Tag Archives: microbiome

July 19, 2022

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Have a nice Tuesday! Today in this short digest, interesting reviews about “psychobiotics” (useful probiotics for mental health), the use of several tools for analyzing microbiota, and a systematic review analyzing the role of the oral microbiome in autoimmune diseases. 

Human and General Microbiome

The relationship between the gut microbiome and the risk of respiratory infections among newborns – Yuka Moroishi – Communications Medicine

Review: Psychobiotics: the Influence of Gut Microbiota on the Gut-Brain Axis in Neurological Disorders – Parvin Oroojzadeh – Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Review: Ecosystem-specific microbiota and microbiome databases in the era of big data – Victor Lobanov – Environmental Microbiome

Systematic Review: The Oral Microbiome and Its Role in Systemic Autoimmune Diseases: A Systematic Review of Big Data Analysis – Lu Gao – Frontiers in Big Data

Animal Model Microbiome

Microplastics-perturbed gut microbiota triggered the testicular disorder in male mice: Via fecal microbiota transplantation – Siyue Wen – Environmental Pollution

Plant Microbiome

Flavonoid-attracted Aeromonas sp. from the Arabidopsis root microbiome enhances plant dehydration resistance – Danxia He – The ISME Journal

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis Techniques

ProBioQuest: a database and semantic analysis engine for literature, clinical trials and patents related to probiotics – Po Lam Chan – Database

A structural metagenomics pipeline for examining the gut microbiome – Morgan E. Walker – Current Opinion in Structural Biology 

The Mini Colon Model: a benchtop multi-bioreactor system to investigate the gut microbiome – Zijie Jin – Gut Microbes

July 16, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Advances and challenges in cataloging the human gut virome – Junhua Li – Cell Host & Microbe

Genomic diversity of genus Limosilactobacillus – Magdalena Ksiezarek – Microbial Genomics

Comparison of the respiratory tract microbiome in hospitalized COVID-19 patients with different disease severity – Jiali Chen – Journal of Medical Virology

An international report on bacterial communities in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma – Jason Nomburg – International Journal of Cancer

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Phenolic-rich beverages reduce bacterial TMA formation in an ex vivo-in vitro colonic fermentation model – Lisard Iglesias-Carres – Food & Function

Lactobacillus paragasseri OLL2809 Improves Depression-Like Behavior and Increases Beneficial Gut Microbes in Mice – Narumi Hashikawa-Hobara – Frontiers in Neuroscience

In silico identification of two peptides with antibacterial activity against multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – Linda B Oyama – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Review: How Dietary Fibre, Acting via the Gut Microbiome, Lowers Blood Pressure – Chudan Xu – Current Hypertension Reports

Review: Low FODMAP diet in irritable bowel syndrome: a review of recent clinical trials and meta-analyses – Kevin Whelan – Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Review: Prebiotic effects of plant-derived (poly)phenols on host metabolism: Is there a role for short-chain fatty acids? – Perla Lopes de Freitas – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Animal Microbiome

Unveiling biogeographic patterns in the worldwide distributed Ceratitis capitata (medfly) using populations genomics and microbiome composition – María Belén Arias – Molecular Ecology

Differential oral microbiome in nonhuman primates from periodontitis susceptible and resistant matrilines – Jeffrey L Ebersole – Molecular Oral Microbiology

Chicken jejunal microbiota improves growth performance by mitigating intestinal inflammation – Xiaolong Zhang – Microbiome

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Comparison Analysis of Different DNA Extraction Methods on Suitability for Long-Read Metagenomic Nanopore Sequencing – Lei Zhang – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

KOMB: K-core based de novo characterization of copy number variation in microbiomes – Advait Balaji – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

CASPER: An Integrated Software Platform for Rapid Development of CRISPR Tools – Brian Mendoza – The CRISPR Journal

Integrating Choline and Specific Intestinal Microbiota to Classify Type 2 Diabetes in Adults: A Machine Learning Based Metagenomics Study – Qiang Zeng – Frontiers in Endocrinology

July 12, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Metagenomic prediction of antimicrobial resistance in critically ill patients with lower respiratory tract infections – Paula Hayakawa Serpa – Genome Medicine

