November 24, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Spatially restricted immune and microbiota-driven adaptation of the gut – Toufic Mayassi – Nature

Bacterial interactions underpin worsening lung function in cystic fibrosis-associated infections – Damian W Rivett – mBio

Aerobic bacterial group as an early-stage biomarker from faecal samples of patients with colorectal cancer without distant metastasis – D Lee – Beneficial Microbes

The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homoeostasis via iron sequestration – Fátima C Pereira – Nature Microbiology

Coffee consumption is associated with intestinal Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus abundance and prevalence across multiple cohorts – Paolo Manghi – Nature Microbiology

Enteric bacterial infection stimulates remodelling of bile metabolites to promote intestinal homeostasis – Ting Zhang – Nature Microbiology

Microbiome-Based Colon Cancer Patient Stratification and Survival Analysis – Joshua Smyth – Cancer Medicine

Why HPV16? Why, now, HPV42? How the discovery of HPV42 in rare cancers provides an opportunity to challenge our understanding about the transition between health and disease for common members of the healthy microbiota – Ignacio G Bravo – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Acarbose impairs gut Bacteroides growth by targeting intracellular glucosidases – Haley A Brown – mBio

Review: More than just a number: the gut microbiota and brain function across the extremes of life – Nathan D Nuzum – Gut Microbes

Review: Microbiota-derived small molecule genotoxins: host interactions and ecological impact in the gut ecosystem – Ellen L Zechner – Gut Microbes

Review: Citizen science as an instrument for women’s health research – Sarah Ahannach – Nature Medicine

Review: Normal Gut Microbiomes in Diverse Populations: Clinical Implications – Omprakash Shete – Annual Review of Medicine

Review: Synthetic Ecosystems: From the Test Tube to the Biosphere – Ricard Solé – ACS Synthetic Biology

Animal Model Microbiome

Limosilactobacillus reuteri ameliorates maternal separation stress in newborn mice and alters subsequent adult behaviour – Z M Saleh – Beneficial Microbes

Sodium oligomannate disrupts the adherence of Rib(high) bacteria to gut epithelia to block SAA-triggered Th1 inflammation in 5XFAD transgenic mice – Xinyi Wang – Cell Discovery

B. vulgatus ameliorates high-fat diet-induced obesity through modulating intestinal serotonin synthesis and lipid absorption in mice – Xinxin Wen – Gut Microbes

Animal Microbiome

Multiomics of yaks reveals significant contribution of microbiome into host metabolism – Shuli Yang – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Single-strain probiotics enhance growth, anti-pathogen immunity, and resistance to Nocardia seriolae in grey mullet (Mugil cephalus) via gut microbiota modulation – Ching-Hung Chan – Animal Microbiome

The gut microbiota of three avian species living in sympatry – Hugo Pereira – BMC Ecology and Evolution

Butyrate reduces epithelial barrier dysfunction induced by the foodborne mycotoxin deoxynivalenol in cell monolayers derived from pig jejunum organoids – Julie Alberge – Gut Microbes

Plant Microbiome

Trophic modulation of endophytes by rhizosphere protists – Rasit Asiloglu – The ISME Journal

Metagenome-based diversity and functional analysis of culturable microbes in sugarcane – Haidong Lin – Microbiology Spectrum

Root hair developmental regulators orchestrate drought triggered microbiome changes and the interaction with beneficial Rhizobiaceae – Zhenghong Wang – Nature Communications

Functional diversity of the above-ground fungal community under long-term integrated, organic and biodynamic Vineyard Management – Katharina Steng – Environmental Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome

A functional microbiome catalogue crowdsourced from North American rivers – Mikayla A Borton – Nature

Experimental evolution at ecological scales allows linking of viral genotypes to specific host strains – María Dolores Ramos-Barbero – The ISME Journal

Selenium alters the gene content but not the taxonomic composition of the soil microbiome – Alison E Bennett – Environmental Microbiome

Evaluation of microbial community dynamics and chlorinated solvent biodegradation in methane-amended microcosms from an acidic aquifer – Myung Hwangbo – Biodegradation

