June 12, 2024

Human gut microbiome

Persistence and Sexual Dimorphism of Gut Dysbiosis and Pathobiome after Sepsis and Trauma – Jennifer A. Munley – Annals of Surgery

[REVIEW] COVID-19 influenced gut dysbiosis, post-acute sequelae, immune regulation, and therapeutic regimens – Sterlin T. Raj – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Novel probiotic preparation with in vivo gluten-degrading activity and potential modulatory effects on the gut microbiota – Olga Nikoloudaki – Microbiology Spectrum

Adaptation to tolerate high doses of arabinoxylan is associated with fecal levels of Bifidobacterium longum – Edward C. Deehan – Gut Microbes

Vaginal microbiome

Co-evolution of vaginal microbiome and cervical cancer – Menglu Hu – BMC Journal of Translational Medicine

Animal experiments

Establishment of a novel obesity mouse model: the induction of intestinal microbiota dysbiosis – Qiuju Li – Scientific Reports

Bacteroides uniformis CECT 7771 requires adaptive immunity to improve glucose tolerance but not to prevent body weight gain in diet-induced obese mice – Marina Romaní-Pérez – BMC MIcrobiome

Animal microbiome

Oral microbiome sequencing revealed the enrichment of Fusobacterium sp., Porphyromonas sp., Campylobacter sp., and Neisseria sp. on the oral malignant fibroma surface of giant panda – Xiaowan Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Effect of microplastics pollution on the gut microbiome of anecic and endogeic earthworms – Christina Papazlatani – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Evolutionary history of tyrosine-supplementing endosymbionts in pollen-feeding beetles – Jürgen C Wierz – ISME Journal

Compendium of 5810 genomes of sheep and goat gut microbiomes provides new insights into the glycan and mucin utilization – Ke Zhang – BMC MIcrobiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Fungal biomass and ectomycorrhizal community assessment of phosphorus responsive Pinus taeda plantations – Jacob Hackman – Frontiers in Fungal Biology

Soil conditioner improves soil properties, regulates microbial communities, and increases yield and quality of Uncaria rhynchophylla – Qian Liu – Scientific Reports

Genetic control of rhizosphere microbiome of the cotton plants under field conditions – Feng Wei – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Genomic insights into redox-driven microbial processes for carbon decomposition in thawing Arctic soils and permafrost – Yaoming Li – mSphere

Sewage Sludge Promotes the Accumulation of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Tomato Xylem – Wen-Jing Li – Environmental Science and Technology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Plastic and terrestrial organic matter degradation by the humic lake microbiome continues throughout the seasons – Jussi S. Vesamäki – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Coral microbiomes are structured by environmental gradients in deep waters – Samuel A. Vohsen – BMC Environmental Microbiome

June 9, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Divergent age-associated and metabolism-associated gut microbiome signatures modulate cardiovascular disease risk – Tiange Wang – Nature Medicine

Quantifying variation across 16S rRNA gene sequencing runs in human microbiome studies – Andrew J Hoisington – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Gut microbiome changes associated with chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer: A systematic review and Meta-analysis – Jiaze Hong – International Journal of Surgery

Gut microbial signatures of patients with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome and their healthy relatives – Jie Chen – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Two weeks of acarbose treatment show no effect on gut microbiome composition in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover study – Niels B Dalsgaard – Endocrine Connections

A conserved inhibitory interdomain interaction regulates DNA-binding activities of hybrid two-component systems in Bacteroides – Rong Gao – mBio

Multi-omics Analysis Reveals Key Gut Microbiota and Metabolites Closely Associated with Huntington’s Disease – Shu-Xia Qian – Molecular Neurobiology

Review: Unravelling the role of intratumoral bacteria in digestive system cancers: current insights and future perspectives – Weiqin Lu – Journal of Translational Medicine

Model and Non-model Animal Microbiome

Effect of microplastics pollution on the gut microbiome of anecic and endogeic earthworms – Christina Papazlatani – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Novel indigenous probiotic isolated from healthy Pacific White shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei intestine in differing stages based on metagenomic and screening approach – Sutanti Sutanti – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Citrobacter rodentium infection impairs dopamine metabolism and exacerbates the pathology of Parkinson’s disease in mice – Yongtao He – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Gut microbiota depletion delays somatic peripheral nerve development and impairs neuromuscular junction maturation – Matilde Cescon – Gut Microbes

