Tag Archives: Microbiome Digest

November 7, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Immunomodulatory fecal metabolites are associated with mortality in COVID-19 patients with respiratory failure – Matthew R Stutz – Nature Communications

Taxonomic Abundance in Primary and Secondary Root Canal Infections – Ronald Ordinola-Zapata – International Endodontic Journal

Review: The intestinal barrier in disorders of the central nervous system – Carolina Pellegrini – The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Review: Resistance is futile? Mucosal immune mechanisms in the context of microbial ecology and evolution – Emma Slack – Mucosal Immunology

Correspondence: A critical analysis of eating disorders and the gut microbiome – Sydney M Terry – Journal of Eating Disorders

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Bifidobacterial carbohydrate/nucleoside metabolism enhances oxidative phosphorylation in white adipose tissue to protect against diet-induced obesity – Gihyeon Kim – Microbiome

Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG supernatant promotes intestinal mucin production through regulating 5-HT4R and gut microbiota – Yu Gu – Food & Function

Animal Model Microbiome

Genetic and environmental circadian disruption induce weight gain through changes in the gut microbiome – Baraa Altaha – Molecular Metabolism

Strains producing different short-chain fatty acids alleviate DSS-induced ulcerative colitis by regulating intestinal microecology – Shuo Yang – Food & Function

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Microbiome assembly and maintenance across the lifespan of bumble bee workers – Tobin J Hammer – Molecular Ecology

The gut microbiome reflects ancestry despite dietary shifts across a hybrid zone – Danny P Nielsen – Ecology Letters

Characterization of the core gut microbiota of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus): indication of a putative novel Cetobacterium species and analysis of its potential function on nutrition – Ziyue Zhang – Archives of Microbiology

Forensic Microbiome

Sampling from four geographically divergent young female populations demonstrates forensic geolocation potential in microbiomes – Thomas Clarke – Scientific Reports

Plant Microbiome

Insights into the potential for mutualistic and harmful host-microbe interactions affecting brown alga freshwater acclimation – Hetty KleinJan – Molecular Ecology

Built Environment Microbiome

Review: Microplastics in urban waters and its effects on microbial communities: a critical review – Saber Entezari – Environmental Science and Pollution Research International

Microbiome Analysis and Techniques

Assessing the Dark Field of Metaproteome – Haonan Duan – Analytical Chemistry

October 24, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

The Association Between Microplastics and Microbiota in Placentas and Meconium: The First Evidence in Humans – Shaojie Liu – Environmental Science & Technology

The salivary microbiome shows a high prevalence of core bacterial members yet variability across human populations – Xinwei Ruan – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Role of mucus-bacteria interactions in Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) H10407 virulence and interplay with human microbiome – Thomas Sauvaitre – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Commensal oral microbiota impacts ulcerative oral mucositis clinical course in allogeneic stem cell transplant recipients – Julia S Bruno – Scientific Reports

Review: Gut microbiota in COVID-19: key microbial changes, potential mechanisms and clinical applications – Raphaela I Lau – Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Review: The microbiota and aging microenvironment in pancreatic cancer: Cell origin and fate – Zhou Chen – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

Review: New perspectives into the vaginal microbiome with systems biology – Christina Y Lee – Trends in Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Oral supplementation with selected Lactobacillus acidophilus triggers IL-17-dependent innate defense response, activation of innate lymphoid cells type 3 and improves colitis – Jiří Hrdý – Scientific Reports

Animal Model Microbiome

The Benefits of Switching to a Healthy Diet on Metabolic, Cognitive and Gut Microbiome Parameters are Preserved in Adult Rat Offspring of Mothers Fed a High-Fat, High-Sugar Diet – Michael D Kendig – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Jatrorrhizine alleviates ulcerative colitis via regulating gut microbiota and NOS2 expression – Jia Ling Zhang – Gut Pathogens

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Identification of 146 Metagenome-assembled Genomes from the Rumen Microbiome of Cattle in Japan – Yoshiaki Sato – Microbes and Environments

