May 19, 2024

Human Gut Microbiome

Genetic association between gut microbiome and blood pressure and blood cell count as mediator: A two-step Mendelian randomization analysis – Jiyu Zhang – Gene

Characterization of the gut microbiota in polycystic ovary syndrome with dyslipidemia – Tianjin Yang – BMC Microbiology

Environmental Factors Associated with Risk of Crohn’s Disease Development in the CCC-GEM Project – Mingyue Xue – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Cohort profile of an early life observational cohort in China: Bone and MicroBiOme onset (BAMBOO) study – Jing Wang – BMJ Open

Framework for exploring the sensory repertoire of the human gut microbiota – Patricia A Ross – mBio

Metformin-induced changes of the gut microbiota in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: results from a prospective cohort study – Yuting Gao – Endocrine

Review: Host-microbiota interaction in intestinal stem cell homeostasis – Haiqin Wu – Gut Microbes

Review: Gut dysbiosis and neurological modalities: An engineering approach via proteomic analysis of gut-brain axis – Meenakshi Kandpal – Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology

Human Respiratory Tract Microbiome

Comparative microbiome analysis in cystic fibrosis and non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis – Heryk Motta – Respiratory Research

Indole-3-Acetic Acid Protects Against Lipopolysaccharide-induced Endothelial Cell Dysfunction and Lung Injury through the Activation of USP40 – Nargis Shaheen – American Journal of Respiratory cell and Molecular Biology

Human Oral Microbiome

Quantitative analysis of the effects of brushing, flossing, and mouthrinsing on supragingival and subgingival plaque microbiota: 12-week clinical trial – Kyungrok Min – BMC Oral Health

Human Skin Microbiome

Review: Exploring the skin microbiome in atopic dermatitis pathogenesis and disease modification – Claudia Hülpüsch – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Isobutyric acid enhances the anti-tumour effect of anti-PD-1 antibody – Masakazu Murayama – Scientific Reports

Effects of fructooligosaccharides and Saccharomyces boulardii on the compositional structure and metabolism of gut microbiota in students – Hao Fu – Microbiological Research

Urolithin A’s Role in Alleviating Severe Acute Pancreatitis via Endoplasmic Reticulum-Mitochondrial Calcium Channel Modulation – Hongxin Kang – ACS Nano

Animal Model Microbiome

Oral microbiota transplantation for intra-oral halitosis: a feasibility analysis based on an oral microbiota colonization trial in Wistar rats – Zhiqiang Huang – BMC Microbiology

NOD2 contributes to Parvimonas micra-induced bone resorption in diabetic rats with experimental periodontitis – Ying-Yi Chen – Molecular oral Microbiology

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Microbiome depletion and recovery in the sea anemone, Exaiptasia diaphana, following antibiotic exposure – Sophie MacVittie – mSystems

Environmental Microbiome

Giant viral signatures on the Greenland ice sheet – Laura Perini – Microbiome

Photosynthetic carbon allocation in native and invasive salt marshes undergoing hydrological change: A mesocosm experiment – Ya-Lei Li – The Science of the Total Environment

Ibuprofen degradation by mixed bacterial consortia: metabolic pathway and microbial community analysis – A Rastogi – Chemosphere

Examining the impacts of salt specificity on freshwater microbial community and functional potential following salinization – Jonathon B Van Gray – Environmental Microbiology

Habitat conditions and not moss composition mediate microbial community structure in Swiss peatlands – Rachel Korn – Environmental Microbiology

May 12, 2024

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 

May 5, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness – Ayele Argaw-Denboba – Nature

Oral bacteria relative abundance in faeces increases due to gut microbiota depletion and is linked with patient outcomes – Chen Liao – Nature Microbiology

Human gut microbiota and their production of endocannabinoid-like mediators are directly affected by a dietary oil – Charlène Roussel – Gut Microbes

Leveraging genomic signatures of oral microbiome-associated antibiotic resistance genes for diagnosing pancreatic cancer – Xiaojing Shen – PloS ONE

