancy loss – Joshua Odendaal – Human Reproduction

Multi-omics of the gut microbial ecosystem in patients with microsatellite-instability-high gastrointestinal cancer resistant to immunotherapy – Siyuan Cheng – Cell Reports. Medicine

The microbial metabolite urolithin A reduces Clostridioides difficile toxin expression and toxin-induced epithelial damage – Sweta Ghosh – mSystems

Impact of Periodontitis on the Leakage of Oral Bacteria to the Gut – E Buetas – Journal of Dental Research 

Review: Changes in the fecal microbiota of breast cancer patients based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Biqing Luan – Clinical & Translational Oncology

Review: Bacteroides and related species: The keystone taxa of the human gut microbiota – Jae Hyun Shin – Anaerobe

Review: Enhancing microbiome research in sub-Saharan Africa – Kolawole I Ayeni – Trends in Microbiology

Animal Microbiome (Model and non-model organisms)

Early microbial intervention reshapes phenotypes of newborn Bos taurus through metabolic regulations – Yizhao Shen – GigaScience

Gut microbiota variations in wild yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus) are associated with sex and habitat disturbance – Marina Bambi – Scientific Reports

Genetic mutation in Escherichia coli genome during adaptation to the murine intestine is optimized for the host diet – Tomoya Tsukimi – mSystems

Candidatus Methanosphaera massiliense sp. nov., a methanogenic archaeal species found in a human fecal sample and prevalent in pigs and red kangaroos – Virginie Pilliol – Microbiology Spectrum

Plant and Soil Microbiome

A novel plant growth-promoting rhizobacterium, Rhizosphaericola mali gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from healthy apple tree soil – Han Sol Kim – Scientific Reports

Manipulation of the seagrass-associated microbiome reduces disease severity – Olivia J Graham – Environmental Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Assessment of DNA extraction methods for human gut mycobiome analysis – Piyapat Rintarhat – Royal Society Open Science

NanoDeep: a deep learning framework for nanopore adaptive sampling on microbial sequencing – Yusen Lin – Briefings in Bioinformatics

BactInt: A domain driven transfer learning approach for extracting inter-bacterial associations from biomedical text – Krishanu Das Baksi – Computational Biology and Chemistry

The African Human Microbiome Portal: a public web portal of curated metagenomic metadata – Anmol Kiran – Database 

MK-BMC: a Multi-Kernel framework with Boosted distance metrics for Microbiome data for Classification – Huang Xu – Bioinformatics

December 29, 2023

Human and General Microbiome

Differential responses of the gut microbiome and resistome to antibiotic exposures in infants and adults – Xuanji Li – Nature Communications

Social anxiety disorder-associated gut microbiota increases social fear – Nathaniel L Ritz – PNAS

Plasmid-encoded toxin defence mediates mutualistic microbial interactions – Sarah Moraïs – Nature Microbiology

Oral microbiome-driven virulence factors: A novel approach to pancreatic cancer diagnosis – Xuemin Zeng – Biomolecules & Biomedicine

The Gut Microbiome: A Primer for the Clinician – Olga C Aroniadis – The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Exploring the role of gut microbiota in migraine risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study – Xiangyue Meng – Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology

High-Throughput Combined Analysis of Saliva Microbiota and Metabolomic Profile in Chinese Periodontitis Patients: A Pilot Study – Jing Ding – Inflammation

Microbiome preterm birth DREAM challenge: Crowdsourcing machine learning approaches to advance preterm birth research – Jonathan L Golob – Cell Reports. Medicine

Impact of dietary inflammatory index on gingival health – Roberta Andrade Reis – Journal of Periodontology

Air particulate pollution exposure associated with impaired cognition via microbiota gut-brain axis: an evidence from rural elderly female in northwest China – Jia Yuan – Environmental Science and Pollution Research International

Metabolic flux and catabolic kinetics of prebiotic-like dietary polyphenol phlorizin in association with gut microbiota in vitro – Jiang Chen – Food Chemistry

Review: Genital tract microbiota composition profiles and use of prebiotics and probiotics in gynaecological cancer prevention: review of the current evidence, the European Society of Gynaecological Oncology prevention committee statement – Anita Mitra – The Lancet. Microbe

Review: Wound Microbiota and Its Impact on Wound Healing – Małgorzata Zielińska – International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Review: Microbial collaborations and conflicts: unraveling interactions in the gut ecosystem – Shuang Wang – Gut Microbes

Animal Model Studies

Gut microbiome responds to alteration in female sex hormone status and exacerbates metabolic dysfunction – Tzu-Wen L Cross – Gut Microbes

Oral fecal transplantation enriches Lachnospiraceae and butyrate to mitigate acute liver injury – Chun-Ju Yang – Cell Reports 

Impact of various high fat diets on gene expression and the microbiome across the mouse intestines – Jose Martinez-Lomeli – Scientific Reports

