Tag Archives: bioinformatics

July 21, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Akkermansia muciniphila and Parabacteroides distasonis as prognostic markers for relapse in ulcerative colitis patients – Ana Mendes-Frias – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Obesity-enriched gut microbe degrades myo-inositol and promotes lipid absorption – Chao Wu – Cell Host & Microbe

Gut microbiome in endometriosis: a cohort study on 1000 individuals – Inmaculada Pérez-Prieto – BMC Medicine

Metagenomic analysis reveals altered gut virome and diagnostic potential in pancreatic cancer – Pan Zhang – Journal of Medical Virology

The tumor microbiome as a predictor of outcomes in patients with metastatic melanoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors – Caroline E Dravillas – Cancer Research Communications

Gut microbiome diversity within Clostridia is negatively associated with human obesity – Laura Salazar-Jaramillo – mSystems

Early depletion of gut microbiota shape oligodendrocyte response after traumatic brain injury – Kirill Shumilov – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Effect of progestin-based contraceptives on HIV-associated vaginal immune biomarkers and microbiome in adolescent girls – Mélodie A Nasr – PloS One

Review: Microbiome and pancreatic cancer: time to think about chemotherapy – Juliana de Castilhos – Gut Microbes

Review: Host control of the microbiome: Mechanisms, evolution, and disease – Jacob Wilde – Science

Review: Connecting microbial community assembly and function – Leonora S Bittleston – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: Microbiota of Saliva: A Non-invasive Diagnostic Tool – Dasharath B Shinde – Indian Journal of Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes, Compounds and Interventions

Topical prebiotic nitrate: optimizing the ‘hang-time’, source and dose for specific oral or systemic effects – Bob T Rosier – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

An improved diet-based nutritional interventions can improve childhood obesity with the synergistic regulation of gut microbiota – M Zhou – Beneficial Microbes

Intermittent fasting, calorie restriction, and a ketogenic diet improve mitochondrial function by reducing lipopolysaccharide signaling in monocytes during obesity: A randomized clinical trial – Martha Guevara-Cruz – Clinical Nutrition 

Food Microbiome

Influence of the initial microbiota on eggplant shibazuke pickle and eggplant juice fermentation – Kazunori Sawada – Microbiology Spectrum

Metatranscriptomics reveals microbial community function succession and characteristic flavor formation mechanisms during black rice wine fermentation – Aoxing Tang – Food Chemistry

Animal Model Microbiome

Gα13 restricts nutrient driven proliferation in mucosal germinal centers – Hang T Nguyen – Nature Immunology

Gut microbiota mediates ambient PM(2.5) exposure-induced abnormal glucose metabolism via short-chain fatty acids – Wenpu Shao – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Domestication and evolutionary histories of specialized gut symbionts across cephalotine ants – Christian Cabuslay – Molecular Ecology

Review: The interplay between gut symbionts and behavioral variation in social insects – Joanito Liberti – Current Opinion in Insect Science

Meta-transcriptomic analysis of companion animal infectomes reveals their diversity and potential roles in animal and human disease – Wei-Chen Wu – mSphere

Alcohol consumption during pregnancy differentially affects the fecal microbiota of dams and offspring – Tamara S Bodnar – Scientific Reports

Environmental Microbiome

Meta-omics analysis reveals the marine arsenic cycle driven by bacteria – Zhao-Jie Teng – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Using Machine Learning to Identify Environmental Factors that Collectively Determine Microbial Community Structure of Activated Sludge – Lu Wang – Environmental Research

Microplastic pollution promotes soil respiration: A global-scale meta-analysis – Shuling Zhao – Global Change Biology

SMMP: A Deep-Coverage Marine Metaproteome Method for Microbial Community Analysis throughout the Water Column Using 1 L of Seawater – Songduo Wang – Analytical Chemistry

Metagenomic insights into microbial community structure and metabolism in alpine permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau – Luyao Kang – Nature Communications

Top-down and bottom-up microbiome engineering approaches to enable biomanufacturing from waste biomass – Xuejiao Lyu – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Microbiome Analysis

GSearch: ultra-fast and scalable genome search by combining K-mer hashing with hierarchical navigable small world graphs – Jianshu Zhao – Nucleic Acids Research

Multi-omics machine learning to study host-microbiome interactions in early-onset colorectal cancer – Thejus T Jayakrishnan – NPJ Precision Oncology

3D printed rectal swabs for assessing the gut microbiome, metabolome and inflammation – Robert W Perry – Scientific Reports

