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

September 22, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Multi-way modelling of oral microbial dynamics and host-microbiome interactions during induced gingivitis – G R van der Ploeg – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Establishing human microbial observatory programs in low- and middle-income countries – Jeffrey I Gordon – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Vaginal microbiota stability over 18 months in young student women in France – Jeanne Tamarelle – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Transfer and persistence of microbiota markers from the human hand to the knife: A preliminary study – Sukriye Karadayı – Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

Dental Caries: The Way Forward – D T Kopycka-Kedzierawski – JDR Clinical and Translational Research

Changes in the Firmicutes to Bacteriodetes ratio in the gut microbiome in individuals with anorexia nervosa following inpatient treatment: A systematic review and a case series – Passent Helal – Brain and Behavior

Fusobacterium nucleatum facilitates anti-PD-1 therapy in microsatellite stable colorectal cancer – Xueliang Wang – Cancer Cell

Bacterial Extracellular Vesicles as Potential Promoting Factors for Oral Lichen Planus Pathogenesis – Yu Gyung Kim – Inflammation

Gut microbiota metabolite trimethylamine N-oxide promoted NAFLD progression by exacerbating intestinal barrier disruption and intrahepatic cellular imbalance – Fulin Nian – International Immunopharmacology

Comment: Strengthening the foundation of African microbiome research: strategies for standardized data collection – Soumaya Kouidhi – Nature Reviews: Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Review: Microbiota-gut-brain axis in health and neurological disease: Interactions between gut microbiota and the nervous system – Yuhong He – Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Review: Effect of Staphylococcus aureus colonization and immune defects on the pathogenesis of atopic dermatitis – Evrim Özdemіr – Archives of Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Gastrointestinal Self-Adaptive and Nutrient Self-Sufficient Akkermansia muciniphila-Gelatin Porous Microgels for Synergistic Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis – Yujie Zhang – ACS Nano

2′-Fucosyllactose attenuates aging-related metabolic disorders through modulating gut microbiome-T cell axis – Ang Li – Aging Cell

Review: Akkermansia in the gastrointestinal tract as a modifier of human health – Maria E Panzetta – Gut Microbes

Animal Microbiome (including Animal Models)

Dipeptide metabolite, glutamyl-glutamate mediates microbe-host interaction to boost spermatogenesis – Balázs Juhász – Scientific Reports

Intestinal deguelin drives resistance to acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity in female mice – Shenhai Gong – Gut Microbes

Metformin reprograms tryptophan metabolism via gut Microbiome-Derived bile acid metabolites to ameliorate Depression-Like behaviors in mice – Xiaoxian Xie – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Food Microbiome

Dynamics of the microbiome and volatile organic compounds during fermentation and aging of soy sauce – Yuichi Mizuno – Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering

Unveiling the Brazilian kefir microbiome: discovery of a novel Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens (LkefirU) genome and in silico prospection of bioactive peptides with potential anti-Alzheimer properties – Matheus H Silva – BMC Genomics

Plant Microbiome

Pseudomonas fluorescens Inoculation Enhances Salix matsudana Growth by Modifying Phyllosphere Microbiomes, Surpassing Nitrogen Fertilization – Qing Li – Plant, cell & Environment

Environmental Microbiome

Deep insights into the assembly mechanisms, co-occurrence patterns, and functional roles of microbial community in wastewater treatment plants – Zi-Yan Wei – Environmental Research

Genomic profiling of Antarctic geothermal microbiomes using long-read, Hi-C, and single-cell techniques – Nu Ri Myeong – Scientific Data

Septiembre 15, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Correlation of gut microbial diversity to sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy – Rehana Khan – BMC Microbiology

Multiomics reveals microbial metabolites as key actors in intestinal fibrosis in Crohn’s disease – Xuehua Li – EMBO Molecular Medicine

Inflammation mediated by gut microbiome alterations promotes lung cancer development and an immunosuppressed tumor microenvironment – Zahraa Rahal – Cancer Immunology Research

Microbial interactions impact stress tolerance in a model oral community – Gina R Lewin – Microbiology Spectrum

The use of metagenomic and untargeted metabolomics in the analysis of the effects of the Lycium barbarum glycopeptide on allergic airway inflammation induced by Artemesia annua pollen – Min Bai – Journal of Ethnopharmacology

