Today’s digest is full of interesting articles about virome and phages, sinonasal microbiome and human milk microbiota. Enjoy weekend reading!

General microbiome

Bacteria and archaea on Earth and their abundance in biofilms – Hans-Curt Flemming – Nature Reviews Microbiology

The Impact of Low-FODMAPs, Gluten-Free, and Ketogenic Diets on Gut Microbiota Modulation in Pathological Conditions – Sofia Reddel – Nutrients

Impact of Gut Microbiota on Host Glycemic Control – Celine Gérard – Frontiers in Endocrinology

Intestinal Microbiota as a Host Defense Mechanism to Infectious Threats – Simona Iacob – Frontiers in Microbiology

Pregnancy and early life

Composition and Variation of the Human Milk Microbiota Are Influenced by Maternal and Early-Life Factors – Shirin Mossavi – Cell Host and Microbe

Human microbiome

Gut microbiota diversity associates with cardiorespiratory fitness in post-primary treatment breast cancer survivors – Stephen J. Carter – Experimental Physiology

Alterations in fecal short-chain fatty acids in patients with irritable bowel syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Qinghua Sun – Medicine

Mucosa-associated microbiota drives pathogenic functions in IBD-derived intestinal iNKT cells – Claudia Burrello – Life Science Alliance

The international sinonasal microbiome study (ISMS): a multi-centre, international characterization of sinonasal bacterial ecology – Sathish Paramasivan – BioRxiv

Microbiotyping the sinonasal microbiome – Ahmed Bassiouni – BioRxiv

Prevotella copri in individuals at risk for rheumatoid arthritis – Deshire Alpizar-Rodriguez – Annals of Rheumatic Diseases

Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Is Not Independently Associated With Neurocognitive Impairment in People Living With HIV – Fengdi Zhang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Animal experiments

Gut microbiota signatures and lipids metabolism profiles by exposure to polyene phosphatidylcholine – Haining Yu – Biofactors

Exploring the Fecal Microbial Composition and Metagenomic Functional Capacities Associated With Feed Efficiency in Commercial DLY Pigs – Jianping Quan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant root soil microbiome

Successive phytoextraction alters ammonia oxidation and associated microbial communities in heavy metal contaminated agricultural soils – Jipeng Luo – Science of The Total Environment

Water microbiome and extremophiles

Low concentrations of copper oxide nanoparticles alter microbial community structure and function of sediment biofilms – Lingzhan Miao – Science of the Total Environment

Characterizing the microbiome in petroleum reservoir flooded by different water sources – Xiaotong Wang – Science of the Total Environment

Baseline characterisation of aerobic hydrocarbon degrading microbial communities in deep‐sea sediments of the Great Australian Bight, Australia – Jodie van de Kamp – Environmental Microbiology

Viruses and phages

Expansion of Bacteriophages Is Linked to Aggravated Intestinal Inflammation and Colitis – Lasha Gogokhia – Cell Host and Microbe

Virome Diversity Correlates with Intestinal Microbiome Diversity in Adult Monozygotic Twins – J. Leonardo Moreno-Gallego – Cell Host and Microbe

Bacteriophages of the Human Gut: The “Known Unknown” of the Microbiome – Andrey N. Shkoporov – Cell Host and Microbe

Non-microbiology picks

Function and mechanisms of enteroendocrine cells and gut hormones in metabolism – Fiona M. Gribble – Nature Reviews Endocrinology