Tag Archives: gut microbiome

November 27, 2025

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Human gut microbiome

Weifuchun alleviates MNNG-induced chronic atrophic gastritis by improving the gastric and intestinal microbiota homeostasis – Yingying Chen – PLOS ONE

Microbiota-supportive diets and hyperlipidemia: The mediating role of systemic inflammation – Wenjing Wang – PLOS ONE

Toxoplasma gondii disrupts intestinal microbiota and host metabolism in a rat model – Ji-Xin Zhao – PLOS NTDs

Body mass index distinctly modulates the associations between Alistipes and CRP/IL-6 – Lourdes Chero-Sandoval – PLOS ONE

Dogs with advanced myxomatous mitral valve disease have evidence of gastrointestinal bacterial translocation – Maria C Jugan – PLOS ONE

Predicting postoperative constipation in middle-aged and elderly fracture patients using machine learning – Xiaoyan Yang – PLOS ONE

Animal microbiome

Cecal microbiota of broilers responds similarly to black soldier fly larvae fat and conventional fat sources – Muhammad Rumman Aslam – PLOS ONE

Sarcopenia modelling by portal vein ligation inducing hyperammonemia in rats – Maria Nadinskaia – PLOS ONE

Oral / GI cancer microbiome

Serum IgG titer for Fusobacterium nucleatum and clinical outcome in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma – Toru Yoshikawa – PLOS ONE

Phages & bacterial pathogenesis

Structural determinants of SlpA-mediated phage recognition in Clostridioides difficile – Alexia LM Royer – PLOS Pathogens

Disruption of yqhG attenuates virulence in MRSA by compromising membrane stability – Jianhua Liao – PLOS ONE

Host range of generalist and specialist phages in capsule-diverse Klebsiella hosts – Celia Ferriol-González – PLOS Biology

Immunology / human disease

Large-scale seroepidemiology uncovers nephro-urological pathologies with tau autoimmunity – Andreia D Magalhães – PLOS Biology

Plant, soil & ecological microbiome

Root-associated Streptomyces strains enriched during drought reveal diverse functional traits – Citlali Fonseca-Garcia – PLOS Biology

Co-infections shaping Chlamydia pecorum infection outcomes in northern koalas – Yasmine S S Muir – PLOS Pathogens

Trade-offs between yields and sustainability in winter wheat systems under climate change – Jennifer Michel – PLOS Climate

Clinical microbiology

Clinical impact of prophylactic antibiotics in kidney transplantation – Sang Ah Lee – PLOS ONE

Microbial interactions

Veillonella species increase Listeria monocytogenes growth in broth and biofilms – Fanie Shedleur-Bourguignon – PLOS ONE

October 24, 2025

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Gut & Human Microbiome

The microbiome and gut–lung axis in nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease – Ria N. Thompson – PLOS Pathogens

Alterations in the gut microbiota of alcoholic cirrhosis patients infected with Clonorchis sinensis in the Pearl River Delta region of China – Aijun Huang – PLOS ONE

Association between dietary B vitamins intake and age-specific blood pressure: A cross-sectional study in American adults – Xianfeng Li – PLOS ONE

Animal & Environmental Microbiomes

Cuts or carcasses? Diet form affects fecal microbial and animal fiber fractions in a large carnivore, the Asiatic lion – Mengmeng Sun – PLOS ONE

From pre-oral secretions to gut digestion: How do Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larvae handle Leishmania major? – Azam Malekian – PLOS ONE

Pathogenicity and transmission of Morganella morganii in honey bees – Yijun Chen – PLOS Pathogens

Mitogenomics of the tropical bont tick Amblyomma variegatum reveals vertical and horizontal transmission of Rickettsia africae – Elisha Chatanga – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Regulation of lipid metabolism in Spodoptera frugiperda by the symbiotic bracovirus of the gregarious parasitoid Cotesia ruficrus – Xian Li – PLOS Pathogens

The genome of Gallaecimonas pentaromativorans strain 10A, isolated from a Pacific oyster, sheds light on an environmentally widespread genus with remarkable metabolic potential – Yasmine Gouin – PLOS ONE

Plant, Soil & Microbial Ecology

Starve or share? Phosphate availability shapes plant–microbe interactions – Maja Schmidt – PLOS Pathogens

PMA-qPCA: Accelerating the market release of high-quality Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens inoculant – Mariana Cap – PLOS ONE

