In today’s digest read about Lactobacillus mulieris sp. nov. isolated from healthy female urinary tract, diversity of Escherichia coli phages in the Danish wastewater, PLate Coverage Algorithm (PLCA) in culture-enriched metagenomics, and more. Happy reading!

General microbiome

Microbiomes Reduce Their Host’s Sensitivity to Interspecific Interactions – Sara L. Jackrel – mBio

Gut microbiome

Klebsiella michiganensis transmission enhances resistance to Enterobacteriaceae gut invasion by nutrition competition – Rita A. Oliveira – Nature Microbiology

Long-term impact of fecal transplantation in healthy volunteers – Oleg V. Goloshchapov – BMC Microbiology

Efficacy of faecal microbiota transplantation in Crohn’sdisease: a new target treatment?– Liyuan Xiang – Microbial Biotechnology

Resident microbial communities inhibit growth and antibiotic resistance evolution of Escherichia coli in human gut microbiome samples – Michael Baumgartner – bioRxiv

Microreview: Causalities of war: The connection between type VI secretion system and microbiota – Luke P. Allsopp – Cellular Microbiology

Urinary microbiome

*Lactobacillus mulieris sp. nov., a new species of Lactobacillus delbrueckii group – Joana Rocha – International Journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology

Vaginal microbiome

Vaginal Microbiota Transplantation: The Next Frontier – Kevin DeLong – The Journal of Law, Medicine, & Ethics

Respiratory microbiome

*Culture-enriched metagenomic sequencing enables in-depth profiling of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiota – Fiona J. Whelan – Nature Microbiology

A Refined View of Airway Microbiome in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at Species and Strain-levels– Zhang Wang – bioRxiv

Eye microbiome

The closed eye harbors a unique microbiome in dry eye disease – Kent A. Willis – medRxiv

Plant/root/soil microbiome

Root ethylene mediates rhizosphere microbial community reconstruction when chemically detecting cyanide produced by neighbouring plants – Yan Chen – Microbiome

Warming-induced permafrost thaw exacerbates tundra soil carbon decomposition mediated by microbial community– Jiajie Feng – Microbiome

Microbiome composition differs in hybrid and inbred maize – Maggie R. Wagner – bioRxiv

Diversity and plant growth-promoting functions of diazotrophic/N-scavenging bacteria isolated from the soils and rhizospheres of two species of Solanum – Zuluaga Mya – PlosOne

Water microbiome

Molecular Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen and Its Interaction with Microbial Communities in a Prechlorinated Raw Water Distribution System – Hang Xu – Environmental Science and Technology

Effects of geographic location and water quality on bacterial communities in full-scale biofilters across North America – Ben Ma – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Phages and viruses

*Exploring the remarkable diversity of Escherichia coli Phages in the Danish Wastewater Environment, Including 91 Novel Phage Species – Nikoline S. Olsen – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

Piphillin predicts metagenomic composition and dynamics from DADA2-corrected 16S rDNA sequences – Nicole R. Narayan – BMC Genomics

Network-Based Prediction of Novel CRISPR-Associated Genes in Metagenomes – Jake L. Weissman and Philip L. F. Johnson – mSystems

Review: Integrating Computational Methods to Investigate the Macroecology of Microbiomes – Rilquer Mascarenhas – Frontiers in Genetics

Assessment of single cell RNA-seq statistical methods on microbiome data – Matteo Calgaro – bioRxiv