This Tuesday, read about the fecal microbial transplantation for cardiometabolic syndrome treatment, oral microbiome of early stage Parkinson’s disease, Finnish Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) project, and more. Happy reading!

General microbiome

Review: Defining Division of Labour in Microbial Communities – Samir Giri – JMB

Review: Selective pressures during chronic infection drive microbial competition and cooperation – Jiwasmika Baishya & Catherine A. Wakeman – Biofilms and Microbiomes

Gut microbiome

*Review: Fecal Microbial Transplantation and Its Potential Application in Cardiometabolic Syndrome – Avner Leshem – Frontiers in Immunology

Review: The Microbiome and Irritable Bowel Syndrome – A Review on the Pathophysiology, Current Research and Future Therapy – Pei Pei Chong – Frontiers in Microbiology

Alterations of the bile microbiome in primary sclerosing cholangitis – Timur Liwinski – BMJ Gut Microbiota

Selective and suppressive effects of antibiotics on donor and recipient bacterial strains in gut microbiota determine transmission efficiency of blaNDM-1-bearing plasmids – Lianwei Ye – Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Pregnancy and early life

Contributions to human breast milk microbiome and enteromammary transfer of Bifidobacterium breve – Kattayoun Kordy – bioRxiv

Experimental support for multidrug resistance transfer potential in the preterm infant gut microbiota – Mari Hagbø – Paediatric research

*Cohort profile: Finnish Health and Early Life Microbiota (HELMi) longitudinal birth cohort – Katri Korpela – BMJ Paediatrics

Oral microbiome

*The oral microbiome of early stage Parkinson’s disease and its relationship with functional measures of motor and non-motor function – Dragos Mihaila – PlosOne

Phages and viruses

What is (not) known about the dynamics of the human gut virome in health and disease – Leen Beller Jelle Matthijnssens – Current Opinion in Virology

Water and extremophile microbiome

Characterization of indigenous bacteria from radon-rich groundwater and their tolerance to physicochemical stress – T. Nayak – International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Sewage effluent from an Indian hospital harbors novel carbapenemases and integron-borne antibiotic resistance genes – Nachiket P. Marathe – Microbiome

Techniques

Primer-free FISH probes from metagenomics/metatranscriptomics data permit the study of uncharacterised taxa in complex microbial communities – Shi Ming Tan – Biofilms and microbiomes

Bioinformatics

Use and abuse of correlation analyses in microbial ecology – Alex Carr – ISME Journal

Education

From trainees to trainers to instructors: Sustainably building a national capacity in bioinformatics training – Annette McGrath – Plos Computational Biology

Ten quick tips for effective dimensionality reduction – Lan Huong Nguyen and Susan Holmes – Plos Computational Biology