Alterations in gut microbiota of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients – Man Kit Cheung – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Altered Pattern of Immunoglobulin A-Targeted Microbiota in Inflammatory Bowel Disease After Fecal Transplantation – Wen-Qi Huang – Frontiers in Microbiology

16S rRNA gene sequencing reveals an altered composition of gut microbiota in children with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia treated with azithromycin – Qiong Deng – The Journal of General and Applied Microbiology

Clinical and metagenomic profiling of hormonal acne-prone skin in different populations – Nina Hrapovic – Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology

Microbiota diversity in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and in drug-induced liver injury – Cristina Rodriguez-Diaza – Pharmacological Research

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: The potential role of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics in adjuvant cancer therapy especially colorectal cancer – Zahoor Alam – Journal of Food Biochemistry

Review: Probiotics, prebiotics and postbiotics for better sleep quality: a narrative review – J E Haarhuis – Beneficial Microbes

Review: Gut Microbiota: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Parkinson’s Disease – Manlian Zhu – Frontiers in Immunology

Animal Model Microbiome

Obesity enriches for tumor protective microbial metabolites and treatment refractory cells to confer therapy resistance in PDAC – Kousik Kesh – Gut Microbes

Profiling of d-alanine production by the microbial isolates of rat gut microbiota – Cindy J. Lee – The FASEB Journal

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Within-community variation of interspecific divergence patterns in passerine gut microbiota – Jan Kubovčiak – Ecology and Evolution

Bacteriophages

Phage defence by deaminase-mediated depletion of deoxynucleotides in bacteria – Brian Y. Hsueh – Nature Microbiology

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Preprint: CheckM2: a rapid, scalable and accurate tool for assessing microbial genome quality using machine learning – Alex Chklovski – biorXiv

Cancer type classification using plasma cell-free RNAs derived from human and microbes – Shanwen Chen – eLife

Temporal Alignment of Longitudinal Microbiome Data – Ran Armoni – Frontiers in Microbiology

A Bottom-up Approach to Testing Hypotheses That Have a Branching Tree Dependence Structure, with Error Rate Control – Yunxiao Li – Journal of the American Statistical Association

July 9, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Review: Bladder cancer, inflammageing and microbiomes – Austin Martin – Nature Reviews. Urology

Review: Gut associated metabolites and their roles in Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis – Andrea Martinez Aguirre – Gut Microbes

Oral and gut dysbiosis leads to functional alterations in Parkinson’s disease – Sungyang Jo – NPJ Parkinson’s Disease

Transcriptional programming in a Bacteroides consortium – Brian D Huang – Nature Communications

Gut microbiota composition in colorectal cancer patients is genetically regulated – Francesca Colombo – Scientific Reports

Relative contributions of the host genome, microbiome, and environment to the metabolic profile – Kangjin Kim – Genes & Genomics

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Effects of probiotic Lactiplantibacillus plantarum IMC 510 supplementation on metabolic factors in otherwise healthy overweight and obese individuals – Maria Magdalena Coman – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Grape seed and skin extract, a potential prebiotic with anti-obesity effect through gut microbiota modulation – Mohamed Mokrani – Gut Pathogens

Lactobacillus acidophilus LA85 ameliorates cyclophosphamide-induced immunosuppression by modulating Notch and TLR4/NF-κB signal pathways and remodeling the gut microbiota – Liangyu Xue – Food & Function

Animal Model Microbiome

Transplantation of bacteriophages from ulcerative colitis patients shifts the gut bacteriome and exacerbates the severity of DSS colitis – Anshul Sinha – Microbiome

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Rickettsia helvetica infection is associated with microbiome modulation in Ixodes ricinus collected from humans in Serbia – Apolline Maitre – Scientific Reports

Environmental Microbiome

Microplastic exposure across trophic levels: effects on the host-microbiota of freshwater organisms – Javier Edo Varg – Environmental Microbiome

Estuarine plastisphere as an overlooked source of N(2)O production – Xiaoxuan Su – Nature Communications

Uncovering Hidden Members and Functions of the Soil Microbiome Using De Novo Metaproteomics – Joon-Yong Lee – Journal of Proteome Research

