Tag Archives: Plant microbiome

May 29, 2023

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Highlights!

Particular genomic and virulence traits associated with preterm infant-derived toxigenic Clostridium perfringens strains – Raymond Kiu – Nature Microbiology

Detailed mapping of Bifidobacterium strain transmission from mother to infant via a dual culture-based and metagenomic approach – Conor Feehily – Nature Communications

Human and General Microbiome

Expanding the repertoire of counterselection markers for markerless gene deletion in the human gut bacterium Phocaeicola vulgatus – André Neff – Anaerobe

Gut microbiota, circulating inflammatory markers and metabolites, and carotid artery atherosclerosis in HIV infection – Zheng Wang – Microbiome

Symbiotic microbiome Staphylococcus epidermidis restricts IL-33 production in allergic nasal epithelium via limiting the cellular necroptosis – Yung Jin Jeon – BMC Microbiology

Gut microbiome associated with low anterior resection syndrome after rectal cancer surgery – Min Jung Kim – Scientific Reports

Metabolomics Reveals Gut Microbiota Contribute to PPARα Deficiency-Induced Alcoholic Liver Injury – Ting Zhang – Journal of Proteome Research

Following your gut: the emerging role of the gut microbiota in predicting and treating immune-related adverse events – Antoine Desilets – Current Opinion in Oncology

Respiratory eukaryotic virome expansion and bacteriophage deficiency characterize childhood asthma – Spyridon Megremis – Scientific Reports

The causal links between gut microbiota and COVID-19: A Mendelian randomization study – Jukun Song – Journal of Medical Virology

The Sexome – A proof of concept study into microbial transfer between heterosexual couples after sexual intercourse – Ruby Dixon – Forensic Science International

A systematic review of the protein composition of whole saliva in subjects with healthy periodontium compared with chronic periodontitis – Ana G Sánchez-Medrano – PloS ONE

Microbiome, Food and Diet

Metagenomic analysis and antibacterial activity of kefir microorganisms – Brianda D González-Orozco – Journal of Food Science

Fecal Metabolites as Biomarkers for Predicting Food Intake by Healthy Adults – Leila M Shinn – The Journal of Nutrition

More Microbes

Taxonogenomics of Culturomica massiliensis gen. nov., sp. nov., and Emergencia timonensis gen. nov., sp. nov. new bacteria isolated from human stool microbiota – Afaf Hamame – Scientific Reports

Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiome signatures of extreme environment adaption in Tibetan pig – Fangfang Zhao – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Holobiont Evolution: Population Theory for the Hologenome – Joan Roughgarden – The American Naturalist

Plant Microbiome

Integration of Phenotypes in Microbiome Networks for Designing Synthetic Communities: a Study of Mycobiomes in the Grafted Tomato System – Ravin Poudel – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Root Niches of Blueberry Imprint Increasing Bacterial-Fungal Interkingdom Interactions along the Soil-Rhizosphere-Root Continuum – Jilu Che – Microbiology Spectrum

Bioinformatics, Microbiome Analysis and Techniques

MDM-Pred: a freely available web application for predicting the metabolism of drug-like compounds by the gut microbiota – A S Kolodnitsky – SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research

HONMF: integration analysis of multi-omics microbiome data via matrix factorization and hypergraph – Yuanyuan Ma – Bioinformatics 

Bayesian compositional regression with microbiome features via variational inference – Darren A V Scott – BMC Bioinformatics

The Pathfinder plasmid toolkit for genetically engineering newly isolated bacteria enables the study of Drosophila-colonizing Orbaceae – Katherine M Elston – ISME Communications

Review: Unravelling animal-microbiota evolution on a chip – Ostaizka Aizpurua – Trends in Microbiology

March 13, 2023

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Human and General Microbiome

Dysbiosis of a microbiota-immune metasystem in critical illness is associated with nosocomial infections – Jared Schlechte – Nature Medicine

Altered infective competence of the human gut microbiome in COVID-19 – Laura de Nies – Microbiome

