General Microbiome
Review: Ecology of the Oral Microbiome: Beyond Bacteria – Jonathon L. Baker – Trends in Microbiology
Dietary High Zinc Oxide Modulates the Microbiome of Ileum and Colon in Weaned Piglets – Ting Yu – Frontiers in Microbiology
Clostridium difficile colonizes alternative nutrient niches during infection across distinct murine gut environments – Matthew L Jenior – BioRxiv
Review: Strategies to promote abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila, an emerging probiotics in the gut, evidence from dietary intervention studies – Kequan Zhou – Journal of Functional Foods
Protective effects of milk fermented by Lactobacillus plantarum B7 from Brazilian artisanal cheese on a Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium infection in BALB/c mice – Journal of Functional Foods
Pathogens
Molecular Demonstration of a Pneumocystis Outbreak in Stem Cell Transplant Patients: Evidence for Transmission in the Daycare Center – Frontiers in Microbiology
A New Rabbit-skin Model to Evaluate Protective Efficacy of Tuberculosis Vaccines – Xun Liu – Frontiers in Microbiology
Molecular epidemiology and antibiotic resistance profiles of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains in a tertiary hospital in China – Haishen Kong – Frontiers in Microbiology
Environmental Microbiology
Microbial community assembly differs by mineral type in the rhizosphere – Thea Whitman – BioRxiv
Interaction between DAPG and HCN producing Pseudomonas brassicacearum LBUM300 and Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis in the rhizosphere of tomato – Applied Environmental Microbiology
Nitrogen-Fixing Populations Of Planctomycetes And Proteobacteria Are Abundant In The Surface Ocean – Tom O. Delmont – BioRxiv
Bacterial communities in boreal forest mushrooms are shaped both by soil parameters and host identity – Mari Pent – Frontiers in Microbiology
Genomics
Isoprenoid Pyrophosphate-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation of Carotenogenesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum – Nadja A. Henke – Frontiers in Microbiology
Whole genome sequencing of 7 strains of Staphylococcus lugdunensis allows identification of mobile genetic elements – Xavier Argemi – Genome Biology and Evolution
Pooled CRISPR interference screens enable high-throughput functional genomics study and elucidate new rules for guide RNA library design in Escherichia coli – Tianmin Wang – BioRxiv
Evolution
Tunneling through time: Horizontal gene transfer constrains the timing of methanogen evolution – Joanna M. Wolfe – BioRxiv
Bioinformatics
AliTV-interactive visualization of whole genome comparisons – Markus J. Ankenbrand – PeerJ (not peer-reviewed)
TaxaSE: Exploiting evolutionary conservation within 16S rDNA sequences for enhanced taxonomic annotation – Ali Z Ijaz – PeerJ (not peer-reviewed)
Other
Preprinting Microbiology – Patrick D Schloss – BioRxiv
Non – Microbiology picks
News: Scientists across the world take to the streets to demand freedom from political interference – The Telegraph (via Yahoo News)
Human umbilical cord plasma proteins revitalize hippocampal function in aged mice – Joseph M. Castellano – Nature