Plant Microbiome

Review: Unravelling the impact of environmental factors in shaping plant microbiomes – Alicia Isabel Pérez-Lorente – Microbial Biotechnology

Microbiome Analysis

GROND: a quality-checked and publicly available database of full-length 16S-ITS-23S rRNA operon sequences – Calum J Walsh – Microbial Genomics

Machine learning enabled design features of antimicrobial peptides selectively targeting peri-implant disease progression – Kyle Boone – Frontiers in Dental Medicine

Review: An exploratory in silico analysis of bacteriocin gene clusters in the urobiome – Jennifer Jones – Microbiome Research Reports

June 5, 2024

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiome and inflammation among athletes in wheelchair in a crossover randomized pilot trial of probiotic and prebiotic interventions – Ezra Valido – Nature Scientific Reports

A microbiota-directed complementary food intervention in 12-18-month-old Bangladeshi children improves linear growth – Ishita Mostafa – eBioMedicine

Gut microbiome shifts in people with type 1 diabetes are associated with glycaemic control: an INNODIA study – Tommi Vatanen – Diabetologia

Association of methyl donor nutrients dietary intake and sleep disorders in the elderly revealed by the intestinal microbiome – Qianqian Chen – Food & Function

[REVIEW] The human gut microbiome and aging – Evan Bradley & John Haran – Gut Microbes

[REVIEW] Nurturing gut health: role of m6A RNA methylation in upholding the intestinal barrier – Shuaijie Wang – Cell Death Discovery

Persistent dysbiosis of duodenal microbiota in patients with controlled pediatric Crohn’s disease after resolution of inflammation – Rebecca Pierce – Nature Scientific Reports

Dysfunctional circadian clock accelerates cancer metastasis by intestinal microbiota triggering accumulation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells – Jing-Lin Liu – Cell Metabolism

Human respiratory microbiome

Longitudinal multicompartment characterization of host-microbiota interactions in patients with acute respiratory failure – Georgios D. Kitsios – Nature Communications

Lack of correlation between in vitro and within patient measures of P. aeruginosa biofilms in cystic fibrosis – Amanda J Morris – Cell Heliyon

Human oral microbiome

The oral microbiome and oral and upper gastrointestinal diseases – Sifan Liu – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Comprehensive analysis of the oral microbiota and metabolome change in patients of burning mouth syndrome with psychiatric symptoms – Shihong Luo – Journal of Oral Microbiology

Candida albicans natural diversity: a resource to dissect fungal commensalism and pathogenesis – Elena Lindemann-Perez – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Animal experiments

Prevotella copri transplantation promotes neurorehabilitation in a mouse model of traumatic brain injury – Nina Gu – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Spatial recovery of the murine gut microbiota after antibiotics perturbation – M. Taguer – mBio

Water and extremophile microbiome

Global biogeography of microbes driving ocean ecological status under climate change – Zhenyan Zhang – Nature Communications

Macroalgal eukaryotic microbiome composition indicates novel phylogenetic diversity and broad host spectrum of oomycete pathogens – Natalia Timanikova – Environmental Microbiology

Viruses & phages

Personalized bacteriophage therapy outcomes for 100 consecutive cases: a multicentre, multinational, retrospective observational study – Jean-Paul Pirnay – Nature Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Environmental and structural factors associated with bacterial diversity in household dust across the Arizona-Sonora border – Lauren D. Benton – Nature Scientific Reports

Plant, root and soil microbiome

Tibetan Plateau grasslands might increase sequestration of microbial necromass carbon under future warming – Qinwei Zhang – Nature Communications Biology

Assembly of Endophytic Communities of Setaria viridis Plants when Grown in Different Soils and Derived from Different Seeds – Carolina Escobar Rodríguez – Phytobiomes

[PREPRINT] Hybrid xyloglucan utilisation loci are prevalent among plant-associated Bacteroidota – Hannah Martin – bioRxiv

Microbial ecology

Cooperative growth in microbial communities is a driver of multistability – William Lopes – Nature Communications

Bioenergetic mapping of ‘healthy microbiomes’ via compound processing potential imprinted in gut and soil metagenomes – Craig Liddicoat – Science of the Total Environment