Deciphering the Pancreatic Cancer Microbiome in Mainland China: Impact of Exiguobacterium/Bacillus ratio on Tumor Progression and Prognostic Significance – Zhengyan Zhang – Pharmacological Research

Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism – Xianyi Xiong – The ISME Journal

Microplastics and microbiota: Unraveling the hidden environmental challenge – Jean Demarquoy – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Genome plasticity shapes the ecology and evolution of Phocaeicola dorei and Phocaeicola vulgatus – Emilene Da Silva Morais – Scientific Reports

Review: A catalog of ethanol-producing microbes in humans – Babacar Mbaye – Future Microbiology

Review: Direct metagenomics investigation of non-surgical hard-to-heal wounds: a review – Madjid Morsli – Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Beneficial Microbes

A consortium of Hordeum vulgare and gut microbiota against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease via data-driven analysis – Su-Been Lee – Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology

Animal Microbiome

Amphibian tolerance to arsenic: microbiome-mediated insights – Isabella Ferreira Cordeiro – Scientific Reports

Combined effect of seasons and life history in an anuran strengthens the response and relationship between their physiology and gut microbiota – Jun-Kyu Park – Scientific Reports

Gut microbiome and resistome characterization of pigs treated with commonly used post-weaning diarrhea treatments – Judith Guitart-Matas – Animal Microbiome

Effects of microbiome transplants on fly microbiome – Jorge Ferreira – Lab Animal

Multi-omics reveal the gut microbiota-mediated severe foraging environment adaption of small wild ruminants in the Three-River-Source National Park, China – Hongjin Liu – Integrative Zoology

Sea cucumber (Holothuria glaberrima) intestinal microbiome dataset from Puerto Rico, generated by shotgun sequencing – Edwin Omar Rivera-Lopez – Data in Brief

Plant Microbiome

Depletion of protective microbiota promotes the incidence of fruit disease – Xue Luo – The ISME Journal

Analysis of Salt Stress on Soil Microbial Community Composition and Its Correlation with Active Components in the Rhizosphere of Acanthopanax senticosus – Wenhui Yuan – Current Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Mechanisms and implications of bacterial-fungal competition for soil resources – Chaoqun Wang – The ISME Journal

Potential coupling of microbial methane, nitrogen, and sulphur cycling in the Okinawa Trough cold seep sediments – Ye Chen – Microbiology Spectrum

Microbiome Analysis

mbDecoda: a debiased approach to compositional data analysis for microbiome surveys – Yuxuan Zong – Briefings in Bioinformatics

EnsembleSeq: a workflow towards real-time, rapid, and simultaneous multi-kingdom-amplicon sequencing for holistic and resource-effective microbiome research at scale – Sunil Nagpal – Microbiology Spectrum

mi-Mic: a novel multi-layer statistical test for microbiota-disease associations – Oshrit Shtossel – Genome Biology

Review: Unveiling microbial diversity: harnessing long-read sequencing technology – Daniel P Agustinho – Nature Methods

April 28, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Genome Analysis of Epsilon CrAss-like Phages – Igor V Babkin – Viruses

Cervical microbiota dysbiosis associated with high-risk Human Papillomavirus infection – Natalia Zeber-Lubecka – PloS ONE

Association of the trimethylamine N-oxide with cardiovascular risk and vascular alterations in middle-aged patients with risk factors for cardiovascular diseases – Natalia Spasova – Bioscience Reports

Insights into microorganisms, associated factors, and the oral microbiome in infective endocarditis patients – Ayden Ismail – Frontiers in Oral Health

Alterations in the fecal microbiota of methamphetamine users with bad sleep quality during abstinence – Zijing Deng – BMC Psychiatry

Gut microbiome predicts cognitive function and depressive symptoms in late life – A Kolobaric – Molecular Psychiatry

Microbial signatures in human periodontal disease: a metatranscriptome meta-analysis – Armen Ovsepian – Frontiers in Microbiology

Gut microbiome composition reveals the distinctiveness between the Bengali people and the Indigenous ethnicities in Bangladesh – Ishtiaque Ahammad – Communications Biology