Other

Privacy Risks in Microbiome Research: Public Perspectives before and during a Global Pandemic – Andrea Shin – Ethics & Human Research

Bioinformatics and Experimental Microbiome Analysis

Review: Metagenomics Approaches to Investigate the Neonatal Gut Microbiome – Zakia Boudar – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Editorial: Before you go: a packing list for portable DNA sequencing of microbiomes and metagenomes – Arwyn Edwards – Microbiology

A Bayesian method for identifying associations between response variables and bacterial community composition – Adrian Verster – PLoS Computational Biology

GenBank as a Source to Monitor and Analyze Host-Microbiome Data – Vivek Ramanan – Bioinformatics

Phylogenies of the 16S rRNA gene and its hypervariable regions lack concordance with core genome phylogenies – Hayley B Hassler – Microbiome

July 8, 2022

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A selection of some great microbiome research and I’ve highlighted some resources for spatial transcriptomics for my non-microbiome picks.

General microbiome

Host control and the evolution of cooperation in host microbiomes – Sharp & Foster. Nature Communications

Effect of Helicobacter pylori Eradication on Gastric Cancer Prevention: Updated Report From a Randomized Controlled Trial With 26.5 Years of Follow-up – Yan et al. Gastroenterology

Gut microbiome

Antibiotic exposure prevents acquisition of beneficial metabolic functions in the preterm infant gut microbiome – Xu et al. Microbiome

Long-Term Effects of Developmental Exposure to Oxycodone on Gut Microbiota and Relationship to Adult Behaviors and Metabolism – Lyu et al. mSystems

Biogeographic variation and functional pathways of the gut microbiota in celiac disease – Constante et al. Gastroenterology.

Animal experiments

Akkermansia muciniphila prevents cold-related atrial fibrillation in rats by modulation of TMAO induced cardiac pyroptosis – Luo et al. eBioMedicine

Diet and feeding pattern modulate diurnal dynamics of the ileal microbiome and transcriptome – Machado et al. Cell Reports.

Virome

Gut virome profiling identifies a widespread bacteriophage family associated with metabolic syndrome – Jonge et al. Nature Communications

Respiratory microbiome

Host lung microbiota promotes malaria-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome – Mukherjee et al. Nature Communications

Bioinformatics

Super-taxon in human microbiome are identified to be associated with colorectal cancer – Dai et al. BMC Bioinformatics

Non-microbiome picks

As spatial transcriptomics grows in popularity you might be interested in some recent reviews & examples of the technology in use

An introduction to spatial transcriptomics for biomedical research – Williams et al. Genome Medicine

Deciphering tissue structure and function using spatial transcriptomics – Walker et al. Communications biology

Method of the Year: spatially resolved transcriptomics – Marx. Nature Methods

Spatiotemporal transcriptomic atlas of mouse organogenesis using DNA nanoball-patterned arrays – Chen et al. Cell (The recent famous Cell cover using Stereo-Seq)

Museum of spatial transcriptomics – Moses & Pachter. Nature Methods

July 5, 2022

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Highlights!

A volatile from the skin microbiota of flavivirus-infected hosts promotes mosquito attractiveness – Hong Zhang – Cell → The production of acetophenone, a potent attractant for mosquitoes, is induced by Flavivirus by a microbiota-based mechanism. This finding shows an interesting example of the interplay between certain viral agents and the microbiota to influence host susceptibility to interact with other species. 

Human and General Microbiome

Dynamic Alterations in the Respiratory Tract Microbiota of Patients with COVID-19 and its Association with Microbiota in the Gut – Yifei Shen – Advanced Science

Interaction of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids with host CD36 genetic variant for gut microbiome and blood lipids in human cohorts – Zelei Miao – Clinical Nutrition 

A weight-loss model based on baseline microbiota and genetic scores for selection of dietary treatments in overweight and obese population – Amanda Cuevas-Sierra – Clinical Nutrition

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Restoration of cefixime-induced gut microbiota changes by a prebiotic blend in a mouse model – Jingyi Yuan – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