Viruses

Rotavirus rewires host cell metabolic pathways toward glutamine catabolism for effective virus infection – Suvrotoa Mitra – Gut Microbes

Microbiome Analysis

SPARTA: Interpretable functional classification of microbiomes and detection of hidden cumulative effects – Baptiste Ruiz – PLoS Computational Biology

Micro-DeMix: a mixture beta-multinomial model for investigating the heterogeneity of the stool microbiome compositions – Ruoqian Liu – Bioinformatics

October 27, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Gut

A human gut Faecalibacterium prausnitzii fatty acid amide hydrolase – Jiye Cheng – Science

A ubiquitous mobile genetic element changes the antagonistic weaponry of a human gut symbiont – Madeline L Sheahan – Science

Exploring alterations of gut/blood microbes in addressing iron overload-induced gut dysbiosis and cognitive impairment in thalassemia patients – Kanokphong Suparan – Scientific Reports

Effects of bile acids on the growth, composition and metabolism of gut bacteria – Yi-Lei Peng – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Gut-first Parkinson’s disease is encoded by gut dysbiome – Mário F Munoz-Pinto – Molecular Neurodegeneration

Metaproteomics reveals diet-induced changes in gut microbiome function according to Crohn’s disease location – Stefano Levi Mortera – Microbiome

Review: Examining the healthy human microbiome concept – Raphaela Joos – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: Host-pathobiont interactions in Crohn’s disease – Roberta Caruso – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Early Microbiome

Species- and subspecies-level characterization of health-associated bacterial consortia that colonize the human gut during infancy – Samuel S Minot – Gut Microbes

Metal availability shapes early life microbial ecology and community succession – Joshua Soto Ocaña – mBio

Virome

Oral reovirus reshapes the gut microbiome and enhances antitumor immunity in colon cancer – Won Suk Lee – Nature Communications

Oral Cavity

Pooled analysis of oral microbiome profiles defines robust signatures associated with periodontitis – Assem Soueidan – mSystems

Animal Microbiome (Model and Non-Model Organisms)

Type VI secretion systems promote intraspecific competition and host interactions in a bee gut symbiont – Erick V S Motta – PNAS

Gut bacteria facilitate leaf beetles in adapting to dietary specialization by enhancing larval fitness – Meiqi Ma – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

The dietary effects of two strain probiotics (Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Lactococcus lactis) on growth performance, immune response and gut microbiota in Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) – Assel Paritova – PloS One

Effects of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum CBT LP3 and Bifidobacterium breve CBT BR3 supplementation on weight loss and gut microbiota of overweight dogs – Jihee Choi – Scientific Reports

Maternal gastrointestinal microbiome shapes gut microbial function and resistome of newborns in a cow-to-calf model – Yimin Zhuang – Microbiome

Integrated analysis of metabolome and microbiome in a rat model of perimenopausal syndrome – Yanqiu Wei – mSystems

Maternal dysbiosis produces long-lasting behavioral changes in offspring – Jacob Hudobenko – Molecular Psychiatry

DNA metabarcoding analyses reveal fine-scale microbiome structures on Western Canadian bat wings – Chadabhorn Insuk – Microbiology Spectrum

Plant and Environmental Microbiome

Aquificae overcomes competition by archaeal thermophiles, and crowding by bacterial mesophiles, to dominate the boiling vent-water of a Trans-Himalayan sulfur-borax spring – Nibendu Mondal – PloS One

Metagenome-assembled genomes of Macrocystis-associated bacteria – Emily G Aguirre – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Metagenomic time-series reveals a western English Channel viral community dominated by members with strong seasonal signals – Luis M Bolaños – The ISME Journal

Volatile-mediated interspecific plant interaction promotes root colonization by beneficial bacteria via induced shifts in root exudation – Xingang Zhou – Microbiome

Other Microbes

Microbial community acclimation during anaerobic digestion of high-oil food waste – Yangqing Hu – Scientific Reports

The choice of 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis impacted characterization of highly variable surface microbiota in dairy processing environments – Sarah E Daly – mSystems

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

A single-stranded based library preparation method for virome characterization – Xichuan Zhai – Microbiome