Temporal dynamics of fecal microbiota community succession in broiler chickens, calves, and piglets under aerobic exposure – Paul Oladele – Microbiology Spectrum

May 29, 2024

Human microbiomes

Gut microbiome remodeling and metabolomic profile improves in response to protein pacing with intermittent fasting versus continuous caloric restriction – Alex E. Mohr – Nature Communications

[PREPRINT] Towards a Health-Associated Core Keystone (HACK) index for the human gut microbiome – Abishek Goel – bioRxiv

Exposure to environmental pollutants selects for xenobiotic-degrading functions in the human gut microbiome – Francesca De Fillipis – Nature Communications

The interrelation between microbial immunoglobulin coating, vaginal microbiota, ethnicity, and preterm birth – H.J. Schuster – BMC Microbiome

Porphyromonas gingivalis, a bridge between oral health and immune evasion in gastric cancer – Matías Muñoz-Medel – Frontiers in Oncology

Differences in maternal subgingival microbiome between preterm and term births: The MOHEPI study – Jung Soo Park – Journal of Periodontal Resaerch

Animal microbiome

Integrating uterine microbiome and metabolome to advance the understanding of the uterine environment in dairy cows with metritis – S. Casaro – BMC Animal Microbiome

Responses of nutrient utilization, rumen fermentation and microorganisms to different roughage of dairy buffaloes – Shichun He – BMC Microbiology

Identification of the mutual gliding locus as a factor for gut colonization in non-native bee hosts using the ARTP mutagenesis – Yujie Meng – BMC Microbiome

Co-habiting ants and silverfish display a converging feeding ecology – Thomas Parmentier – BMC Biology

Temperature-dependent differences in mouse gut motility are mediated by stress – Alvin Han – Nature Lab Animal

Food microbiome

Evaluation of microbiota-induced changes in biochemical, sensory properties and volatile profile of kombucha produced by reformed microbial community – Hilal Kilmanoglu – Food Chemistry X

Plant, soil, and root microbiome

Microbial polyphenol metabolism is part of the thawing permafrost carbon cycle – Bridget B. McGivern – Nature Microbiology

[PREPRINT] Soil viral community dynamics over seven years of heat disturbance: spatial variation exceeds temporal in annually sampled soils – Samuel E. Barnett & Ashley Shade – bioRxiv

Global soil metagenomics reveals distribution and predominance of Deltaproteobacteria in nitrogen-fixing microbiome – Yoko Masuda – BMC Microbiome

Water & extremophile microbiome

Bacterial dynamics of the plastisphere microbiome exposed to sub-lethal antibiotic pollution – Brune Jounnard & Concepcion Sanchez-Cid – BMC Microbiome

Exploring potential polysaccharide utilization loci involved in the degradation of typical marine seaweed polysaccharides by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron – Biao Yu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Organic matter degradation in the deep, sulfidic waters of the Black Sea: insights into the ecophysiology of novel anaerobic bacteria – Subhash Yadav – BMC Microbiome

May 26, 2024

Human Microbiome in General

Microbiome research in Africa must be based on equitable partnerships – Ovokeraye H Oduaran – Nature Medicine

Human Gut Microbiome

IL-33 controls IL-22-dependent antibacterial defense by modulating the microbiota – Ivo Röwekamp – PNAS

Meta-analysis of shotgun sequencing of gut microbiota in Parkinson’s disease – Hiroshi Nishiwaki – NPJ Parkinson’s Disease

Systematic review of associations between gut microbiome composition and stunting in under-five children – Mwelwa Chibuye – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Production of deoxycholic acid by low-abundant microbial species is associated with impaired glucose metabolism – Annika Wahlström – Nature Communications

Altered gut microbiota is associated with the formation of occult hepatitis B virus infection – Bochao Liu – Microbiology Spectrum

Metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) suggest an acetate-driven protective role in gut microbiota disrupted by Clostridioides difficile – Giovanny Herrera – Microbiological Research

Review: From gut microbiota to brain: implications on binge eating disorders – Weiwei Guo – Gut Microbes

Review: Pathogenesis and therapeutic opportunities of gut microbiome dysbiosis in critical illness – Nicole A Cho – Gut Microbes