Impact of high altitude on composition and functional profiling of oral microbiome in Indian male population – Manisha Kumari – Scientific Reports

Incidence of Breast Cancer and Enterococcus Infection: A Retrospective Analysis – Matthew Cardeiro – World Journal of Oncology

Multi-omics studies in interpreting the evolving standard model for immune functions – Dipyaman Ganguly – Briefings in Functional Genomics

Understanding the bacterial compositional network associations between oral and gut microbiome within healthy Koreans – Jinuk Jeong – Journal of oral Microbiology

A transcriptomic insight into the human sperm microbiome through next-generation sequencing – Celia Corral-Vazquez – Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Metformin alleviates liver fibrosis in mice by enriching Lactobacillus sp. MF-1 in the gut microbiota – Tao Yang – Biochimica et Biophysica Acta

Animal Microbiome

Microbiota alters the metabolome in an age- and sex- dependent manner in mice – Kirsty Brown – Nature Communications

IL-22 alters gut microbiota composition and function to increase aryl hydrocarbon receptor activity in mice and humans – Jordan S Mar – Microbiome

Decreased Paneth cell α-defensins promote fibrosis in a choline-deficient L-amino acid-defined high-fat diet-induced mouse model of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis via disrupting intestinal microbiota – Shunta Nakamura – Scientific Reports

Plant Microbiome

Microbiota and functional analyses of nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root-knot nematode parasitism of plants – Ye Li – Microbiome

Non-volatile metabolites mediating plant interactions with insect herbivores – Mei Luo – The Plant Journal

Comparative metagenomic analysis reveals rhizosphere microbial community composition and functions help protect grapevines against salt stress – Bo Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Emerging Pathways for Engineering the Rhizosphere Microbiome for Optimal Plant Health – Shengdie Yang – Journal of Agricultural and food Chemistry

Microbiome Analysis: Tools and Techniques

A bayesian zero-inflated dirichlet-multinomial regression model for multivariate compositional count data – Matthew D Koslovsky – Biometrics

Determining the most accurate 16S rRNA hypervariable region for taxonomic identification from respiratory samples – Ruben López-Aladid – Scientific Reports

September 3, 2022

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Highlights!!!

A compendium of 32,277 metagenome-assembled genomes and over 80 million genes from the early-life human gut microbiome – Shuqin Zeng – Nature Communications → Authors presented and described the main features of the  Early-Life Gut Genomes (ELGG) catalog: a dataset of 32,277 genomes representing 2172 species from 6122 fecal metagenomes collected from children under 3-years old from different regions.

A previously uncharacterized O-glycopeptidase from Akkermansia muciniphila requires the Tn-antigen for cleavage of the peptide bond – Brendon J Medley – The Journal of Biological Chemistry → AMUC_1438, a previously uncharacterized gene from A. muciniphila, encodes an O-glycopeptidase with mucin degrading capacity. This article shows relevant aspects of its enzymatic function. 

Lactic acid from vaginal microbiota enhances cervicovaginal epithelial barrier integrity by promoting tight junction protein expression – David Jose Delgado-Diaz – Microbiome → metaproteomic analysis on vaginal swab samples and transcriptomics analysis of cervicovaginal epithelial cell cultures showed that lactic acid, a commonly produced metabolite by the vaginal lactobacilli, is capable of enhancing genital epithelial barrier integrity; this microbial feature may help prevent invasion by sexually transmitted pathogens.

