Tag Archives: skin microbiome

January 29, 2026

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Animal microbiome

Host genetic background and environment have different effects on the establishment and structure of the adult worker honey bee gut microbiota – Breven Stark – PLOS ONE

Microbiota discovered in scorpion venom – Barbara Murdoch – PLOS ONE

Animal experiments / Disease models

Intestinal decontamination with rifaximin attenuates LSEC dysfunction and liver fibrosis in mice – Tingting Su – PLOS ONE

Periplaneta americana extract ameliorates recurrent oral ulcers in rats by enhancing the intestinal epithelial barrier and regulating gut microbiota – Kailing Li – PLOS ONE

Formononetin ameliorates SP-induced urticaria in mice via suppressing TAK1/MAK signaling pathway -Yan Wu –PLOS ONE

Lipopolysaccharide induced mouse depression model can better simulate changes in peripheral blood FFAs in alMDD -Jincai Pan –PLOS ONE

Human microbiome (gut & reproductive)

Stool and vaginal microbiome profiles patterns among Black and White endometrial cancer survivors: A pilot study in North Carolina – Mu Jin – PLOS ONE

Infection, immunity & host–microbe interactions

Examining the role of IgA in a persistent model of Staphylococcus aureus colonization – Yunys Perez-Betancourt – PLOS Pathogens

Diversify and conquer: How effector diversity is shaped by host–microbe co-evolution -Marion C Müller – PLOS Pathogens

Oo-No: Ophidiomyces ophidiicola–bacterial interactions and the role of skin lipids in development of ophidiomycosis – Jason W Dallas – PLOS Pathogens

Probiotics & food microbiology

In-vitro evaluation of probiotic potential of gut microbes isolated from retail chicken – Sangram Biswas – PLOS ONE

Antimicrobial resistance & clinical microbiology

Extended-spectrum β-lactamase and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales among adult patients and their family members at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Dessie Abera – PLOS ONE

Microbiome methods & bioinformatics

PCR bias impacts microbiome ecological analyses – Dharmik R Rathod – PLOS Computational Biology

CoSMIC: A hybrid approach for large-scale, high-resolution microbial profiling of novel niches – Maor Knafo – PLOS ONE

Environmental & applied microbiology

Developing a simple, cost-effective proof-of-concept vaccine candidate against EHEC for cattle – Cecilia M Duarte – PLOS ONE

Preventive effect of bentonite against pyoderma via direct binding capability of staphylococci – Mao Kaneki – PLOS ONE

Ultraviolet light and polyethylene glycol as environmental cleaning agents to reduce contamination of Pseudogymnoascus destructans in bat hibernacula – Alyssa J Stulberg – PLOS ONE

Water, pollution & human exposure

Micro- and nanoplastics in biological samples following a drinking water intervention in Barcelona, Spain – Emma Calikanzaros – PLOS Water

Human disease & biomarkers

Evidence of an allostatic response by intestinal tissues following induction of joint inflammation – Meghan M Moran – PLOS ONE

Multi-modal data to identify key factors influencing lung injury in ARDS patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation: A prospective multi-center observational study protocol – Zhimei Duan – PLOS ONE

Integrative genomic analysis reveals DHX58 as a key player in gastric cancer – Yan Li – PLOS ONE

Identifying biomarkers for diagnosis and disease activity monitoring in PSC-IBD and UC through proteomic profiling: A prospective study protocol – Ondrej Fabian – PLOS ONE

S100-alarmins, antenatal corticosteroids and the risk of late-onset sepsis in preterm infants – Gloria Kessler – PLOS ONE

Exploring the role of the key gene TNFAIP3 between periodontitis and influenza A through bioinformatic analysis and molecular docking – Mingxiang Xu – PLOS ONE

GC-MS based bioactive profiling of Phyllanthus niruri and its antibacterial potential – Zubair Khalid Labu – PLOS ONE

April 17, 2024

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Good morning and welcome to another MicrobiomeDigest! Did you know that one group of scientists is using video games to crowdsource puzzle solutions to improve microbiome research? What a neat way to approach citizen science! On deck today we have a study about pesticide exposure and the gut microbiome, a review of the emerging field of skin microbiome-focused cosmetics, insights into the viral diversity of bats and rodents in East Africa, an editorial exploring research into microbial symbiosis through the lens of modern tools, and more.