Fidelity varies in the symbiosis between a gutless marine worm and its microbial consortium – Yui Sato – Microbiome

Effects of heat stress on 16S rDNA, metagenome and metabolome in Holstein cows at different growth stages – Lei Feng – Scientific data

Screening Salamanders for Symbionts – Elli Vickers – Methods in Molecular Biology

Gut microbiota differs between two cold-climate lizards distributed in thermally different regions – Jun-Qiong Chen – BMC Ecology and Evolution

Microbial community in resistant and susceptible Churra sheep infected by Teladorsagia circumcincta – Verónica Castilla Gómez de Agüero – Scientific Reports

Genome Evolution of a Symbiont Population for Pathogen Defence in Honeybees – Karl Dyrhage – Genome Biology and Evolution

Plant Microbiome

Diverse MarR bacterial regulators of auxin catabolism in the plant microbiome – Jonathan M Conway – Nature Microbiology

Phytohormones producing rhizobacteria alleviate heavy metals stress in soybean through multilayered response –  Husna – Microbiological Research

Review: Linking plant functional genes to rhizosphere microbes: a review – Qi Liu – Plant Biotechnology Journal

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis Techniques 

Resampling-based inferences for compositional regression with application to beef cattle microbiomes – Sujin Lee – Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Review: Methods used for the study of endophytic fungi: a review on methodologies and challenges, and associated tips – Jefferson Brendon Almeida Dos Reis – Archives of Microbiology

October 17, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Comparison of microbial signatures between paired faecal and rectal biopsy samples from healthy volunteers using next-generation sequencing and culturomics – Indrani Mukhopadhya – Microbiome

Depression and fatigue in active IBD from a microbiome perspective-a Bayesian approach to faecal metagenomics – Anne Kerstin Thomann – BMC Medicine

Dynamics of human milk oligosaccharides in early lactation and relation with growth and appetitive traits of Filipino breastfed infants – Tinu M Samuel – Scientific Reports

The gut microbiome-metabolome dataset collection: a curated resource for integrative meta-analysis – Efrat Muller – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Review: Strains to go: interactions of the skin microbiome beyond its species – Ryan Caldwell – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Gut bacterial extracellular vesicles: important players in regulating intestinal microenvironment – Xiao Liang – Gut Microbes

Brief overview of dietary intake, some types of gut microbiota, metabolic markers and research opportunities in sample of Egyptian women – Nayera E Hassan – Scientific Reports

Profile of gut microbiota and serum metabolites associated with metabolic syndrome in a remote island most afflicted by obesity in Japan – Tsugumi Uema – Scientific Reports

The intestinal clock drives the microbiome to maintain gastrointestinal homeostasis – Marjolein Heddes – Nature Communications

Identification of bacterial lipopeptides as key players in IBS – Camille Petitfils – Gut

Gut-innervating nociceptors regulate the intestinal microbiota to promote tissue protection – Wen Zhang – Cell

BefA, a microbiota-secreted membrane disrupter, disseminates to the pancreas and increases β cell mass – Jennifer Hampton Hill – Cell Metabolism

Alterations in the nasopharyngeal microbiome associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection status and disease severity – Nick P G Gauthier – PloS one

preprint: Ultra-deep Sequencing of Hadza Hunter-Gatherers Recovers Vanishing Gut Microbes – Bryan D Merrill – bioRxiv

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Long-term use of Lacticaseibacillus paracasei N1115 from early life alleviates high-fat-diet-induced obesity and dysmetabolism in mice – Z H Miao – Beneficial Microbes

Animal Model Microbiome

Trimethylamine, a gut bacteria metabolite and air pollutant, increases blood pressure and markers of kidney damage including proteinuria and KIM-1 in rats – Klaudia M Maksymiuk – Journal of Translational Medicine

Animal Microbiome

Molecular detection of Coxiella-like endosymbionts and absence of Coxiella burnetii in Amblyomma mixtum from Veracruz, Mexico – Estefanía Grostieta – Experimental & Applied Acarology