Enteric-coated cerium dioxide nanoparticles for effective inflammatory bowel disease treatment by regulating the redox balance and gut microbiome – Yubiao Huang – Biomaterials

Review: Micro- and nano-plastics, intestinal inflammation, and inflammatory bowel disease: A review of the literature – Manasi Agrawal – The Science of the Total Environment

Commentary:  The 3 Ds: Depression, Dysbiosis, and Clostridiodes difficile – Antoine Boustany – Advances in Therapy

Research Highlight: Targeting fatty acid metabolism promotes a healthy vaginal microbiome – Iris Marchal – Nature Biotechnology

Animal Microbiome

Metagenomic analysis of the gut microbiota of hooded cranes (Grus monacha) on the Izumi plain in Japan – Kosuke Takada – FEBS Open Bio

From Skin to Gut: Understanding Microbial Diversity in Rana amurensis and R. dybowskii – Ming-He Yang – Current Microbiology

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Ridge planting increases the rhizosphere microbiome diversity and improves the yield of Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Breit in North China – Yaofa Li – PloS One

Microbiome Analysis

Forum: Bioinformatics challenges for profiling the microbiome in cancer: pitfalls and opportunities – Nicholas A Bokulich – Trends in Microbiology

September 8, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Gut metagenomes of Asian octogenarians reveal metabolic potential expansion and distinct microbial species associated with aging phenotypes – Aarthi Ravikrishnan – Nature Communications

Integrated analysis of facial microbiome and skin physio-optical properties unveils cutotype-dependent aging effects – Chuqing Sun – Microbiome

Regulation of Bacteroides acidifaciens by the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in IL-22-producing immune cells has sex-dependent consequential impact on colitis – Chandani Mitchell – Frontiers in Immunology

The role of KLF5 in gut microbiota and lung adenocarcinoma: unveiling programmed cell death pathways and prognostic biomarkers – Qingliang Fang – Discover Oncology

Healthy first-degree relatives from multiplex families versus simplex families have a higher subclinical intestinal inflammation, a distinct fecal microbial signature, and harbor a higher risk of developing Crohn’s disease – Pablo A Olivera – Gastroenterology

Reversions mask the contribution of adaptive evolution in microbiomes – Paul A Torrillo – eLife

Review: The hidden base of the iceberg: gut peptidoglycome dynamics is foundational to its influence on the host – Richard Wheeler – Gut Microbes

Review: Benefits and concerns of probiotics: an overview of the potential genotoxicity of the colibactin-producing Escherichia coli Nissle 1917 strain – Luca Falzone – Gut Microbes

Book Chapter: Microbial Extracellular Vesicles in Host-Microbiota Interactions – Sarah Abubaker – Results and Problems in Cell Differentiation

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

A probiotic Limosilactobacillus fermentum GR-3 mitigates colitis-associated tumorigenesis in mice via modulating gut microbiome – Tuoyu Zhou – NPJ Science of Food

Review: Pathophysiological and Clinical Potential of Human Microbiome: Microbe-based Therapeutic Insights – Somali Sanyal – Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology

Plant Microbiome

Soil volatilomics uncovers tight linkage between soybean presence and soil omics profiles in agricultural fields – Hikari Kuchikata – Scientific Report

Review: Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts – Fantin Mesny – Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Environmental Microbiome

A comprehensive catalog encompassing 1376 species-level genomes reveals the core community and functional diversity of anammox microbiota – Depeng Wang – Water Research

Revealing the intricate temporal dynamics and adaptive responses of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes in the coastal South China Sea – Wenqian Xu – The Science of the Total Environment

Biodegradation of low-density polyethylene by mixed fungi composed of Alternaria sp. and Trametes sp. isolated from landfill sites – Wei-Kang Yang – BMC Microbiology

Using patterns of shared taxa to infer bacterial dispersal in human living environment in urban and rural areas – M Grönroos – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Annotation-free prediction of microbial dioxygen utilization – Avi I Flamholz – mSystem

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

MRGM: an enhanced catalog of mouse gut microbial genomes substantially broadening taxonomic and functional landscapes – Nayeon Kim – Gut Microbes

