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  1. Accumulating clinical evidence suggests that lung microbiome is closely linked to the progression of pulmonary diseases; however, it is still controversial which specimen type is preferred for the evaluation o...

    Authors: Lijun Zheng, Chengjun Liu, Hongjing Wang, Jun Zhang, Lejiao Mao, Xiaomei Dong, Siyao Hu, Na Li, Dandan Pi, Jingfu Qiu, Feng Xu, Chengzhi Chen and Zhen Zou
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:56
  2. Microorganisms are responsible for nutrient removal and resource recovery in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), and their diversity is often studied by 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing. However, this approa...

    Authors: Huifeng Hu, Jannie Munk Kristensen, Craig William Herbold, Petra Pjevac, Katharina Kitzinger, Bela Hausmann, Morten Kam Dahl Dueholm, Per Halkjaer Nielsen and Michael Wagner
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:55
  3. Massive amounts of sewage sludge are generated during biological sewage treatment and are commonly subjected to anaerobic digestion, land application, and landfill disposal. Concurrently, persistent organic po...

    Authors: Guofang Xu, Siyan Zhao, Matthew J. Rogers, Chen Chen and Jianzhong He
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:54
  4. The gut microbiome plays a crucial role in understanding complex biological mechanisms, including host resilience to stressors. Investigating the microbiota-resilience link in animals and plants holds relevanc...

    Authors: Enrico Mancin, Christian Maltecca, Yi Jian Huang, Roberto Mantovani and Francesco Tiezzi
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:53
  5. The rise of linezolid resistance has been widely observed both in clinical and non-clinical settings. However, there were still data gaps regarding the comprehensive prevalence and interconnections of linezoli...

    Authors: Weiyi Shen, Chang Cai, Ning Dong, Jiawei Chen, Rong Zhang and Jiachang Cai
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:52
  6. Partial nitritation-anammox (PNA) is a biological nitrogen removal process commonly used in wastewater treatment plants for the treatment of warm and nitrogen-rich sludge liquor from anaerobic digestion, often...

    Authors: Carolina Suarez, Tage Rosenqvist, Ivelina Dimitrova, Christopher J. Sedlacek, Oskar Modin, Catherine J. Paul, Malte Hermansson and Frank Persson
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:51
  7. Antibiotics notoriously perturb the gut microbiota. We treated healthy volunteers either with cefotaxime or ceftriaxone for 3 days, and collected in each subject 12 faecal samples up to day 90. Using untargete...

    Authors: Camille d’Humières, Margot Delavy, Laurie Alla, Farid Ichou, Emilie Gauliard, Amine Ghozlane, Florence Levenez, Nathalie Galleron, Benoit Quinquis, Nicolas Pons, Jimmy Mullaert, Antoine Bridier-Nahmias, Bénédicte Condamine, Marie Touchon, Dominique Rainteau, Antonin Lamazière…
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:50
  8. Aronia melanocarpa is a berry rich in polyphenols known for health benefits. However, the bioavailability of polyphenols has been questioned, and the individual taste acceptance of the fruit with its specific fla...

    Authors: Sonja Lackner, Alexander Mahnert, Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Tobias Madl, Hansjörg Habisch, Nathalie Meier-Allard, Christina Kumpitsch, Theresa Lahousen, Alexandra Kohlhammer-Dohr, Sabrina Mörkl, Herbert Strobl and Sandra Holasek
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:49
  9. Long-distance transportation, a frequent practice in the cattle industry, stresses calves and results in morbidity, mortality, and growth suppression, leading to welfare concerns and economic losses. Alkaline ...

    Authors: Jiancheng Qi, Linli Gan, Fangyuan Huang, Yue Xie, Hongrui Guo, Hengmin Cui, Junliang Deng, Liping Gou, Dongjie Cai, Chunhui Pan, Xia Lu, Ali Mujtaba Shah, Jing Fang and Zhicai Zuo
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:48
  10. Macroalgae, especially reds (Rhodophyta Division) and browns (Phaeophyta Division), are known for producing various halogenated compounds. Yet, the reasons underlying their production and the fate of these met...

    Authors: Anna Lavecchia, Bruno Fosso, Aschwin H. Engelen, Sara Borin, Caterina Manzari, Ernesto Picardi, Graziano Pesole and Antonio Placido
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:47
  11. By analyzing the proteins which are the workhorses of biological systems, metaproteomics allows us to list the taxa present in any microbiota, monitor their relative biomass, and characterize the functioning o...

