Today’s digest presents reviews covering potential of microbiome in olfactory communication and oral-gut microbiome axis in rheumatoid arthritis; articles on association of human gut microbiome with different diseases; news on antibiotics and scientific data on personality types in humans.

General microbiome

Review: The Extended Genotype: Microbially Mediated Olfactory Communication – Alexandra J.R. Carthey – Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Talk to your gut: the oral-gut microbiome axis and its immunomodulatory role in the etiology of rheumatoid arthritis – Marines du Teil Espina – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Commmentary: Regulating stool for microbiota transplantation – Pilar N Ossorio – Gut microbes

Proteomics and the microbiome: pitfalls and potential – Huafeng Lin – Expert Review of Proteomics

Pregnancy and early life

Postnatal exposure to household disinfectants, infant gut microbiota and subsequent risk of overweight in children – Mon H. Tun – Canadian Medical Association Journal

Human gut microbiome

Gut Microbiota Differs in Composition and Functionality Between Children With Type 1 Diabetes, MODY2, and Healthy Control Subjects: A Case-Control Study – Isabel Leiva-Gea – Diabetes Care

Analysis of gut microbiota profiles and microbe-disease associations in children with autism spectrum disorders in China – Mengxiang Zhang – Scientific Reports

Mucosal microbiota of intestinal polyps reveals putative biomarkers of colorectal cancer – Marta Mangifesta – Scientific Reports

Predicting recurrence of Clostridium difficile infection following encapsulated fecal microbiota transplantation – Christopher Staley – Microbiome

Could fecal phenylacetic and phenylpropionic acids be used as indicators of health status? – Isabel Gutiérrez-Díaz – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemisty

Altered intestinal antibacterial gene expression response profile in irritable bowel syndrome is linked to bacterial composition and immune activation – Sean M. P. Bennet – Neurogastroenterology and Motility

Animal experiments

Melatonin reprogramming of gut microbiota improves lipid dysmetabolism in high fat diet-fed mice – Jie Yin – Journal of Pineal Research

Water and extremophile microbiome

Dynamics of microbial populations mediating biogeochemical cycling in a freshwater lake – Keith Arora-Williams – Microbiome

Probiotics/Prebiotics

The Impact of Probiotic Supplements on Cognitive Parameters in Euthymic Individuals with Bipolar Disorder: A Pilot Study – Eva Z Reininghaus – Neuropsychobiology

Microbes in the news

The case for expensive antibiotics – http://www.wired.com

Crucial antibiotics still used on US farms despite public health fear – The Guardian

Non-microbiology picks

A robust data-driven approach identifies four personality types across four large data sets – Martin Gerlach – Nature Human Behaviour