A unified web cloud computing platform MiMedSurv for microbiome causal mediation analysis with survival responses – Hyojung Jang – Scientific Reports

A quantitative approach to measure and predict microbiome response to antibiotics – Vincent Tu – mSphere

Metagenomic functional profiling: to sketch or not to sketch? – Mahmudur Rahman Hera – Bioinformatics

TolRad, a model for predicting radiation tolerance using Pfam annotations, identifies novel radiosensitive bacterial species from reference genomes and MAGs – Philip Sweet – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Improving viral annotation with artificial intelligence – Zachary N Flamholz – mBio

Additionally, the Cold Spring Harbor Protocols Journal released a set of protocols covering the study of Maize Microbiome:

Sampling the Maize (Zea mays) Leaf Microbiome – Jason G Wallace – Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Sampling Root-Associated Microbiome Communities of Maize (Zea mays) – Alonso Favela – Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Sampling and Analysis of the Maize Microbiome – Jason G Wallace – Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

Manipulating the Maize (Zea mays) Microbiome – Sierra S Raglin – Cold Spring Harbor Protocols

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

August 11, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

B cell senescence promotes age-related changes in oral microbiota – Hiroya Mizuno – Aging Cell

Exploring the relationship between gut microbiota and breast cancer risk in European and East Asian populations using Mendelian randomization – Wei Lin – BMC Cancer

Intratumoral microbiome promotes liver metastasis and dampens adjuvant imatinib treatment in gastrointestinal stromal tumor – Yanze Li – Cancer Letters

Comparison of Vaginal microbiota in HPV-negative and HPV-positive pregnant women using a culture-based approach – Podoprigora Irina – Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

The gut-microbiome in adult Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder – A Meta-analysis – Babette Jakobi – European Neuropsychopharmacology

An Empirical Dietary Pattern Associated with the Gut Microbial Features in Relation to Colorectal Cancer Risk – Kai Wang – Gastroenterology

Species-level characterization of gut microbiota and their metabolic role in kidney stone formation using full-length 16S rRNA sequencing – Bashir Hussain – Urolithiasis

Review: Game of microbes: the battle within – gut microbiota and multiple sclerosis – Ti-Ara Turner – Gut Microbes

Review: The early life exposome and autism risk: a role for the maternal microbiome? – Claudia M Di Gesù – Gut Microbes

Review: Gut mycobiome alterations and implications for liver diseases – Suling Zeng – PLoS Pathogens

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

A novel intervention of molecular hydrogen on the unbalance of the gut microbiome in opioid addiction: Experimental and human studies – Bing Xie – Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy

Lower fecal microbiota transplantation ameliorates ulcerative colitis by eliminating oral-derived Fusobacterium nucleatum and virulence factor – Dong-Hao Li – Gut Pathogens

Induction of Cell Death by Bifidobacterium infantis DS1685 in Colorectal and Breast Cancers via SMAD4/TGF-Beta Activation – In Hwan Tae – Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Review: Peptide GLP-1 receptor agonists: From injection to oral delivery strategies – Zhiqiang Ke – Biochemical Pharmacology

Animal Microbiome (including model experiments)

Stress-sensitive neural circuits change the gut microbiome via duodenal glands – Hao Chang – Cell

Effect of Hafnia alvei on Morphophysiologic Parameters and Gut Microbiota of Mice with Inherited Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – V A Zolotarev – Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine

Spatial analysis of murine microbiota and bile acid metabolism during amoxicillin treatment – Chapman N Beekman – Cell Reports

Evaluating impacts of radiation-induced sterilization on the performance and gut microbiome of mass-reared Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata) in Hawai’i – Charles J Mason – Journal of Economic Entomology

Plant Microbiome

Disease Resistance Correlates with Core Microbiome Diversity in Cotton – Rhea Aqueel – Current Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

The symbiotic alga Trebouxia fuels a coherent soil ecosystem on the landscape scale in the Atacama Desert – Patrick Jung – Environmental Microbiome

Relationships between radiation, wildfire and the soil microbial communities in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone – Alexandre Barretto de Menezes – The Science of the Total Environment

The first large scale rDNA amplicon database of soil microbiomes from Pamir Plateau, China – Jing Zhu – Scientific Data

