Highlights: Microbiome of human milk, AMON to integrate microbiome and metabolome data, soil microbiomes, skin microbiome based news and many more!

General microbiome

The fight for glycans in reproductive tract microbial ecology – MIH Pishchany – AJOG

Microbiota, a Third Player in the Host–Plasmodium Affair – D Mukherjee – Trends in Parasitology

Pregnancy and early life

Baby’s First Microbes: The Microbiome of Human Milk – MC Collado – How Fermented Foods Feed a Healthy Gut Microbiota

Human respiratory microbiome

Anterior Nares Diversity and Pathobionts Represent Sinus Microbiome in Chronic Rhinosinusitis – ID Boeck – mSphere

Animal microbiome 

Next generation sequencing reveals significant variations in bacterial compositions across the gastrointestinal tracts of the Indian major carps, rohu (Labeo rohita), catla (Catla catla) and mrigal (Cirrhinus cirrhosis) – MJ Foysal – Letters in Applied Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Rewetting of three drained peatlands drives congruent compositional changes in pro- and eukaryotic microbiomes through environmental filtering – M Weil – bioRxiv

The influence of substrate concentration on the culturability of heterotrophic soil microbes isolated by high-throughput dilution-to-extinction cultivation –  R Bartelme – bioRxiv

Rhizosphere: a home for human pathogens – R Sharma – Plant Biotic Interactions

Amplicon sequencing and imputed metagenomic analysis of waste soil and sediment microbiome reveals unique bacterial communities and their functional attributes – SD Mandal – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Soil bacterial and fungal communities exhibit distinct long-term responses to disturbance in temperate forests – ED Osburn – Frontiers in Microbiology

Decomposition of mixtures of cover crop residues increases microbial functional diversity – SM Drost – Geoderma

Techniques

AMON: annotation of metabolite origins via networks to integrate microbiome and metabolome data – M Shaffer – BMC Bioinformatics

Identification and quantitation of clinically relevant microbes in patient samples: Comparison of three k-mer based classifiers for speed, accuracy, and sensitivity – GS Watts – PLoS Computational Biology

Extracting the GEMs: Genotype, Environment and Microbiome interactions shaping host phenotypes – BO Oyserman – bioRxiv

Microbes in the news

Korean beauty makers join the rush towards new skin gold mine of microbiome – Pulse

Mode of Delivery May Alter Microbiome, But Study Finds No Link to Later GI Issues – Gastro Endo News

Smart Skin care – Cosmetics Design Europe

The Dynamic Microbiome – Gen Eng News

microRNA Found in Gut Microbiome May Unlock Future Therapeutic Approach for MS – Multiple Sclerosis News Today

A Matchmaker for Microbiomes – Identifying Relationships of Microbes and Metabolites – Scitech Daily