Strain-level associations of gut microbes, symbiosis in a coral reef sponge, halophilic microbiota of table salt, and microbiota of the red snapper.
Pregnancy and early life
Studying vertical microbiome transmission from mothers to infants by strain-level metagenomic profiling – Francesco Asnicar – bioRxiv Preprint
Human oral microbiome
Salivary microbiota and caries occurrence in Mutans Streptococci-positive school children – M. ElSalhy – European Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
Microbiological and bioinformatics analysis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome patients with normal salivation – Huma Siddiqui – Journal of Oral Microbiology
Evaluation of buccal cell samples for studies of oral microbiota – Guoqin Yu – Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention
Human gut microbiome
Unusual sub-genus associations of faecal Prevotella and Bacteroides with specific dietary patterns – Francesca De Filippis – Microbiome
Review: The role of the commensal microbiota in adaptive and maladaptive stressor-induced immunomodulation – Amy R. Mackos – Hormones and Behavior
Review: Health Disparities and the Microbiome – Keisha Findley – Trends in Microbiology
Review: Emerging Technologies for Gut Microbiome Research – Jason W. Arnold – Trends in Microbiology
Review: Tiny microbes, enormous impacts: what matters in gut microbiome studies? – Justine Debelius – Genome Biology
Animal models
Illumina Miseq platform analysis caecum bacterial communities of rex rabbits fed with different antibiotics – Fuqin Zou – AMB Express
Animal microbiome
Draft Genomes Shed Light on the Dual Bacterial Symbiosis that Dominates the Microbiome of the Coral Reef Sponge Amphimedon queenslandica – Marie-Emilie A. Gauthier – Frontiers in Marine Science
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Assessing the role of endophytic bacteria in the halophyte Arthrocnemum macrostachyum salt tolerance – S. Navarro-Torre – Plant Biology
Control of Cortaderia selloana with a glyphosate-based herbicide led to a short-term stimulation of soil fungal communities – M. Anza – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
Water and extremophile microbiome
Trade-off between taxon diversity and functional diversity in European lake ecosystems
– Lars Grossmann – Molecular Ecology
Diversity of retrievable heterotrophic bacteria in Kongsfjorden, an Arctic fjord –
Rupesh Kumar Sinha – Brazilian Journal of Microbiology
Atmospheric aerosol deposition influences marine microbial communities in oligotrophic surface waters of the western Pacific Ocean – Teruya Maki – Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
Long-term dynamics in microbial eukaryotes communities: a paleolimnological view based on sedimentary DNA – Eric Capo – Molecular Ecology
Shifts in bacterial community structure during succession in a glacier foreland of the High Arctic – Mincheol Kim – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Food microbiology
Microbial culturomics unravels the halophilic microbiota repertoire of table salt: Description of Gracilibacillus massiliensis sp. nov. – Awa Diop – Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease
Microbiota of wild-caught Red Snapper Lutjanus campechanus – Andrea M. Tarnecki – BMC Microbiology
Archaea
Archaea in Natural and Impacted Brazilian Environments – Thiago Rodrigues – Archaea
Fungi
Sequence-based classification and identification of Fungi – David Hibbett – Mycologia
Metagenomics and bioinformatics
Filtration and Normalization of Sequencing Read Data in Whole-Metagenome Shotgun Samples – Philippe Chouvarine – PLOS ONE
Review: Genomic and functional techniques to mine the microbiome for novel antimicrobials and antimicrobial resistance genes – Boahemaa Adu-Oppong – Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Review: Translational metagenomics and the human resistome: confronting the menace of the new millennium – Matthias Willmann – Journal of Molecular Medicine
Metabolomics
Review: The Human Microbiome and Metabolomics: Current Concepts and Applications – Eric Banan-Mwine Daliri – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
Microbes in the news
Post publication peer review of mSystems migraine paper – Jonathan Eisen – Storify
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Teams Up on Coral Study – Cape Cod
Costly detox programmes slammed by nutrition experts – Susan Strongman – NZ Herald
The Nose Knows Beneficial Bacteria – Lindsey Bomar – ASM blog
Ph.D. student creates new way to treat antibiotic resistance – CCTV America
‘My father’s poo saved my life’: Woman who could not leave her bed due to her agonising chronic constipation reveals how a VERY personal transplant saved her life – Sophie Haslett – Daily Mail