Food and Beverage Microbiome

Changes in the solid-associated bacterial and fungal communities following ruminal in vitro fermentation of winery by-products: aspects of the bioactive compounds and feed safety – Ratchaneewan Khiaosa-Ard – Anaerobe

16S amplicon-based microbiome biomapping of a commercial broiler hatchery – Michael J Jr Rothrock – Animal Microbiome

Analyzing the gut microbiota and microbial-associated metabolites of tomato-based sauces – Alicia Paulina Cárdenas-Castro – Food Chemistry

August 8, 2024

Human respiratory, skin, and gut microbiome

Nurturing futures through the maternal microbiome – Roberta Pala & Katherine Kenny – Sociology of Health & Illness

The skin microbiota of preterm infants and impact of diaper change frequency – Noelle E. Younge et al – PLOS One

Vitamin A carotenoids, but not retinoids, mediate the impact of a healthy diet on gut microbial diversity – Ana M. Valdes et al – BMC Medicine

Gut microbial composition is altered in sarcopenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies – Xiaohong Mai et al – PLOS One

Associations of upper respiratory mucosa microbiota with Rheumatoid arthritis, autoantibodies, and disease activity – Young Bin Joo et al – PLOS One

Effect of β-lactam antibiotics on the gut microbiota of term neonates – Hongdan Gu et al – BMC Annals of Clinical Microbiology & Antimicrobials

Clinical efficacy of a multilamellar cream on skin physiology and microbiome in an epidermal stress model: A controlled double-blinded study – Joachim W Fluhr et al – Int. Journal of Cosmetic Science

Animal experiments

Mouse adaptation of human inflammatory bowel diseases microbiota enhances colonization efficiency and alters microbiome aggressiveness depending on the recipient colonic inflammatory environment – Simon M. Gray et al – BMC Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiota composition of the isopod Ligia in South Korea exposed to expanded polystyrene pollution – Young-Mi Lee et al – PLOS One

Effects of a supplemented diet containing 7 probiotic strains (Honeybeeotic) on honeybee physiology and immune response: analysis of hemolymph cytology, phenoloxidase activity, and gut microbiome – Patrizia Robino et al – BMC Biological Research

Survey of antimicrobial and probiotic use practices in wildlife rehabilitation in the United States – Elizabeth A. Miller et al – PLOS One

The impact of management on the fecal microbiome of endangered greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in a zoo-based conservation program – Emma Vaasjo et al – Conservation Physiology

Water & extremophile microbiome

Microdiversity in marine pelagic ammonia-oxidizing archaeal populations in a Mediterranean long-read metagenome – Pablo Suárez-Moo et al – Environmental Microbiology

Production of structurally diverse sphingolipids by anaerobic marine bacteria in the euxinic Black Sea water column – Su Ding et al – ISME Journal

Plant, root & soil microbiome

Characterization of fungal microbiome structure in leaf litter compost through metagenomic profiling for harnessing the bio-organic fertilizer potential – Sophayo Mahongnao et al – 3Biotech

Plant species influences the composition of root system microbiome and its antibiotic resistance profile in a constructed wetland receiving primary treated wastewater – Valentina Riva et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

DNA stable isotope probing reveals the impact of trophic interactions on bioaugmentation of soils with different pollution histories – Esteban E. Nieto et al – BMC Microbiome

Seed endophytes and rhizosphere microbiome of Imperata cylindrica, a pioneer plant of abandoned mine lands – Wenqin Mao et al – Frontiers in Microbiology

Temperature-dependent trophic associations modulate soil bacterial communities along latitudinal gradients – Xing Huang et al – ISME Journal.

Microbial ecology

[PREPRINT] Models of microbiome evolution incorporating host resource provisioning – Yao Xiao et al – bioRxiv

Beneficial microbes & compounds

Combining Bifidobacterium longum subsp. infantis and human milk oligosaccharides synergistically increases short chain fatty acid production ex vivo – Florac De Bruyn et al – Nature Communications Biology

August 6, 2024

Human Gut Microbiota

Review – The role of the gut microbiota in regulating responses to vaccination: current knowledge and future directions – Rossouw et al. FEBS

Systemic antibody responses against gut microbiota flagellins implicate shared and divergent immune reactivity in Crohn’s disease and chronic fatigue syndrome – Bourgonje et al. – Microbiome

Pregnancy and early life

Diet at birth is critical for healthy growth, independent of effects on the gut microbiota – Lieke et al. – Microbiome

Delivery mode is a larger determinant of infant gut microbiome composition at 6 weeks than exposure to peripartum antibiotics – Leech et al. Microbial Genomics.

