The structural diversity of microbial communities plays a pivotal role in microbiological research and applications. However, the study of microbial transitions has remained challenging due to a lack of effective methods, limiting our understanding o...
Compromised nutritional conditions associated with dietary transitions and feeding cessation in the wild and during fish aquaculture operations are common and can impact growth and survival. These effects are especially prevalent during early ontogen...
The oral cavity is a continuous microbial source for the gastrointestinal tract. Adults swallow approximately 0.5–1.5 L of saliva each day, carrying a large and variable bacterial load. Gastric acidity removes most ingested organisms, but survi...
The transition from nature to laboratory or mass rearing can impose significant physiological and evolutionary impact on insects. The Queensland fruit fly (also known as ‘Qfly’), Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Diptera: Tephritidae), is a s...
The intra-tumor microbiome has recently been linked to epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) in a number of cancers. However, the relationship between EMT and microbes in bladder cancer has not been explored. In this study, we profiled the abundanc...
Earthworms heavily modify the soil microbiome as it passes throughout their guts. However, there are no detailed studies describing changes in the composition, structure and diversity of soil microbiomes during gut transit and once they are released...
The human microbiome is an extremely complex ecosystem considering the number of bacterial species, their interactions, and its variability over space and time. Here, we untangle the complexity of the human microbiome for the Irritable Bowel Syndrome...
Breast cancer patients are characterized by the oncobiotic transformation of multiple microbiome communities, including the gut microbiome. Oncobiotic transformation of the gut microbiome impairs the production of antineoplastic bacterial metabolites...
Cancer cell dissemination involves invasion, migration, resistance to stressors in the circulation, extravasation, colonization, and other functions responsible for macroscopic metastases. By enhancing invasiveness, motility, and intravasation, the e...
Oncobiotic transformation of the gut microbiome may contribute to the risk of breast cancer. Recent studies have provided evidence that the microbiome secretes cytostatic metabolites that inhibit the proliferation, movement, and metastasis formation...
Smokeless tobacco (SLT) consumption is a significant risk factor for oral dysbiosis and oral cancer in South Asian countries, including India. However, its impact on oral microbial ecology, functional restructuring, and sex-specific microbial respons...
(1) Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is the most common type of head and neck malignancy worldwide. Despite the prevalence of modern diagnostic and prognostic techniques, late diagnosis and resistance to treatment still result in a low...
This study evaluated the short-term response of the fecal microbiota of wild Cavia tschudii during its transition from natural conditions to captivity under a standardized alfalfa-based diet. Fecal samples were collected over a 21-day period and anal...
The periparturient or transition period—roughly three weeks before to three weeks after calving—compresses the most severe metabolic, endocrine and immunological demands of the production cycle into a few weeks and accounts for most clini...
Dinoflagellates significantly contribute to the carbon fixation and microbial loop in the ocean with high ecological diversity. While the microbial communities associated with the HABs of dinoflagellates have attracted intensive attention in recent y...
Clostridioides difficile is an obligate anaerobe and is primarily transmitted via the fecal–oral route. Data characterizing the microbiome changes accompanying transitions from non-colonized to C. difficile colonized subjects are currently lack...
Agricultural land abandonment is widespread in high-latitude regions, yet its effects on soil microbial communities in permafrost ecosystems remain insufficiently understood. In this study, we used a 0–25 year chronosequence of abandoned soils...
Psyllium is a widely used treatment for constipation. It traps water in the intestine increasing stool water, easing defaecation and altering the colonic environment. We aimed to assess the impact of psyllium on faecal microbiota, whose key role in g...
This randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, three-arm clinical trial evaluated the effects of a proprietary bioactive fucoidan-rich extract derived from Saccharina latissima (SLE-F) on gut microbial composition and function in healthy adults....
Background: Fermented foods rich in bioactive compounds have been proposed as potential strategy to combat non-communicable diseases. Among them is kombucha, a beverage fermented from sugared Camellia sinensis tea by a symbiotic culture of bacteria a...
Although prebiotics and postbiotics support gastrointestinal health, evidence for their combined effects in dogs remains limited. This study evaluated a novel prebiotic and postbiotic supplement in healthy dogs undergoing a dietary transition. Thirty...
Seed-associated endophytes become active during germination, playing important roles as early colonizers of plant tissues and contributing to plant health while residing in a protective niche. In this study, we characterized a wheat-derived bacterial...
Plants and their endophytic microbiota form a functional holobiont, wherein host-dependent endophytes (HDEs) are proposed to serve as persistent microbial components associated with host continuity. Using long-term in vitro grapevine plantlets, we in...
Habitat transition can reorganize plant-associated microbial communities, yet whether rhizosphere bacteria and fungi respond similarly to the transition from native to introduced habitats remains unclear. Here, we investigated this question in the en...
The fish gut microbiome plays an essential role in the host’s development and survival. Environmental factors can shape the gut microbiome and potentially mediate physiological performance. Seasonal environments that experience regular abiotic...
