A model to study the effect of horizontal gene transfer on maintaining equilibrium in microbial communities, antimicrobial tolerance in brewery biofilms, the sperm whale microbiota.
General microbiome
Horizontal Gene Transfer Can Help Maintain the Equilibrium of Microbial Communities – Yuhang Fan – Journal of Theoretical Biology
Human gut microbiome
Review: Carcinogenesis as a Result of Multiple Inflammatory and Oxidative Hits: a Comprehensive Review from Tumor Microenvironment to Gut Microbiota – Floriana Morgillo – Neoplasia
Animal experiments
Extrathymically Generated Regulatory T Cells Establish a Niche for Intestinal Border-Dwelling Bacteria and Affect Physiologic Metabolite Balance – Clarissa Campbell – Immunity
Animal microbiome
Pre-print: Microbiome interaction networks and community structure from lab-reared and field-collected Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, and Culex quinquefasciatus mosquito vectors – Shivanand Hegde – bioRxiv
Pre-print: Metagenomics reveals diet-specific specialization in fungus gardens of grass- and dicot-cutter ants – Lily Khadempour – bioRxiv
Occurrence of anthropozoonotic parasitic infections and faecal microbes in free-ranging sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) from the Mediterranean Sea – Carlos Hermosilla – Parasitology Research
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Root-associated bacteria influencing mycelial growth of Tricholoma matsutake (pine mushroom) – Seung-Yoon Oh – Journal of Microbiology
Determinants of Soil Bacterial and Fungal Community Composition Toward Carbon-Use Efficiency Across Primary and Secondary Forests in a Costa Rican Conservation Area – Katie M McGee – Microbial Ecology
Water and extremophile microbiome
Pre-print: Competition and Synergy Between Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus Under Ocean Acidification Conditions – James Jeffrey Morris – bioRxiv
Quantifying the Relative Contributions of Environmental Sources to the Microbial Community in an Urban Stream under Dry and Wet Weather Conditions – Darshan Baral – Applied and Environmental Microbiology
The deep continental subsurface: the dark biosphere – Cristina Escudero – International Microbiology
Food microbiology
Competitive inter-species interactions underlie the increased antimicrobial tolerance in multispecies brewery biofilms – Ilse Parijs – ISME Journal
Phages and viruses
Influence of gut microbiome on mucosal immune activation and SHIV viral transmission in naive macaques – Yongjun Sui – Mucosal Immunity
Techniques
Does universal 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of environmental communities provide an accurate description of nitrifying guilds? – Vaibhav Diwan – Journal of Microbiological Methods