AFITbin: a metagenomic contig binning method using aggregate l-mer frequency based on initial and terminal nucleotides – Amin Darabi – BMC Bioinformatics

JASPER: Fast, powerful, multitrait association testing in structured samples gives insight on pleiotropy in gene expression – Joelle Mbatchou – American Journal of Human Genetics

Microbial Evolution

The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system – Edmund R R Moody – Nature Ecology & Evolution

July 7, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Changes in the gut microbiome of patients with esophageal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis based on 16S gene sequencing technology – Jieyin Deng – Microbial Pathogenesis

Integrated metagenomic and metabolomic analysis reveals distinctive stage-specific gut-microbiome-derived metabolites in intracranial aneurysms – Haitao Sun – Gut

After surgically induced remission, ileal and colonic mucosa-associated microbiota predicts Crohn’s disease recurrence – Cristian-Hernandez Rocha – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Human gut microbiota analysis of cystic fibrosis infants using metaproteomics – C García-Durán – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Environmental, socioeconomic, and health factors associated with gut microbiome species and strains in isolated Honduras villages – Shivkumar Vishnempet Shridhar – Cell Reports

Perturbations in gut microbiota composition in schizophrenia – YiMeng Wang – PloS One

Maternal gestational diabetes mellitus associates with altered gut microbiome composition and head circumference abnormalities in male offspring – Shilan Wang – Cell host & Microbe

Microbial signatures and continuum in endometrial cancer and benign patients – Anita Semertzidou – Microbiome

Comparison of shipping versus immediate freezer storage of vaginal samples for vaginal microbiota assessment – Susan Tuddenham – Sexually Transmitted Infections

Letter: Real-world bisphenol A exposure not linked to microbiota dynamics in childhood obesity – Robyn L Prueitt – mSystems

Essay: Blockbuster T cells in the gut: A high-resolution view of immune modulation by the gut microbiome is presented – Kazuki Nagashima – Science

Review: Gut microbiota-lncRNA/circRNA crosstalk: implications for different diseases – Lei Zhang – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Review: The role of gut microbiota, exosomes, and their interaction in the pathogenesis of ALD – Zilu Cheng – Journal of Advanced Research

Review: Integrating host and microbiome biology using holo-omics – Carl M Kobel – Molecular Omics

Beneficial Microbes, Compounds, and Interventions

Overcoming donor variability and risks associated with fecal microbiota transplants through bacteriophage-mediated treatments – Torben Sølbeck Rasmussen – Microbiome

Fecal microbiota transplantation alters gut phage communities in a clinical trial for obesity – Michele Zuppi – Microbiome

A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials evaluating the effectiveness of fecal microbiota transplantation for patients with irritable bowel syndrome – Yu Wang – BMC Gastroenterology

Faecalibaterium prausnitzii strain EXL01 boosts efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors – Marius Bredon – Oncoimmunology

Serum and CSF metabolomics analysis shows Mediterranean Ketogenic Diet mitigates risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease – Annalise Schweickart – NPJ Metabolic Health and Disease

Oral histidine affects gut microbiota and MAIT cells improving glycemic control in type 2 diabetes patients – Moritz V Warmbrunn – Gut Microbes

The Evolution of Science and Regulation of Dietary Supplements: Past, Present, and Future – Paul M Coates – The Journal of Nutrition

Review: Dietary patterns interfere with gut microbiota to combat obesity – Xiaofan Lou – Frontiers in Nutrition

Plant Microbiome

Rhizobacterial syntrophy between a helper and a beneficiary promotes tomato plant health – Sang-Moo Lee – The ISME Journal

Review: Unearthing the power of microbes as plant microbiome for sustainable agriculture – Arpan Mukherjee – Microbiological Research

Review: Surviving the Stress: Understanding the Molecular Basis of Plant Adaptations and Uncovering the Role of Mycorrhizal Association in Plant Abiotic Stresses – Vivek Sharma – Microbial Pathogenesis

Environmental Microbiome

The drainome: longitudinal metagenomic characterisation of wastewater from hospital ward sinks to characterize the microbiome and resistome and assess the effects of decontamination interventions – Luke B Snell – The Journal of Hospital Infection

Review: Beyond Meta-Omics: Functional Genomics in Future Marine Microbiome Research – Yin Chen – Annual Review of Marine Science

Review: Soil Metaproteomics for Microbial Community Profiling: Methodologies and Challenges – Haixia Pan – Current Microbiology