Human Respiratory Tract Microbiome

Pathobiological signatures of dysbiotic lung injury in pediatric patients undergoing stem cell transplantation – Matt S Zinter – Nature Medicine

Human Genitourinary Tract Microbiome

Leveraging existing 16S rRNA gene surveys to decipher microbial signatures and dysbiosis in cervical carcinogenesis – Xiaoxiao Li – Scientific Reports

Targeting Megasphaera species to promote cervicovaginal health – Mariano A Molina – Trends in Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Prodrug-conjugated tumor-seeking commensals for targeted cancer therapy – Haosheng Shen – Nature Communications

Fecal microbiota transplantation significantly improved respiratory failure of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – Jingshuang Yan – Gut Microbes

The use of probiotics and prebiotics in decolonizing pathogenic bacteria from the gut; a systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical outcomes – Md Nannur Rahman – Gut Microbes

Review: Advanced microbiome therapeutics as a novel modality for oral delivery of peptides to manage metabolic diseases – Ruben Vazquez-Uribe – Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism

Animal Microbiome

Identification of the mutual gliding locus as a factor for gut colonization in non-native bee hosts using the ARTP mutagenesis – Yujie Meng – Microbiome

Symbiotic bacteria and fungi proliferate in diapause and may enhance overwintering survival in a solitary bee – Shawn M Christensen – The ISME Journal

Plant Microbiome

Phages enhance both phytopathogen density control and rhizosphere microbiome suppressiveness – Xiaofang Wang – mBio

Environmental Microbiome

Global epistasis and the emergence of function in microbial consortia – Juan Diaz-Colunga – Cell

Bacterial dynamics of the plastisphere microbiome exposed to sub-lethal antibiotic pollution – Brune Joannard – Microbiome

Global soil metagenomics reveals distribution and predominance of Deltaproteobacteria in nitrogen-fixing microbiome – Yoko Masuda – Microbiome

A global initiative for ecological and evolutionary hologenomics – Aoife Leonard – Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Built Environment Microbiome

Fungal diversity differences in the indoor dust microbiome from built environments on earth and in space – Nicholas Nastasi – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

A novel clinical metaproteomics workflow enables bioinformatic analysis of host-microbe dynamics in disease – Katherine Do – mSphere

A comparative study of supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms applied to human microbiome – E Kalluçi – La Clinica Terapeutica

May 15, 2024

Human gut microbiome

A shared group of bacterial taxa in the duodenal microbiota of undernourished Pakistani children with environmental enteric dysfunction – Najeeha T Iqbal – mSphere

Gut microbiota, blood metabolites, and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in US Hispanics/Latinos – Kai Luo – BMC Microbiome

Co-localization of antibiotic resistance genes is widespread in the infant gut microbiome and associates with an immature gut microbial composition – Xuanji Li – BMC Microbiome

Impact of the gut microbiome composition on social decision-making – Marie Falkenstein – PNAS Nexus

Veillonella and Bacteroides are associated with gestational diabetes mellitus exposure and gut microbiota immaturity – Fernanda Valdez-Palomares – PLOS One

[REVIEW] The neonatal gut microbiome and global health – Pinaki Panigrahi – Gut Microbes

Functional characterization of helminth-associated Clostridiales reveals covariates of Treg differentiation – Shusan Sargisan – BMC Microbiome

Vaginal microbiome

16S rRNA female reproductive microbiome investigation reveals Dalfopristin, Clorgyline, and Hydrazine as potential therapeutics for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis – Sudeepti Kulshrestha – Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Fecal transplant from vaginally seeded infants decreases intraabdominal adiposity in mice – Sivaranjani Namasivayam – Gut Microbes

Animal microbiome

Viruses contribute to microbial diversification in the rumen ecosystem and are associated with certain animal production traits – Ming Yan & Zhongtang Yu – BMC Microbiome

Quantitative microbiome profiling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) guts is predictive of winter colony loss in northern Virginia (USA) – David B. Carlini – Nature Scientific Reports

How do phytophagous insects affect phyllosphere fungi? Tracking fungi from milkweed to monarch caterpillar frass reveals communities dominated by fungal yeast – Ryoko Oono – Environmental Microbiology