Human and General Microbiome

Review: A Perspective of the Urinary Microbiome in Lower Urinary Tract Infections – A Review – Rigoberto Pallares-Mendez – Current Urology Reports

Review: Methanogenic archaea in the human gastrointestinal tract – Christoph Hoegenauer – Nature Reviews. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Meta-analysis of caries microbiome studies can improve upon disease prediction outcomes – Mark C Butcher – APMIS

Metagenomes of rectal swabs in larger, advanced stage cervical cancers have enhanced mucus degrading functionalities and distinct taxonomic structure – Tatiana V Karpinets – BMC Cancer

Horizontal gene transfer enables programmable gene stability in synthetic microbiota – Teng Wang – Nature Chemical Biology

A Multiscale Spatiotemporal Model Including a Switch from Aerobic to Anaerobic Metabolism Reproduces Succession in the Early Infant Gut Microbiota – David M Versluis – mSystems

Gut microbiome dysbiosis is associated with increased mortality after solid organ transplantation – J Casper Swarte – Science Translational Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Intestinal Microbiomics and Metabolomics Insights into the Hepatoprotective Effects of Lactobacillus paracasei CCFM1222 Against the Acute Liver Injury in Mice – Weiling Guo – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

An Alternative Oat-Containing Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Food Does Not Alter Intestinal Permeability or the 16S rRNA Fecal Microbiome Configuration Among Children With Severe Malnutrition in Sierra Leone: A Randomized Controlled Trial – D Taylor Hendrixson – The Journal of Nutrition

Study on the Effect of Molecular Weight on the Gut Microbiota Fermentation Properties of Blackberry Polysaccharides In Vitro – Qiao-Yun Li – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Animal Model Microbiome

Tissue-wide metabolomics reveals wide impact of gut microbiota on mice metabolite composition – Iman Zarei – Scientific Reports

Gut microbiota mediates the inhibition of lymphopoiesis in dietary-restricted mice by suppressing glycolysis – Si Tao – Gut Microbes

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Limited microbiome differences in captive and semi-wild primate populations consuming similar diets – Sahana Kuthyar – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome – Kathrin Busch – Nature Communications

Strain-level profiling with picodroplet microfluidic cultivation reveals host-specific adaption of honeybee gut symbionts – Yujie Meng – Microbiome

Mucin O-glycan-microbiota axis orchestrates gut homeostasis in a diarrheal pig model – Bing Xia – Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Stressful, isolated, yet diverse: Green roofs have rich microbiomes that are not dominated by oligotrophic taxa – Antoine Hénault – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Nodulation and nitrogen fixation in Medicago truncatula strongly alters the abundance of its root microbiota and subtly affects its structure – Andrzej Tkacz – Environmental Microbiology

Bioinformatic Tools and Microbiome Analysis Techniques

Gut bacterial nutrient preferences quantified in vivo – Xianfeng Zeng – Cell

Metric learning for comparing genomic data with triplet network – Zhi Ma – Briefings in Bioinformatics

STENSL: Microbial Source Tracking with ENvironment SeLection – Ulzee An – mSystems

Review: Emerging microfluidic technologies for microbiome research – Yue Yu – Frontiers in Microbiology

August 13, 2022

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Human and General Microbiome

Integrated metagenomic and metabolomic analysis reveals distinct gut-microbiome-derived phenotypes in early-onset colorectal cancer – Cheng Kong – Gut

A decrease in functional microbiomes represented as Faecalibacterium affects immune homeostasis in long-term stable liver transplant patients – Soon Kyu Lee – Gut Microbes

Longitudinal study of the vaginal microbiome in pregnancies involving preterm labor – Yoshiko Sakabe – Fujita Medical Journal

Oral microbiome and serological analyses on association of Alzheimer’s disease and periodontitis – Kuan-Lun Fu – Oral Diseases

Review: Ultra-processed foods and human health: from epidemiological evidence to mechanistic insights – Bernard Srour – The Lancet. Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Beneficial Microbes, Compounds and Interventions

Dietary Fiber Modulates the Release of Gut Bacterial Products Preventing Cognitive Decline in an Alzheimer’s Mouse Model – Daniel Cuervo-Zanatta – Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Functional and safety characterization of beneficial vaginal lactic acid bacteria for the design of vaginal hygiene products – Jessica Alejandra Silva – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Butyrate-producing Eubacterium rectale suppresses lymphomagenesis by alleviating the TNF-induced TLR4/MyD88/NF-κB axis – Haiyang Lu – Cell host & Microbe