Comparative analysis of endometrial, vaginal, and gut microbiota in patients with and without adenomyosis – Marta Valdés-Bango – Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Causal effect of gut microbiota and diabetic nephropathy: a Mendelian randomization study – Ganyuan He – Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome

The characteristics of microbiome in the upper respiratory tract of COVID-19 patients – Xilong Zhang – BMC Microbiology

Review: Interplay of human gastrointestinal microbiota metabolites: Short-chain fatty acids and their correlation with Parkinson’s disease – Jiaji Liu – Medicine

Review: Natural products from the human microbiome: an emergent frontier in organic synthesis and drug discovery – Saumitra Sengupta – Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Review: Oligella spp.: A systematic review on an uncommon urinary pathogen – Eric Farfour – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Review: The potential importance of the built-environment microbiome and its impact on human health – Thomas C G Bosch – PNAS

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity – Evangelos Giampazolias – Science 

HMOs Impact the Gut Microbiome of Children and Adults Starting from Low Predicted Daily Doses – Danica Bajic – Metabolites

Effects of microbiome-based interventions on neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Zara Siu Wa Chui – Scientific Reports

A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial on Lactobacillus-containing cultured milk drink as adjuvant therapy for depression in irritable bowel syndrome – Marlynna Sarkawi – Scientific Reports

Animal Microbiome

Review: Understanding the Diversity and Roles of the Ruminal Microbiome – Gi Beom Keum – Journal of Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

Impacts of continuous cropping on the rhizospheric and endospheric microbial communities and root exudates of Astragalus mongholicus – Qin Zhou – BMC Plant Biology

Comparative analysis of root associated microbes in tropical cultivated and weedy rice (Oryza spp.) and temperate cultivated rice – Vani Juliyanti – Scientific Reports

Identifying causes and consequences of rhizosphere microbiome heritability – Maggie R Wagner – PLoS Biology

Environmental Microbiome

Acidithiobacillia class members originating at sites within the Pacific Ring of Fire and other tectonically active locations and description of the novel genus ‘Igneacidithiobacillus’ – Dilanaz Arisan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Exploring changes in microplastic-associated bacterial communities with time, location, and polymer type in Liusha Bay, China – Ting Wang – Marine Environmental Research

Genomic and environmental controls on Castellaniella biogeography in an anthropogenically disturbed subsurface – Jennifer L Goff – Environmental Microbiome

Phytoplankton-derived polysaccharides and microbial peptidoglycans are key nutrients for deep-sea microbes in the Mariana Trench – Yan-Ru Dang – Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis

Microbiome compositional data analysis for survival studies – Meritxell Pujolassos – NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics

Other

Periportal macrophages protect against commensal-driven liver inflammation – Yu Miyamoto – Nature

A case study to engage students in the research design and ethics of high-throughput metagenomics – Courtney Carroll Alexander – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education

April 21, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Mechanoelectronic stimulation of autologous extracellular vesicle biosynthesis implant for gut microbiota modulation – Shuangshuang Wan – Nature Communications

Oral bacterial insights from a comparative study between healthy and comorbid diseased human individuals – Anand Ravichandran – Microbial Pathogenesis

Dietary fiber guar gum-induced shift in gut microbiota metabolism and intestinal immune activity enhances susceptibility to colonic inflammation – Devendra Paudel – Gut Microbes

Highly specific vaginal microbiome signature for gynecological cancers – Mengzhen Han – Open Life Sciences

Incretin hormones, obesity and gut microbiota – Giulia Angelini – Peptides

Review: Role of imbalanced gut microbiota in promoting CRC metastasis: from theory to clinical application – Shiying Fan – Cell Communication and Signaling

Review: The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Health and Disease in the Elderly – Lea Ann Chen – Current Gastroenterology Reports

Review: Application of Microbiome-Based Therapies in Chronic Respiratory Diseases – Se Hee Lee – Journal of Microbiology