Beneficial microbes & compounds

The gut lactic acid bacteria metabolite, 10-oxo- cis-6, trans-11-octadecadienoic acid, suppresses inflammatory bowel disease in mice by modulating the NRF2 pathway and GPCR-signaling – Miki Ando – Frotiers in Immunology

Effect of weight loss program using prebiotics and probiotics on body composition, physique, and metabolic products: longitudinal intervention study – Nayera E Hassan – Nature Scientific Reports

Origin of the neonatal gut microbiota and probiotic intervention: a randomized controlled trial – Zhe Li – Frontiers in Nutrition

Effectiveness of probiotic- and fish oil-loaded water-in-oil-in-water (W1/O/W2) emulsions at alleviating ulcerative colitis – Qingzhao Gu – Food & Function

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Competition mode and soil nutrient status shape the role of soil microbes in the diversity–invasibility relationship – Haokun Li – Ecology and Evolution

Dynamics and drivers of fungal communities in a multipartite ant-plant association – Veronica Barrajon-Santos – BMC Biology

Quorum sensing related activities of beneficial and pathogenic bacteria have important implications for plant and human health – Anton Hartmann – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Impacts of vegetable processing and cheese making effluent on soil microbial functional diversity, community structure, and denitrification potential of land treatment systems – Geoffrey S. Siemering – Water Environment Research

Role of Bacillus subtilis exopolymeric genes in modulating rhizosphere microbiome assembly – Caroline Sayuri Nishisaka – BMC Environmental Microbiome

The predominant lactic acid bacteria and yeasts involved in the spontaneous fermentation of millet during the production of the traditional porridge Hausa koko in Ghana – Amy Atter – BMC Microbiology

Bioinformatics & Tools

Multi-class boosting for the analysis of multiple incomplete views on microbiome data – Andrea Simeon – BMC Bioinformatics

PrimerEvalPy: a tool for in-silico evaluation of primers for targeting the microbiome – Lara Vázquez-González – BMC Bioinformatics

Readsynth: short-read simulation for consideration of composition-biases in reduced metagenome sequencing approaches – Ryan Kuster – BMC Bioinformatics

May 12, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Preservation of conjugated primary bile acids by oxygenation of the small intestinal microbiota in vitro – Jenni Firrman – mBio

HIV rebound in HIV controllers is associated with a specific fecal microbiome profile – Yanhui Cai – European Journal of Immunology

Comparative analysis of the tumor microbiome, molecular profiles, and immune cell abundances by HPV status in mucosal head and neck cancers and their impact on survival – Rituraj Upadhyay – Cancer Biology & Therapy

Metatranscriptome and resistome of the endodontic microbiome – Ericka T Pinheiro – Journal of Endodontics

Microbiome of periodontitis and peri-implantitis before and after therapy: Long-read 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing – Pei-Shiuan Yu – Journal of Periodontal Research

Review: Akkermansia muciniphila: a deworming partner independent of type 2 immunity – Jiaqi Wang – Gut Microbes

Review: The gut microbiome in alcohol use disorder and alcohol-associated liver disease: A systematic review of clinical studies – Erica N Grodin – Alcohol, Clinical & Experimental Research

Review: Bile acid-microbiota crosstalk in hepatitis B virus infection – Jiaxin Wang – Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Review: Ecological insights into hematopoiesis regulation: unraveling the influence of gut microbiota – Kaiwen Zheng – Gut Microbes

Review: Interactions between host and gut microbiota in gestational diabetes mellitus and their impacts on offspring – Shuxian Wang – BMC Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: Mechanisms of microbiota modulation: Implications for health, disease, and therapeutic interventions – Okechukwu Paul-Chima Ugwu – Medicine

Lactobacillus paracasei Jlus66 relieves DSS-induced ulcerative colitis in a murine model by maintaining intestinal barrier integrity, inhibiting inflammation, and improving intestinal microbiota structure – Fazheng Yu – European Journal of Nutrition

Conjugated linoleic acid metabolite impact in colorectal cancer: a potential microbiome-based precision nutrition approach – Adriana González – Nutrition Reviews

Microbiome in Animal Models

Aging amplifies a gut microbiota immunogenic signature linked to heightened inflammation – Maria Elisa Caetano-Silva – Aging Cell

Bacteroidota inhibit microglia clearance of amyloid-beta and promote plaque deposition in Alzheimer’s disease mouse models – Caroline Wasén – Nature Communications

Prevotella copri promotes vascular calcification via lipopolysaccharide through activation of NF-κB signaling pathway – Qing-Yun Hao – Gut Microbes

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Temporal dynamics of fecal microbiota community succession in broiler chickens, calves, and piglets under aerobic exposure – Paul Oladele – Microbiology Spectrum

Characterizing the blood microbiota in healthy and febrile domestic cats via 16s rRNA sequencing – Liam Kitson – Scientific Reports

Plant/Rhizosphere Microbiome

Metagenomic sequencing and reconstruction of 82 microbial genomes from barley seed communities – Kalonji A Tshisekedi – Scientific Data

Modulation of rhizosphere microbial community and metabolites by bio-functionalized nanoscale silicon oxide alleviates cadmium-induced phytotoxicity in bayberry plants – Temoor Ahmed – The Science of the Total Environment

Phyllosphere fungal diversity generates pervasive nonadditive effects on plant performance – Brianna K Almeida – The New Phytologist

Environmental Microbiome

Deciphering the functional and structural complexity of the Solar Lake flat mat microbial benthic communities – Rehab Z Abdallah – mSystems

Microbiome processing of organic nitrogen input supports growth and cyanotoxin production of Microcystis aeruginosa cultures – Wei Li – The ISME Journal

Genomic fingerprints of the world’s soil ecosystems – Emily B Graham – mSystems

Review: Insights into cyanobacterial blooms through the lens of omics – Ve Van Le – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis

fastCCLasso: a fast and efficient algorithm for estimating correlation matrix from compositional data – Shen Zhang – Bioinformatics

Review: A Standard Pipeline for Analyzing the Endometrial Microbiome – Mychelle de Medeiros Garcia Torres – Reproductive Sciences 

May 8, 2024

Happy Wednesday folks, we’re halfway through the week! Today’s blog features a number of interesting articles – it was difficult to pick just a few to highlight. Read on to learn about a new study that unveils the environment-specificity of secondary successional dynamics following microbiota disruption, a review summarizing the literature on how pesticide exposure affects the microbiota-gut-brain-axis, an investigation of how host phylogeny, diet, and anthropogenic factors shape the Cetacea gut microbiome – and more!

Human Microbiome

Diet-omics in the Study of Urban and Rural Crohn disease Evolution (SOURCE) cohort – Tzipi Braun – Nature Communications

Improvements in Gut Microbiome Composition and Clinical Symptoms Following Familial Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in a Nineteen-Year-Old Adolescent With Severe Autism – Sabine Hazan – Journal of Medical Cases

[PREPRINT] Interplay between particle size and microbial ecology in the gut microbiome – Jeffrey Letourneau – bioRxiv

Shotgun metagenomic analysis of saliva microbiome suggests Mogibacterium as a factor associated with chronic bacterial osteomyelitis – Hiroko Yahara – PLOS One

[REVIEW] Pesticide exposure and the microbiota-gut-brain axis – Rie Matsuzaki – ISME Journal

Animal Experiments

Short-term exposure to antibiotics begets long-term disturbance in gut microbial metabolism and molecular ecological networks – Yuehui Hong – BMC Microbiome

Microbial Ecology

Synthesis of recovery patterns in microbial communities across environments – Stephanie D. Jurburg – BMC Microbiome

Cooperative interactions between invader and resident microbial community members weaken the negative diversity-invasion relationship – Johanna Vendermaesen – Ecology Letters

High speciation rate of niche specialists in hot springs – Qing He – ISME Journal

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Effects of reduced snowpack due to climate warming on abiotic and biotic soil properties in alpine and boreal forest systems – Anastasiia Kosolapova – PLOS Climate

Microbiota recovery in a chronosquences of impoverished Cerrado soils with biosolids applications – Laibin Huang – Science of the Total Environment

Melatonin promotes the recovery of apple plants after waterlogging by shaping the structure and function of the rhizosphere microbiome – Yang Cao – Plant, Cell & Environment

Antimony efflux underpins phosphorus cycling and resistance of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria in mining soils – Shengwei Liu – ISME Journal

Animal Microbiome

Antibiotic exposure alters the honeybee gut microbiota and may interfere with the honeybee behavioral caste transition – Zijing Zhang – Insect Science

Meta-analysis of the Cetacea gut microbiome: Diversity, co-evolution, and interaction with the anthropogenic pathobiome – Elena Radaelli – Science of the Total Environment

Comparative analysis of gut microbiome of mangrove brachyuran crabs revealed patterns of phylosymbiosis and codiversification – Chandlar Tsz To Tsang – Molecular Ecology

Techniques & Methodology

A perfusion host-microbe bioreactor (HMB) system that captures dynamic interactions of secreted metabolites between epithelial cells cocultured with a human gut anaerobe – Jingyun Yang – Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Stable, fluorescent markers for tracking synthetic communities and assembly dynamics – Beatriz Jorrin – BMC Microbiome

Sterile sentinels and MinION sequencing capture active soil microbial communities that differentiate crop rotations – Sonya R. Erlandson – BMC Environmental Microbiome

May 5, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Paternal microbiome perturbations impact offspring fitness – Ayele Argaw-Denboba – Nature

Oral bacteria relative abundance in faeces increases due to gut microbiota depletion and is linked with patient outcomes – Chen Liao – Nature Microbiology

Human gut microbiota and their production of endocannabinoid-like mediators are directly affected by a dietary oil – Charlène Roussel – Gut Microbes

Leveraging genomic signatures of oral microbiome-associated antibiotic resistance genes for diagnosing pancreatic cancer – Xiaojing Shen – PloS ONE

Deciphering the Pancreatic Cancer Microbiome in Mainland China: Impact of Exiguobacterium/Bacillus ratio on Tumor Progression and Prognostic Significance – Zhengyan Zhang – Pharmacological Research

Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism – Xianyi Xiong – The ISME Journal

Microplastics and microbiota: Unraveling the hidden environmental challenge – Jean Demarquoy – World Journal of Gastroenterology

Genome plasticity shapes the ecology and evolution of Phocaeicola dorei and Phocaeicola vulgatus – Emilene Da Silva Morais – Scientific Reports

Review: A catalog of ethanol-producing microbes in humans – Babacar Mbaye – Future Microbiology

Review: Direct metagenomics investigation of non-surgical hard-to-heal wounds: a review – Madjid Morsli – Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials

Beneficial Microbes

A consortium of Hordeum vulgare and gut microbiota against non-alcoholic fatty liver disease via data-driven analysis – Su-Been Lee – Artificial Cells, Nanomedicine, and Biotechnology

Animal Microbiome

Amphibian tolerance to arsenic: microbiome-mediated insights – Isabella Ferreira Cordeiro – Scientific Reports

Combined effect of seasons and life history in an anuran strengthens the response and relationship between their physiology and gut microbiota – Jun-Kyu Park – Scientific Reports

Gut microbiome and resistome characterization of pigs treated with commonly used post-weaning diarrhea treatments – Judith Guitart-Matas – Animal Microbiome

Effects of microbiome transplants on fly microbiome – Jorge Ferreira – Lab Animal

Multi-omics reveal the gut microbiota-mediated severe foraging environment adaption of small wild ruminants in the Three-River-Source National Park, China – Hongjin Liu – Integrative Zoology

Sea cucumber (Holothuria glaberrima) intestinal microbiome dataset from Puerto Rico, generated by shotgun sequencing – Edwin Omar Rivera-Lopez – Data in Brief

Plant Microbiome

Depletion of protective microbiota promotes the incidence of fruit disease – Xue Luo – The ISME Journal

Analysis of Salt Stress on Soil Microbial Community Composition and Its Correlation with Active Components in the Rhizosphere of Acanthopanax senticosus – Wenhui Yuan – Current Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Mechanisms and implications of bacterial-fungal competition for soil resources – Chaoqun Wang – The ISME Journal

Potential coupling of microbial methane, nitrogen, and sulphur cycling in the Okinawa Trough cold seep sediments – Ye Chen – Microbiology Spectrum

Microbiome Analysis

mbDecoda: a debiased approach to compositional data analysis for microbiome surveys – Yuxuan Zong – Briefings in Bioinformatics

EnsembleSeq: a workflow towards real-time, rapid, and simultaneous multi-kingdom-amplicon sequencing for holistic and resource-effective microbiome research at scale – Sunil Nagpal – Microbiology Spectrum

mi-Mic: a novel multi-layer statistical test for microbiota-disease associations – Oshrit Shtossel – Genome Biology