    Authors: Thibaut Dumas, Roxana Martinez Pinna, Clément Lozano, Sonja Radau, Olivier Pible, Lucia Grenga and Jean Armengaud
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:46
  12. The severity and frequency of drought are expected to increase substantially in the coming century and dramatically reduce crop yields. Manipulation of rhizosphere microbiomes is an emerging strategy for mitig...

    Authors: Hong Yue, Xuming Sun, Tingting Wang, Ali Zhang, Dejun Han, Gehong Wei, Weining Song and Duntao Shu
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:44
  13. Bioaugmentation has the potential to enhance the ability of ecological technology to treat sulfonamide-containing wastewater, but the low viability of the exogenous degraders limits their practical application...

    Authors: Jianfei Chen, Xiuli Chen, Ying Zhu, Shuang Yan and Shuguang Xie
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:43
  14. Global warming is causing large-scale disruption of cnidarian-Symbiodiniaceae symbioses fundamental to major marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs. However, the mechanisms by which heat stress perturbs these ...

    Authors: Gaëlle Toullec, Nils Rädecker, Claudia Pogoreutz, Guilhem Banc-Prandi, Stéphane Escrig, Christel Genoud, Cristina Martin Olmos, Jorge Spangenberg and Anders Meibom
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:42
  15. Chondroitin sulfate (CS) has widely been used as a symptomatic slow-acting drug or a dietary supplement for the treatment and prevention of osteoarthritis. However, CS could not be absorbed after oral intake d...

    Authors: Yamin Wang, Mingfeng Ma, Wei Dai, Qingsen Shang and Guangli Yu
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:41
  16. Bacterial transfers from plants to insect herbivore guts have been well investigated. However, bacterial exchanges between plant phyllospheres and insect cuticles remain unclear, as does their related biologic...

    Authors: Pengfei Zhao, Song Hong, Yuekun Li, Haimin Chen, Hanchun Gao and Chengshu Wang
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:40
  17. The final step in the anaerobic decomposition of biopolymers is methanogenesis. Rice field soils are a major anthropogenic source of methane, with straw commonly used as a fertilizer in rice farming. Here, we ...

    Authors: Xin Li, Qicheng Bei, Mehrdad Rabiei Nematabad, Jingjing Peng and Werner Liesack
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:39
  18. Although rumen development is crucial, hindgut undertakes a significant role in young ruminants’ physiological development. High-starch diet is usually used to accelerate rumen development for young ruminants,...

    Authors: Chunjia Jin, Shengru Wu, Ziqi Liang, Jun Zhang, Xinjian Lei, Hanxun Bai, Gaofeng Liang, Xiaodong Su, Xiaodong Chen, Peiyue Wang, Yue Wang, Leluo Guan and Junhu Yao
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:38
  19. Microbial functioning on marine plastic surfaces has been poorly documented, especially within cold climates where temperature likely impacts microbial activity and the presence of hydrocarbonoclastic microorg...

    Authors: Lauren F. Messer, Charlotte E. Lee, Ruddy Wattiez and Sabine Matallana-Surget
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:36
  20. People living with HIV (PLWH), even when viral replication is controlled through antiretroviral therapy (ART), experience persistent inflammation. This inflammation is partly attributed to intestinal microbial...

    Authors: Shalini Singh, Leila B. Giron, Maliha W. Shaikh, Shivanjali Shankaran, Phillip A. Engen, Zlata R. Bogin, Simona A. Bambi, Aaron R. Goldman, Joao L. L. C. Azevedo, Lorena Orgaz, Nuria de Pedro, Patricia González, Martin Giera, Aswin Verhoeven, Elena Sánchez-López, Ivona Pandrea…
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:31
  21. Haemaphysalis longicornis is drawing attentions for its geographic invasion, extending population, and emerging disease threat. However, there are still substantial gaps in our knowledge of viral composition in r...

    Authors: Run-Ze Ye, Yu-Yu Li, Da-Li Xu, Bai-Hui Wang, Xiao-Yang Wang, Ming-Zhu Zhang, Ning Wang, Wan-Ying Gao, Cheng Li, Xiao-Yu Han, Li-Feng Du, Luo-Yuan Xia, Ke Song, Qing Xu, Jing Liu, Nuo Cheng…
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:35
  22. Remodeling eubiosis of the gut microenvironment may contribute to preventing the occurrence and development of depression. Mounting experimental evidence has shown that complement C3 signaling is associated wi...

