Pregnancy and early life
Natural environments in the urban context and gut microbiota in infants – Neilsen et al. – Environment International

Human nearly-sterile sites
Breast cancer colonization by Fusobacterium nucleatum accelerates tumor growth and metastatic progression – Parhi et al. – Nature Communications

Enrichment of the airway microbiome in people living with HIV with potential pathogenic bacteria despite antiretroviral therapy – Rofael et al. – EClinicalMedicine

Human microbiome in vitro and ex vivo experiments
Triclosan has a robust, yet reversible impact on human gut microbial composition in vitro – Mahalak et al. – PLOS One

Animal experiments
Alterations of gut microbiota and serum bile acids are associated with parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease – Wang et al. – Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Colonic microbiome profiles for improved feed efficiency can be identified despite major effects of farm of origin and contemporary group in pigs – Vigors et al. – Animal

Gut microbiota profiles of commercial laying hens infected with tumorigenic viruses – Wan et al. – BMC Veterinary Research

Alterations of gut microbiota contribute to the progression of unruptured intracranial aneurysms – Li et al. – Nature Communications

Animal microbiome
Review: The Effects of Nutrition on the Gastrointestinal Microbiome of Cats and Dogs: Impact on Health and Disease – Wernimont et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Individual and Site-Specific Variation in a Biogeographical Profile of the Coyote Gastrointestinal Microbiota – Sugden et al. – Microbial Ecology

Assessment of bacterial diversity of Rhipicephalus microplus ticks from two livestock agroecosystems in Antioquia, Colombia – Segura et al. – PLOS One

Microbiome diversity in Diaphorina citri populations from Kenya and Tanzania shows links to China – Ajene et al. – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Metagenomics analysis of fungal communities associated with postharvest diseases in pear fruits under the effect of management practices – Zambounis et al. – Archives of Microbiology

Water and extremophile microbiome
The Efficacy of Hydrogen Peroxide in Mitigating Cyanobacterial Blooms and Altering Microbial Communities across Four Lakes in NY, USA – Lusty and Gobler – Toxins

Seasonal effects of river flow on microbial community coalescence and diversity in a riverine network – Luo et al. – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Microbial community composition across a coastal hydrological system affected by submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) – Adyasari et al. – PLOS One

The contribution of microbial communities in polymetallic nodulesto the diversity of the deep-sea microbiome of the Peru Basin(4130–4198 m depth) – Molari et al. – Biogeosciences

Probiotics / prebiotics
Review: Toward a systematic design of smart probiotics – Choudhary and Mahadevan – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

A Novel Non-Digestible, Carrot-Derived Polysaccharide (cRG-I) Selectively Modulates the Human Gut Microbiota while Promoting Gut Barrier Integrity: An Integrated In Vitro Approach – Van den Abbeele et al. – Nutrients

Bioinformatics
Review: What Is Metagenomics Teaching Us, and What Is Missed? – New and Brito – Annual Review of Microbiology