Microbiome-based correction for random errors in nutrient profiles derived from self-reported dietary assessments – Tong Wang – Nature Communications

Fecal samples and rectal swabs adequately reflect the human colonic luminal microbiota – Julia Rode – Gut Microbes

Optimal 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing analysis for oral microbiota to avoid the potential bias introduced by trimming length, primer, and database – Takahiko Nagai – Microbiology Spectrum

Moving Toward Metaproteogenomics: A Computational Perspective on Analyzing Microbial Samples via Proteogenomics – Franziska Singer – Methods in Molecular Biology

October 20, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Fecal glycoprotein 2 is a marker of gut microbiota dysbiosis and systemic inflammation – Fabian Frost – Gut Pathogens

Detrimental effect of an early exposure to antibiotics on the outcomes of immunotherapy in a multi-tumor cohort of patients – Patricia Guerrero – The Oncologist

Upper respiratory microbial communities of healthy populations are shaped by niche and age – Susan Zelasko – Microbiome

Dysbiosis of the initial stool microbiota increases the risk of developing necrotizing enterocolitis or feeding intolerance in newborns – Hyojin Chae – Scientific Reports

Resource sharing of an infant gut microbiota synthetic community in combinations of human milk oligosaccharides – Athanasia Ioannou – The ISME Journal

Aging-induced dysbiosis worsens sepsis severity but is attenuated by probiotics in D-galactose-administered mice with cecal ligation and puncture model – Chalisa Pinitchun – PloS One

Multi-omics analysis reveals the interplay between pulmonary microbiome and host in immunocompromised patients with sepsis-induced acute lung injury – Fan Lu – Microbiology Spectrum

A Blautia producta specific gFET-based aptasensor for quantitative monitoring of microbiome quality – Hu Xing – Nanoscale Horizons

Alterations of the gut microbiome in HIV infection highlight human anelloviruses as potential predictors of immune recovery – Celia Boukadida – Microbiome

Review: Gut microbiota determines the fate of dietary fiber-targeted interventions in host health – Wenjing Wang – Gut Microbes

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Vaginal lactobacilli produce anti-inflammatory β-carboline compounds – Virginia J Glick – Cell host & Microbe

EphA2 blockage ALW-II-41-27 alleviates atherosclerosis by remodeling gut microbiota to regulate bile acid metabolism – Cong Lu – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG and Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis BB-12 promote infected wound healing via regulation of the wound microenvironment – Zhe Yin – Microbial Biotechnology

Ameliorative effects of Akkermansia muciniphila on anxiety-like behavior and cognitive deficits in a rat model of Alzheimer’s disease – Hamideh Maftoon – Brain Research

Animal Microbiome

Bacterial and Symbiodiniaceae communities’ variation in corals with distinct traits and geographical distribution – Livia Bonetti Villela – Scientific Reports

The Role of Geography, Diet, and Host Phylogeny on the Gut Microbiome in the Hawaiian Honeycreeper Radiation – Maria S Costantini – Ecology and Evolution

New insights into the enteric methane production based on the archaeal genome map of ruminant gastrointestinal tract – Yifan Tang – Journal of Advanced Research

Plant and Soil Microbiome

A metabolic modeling-based framework for predicting trophic dependencies in native rhizobiomes of crop plants – Alon Avraham Ginatt – eLife

Unravelling the microbiome of wild flowering plants: a comparative study of leaves and flowers in alpine ecosystems – Dinesh Kumar Ramakrishnan – BMC Microbiology

Algae-fungi symbioses and bacteria-fungi co-exclusion drive tree species-specific differences in canopy bark microbiomes – Jule Freudenthal – The ISME Journal

Agricultural practices influence soil microbiome assembly and interactions at different depths identified by machine learning – Yujie Mo – Communications Biology

More Microbes

Community successional patterns and inter-kingdom interactions during granular biofilm development – Miguel de Celis – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Metagenome-based microbial community analysis of urine-derived fertilizer – Nebiyat N Woldeyohannis – BMC Microbiology

Metabolic cross-feeding interactions modulate the dynamic community structure in microbial fuel cell under variable organic loading wastewaters – Natchapon Srinak – PLoS Computational Biology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Evaluation of inter- and intra-variability in gut health markers in healthy adults using an optimised faecal sampling and processing method – Kirsten Kruger – Scientific Reports

