Bacteria in desert soils, mycobacteria in showerhead biofilms, metabolic diversity of microbes from commercial probiotics.

Human gut microbiome

Pre-print: Evaluating bacterial and functional diversity of human gut microbiota by complementary metagenomics and metatranscriptomics – Ravi Ranjan – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Pre-print: Olive fruit fly rearing procedures affect the vertical transmission of the bacterial symbiont Candidatus Erwinia dacicola – Patrizia Sacchetti – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Survey of bacteria associated with western corn rootworm life stages reveals no difference between insects reared in different soils – Dalton C Ludwick – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Influences of fertilization on soil environment and microorganism in continuous cropping based on high-throughput sequencing – Zhang YiJie – Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology

Review: Consortia of cyanobacteria/microalgae and bacteria in desert soils: an underexplored microbiota – Isiri Perera – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Effects of cover crop in an apple orchard on microbial community composition, networks, and potential genes involved with degradation of crop residues in soil – Wei Zheng – Biology and Fertility of Soils

Microbial Community Level Physiological Profiles of Active Mud Volcano Soils in Andaman and Nicobar Islands – N Amaresan – National Academy Science Letters

Water and extremophile microbiome

Pre-print: Interspecies interactions mediated by conductive minerals in the sediments of the ferruginous Lake La Cruz, Spain – Amelia-Elena Rotaru – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Microbial community structure and microbial networks correspond to nutrient gradients within coastal wetlands of the Laurentian Great Lakes – Dean J Horton – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Hidden in plain sight – highly abundant and diverse planktonic freshwater Chloroflexi – Maliheh Mehrshad – bioRxiv

Built environment

Pre-print: Ecological analyses of mycobacteria in showerhead biofilms and their relevance to human health – Matthew Gebert – bioRxiv

Probiotics/prebiotics

Pre-print: Metabolic diversity of bacteria and yeast from commercial probiotic products illustrated by phenotypic profiling – Juliana Mastronunzio Ansari – bioRxiv

Phages and viruses

Pre-print: Quality control implementation for universal characterization of DNA and RNA viruses in clinical respiratory samples using single metagenomic next-generation sequencing workflow – Antonin Bal – bioRxiv

More microbes

Species-specific activity of antibacterial drug combinations – Ana Rita Brochado – Nature

Science, career, and publishing

Hot streaks in artistic, cultural, and scientific careers – Lu Liu – Nature

Amy’s non-microbiology picks

Reprogramming human T cell function and specificity with non-viral genome targeting – Theodore L Roth – Nature