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
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