Association of breast milk-derived arachidonic acid-induced infant gut dysbiosis with the onset of atopic dermatitis – Jiang et al. – Gut

General Human Microbiota

The potential role of lung microbiota and lauroylcarnitine in T-cell activation associated with checkpoint inhibitor pneumonitis – Yu et al. eBioMedicine

Evidence of Lactobacillus strains shared between the female urinary and vaginal microbiota – Atkins et al. – Microbial Genomics

A human commensal-pathogenic fungus suppresses host immunity via targeting TBK1 – Lou et al. Cell Host & Microbe

Bacteriophage

Bacterial homologs of innate eukaryotic antiviral defenses with anti-phage activity highlight shared evolutionary roots of viral defenses – Van den Berg et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

Genomic and induction evidence for bacteriophage contributions to sargassum-bacteria symbioses – Stiffler et al. – Microbiome

August 4, 2024

Human Gut Microbiome

Exploring the interplay between antiretroviral therapy and the gut-oral microbiome axis in people living with HIV – Aswathy Narayanan – Scientific Reports

Human Gut Microbiota Composition Associated with International Travels – D Henares – Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Respiratory microbiome and clinical course of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia in critically Ill patients – Jin Gu Yoon – Medicine

Review: Gut Microbiota and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Neuroinflammatory Mediated Mechanism of Pathogenesis? – Fatemeh Zarimeidani – Inflammation

Review: Gut microbiota and eating behaviour in circadian syndrome – Jorge R Soliz-Rueda – Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Staphylococcus aureus/Staphylococcus epidermidis from skin microbiota are balanced by Pomegranate peel extract: An eco-sustainable approach – Sara D’Arcangelo – PloS One

Microbiome mapping in dairy industry reveals new species and genes for probiotic and bioprotective activities – Francesca De Filippis – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Bugs as drugs: Extended clinical applications and potential translational trends of Akkermansia muciniphila in oncology and comprehensive clinical investigation panorama of therapeutic microbiome modulators in gastric cancer treatment – Yuning Wang – Pharmacological Research

Polyphenols: potent protectors against chronic diseases – Geetha Shanmugam – Natural Product Research

Animal Microbiome

Effects of berberine hydrochloride on antioxidant response and gut microflora in the Charybdis japonica infected with Aeromonas hydrophila – Mingming Han – BMC Microbiology

Design of an agro-industrial by-products-based media for the production of probiotic bacteria for fish nutrition – Marcelo Fernando Valle Vargas – Scientific Reports

Association of microbial community structure with gill disease in marine-stage farmed Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar); a yearlong study – Morag Clinton – BMC Veterinary Research

Selection for stress tolerance and longevity in Drosophila melanogaster have strong impacts on microbiome profiles – Torsten Nygaard Kristensen – Scientific Reports

Novel insights on microbiome dynamics during a gill disease outbreak in farmed rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) – Samuele Zamparo – Scientific Reports

Gut Microbiome-Driven metabolites influence skin pigmentation in TYRP1 mutant Oujiang color common carp – Roland Nathan Mandal – Gene

Plant and Soil Microbiome

From soil to sequence: filling the critical gap in genome-resolved metagenomics is essential to the future of soil microbial ecology – Winston E Anthony – Environmental Microbiome

An acidophilic fungus promotes prey digestion in a carnivorous plant – Pei-Feng Sun – Nature Microbiology

A novel strategy of artificially regulating plant rhizosphere microbial community to promote plant tolerance to cold stress – Jianfeng Zhang – The Science of the Total Environment

A bud’s life: Metabarcoding analysis to characterise hazelnut big buds microbiome biodiversity – Silvia Turco – Microbiological Research

Perspective: Integrating viruses into soil food web biogeochemistry – Cátia Carreira – Nature Microbiology

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

Environmental Microbiome

Genomic and induction evidence for bacteriophage contributions to sargassum-bacteria symbioses – Alexandra K Stiffler – Microbiome

July 31, 2024

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