Review: The double-edged sword of probiotic supplementation on gut microbiota structure in Helicobacter pylori management – Ali Nabavi-Rad – Gut Microbes

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Functional Redundancy in Bat Microbial Assemblage in the Presence of the White Nose Pathogen – Matthew Grisnik – Microbial Ecology

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs caused an outbreak of inflammation and oxidative stress with changes in the gut microbiota in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) – N Hodkovicova – The Science of the Total Environment

Bees under interactive stressors: The novel insecticides flupyradifurone and sulfoxaflor along with the fungicide azoxystrobin disrupt the gut microbiota of honey bees and increase opportunistic bacterial pathogens – Yahya Al Naggar – The Science of the Total Environment

Plant Microbiome

Host genotype controls ecological change in the leaf fungal microbiome – Acer VanWallendael – PLoS Biology

Suaeda salsa Root-Associated Microorganisms Could Effectively Improve Maize Growth and Resistance under Salt Stress – Yongdong Wang – Microbiology Spectrum

Review: Regulation of immune complex formation and signalling by FERONIA, a busy goddess in plant-microbe interactions – Zhikun Duan – Molecular Plant Pathology

Food Microbiome

A systematic, complexity-reduction approach to dissect the kombucha tea microbiome – Xiaoning Huang – eLife

Bioinformatic Tools and Microbiome Analysis Techniques

ProbeTools: designing hybridization probes for targeted genomic sequencing of diverse and hypervariable viral taxa – Kevin S Kuchinski – BMC Genomics

A machine learning framework for discovery and enrichment of metagenomics metadata from open access publications – Maaly Nassar – GigaScience

MetaProClust-MS1: an MS1 Profiling Approach for Large-Scale Microbiome Screening – Caitlin M A Simopoulos – mSystems

December 17, 2021

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Human and General Microbiome

Association of microbial dynamics with urinary estrogens and estrogen metabolites in patients with endometriosis – Nhung Le – PloS ONE

Gut Microbiome in Probable Intestinal Tuberculosis and Changes following Anti-Tuberculosis Treatment – Hyuk Yoon – Yonsei Medical Journal

Uncovering the Role of Gut Microbiota in Amino Acid Metabolic Disturbances in Heart Failure Through Metagenomic Analysis – Tomohiro Hayashi – Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Cerebrospinal Fluid from Healthy Pregnant Women Does Not Harbor a Detectable Microbial Community – Yongyong Kang – Microbiology Spectrum

Stability of healthy subgingival microbiome across space and time – Ryan Tamashiro – Scientific Reports

Successional Stages in Infant Gut Microbiota Maturation – Leen Beller – mBio

Colonization of gut microbiota by plasmid-carrying bacteria is facilitated by evolutionary adaptation to antibiotic treatment – Peng Zhang – The ISME Journal

Bacterial vaginosis and health-associated bacteria modulate the immunometabolic landscape in 3D model of human cervix – Paweł Łaniewski – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Acute malnutrition and its determinants of preschool children in Bangladesh: gender differentiation – Md Reazul Karim – BMC Pediatrics

SARS-CoV-2 infection reduces human nasopharyngeal commensal microbiome with inclusion of pathobionts – M Nazmul Hoque – Scientific Reports

Gut Mycobiota Dysbiosis in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Undergoing Anti-Tuberculosis Treatment – Demin Cao – Microbiology Spectrum

Prevotella illustrans sp. nov., derived from human oropharyngeal abscess puncture fluid – Michael E J Buhl – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Human and General Microbiome – Reviews

Review: The Role of Gut Microbiota and Genetic Susceptibility in the Pathogenesis of Pancreatitis – Fumin Xu – Gut and Liver

Review: Transcript host-RNA signatures to discriminate bacterial and viral infections in febrile children – Danilo Buonsenso – Pediatric Research

Review: The role of anaerobic bacteria in the development and prevention of colorectal cancer: A review study – Mehrdad Mohammadi – Anaerobe