Ancient & Evolutionary Microbiomes

Targeted pathogen profiling of ancient feces reveals common enteric infections in the Rio Zape Valley, 725–920 CE – Drew Capone – PLOS ONE

Health, Disease & Microbial Interactions

Differential regulation of the eicosanoid biosynthesis pathway in response to Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei infection in Litopenaeus vannamei – Wananit Wimuttisuk – PLOS ONE

Microplastic exposure and allergic rhinitis: Network toxicology and molecular docking insights – Yaojun Wang – PLOS ONE

Comparative evaluation of the antimicrobial, antioxidant, and cytotoxic properties of essential oils from vetiver, lemongrass, and clove buds with implications for topical application – Acharawan Thongmee – PLOS ONE

October 17, 2025

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Gut Microbiome & Health

Lactic acid produced by optimal vaginal Lactobacillus spp. potently and specifically inactivates HIV-1 in vitro by targeting the viral RNA genome and reverse transcriptase
– Muriel Aldunate – PLOS Pathogens

Differential composition of the pulmonary microbiome in HIV-positive versus HIV-negative patients with Pneumocystis jirovecii
– Chang-Run Zhang – PLOS ONE

Risk of atopic dermatitis in periodontitis patients with and without dental scaling: A retrospective cohort study
– Ming-Che Chiang – PLOS ONE

Fecal carriage and associated factors of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae in children under five years old with diarrhea at a tertiary hospital in Tanzania
– Emily M. Jackson – PLOS ONE

Pathogens, Immunity & Host Interactions

Dietary tannic acid promotes intestinal clearance of Candida albicans by cross-linking hyphal chitosan
– Jia Feng – PLOS Pathogens

Trends in Clostridioides difficile infection prevalence among pediatric cancer patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis
– Muluneh Assefa – PLOS ONE

Multiplex serology for Streptobacillus moniliformis and other ‘rat bite fever-like’ microorganisms for seroprevalence studies in rodents
– Katja Schmidt – PLOS ONE

Animal & Environmental Microbiomes

Effects of rumen-protected or unprotected Clostridium butyricum on growth performance, rumen fermentation, immunity and antioxidation in fattening goats
– Caixia Zhang – PLOS ONE

The intracellular symbiont Wolbachia alters Drosophila development and metabolism to buffer against nutritional stress
– Amelia R. I. Lindsey – PLOS Genetics

Interactive effects of developmental and adult nutrition on lifespan and fecundity in a genetically diverse Drosophila population
– Andrew Jones – PLOS ONE

Metabolism, Health & Disease

Alterations in the serum metabolome in patients with the COVID-19 Omicron variant and in recovered cases
– Feng Gao – PLOS ONE

Humanized monoacylglycerol acyltransferase 2 mice on a high-fat diet exhibit impaired liver detoxification during metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease
– J. Jose Corbalan – PLOS ONE

Current and future burden of gynecological cancers attributable to high body-mass index: A comprehensive global analysis and projection study
– Xuanyu Zhao – PLOS ONE

Developing and experimentally validating a glucocorticoid signaling-related gene signature to evaluate the prognosis and immunotherapeutic response in kidney renal clear cell carcinoma
– Yu Zhang – PLOS ONE

Computational & Bioinformatics Advances

ArcDFI: Attention regularization guided by CYP450 interactions for predicting drug–food interactions
– Mogan Gim – PLOS Computational Biology

Advanced deep learning-based brain tumor classification using a novel customized CNN and optimized residual network
– Mehwish Rasheed – PLOS ONE

October 2, 2024

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Gut Microbiome

Gut microbiota wellbeing index predicts overall health in a cohort of 1000 infants – Brandon Hickman et al – Nature Communications

Pangenomes of human gut microbiota uncover links between genetic diversity and stress response – Saar Shoer et al – Cell Host & Microbe

[MINI REVIEW] The human gut microbiome in health and disease: time for a new chapter? – Jee-Yon Lee et al – ASM Infection & Immunity

Metabolic interactions shape emergent biofilm structures in a conceptual model of gut mucosal bacterial communities – Amin Valiei et al – NPJ Biofilms & Microbiomes

A population-scale analysis of 36 gut microbiome studies reveals universal species signatures for common diseases – Wen Sun et al – NPJ Biofilms & Microbiomes

A single amplified genome catalog reveals the dynamics of mobilome and resistome in the human microbiome – Tetsuro Kawano-Sugaya et al – BMC Microbiome