A synbiotics, long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, and milk fat globule membranes supplemented formula modulates microbiota maturation and neurodevelopment – Tomás Cerdó – Clinical Nutrition

Animal Model Microbiome

Multi-omics data reveals the disturbance of glycerophospholipid metabolism caused by disordered gut microbiota in depressed mice – Tian Tian – Journal of Advanced Research

C-section increases cecal abundance of the archetypal bile acid and glucocorticoid modifying Lachnoclostridium [clostridium] scindens in mice – Sean H Adams – Physiological Reports

A single respiratory tract infection early in life reroutes healthy microbiome development and affects adult metabolism in a preclinical animal model – Soner Yildiz – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Microbiota mediated plasticity promotes thermal adaptation in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis – Laura Baldassarre – Nature Communications

Dysbiosis and Predicted Functions of the Dental Biofilm of Dairy Goats with Periodontitis – Ana Carolina Borsanelli – Microbial Ecology

Houseflies harbor less diverse microbiota under laboratory conditions but maintain a consistent set of host-associated bacteria – Anna Voulgari-Kokota – Scientific Reports

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Salinity Influences Endophytic Bacterial Communities in Rice Roots from the Indian Sundarban Area – Gargi Das – Current Microbiology

Routes and rates of bacterial dispersal impact surface soil microbiome composition and functioning – Kendra E Walters – The ISME Journal

Leaf bacterial microbiota response to flooding is controlled by plant phenology in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) – Davide Francioli – Scientific Reports

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

MB-SupCon: Microbiome-based predictive models via Supervised Contrastive Learning – Sen Yang – Journal of Molecular Biology

July 2, 2022

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Highlights!

Priority effects shape the structure of infant-type Bifidobacterium communities on human milk oligosaccharides – Miriam N. Ojima – The ISME Journal → this paper contributes to the understanding of the configuration of different bifidobacteria in response to human milk oligosaccharides. 

Genomes of six viruses that infect Asgard archaea from deep-sea sediments – Ian M. Rambo – Nature Microbiology →By using metagenomics, authors describe six relatively large viral genomes, capable to infect members of the Asgard superphylum. The paper remarks on the strange features found in those viral genomes.

TLR4 regulates RORγt+ regulatory T-cell responses and susceptibility to colon inflammation through interaction with Akkermansia muciniphila – Yaojiang Liu – Microbiome → This article demonstrates the existence of “a novel protective role of TLR4 against intestinal inflammation, wherein it can modulate A. muciniphila-associated immune responses”. 

Human and General Microbiome

Review: The microbiome and gut homeostasis – Jee-Yon Lee – Science 

Review: The role of microbiome: a novel insight into urolithiasis – Sen-Yuan Hong – Critical Reviews in Microbiology

Review: Symbiosis: the other cells in development – Tyler J Carrier – Development 

Dysbiosis of the Gut Microbiome Is Associated With Histopathology of Lung Cancer – Xiong Qin – Frontiers in Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Perspective: Leveraging the Gut Microbiota to Predict Personalized Responses to Dietary, Prebiotic, and Probiotic Interventions – Sean M Gibbons – Advances in Nutrition

Akkermansia muciniphila Alters Gut Microbiota and Immune System to Improve Cardiovascular Diseases in Murine Model – Xin He – Frontiers in Microbiology

Impact of probiotics use on clinical outcomes of immune checkpoint inhibitors therapy in cancer patients – Luying Wan – Cancer Medicine

Review: The gut microbiome as possible mediator of the beneficial effects of very low calorie ketogenic diet on type 2 diabetes and obesity: a narrative review – G Defeudis – Eating and Weight Disorders

Animal Microbiome

The coral pathogen Vibrio coralliilyticus kills non-pathogenic holobiont competitors by triggering prophage induction – Weiquan Wang – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Milk microbiomes of three great ape species vary among host species and over time – Sally L Bornbusch – Scientific Reports

Plant Microbiome

Fungal microbiome shifts on avocado fruit associated with a combination of postharvest chemical and physical interventions – Malick Bill – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Review: Priorities for ocean microbiome research – the Tara Ocean Foundation – Nature Microbiology

Microbiome Analysis Techniques and Tools

Protocol for correlation analysis of the murine gut microbiome and meta-metabolome using 16S rDNA sequencing and UPLC-MS – Xiaoqing Li – STAR Protocols

microbiomeMarker: an R/Bioconductor package for microbiome marker identification and visualization – Yang Cao – Bioinformatics

June 25, 2022

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Highlights!

