The first digest on this website features the microbiomes of saliva, placenta, and planes. Enjoy!

Oral microbiome papers

• Altered Oral Viral Ecology in Association with Periodontal Disease – Melissa Ly (in: mBio)
• Microbial Community Profiling of Human Saliva Using Shotgun Metagenomic Sequencing – Nur A. Hasan (in: PLOS ONE)

Gut microbiome papers

• Impacts of Plant-Based Foods in Ancestral Hominin Diets on the Metabolism and Function of Gut Microbiota In Vitro – Gary S. Frost (in: mBio)
• Should We Build “Obese” or “Lean” Anaerobic Digesters? – Aurelio Briones (in: PLOS ONE)
• Regulation of host weight gain and lipid metabolism by bacterial bile acid modification in the gut – Susan A. Joyce (in: PNAS)
• Phylogenetic distribution of three pathways for propionate production within the human gut microbiota – Nicole Reichardt (in: PNAS)

Pregnancy and birth microbiome papers

• The Placenta Harbors a Unique Microbiome – Kjersti Aagaard (in: Science)
• High-fat maternal diet during pregnancy persistently alters the offspring microbiome in a primate model– Jun Ma (in: Nature Communications)
• Every Newborn (Lancet special)
• Enterococcus faecalis from Healthy Infants Modulates Inflammation through MAPK Signaling Pathways – Shugui Wang (in: PLOS ONE)
• Mother’s milk mysteries – Robert Frederick (in: PNAS)

Respiratory microbiome  papers

• Changes in the Lung Microbiome following Lung Transplantation Include the Emergence of Two Distinct Pseudomonas Species with Distinct Clinical Associations – Robert P. Dickson (in: PLOS ONE)
• Nasal bacteria may be predictor of skin infections (Science Daily)

Environmental microbiome papers

• Bacterial phylogeny structures soil resistomes across habitats – Kevin J. Forsberg (in:  Nature)

Dr. Bik’s Picks

• From ASM: Planes Can Harbor Deadly Germs For 7 Days, Study Shows
• From ASM: Germs in the Gut May Affect Autism, Study Finds