Forensic Microbiome

16S rRNA, metagenomics and 2bRAD-M sequencing to decode human thanatomicrobiome – Xin Huang – Scientific Data

Microbiome Analysis

A graph neural network approach for predicting drug susceptibility in the human microbiome – Maryam – Computers in Biology and Medicine

Protocol for the construction and functional profiling of metagenome-assembled genomes for microbiome analyses – Goutam Banerjee – STAR Protocols

DeepPIG: deep neural network architecture with pairwise connected layers and stochastic gates using knockoff frameworks for feature selection – Euiyoung Oh – Scientific Reports

CViewer: a Java-based statistical framework for integration of shotgun metagenomics with other omics datasets – Orges Koci – Microbiome

June 30, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Gut

Metaproteomic portrait of the healthy human gut microbiota – Alessandro Tanca – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Microbiome and Growth in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease – Michael P Fundora – The Journal of Pediatrics

Driving gut microbiota enterotypes through host genetics – Catherine Larzul – Microbiome

Obesity-associated microbiomes instigate visceral adipose tissue inflammation by recruitment of distinct neutrophils – Dharti Shantaram – Nature Communications

Fecal, Duodenal and Tumor Microbiota Composition of Esophageal Carcinoma Patients, a Longitudinal Prospective Cohort – Tom van den Ende – Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Review: Role of the intestinal microbiota in contributing to weight disorders and associated comorbidities – Matthias Van Hul – Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Review: The role of the gut microbiome in disorders of gut-brain interaction – Brent J Gawey – The FEBS Journal

Skin

Multi-omics signatures reveal genomic and functional heterogeneity of Cutibacterium acnes in normal and diseased skin – Tianze Yu – Cell Host & Microbe

Genitourinary Tract

Vaginal anaerobes are associated with cervicitis: a case-control study – Erica L Plummer – The Journal of Infection

Oral and Respiratory Tract

Review: The Impact of Oral Diseases on Respiratory Health and the Influence of Respiratory Infections on the Oral Microbiome – Annapurna Gupta – Journal of Dentistry

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Lactobacillus acidophilus protects against Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection by regulating the autophagy of macrophages and maintaining gut microbiota homeostasis in C57BL/6 mice – Dengliang Li – mSystems

Exploring novel microbial metabolites and drugs for inhibiting Clostridioides difficile – Ahmed A Abouelkhair – mSphere

Ketogenic diet-induced bile acids protect against obesity through reduced calorie absorption – Xiao Li – Nature Metabolism

Review: How Diet and Lifestyle Can Fine-Tune Gut Microbiomes for Healthy Aging – M Tamayo – Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans – Solveiga Samulėnaitė – Gut

Group membership, not diet, structures the composition and functional potential of the gut microbiome in a wild primate – Peter M Finnegan – mSphere

Maternal transmission as a microbial symbiont sieve, and the absence of lactation in male mammals – Brennen T Fagan – Nature Communications

Built Environment Microbiome

A metagenomic assessment of bacterial community in spices sold open-air markets in Saint-Louis, Senegal – Sarbanding Sané – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Compositionally aware estimation of cross-correlations for microbiome data – Ib Thorsgaard Jensen – PloS ONE

Bioinformatic Workflows for Metaproteomics – Tanja Holstein – Methods in Molecular Biology 

Floria: fast and accurate strain haplotyping in metagenomes – Jim Shaw – Bioinformatics 

Enhancing antimicrobial resistance detection with MetaGeneMiner: Targeted gene extraction from metagenomes – Chang Liu – Chinese Medical Journal

Benchmarking low- and high-throughput protein cleanup and digestion methods for human fecal metaproteomics – Alessandro Tanca – mSystems

Genome Watch: Bacterial barcoding facilitates plant microbiome studies – Hualan Liu – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Other

Retraction Note: Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach – Gregory D Poore – Nature

June 26, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

Microbial community-scale metabolic modelling predicts personalized short-chain fatty acid production profiles in the human gut – Nick Quinn-Bohmann et al – Nature Microbiology

Island biogeography theory provides a plausible explanation for why larger vertebrates and taller humans have more diverse gut microbiomes – Katherine Ramos Sarmiento et al – ISME Journal

Dietary fibre directs microbial tryptophan metabolism via metabolic interactions in the gut microbiota – Anurag K. Sinha – Nature Microbiology

Animal models

The zebrafish gut microbiome influences benzo[a]pyrene developmental neurobehavioral toxicity – Keaton Stagaman et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Modulation of gut microbiota composition due to early weaning stress induces depressive behavior during the juvenile period in mice – Itsuka Kamimura et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Antibiotics affect the pharmacokinetics of n-butylphthalide in vivo by altering the intestinal microbiota – Xiangchen Li et al – PLOS One