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Characteristics of gut microbiota in captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) from infant to elderly – Sarisa Klinhom – Scientific Reports

Honeybee symbiont Bombella apis could restore larval-to-pupal transition disrupted by antibiotic treatment – Chen Xiaowen – Journal of Insect Physiology

Toll receptor ligand Spätzle 4 responses to the highly pathogenic Enterococcus faecalis from Varroa mites in honeybees – Wenhao Zhang – PLoS Pathogens

Plant Microbiome

Review: Unveiling the significance of rhizosphere: Implications for plant growth, stress response, and sustainable agriculture – Wogene Solomon – Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

Environmental Microbiome

Connecting molecular biomarkers, mineralogical composition, and microbial diversity from Mars analog lava tubes – Vera Palma – The Science of the Total Environment

The undiscovered biosynthetic potential of the Greenland Ice Sheet microbiome – Ate H Jaarsma – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: A global review on the abundance and threats of microplastics in soils to terrestrial ecosystem and human health – Wenshan Shi – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome analysis: tools, techniques and resources

VIBES: A consensus subtyping of the vaginal microbiota reveals novel classification criteria – Diego Fernández-Edreira – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

Generalized matrix decomposition regression: estimation and inference for two-way structured data – Yue Wang – The Annals of Applied Statistics

Single-cell and spatiotemporal transcriptomic analyses reveal the effects of microorganisms on immunity and metabolism in the mouse liver – Ruizhen Zhao – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

PETR: A novel peristaltic mixed tubular bioreactor simulating human colonic conditions – David Vorländer – Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Mock microbial community meta-analysis using different trimming of amplicon read lengths – Diana Haider – Environmental Microbiology

Review: In Vitro Models for Investigating Intestinal Host-Pathogen Interactions – Reece McCoy – Advanced Science

December 23, 2023

Happy Holidays, from the MicrobiomeDigest team!

Human and General Microbiome

Gut microbiota predicts severity and reveals novel metabolic signatures in acute pancreatitis – Christoph Ammer-Herrmenau – Gut

Human gut microbiota from hepatitis B virus-infected individuals is associated with reduced triglyceride level in mice: faecal transplantation study – Han-Na Kim – Microbes and Infection

Commensal bacteria maintain a Qa-1(b)-restricted unconventional CD8(+) T population in gut epithelium – Jian Guan – eLife

Akkermansia muciniphila – friend or foe in colorectal cancer? – Ekaterina O Gubernatorova – Frontiers in Immunology

Association between erythrocyte membrane fatty acids and gut bacteria in obesity-related cognitive dysfunction – Tong Zhao – AMB Express

Impact of the gut microbiome on immunological responses to COVID-19 vaccination in healthy controls and people living with HIV – Shilpa Ray – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

The relationship between sleep, gut microbiota, and metabolome in patients with depression and anxiety: A secondary analysis of the observational study – Arisa Tanaka – PloS ONE

Persistence of gut dysbiosis in individuals with anorexia nervosa – Yukiko Morisaki – PloS ONE

Unique microbial diversity, community composition, and networks among Pacific Islander endocervical and vaginal microbiomes with and without Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Fiji – Sankhya Bommana – mBio

Gut microbiome-based machine learning for diagnostic prediction of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Xiaopei Liu – BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Targeting gut microbial nitrogen recycling and cellular uptake of ammonium to improve bortezomib resistance in multiple myeloma – Yinghong Zhu – Cell Metabolism

Variations in the oral microbiome and metabolome of methamphetamine users – Dawei Wang – mSystems

Investigating the causal impact of gut microbiota on glioblastoma: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study – Chuan Zeng – BMC Genomics

Alterations of oral and gut viromes in hypertension and/or periodontitis – Hui-Lin Ye – mSystems

Heterogeneous associations of gut microbiota with Crohn’s disease activity – Susanne Pinto – Gut Microbes

Early / Infant / Children Microbiome

Gut-resident microorganisms and their genes are associated with cognition and neuroanatomy in children – Kevin S Bonham – Science Advances

The association of tonsillar microbiota with biochemical indices based on obesity and tonsillar hypertrophy in children – Jiwon Park – Scientific Reports

Synergistic horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes and transposons in the infant gut microbial genome – Yanwen Ding – mSphere

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Potential therapeutic implications of histidine catabolism by the gut microbiota in NAFLD patients with morbid obesity – Sergio Quesada-Vázquez – Cell Reports Medicine

Attenuation of allergen-specific immunotherapy for atopic dermatitis by ectopic colonization of Brevundimonas vesicularis in the intestine – Xiaochun Liu – Cell Reports Medicine

Model and Non-Model Animal Microbiome

The influence of diet on gut microbiome and body mass dynamics in a capital-breeding migratory bird – Isabelle Jones – PeerJ

Autophagic dysfunction and gut microbiota dysbiosis cause chronic immune activation in a Drosophila model of Gaucher disease – Magda L Atilano – PLoS Genetics

Cytolethal distending toxin B inoculation leads to distinct gut microtypes and IBS-D-like microRNA-mediated gene expression changes in a rodent model – Gabriela Leite – Gut Microbes

Microbiome and Evolution

Evolutionary patterns and processes in animal microbiomes – Florent Mazel – Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Wheat fungal endophyte communities are inseparable from the host and influence plant development – Or Sharon – mBio

Environmental Microbiome

Metagenomics-Based Microbial Ecological Community Threshold and Indicators of Anthropogenic Disturbances in Estuarine Sediments – Yingyu Bao – Environmental Science & Technology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Review: Nine (not so simple) steps: a practical guide to using machine learning in microbial ecology – Corinne Walsh – mBio

SOHPIE: Statistical Approach via Pseudo-Value Information and Estimation for Differential Network Analysis of Microbiome Data – Seungjun Ahn – Bioinformatics

Examining the functional space of gut microbiome-derived peptides – Ying-Chiang J Lee – MicrobiologyOpen

A new absolute quantitative method for peptide and metabolite detection – Carlo Brogna – Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Next steps in studying host-microbiome interactions in apical periodontitis – Athina C Georgiou – Frontiers in Oral Health

December 18, 2023

Human and General Microbiome

Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking – Frances Spragge – Science 

Shotgun metagenomics reveals interkingdom association between intestinal bacteria and fungi involving competition for nutrients – Zixuan Xie – Microbiome

Functional alterations and predictive capacity of gut microbiome in type 2 diabetes – Nihar Ranjan Dash – Scientific Reports

Fecal metabolite profiling identifies liver transplant recipients at risk for postoperative infection – Christopher J Lehmann – Cell Host & Microbe

Establishment of oral microbiome in very low birth weight infants during the first weeks of life and the impact of oral diet implementation – Pedro A R Vanzele – PloS One

Infant gut DNA bacteriophage strain persistence during the first 3 years of life – Yue Clare Lou – Cell Host & Microbe

Metabolic diversity in commensal protists regulates intestinal immunity and trans-kingdom competition – Elias R Gerrick – Cell

Poly-omic risk scores predict inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis – Christopher H Arehart – mSystems

Review: Impact of glyphosate (Roundup(TM)) on the composition and functionality of the gut microbiome – Lauren Walsh – Gut Microbes

Rapid turnover and short-term blooms of Escherichia coli in the human gut – Na Han – Journal of Bacteriology

Designing a multi-epitope vaccine against Peptostreptococcus anaerobius based on an immunoinformatics approach – Yudan Mao – Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology

Twnbiome: a public database of the healthy Taiwanese gut microbiome – Amrita Chattopadhyay – BMC Bioinformatics

Identification of inulin-responsive bacteria in the gut microbiota via multi-modal activity-based sorting – Alessandra Riva – Nature Communications

Review: Application of omics technologies in cariology research: A critical review with bibliometric analysis – Josie Shizhen Zhang – Journal of Dentistry

Dysbiosis and associated stool features improve prediction of response to biological therapy in inflammatory bowel disease – Clara Caenepeel – Gastroenterology

Highlight: Female Reproductive Tract Microbiome

Review: Culturomics in Unraveling the Upper Female Reproductive Tract Microbiota – Robin Vanstokstraeten – Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

A manifold-based framework for studying the dynamics of the vaginal microbiome – Mor Tsamir-Rimon – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Culturomics reveals a hidden world of vaginal microbiota with the isolation of 206 bacteria from a single vaginal sample – Linda Abou Chacra – Archives of Microbiology

Effects of variation in sample storage conditions and swab order on 16S vaginal microbiome analyses – Tanya Kumar – Microbiology Spectrum

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Activity budget and gut microbiota stability and flexibility across reproductive states in wild capuchin monkeys in a seasonal tropical dry forest – Shasta E Webb – Animal Microbiome

Validation of method for faecal sampling in cats and dogs for faecal microbiome analysis – Xavier Langon – BMC Veterinary Research

Transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the gut microbiome of gregarious cockroaches: the importance of interaction between antibiotic exposed and non-exposed populations – Amalia Bogri – mSystems

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Fungal community composition changes and reduced bacterial diversity drive improvements in the soil quality index during arable land restoration – Pingxing Wan – Environmental Research

Two-for-one: root microbiota orchestrates both soil pH and plant nutrition – João Antonio Siqueira – Trends in Plant Science

Cotton microbiome profiling and Cotton Leaf Curl Disease (CLCuD) suppression through microbial consortia associated with Gossypium arboreum – Rhea Aqueel – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Environmental Microbiome

Benthic microbial biogeographic trends in the North Sea are shaped by an interplay of environmental drivers and bottom trawling effort – Guido Bonthond – ISME Communications

Increased prokaryotic diversity in the Red Sea deep scattering layer – Tamara Megan Huete-Stauffer – Environmental Microbiome