Cancer has been the first killer that threatens people’s lives and health. Despite recent improvements in cancer treatment, metastasis continues to be the main reason for death from cancer. The functions of microbiome in cancer metastasis have...
Glycans are present exogenously in the diet, expressed and secreted endogenously by host cells, and produced by microbes. All of these processes result in them being available to the gut microbiome, firmly placing glycans at the interface of diet&nda...
Menopause represents a key transitional phase in women’s health, characterized by declining estrogen levels and increased risk for cardiometabolic, musculoskeletal, and urogenital disorders. Beyond its endocrine roots, emerging evidence highlig...
The intestinal microbiome plays a critical role in host immune function and homeostasis. Patients suffering from—as well as models representing—multiple traumatic injuries, isolated organ system trauma, and various severities of traumatic...
Agricultural management influences the soil ecosystem by affecting its physicochemical properties, residues of pesticides and microbiome. As vineyards grow crops with the highest incidence of pesticides, the aim of this study was to evaluate the impa...
The endangered Pallid Sturgeon, Scaphirhynchus albus, has been actively managed to prevent population declines, including stocking of hatchery-raised fish. The gut microbiome plays an innate role in an organism’s absorption of nutrients by incr...
Insects associate with a diversity of microbes that can shape host ecology and diversity by providing essential biological and adaptive services. For most insect groups, the evolutionary implications of host–microbe interactions remain poorly underst...
Complementary feeding transitions infants from a milk-based diet to solid foods, providing essential nutrients to the infant and the developing gut microbiome while influencing immune development. Some of the earliest microbial colonisers readily fer...
Dysbiosis refers to a reduction in microbial diversity, combined with a loss of beneficial taxa, and an increase in pathogenic microorganisms. Dysbiosis of the intestinal microbiota can have a substantial effect on the nervous and immune systems, con...
This review outlines technological advances in pathogen identification and describes the development and evolution of next-generation sequencers that can be applied to the ocular microbiome. Traditional methods such as culture and PCR have limitation...
This study aimed to investigate the microbiome profile of Culex pipiens, the most abundant mosquito and pathogen vector in the Palearctic, and to find microbiome region and ecotype specificity. The taxon Cx. pipiens includes two ecotypes—pipien...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer 17 are two of the most prevalent and debilitating respiratory diseases worldwide, both associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. As major global health concerns, they impose a sub...
The gut microbiome significantly influences the health and productivity of silkworms (Bombyx mori), the cornerstone of sericulture. With the increasing use of cost-effective artificial diets in sericulture, it is crucial to understand how these diets...
Musculoskeletal conditions of traumatic and non-traumatic origin represent an ongoing health challenge. While the last three decades have seen significant advancement in our understanding of musculoskeletal conditions, the mechanisms of a delayed or...
Oral mucosa healing is a complex process that involves the innate wound healing system, including the coagulation cascade, extracellular matrix remodeling, immune cell responses, and fibroblast and epithelial responses, within the context of a dynami...
Bactrocera tryoni (Froggatt) (Queensland fruit fly, or “Qfly”) is a highly polyphagous tephritid fruit fly and a serious economic pest in Australia. Qfly biology is intimately linked to the bacteria and fungi of its microbiome. While ther...
Global climate change has altered temperature regimes, hydrological stability, and redox dynamics in inland waters, yet the continental-scale impact of these alterations on sediment microbiomes remains poorly understood. Here, we compiled 562 publicl...
Background/Objectives: The cervicovaginal microbiome has emerged as a critical determinant of cervical health. In this study, we aimed to characterize the cervicovaginal microbiome across a spectrum of cervical health states and to identify community...
This study was conducted to identify the composition and diversity of the microbiome in tissues of pancreatic cancer and to determine its role. First, extracellular vesicles (EVs) were obtained from the paired tumor and normal tissues, and 16s rRNA g...
Considering that pigs are naturally weaned between 12 and 18 weeks of age, the common practice in the modern swine industry of weaning as early as between two and four weeks of age increases challenges during this transition period. Indeed, young pig...
The growing demand for sustainable and nutritionally optimized protein sources has positioned edible insects as promising platforms for next-generation food and feed systems. Although insect composition varies with diet, the deliberate engineering of...
Each individual has a unique gut microbiota; therefore, the genes in our microbiome outnumber the genes in our genome by about 150 to 1. Perturbation in host nutritional status influences gut microbiome composition and vice versa. The gut microbiome...
The pathogenesis of obesity is complex and incompletely understood, with an underlying interplay between our genetic architecture and obesogenic environment. The public understanding of the development of obesity is shrouded in myths with widespread...
The skin is the first barrier the body has to protect itself from the environment. There are several bacteria that populate the skin, and their composition may change throughout the dog’s life due to several factors, such as environmental chang...
The gut microbiota is recognized as a programmable metabolic organ that governs systemic homeostasis. Recent advances (2023–2025) have pivoted Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) research from a host-centric perspective toward a failure of bidirect...
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