Happy Wednesday folks, we’re halfway through the week! Today’s blog features a number of interesting articles – it was difficult to pick just a few to highlight. Read on to learn about a new study that unveils the environment-specificity of secondary successional dynamics following microbiota disruption, a review summarizing the literature on how pesticide exposure affects the microbiota-gut-brain-axis, an investigation of how host phylogeny, diet, and anthropogenic factors shape the Cetacea gut microbiome – and more!
Human Microbiome
Diet-omics in the Study of Urban and Rural Crohn disease Evolution (SOURCE) cohort – Tzipi Braun – Nature Communications
Improvements in Gut Microbiome Composition and Clinical Symptoms Following Familial Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in a Nineteen-Year-Old Adolescent With Severe Autism – Sabine Hazan – Journal of Medical Cases
[PREPRINT] Interplay between particle size and microbial ecology in the gut microbiome – Jeffrey Letourneau – bioRxiv
Shotgun metagenomic analysis of saliva microbiome suggests Mogibacterium as a factor associated with chronic bacterial osteomyelitis – Hiroko Yahara – PLOS One
[REVIEW] Pesticide exposure and the microbiota-gut-brain axis – Rie Matsuzaki – ISME Journal
Animal Experiments
Short-term exposure to antibiotics begets long-term disturbance in gut microbial metabolism and molecular ecological networks – Yuehui Hong – BMC Microbiome
Microbial Ecology
Synthesis of recovery patterns in microbial communities across environments – Stephanie D. Jurburg – BMC Microbiome
Cooperative interactions between invader and resident microbial community members weaken the negative diversity-invasion relationship – Johanna Vendermaesen – Ecology Letters
High speciation rate of niche specialists in hot springs – Qing He – ISME Journal
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Effects of reduced snowpack due to climate warming on abiotic and biotic soil properties in alpine and boreal forest systems – Anastasiia Kosolapova – PLOS Climate
Microbiota recovery in a chronosquences of impoverished Cerrado soils with biosolids applications – Laibin Huang – Science of the Total Environment
Melatonin promotes the recovery of apple plants after waterlogging by shaping the structure and function of the rhizosphere microbiome – Yang Cao – Plant, Cell & Environment
Antimony efflux underpins phosphorus cycling and resistance of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in mining soils – Shengwei Liu – ISME Journal
Animal Microbiome
Antibiotic exposure alters the honeybee gut microbiota and may interfere with the honeybee behavioral caste transition – Zijing Zhang – Insect Science
Meta-analysis of the Cetacea gut microbiome: Diversity, co-evolution, and interaction with the anthropogenic pathobiome – Elena Radaelli – Science of the Total Environment
Comparative analysis of gut microbiome of mangrove brachyuran crabs revealed patterns of phylosymbiosis and codiversification – Chandlar Tsz To Tsang – Molecular Ecology
Techniques & Methodology
A perfusion host-microbe bioreactor (HMB) system that captures dynamic interactions of secreted metabolites between epithelial cells cocultured with a human gut anaerobe – Jingyun Yang – Biotechnology and Bioengineering
Stable, fluorescent markers for tracking synthetic communities and assembly dynamics – Beatriz Jorrin – BMC Microbiome
Sterile sentinels and MinION sequencing capture active soil microbial communities that differentiate crop rotations – Sonya R. Erlandson – BMC Environmental Microbiome
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