Happy Friday! Today’s post features the rhizosphere of pinot noir grape plants, the impact of colostrum on the hindgut of dairy calves, and the microbial composition of the clownfish gut.

General microbiome

Review: Microbial forensics: new breakthroughs and future prospects – Oliveira – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Pregnancy and early life

Meta-analysis of effects of exclusive breastfeeding on infant gut microbiota across populations – Ho – Nature Communications

Human oral microbiome

Review: Microbiological changes of the ageing oral cavity – Belibasakis – Archives of Oral Biology

Review: The oral microbiota: dynamic communities and host interactions – Lamont – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Human gut microbiome

Review: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and obesity: the role of the gut bacteria – Schwenger – European Journal of Nutrition

Impact of carbohydrate substrate complexity on the diversity of the human colonic microbiota – Chung – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Oral iron exacerbates colitis and influences the intestinal microbiome – Mahalhal – PLoS One

Compositional and Temporal Changes in the Gut Microbiome of Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Patients Are Linked to Disease Course – Schirmer – Cell Host & Microbe

Animal experiments

Colostrum feeding shapes the hindgut microbiota of dairy calves during the first 12 h of life – Song – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Gut microbiome modulation during treatment of mucositis with the dairy bacterium Lactococcus lactis and recombinant strain secreting human antimicrobial PAP – Carvalho – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Preprint: A simple microbiome in esophagus and gills of the European common cuttlefish, Sepia officinalis – Lutz – bioRxiv

Preprint: Feeding rapidly alters microbiome composition and gene transcription in the clownfish gut – Parris – bioRxiv

Profiling the airway in the macaque model of tuberculosis reveals variable microbial dysbiosis and alteration of community structure – Cadena – Microbiome

The gut bacteria across life stages in the synanthropic fly Chrysomya megacephala – Wang – BMC Microbiology

Multi-scale characterization of symbiont diversity in the pea aphid complex through metagenomic approaches – Guyomar – Microbiome

Microbial community and functions associated with digestion of algal polysaccharides in the visceral tract of Haliotis discus hannai: Insights from metagenome and metatranscriptome analysis – Nam – PLoS One

Critical Role for a Subset of Intestinal Macrophages in Shaping Gut Microbiota in Adult Zebrafish – Earley – Cell Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Soil acidification amendments change the rhizosphere bacterial community of tobacco in a bacterial wilt affected field – Shen – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Geospatial variation in co‐occurrence networks of nitrifying microbial guilds – Jones – Molecular Ecology

Review: Elucidating Bacterial Gene Functions in the Plant Microbiome – Levy – Cell Host & Microbe

Amazonian deforestation and soil biodiversity – Franco – Conservation Biology

Metaproteomic characterization of Vitis vinifera rhizosphere – Bona – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Exploring biogeographic patterns of bacterioplankton communities across global estuaries – Ghosh – MicrobiologyOpen

In situ responses of the sponge microbiome to ocean acidification – Kandler – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Built environment

Stratification of microbial communities throughout a biological sulphate reducing up-flow anaerobic packed bed reactor, revealed through 16S metagenomics – Hessler – Research in Microbiology

Techniques

Preprint: Microbial contamination screening and interpretation for biological laboratory environments – Ning – bioRxiv