Human microbiome

Modulation of the gut microbiome and Firmicutes phylum reduction by a nutraceutical blend in the obesity mouse model and overweight humans: A double-blind clinical trial – Victor Nehmi-Filho et al – Food Science & Nutrition

Ambient long-term exposure to organophosphorus pesticides and the human gut microbiome: an observational study – Keren Zhang et al – BMC Environmental Health

[REVIEW] Skin Deep: The Potential of Microbiome Cosmetics – Ju Hee Han & Hei Sung Kim – Journal of Microbiology

Metabolic Interaction Between Host and the Gut Microbiota During High-Fat Diet-Induced Colorectal Cancer – Chaeeun Lee et al – Journal of Microbiology

Longitudinal microbiome changes in children exposed to proton pump inhibitors – Jason Yanjia Zhang et al – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

High temperature and humidity in the environment disrupt bile acid metabolism, the gut microbiome, and GLP-1 secretion in mice – Song Chen et al – Nature Communications Biology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Exploring the interplay between the core microbiota, physicochemical factors, agrobiochemical cycles in the soil of the historic tokaj mád wine region – Judit Remenyik et al – PLOS One

[PREPRINT] Metabolic interactions underpinning high methane fluxes across terrestrial freshwater wetlands – Emily Bechtold et al – bioRxiv

An in-depth evaluation of metagenomic classifiers for soil microbiomes – Niranjana Rose Edwin – BMC Environmental Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Substantial viral diversity in bats and rodents from East Africa: insights into evolution, recombination, and cocirculation – Daxi Wang et al – BMC Microbiome

Association between the gut microbiome and carotenoid plumage phenotype in an avian hybrid zone – Marcella D. Baiz et al – Proceedings of the Royal Soc. of Biological Sciences

Effects of removing in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide on the taxonomy and functionality of the microbiota in post weaning pigs – Juan M Ortiz Sanjuan et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Integrated analysis of gut metabolome, microbiome, and exfoliome data in an equine model of intestinal injury – C.M. Whitfield-Gargile et al – BMC Microbiome

Responses of the coral reef cryptobiome to environmental gradients in the Red Sea – Rodrigo Villalobos et al – PLOS One

Microbial ecology

[EDITORIAL] Symbiosis: In search of a deeper understanding – Thomas A Richards & Nancy A Moran – PLOS Biology

Bioinformatics & techniques

Randomized feature selection based semi-supervised latent Dirichlet allocation for microbiome analysis – Namitha Pais et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Improving microbial phylogeny with citizen science within a mass-market video game – Roman Sarrazin-Gendron et al – Nature Biotechnology

April 10, 2024

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Good morning microbiome enthusiasts! Today’s MD is on the shorter side but we still have some really interesting articles picked out for you to peruse – including a microbiome-sparing targeted P. aeruginosa compound, effective probiotics for restoring a healthy coral microbiome, and a study characterizing the microbiome of metastatic cancers in over 4,000 biopsies. Plus, don’t forget that April’s Microbiome Virtual International Forum is happening next week!

Human Microbiome

Longitudinal multi-omics analysis uncovers the altered landscape of gut microbiota and plasma metabolome in response to high altitude – Yang Han et al – BMC Microbiome

Illuminating microflora: shedding light on the potential of blue light to modulate the cutaneous microbiome – Hannah J Serrage et al – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Evolutionary investigations of the biosynthetic diversity in the skin microbiome using lsaBGC – Rauf Salamzade et al – Microbial Genomics

A pan-cancer analysis of the microbiome in metastatic cancer – Thomas Battaglia et al – Cell

A Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus secretome induces immunoregulatory transcriptional, functional and immunometabolic signatures in human THP-1 monocytes – Michael P. Jeffrey et al – Nature Scientific Reports

The oral cavity and intestinal microbiome in children with functional constipation – Monika Kwiatkowska et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Characterization of the gut bacterial and viral microbiota in latent autoimmune diabetes in adults – Casper S. Poulsen et al – Nature Scientific Reports

Colonization during a key developmental window reveals microbiota-dependent shifts in growth and immunity during undernutrition – Yadeliz A. Serrano Matos et al – BMC Microbiome

Animal models

Dermal injury drives a skin to gut axis that disrupts the intestinal microbiome and intestinal immune homeostasis in mice – Tatsuya Dokoshi et al – Nature Communications

A folate inhibitor exploits metabolic differences in Pseudomonas aeruginosa for narrow-spectrum targeting – Connor Chain et al – Nature Microbiology

Animal microbiome

A genome-centric view of the role of the Acropora kenti microbiome in coral health and resilience – Lauren F. Messer et al – Nature Communications

Probiotics reshape the coral microbiome in situ without detectable off-target effects in the surrounding environment – Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez et al – Nature Communications Biology

Substantial viral diversity in bats and rodents from East Africa: insights into evolution, recombination, and cocirculation – Daxi Wang et al – BMC Microbiome

Plant, root & soil microbiome

Root volatiles manipulate bacterial biofilms – Waseem Raza & Gaofei Jiang – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysis of endophytic bacterial diversity in seeds of different genotypes of cotton and the suppression of Verticillium wilt pathogen infection by a synthetic microbial community – Chong-Die Wu et al – BMC Plant Biology

Bioinformatics & tools

Holomics – a user-friendly R shiny application for multi-omics data integration and analysis – Katharina Munk et al – BMC Bioinformatics

May 12, 2020

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Buenos dias!! Greetings from Spain.

Today we can highlight a very interesting article of gut–brain modulation of a monkey model of human depression, MELODY a new trial to improve the future microbiome of the offspring of mothers with Crohn’s disease, or how It’s the fertilization the main agent in rhizosphere composition.

I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I did making it!
Stay safe, Jose

COVID-19

Pre-print: Prediction analysis of SARS-COV-2 entry in Livestock and Wild animals – Manas Ranjan Praharaj et al. – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Clinical performance of SARS-CoV-2 IgG antibody tests and potential protective immunity – Niko Kohmer et al. – bioRxiv

Pre-print: The role of high cholesterol in age related COVID19 lethality. – Hao Wang et al. – bioRxiv

Human vaginal microbiome

Effect of commercial vaginal products on the growth of uropathogenic and commensal vaginal bacteria – Kristin J. Hung et al. – Scientific Reports

Human respiratory microbiome

Differences in airway microbiome and metabolome of single lung transplant recipients – Nirmal S. Sharma et al. – Respiratory Research

Pre-print: Assessing the variation within the oral microbiome of healthy adults – Jacob T. Nearing et al. – bioRxiv

Microbiome profile associated with malignant pleural effusion – Samira Shojaee et al. – PLOS ONE

Composition and function of oral microbiota between gingival squamous cell carcinoma and periodontitis – Yuchao Li et al. – Oral Oncology

Esophageal microbiome signature in patients with Barrett’s esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma – Loris Riccardo Lopetuso et al. – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Subtle Variations in Dietary-Fiber Fine Structure Differentially Influence the Composition and Metabolic Function of GutMicrobiota – Tuncil, Y. E et al. – mSphere

Intestinal parasites in rural communities in Nan Province, Thailand: Changes in bacterial gut microbiota associated with minute intestinal fluke infection – Ajala Prommi et al. – Cambridge University Press

Perturbations of the Gut Microbiome and Metabolome in Children with Calcium Oxalate Kidney Stone Disease – Michelle R et al. – Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

The gut microbiome modulates gut–brain axis glycerophospholipid metabolism in a region-specific manner in a non-human primate model of depression – Peng Zheng et al. – Molecular Psychiatry

A dietary intervention to improve the microbiome composition of pregnant women with Crohn’s disease and their offspring: The MELODY (Modulating Early Life Microbiome through Dietary Intervention in Pregnancy) trial design – Peter Inga et al. – Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications

Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Associated with Bile Acid Metabolism in Neonatal Cholestasis Disease – Meng Li et al. – Scientific Reports

Individual and cohort-specific gut microbiota patterns associated with tissue-specific insulin sensitivity in overweight and obese males – Gerben D. A. Hermes et al. – Scientific Reports

Fecal microbiota composition is linked to the postoperative disease course in patients with Crohn’s disease – Anna Strömbeck et al. – BMC Gastroenterology

Human skin microbiome

Diversity of navel microbiome in young adults Free – Shreya Shah et al. – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Animal experiments

Wild primate microbiomes prevent weight gain in germ-free mice – Dimitrios N. Sidiropoulos et al. – Animal Microbiome