    Authors: Wenzhi Hao, Qingyu Ma, Lu Wang, Naijun Yuan, Hua Gan, Liangliang He, Xiaojuan Li, Junqing Huang and Jiaxu Chen
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:34
  23. Domesticated pigs serve as an ideal animal model for biomedical research and also provide the majority of meat for human consumption in China. Porcine intramuscular fat content associates with human health and...

    Authors: Jiajie Sun, Fang Xie, Jing Wang, Junyi Luo, Ting Chen, Qingyan Jiang, Qianyun Xi, George E. Liu and Yongliang Zhang
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:33
  24. Marine microalgae (phytoplankton) mediate almost half of the worldwide photosynthetic carbon dioxide fixation and therefore play a pivotal role in global carbon cycling, most prominently during massive phytopl...

    Authors: Feng-Qing Wang, Daniel Bartosik, Chandni Sidhu, Robin Siebers, De-Chen Lu, Anke Trautwein-Schult, Dörte Becher, Bruno Huettel, Johannes Rick, Inga V. Kirstein, Karen H. Wiltshire, Thomas Schweder, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Mia M. Bengtsson, Hanno Teeling and Rudolf I. Amann
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:32
  25. Intestinal microbial composition not only affects the health of the gut but also influences centrally mediated systems involved in mood, through the “gut-brain” axis, a bidirectional communication between gut ...

    Authors: Francesca De Santa, Georgios Strimpakos, Nicole Marchetti, Giorgio Gargari, Alessio Torcinaro, Stefania Arioli, Diego Mora, Carla Petrella and Stefano Farioli-Vecchioli
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:29
  26. Bisphenol A (BPA) is an environmental contaminant with endocrine-disrupting properties that induce fetal growth restriction (FGR). Previous studies on pregnant ewes revealed that BPA exposure causes placental ...

    Authors: Hao Zhang, Xia Zha, Bei Zhang, Yi Zheng, Mabrouk Elsabagh, Hongrong Wang and Mengzhi Wang
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:28
  27. Seagrasses offer various ecosystem services and possess high levels of primary productivity. However, the development of mariculture has affected the homeostasis of seagrass meadow ecosystems. Plant-microbiome...

    Authors: Hao Sun, Tianyu Wang, Shuai Liu, Xiaoyu Tang, Jie Sun, Xuerui Liu, Ye Zhao, Pingping Shen and Yanying Zhang
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:27
  28. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) describes the transmission of DNA outside of direct ancestral lineages. The process is best characterised within the bacterial kingdom and can enable the acquisition of genetic t...

    Authors: Anna H. Behling, Brooke C. Wilson, Daniel Ho, Wayne S. Cutfield, Tommi Vatanen and Justin M. O’Sullivan
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:26
  29. Chickens are one of the most widely farmed animals worldwide and play a crucial role in meat and egg production. Gut microbiota is essential for chickens’ health, disease, growth, and egg production. However, ...

    Authors: Hongye Shen, Tinghui Wang, Weiwei Dong, Guoping Sun, Jun Liu, Nan Peng and Shumiao Zhao
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:25
  30. The effect of microbes on their human host is often mediated through changes in metabolite concentrations. As such, multiple tools have been proposed to predict metabolite concentrations from microbial taxa fr...

    Authors: Oshrit Shtossel, Omry Koren, Iris Shai, Ehud Rinott and Yoram Louzoun
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:24
  31. The gut microbiome undergoes primary ecological succession over the course of early life before achieving ecosystem stability around 3 years of age. These maturational patterns have been well-characterized for...

    Authors: Emily M. Mercer, Hena R. Ramay, Shirin Moossavi, Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe, Myrtha E. Reyna, Allan B. Becker, Elinor Simons, Piush J. Mandhane, Stuart E. Turvey, Theo J. Moraes, Malcolm R. Sears, Padmaja Subbarao, Meghan B. Azad and Marie-Claire Arrieta
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:22
  32. The gut microbiota is a critical factor in the regulation of host health, but the relationship between the differential resistance of hosts to pathogens and the interaction of gut microbes is not yet clear. He...

    Authors: Jun-Hong Xing, Tian-Ming Niu, Bo-Shi Zou, Gui-Lian Yang, Chun-Wei Shi, Qing-Song Yan, Ming-Jie Sun, Tong Yu, Shu-Min Zhang, Xi-Ze Feng, Shu-Hui Fan, Hai-Bin Huang, Jun-Hong Wang, Ming-Han Li, Yan-Long Jiang, Jian-Zhong Wang…
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:20
  33. Infant gut microbiota is highly malleable, but the long-term longitudinal impact of antibiotic exposure in early life, together with the mode of delivery on infant gut microbiota and resistome, is not extensiv...