Environmental Microbiome

An enriched ammonia-oxidizing microbiota enables high removal efficiency of ammonia in antibiotic production wastewater – Jiamin Chen – Chemosphere

October 10, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

The hallmarks of dietary intervention-resilient gut microbiome – Natalia S Klimenko – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Nutrition and Microbiome Interactions in Human Cancer – Phillip J Daschner – Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Differences in the microbiota of oral rinse, lesion, and normal site samples from patients with mucosal abnormalities on the tongue – Yawaka Shitozawa – Scientific Reports

Dynamic changes in host immune system and gut microbiota are associated with the production of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies – Maozhen Han – Gut

Antibiotics and probiotics impact gut antimicrobial resistance gene reservoir in COVID-19 patients – Qi Su – Gut Microbes

Fibre is good for the microbiome: but what is the evidence? – Kevin Whelan – The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Model Animal Microbiome

Enhanced cultured diversity of the mouse gut microbiota enables custom-made synthetic communities – Afrizal Afrizal – Cell Host & Microbe

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Convergent evolution of the gut microbiome in marine carnivores – Xibao Wang – Ecology and Evolution

Gut microbiota shift in layer pullets fed on black soldier fly larvae-based feeds towards enhancing healthy gut microbial community – Evalyne W Ndotono – Scientific Reports

Succession of the intestinal bacterial community in Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) larvae – Akito Taniguchi – PloS One

Plant Microbiome

Bacterial community in soil and tree roots of Picea abies shows little response to clearcutting – Tijana Martinović – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Environmental Microbiome

Size-fractionated microbiome observed during an eight-month long sampling in Jiaozhou Bay and the Yellow Sea – Jianchang Tao – Scientific Data

Food Microbiome

Microbiome of rehydrated corn and sorghum grain silages treated with microbial inoculants in different fermentation periods – Mariele Cristina Nascimento Agarussi – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis

Quantification and characterization of mouse and human tissue-resident microbiota by qPCR and 16S sequencing – Bingqing Yao – STAR Protocols

October 3, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Mucus-degrading Bacteroides link carbapenems to aggravated graft-versus-host disease – Eiko Hayase – Cell

Pan-cancer analyses reveal cancer-type-specific fungal ecologies and bacteriome interactions – Lian Narunsky-Haziza – Cell

A pan-cancer mycobiome analysis reveals fungal involvement in gastrointestinal and lung tumors – Anders B Dohlman – Cell

Gut microbiota of hepatitis B virus-infected patients in the immune-tolerant and immune-active phases and their implications in metabolite changes – Ya-Nan Li – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Streptococcus mutans promotes tumor progression in oral squamous cell carcinoma – Ming-Shao Tsai – Journal of Cancer

Short-chain fatty acid concentrations in the incidence and risk-stratification of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Ehsan Alvandi – BMC Medicine

Mycobacterium potentiates protection from colorectal cancer by gut microbial alterations – Yu-Mi Kim – Immunology

Nutrition, Immunosenescence, and Infectious Disease: An Overview of the Scientific Evidence on Micronutrients and on Modulation of the Gut Microbiota – Philip C Calder – Advances in Nutrition 

Unfermented β-fructan fibers fuel inflammation in select inflammatory bowel disease patients – Heather K Armstrong – Gastroenterology

Machine-learning algorithms for asthma, COPD, and lung cancer risk assessment using circulating microbial extracellular vesicle data and their application to assess dietary effects – Andrea McDowell – Experimental & Molecular Medicine

Microbiome ethics, guiding principles for microbiome research, use and knowledge management – Lene Lange – Environmental Microbiome

Review: The gut mycobiome in health, disease, and clinical applications in association with the gut bacterial microbiome assembly – Fen Zhang – The Lancet. Microbe

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Tailoring gut microbiota with a combination of Vitamin K and probiotics as a possible adjuvant in the treatment of rheumatic arthritis: a systematic review – Luciana Pereira – Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

Dietary Isoflavones Alter Gut Microbiota and Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis to Reduce Inflammation – Sudeep Ghimire – Gut Microbes

