Bacteria in wounds, Oxalobacter and kidney stones, harbor seals, sables, leeches, response to afforestation, subglacial lake, polluted river water.

Human skin and wound microbiome

Bacterial Contribution in Chronicity of Wounds – Kashif Rahim – Microbial Ecology

Human gut microbiome

The fecal microbiota as a biomarker for disease activity in Crohn’s disease – Danyta. I. Tedjo – Scientific Reports

Review: Fungi in the healthy human gastrointestinal tract – Heather E. Hallen-Adams – Virulence

Animal and other experiments

Anti-obese effects of two lactobacilli and two bifidobacteria on ICR mice fed on a high fat diet – Zhipeng Li – Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Skin microbiome promotes mast cell maturation by triggering stem cell factor (SCF) production in keratinocytes – Zhenping Wang – Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Diet-related gut bacterial dysbiosis correlates with impaired development, increased mortality and Nosema disease in the honeybee (Apis mellifera) – Patrick W. Maes – Molecular Ecology

Oxalobacter formigenes–Derived Bioactive Factors Stimulate Oxalate Transport by Intestinal Epithelial Cells – Donna Arvans – Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Press: Factors secreted by gut bacteria may help combat kidney stones – Science Daily

Protein- and zinc-deficient diets modulate the murine microbiome and metabolic phenotype – Jordi Mayneris-Perxachs – The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Animal microbiome

Comparative analysis of the fecal bacterial community of five harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) – Daniela Numberger – MicrobiologyOpen

Comparison of the bacterial communities in feces from wild versus housed sables (Martes zibellina) by high-throughput sequence analysis of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene – Yu Guan – AMB Express

Host Matters: Medicinal Leech Digestive-Tract Symbionts and Their Pathogenic Potential – Jeremiah N. Marden – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Interkingdom Responses to Bacterial Quorum Sensing Signals Regulate Frequency and Rate of Nodulation in Legume–Rhizobia Symbiosis – Andrew G. Palmer – ChemBioChem

Development of Soil Bacterial Communities in Volcanic Ash Microcosms in a Range of Climates – Dorsaf Kerfahi – Microbial Ecology

Response of soil microbial community to afforestation with pure and mixed species – Anna Gunina – Plant and Soil

Experimental Climate Change Modifies Degradative Succession in Boreal Peatland Fungal Communities – Asma Asemaninejad – Microbial Ecology

The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in grain production and nutrition of sorghum genotypes: Enhancing sustainability through plant-microbial partnership – Adam B. Cobb – Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal assemblages in biological crusts from a Neotropical savanna are not related to the dominant perennial Trachypogon – R.M. Hernández-Hernández – Science of the Total Environment

Review: Belowground nitrogen transfer from legumes to non-legumes under managed herbaceous cropping systems. A review – Malinda S. Thilakarathna – Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Water and extremophile microbiome

Virulence and biodegradation potential of dynamic microbial communities associated with decaying Cladophora in Great Lakes – Chan Lan Chun – Science of The Total Environment

A monotonically declining elevational pattern of bacterial diversity in freshwater lake sediments – Jin Zeng – Environmental Microbiology

Grazers structure the bacterial and algal diversity of aquatic metacommunities – Julia Birtel – Ecology

Changes of the bacterial abundance and communities in shallow ice cores from Dunde and Muztagata glaciers, Tibetan Plateau – Yong Chen – Frontiers in Microbiology

Physiological ecology of microorganisms in Subglacial Lake Whillans – Trista J. Vick-Majors – Frontiers in Microbiology

Built environment microbiome

Microorganisms in Confined Habitats: Microbial Monitoring and Control of Intensive Care Units, Operating Rooms, Cleanrooms and the International Space Station – Maximilian Mora – Frontiers in Microbiology

Waste and pollution microbiology

Environmental Drivers of Differences in Microbial Community Structure in Crude Oil Reservoirs across a Methanogenic Gradient – Jenna L. Shelton – Frontiers in Microbiology

Metagenomic Insights into Effects of Chemical Pollutants on Microbial Community Composition and Function in Estuarine Sediments Receiving Polluted River Water – Xiao-Ming Lu – Microbial Ecology

Response of Core Microbial Consortia to Chronic Hydrocarbon Contaminations in Coastal Sediment Habitats – Mathilde Jeanbille – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bioinformatics and metagenomics

Bacterial human virulence genes across diverse habitats as assessed by in silico analysis of environmental metagenomes – Ditte A. Søborg – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

Reflections on 1500 blog posts at #microbenet – David Coil – Microbe.net

Staff Pick: ‘I Contain Multitudes’ by Ed Yong – Publishers Weekly

Mapping the Subway’s Microbiome – Grégory Fléchet – CNRS News

Your child’s microbiome, and why its health matters – Jennifer Graham – Statesboro Herald

Enquiring About Tolerance (EAT) study: Second Genome, King’s College London study eczema, food allergies in infants – Healio

The ‘Swiss Agent’: Long-forgotten research unearths new mystery about Lyme disease – Charles Piller – STAT News

What radiation-resistant space fungus can do for drug discovery – Shayla Love – STAT News

3 New Vaccines Against ‘Black Death’ Plague Bacteria Show Promise – Rachael Rettner – Live Science

Scientists engineer ‘glow in the dark’ bacteria – to help spot the bugs that cause food poisoning – Lizzie Parry – The Sun

If you want to make bacteria glow, give it a virus – Ben Coxworth – New Atlas

How the Gut Microbiome May Help Us Prevent IBD – Science Blog