COVID19
Structural plasticity of SARS-CoV-2 3CL Mpro active site cavity revealed by room temperature X-ray crystallography – Kneller et al. – Nature Communications

Pregnancy and early life
Review – Maternal and infant factors that shape neonatal gut colonisation by bacteria – O’Neill et al. – Expert Review of Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Perinatal risk factors for fecal antibiotic resistance gene patterns in pregnant women and their infants – Sosa-Moreno et al. – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome
Microbial and metabolomic profiles in correlation with depression and anxiety co-morbidities in diarrhoea-predominant IBS patients – Liu et al. – BMC Microbiology

Revealing links between gut microbiome and its fungal community in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus among Emirati subjects: A pilot study – Tahseen et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal experiments
Effects of Drinking Water Temperature and Flow Rate during Cold Season on Growth Performance, Nutrient Digestibility and Cecum Microflora of Weaned Piglets – Zhang et al. – Animals

Effects of supplementary feeding on the rumen morphology and bacterial diversity in lambs – Lv et al. – PeerJ

Evaluating the association between feed efficiency and the fecal microbiota of early-life Duroc pigs using 16S rRNA sequencing – Si et al. – AMB Express

Establishment and Stability of the Murine Oral Microbiome – Ramos et al. – Journal of Dental Research

Effects of chronic treatment with new strains of Lactobacillus plantarum on cognitive, anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors in male mice – Barros-Santos et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome
Reproductive hormones mediate changes in the gut microbiome during pregnancy and lactation in Phayre’s leaf monkeys – Mallott et al. – Scientific Reports

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Microbial community types and signature-like soil bacterial patterns from fortified prehistoric hills of Thuringia (Germany) – Kohler et al. – Community Ecology

Meta-analysis of the impacts of global change factors on soil microbial diversity and functionality – Zhou et al. – Nature Communications

Prairie plants harbor distinct and beneficial root-endophytic bacterial communities – Adu-Oppong et al. – PLOS One

Water and extremophile microbiome
Surviving marginalized reefs: assessing the implications of the microbiome on coral physiology and survivorship – Roitman et al. – Coral Reefs

Microbial Communities Associated with Farmed Genypterus chilensis: Detection in Water Prior to Bacterial Outbreaks Using Culturing and High-Throughput Sequencing – Levican et al. – Animals

Energy-Efficient Single-Stage Nitrite Shunt Denitrification with Saline Sewage through Concise Dissolved Oxygen (DO) Supply: Process Performance and Microbial Communities – Zhuang et al. – Microorganisms

Food microbiology
Dynamics of Microbial Communities, Texture and Flavor in Suan zuo yu during Fermentation – Wang et al. – Food Chemistry

Probiotics / prebiotics
Bifidobacterium bifidum Suppresses Gut Inflammation Caused by Repeated Antibiotic Disturbance Without Recovering Gut Microbiome Diversity in Mice – Ojima et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacillus subtilis PB6 based probiotic supplementation plays a role in the recovery after the necrotic enteritis challenge – Aljumaah et al. – PLOS One

Bioinformatics
BiomMiner: An advanced exploratory microbiome analysis and visualization pipeline – Shamsaddini et al. – PLOS One