LineageFilter: Improved Proteotyping of Complex Samples Using Metaproteomics and Machine Learning – Hamid Hachemi – Journal of Proteome Research

October 13, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Aggregatibacter is inversely associated with inflammatory mediators in sputa of patients with chronic airway diseases and reduces inflammation in vitro – Ellen Goeteyn – Respiratory Research

Oral Microbiota Development in the First 60 Months: A Longitudinal Study – K Yama – Journal of Dental Research

Microbiome-derived metabolites in early to mid-pregnancy and risk of gestational diabetes: a metabolome-wide association study – Sita Manasa Susarla – BMC Medicine

Unique Gut Microbiome and Metabolic Profiles in Chinese Workers Exposed to Dust: Insights from a Case-Control Study – Xiaojun Qian – Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Dysbiotic signatures and diagnostic potential of gut microbial markers for inflammatory bowel disease in Korean population – Hyun Sik Kim – Scientific Reports

A search for bacteria identified from cerebrospinal fluid shunt infections in previous surgical events – Paul Hodor – PloS One

Microbiome and metabolome patterns after lung transplantation reflect underlying disease and chronic lung allograft dysfunction – Christian Martin – Microbiome

Review: Reexamining the role of Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies in clinical and experimental studies – Madeline Krieger – Gut Microbes

Review: Host-microbe interaction paradigms in acute and recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis – Jessie MacAlpine – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Balancing act: counteracting adverse drug effects on the microbiome – Jacobo de la Cuesta-Zuluaga – Trends in Microbiology

Cancer Research

Preview: Gut microbiome and bladder cancer: A new link through nitrosamine metabolism – Sridhar Mani – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Prostate cancer microenvironment: multidimensional regulation of immune cells, vascular system, stromal cells, and microbiota – Lin Chen – Molecular Cancer

Review: Gut and oral microbiota in gynecological cancers: interaction, mechanism, and therapeutic value – Jian Wu – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Effects of complex probiotics on intestinal function and its regulatory mechanism in patients with constipation – X Zhang – Beneficial Microbes

Lactiplantibacillus plantarum P101 Alleviated Alcohol-Induced Hepatic Lipid Accumulation in Mice via AMPK Signaling Pathway: Gut Microbiota and Metabolomics Analysis – Xiaoyan Feng – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Preview: Unlocking the genetic influence on milk variation and its potential implication for infant health – Claudia Nussbaum – Cell Genomics

Review: The gut microbiome and dietary fibres: implications in obesity, cardiometabolic diseases and cancer – Nathalie M Delzenne – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Review: Microbiome-based therapeutics for Parkinson’s disease – Adam M Hamilton – Neurotherapeutics

Animal Microbiome

Gut bacteria of lepidopteran herbivores facilitate digestion of plant toxins – Nan Zhang – PNAS

Sea cucumbers and their symbiotic microbiome have evolved to feed on seabed sediments – Wenjie Pan – Nature Communications

Comprehensive profile of the companion animal gut microbiome integrating reference-based and reference-free methods – Tobyn Branck – The ISME Journal

Review: Quantitative Synthesis of Microbe-Driven Acclimation and Adaptation in Wild Vertebrates – Garazi Martin Bideguren – Evolutionary Applications

Plant Microbiome

The role of foraging pollinators in assembling the flower microbiota and transmitting the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora – Salma Mukhtar – Environmental Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Distinct microbial communities supported by iron oxidation – Kateřina Burkartová – Environmental Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Normalization of short-chain fatty acid concentration by bacterial count of stool samples improves discrimination between eubiotic and dysbiotic gut microbiota caused by Clostridioides difficile infection – Anna Sayol-Altarriba – Gut Microbes

SmT/SHM-seq: simultaneously capturing spatial transcriptome and microbiome information in plants – Peng Mu – Trends in Plant Science

High accuracy meets high throughput for near full-length 16S ribosomal RNA amplicon sequencing on the Nanopore platform – Xuan Lin – PNAS Nexus

