Horizontal gene transfer in microbiomes, metabolic study of the microbiota isolated from the camel rumen, a review on the bacteriophage virome in IBD.

General microbiome

Review: Monitoring plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer in microbiomes: recent advances and future perspectives – Rafael Pinilla-Redondo – Plasmid

Review: Learning from bacterial competition in the host to develop antimicrobials – Manuela Raffatellu – Nature Medicine

Pregnancy and early life

Early life colonization of the human gut: microbes matter everywhere – Katri Korpela – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Determinants of the Nasal Microbiome: Pilot Study of Effects of Intranasal Medication Use – Vijay R Ramakrishnan – Allergy & Rhinology

Human skin microbiome

Sensitive scalp is associated with excessive sebum and perturbed microbiome – Li Ma – Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology

Animal experiments

Effects of host genetics and environmental conditions on fecal microbiota composition of pigs – Tereza Kubasova – PLOS ONE

Animal microbiome

A metagenomic analysis of the camel rumen’s microbiome identifies the major microbes responsible for lignocellulose degradation and fermentation – Javad Gharechahi – Biotechnology for Biofuels

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Nitrogen fixation in a landrace of maize is supported by a mucilage-associated diazotrophic microbiota – Allen Van Deynze – PLOS Biology

Brazilian Ironstone Plant Communities as Reservoirs of Culturable Bacteria With Diverse Biotechnological Potential – Washington L Caneschi – Frontiers in Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Coupling biogeochemical process rates and metagenomic blueprints of coastal bacterial assemblages in the context of environmental change – Trine Markussen – Environmental Microbiology

Pre-print: Resource diversity structures aquatic bacterial communities – Mario E Muscarella – bioRxiv

Pre-print: Modular assembly of polysaccharide-degrading microbial communities in the ocean – Tim N Enke – bioRxiv

Food microbiology

Review: Bakery yeasts, a new model for studies in ecology and evolution – Belen Carbonetto – Yeast

Inferences from inventories of microbes in ecological vineyard settings – Hans-Josef Schroers – International Journal of Environmental Quality

Phages and viruses

Review: Bacteriophage virome in IBD – Clemens Thoma – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Bioinformatics

Synthetic microbe communities provide internal reference standards for metagenome sequencing and analysis – Simon A Hardwick – Nature Communications