Stratification of human gut microbiomes by succinotype is associated with inflammatory bowel disease status – Laura Anthamatten et al – BMC Microbiome

Impact of complementary feeding on infant gut microbiome, metabolites and early development – Yudong Shi et al – Food & Function

Can longer lifespan be associated with gut microbiota involvement in lipid metabolism? – Sára Šardzíková et al – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Beneficial microbes & compounds

[REVIEW] Preventive effect of probiotics on oral mucositis induced by anticancer therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials – Bo Yang et al – BMC Oral Health

Animal Microbiome

Bacteria from the Amycolatopsis genus associated with a toxic bird secrete protective secondary metabolites – Elena Seibel et al – Nature Communications

Impact of virginiamycin on the ruminal microbiota of feedlot cattle – Bruna Parapinski Santos – Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research

Microbiome of death

From carrion to soil: microbial recycling of animal carcasses – Jennifer M. DeBruyn et al – Cell Trends in Microbiology

Water & extremophile microbiome

Microbiome–metabolite linkages drive greenhouse gas dynamics over a permafrost thaw gradient – Viviana Freire-Zapata et al – Nature Microbiology

Prescribed fire regimes influence responses of fungal and bacterial communities on new litter substrates in a brackish tidal marsh – Viet Q. Dao et al – PLOS One

Plant, root & soil microbiome

The phyllosphere of Nigerian medicinal plants, Euphorbia lateriflora and Ficus thonningii is inhabited by a specific microbiota – Anderson O. Oaikhena et al – Scientific Reports

Water‒soil-air‒plant mutual feedback mechanism under the application of red bed composite polymers – Tianpeng Chen et al – PLOS One

Diversity and community distribution of soil bacterial in the Yellow River irrigation area of Ningxia, China – Xia Wu et al – PLOS One

Bioinformatics & tools

Strain-resolved de-novo metagenomic assembly of viral genomes and microbial 16S rRNAs – Annika Jochheim et al – BMC Microbiome

September 29, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Gut microbiota drives colon cancer risk associated with diet: a comparative analysis of meat-based and pesco-vegetarian diets – Carlotta De Filippo – Microbiome

Decoding the diagnostic and therapeutic potential of microbiota using pan-body pan-disease microbiomics – Georges P Schmartz – Nature Communications

Deep longitudinal lower respiratory tract microbiome profiling reveals genome-resolved functional and evolutionary dynamics in critical illness – Minghui Cheng – Nature Communications

Small Bowel Microbiome Profiles in Overweight and Obese Humans – Liqi Li – The American Journal of Gastroenterology

Intratumoral microbiota as a novel prognostic indicator in bladder cancer – Yuwei Zhang – Scientific Reports

Research Highlight: Identifying antimicrobials in the human microbiome – Sarah Crunkhorn – Nature Reviews. Drug Discovery

Review: Akkermansia muciniphila as a Potential Guardian against Oral Health Diseases: A Narrative Review – Molly H Anderson – Nutrients

Review: Intratumoral microbiota in colorectal cancer: focus on specific distribution and potential mechanisms – Jing Long – Cell Communication and Signaling

Review: Bacterial extracellular vesicles at the interface of gut microbiota and immunity – Inês Melo-Marques – Gut Microbes

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

GV-971 prevents severe acute pancreatitis by remodeling the microbiota-metabolic-immune axis – Xi Chen – Nature Communications

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation-Mediated Rebalancing of the Gut-Brain Axis Alleviates Cisplatin-Induced Neuropathic Pain – Mousmi Rani – ACS Chemical Neuroscience

FMT rescues mice from DSS-induced colitis in a STING-dependent manner – Dan Pu – Gut Microbes

Aged garlic oligosaccharides modulate host metabolism and gut microbiota to alleviate high-fat and high-cholesterol diet-induced atherosclerosis in ApoE(-/-) mice – Xiaomin Wang – Food Chemistry

Phytoactives for Obesity Management: Integrating Nanomedicine for Its Effective Delivery – Ashok Kumar Mandal – Nutrition Reviews

Animal Microbiome

Exploring microbial diversity and biosynthetic potential in zoo and wildlife animal microbiomes – Georges P Schmartz – Nature Communications

Fur microbiome as a putative source of symbiotic bacteria in sucking lice – Jana Martin Říhová – Scientific Reports

Fecal microbiota transplantation from patients with polycystic ovary syndrome induces metabolic disorders and ovarian dysfunction in germ-free mice – Feiling Huang – BMC Microbiology

