microbial mats | Microbiome Digest

Shalom from Israel and have a happy Jewish New Year!

As yesterday’s digest was packed with great papers, today’s post is a bit thinner- but still with great material. First, take a look at two virtual and fascinating events to be held in the next months. In addition, you’ll find a mini-review about molecular epidiomiology, locust-related microbiome, a fascinating research paper exploring the actual proportion of sequenced prokaryots and a even a paper focusing on the microbiome of hemp.

Stay healthy, wear a mask.

Events

LMU CAM Strategic Partnership Online Symposium: The role of microbes in plant health: Emerging topics!

ISME Virtual Microbial Ecology Summit

Human microbiome

Gut microbiota, NLR proteins, and intestinal homeostasis, Hao Guo, JEM

*Mini-review- Molecular epidemiology in current times, Burkhard Tummler, Env. Micro.

Animal microbiome

Environmental microbiome

**Estimate of the sequenced proportion of the global prokaryotic genome, Zheng Zhang, Microbiome

Microbial dark matter filling the niche in hypersaline microbial mats, Hon Lun Wong, Microbiome

Pan‐genome study of Thermococcales reveals extensive genetic diversity and genetic evidence of thermophilic adaption, Chaofang Zhong , Env. Micro.

Plant microbiome

Evaluating the microbiome of hemp, Samuel E. Barnett, Phytobiomes

Wine, soil, and microbial mats.

Wine microbiome

A Gondwanan imprint on global diversity and domestication of wine and cider yeast Saccharomyces uvarum – Pedro Almeida – Nature Communications

“In addition to Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the cryotolerant yeast species S. uvarum is also used for wine and cider fermentation but nothing is known about its natural history. Here we use a population genomics approach to investigate its global phylogeography and domestication fingerprints”

Environmental microbiome

Physiological and genomic features of highly alkaliphilic hydrogen-utilizing Betaproteobacteria from a continental serpentinizing site – Shino Suzuki – Nature Communications

“Here we describe physiological and genomic features of three related Betaproteobacterial strains isolated from highly alkaline (pH 11.6) serpentinizing springs at The Cedars, California.”

Bacterial Diversity Assessment in Antarctic Terrestrial and Aquatic Microbial Mats: A Comparison between Bidirectional Pyrosequencing and Cultivation – Bjorn Tytgat – PLOS ONE

“Strikingly, there was relatively little overlap between cultivation and the forward and reverse pyrosequencing-based datasets at the genus (17.1–22.2%) and OTU (3.5–3.6%) level (defined on a 97% similarity cut-off level). Comparison of the V1–V2 and V3–V2 datasets of the 16S rRNA gene revealed remarkable differences in number of OTUs and genera recovered.”

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