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron rough-type lipopolysaccharide: The chemical structure and the immunological activity – Molly Dorothy Pither – Carbohydrate Polymers

Animal Microbiome

Study of cattle microbiota in different regions of Kazakhstan using 16S metabarcoding analysis – Aida Daugaliyeva – Scientific Reports

Microscopic marine invertebrates are reservoirs for cryptic and diverse protists and fungi – Corey C Holt – Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Review: Microbiomes in agroecosystem: Diversity, function and assembly mechanisms – Chao Xiong – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Integrating Phylogenetic and Functional Data in Microbiome Studies – Gavin M Douglas – Bioinformatics 

Higher off-target amplicon detection rate in MiSeq v3 compared to v2 reagent kits in the context of 16S-rRNA-sequencing – Mari-Lee Odendaal – Scientific Reports

September 24, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Systemic antibody responses against human microbiota flagellins are overrepresented in chronic fatigue syndrome patients – Thomas Vogl – Science Advances

Strain-level resolution and pneumococcal carriage dynamics by single-molecule real-time (SMRT) sequencing of the plyNCR marker: a longitudinal study in Swiss infants – Oluwaseun Rume-Abiola Oyewole – Microbiome

Longitudinal disease-associated gut microbiome differences in infants with food protein-induced allergic proctocolitis – Victoria M Martin – Microbiome

Host and gut bacteria share metabolic pathways for anti-cancer drug metabolism – Peter Spanogiannopoulos – Nature Microbiology

Diet-driven microbial ecology underpins associations between cancer immunotherapy outcomes and the gut microbiome – Rebecca C Simpson – Nature Medicine

Advances in the gut microbiome and mood disorders – Sabrina Mörkl – Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Review: Modulation of the intestinal microbiota impacts the efficacy of immunotherapy in cancer patients – A recent literature survey – Stella Ziegler – European Journal of Microbiology & Immunology

Animal Microbiome

Metagenomics-resolved genomics provides novel insights into chitin turnover, metabolic specialization, and niche partitioning in the octocoral microbiome – Tina Keller-Costa – Microbiome

Intestinal microbiome-mediated resistance against vibriosis for Cynoglossus semilaevis – Qian Zhou – Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Response of soil microecology to different cropping practice under Bupleurum chinense cultivation – Li Liu – BMC Microbiology

Community Assembly of Fungi and Bacteria along Soil-Plant Continuum Differs in a Zoige Wetland – Jie Li – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Investigating plant-microbe interactions within the root – Yuniar Devi Utami – Archives of Microbiology

Food Microbiome

Geographically Associated Fungus-Bacterium Interactions Contribute to the Formation of Geography-Dependent Flavor during High-Complexity Spontaneous Fermentation – Yuwei Tan – Microbiology Spectrum

More Microbes

A meta-analysis of acetogenic and methanogenic microbiomes in microbial electrosynthesis – Simon Mills – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

MicrobiomeCensus estimates human population sizes from wastewater samples based on inter-individual variability in gut microbiomes – Lin Zhang – PLoS Computational Biology

September 18, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Neisseria species as pathobionts in bronchiectasis – Liang Li – Cell Host & Microbe

The gut microbiome molecular complex in human health and disease – Paul Wilmes – Cell Host & Microbe

Codiversification of gut microbiota with humans – Taichi A Suzuki – Science

Gut microbiome of multiple sclerosis patients and paired household healthy controls reveal associations with disease risk and course – The iMSMS Consortium – Cell

Composition and diverse differences of intestinal microbiota in ulcerative colitis patients – Siying Zhu – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

A systematic review on omics data (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metabolomics) in the role of microbiome in gallbladder disease – Paola Di Carlo – Frontiers in Physiology

Variability of strain engraftment and predictability of microbiome composition after fecal microbiota transplantation across different diseases – Gianluca Ianiro – Nature Medicine

Drivers and determinants of strain dynamics following fecal microbiota transplantation – Thomas S B Schmidt – Nature Medicine