Dietary fiber intake impacts gut bacterial and viral populations in a hypertensive mouse model – Laura Avellaneda-Franco – Gut Microbes

Effect of shipping on the microbiome of donor mice used to reconstitute germ-free recipients – Zachary L McAdams – Gut Microbes Reports

Bacterial microbiome diversity along poultry slaughtering lines: insights from chicken carcasses and environmental sources – Arife Ezgi Telli – Journal of Veterinary Research

The Gut Microbiome of Two Wild Bumble Bee Species Native of South America: Bombus pauloensis and Bombus bellicosus – Gregorio Fernandez de Landa – Microbial Ecology

Gill-associated ammonia oxidizers are widespread in teleost fish – Wouter Mes – Microbiology Spectrum

Microbiome Analysis: Methods, Tools and Resources

Automated annotation of scientific texts for ML-based keyphrase extraction and validation – Oluwamayowa O Amusat – Database

SpeciateIT and vSpeciateDB: novel, fast, and accurate per sequence 16S rRNA gene taxonomic classification of vaginal microbiota – Johanna B Holm – BMC Bioinformatics

Implementing high-throughput insect barcoding in microbiome studies: impact of non-destructive DNA extraction on microbiome reconstruction – Veronika Andriienko – PeerJ

A Metagenomics Pipeline to Characterize Self-Collected Vaginal Microbiome Samples – Krystal Thomas-White – Diagnostics

Microbe-drug association prediction model based on graph convolution and attention networks – Bo Wang – Scientific Reports

September 26, 2024

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General microbiome

[RESOURCE/COLLECTION]Microbial Primers

Phages reconstitute NAD+ to counter bacterial immunity – Osterman et al. – Nature

The direct inhibitory effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus, a commensal urinary bacterium, on calcium oxalate stone development – Noonin et al. – Microbiome

Pregnancy and early life

Neonatal gut microbiota profile and the association with retinopathy of prematurity in preterm infants – Chang et al. – Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology

Human skin microbiome

The wound microbiota: microbial mechanisms of impaired wound healing and infection – Uberoi, McCready-Vangi, Grice – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Human oral microbiome

[PREPRINT]Altered oral microbiota of drug-resistant organism carriers exhibit impaired gram-negative pathogen inhibition – Zelasko et al. – bioRxiv

Human gut microbiome

Emergence of community behaviors in the gut microbiota upon drug treatment – Garcia-Santamarina et al. – Cell

Microbial transformation of dietary xenobiotics shapes gut microbiome composition – Culp et al. – Cell

[REVIEW]Microglia and Gut Microbiota: A Double-Edged Sword in Alzheimer’s Disease – Bano et al. – Ageing Research Reviews

[REVIEW]What defines a healthy gut microbiome? – van Hul et al. – Gut

[OUTLOOK]The gut microbiome and chronic pain – Watson – Nature

Acarbose enhances the efficacy of immunotherapy against solid tumours by modulating the gut microbiota – Zhang et al. – Nature Metabolism

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Trait-based study predicts glycerol/diol dehydratases as a key function of the gut microbiota of hindgut-fermenting carnivores – Li et al. – Microbiome

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Microbial community storm dynamics signal sources of “old” stream water – URycki et al. – PLOS One

Hyperexpansion of genetic diversity and metabolic capacity of extremophilic bacteria and archaea in ancient Andean lake sediments – Lezcano et al. – Microbiome

Food microbiology

Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over evolutionary history – Liu et al. – Cell

Bioinformatics

A realistic benchmark for differential abundance testing and confounder adjustment in human microbiome studies – Wirbel et al. – Genome Biology

[PREPRINT]Quantifying Data Distortion in Bar Graphs in Biological Research – Lin & Landry – bioRxiv

August 14, 2024

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Human microbiome

Major depletion of insulin sensitivity-associated taxa in the gut microbiome of persons living with HIV controlled by antiretroviral drugs – Eugeni Belda et al – BMC Medical Genomics

The impact of breastfeeding on the preterm infant’s microbiome and metabolome: a pilot study – Keriann Schulkers Escalante et al – Nature Pediatric Research

[REVIEW] The human microbiome in space: parallels between Earth-based dysbiosis, implications for long-duration spaceflight, and possible mitigation strategies – Sofia Etlin et al – Clinical Microbiology Reviews