Review: Apical root canal microbiome associated with primary and posttreatment apical periodontitis: A systematic review – José F Jr Siqueira – International Endodontic Journal

Review: An insider’s perspective about the pathogenic relevance of gut bacterial transportomes – Hassan Zafar – Microbial Physiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Butyrate as a potential therapeutic agent for neurodegenerative disorders – Prapti Chakraborty – Neurochemistry International

Adherence to the Mediterranean diet can beneficially affect the gut microbiota composition: a systematic review – Armin Khavandegar – BMC Medical Genomics

Food Microbiome

Hi-C metagenomics facilitate comparative genome analysis of bacteria and yeast from spontaneous beer and cider – Ignat V Sonets – Food Microbiology

New evidence for gut-muscle axis: Lactic acid bacteria-induced gut microbiota regulates duck meat flavor – Ligen Xu – Food Chemistry

Animal Microbiome

Safety evaluation and effects of dietary phlorotannins on the growth, health, and intestinal microbiota of Litopenaeus vannamei – Zijie Wu – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

A longitudinal study of queen health in honey bees reveals tissue specific response to seasonal changes and pathogen pressure – Duan C Copeland – Scientific Reports

The microbiome of a Pacific moon jellyfish Aurelia coerulea – Aki H Ohdera – PloS one

Plant Microbiome

The rhizosphere and root selections intensify fungi-bacteria interaction in abiotic stress-resistant plants – Feng Huang – PeerJ

Environmental Microbiome

Exploring microbiome and plankton responses and interactions in the mangrove ecosystem through eDNA and network analysis – Jie Meng – The Science of the Total Environment

Quantifying genome specific carbon fixation in a 750 meter deep subsurface hydrothermal microbial community – Ömer K Coskun – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbiome Analysis

A generic approach to infer community-level fitness of microbial genes – Teng Wang – PNAS

Randomized feature selection based semi-supervised latent Dirichlet allocation for microbiome analysis – Namitha Pais – Scientific Reports

Review: Deep learning methods in metagenomics: a review – Gaspar Roy – Microbial Genomics

April 14, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Human fecal alpha-glucosidase activity and its relationship with gut microbiota profiles and early stages of intestinal mucosa damage – Sergio Ruiz-Saavedra – Anaerobe

The microbiota drives diurnal rhythms in tryptophan metabolism in the stressed gut – Cassandra E Gheorghe – Cell Reports

Alterations in gut microbiota contribute to cognitive deficits induced by chronic infection of Toxoplasma gondii – Xiaoying Yang – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Combining Fecal 16S rRNA Sequencing and Spinal Cord Metabolomics analysis to explain the modulatory effect of PPARα on Neuropathic Pain – Zi-Jun Wu – Brain Research Bulletin

The Landscape and Perspectives of the Human Gut Metaproteomics – Zhongzhi Sun – Molecular & Cellular Proteomics

Review: Effects of Exercise on Gut Microbiota of Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Leizi Min – Nutrients

Review: Understanding the influence of the microbiome on childhood infections – Sarah M Heston – Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy

Preprint: Affective Symptoms in Pregnancy are Associated with the Vaginal Microbiome Kristin Scheible – bioRxiv 

Animal Microbiome

Endosymbiont diversity across native and invasive brown widow spider populations – Monica A Mowery – Scientific Reports

Localization and symbiotic status of probiotics in the coral holobiont – P M Cardoso – mSystems

Preprint: Comparative analysis based on shared amplicon sequence variants reveals that cohabitation influences gut microbiota sharing between humans and dogs – Yutaro Ito – bioRxiv

Plant Microbiome

Global insights into endophytic bacterial communities of terrestrial plants: Exploring the potential applications of endophytic microbiota in sustainable agriculture – Lukuan Huang – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis Revealed Acholeplasma as a Possible Factor Influencing the Susceptibility to Bacterial Leaf Blight Disease of Two Domestic Rice Cultivars in Vietnam – Thu Thi Hieu Nguyen – The Plant Pathology Journal