    Authors: Dhrati V. Patangia, Ghjuvan Grimaud, Carol-Anne O’Shea, C. A. Ryan, Eugene Dempsey, Catherine Stanton and R. Paul Ross
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:19
  34. The widespread availability of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has dramatically reduced mortality and improved life expectancy for people living with HIV (PLWH). However, even with HIV-1 suppression, chronic immu...

    Authors: Angela Sofia Burkhart Colorado, Alessandro Lazzaro, Charles Preston Neff, Nichole Nusbacher, Kathryn Boyd, Suzanne Fiorillo, Casey Martin, Janet C. Siebert, Thomas B. Campbell, Margaret Borok, Brent E. Palmer and Catherine Lozupone
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:18
  35. The recent recognition of the importance of the microbiome to the host’s health and well-being has yielded efforts to develop therapies that aim to shift the microbiome from a disease-associated state to a hea...

    Authors: Eitan E. Asher and Amir Bashan
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:17
  36. Many arthropods rely on their gut microbiome to digest plant material, which is often low in nitrogen but high in complex polysaccharides. Detritivores, such as millipedes, live on a particularly poor diet, bu...

    Authors: Julius Eyiuche Nweze, Vladimír Šustr, Andreas Brune and Roey Angel
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:16
  37. Biofilms in sulfide-rich springs present intricate microbial communities that play pivotal roles in biogeochemical cycling. We studied chemoautotrophically based biofilms that host diverse CPR bacteria and gro...

    Authors: Luis E. Valentin-Alvarado, Sirine C. Fakra, Alexander J. Probst, Jonathan R. Giska, Alexander L. Jaffe, Luke M. Oltrogge, Jacob West-Roberts, Joel Rowland, Michael Manga, David F. Savage, Chris Greening, Brett J. Baker and Jillian F. Banfield
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:15
  38. Plant microbiomes play crucial roles in nutrient cycling and plant growth, and are shaped by a complex interplay between plants, microbes, and the environment. The role of bacteria as mediators of the 400-mill...

    Authors: Changfeng Zhang, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Bethany K. Dodds, Thi Bich Nguyen, Jelle Spooren, Alain Valzano-Held, Marco Cosme and Roeland L. Berendsen
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:13
  39. The increasing prevalence of neurocognitive disorders (NCDs) in the aging population worldwide has become a significant concern due to subjectivity of evaluations and the lack of precise diagnostic methods and...

    Authors: Yan Han, Xinglin Zeng, Lin Hua, Xingping Quan, Ying Chen, Manfei Zhou, Yaochen Chuang, Yang Li, Shengpeng Wang, Xu Shen, Lai Wei, Zhen Yuan and Yonghua Zhao
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:12
  40. Fonio (Digitaria exilis), an orphan millet crop, is the oldest indigenous crop in West Africa. Although the yield is low due to pre-domestication characteristics, the quick maturation time, drought tolerance, and...

    Authors: Naheed Tabassum, Hanin Ibrahim Ahmed, Sabiha Parween, Arsheed H. Sheikh, Maged M. Saad, Simon G. Krattinger and Heribert Hirt
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:11
  41. The visual organ plays a crucial role in sensing environmental information. However, its mucosal surfaces are constantly exposed to selective pressures from aquatic or airborne pathogens and microbial communit...

    Authors: Weiguang Kong, Gaofeng Cheng, Jiafeng Cao, Jiaqian Yu, Xinyou Wang and Zhen Xu
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:10

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  42. Antarctica and its unique biodiversity are increasingly at risk from the effects of global climate change and other human influences. A significant recent element underpinning strategies for Antarctic conserva...

    Authors: Gilda Varliero, Pedro H. Lebre, Byron Adams, Steven L. Chown, Peter Convey, Paul G. Dennis, Dandan Fan, Belinda Ferrari, Beat Frey, Ian D. Hogg, David W. Hopkins, Weidong Kong, Thulani Makhalanyane, Gwynneth Matcher, Kevin K. Newsham, Mark I. Stevens…
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:9
  43. The hadal sediment, found at an ocean depth of more than 6000 m, is geographically isolated and under extremely high hydrostatic pressure, resulting in a unique ecosystem. Thaumarchaeota are ubiquitous marine ...

    Authors: Ru-Yi Zhang, Yan-Ren Wang, Ru-Long Liu, Sung-Keun Rhee, Guo-Ping Zhao and Zhe-Xue Quan
    Citation: Microbiome 2024 12:7

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