MASS cohort: Multicenter, longitudinal, and prospective study of the role of microbiome in severe pneumonia and host susceptibility – Xin Wei et al – iMeta

Distinctive duodenal microbiomes and bile acid profiles in duodenal tumor patients revealed by prospective observational study – Yoko Kubosawa et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Elucidating the dynamics and impact of the gut microbiome on maternal nutritional status during pregnancy, effect on pregnancy outcomes and infant health in rural Pakistan: study protocol for a prospective, longitudinal observational study – Yaqub Wassan et al – BMJ Open

Time-varying ambient air pollution exposure is associated with gut microbiome variation in the first 2 years of life – Tianlai Qiu et al – Environmental Pollution

Animal experiments

Gut Microbiota-Induced Modulation of the Central Nervous System Function in Parkinson’s Disease Through the Gut-Brain Axis and Short-Chain Fatty Acids – Yiting Ni et al – Molecular Neurobiology

Animal microbiome

Synergistic pectin deconstruction is a prerequisite for mutualistic interactions between honeybee gut bacteria – Junbo Tang et al – Nature Communications

Environmentally acquired gut-associated bacteria are not critical for growth and survival in a solitary bee, Megachile rotundata – Gagandeep Brar et al – Applied & Environmental Microbiology

Duck gut metagenome reveals the microbiome signatures linked to intestinal regional, temporal development, and rearing condition – Lingyan Ma & Wentao Lyu et al – iMeta

Meconium microbiota in naturally delivered canine puppies – Alessia Bertero et al – BMC Veterinary Research

Gut microbiome perturbation and its correlation with tylosin pharmacokinetics in healthy and infected pigs – Eon-Bee Lee et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Beneficial microbes, compounds, & foods

Restriction of growth and biofilm formation of ESKAPE pathogens by caprine gut-derived probiotic bacteria – Prerna Saini et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

[REVIEW] Polyphenols improve non-alcoholic fatty liver disease via gut microbiota: A comprehensive review – Kimia Mohammadhasani et al – Food Science & Nutrition

[REVIEW] Exploring the Potential of Postbiotics for Food Safety and Human Health Improvement – Folayemi Janet Isaac-Bamgboye et al – Journal of Nutrition & Metabolism

Transcriptomics and gut microbiome analysis of the edible herb Bidens pilosa as a functional feed additive to promote growth and metabolism in tilapia (Oreochromis spp.) – Che-Chun Chen et al – BMC Genomics

[REVIEW] A comprehensive review of the characterization, host interactions, and stabilization advancements on probiotics: Addressing the challenges in functional food diversification – Eskindir Getachew Fentie et al – Comp. Rev. in Food Science & Safety

Effects of kefir consumption on gut microbiota and health outcomes in women with polycystic ovary syndrome – Merve Esra Çıtar Dazıroğlu – Food Science & Nutrition

Plant, root, & soil microbiome

Decrease due to pollution in the rhizosphere microbial diversity can be amended by supplementation from adapted plants of another species – Anastasiia Fetsiukh et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Differences in the constituents of bacterial microbiota of soils collected from two fields of diverse potato blackleg and soft rot diseases incidences, a case study – Weronika Babinska-Wensierska et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Variations of soil metal content, soil enzyme activity and soil bacterial community in Rhododendron delavayi natural shrub forest at different elevations – Li Wang et al – BMC Microbiology

Effective microorganism combinations improve the quality of compost-bedded pack products in heifer barns: exploring pack bacteria-fungi interaction mechanisms – Zhenbin Zhang et al – BMC Microbiology

Global patterns in the growth potential of soil bacterial communities – Ernest D. Osburn et al – Nature Communications

Microplastic-contamination can reshape plant community by affecting soil properties – Mengzuan He et al – Ecotoxicology & Environmental Safety

Water & extremophile microbiome

Microbial Succession on Microplastics in Wastewater Treatment Plants: Exploring the Complexities of Microplastic-Microbiome Interactions – Klaudia Kwiatkowska & Paulina Ormaniec – Microbial Ecology

Microbial ecology

Higher-order interactions and emergent properties of microbial communities: The power of synthetic ecology – Oscar Gallardo-Navarro et a – Heliyon

Antibiotic resistance

[NEWS FEATURE] Five ways science is tackling the antibiotic resistance crisis – Amber Dance – Nature

Antibiotic resistance gene dynamics in the commensal infant gut microbiome over the first year of life – Pål Trosvik et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Bioinformatics tools