Environmental Microbiome

Different profiles of soil phosphorous compounds depending on tree species and availability of soil phosphorus in a tropical rainforest in French Guiana – Albert Gargallo-Garriga – BMC Plant Biology

April 7, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

The secreted protein Amuc_1409 from Akkermansia muciniphila improves gut health through intestinal stem cell regulation – Eun-Jung Kang – Nature Communications

A universal plasma metabolites-derived signature predicts cardiovascular disease risk in MAFLD – Zhonglin Li – Atherosclerosis

Oral-gut microbial transmission promotes diabetic coronary heart disease – Yiwen Li – Cardiovascular Diabetology

Comparative analysis of microbial composition and functional characteristics in dental plaque and saliva of oral cancer patients – Man Zhang – BMC Oral Health

Investigating the causal role of the gut microbiota in esophageal cancer and its subtypes: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study – Jia Li – BMC Cancer

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Gut bacteria-driven homovanillic acid alleviates depression by modulating synaptic integrity – Mingliang Zhao – Cell Metabolism

Animal Microbiome (model and non-model)

Stress-induced mucin 13 reductions drive intestinal microbiome shifts and despair behaviors – Courtney R Rivet-Noor – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Integrated analysis of intestinal microbiota and transcriptome reveals that a coordinated interaction of the endocrine, immune system and gut microbiota response to heat stress in Litopenaeus vannamei – Guowei Liao – Developmental and Comparative Immunology

Associations between the rumen microbiota and carcass merit and meat quality in beef cattle – Devin B Holman – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Characterization of oral microbiota in 6-8-month-old small breed dogs – Masahiro Morita – BMC Veterinary Research

A compendium of ruminant gastrointestinal phage genomes revealed a higher proportion of lytic phages than in any other environments – Yingjian Wu – Microbiome

Effects of fecal microbiota transfer on blood pressure in animal models: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Lingyu Lin – PloS ONE

Zoonotic bacteria in the vicinity of animal farms as a factor disturbing the human microbiome: a review – Anna Kozajda – International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health

Metagenomic insights into jellyfish-associated microbiome dynamics during strobilation – Saijun Peng – ISME Communications

Host evolution shapes gut microbiome composition in Astyanax mexicanus – Misty R Riddle – Ecology and Evolution

Environmental Microbiome

Heavy metal induced shifts in microbial community composition and interactions with dissolved organic matter in coastal sediments – Yu Wang – The Science of the Total Environment

Long-term and combined heavy-metal contamination forms a unique microbiome and resistome: A case study in a Yellow River tributary sediments – Yu Cao – Environmental Research

Deciphering the impact of cold-adapted bioinoculants on rhizosphere dynamics, biofortification, and yield of kidney bean across varied altitudinal zones – Amir Khan – The Science of the Total Environment

Plant Microbiome

Analysis of microbial dynamics in the soybean root-associated environments from community to single-cell levels – Masako Kifushi – Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Protocols, Techniques and Resources

phylaGAN: Data augmentation through conditional GANs and autoencoders for improving disease prediction accuracy using microbiome data – Divya Sharma – Bioinformatics

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 17, 2024

Human Microbiome

Stratification of Fusobacterium nucleatum by local health status in the oral cavity defines its subspecies disease association – Madeline Krieger – Cell Host & Microbe

Bile acids modified by the intestinal microbiota promote colorectal cancer growth by suppressing CD8(+) T cell effector functions – Jingjing Cong – Immunity

Longitudinal profiling of the microbiome at four body sites reveals core stability and individualized dynamics during health and disease – Xin Zhou – Cell Host & Microbe

Body mass index can mediate the interplay between gut microbiome and sleep disorders – Lng Adami – Sleep Medicine

Review: Postbiotic butyrate: role and its effects for being a potential drug and biomarker to pancreatic cancer – Abinaya Elango – Archives of Microbiology

Whole-body metabolic modelling reveals microbiome and genomic interactions on reduced urine formate levels in Alzheimer’s disease – Filippo Martinelli – Scientific Reports