Trilobatin ameliorates dextran sulfate sodium-induced ulcerative colitis in mice via the NF-κB pathway and alterations in gut microbiota – Nanbo Wang et al – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiota and immune profiling of microbiota-humanised versus wildtype mouse models of hepatointestinal schistosomiasis – K.A. Stark et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Analysis of differences in the rumen microbiome and metabolic function in prepartum dairy cows with different body condition scores – Dewei Du et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Improvement of insulin sensitivity by dietary fiber consumption during late pregnant sows is associated with gut microbiota regulation of tryptophan metabolism – Yang Li – BMC Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiota diversity in a dung beetle (Catharsius molossus) across geographical variations and brood ball-mediated microbial transmission – Hao-Yu Chen et al – PLOS One

Water & extremophile microbiomes

Metagenomic insights into Heimdallarchaeia clades from the deep-sea cold seep and hydrothermal vent – Rui Liu – BMC Environmental Microbiome

Metagenomic insights into microbial adaptation to the salinity gradient of a typical short residence-time estuary – Ziheng Wu et al – BMC Microbiome

Plant, root, & soil microbiome

Microbial consortium assembly and functional analysis via isotope labelling and single-cell manipulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degraders – Jibing Li – ISME Journal

Chemolithoautotrophic diazotrophs dominate dark nitrogen fixation in mangrove sediments – Shasha Wang et al – ISME Journal

Other microbes

Cellular interactions and evolutionary origins of endosymbiotic relationships with ciliates – Qi Song et al – ISME Journal

Bioinformatics & tools

Entourage: all-in-one sequence analysis software for genome assembly, virus detection, virus discovery, and intrasample variation profiling – Worakorn Phumiphanjarphak & Pakorn Aiewsakun – BMC Bioinformatics

Methods

Soft autonomous ingestible device for sampling the small-intestinal microbiome – Ruben Del-Rio-Ruiz et al – Cell Device

June 16, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Mouse IgA modulates human gut microbiota with inflammatory bowel disease patients – Keishu Takahashi – Journal of Gastroenterology

Distinct characteristics of the gut virome in patients with osteoarthritis and gouty arthritis – Chang-Ming Chen – Journal of Translational Medicine

The microbial composition of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: A systematic review of 16S rRNA gene sequencing – Nabeel Merali – International Journal of Surgery

Therapeutic microbiome modulation: new frontiers in HIV treatment – Rene Bulnes – Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS

Untargeted metabolomics reveal signatures of a healthy lifestyle – Wimal Pathmasiri – Scientific Reports

In-depth microbiological characterization of urine from subjects with type 2 diabetes – Marco Calvigioni – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Study on intestinal parasitic infections and gut microbiota in cancer patients at a tertiary teaching hospital in Malaysia – Sidi Omar Siti Farah Norasyikeen – Scientific Reports

The vaginal microbial signatures of preterm birth woman – Huan Li – BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Review: Gut microbiome and cardiometabolic comorbidities in people living with HIV – Marius Trøseid – Microbiome

Review: Nontoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis: A double-edged sword – Yumei Huang – Microbiological Research

Review: Vaginal microbiota and gynecological cancers: a complex and evolving relationship – Kasra Javadi – Infectious Agents and Cancer

Review: Microbial genomics: a potential toolkit for forensic investigations – Pooja Tripathi – Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Metformin-induced changes in the gut microbiome and plasma metabolome are associated with cognition in men – Marisel Rosell-Díaz – Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental

Effects of Bifidobacterium breve 207-1 on regulating lifestyle behaviors and mental wellness in healthy adults based on the microbiome-gut-brain axis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial – Jinxing Li – European Journal of Nutrition

Bacteria of healthy periodontal tissues as candidates of probiotics: a systematic review – María Del Pilar Angarita-Díaz – European Journal of Medical Research

Animal Model Microbiome

Investigating the influence of perinatal fluoxetine exposure on murine gut microbial communities during pregnancy and lactation – Katelyn Desorcy-Scherer – Scientific Reports

Microbiota dictate T cell clonal selection to augment graft-versus-host disease after stem cell transplantation – Albert C Yeh – Immunity

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Do fish gut microbiotas vary across spatial scales? A case study of Diplodus vulgaris in the Mediterranean Sea – Lilli Ginevra – Animal Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Plant growth promotion and biocontrol properties of a synthetic community in the control of apple disease – Rongye Qiao – BMC Plant Biology