MetaBakery: a Singularity implementation of bioBakery tools as a skeleton application for efficient HPC deconvolution of microbiome metagenomic sequencing data to machine learning ready information – Boštjan Murovec et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

July 31, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

The gut mycobiome signatures in long-lived populations – Lixia Pu et al – Cell iScience

Viral metagenomics combined with non-targeted serum metabolomics reveals the role of enteroviruses in a mouse model of coronary heart disease – Xiang Li et al – BMC Virology

Core microbiome-associated proteins associated with ulcerative colitis interact with cytokines for synergistic or antagonistic effects on gut bacteria – Ting Zhang et al – ISME Journal

Comparison between 16S rRNA and shotgun sequencing in colorectal cancer, advanced colorectal lesions, and healthy human gut microbiota – David Bars-Cortina et al – BMC Genomics

Effect of different delivery modes on intestinal microbiota and immune function of neonates – Chunhui Lai et al – Scientific Reports

Animal experiments

Effects of Akkermansia muciniphila on Gut Morphology, Antioxidant Indices, and Gut Microbiome of Mice Under Heat Stress – Caiyu Luo et al – Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Gut microbiota mediates the anti-inflammatory effects of supplemental infrared irradiation in mice – Shijing Wang et al – Photochemistry and Photobiology

Short-chain fatty acids ameliorate imiquimod-induced skin thickening and IL-17 levels and alter gut microbiota in mice: a metagenomic association analysis – Yi-Ju Chen et al – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Facultative endosymbiosis between cellulolytic protists and methanogenic archaea in the gut of the Formosan termite Coptotermes formosanus – Masayuki Kaneko et al – ISME Communications

Rodents consuming the same toxic diet harbor a unique functional core microbiome – Tess E. Stapleton et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

The plant-sucking insect selects assembly of the gut microbiota from environment to enhance host reproduction – Hong-Wei Shan et al – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Alterations in captive Alexandrine parakeet (Palaeornis eupatria) gut microbiome and metabolome in response to dietary change – Xin Feng et al – Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology

Link between bacterial communities and contrasted loads in ectoparasitic monogeneans from the external mucus of two wild sparid species (Teleostei) – Judith Revault et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Beneficial microbes and compounds

Unearthing Lactococcus lactis and Scheffersomyeces symbionts from edible wood-boring beetle larvae as a bio-resource for industrial applications – Shadrick Kibet et al – BMC Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[OPINION] Microbiome Bioprospecting for Sustainable Agrobiome and Circular Bioeconomy – Dhananjaya Pratap Singh – Anthropocene Science

Host genetic variation and specialized metabolites from wheat leaves enriches for phyllosphere Pseudomonas spp. with enriched antibiotic resistomes – Qian Xiang et al – ISME Journal

Rhizosphere microbiome assembly, drivers and functions in perennial ligneous plant health – Morgane Duret et al – Microbiological Research

Diversity, composition and potential roles of sedimentary microbial communities in different coastal substrates around subtropical Okinawa Island, Japan – Kohei Hamamoto et al – BMC Environmental Microbiome

July 24, 2024

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Human microbiome

Gut virome-wide association analysis identifies cross-population viral signatures for inflammatory bowel disease – Xiangge Tian et al – BMC Microbiome

The Role of Gut Microbiota in the Neuroprotective Effects of Selenium in Alzheimer’s Disease – Anatoly V. Skalny et al – Molecular Neurobiology

[REVIEW] The oral–gut microbiome axis in health and disease – Benoit J. Kunath – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Enhancing gut microbiota and microbial function with inulin supplementation in children with obesity – Chonnikant Visuthranukul et al – International Journal of Obesity

Core antibiotic resistance genes mediate gut microbiota to intervene in the treatment of major depressive disorder – Zaiquan Dong et al – Journal of Affective Disorders

Temporal dynamics and species-level complexity of Prevotella spp. in the human gut microbiota: implications for enterotypes and health – Na Han et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

Skin locations inference and body fluid identification from skin microbial patterns for forensic applications – Litao Huang et al – Forensic Science International

Animal experiments

Improving insulin resistance by sulforaphane via activating the Bacteroides and Lactobacillus SCFAs–GPR–GLP1 signal axis – Sicong Tian et al – Food & Function

Gastroprotective and microbiome-modulating effects of ubiquinol in rats with radiation-induced enteropathy – Walaa A. Eraqi et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Methanogenic patterns in the gut microbiome are associated with survival in a population of feral horses – Mason R. Stothart et al – Nature Communications