Antibacterial activity of nonantibiotics is orthogonal to standard antibiotics – Mariana Noto Guillen – Science

Defining Porphyromonas gingivalis strains associated with periodontal disease – Vijaya Murugaiyan – Scientific Reports

Review: The individual response to antibiotics and diet – insights into gut microbial resilience and host metabolism – Lars M M Vliex – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Unveiling the immunomodulatory effect of the novel probiotic Akkermansia muciniphila and its protective effect in vitro – Alba Calvo – Microbiological Research

Microbial metabolite enhances immunotherapy efficacy by modulating T cell stemness in pan-cancer – Dingjiacheng Jia – Cell

Animal Microbiome

Rice straw ash and amphibian health: A deep dive into microbiota changes and potential ecological consequences – Wen-Jing Dong – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbial community composition in the dung of five sympatric European herbivore species – Xingzhao Sun – Ecology and Evolution

Antibiotics treatment promotes vasculogenesis in the brain of glioma-bearing mice – Maria Rosito – Cell Death & Disease

Environmental Microbiome

Microecological characteristics of water bodies/sediments and microbial remediation strategies after 50 years of pollution exposure in ammunition destruction sites in China – Xu Yang – Environmental Research

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Protocols, Techniques and Resources

Review: Transkingdom Network Analysis (TkNA): a systems framework for inferring causal factors underlying host-microbiota and other multi-omic interactions – Nolan K Newman – Nature Protocols

Resource competition predicts assembly of gut bacterial communities in vitro – Po-Yi Ho – Nature Microbiology

March 3, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

The influence of placenta microbiota of normal term pregnant women on immune regulation during pregnancy – Ping Yang – BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Effect of gut microbiome modulation on muscle function and cognition: the PROMOTe randomised controlled trial – Mary Ni Lochlainn – Nature Communications

A metagenomic catalog of the early-life human gut virome – Shuqin Zeng – Nature Communications

Exploring the gut DNA virome in fecal immunochemical test stool samples reveals associations with lifestyle in a large population-based study – Paula Istvan – Nature Communications

Bisphenol A exposure affects specific gut taxa and drives microbiota dynamics in childhood obesity – Ana Lopez-Moreno – mSystems

Prevotella, a dominant bacterium in young people with stage Ⅲ periodontitis, related to the arachidonic acid metabolism pathway – Qin Ye – Microbes and Infection

Dual membrane-spanning anti-sigma factors regulate vesiculation in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron – Evan J Pardue – PNAS

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Blautia coccoides is a Newly Identified Bacterium Increased by Leucine Deprivation and has a Novel Function in Improving Metabolic Disorders – Yuguo Niu – Advanced Science

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Clinical Protocol and Evaluation of Microbiota Immunity Axis – Elena Niccolai – Methods in Molecular Biology

Effect of Lactobacillus reuteri NCIMB 30351 drops on symptoms of infantile functional gastrointestinal disorders and gut microbiota in early infants: Results from a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial – Oleg Yu Tyrsin – European Journal of Pediatrics

Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiota facilitate adaptation of invasive moths to new host plants – Shouke Zhang – The ISME Journal

Plant Microbiome

A Synthetic Microbiome Based on Dominant Microbes in Wild Rice Rhizosphere to Promote Sulfur Utilization – Changji Wang – Rice

Environmental Microbiome

Life at the borderlands: microbiomes of interfaces critical to One Health – Simon R Law – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Neural network establishes co-occurrence links between transformation products of the contaminant and the soil microbiome – Yuhui Xiang – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Protocols, Techniques and Resources

Review: Transforming Big Data into AI-ready data for nutrition and obesity research – Diana M Thomas – Obesity

Explainable artificial intelligence for microbiome data analysis in colorectal cancer biomarker identification – Pierfrancesco Novielli – Frontiers in Microbiology

A metatranscriptomics strategy for efficient characterization of the microbiome in human tissues with low microbial biomass – Joana Pereira-Marques – Gut Microbes

On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling – Monica Steffi Matchado – Microbial Genomics