Review: Unveiling microbial diversity: harnessing long-read sequencing technology – Daniel P Agustinho – Nature Methods

April 28, 2024

Human and General Microbiome

Genome Analysis of Epsilon CrAss-like Phages – Igor V Babkin – Viruses

Cervical microbiota dysbiosis associated with high-risk Human Papillomavirus infection – Natalia Zeber-Lubecka – PloS ONE

Association of the trimethylamine N-oxide with cardiovascular risk and vascular alterations in middle-aged patients with risk factors for cardiovascular diseases – Natalia Spasova – Bioscience Reports

Insights into microorganisms, associated factors, and the oral microbiome in infective endocarditis patients – Ayden Ismail – Frontiers in Oral Health

Alterations in the fecal microbiota of methamphetamine users with bad sleep quality during abstinence – Zijing Deng – BMC Psychiatry

Gut microbiome predicts cognitive function and depressive symptoms in late life – A Kolobaric – Molecular Psychiatry

Microbial signatures in human periodontal disease: a metatranscriptome meta-analysis – Armen Ovsepian – Frontiers in Microbiology

Gut microbiome composition reveals the distinctiveness between the Bengali people and the Indigenous ethnicities in Bangladesh – Ishtiaque Ahammad – Communications Biology

Comparative analysis of endometrial, vaginal, and gut microbiota in patients with and without adenomyosis – Marta Valdés-Bango – Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Causal effect of gut microbiota and diabetic nephropathy: a Mendelian randomization study – Ganyuan He – Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome

The characteristics of microbiome in the upper respiratory tract of COVID-19 patients – Xilong Zhang – BMC Microbiology

Review: Interplay of human gastrointestinal microbiota metabolites: Short-chain fatty acids and their correlation with Parkinson’s disease – Jiaji Liu – Medicine

Review: Natural products from the human microbiome: an emergent frontier in organic synthesis and drug discovery – Saumitra Sengupta – Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry

Review: Oligella spp.: A systematic review on an uncommon urinary pathogen – Eric Farfour – European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Review: The potential importance of the built-environment microbiome and its impact on human health – Thomas C G Bosch – PNAS

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Vitamin D regulates microbiome-dependent cancer immunity – Evangelos Giampazolias – Science 

HMOs Impact the Gut Microbiome of Children and Adults Starting from Low Predicted Daily Doses – Danica Bajic – Metabolites

Effects of microbiome-based interventions on neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis – Zara Siu Wa Chui – Scientific Reports

A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial on Lactobacillus-containing cultured milk drink as adjuvant therapy for depression in irritable bowel syndrome – Marlynna Sarkawi – Scientific Reports

Animal Microbiome

Review: Understanding the Diversity and Roles of the Ruminal Microbiome – Gi Beom Keum – Journal of Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

Impacts of continuous cropping on the rhizospheric and endospheric microbial communities and root exudates of Astragalus mongholicus – Qin Zhou – BMC Plant Biology

Comparative analysis of root associated microbes in tropical cultivated and weedy rice (Oryza spp.) and temperate cultivated rice – Vani Juliyanti – Scientific Reports

Identifying causes and consequences of rhizosphere microbiome heritability – Maggie R Wagner – PLoS Biology

Environmental Microbiome

Acidithiobacillia class members originating at sites within the Pacific Ring of Fire and other tectonically active locations and description of the novel genus ‘Igneacidithiobacillus’ – Dilanaz Arisan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Exploring changes in microplastic-associated bacterial communities with time, location, and polymer type in Liusha Bay, China – Ting Wang – Marine Environmental Research

Genomic and environmental controls on Castellaniella biogeography in an anthropogenically disturbed subsurface – Jennifer L Goff – Environmental Microbiome

Phytoplankton-derived polysaccharides and microbial peptidoglycans are key nutrients for deep-sea microbes in the Mariana Trench – Yan-Ru Dang – Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis

Microbiome compositional data analysis for survival studies – Meritxell Pujolassos – NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics

Other

Periportal macrophages protect against commensal-driven liver inflammation – Yu Miyamoto – Nature

A case study to engage students in the research design and ethics of high-throughput metagenomics – Courtney Carroll Alexander – Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education