The effects of chronic ethanol ingestion on the fruit fly microbiota, engineering the mosquito microbiota to produce an antiplasmodial effector, how temperature change affects an ecosystems biodiversity and function.

General microbiome

Changes in temperature alter the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning – Francisca C García – PNAS

Human respiratory microbiome

Respiratory Microbiota Predicts Clinical Disease Course of Acute Otorrhea in Children With Tympanostomy Tubes – Wing Ho Man – The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

Human oral microbiome

Carious status and supragingival plaque microbiota in hemodialysis patients – Qi Yue – PLOS ONE

Human gut microbiome

Review: Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for the Management of Clostridium difficile Infection – Raghavendra Paknikar – Surgical Infections

Review: Diet, gut microbiome and indoxyl sulphate in chronic kidney disease patients – Chih-Yu Yang – Nephrology

Animal experiments

Risks Related to High-Dosage Recombinant Antimicrobial Peptide Microcin J25 in Mice Model: Intestinal Microbiota, Intestinal Barrier Function and Immune Regulation – Haitao Yu – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Microbial Changes and Host Response in F344 Rat Colon Depending on Sex and Age Following a High-Fat Diet – Sun Min Lee – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Pre-print: Chronic ethanol ingestion impairs Drosophila melanogaster health in a microbiome-dependent manner – James Angus Chandler – bioRxiv

Blood meal-induced inhibition of vector-borne disease by transgenic microbiota – Jackie L Shane – Nature Communications

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Friends or foes in the rhizosphere: traits of fluorescent Pseudomonas that hinder Azospirillum brasilense growth and root colonization – Guillermo A Maroniche – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Seasonal variation of extracellular enzymatic activity in marine snow-associated microbial communities and their impact on the surrounding water – Ingrid Ivančić – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Food microbiology

Comparative evaluation of spoilage-related bacterial diversity and metabolite profiles in chilled beef stored under air and vacuum packaging – Ahmad Rois Mansur – Food Microbiology

Assessment of the non-lactic acid bacteria microbiota in fresh cucumbers and commercially fermented cucumber pickles brined with 6% NaCl – Ilenys M Pérez-Díaz – Food Microbiology

Bioinformatics

Bayesian Inference of Microbial Community Structure from Metagenomic Data Using BioMiCo – Katherine A Dunn – Microbiome Analysis (Book)

Metabolomics

Targeted Metabolic Profiling Indicates Apple Rootstock Genotype-Specific Differences in Primary and Secondary Metabolite Production and Validate Quantitative Contribution From Vegetative Growth – Rachel Leisso – Frontiers in Plant Science

Techniques

Analyzing Metabolic Pathways in Microbiomes – Mobolaji Adeolu – Microbiome Analysis (Book)

More microbes

Prevalence of Yersinia Species in the Ileum of Crohn’s Disease Patients and Controls – Guillaume Le Baut – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology