Human oral microbiome
Complex Intratissue Microbiota Forms Biofilms in Periodontal Lesions – Baek K – Journal of Dental Research
Human vaginal microbiome
Lactobacillus iners-dominated vaginal microbiota is associated with increased susceptibility to Chlamydia trachomatis infection in Dutch women: a case–control study – Robin van Houdt – Sexually Transmitted Infections
Human gut microbiome
[Review] Modulation of Type 1 Diabetes Risk by the Intestinal Microbiome – Knip M – Current Diabetes Reports
[Review] The Relationship Between the Human Genome and Microbiome Comes into View – Julia K. Goodrich – Annual Review of Genetics
Animal microbiome
[pre-print] The virome of Drosophila suzukii, an invasive pest of soft fruit – Nathan C. Medd – bioRxiv
Characterisation of North American Brucella isolates from marine mammals – Adrian M. Whatmore – PLOS ONE
Denitrification potential of the eastern oyster microbiome using a 16S rRNA gene based metabolic inference approach – Ann Arfken – PLOS ONE
Effects of Eimeria tenella infection on chicken caecal microbiome diversity, exploring variation associated with severity of pathology – Sarah E. Macdonald – PLOS ONE
Microbial characterization of bee pollen from the Vesuvius area collected by using three different traps – Gianluigi Mauriello – PLOS ONE
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Multiscale Investigation on Biofilm Distribution and its Impact on Macroscopic Biogeochemical Reaction Rates – Zhifeng Yan – Water Resources Research
Comparative metagenomics approaches to characterize the soil fungal communities of western coastal region, Saudi Arabia – Tarek A. A. Moussa – PLOS ONE
Bacterial and diazotrophic diversities of endophytes in Dendrobium catenatum determined through barcoded pyrosequencing – Ou Li – PLOS ONE
A secreted antibacterial neuropeptide shapes the microbiome of Hydra – René Augustin – Nature Communications
Probiotics / prebiotics
Methanobrevibacter attenuation via probiotic intervention reduces flatulence in adult human: A non-randomised paired-design clinical trial of efficacy – Minseok Seo – PLOS ONE
Bioinformatics
Predicting metabolic adaptation from networks of mutational paths – Christos Josephides & Peter S. Swain – Nature Communications
Microbes in the news
Florida Seawater Bacteria Death Toll Rises – Patch
Researchers Find New Microbial Communities in Human Body
Microbes on the market
Paris-based Eligo Bioscience secures $20 million to bring Precision Medicine to the Microbiome – EU-Startups
Science, publishing, and career
New open-access journal Metabarcoding & Metagenomics joins the lines of publisher Pensoft – EurekAlert!
Ed’s non-microbiology picks
Infants make more attempts to achieve a goal when they see adults persist – Julia A. Leonard – Science
University of Tokyo pair invent loop-based quantum computing technique
Cancer immunotherapy with recombinant poliovirus induces IFN-dominant activation of dendritic cells and tumor antigen–specific CTLs – Michael C. Brown – Science Translational Medicine
Stereodivergent synthesis with a programmable molecular machine – Salma Kassem, – Nature
Trispecific broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies mediate potent SHIV protection in macaques – Ling Xu – Science