Review: Lung microbiome, gut-lung axis and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – Kuppan Gokulan – Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine

Systematic review: Gut microbiota modulation as a possible mediating mechanism for fasting-induced alleviation of metabolic complications: a systematic review – Pooneh Angoorani – Nutrition & Metabolism

Systematic review: The relation between the gut microbiome and osteoarthritis: A systematic review of literature – Emanuele Chisari – PloS ONE

Outlook: Ovarian cancer and the microbiome: a complex relationship – Julianna Photopoulos – Nature

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Oligofructose-enriched inulin intake, gut microbiome characteristics and the V̇O2peak response to high-intensity interval training in healthy inactive adults – Camilla J Williams – The Journal of Nutrition

Lactiplantibacillus plantarum DMDL 9010 alleviates dextran sodium sulfate (DSS)-induced colitis and behavioral disorders by facilitating microbiota-gut-brain axis balance – Yan-Yan Huang – Food & Function

Long-Term Effects of a Web-Based Low-FODMAP Diet Versus Probiotic Treatment for Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Including Shotgun Analyses of Microbiota: Randomized, Double-Crossover Clinical Trial – Dorit Vedel Ankersen – Journal of Medical Internet Research

Effect of dietary selenium intake on gut microbiota in older population in Enshi region – Zi-Xiong Zhang – Genes and Environment

Animal Microbiome

The bacterial biome of ticks and their wildlife hosts at the urban-wildland interface – Siobhon L Egan – Microbial Genomics

The gut microbiota of wild wintering great bustard (Otis tarda dybowskii): survey data from two consecutive years – Zhiyuan Lu – PeerJ

You are more than what you eat: potentially adaptive enrichment of microbiome functions across bat dietary niches – Melissa R Ingala – Animal Microbiome

Long-term gut microbiome dynamics in Drosophila melanogaster reveal environment-specific associations between bacterial taxa at the family level – Rupert Mazzucco – Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Biological Sciences

Plant and Fungi Microbiome

The Edible Plant Microbiome represents a diverse genetic reservoir with functional potential in the human host – Maria J Soto-Giron – Scientific Reports

Autotoxin Rg(1) Induces Degradation of Root Cell Walls and Aggravates Root Rot by Modifying the Rhizospheric Microbiome – Yanguo Xu – Microbiology Spectrum

Multitrophic Interactions Between Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi, Foliar Endophytic Fungi and Aphids – Nadia Ab Razak – Microbial Ecology

Other Microbes

Bacterial microcompartments for isethionate desulfonation in the taurine-degrading human-gut bacterium Bilophila wadsworthia – Anna G Burrichter – BMC Microbiology

Methods

Evaluation of Sample Preservation and Storage Methods for Metaproteomics Analysis of Intestinal Microbiomes – Angie Mordant – Microbiology Spectrum

Sample Processing for Metaproteomic Analysis of Human Gut Microbiota – Carmen García-Durán – Methods in Molecular Biology Enhancing Microbiome Research through Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling – Nana Y D Ankrah – mSystems

November 6, 2020

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Shalom from Israel!

While the eyes of the world are looking at the US elections results, it’s good to know that the world of microbiome research is stable and produces great scientific discoveries. So stop refreshing the news websites, grab yourself a cup of cofee and enjoy your Saturday.

Today’s digest has some great papers about memory in microboimes, factors that shapes bacterial growth, infant skin microbial communities, degraded soils restoration using self-assembly communities, songbirds microbiome, antiSMASH3 is out (!), useful youtube video for metagenome ML analysis in MATLAB and more. Reminding those of you who are intrested in agriculture-related microbioe studies to stop by and follow my bot agmicroPapers

General microbiology

Memory shapes microbial populations, Chaitanya S Gokhale , bioRxiv

Bacterial–fungal interactions revealed by genome-wide analysis of bacterial mutant fitness, Emily C. Pierce, Nature Microbiology

Environmental and Physiological Factors Affecting High-Throughput Measurements of Bacterial Growth, Esha Atolia , mBio