A deployable film method to enable replicable sampling of low-abundance environmental microbiomes – Phoebe Mankiewicz Ledins – Scientific Reports

October 6, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Noninvasive, microbiome-based diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease – Jiaying Zheng – Nature Medicine

Advancing microbiome research in Māori populations: insights from recent literature exploring the gut microbiomes of underrepresented and Indigenous peoples – Ella T Silk – mSystems

Salivary microbiota reflecting changes in subgingival microbiota – Jae-Suk Jung – Microbiology Spectrum

Differences in the human gut microbiota with varying depressive symptom severity scores – Yuka Masamura – Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health

Review: Sophorolipid: An Effective Biomolecule for Targeting Microbial Biofilms – Sunidhi Dhadwal – Current Microbiology

News: Microbiome-based treatment helps ease severe malnutrition – Elizabeth Pennisi – Science

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

A multivalent mRNA-LNP vaccine protects against Clostridioides difficile infection – Mohamad-Gabriel Alameh – Science

Safety and Tolerability of CP101, a full spectrum, oral microbiome therapeutic for the prevention of recurrent C. difficile infection: A Phase 2 Randomized Controlled Trial – Jessica R Allegretti – Gastroenterology

Animal Microbiome

Recruitment of complete crAss-like phage genomes reveals their presence in chicken viromes, few human-specific phages, and lack of universal detection – María Dolores Ramos-Barbero – The ISME Journal

Structural and functional differences of gut microbiota in Pomacea canaliculata from different geographical locations and habitats – Miao Fang – Ecology and Evolution

Plant Microbiome

Rhizosphere microbial community structure in high-producing, low-input switchgrass families – Christina Stonoha-Arther – PloS One

Dynamic alterations and ecological implications of rice rhizosphere bacterial communities induced by an insect-transmitted reovirus across space and time – Nan Wu – Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources 

Microbiome-induced reprogramming in post-transcriptional landscape using nanopore direct RNA sequencing – Zihe Xu – Cell Reports

rRNA operon improves species-level classification of bacteria and microbial community analysis compared to 16S rRNA – Sohyoung Won – Microbiology Spectrum

ASV vs OTUs clustering: Effects on alpha, beta, and gamma diversities in microbiome metabarcoding studies – Andrea Fasolo – PloS One

September 29, 2024

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

August 18, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Maternal antibiotic prophylaxis during cesarean section has a limited impact on the infant gut microbiome – Trishla Sinha – Cell Host & Microbe

Microbial assimilatory sulfate reduction-mediated H(2)S: an overlooked role in Crohn’s disease development – Wanrong Luo – Microbiome (BMC)

Characterization of the vaginal microbiota in Italian women with endometriosis: preliminary study – Rosa Sessa – Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Profiles and interactions of gut microbiome and intestinal microRNAs in pediatric Crohn’s disease – Yao Lv – mSystems

Regional variation and adaptive evolution in Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum: Insights into genomic and functional diversity in human gut – Qiong Wu – Food Research International

Review: Effects of physical exercise on Akkermansia muciniphila: a systematic review of human and animal studies – S S Aguiar – Beneficial Microbes

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Commentary: Microbiome modification for personalized treatment of dysbiotic diseases – R Balfour Sartor – Cell Host & Microbe

Combining Gut Microbiota Modulation and Enzymatic-Triggered Colonic Delivery by Prebiotic Nanoparticles Improves Mouse Colitis Therapy – Hui Li – Biomaterials Research

Animal Microbiome

Effect of chronic alcohol consumption on oral microbiota in rats with periodontitis – Zirui Zhao – PeerJ

Fecal microbiota transplantation accelerates restoration of florfenicol-disturbed intestinal microbiota in a fish model – Zhuoran Han – Communications Biology

Structural, Biochemical, and Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacterial and Fungal Carbohydrate Esterase Family 15 Glucuronoyl Esterases in the Rumen – Robert J Gruninger – The Protein Journal

Plant Microbiome

Review: Harnessing the plant microbiome for sustainable crop production – Stéphane Compant – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Review: The impact of filamentous plant pathogens on the host microbiota – Victor M Flores-Nunez – BMC Biology