Review: Microbial Consortia: Promising Tool as Plant Bioinoculants for Agricultural Sustainability – Rajeshwari Negi – Current Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Anthropogenic pollution may enhance natural transformation in water, favouring the spread of antibiotic resistance genes – Periyasamy Sivalingam – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

mbtransfer: Microbiome intervention analysis using transfer functions and mirror statistics – Kris Sankaran – PLoS Computational Biology

Other

Editorial: Direct-to-consumer microbiome testing needs regulation  – The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology

June 9, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Divergent age-associated and metabolism-associated gut microbiome signatures modulate cardiovascular disease risk – Tiange Wang – Nature Medicine

Quantifying variation across 16S rRNA gene sequencing runs in human microbiome studies – Andrew J Hoisington – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Gut microbiome changes associated with chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer: A systematic review and Meta-analysis – Jiaze Hong – International Journal of Surgery

Gut microbial signatures of patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and their healthy relatives – Jie Chen – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Two weeks of acarbose treatment show no effect on gut microbiome composition in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover study – Niels B Dalsgaard – Endocrine Connections

A conserved inhibitory interdomain interaction regulates DNA-binding activities of hybrid two-component systems in Bacteroides – Rong Gao – mBio

Multi-omics Analysis Reveals Key Gut Microbiota and Metabolites Closely Associated with Huntington’s Disease – Shu-Xia Qian – Molecular Neurobiology

Review: Unravelling the role of intratumoral bacteria in digestive system cancers: current insights and future perspectives – Weiqin Lu – Journal of Translational Medicine

Model and Non-model Animal Microbiome

Effect of microplastics pollution on the gut microbiome of anecic and endogeic earthworms – Christina Papazlatani – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Novel indigenous probiotic isolated from healthy Pacific White shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei intestine in differing stages based on metagenomic and screening approach – Sutanti Sutanti – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Citrobacter rodentium infection impairs dopamine metabolism and exacerbates the pathology of Parkinson’s disease in mice – Yongtao He – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Gut microbiota depletion delays somatic peripheral nerve development and impairs neuromuscular junction maturation – Matilde Cescon – Gut Microbes

Plant Microbiome

Review: Unravelling the impact of environmental factors in shaping plant microbiomes – Alicia Isabel Pérez-Lorente – Microbial Biotechnology

Microbiome Analysis

GROND: a quality-checked and publicly available database of full-length 16S-ITS-23S rRNA operon sequences – Calum J Walsh – Microbial Genomics

Machine learning enabled design features of antimicrobial peptides selectively targeting peri-implant disease progression – Kyle Boone – Frontiers in Dental Medicine

Review: An exploratory in silico analysis of bacteriocin gene clusters in the urobiome – Jennifer Jones – Microbiome Research Reports

June 2, 2024

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Human Microbiome

Commensal bacterial outer membrane protein A induces interleukin-22 production – Yanling Wang – Cell Reports

Mucus production, host-microbiome interactions, hormone sensitivity, and innate immune responses modeled in human cervix chips – Zohreh Izadifar – Nature Communications

Gut microbiome and symptoms in females with irritable bowel syndrome: a cross-sectional analysis – K J Kamp – Beneficial Microbes

Gut microbiome in the Graves’ disease: Comparison before and after anti-thyroid drug treatment – Chaiho Jeong – PloS ONE

Guild-level signature of gut microbiome for diabetic kidney disease – Shasha Tang – mBio

Gut microbiome correlates of recurrent urinary tract infection: a longitudinal, multi-center study – JooHee Choi – EClinicalMedicine

Gut microbiota-derived butyrate induces epigenetic and metabolic reprogramming in myeloid-derived suppressor cells to alleviate primary biliary cholangitis – Rui Wang – Gastroenterology

Review: Gut microbiota research nexus: One Health relationship between human, animal, and environmental resistomes – Yuhao Fu – mLife

Review: Exploring the Impact of Airway Microbiome on Asthma Morbidity: A Focus on the Constructing a ‘Eubiosis Reinstatement Therapy’ for Asthma-CURE Project – Paraskevi Xepapadaki – Pulmonary Therapy

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

A Gram-negative-selective antibiotic that spares the gut microbiome – Kristen A Muñoz – Nature

Bifidobacterium adolescentis-derived hypaphorine alleviates acetaminophen hepatotoxicity by promoting hepatic Cry1 expression – Ping Qin – Journal of Translational Medicine

