Cockatiel microbiome, a hibernating frog, Baltic Sea, a book about starter cultures, microbial divisions of labor.

Human oral/respiratory microbiome

Mycobiome in the Lower Respiratory Tract – a Clinical Perspective – Robert Krause – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: A Review of Analytical Techniques and Their Application in Disease Diagnosis in Breathomics and Salivaomics Research – David J. Beale – Int J Mol Sci

Human gut microbiome

Impact of Amoxicillin/Clavulanate and Autologous Fecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) on the Fecal Microbiome and Resistome – Christopher Bulow – Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Review: The Development of Our Organ of Other Kinds—The Gut Microbiota – Shirong Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Food Additives and Contaminants: Effects on Human Gut Microbiota—A Review – Paula Roca-Saavedra – Preprints

Animal experiments

Generation of Germ-Free Ciona intestinalis for Studies of Gut-Microbe Interactions – Brittany A. Leigh – Frontiers in Microbiology

Review: Emerging Sponge Models of Animal-Microbe Symbioses – Lucia Pita – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Exploring the methanogen and bacterial communities of rumen environments: solid adherent, fluid and epimural – Thijs De Mulder – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Diversity of the Bacterial Microbiota of Anopheles Mosquitoes from Binh Phuoc Province, Vietnam – Chung T. Ngo – Frontiers in Microbiology

Evaluating the Contribution of Gut Microbiota to the Variation of Porcine Fatness with the Cecum and Fecal Samples – Maozhang He – Frontiers in Microbiology

* Exploring the cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus) fecal microbiome, bacterial inhabitants of a worldwide pet – Luis David Alcaraz – PeerJ

* Functional analysis for gut microbes of the brown tree frog (Polypedates megacephalus) in artificial hibernation – Francis Cheng-Hsuan Weng – BMC Genomics

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Long-term effects of aided phytostabilization on microbial communities of metal-contaminated mine soil– Olatz Garaiyurrebaso – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Dynamics in the Strawberry Rhizosphere Microbiome in Response to Biochar and Botrytis cinerea Leaf Infection – Caroline De Tender – Frontiers in Microbiology

Expanding the Repertoire of Carbapenem-Hydrolyzing Metallo-ß-Lactamases by Functional Metagenomic Analysis of Soil Microbiota – Dereje D. Gudeta – Frontiers in Microbiology

High Diversity of Planctomycetes in Soils of Two Lichen-Dominated Sub-Arctic Ecosystems of Northwestern Siberia – Anastasia A. Ivanova – Frontiers in Microbiology

Editorial: Microbiota of Grapes: Positive and Negative Role on Wine Quality – Giuseppe Spano – Frontiers in Microbiology

Aspect has a greater impact on alpine soil bacterial community structure than elevation – Jieyun Wu – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

* Local Environmental Conditions Shape Generalist But Not Specialist Components of Microbial Metacommunities in the Baltic Sea – Markus V. Lindh – Frontiers in Microbiology

A High-Level Fungal Diversity in the Intertidal Sediment of Chinese Seas Presents the Spatial Variation of Community Composition – Wei Li – Frontiers in Microbiology

Viral induced microbial mortality in Arctic hypersaline spring sediments – Jesse Colangelo-Lillis – Frontiers in Microbiology

Stable and Variable Parts of Microbial Community in Siberian Deep Subsurface Thermal Aquifer System Revealed in a Long-Term Monitoring Study – Yulia A. Frank – Frontiers in Microbiology

Marine Subsurface Microbial Community Shifts Across a Hydrothermal Gradient in Okinawa Trough Sediments – Leah D. Brandt – Archaea

Waste and pollution microbiology

Temporal dynamics of microbial communities in microcosms in response to pollutants – Shuo Jiao – Molecular Ecology

Cultural heritage microbiology

Sloth: Survey of the state of conservation of the Mylodon listai (Xenarthra-Mylodontidae) skin fragment from the Pleistocene of Argentina kept at the Museum of La Plata (Argentina) – Daniela Silvana Nitiu – Ge-conservación

Food microbiology

* Book: Starter Cultures in Food Production – Barbara Speranza

Biofilm microbiome

Molecular methods resolve the bacterial composition of natural marine biofilms on galvanically coupled stainless steel cathodes – Athenia L. Oldham – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Metagenomics and bioinformatics

Characterization of Uncultured Genome Fragment from Soil Metagenomic Library Exposed Rare Mismatch of Internal Tetranucleotide Frequency – Yunpeng Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology

RiboTagger: fast and unbiased 16S/18S profiling using whole community shotgun metagenomic or metatranscriptome surveys – Chao Xie – BMC Bioinformatics

More microbiology

Review: Chronic infections with viruses or parasites: breaking bad to make good – Andrew Godkin – Immunology

Biocontrol of Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria and bacterial phytopathogens by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus – Damian McNeely – Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Fitness Impact of Obligate Intranuclear Bacterial Symbionts Depends on Host Growth Phase – Chiara Bella – Frontiers in Microbiology

* Review: Understanding Microbial Divisions of Labor – Zheren Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbes in the news

How Does a Fatty Acid Protect Pathogenic Bacteria Against Antibiotics? – Nicola M. Parry – Contagion Live

How Microcosms help us understand ecology – James MacDonald – JSTOR Daily

Takuji Yamada – Early cancer intervention with gut bacteria – Tokyo Tech Researchers

How Probiotics Could Help Prevent Atopic Dermatitis – Kenneth Bender – Specialty Pharmacy Times