Long-term ecological and evolutionary dynamics in the gut microbiomes of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae colonized subjects – Jonathan T L Kang – Nature Microbiology

Structural and functional dysbiosis of gut microbiota in Tibetan subjects with coronary heart disease – Qi Cheng – Genomics

Growth of succinate consumer Dialister hominis is supported by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron – Mitsuo Sakamoto – Anaerobe

RhoB affects colitis through modulating cell signaling and intestinal microbiome – Jianming Yang – Microbiome

Review: Diet fuelling inflammatory bowel diseases: preclinical and clinical concepts – Timon E Adolph – Gut

Review: Recent findings in Akkermansia muciniphila-regulated metabolism and its role in intestinal diseases – Meng-Jie Liu – Clinical Nutrition

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Comprehensive analysis of microbiome, metabolome and transcriptome revealed the mechanisms of Moringa oleifera polysaccharide on preventing ulcerative colitis – Hanchen Tian – International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Probiotics ameliorates pulmonary inflammation via modulating gut microbiota and rectifying Th17/Treg imbalance in a rat model of PM2.5 induced lung injury – Yongcan Wu – Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Short-term supplementation with ω-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids modulates primarily mucolytic species from the gut luminal mucin niche in a human fermentation system – Charlène Roussel – Gut Microbes

Model Animal Microbiome

Interactive Effect of Combined Intermittent and Sustained Hypoxia and High-Fat Diet on the Colonic Mucosal Microbiome and Host Gene Expression in Mice – Saif Mashaqi – Nature and Science of Sleep

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Fungi are more transient than bacteria in caterpillar gut microbiomes – Martin Šigut – Scientific Reports

Adapting to climate with limited genetic diversity: Nucleotide, DNA methylation and microbiome variation among populations of the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola – Anne Aagaard – Molecular Ecology

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Filtering ASVs/OTUs via mutual information-based microbiome network analysis – Elham Bayat Mokhtari – BMC Bioinformatics

Batch effects removal for microbiome data via conditional quantile regression – Wodan Ling – Nature Communications

Phylogenetic Analysis of Anti-CRISPR and Member Addition in the Families – Sweta Nidhi – Molecular Biotechnology

Shallow shotgun sequencing of the microbiome recapitulates 16S amplicon results and provides functional insights – Mason R Stothart – Molecular Ecology Resources

SnapShot: The Expobiome Map – Velma T E Aho – Cell Host & Microbe

September 12, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

CAR-T cell therapy-related cytokine release syndrome and therapeutic response is modulated by the gut microbiome in hematologic malignancies – Yongxian Hu – Nature Communications

Untangling the link between the human gut microbiota composition and the severity of the symptoms of the COVID-19 infection – Leonardo Mancabelli – Environmental Microbiology

Trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO) promotes balloon injury-induced neointimal hyperplasia via upregulating Beclin1 and impairing autophagic flux – Qingqing Hong – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy 

Weizmannia faecalis sp. nov., isolated from a human stool sample – Hoang Thong Kieu – Archives of Microbiology

Fusobacterium nucleatum aggravates ulcerative colitis through promoting gut microbiota dysbiosis and dysmetabolism – Shulan Lin – Journal of Periodontology

The evaluation of fecal microbiota transplantation vs vancomycin in a Clostridioides difficile infection model – Qiaomai Xu – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Review: The early-life gut microbiome and vaccine efficacy – Anne Jordan – The Lancet. Microbe

Review: Crucial nuances in understanding (mis)associations between the neonatal microbiome and Cesarean delivery – Alexa M Sassin – Trends in Molecular Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

L-Theanine regulates lipid metabolism by modulating gut microbiota and bile acid metabolism – Wei Xu – Journal of the Science of food and Agriculture

Structural and prebiotic activity analysis of the polysaccharide produced by Lactobacillus helveticus SNA12 – Xiaomeng Wang – Carbohydrate Polymers