Microbiome-associated human genetic variants impact phenome-wide disease risk – Robert H George Markowitz – PNAS → In this paper, the use of an integrative framework of case-control studies and extensive health records, authors could find associations between microbiome-associated variants (MAVs) and different phenotypes associated with human diseases.

Functional changes of the gastric bypass microbiota reactivate thermogenic adipose tissue and systemic glucose control via intestinal FXR-TGR5 crosstalk in diet-induced obesity – Julia Münzker – Microbiome → This study presents evidence for the role of the gut microbiome in the weight loss and metabolic success of gastric bypass surgery. The increment of taurine-conjugated bile acid species can activate systemic TGR5 signaling to stimulate adaptive thermogenesis, with consequences on the host metabolism.

Human and General Microbiome

Human gut microbiota composition and its predicted functional properties in people with western and healthy dietary patterns – Anna M Malinowska – European Journal of Nutrition

Identification and Characterization of Major Bile Acid 7α-Dehydroxylating Bacteria in the Human Gut – Kyung Hyun Kim – mSystems

Characteristics and interplay of esophageal microbiota in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma – Zheng Lin – BMC Cancer

Interactions among the mycobiome, bacteriome, inflammation, and diet in people living with HIV – María José Gosalbes – Gut Microbes

Disentangling the relationship of gut microbiota, functional gastrointestinal disorders and autism: a case-control study on prepubertal Chinese boys – Oscar W H Wong – Scientific Reports

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Dietary supplementation with biogenic selenium nanoparticles alleviate oxidative stress-induced intestinal barrier dysfunction – Lei Qiao – NPJ Science of Food

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Glyphosate-based herbicide exposure: effects on gill microbiota of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and the aquatic bacterial ecosystem – Laure Bellec – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Social microbiota and social gland gene expression of worker honey bees by age and climate – Kirk E Anderson – Scientific Reports

Comparative evaluation of fish larval preservation methods on microbiome profiles to aid in metagenomics research – T G Sumithra – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Concept: Inter-individual variation in parasite manipulation of host phenotype: a role for parasite microbiomes? – Robert Poulin – The Journal of Animal Ecology

Environmental Microbiome

Review: A Comprehensive Insight of Current and Future Challenges in Large-Scale Soil Microbiome Analyses – Jean Legeay – Microbial Ecology

The influence of bioclimate on soil microbial communities of cork oak – Daniela Costa – BMC Microbiology

Techniques

Liposome Delivery of Nucleic Acids in Bacteria: Toward In Vivo Labeling of Human Microbiota – Luís Moreira – ACS Infectious Diseases

Other

Recurrent neural networks enable design of multifunctional synthetic human gut microbiome dynamics – Mayank Baranwal – eLife

June 20, 2022

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Highlights!

Dynamic metabolic interactions and trophic roles of human gut microbes identified using a minimal microbiome exhibiting ecological properties – Sudarshan A Shetty – The ISME Journal → This study shows the experimental setting of a minimal microbiome composed of 16 bacterial species, characterizing their metabolic relationships, dynamics, and stability.  

Integrated Microbiome and Host Transcriptome Profiles Link Parkinson’s Disease to Blautia Genus: Evidence From Feces, Blood, and Brain – Xingzhi Guo – Frontiers in Microbiology → Members of Blautia, a relatively common genus in the human gut, was “consistently depleted across feces, blood, and brain samples of PD patients”. This study suggests a link between Blautia and PD.

