Highlights: how microbes influence the system they inhabit, maternal microbial metabolism, gut microbiota in pancreatic disease and other metabolic disorders, core and staphylococcal microbiota in skin & nose of pigs, wheat head microbiome bacteria,  abundant & rare biospheres of hot springs, antibiotic degradation by microbes, virome.

General microbiome

Review: Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit – Ed K. Hall – Nature Microbiology

Male Bladder Microbiome Relates to Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms – Petar Bajic – European Urology Focus

Pregnancy and early life

Is maternal microbial metabolism an early-life determinant of health? – Kymberleigh A. Romano – LabAnimal

Human oral microbiome

The oral microbiome in oral lichen planus during a one‐year randomized clinical trial – Camilla Kragelund – Oral Diseases

Human respiratory microbiome

Interaction between the microbiome and TP53 in human lung cancer – K. Leigh Greathouse – Genome Biology

Human gut microbiome

The Gut Microbiome in Pancreatic Disease – Venkata S. Akshintala – Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology

FXR-Dependent Modulation of the Human Small Intestinal Microbiome by the Bile Acid Derivative Obeticholic Acid – Elliot S. Friedman – Gastroenterology

Review: Role of gut microbiota in chronic low‐grade inflammation as potential driver for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a systematic review of human studies – I. C. L. van den Munckhof – Obesity Reviews

Bile acid homeostasis and intestinal dysbiosis in alcoholic hepatitis – Dragos Ciocan – Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics

Characterization and induction of prophages in human gut-associated Bifidobacterium hosts – Travis N. Mavrich – Scientific Reports

In Vitro Ecological Response of the Human Gut Microbiome to Bioactive Extracts from Edible Wild Mushrooms – Emanuel Vamanu – Molecules

Review: The journey of gut microbiome – An introduction and its influence on metabolic disorders – Ankita Chattopadhyay -Frontiers in Biology

Animal experiments 

Sulfated polysaccharide from sea cucumber modulates the gut microbiota and its metabolites in normal mice – Zhenjun Zhu – International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Chitin-based barrier immunity and its loss predated mucus-colonization by indigenous gut microbiota – Keisuke Nakashima – Nature Communications

Reduced particle size wheat bran is efficiently colonized by lactic acid producing community and reduces Enterobacteriaceae levels in the cecal microbiota of broilers – Karen Vermeulen – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

A High Salt Diet Modulates the Gut Microbiota and Short Chain Fatty Acids Production in a Salt-Sensitive Hypertension Rat Model – Ariel Bier – Nutrients

Animal microbiome 

A detailed investigation of the porcine skin and nose microbiome using universal and Staphylococcus specific primers – Mikael Lenz Strube – Scientific Reports

Characterization of bacterial microbiota compositions along the intestinal tract in pigs and their interactions and functions – Daniel Crespo-Piazuelo – Scientific Reports

Cnidarian Interaction with Microbial Communities: From Aid to Animal’s Health to Rejection Responses – Loredana Stabili – Marine Drugs

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Wheat microbiome bacteria can reduce virulence of a plant pathogenic fungus by altering histone acetylation – Yun Chen – Nature Communications

Biodegradation of oxytetracycline and enrofloxacin by autochthonous microbial communities from estuarine sediments – Malek Harrabi – Science of The Total Environment

Soil micro-food web interactions and rhizosphere priming effectSoil micro-food web interactions and rhizosphere priming effect – Xinchang Kou – Plant and Soil

Burkholderia pseudomallei-absent soil bacterial community results in secondary metabolites that kill this pathogen – Chotima Potisap – AMB Express

Variation in the leaf and root microbiome of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) at an elevational range limit – Jessica Wallace – PeerJ

Contrasting responses of the bacterial communities in ectomycorrhizal roots and rhizosphere soils to defoliation or winter hardening – Hironari Izumi – Rhizosphere

Water and extremophile microbiome 

Abundant and rare microbial biospheres respond differently to environmental and spatial factors in Tibetan hot springs – Yanmin Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Built environment 

Review: Microbiology of the built environment – Jack A Gilbert – Nature Reviews

Application of hybrid anaerobic reactor: Treatment of increasing cyanide containing effluents and microbial composition identification – Pragya Gupta – Journal of Environmental Management

A little breath of fresh air into an anaerobic system: How microaeration facilitates anaerobic digestion process – Duc Nguyen – Biotechnology Advances

Managing microbial communities in membrane biofilm reactors – A. Ontiveros-Valencia – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Phages and viruses

Preprint: May the phage be with you? Prophage-like elements in the genomes of Soft Rot Pectobacteriaceae (Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp.) – Robert Czajkowski – bioRxiv

Occurrence, integrity and functionality of AcaML1–like viruses infecting extreme acidophiles of the Acidithiobacillus species complex – Paulo C. Covarrubias – Research in Microbiology

Chapter: Robust Analysis of Time Series in Virome Metagenomics – Jose Manuel Martí – The Human Virome

Chapter: A Method for Isolation of the Virome from Plasma Samples – Pilar Domingo-Calap – The Human Virome

Chapter: Virome Sequencing of Stool Samples – Lenka Kramná – The Human Virome

Chapter: Protocol for Generating Infectious RNA Viromes from Complex Biological Samples – Sonia Monteil-Bouchard – The Human Virome

Techniques

Review: Transcriptome Sequencing Approaches to Elucidate Host–Microbe Interactions in Opportunistic Human Fungal Pathogens – Hrant Hovhannisyan – Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology 

Chapter: Flow Cytometry and Direct Sequencing of Viruses – Mária Džunková – The Human Virome