Chrysanthemum morifolium attenuates metabolic and alcohol-associated liver disease via gut microbiota and PPARα/γ activation – Dan Liu – Phytomedicine

Animal Model Microbiome

Transgenerational effects of early life stress on the fecal microbiota in mice – Nize Otaru – Communications Biology

Metagenomics and metaproteomics alterations are associated with kidney disease in opisthorchiasis hamsters fed a high-fat and high-fructose diet – Keerapach Tunbenjasiri – PloS ONE

Animal Microbiome

Spatial profiles of the bacterial microbiota throughout the gastrointestinal tract of dairy goats – Qingyong Hu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Interaction between methanotrophy and gastrointestinal nematodes infection on the rumen microbiome of lambs – Patricia Spoto Corrêa – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Antibiotic-altered gut microbiota explain host memory plasticity and disrupt pace-of-life covariation for an aquatic snail – Gabrielle L Davidson – The ISME Journal

Food Microbiome

Metagenome-assembled genomes from microbiomes fermenting dairy coproducts – Kevin A Walters – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Environmental Microbiome

Global biogeography of microbes driving ocean ecological status under climate change – Zhenyan Zhang – Nature Communications

Engineering natural microbiomes toward enhanced bioremediation by microbiome modeling – Zhepu Ruan – Nature Communications

Interpretable machine learning decodes soil microbiome’s response to drought stress – Michelle Hagen – Environmental Microbiome

Macroalgal eukaryotic microbiome composition indicates novel phylogenetic diversity and broad host spectrum of oomycete pathogens – Natalia Timanikova – Environmental Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis

Combining compositional data sets introduces error in covariance network reconstruction – James D Brunner – ISME Communications

How to Obtain and Compare Metagenome-Assembled Genomes – Fabio Beltrame Sanchez – Methods in Molecular Biology

A strategy for differential abundance analysis of sparse microbiome data with group-wise structured zeros – Fentaw Abegaz – Scientific Reports

Review: A review of machine learning methods for cancer characterization from microbiome data – Marco Teixeira – NPJ Precision Oncology

May 26, 2024

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Human Microbiome in General

Microbiome research in Africa must be based on equitable partnerships – Ovokeraye H Oduaran – Nature Medicine

Human Gut Microbiome

IL-33 controls IL-22-dependent antibacterial defense by modulating the microbiota – Ivo Röwekamp – PNAS

Meta-analysis of shotgun sequencing of gut microbiota in Parkinson’s disease – Hiroshi Nishiwaki – NPJ Parkinson’s Disease

Systematic review of associations between gut microbiome composition and stunting in under-five children – Mwelwa Chibuye – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Production of deoxycholic acid by low-abundant microbial species is associated with impaired glucose metabolism – Annika Wahlström – Nature Communications

Altered gut microbiota is associated with the formation of occult hepatitis B virus infection – Bochao Liu – Microbiology Spectrum

Metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) suggest an acetate-driven protective role in gut microbiota disrupted by Clostridioides difficile – Giovanny Herrera – Microbiological Research

Review: From gut microbiota to brain: implications on binge eating disorders – Weiwei Guo – Gut Microbes

Review: Pathogenesis and therapeutic opportunities of gut microbiome dysbiosis in critical illness – Nicole A Cho – Gut Microbes

Human Respiratory Tract Microbiome

Pathobiological signatures of dysbiotic lung injury in pediatric patients undergoing stem cell transplantation – Matt S Zinter – Nature Medicine

Human Genitourinary Tract Microbiome

Leveraging existing 16S rRNA gene surveys to decipher microbial signatures and dysbiosis in cervical carcinogenesis – Xiaoxiao Li – Scientific Reports

Targeting Megasphaera species to promote cervicovaginal health – Mariano A Molina – Trends in Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Prodrug-conjugated tumor-seeking commensals for targeted cancer therapy – Haosheng Shen – Nature Communications

Fecal microbiota transplantation significantly improved respiratory failure of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Jingshuang Yan – Gut Microbes

The use of probiotics and prebiotics in decolonizing pathogenic bacteria from the gut; a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical outcomes – Md Nannur Rahman – Gut Microbes

Review: Advanced microbiome therapeutics as a novel modality for oral delivery of peptides to manage metabolic diseases – Ruben Vazquez-Uribe – Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Animal Microbiome

Identification of the mutual gliding locus as a factor for gut colonization in non-native bee hosts using the ARTP mutagenesis – Yujie Meng – Microbiome