Human microbiome

Host variables confound gut microbiota studies of human disease, Ivan Vujkovic-Cvijin, Nature

Infant Skin Bacterial Communities Vary by Skin Site and Infant
Age across Populations in Mexico and the United States, Melissa B. Manus, mSystems

Plant and soil microbiome

Microbiome manipulation by a soil-borne fungal plant pathogen using effector proteins, Nick C. Snelders, Nature Plants

Assembly and variation of root-associated microbiota of rice during their vegetative growth phase with and without lindane pollutant, Jiayin Feng, Soil Ecology Letters

Restoring degraded microbiome function with self-assembled communities, Carlos Fernando Gutierrez Landazuri , FEMS Micro. Eco.

Multi-species relationships in legume roots: From pairwise legume-symbiont interactions to the plant – microbiome – soil continuum, Myrto Tsiknia, FEMS Micro. Eco.

Animal microbiome

Evidence supporting the microbiota–gut–brain axis in a songbird, Morgan C. Slevin, Biology Letters

Comparative Analysis of the Fecal Microbiota of Wild and Captive Beal’s Eyed Turtle (Sacalia bealei) by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing, Jonathan J. Fong , Front. Micro.

High-Throughput Cultivation for the Selective Isolation of Acidobacteria From Termite Nests, Markus Oberpaul , Front. Micro.

Bioinformatics

EUKulele: Taxonomic annotation of the unsung
eukaryotic microbes, Arianna I. Krinos, JOSS

The antiSMASH database version 3: increased taxonomic coverage and new query features for modular enzymes, Kai Blin, Nucleic Acids Research

**Youtube Video- Microbiome: How to Navigate Through Matlab to Perform Machine Learning Analysis on Metagenomics Data

**Help questionnaire! Natural Products – Data Repositories Questionnaire

October 3, 2020

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Shalom and good morning from Israel!

Today’s digest is highly diverse, with papers about naming microbes (bottom line- be creative and interesting!), human hair microbiome, the role of one single bacteria in plant growth, how phages weaponizes host bacteria and much more.

Lastly, a bit of ‘self promotion’- the lockdown in Isrel encouraged me to finally create AgrimicroPapers, a twitter-bot (using this great manual) for agriculture- and plant microbiome-realted papers. Feel free to follow and DM papers if they were missed by the bot. Enjoy!

General microbiology

Prokaryotic names: the bold and the beautiful, Aharon Oren, FEMS Micro. Letters

Human and animal microbiome

**Understanding the impact of antibiotic perturbation on the human microbiome, D.J. Schwartz, Genome Medicine

Salivary microbiome in patients undergoing hemodialysis and its associations with the duration of the dialysis, Xiaobo Duan, BMC Nephrology

Phytochemicals as modifiers of gut microbial communities, Giulia Dingedo, Food & Function

Relationship between the bacterial community structures on human hair and scalp, Kota Watanabe, Biosc. Biotech. Bioche

Pangenome sequence evolution within human gut microbiomes is explained by gene-specific rather than host-specific selective pressures, Arnaud N’Guessan, bioRxiv

Changes in dietary fiber intake in mice reveal
associations between colonic mucin Oglycosylation and specific gut bacteria, Hasinika Gamage, Gut Microbes

Gut metabolites are more predictive of disease- and cohoused- states than gut bacterial features in a mouse model of polycystic ovary syndrome, Bryan Ho, bioRxiv

Environmental microbiome

**A single bacterial genus maintains root growth in a complex microbiome, Omri Finkel, Nature

The Soil-Borne Identity and Microbiome-Assisted Agriculture: Looking Back to the Future, Peter H.A.M Bakker, Molecular Plant (Cell)

Quantification of Extracellular Proteases and Chitinases from Marine Bacteria, Yang Zou, Current Micro.