Review: Unlocking a novel determinant of athletic performance: The role of the gut microbiota, short-chain fatty acids, and biotics in exercise – Kate M Sales – Journal of Sport and Health Science

Animal Microbiome

Comparative analysis of gut microbiota and immune genes linked with the immune system of wild and captive Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) – Renwen Zheng – Developmental and Comparative Immunology

A global dataset of microbial community in ticks from metagenome study – Mei-Chen Liu – Scientific Data

Exposure to dechlorane 602 induces perturbation of gut immunity and microbiota in female mice – Yunping Li – Environmental Pollution 

Plant Microbiome

Dynamics of bacterial and fungal communities of mango: From the tree to ready-to-Eat products – Ahmed Taïbi – Food Microbiology

Forensic Microbiome

The microbiome of fly organs and fly-human microbial transfer during decomposition – Heather L Deel – Forensic Science International

September 10, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Evolution of the Gut Microbiome in HIV-Exposed Uninfected and Unexposed Infants during the First Year of Life – Conner L Jackson – mBio

Gastrointestinal microbiota profile and clinical correlations in advanced EGFR-WT and EGFR-mutant non-small cell lung cancer – Woraseth Saifon – BMC Cancer

Hybrid metagenome assemblies link carbohydrate structure with function in the human gut microbiome – Anuradha Ravi – Communications Biology

Genetic Determinants of Hydrogen Sulfide Biosynthesis in Fusobacterium nucleatum Are Required for Bacterial Fitness, Antibiotic Sensitivity, and Virulence – Yi-Wei Chen – mBio

Preprint: Genomic and ecologic characteristics of the airway microbial-mucosal complex – Leah Cuthbertson – BioXriv 

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Lactiplantibacillus plantarum Regulated Intestinal Microbial Community and Cytokines to Inhibit Salmonella typhimurium Infection – Rui-Han Liu – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

Animal Microbiome

Exploration of rumen microbial and carbohydrate-active enzyme profiles in cattle fed coir a lignin-rich diet using a metagenomic approach – Munni Khatoon – Gene

Plant Microbiome

The core bacterial microbiome of banana (Musa spp.) – Henry W G Birt – Environmental Microbiome

Higher pH is associated with enhanced co-occurrence network complexity, stability and nutrient cycling functions in the rice rhizosphere microbiome – Yaping Guo – Environmental Microbiology

Environmental Microbiology

Virome analysis in lakes of the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica – 2020 – Tatiana Prado – The Science of the Total Environment

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Investigating differential abundance methods in microbiome data: A benchmark study – Marco Cappellato – PLoS Computational Biology

A rapid and standardized workflow for functional assessment of bacterial biosensors in fecal samples – Ana Zúñiga – Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology

September 5, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Inflammatory bowel disease and cardiovascular diseases – Bing Chen – The American Journal of Medicine

Salivary microbiome in chronic kidney disease: what is its connection to diabetes, hypertension, and immunity? – Fengping Liu – Journal of Translational Medicine

Polymorphic microbes: a new emerging hallmark of cancer – Mark P Lythgoe – Trends in Microbiology

Does exposure to different types of menstrual protections affect the vaginal environment? – Nicolas Tessandier – Molecular Ecology

Gut commensal E. coli outer membrane proteins activate the host food digestive system through neural-immune communication – Shengya Geng – Cell Host & Microbe

A shared mucosal gut microbiota signature in primary sclerosing cholangitis before and after liver transplantation – Mikal Jacob Hole – Hepatology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

The antidiabetic effects of Bifidobacterium longum subsp. longum BL21 through regulating gut microbiota structure in type 2 diabetic mice – Junyu Hao – Food & Function

Morchella esculenta polysaccharide attenuate obesity, inflammation and modulate gut microbiota – Ata Ur Rehman – AMB Express

Animal Microbiome

Review: Comparative biology of germ-free and conventional poultry – A J Cowieson – Poultry Science

Freshwater mussels and host fish gut microbe community composition shifts after agricultural contaminant exposure – Stephanie P Gill – Journal of Applied Microbiology