Symbiotic bacteria and fungi proliferate in diapause and may enhance overwintering survival in a solitary bee – Shawn M Christensen – The ISME Journal

Plant Microbiome

Phages enhance both phytopathogen density control and rhizosphere microbiome suppressiveness – Xiaofang Wang – mBio

Environmental Microbiome

Global epistasis and the emergence of function in microbial consortia – Juan Diaz-Colunga – Cell

Bacterial dynamics of the plastisphere microbiome exposed to sub-lethal antibiotic pollution – Brune Joannard – Microbiome

Global soil metagenomics reveals distribution and predominance of Deltaproteobacteria in nitrogen-fixing microbiome – Yoko Masuda – Microbiome

A global initiative for ecological and evolutionary hologenomics – Aoife Leonard – Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Built Environment Microbiome

Fungal diversity differences in the indoor dust microbiome from built environments on earth and in space – Nicholas Nastasi – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

A novel clinical metaproteomics workflow enables bioinformatic analysis of host-microbe dynamics in disease – Katherine Do – mSphere

A comparative study of supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms applied to human microbiome – E Kalluçi – La Clinica Terapeutica

May 15, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

A shared group of bacterial taxa in the duodenal microbiota of undernourished Pakistani children with environmental enteric dysfunction – Najeeha T Iqbal – mSphere

Gut microbiota, blood metabolites, and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in US Hispanics/Latinos – Kai Luo – BMC Microbiome

Co-localization of antibiotic resistance genes is widespread in the infant gut microbiome and associates with an immature gut microbial composition – Xuanji Li – BMC Microbiome

Impact of the gut microbiome composition on social decision-making – Marie Falkenstein – PNAS Nexus

Veillonella and Bacteroides are associated with gestational diabetes mellitus exposure and gut microbiota immaturity – Fernanda Valdez-Palomares – PLOS One

[REVIEW] The neonatal gut microbiome and global health – Pinaki Panigrahi – Gut Microbes

Functional characterization of helminth-associated Clostridiales reveals covariates of Treg differentiation – Shusan Sargisan – BMC Microbiome

Vaginal microbiome

16S rRNA female reproductive microbiome investigation reveals Dalfopristin, Clorgyline, and Hydrazine as potential therapeutics for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis – Sudeepti Kulshrestha – Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Fecal transplant from vaginally seeded infants decreases intraabdominal adiposity in mice – Sivaranjani Namasivayam – Gut Microbes

Animal microbiome

Viruses contribute to microbial diversification in the rumen ecosystem and are associated with certain animal production traits – Ming Yan & Zhongtang Yu – BMC Microbiome

Quantitative microbiome profiling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) guts is predictive of winter colony loss in northern Virginia (USA) – David B. Carlini – Nature Scientific Reports

How do phytophagous insects affect phyllosphere fungi? Tracking fungi from milkweed to monarch caterpillar frass reveals communities dominated by fungal yeast – Ryoko Oono – Environmental Microbiology

Beneficial microbes & compounds

The gut lactic acid bacteria metabolite, 10-oxo- cis-6, trans-11-octadecadienoic acid, suppresses inflammatory bowel disease in mice by modulating the NRF2 pathway and GPCR-signaling – Miki Ando – Frotiers in Immunology

Effect of weight loss program using prebiotics and probiotics on body composition, physique, and metabolic products: longitudinal intervention study – Nayera E Hassan – Nature Scientific Reports

Origin of the neonatal gut microbiota and probiotic intervention: a randomized controlled trial – Zhe Li – Frontiers in Nutrition

Effectiveness of probiotic- and fish oil-loaded water-in-oil-in-water (W1/O/W2) emulsions at alleviating ulcerative colitis – Qingzhao Gu – Food & Function

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Competition mode and soil nutrient status shape the role of soil microbes in the diversity–invasibility relationship – Haokun Li – Ecology and Evolution

Dynamics and drivers of fungal communities in a multipartite ant-plant association – Veronica Barrajon-Santos – BMC Biology

Quorum sensing related activities of beneficial and pathogenic bacteria have important implications for plant and human health – Anton Hartmann – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Impacts of vegetable processing and cheese making effluent on soil microbial functional diversity, community structure, and denitrification potential of land treatment systems – Geoffrey S. Siemering – Water Environment Research

Role of Bacillus subtilis exopolymeric genes in modulating rhizosphere microbiome assembly – Caroline Sayuri Nishisaka – BMC Environmental Microbiome