Characterization of microbial communities in commercial bee pollen used for mass rearing of Bombus impatiens,Vicente D. Moreno Andrade, J. Apicultural Research

Phages

Phages weaponize their bacteria with biosynthetic gene clusters, Anna Dragos, bioRxiv

Microbiome news

Biotechs have big ambitions for the microbiome, SFBT

Core metagenomic functions of the poultry microbiome, Poultry World

August 26, 2020

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Shalom from Israel! Today’s digest has some great review papers, as well as research articles focusing on citures disease, vaginal microbiome, gut virome and some cool bioinformatic tools.

Also, check out this great event for the soil microbilogists out there: Non-academic Careers in Soil Ecology: a virtual career panel, hosted by MSU.

Enjoy your summer holiday if you managed to get one and as always- find yourself the time to rest and re-energize.

General

**review: Compartmentalization drives the evolution of symbiotic cooperation, Guillaume Chomicki, Phil. Tran. B

Marine microbiomoe

Assessing the strength and sensitivity of the core microbiota approach on a highly diverse sponge reef, Carmen Astudillo-Garica , Env. Micro.

Plant microbiome

Cooperation, Competition, and Specialized Metabolism in a Simplified Root Nodule Microbiome, Bridget L. Hansen , mBio

Stable isotope informed genome-resolved metagenomics uncovers potential trophic interactions in rhizosphere soil, Evan P. Starr, bioRxiv

Disease-Induced Microbial Shifts in Citrus Indicate Microbiome-Derived Responses to Huanglongbing Across the Disease Severity Spectrum, Nichole A. Ginnan , Phytobiomes

Human microbiome and virome

Cervicovaginal Microbiome Composition Is Associated with Metabolic Profiles in Healthy Pregnancy, Andrew Oliver , mBio

The Gut Virome Database Reveals Age-Dependent Patterns of Virome Diversity in the Human Gut, Ann C. Gregory , Cell Host Microbe

Bioinformatics

BiG-SLiCE: A Highly Scalable Tool Maps the Diversity of 1.2 Million Biosynthetic Gene Clusters, Satria Kutsar, bioRxiv

**mini-review: Natural product discovery through microbial genome mining, Emma Kenshole, Cur. Op. Chem. Bio.

Available Benchmarking Bacterial Promoter Prediction Tools: Potentialities and Limitations, Murilo Henrique Anzolini Cassiano, mSystems

July 24, 2020

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Good afternoon all!

Today’s digest is a bit on the lighter side, nevertheless, there are some great papers to sink your teeth into.

Those with an interest in tropical diseases will want to read an investigation into the three-way relationship between humans, their microbiotas and the protozoan cause of Chagas disease.

History buffs, and fans of the epic novel ‘Romance of the Three Kingdoms’ may be interested by an analysis of the soil microbiome of the Jinsha relic, which is found at the site of the former Chinese Shu state capital.

For those more philosophically inclined, there is an interesting discussion on the impact of human space activity on the search for extra-terrestrial life. So that’s ancient history and space-age wizardry all covered in today’s rather modest digest. What more could you want?!

COVID-19

Preprint: Rapid in vitro assays for screening neutralizing antibodies and antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 – Oark et al.

Preprint: The D614G mutation in the SARS-CoV2 Spike protein increases infectivity in an ACE2 receptor dependent manner – Ogawa et al.

Preprint: Escape from neutralizing antibodies by SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants – Weisblum et al.

General microbiome

Mapping of host-parasite-microbiome interactions reveals metabolic determinants of tropism and tolerance in Chagas disease – Hossain et al. – Science Advances

Animal experiments

Host immunity and the colon microbiota of mice infected with Citrobacter rodentium are beneficially modulated by lipid-soluble extract from late-cutting alfalfa in the early stages of infection – Fries-Craft et al. – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Diversity and structure of soil microbiota of the Jinsha earthen relic – Yang et al. – PLOS One

Quantitative detection of economically important Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense strains in Africa in plants, soil and water – Matthews et al. – PLOS One

Fungi, bacteria and oomycota opportunistically isolated from the seagrass, Zostera marina – Ettinger and Eisen – PLOS One

Techniques

Majority sensing in synthetic microbial consortia – Alnahhas et al. – Nature Communications

Microbes in the news

Should we disinfect outer space?: Jenna Sutela and Sophia Roosth in conversation – Sutela and Roosth – Art in America

June 27, 2020

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Shalom from Israel and a Happy world microbiome day!