Environmental Microbiome

Metagenomic insights into the prokaryotic communities of heavy metal-contaminated hypersaline soils – Cristina Galisteo – The Science of the Total Environment

Ecological phage therapy: Can bacteriophages help rapidly restore the soil microbiome? – Tarryn Davies – Ecology and Evolution

Do restoration strategies in mangroves recover microbial diversity? A case study in the Yucatan peninsula – Daniel Esguerra-Rodríguez – PloS One

Metagenome sequencing and 107 microbial genomes from seamount sediments along the Yap and Mariana trenches – Yue Zhang – Scientific Data

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Metrological evaluation of DNA extraction method effects on the bacterial microbiome and resistome in sputum – Aleksander Benčič – mSystems

Commentary: AI in microbiome research: Where have we been, where are we going? – Georg K Gerber – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Modeling Microbial Communities: Perspective and Challenges – Lavanya Raajaraam – ACS Synthetic Biology

July 28, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Shaping Microbiota During the First 1000 Days of Life – Anna Samarra – Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Role of sulfidogenic members of the gut microbiota in human disease – Andreia I Pimenta – Advances in Microbial Physiology

Fecal microbiota transplantation improves anti-PD-1 inhibitor efficacy in unresectable or metastatic solid cancers refractory to anti-PD-1 inhibitor – Yunjae Kim – Cell Host & Microbe

Exploring the genomic traits of infant-associated microbiota members from a Zimbabwean cohort – Taona Emmah Mudhluli – BMC Genomics

Gut microbial features and circulating metabolomic signatures of frailty in older adults – Yanni Pu – Nature Aging

Gut microbiome and metabolome signatures in liver cirrhosis-related complications – Satya Priya Sharma – Clinical and Molecular Hepatology

Detection of Microplastics in Human Breast Milk and Its Association with Changes in Human Milk Bacterial Microbiota – Apisith Saraluck – Journal of Clinical Medicine

Regional Differences in Microbial Infiltration of Brain Tissue from Alzheimer’s Disease Patients and Control Individuals – T Bucky Jones – Brain Sciences

Review: Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans: From the Oral Cavity to the Heart Valves – Jasminka Talapko – Microorganisms

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Digesting the complex metabolic effects of diet on the host and microbiome – Rachel N Carmody – Cell

Review: A comprehensive review of synbiotics: an emerging paradigm in health promotion and disease management – Sulhee Lee – World Journal of Microbiology & Biotechnology

Animal Model Microbiome

Desulfovibrio vulgaris caused gut inflammation and aggravated DSS-induced colitis in C57BL/6 mice model – Guoxin Huang – Gut Pathogens

LCN2 regulates the gut microbiota and metabolic profile in mice infected with Mycobacterium bovis – Quntao Huang – mSystems

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Multiomics of parkinsonism cynomolgus monkeys highlights significance of metabolites in interaction between host and microbiota – Jiang-Mei Gao – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Vaginal and Uterine Microbiota of Healthy Maiden Mares during Estrus – Ana Gil-Miranda – Veterinary Sciences

Review: Reproductive Tract Microbiota of Mares – Ana Gil-Miranda – Veterinary Sciences

Environmental Microbiology

Soils of two Antarctic Dry Valleys exhibit unique microbial community structures in response to similar environmental disturbances – Mafalda S Baptista – Environmental Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Thermal sensitivity of soil microbial carbon use efficiency across forest biomes – Chengjie Ren – Nature Communications

Miscanthus sp. root exudate alters rhizosphere microbial community to drive soil aggregation for heavy metal immobilization – Bohan Wu – The Science of the Total Environment

Soil conditions modify species diversity effects on tree functional trait expression – Andréa Davrinche – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis

A novel system to culture human intestinal organoids under physiological oxygen content to study microbial-host interaction – Tatiana Y Fofanova – PloS ONE

Compositional Data and Microbiota Analysis: Imagination and Reality – Tatsuki Itagaki – Microorganisms

Thanos: An R Package for the Gene-Centric Analysis of Functional Potential in Metagenomic Samples – Zhe Zhao – Microorganisms

July 21, 2024

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

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