The predominant lactic acid bacteria and yeasts involved in the spontaneous fermentation of millet during the production of the traditional porridge Hausa koko in Ghana – Amy Atter – BMC Microbiology

Bioinformatics & Tools

Multi-class boosting for the analysis of multiple incomplete views on microbiome data – Andrea Simeon – BMC Bioinformatics

PrimerEvalPy: a tool for in-silico evaluation of primers for targeting the microbiome – Lara Vázquez-González – BMC Bioinformatics

Readsynth: short-read simulation for consideration of composition-biases in reduced metagenome sequencing approaches – Ryan Kuster – BMC Bioinformatics

May 12, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Preservation of conjugated primary bile acids by oxygenation of the small intestinal microbiota in vitro – Jenni Firrman – mBio

HIV rebound in HIV controllers is associated with a specific fecal microbiome profile – Yanhui Cai – European Journal of Immunology

Comparative analysis of the tumor microbiome, molecular profiles, and immune cell abundances by HPV status in mucosal head and neck cancers and their impact on survival – Rituraj Upadhyay – Cancer Biology & Therapy

Metatranscriptome and resistome of the endodontic microbiome – Ericka T Pinheiro – Journal of Endodontics

Microbiome of periodontitis and peri-implantitis before and after therapy: Long-read 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing – Pei-Shiuan Yu – Journal of Periodontal Research

Review: Akkermansia muciniphila: a deworming partner independent of type 2 immunity – Jiaqi Wang – Gut Microbes

Review: The gut microbiome in alcohol use disorder and alcohol-associated liver disease: A systematic review of clinical studies – Erica N Grodin – Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research

Review: Bile acid-microbiota crosstalk in hepatitis B virus infection – Jiaxin Wang – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Review: Ecological insights into hematopoiesis regulation: unraveling the influence of gut microbiota – Kaiwen Zheng – Gut Microbes

Review: Interactions between host and gut microbiota in gestational diabetes mellitus and their impacts on offspring – Shuxian Wang – BMC Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Mechanisms of microbiota modulation: Implications for health, disease, and therapeutic interventions – Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu – Medicine

Lactobacillus paracasei Jlus66 relieves DSS-induced ulcerative colitis in a murine model by maintaining intestinal barrier integrity, inhibiting inflammation, and improving intestinal microbiota structure – Fazheng Yu – European Journal of Nutrition

Conjugated linoleic acid metabolite impact in colorectal cancer: a potential microbiome-based precision nutrition approach – Adriana González – Nutrition Reviews

Microbiome in Animal Models

Aging amplifies a gut microbiota immunogenic signature linked to heightened inflammation – Maria Elisa Caetano-Silva – Aging Cell

Bacteroidota inhibit microglia clearance of amyloid-beta and promote plaque deposition in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models – Caroline Wasén – Nature Communications

Prevotella copri promotes vascular calcification via lipopolysaccharide through activation of NF-κB signaling pathway – Qing-Yun Hao – Gut Microbes

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Temporal dynamics of fecal microbiota community succession in broiler chickens, calves, and piglets under aerobic exposure – Paul Oladele – Microbiology Spectrum

Characterizing the blood microbiota in healthy and febrile domestic cats via 16s rRNA sequencing – Liam Kitson – Scientific Reports

Plant/Rhizosphere Microbiome

Metagenomic sequencing and reconstruction of 82 microbial genomes from barley seed communities – Kalonji A Tshisekedi – Scientific Data

Modulation of rhizosphere microbial community and metabolites by bio-functionalized nanoscale silicon oxide alleviates cadmium-induced phytotoxicity in bayberry plants – Temoor Ahmed – The Science of the Total Environment

Phyllosphere fungal diversity generates pervasive nonadditive effects on plant performance – Brianna K Almeida – The New Phytologist

Environmental Microbiome

Deciphering the functional and structural complexity of the Solar Lake flat mat microbial benthic communities – Rehab Z Abdallah – mSystems

Microbiome processing of organic nitrogen input supports growth and cyanotoxin production of Microcystis aeruginosa cultures – Wei Li – The ISME Journal

Genomic fingerprints of the world’s soil ecosystems – Emily B Graham – mSystems

Review: Insights into cyanobacterial blooms through the lens of omics – Ve Van Le – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis

fastCCLasso: a fast and efficient algorithm for estimating correlation matrix from compositional data – Shen Zhang – Bioinformatics

Review: A Standard Pipeline for Analyzing the Endometrial Microbiome – Mychelle de Medeiros Garcia Torres – Reproductive Sciences