Human gut microbiome

Aberrant IgA responses to the gut microbiota during infancy precedes asthma and allergy development – Majda Dzidic – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Plasmid metagenomics reveals multiple antibiotic resistance gene classes among the gut microbiomes of hospitalised patients – Tossawan Jitwasinkul – Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance

Review: The Role of the Microbiome in Gastrointestinal Cancer – Lydia E. Wroblewski – Gastroenterology Clinics of North America

Animal experiments

The Spectrum and Regulatory Landscape of Intestinal Innate Lymphoid Cells Are Shaped by the Microbiome – Meital Gury-BenAri – Cell

Animal microbiome

The Gut Microbiomes of Two Pachysoma MacLeay Desert Dung Beetle Species (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) Feeding on Different Diets – Philippa Z. N. Franzini – PLOS ONE

A different gut microbial community between larvae and adults of a wild bumblebee nest (Bombus pascuorum) – Anneleen Parmentier – Insect Science

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Plant Growth Promotion and Suppression of Bacterial Leaf Blight in Rice by Inoculated Bacteria – Sumera Yasmin – PLOS One

Bioinformatics

NCBI prokaryotic genome annotation pipeline – Tatiana Tatusova – Nucleic Acids Research

More microbiology

Design, synthesis, and testing toward a 57-codon genome – Nili Ostrov – Science

Microbes in the news

New polio cases in Nigeria spur massive response – Leslie Roberts – Science

Science, publishing, and career

This woman may know a secret to saving the brain’s synapses – Emily Underwood – Science