Human and General Microbiome

A Microbiota-Dependent Response to Anticancer Treatment in an In Vitro Human Microbiota Model: A Pilot Study With Hydroxycarbamide and Daunorubicin – Claire Amaris Hobson – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Examination of host genetic effects on nasal microbiome composition – Haritz Irizar – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Kimchi improves irritable bowel syndrome: results of a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study – Hee-Young Kim – Food & Nutrition Research

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Aging gut microbiota of wild macaques are equally diverse, less stable, but progressively personalized – Baptiste Sadoughi – Microbiome

Model Animal Microbiome

Sodium alginate and galactooligosaccharides ameliorate metabolic disorders and alter the composition of the gut microbiota in mice with high-fat diet-induced obesity – Yao Li – International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Plant Microbiome

From the bacterial citrus microbiome to the selection of potentially host-beneficial microbes – Ramón Penyalver – New Biotechnology

Review: Microbiome engineering for sustainable agriculture: using synthetic biology to enhance nitrogen metabolism in plant-associated microbes – Sang-Woo Han – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Microbiome assembly in thawing permafrost and its feedbacks to climate – Jessica G Ernakovich – Global Change Biology

Other

Rapid sourdough yeast identification using panfungal PCR combined with high resolution melting analysis – Olga Bazalová – Journal of Microbiological Methods

June 18, 2022

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Have a nice weekend! Today, in this Digest: The effect of the gut dysbiosis on prostate cancer, microbial inheritance, bee microbiome, rhizosphere microbiota, a comparison of DNA isolation techniques for deep amplicon sequencing, and more…

Human and General Microbiome

Gut dysbiosis promotes prostate cancer progression and docetaxel resistance via activating NF-κB-IL6-STAT3 axis – Weibo Zhong – Microbiome

On the effect of inheritance of microbes in commensal microbiomes – Román Zapién-Campos – BMC Ecology and Evolution

Ureaplasma and Prevotella colonization with Lactobacillus abundance during pregnancy facilitates term birth – Sunwha Park – Scientific Reports

Deep Grouping Analysis of the Altered Cervical Canal Microbiota in Intrauterine Adhesion Patients – Xiangdong Hua – Reproductive Sciences

Intestinal microbiota transplantation: do not forget the metabolites – Benjamin H Mullish – The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Characterization of oral and gut microbiome and plasma metabolomics in COVID-19 patients after 1-year follow-up – Guang-Ying Cui – Military Medical Research

Congenitally underdeveloped intestine drives autism-related gut microbiota and behavior – Jie Li – Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus HA-114 improves eating behaviors and mood-related factors in adults with overweight during weight loss: a randomized controlled trial – Béatrice S-Y Choi – Nutritional Neuroscience

Model Animal Microbiome

New Strains of Akkermansia muciniphila and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii are Effective for Improving the Muscle Strength of Mice with Immobilization-Induced Muscular Atrophy – Hye Rim Byeon – Journal of Medicinal food

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Comparative metagenomics reveals expanded insights into intra- and interspecific variation among wild bee microbiomes – Wyatt A Shell – Communications Biology

Rumen multi-omics addressing diet-host-microbiome interplay in farm animals: a review – Sonam Dixit – Animal Biotechnology

Plant Microbiome

Spatio-temporal variation in the root-associated microbiota of orchard-grown apple trees – Maximilian Fernando Becker – Environmental Microbiome

Identifying plant genes shaping microbiota composition in the barley rhizosphere – Carmen Escudero-Martinez – Nature Communications

Disentangling the genetic basis of rhizosphere microbiome assembly in tomato – Ben O Oyserman – Nature Communications

Environmental Microbiome

Rapid changes in coastal ocean microbiomes uncoupled with shifts in environmental variables – Jessica L Gronniger – Environmental Microbiology

Microplastics alter nitrous oxide production and pathways through affecting microbiome in estuarine sediments – Cheng Chen – Water Research

500 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from 30 subtropical estuaries in South China – Lei Zhou – Scientific Data

Food Microbiome

Microbiome and -omics application in food industry – Ilario Ferrocino – International Journal of Food Microbiology

Bioinformatic and Experimental Microbiome Analysis

A comparison of six DNA extraction protocols for 16S, ITS and shotgun metagenomic sequencing of microbial communities – Justin P Shaffer – BioTechniques

Review: Machine Learning Advances in Microbiology: A Review of Methods and Applications – Yiru Jiang – Frontiers in Microbiology