Pregnancy and early life
Maternal diet during pregnancy and intestinal markers are associated with early gut microbiota – Selma-Royo et al. – European Journal of Nutrition

Human vaginal microbiome
Changes in the vaginal microbiota across a gradient of urbanization – Vargas-Robles et al. – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome
Usefulness of Machine Learning-Based GutMicrobiome Analysis for Identifying Patients with Irritable Bowels Syndrome – Fukui et al. – Journal of Clinical Medicine

Preprint – A pilot study of the effect of deployment on the gut microbiome and traveler’s diarrhea susceptibility – Stamps et al.

Gastric Microbiota in a Low–Helicobacter pylori Prevalence General Population and Their Associations With Gastric Lesions – Ndegwa et al. – Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology

Sexual dimorphism of gut microbiota at different pubertal status – Yuan et al. – Microbial Cell Factories

Animal experiments
Preprint – Intestinal inflammation and altered gut microbiota associated with inflammatory bowel disease renders mice susceptible to Clostridioides difficile colonization and infection – Close et al.

Different effects of constitutive and induced microbiota modulation on microglia in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease – Mezo et al. – Acta Neuropathologica Communications

Effects of Vitamin B2 Supplementation in Broilers Microbiota and Metabolome – Biagi et al. – Microorganisms

Animal microbiome
Respiratory microbiota of humpback whales may be reduced in diversity and richness the longer they fast – Vendl et al. – Scientific Reports

Modeling host-microbiome interactions for the prediction of meat quality and carcass composition traits in swine – Khanal et al. – Genetics Selection Evolution

Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Water management and phenology influence the root-associated rice field microbiota – Chialva et al. – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Water and extremophile microbiome
Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years – Morono et al. – Nature Communications