Changes in the microbiome of mariculture feed organisms after treatment with a potentially probiotic strain of Phaeobacter inhibens – Karen K. Dittmann et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Alterations of fecal microbiome characteristics by dietary soy isoflavone ingestion in growing pigs infected with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus – B N Smith et al. – Journal of Animal Science

Influenza infection elicits an expansion of gut population of endogenous Bifidobacterium animalis which protects mice against infection – Qiang Zhang et al. – Genome Biology

Pre-print: Impact of industrial production system parameters on chicken microbiomes: mechanisms to improve performance and reduce Campylobacter – Aaron McKenna et al. – bioRxiv

Administration of Bifidobacterium bifidum CGMCC 15068 modulates gut microbiota and metabolome in azoxymethane (AOM)/dextran sulphate sodium (DSS)-induced colitis-associated colon cancer (CAC) in mice – Qing Wang et al. – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Animal microbiome

Structure and membership of gut microbial communities in multiple fish cryptic species under potential migratory effects – My Hanh Le et al. – Scientific Reports

Seasonal habitat drives intestinal microbiome composition in anadromous Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) – Geraint Element et al. – Envariomental microbiology

Honeybee microbiome is stabilized in the presence of propolis – Perot Saelao et al. – Biology letters

Body-size Scaling is Related to Gut Microbial Diversity, Metabolism and Dietary Niche of Arboreal Folivorous Flying Squirrels – Po-Yu Liu et al. – Scientific Reports

Preprint: Differential Response of Digesta- and Mucosa-Associated Intestinal Microbiota to Dietary Black Soldier Fly (Hermetia illucens) Larvae Meal in Seawater Phase Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) – Yanxian Li et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Liming reduces N2O emissions from Mediterranean soil after-rewetting and affects the size, structure and transcription of microbial communities – Eduardo Vázquez et al – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Significant effects on soil microbial communities were not detected after strategic tillage following 44 years of conventional or no-tillage management – Vivian A. Rincon-Florez – Pedobiologia

Seasonal variations in soil microbial communities under different land restoration types in a subtropical mountains region, Southwest China – Denggao Fu et al. – Applied Soil Ecology

Short term effects of biochar with different particle sizes on phosphorous availability and microbial communities – Rubab Sarfraz et al. – Chemosphere

Microbial community responses to different volatile petroleum hydrocarbon class mixtures in an aerobic sandy soil – George Mangse et al.– Environmental Pollution

Plant litter amendments in restored wetland soils altered microbial communities more than clay additions – Christine E. Maietta et al. – Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Long-term fertilization rather than plant species shapes rhizosphere and bulk soil prokaryotic communities in agroecosystems – Mikhail V. Semenov et al. – Applied Soil Ecology

Effect of compost amendment and bioaugmentation on PAH degradation and microbial community shifting in petroleum-contaminated soil – Manli Wu et al. – Chemosphere

Review: The use of -omics tools for assessing biodeterioration of cultural heritage: A review – GutarowskaBeata – Journal of Cultural Heritage

Water and extremophile

Tagging the vanA gene in wastewater microbial communities for cell sorting and taxonomy of vanA carrying cells – Sara Gallego et al – Science of The Total Environment

High-Throughput Sequencing Reveals a Potentially Novel Sulfurovum Species Dominating the Microbial Communities of the Seawater–Sediment Interface of a Deep-Sea Cold Seep in South China Sea – Qing-Lei Sun et al. – Microorganisms

Glacial microbiota are hydrologically connected and temporally variable – Karen A Cameron et al. – Enviromental microbiology

Built environment

The microbiome driving anaerobic digestion and microbial analysis – Jun Wei Lim et al. – Advances in Bioenergy

Bioinformatics

MG-MLST: Characterizing the Microbiome at the Strain Level in Metagenomic Data – Nathanael J. Bangayan et al. – Microorganisms

Inference of single-cell phylogenies from lineage tracing data using Cassiopeia – Matthew G Jones et al. – Genome Biology

TaxIt: An iterative computational pipeline for untargeted strain-level identification using MS/MS spectra from pathogenic single-organism samples – Mathias Kuhring et al. Journal of Proteome Research

Review: The Computational Diet: A Review of Computational Methods Across Diet, Microbiome, and Health – Ameen Eetemadi et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

General microbiology

Review: Diversity, ecology and evolution of Archaea – Brett J. Baker et al – Nature Microbiology

Microbes on the market

Microbiome Sequencing Services Market 2020-2024 – husain – NJ MMA News