Viral Communities Suppress the Earthworm Gut Antibiotic Resistome by Lysing Bacteria on a National Scale – Shuai Du et al – Environmental Science & Technology

Modulation of gut microbiota composition and predicted metabolic capacity after nutritional programming with a plant-rich diet in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): insights across developmental stages – Marwa Mamdouh Tawfik et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia – Laura Glendinning et al – BMC Microbiome

Water & extremophile microbiome

Genomic representativeness and chimerism in large collections of SAGs and MAGs of marine prokaryoplankton – Tianyi Chang et al – BMC Microbiome

Time-series metagenomics reveals changing protistan ecology of a temperate dimictic lake – Arianna I. Krinos et al – BMC Microbiome

Built environment microbiome

[PREPRINT] Utilizing the biosimulator to analyze the environmental microbiome within the intensive care units of a hospital – Sunil Thomas et al – ResearchSquare

Distributions, interactions, and dynamics of prokaryotes and phages in a hybrid biological wastewater treatment system – Dou Wang et al – BMC Microbiome

Plant, root, & soil microbiome

Unraveling the habitat preferences, ecological drivers, potential hosts, and auxiliary metabolism of soil giant viruses across China – Jie-Liang Liang et al – BMC Microbiome

Bioinformatics tools

MIDASim: a fast and simple simulator for realistic microbiome data – Mengyu He et al – BMC Microbiome

June 19, 2024

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Oral and respiratory microbiota

Safety, Feasibility, and Advantages of Oral Microbiota Transplantation: The First Clinical Case – Oleg V. Goloschapov – Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Oral microbial dysbiosis in patients with oral cavity cancers – Ozge Unlu – Clinical Oral Investigations

Nasal cathelicidin is expressed in early life and is increased during mild, but not severe respiratory syncytial virus infection – Sofia Sintoris – Nature Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

Tissue-resident bacteria in metabolic diseases: emerging evidence and challenges – Lucas Masier – Nature Metabolism

Faecal microbiota of schoolchildren is associated with nutritional status and markers of inflammation: a double-blinded cluster-randomized controlled trial using multi-micronutrient fortified rice – Yohannes Seyoum – Nature Communications

Beneficial microbes and compounds

Short-chain fatty acid valerate reduces voluntary alcohol intake in male mice – Suresh C. Bokoliya – BMC Microbiome

Sleep promoting and omics exploration on probiotics fermented Gastrodia elata Blume – Chao-Qi Zhang – NPJ Science of Food

Animal microbiome

Metagenomic approach revealed the mobility and co-occurrence of antibiotic resistomes between non-intensive aquaculture environment and human – Li Tian – BMC Microbiome

Water and extremophile microbiome

Bacterial community and cyanotoxin gene distribution of the Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria, Kenya – Katelyn M. Brown – Environmental Microbiology

Genome-wide screen of genetic determinants that govern Escherichia coli growth and persistence in lake water – Nataliya Teteneva – ISME Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiomes

Root-associated Streptomyces produce galbonolides to modulate plant immunity and promote rhizosphere colonization – Clément Nicolle – ISME Journal

Organic fertilization co-selects genetically linked antibiotic and metal(loid) resistance genes in global soil microbiome – Zi-Teng Liu – Nature Communications

Conceptualizing soil fauna effects on labile and stabilized soil organic matter – Gerrit Angst – Nature Communications

Fungi

The first ITS1 profiling of honey samples from the Southeast Asian region Lombok, Bali and Banggi Island – Saeed Ullah – Nature Scientific Reports

Archaea

Asgard archaeal selenoproteome reveals a roadmap for the archaea-to-eukaryote transition of selenocysteine incorporation machinery – Biyan Huang – ISME Journal

Microbial Ecology

Strain tracking in complex microbiomes using synteny analysis reveals per-species modes of evolution – Hagay Enav – Nature Biotechnology

Methods

High-throughput single-cell transcriptomics of bacteria using combinatorial barcoding – Karl D. Gaisser – Nature Protocols

Commentary and opinions

SeqCode in the golden age of prokaryotic systematics – Diego Javier Jiménez – ISME Journal

Digestive Disease Week 2024 – Katrina Ray – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Barriers and enablers to the effective implementation of omics research in low- and middle-income countries – Jacus S. Nacis – Nature Biotechnology