General microbiome

Multi-omics integrative analysis with genome-scale metabolic model simulation reveals global cellular adaptation of Aspergillus niger under industrial enzyme production condition – Hongzhong Lu, Scientific Reports

Botulinum Neurotoxin-Producing Bacteria. Isn’t It Time that We Called a Species a Species? – Theresa Smith, mBio

Sizing Up the Uncultured Microbial Majority – Laura A. Hug, mSystems

Pregnancy and early life

TLR Activation and Allergic Disease: Early Life Microbiome and Treatment – Kathryn R. Michels, Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Human gut microbiome

Lifestyle Factors Affecting the Gut Microbiota’s Relationship with Type 1 Diabetes – Elke Gülden, Current Diabetes Reports

Animal experiments

MAVS deficiency induces gut dysbiotic microbiota conferring a proallergic phenotype – Emilie Plantamura, PNAS

Assessing microbial contamination and antibiotic resistant bacteria using zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) – Maria Alexandra Bighiu, Science of The Total Environment

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Use of sugarcane–soybean intercropping in acid soil impacts the structure of the soil fungal community – Tengxiang Lian, Scientific Reports

Aphid infestation in the phyllosphere affects primary metabolic profiles in the arbuscular mycorrhizal hyphosphere – Carmina Cabral, Scientific Reports

Antioxidative response in leaves and allelochemical changes in root exudates of Ricinus communis under Cu, Zn, and Cd stress – Shuifeng Wang, Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Biochemical and microbiological activity of soil contaminated with o-cresol and biostimulated with Perna canaliculus mussel meal – Magdalena Zaborowska, Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Assessment of Soil Microbial Status under Different Land Use Systems in North Western Zone of Kashmir – Fozia Shafiq Wani, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences

Culturable Foliar Fungal Endophytes of Mangrove Species in Bicol Region, Philippines – Jonathan Jaime G. Guerrero, Philippine Journal of Science

Developmental stage has a greater effect than Cry1Ac expression in transgenic cotton on the phyllosphere mycobiome – Jiangang Pan, Canadian Journal of Microbiology

Interaction of Brassicaceae seed meal soil amendment and apple rootstock genotype on microbiome structure and replant disease suppression – Likun Wang, Phytopathology

Response of soil micro-ecology to different levels of cadmium in alkaline soil – Bin Wu, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety

Variation of soil bacterial communities along a chronosequence of Eucalyptusplantation – Jiayu Li, PeerJ

Long-term nitrogen fertilization elevates the activity and abundance of nitrifying and denitrifying microbial communities in an upland soil: implications for nitrogen loss from intensive agricultural systems – Fenghua Wang, Frontiers in Microbiology

Comparative assessment of autochthonous bacterial and fungal communities and microbial biomarkers of polluted agricultural soils of the Terra dei Fuochi – Valeria Ventorino, Scientific Reports

Genome guided investigation of antibiotics producing actinomycetales strain isolated from a Macau mangrove ecosystem – Dini Hu, Scientific Reports

Water and extremophile microbiome

Community Structure, Dynamics and Interactions of Bacteria, Archaea and Fungi in Subtropical Coastal Wetland Sediments – Man Kit Cheung, Scientific Reports

Discovering novel hydrolases from hot environments – Roland Wohlgemuth, Biotechnology Advances

Microbes in space

Meta-analysis of data from spaceflight transcriptome experiments does not support the idea of a common bacterial “spaceflight response” – Michael D. Morrison, Scientific Reports

Food microbiology

The effect of sulfur dioxide addition at crush on the fungal and bacterial communities and the sensory attributes of Pinot gris wines – Sydney C. Morgan, International Journal of Food Microbiology

Waste microbiome

Bioelectrochemical enhancement of methane production in anaerobic digestion of food waste – Jae-Min Choi, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Performance and Microbial Community Analysis of Bioaugmented Activated Sludge System for Indigo Production from Indole – Xuwang Zhang, Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Probiotics / prebiotics

Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum CECT 7765 supplementation improves inflammatory status in insulin-resistant obese children – Jesús Sanchis-Chordà, European Journal of Nutrition

Bioinformatics

Design and implementation of semester long project and problem based bioinformatics course – Geetha Saarunya, F1000 Research

Techniques

NMR-Based Metabolomic Approach To Elucidate the Differential Cellular Responses during Mitigation of Arsenic(III, V) in a Green Microalga – Neha Arora, ACS Omega