Yes, it is a true day! celebrating the huge diversity of microbes around us, above us, below us and inside us. Check the day’s official website for more information, and take the weekend to appreciate this amazing field and your own personal contribution to advancing our knowledge about microbial communities on our planet.

Personally, I did my undergrad in Ecology and Evolution, confidence that I’ll my scientific career will focus on plant ecology and distribution, or at least large animals. Microbiology classes and introduction labs bored me, and I did my best to avoid this topic. But all of a sudden, during my Master’s degree (where I worked on a pathogenicity mechanism of postharvest disease-causing bacteria), I fell in love with microbiology in general, and specific bacterial communities. The huge untapped diversity, the unbelievable functions and the amazing interactions needed to maintain a functional community of these invisible inhabitants just fascinated me. Today, as a Ph.D. student exploring secondary metabolites gene clusters in soil and root microbiome, I’m a super-fan of the bacterial world.

How did you end up being microbiome suckers? Feel free to share your stories here as a comment, on MD FB page, or directly on tweeter.

Today’s digest include several microbimoe papers of animal midels (including ‘dirty mice’), diseased tomatoes taxonomical and functional microbiome profile, AND- a sweet reminder of the pre-COVID-19 world, with an analysis of the dust microbiome of a plane (remember this vehicle?).

Human and Animal Models microbiome

**Microbial transmission in animal social networks and the social microbiome, Amar Sarkar , Nat. Eco. Evo.

Does entry to center-based childcare affect gut microbial colonization in young infants?, Gerben D. A. Hermes, Scientific Reports

Serum metabolites reflecting gut microbiome
alpha diversity predict type 2 diabetes, Cristina Menni, Gut microbes

**New Insights into the Immune System Using Dirty Mice, Sara E. Hamilton, J. Immunology.

Optimization of cerebrospinal fluid microbial metagenomic sequencing diagnostics,Josefin Olausson , bioRxiv

Sleep fragmentation increases blood pressure and is associated with alterations in the gut microbiome and fecal metabolome in rats, Katherine.Maki, Phys. Geno.

Animal microbiome

Environment Shapes the Microbiome of the Blue Orchard Bee, Osmia lignaria, Hamutahl Cohen, Microbial Ecology

The gut mycobiome of healthy mice is shaped by the environment and shapes metabolic outcomes in response to diet, Tahliyah S. Mims, bioRxiv

Microbial communities network analysis of anaerobic reactors fed with bovine and swine slurry, Eliane Cristina Gruszka Vendruscolo, Sci. Tot. Env.

Metagenomic analysis reveals significant differences in microbiome and metabolic profiles in the rumen of sheep fed low N diet with increased urea supplementation, Zhipeng Li, FEMS Micro. Eco.

Soil and Plant microbiome

Changes in Bacterial and Fungal Microbiomes Associated with Tomatoes of Healthy and Infected by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici, Xin Zhou, Microbial Ecology

Insights into drylands biocrust microbiome: geography, soil depth, and crust type affect biocrust microbial communities and networks in Mojave Desert, USA, Nuttapon Pombubpa, FEMS Micro. Eco.

Exploring the Lignin Catabolism Potential of Soil-Derived Lignocellulolytic Microbial Consortia by a Gene-Centric Metagenomic Approach, Laura Díaz-García, Microbial Ecology

Shotgun Metagenomics Of Dust Microbiome From Flight Deck And Cabin In Civil Aviation Aircraft, Yu Sun, Indoor Air

Bioinformatics

MicroNiche: an R package for assessing microbial niche breadth and overlap from amplicon sequencing data, D.R. Finn , FEMS Micro. Eco.