Circadian clocks are ubiquitous timing systems that induce rhythms of biological activities in synchrony with night and day.In the first highlighted paper the authors present the structural basis of the day-night transition in a cyanobacterial circadian clock. The second highlighted paper evaluated the effects of antibiotic treatment on the honeybee gut microbiome. The authors found that exposure to antibiotics significantly alters the honeybee gut microbial community structure and leads to decreased survival.

General microbiome

Biohybrid Microtube Swimmers Driven by Single Captured Bacteria – Morgan M. Stanton – Small

Structural basis of the day-night transition in a bacterial circadian clock – Roger Tseng – Science

Pregnancy and early life

Breast Milk Polyamines and Microbiota Interactions: Impact of Mode of Delivery and Geographical Location – C Gómez-Gallego  – Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism

 
Human respiratory microbiome

Modulation of behaviour and virulence of a high alginate expressing Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain from cystic fibrosis by oral commensal bacterium Streptococcus anginosus – RD Waite  – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Transfer of dysbiotic gut microbiota has beneficial effects on host liver metabolism – Simon Nicolas – Molecular Systems Biology

Fecal microbiota transplantation induces hepatitis B virus e-antigen (HBeAg) clearance in patients with positive HBeAg after long-term antiviral therapy – Yan-Dan Ren – Hepatology

The Microbiome and Host Behavior – Vuong HE – Annual Review of Neuroscience

Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, the Gut Microbiome, and Diet – Zeinab Mokhtari – Advances in Nutrition

Animal experiments

Intestinal transcriptome modulation by functional diets in rainbow trout: A high-throughput sequencing appraisal to highlight GALT immunomodulation – Ana Teresa Gonçalves – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Effects of Gliadin consumption on the Intestinal Microbiota and Metabolic Homeostasis in Mice Fed a High-fat Diet – Li Zhang – Scientific Reports

Oral administration of synthetic porcine beta-defensin-2 improves growth performance and cecal microbial flora and down-regulates the expression of intestinal toll-like receptor-4 and inflammatory cytokines in weaned piglets challenged with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli – Zhiru Tang – Animal Science Journal

RNA-Based Stable Isotope Probing Suggests Allobaculum spp. as Particularly Active Glucose Assimilators in a Complex Murine Microbiota Cultured In Vitro – Elena Herrmann – BioMed Research International

Animal microbiome

Antibiotic exposure perturbs the gut microbiota and elevates mortality in honeybees – Kasie Raymann – PLOS Biology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Accessing the Carbofuran Degradation Ability of Cultures From Natural River Biofilms in Different Environments – Chien-Jung Tien – CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water

Impact of Agri-Usable Nanocompounds on Soil Microbial Activity: An Indicator of Soil Health – Priyanka Khati – CLEAN – Soil, Air, Water

Complete genome sequence of Pseudomonas citronellolis P3B5, a candidate for microbial phyllo-remediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated sites – Mitja N.P. Remus-Emsermann – SIGS Standards in Genomic Sciences

Is the methanogenic community reflecting the methane emissions of river sediments?—comparison of two study sites – Prem Prashant Chaudhary – Microbiology Open

Water and extremophile microbiome

Characterizing and predicting cyanobacterial blooms in an 8-year amplicon sequencing time-course – Nicolas Tromas – bioRxiv

Effect of pesticides on microbial communities in container aquatic habitats – Ephantus J. Muturi – Scientific Reports

Serpentinization-Influenced Groundwater Harbors Extremely Low Diversity Microbial Communities Adapted to High pH – KI Twing – Frontiers in Microbiology

Dynamic Succession of Groundwater Sulfate-Reducing Communities during Prolonged Reduction of Uranium in a Contaminated Aquifer – Ping Zhang – Environmental Science & Technology

Reactivation of Deep Subsurface Microbial Community in Response to Methane or Methanol Amendment – Pauliina Rajala – Frontiers in Microbiology

Built environment

Nanoscale zero-valent iron/persulfate enhanced upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor for dye removal: Insight into microbial metabolism and microbial community – Fei Pan – Scientific reports

Probiotics / prebiotics

Achieving High Yield of Lactic Acid for Antimicrobial Characterization in Cephalosporin-Resistant Lactobacillus by the Co-Expression of the Phosphofructokinase and Glucokinase – Gong Y – Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Phages and viruses

Inflammation boosts bacteriophage transfer between Salmonella spp.– Médéric Diard – Science

Bioinformatics

microclass: an R-package for 16S taxonomy classification – Kristian Hovde Liland – BMC Bioinformatics

Microbes in the news

Team finds new way that bacteria lay siege to neighboring cells by hijacking two factors involved in protein synthesis – Phys.Org