General microbiome
The Microbial Conveyor Belt: Connecting the Globe through Dispersion and Dormancy – Mestre & Höfer – Trends in Microbiology
Microbiomes for All – Muth & Caplan – Frontiers in Microbiology
Human oral microbiome
[REVIEW]The Oral Host–Microbial Interactome: An Ecological Chronometer of Health? – Freire, Nelson & Edlund – Trends in Microbiology
Human vaginal microbiome
Impact of vaginal microbiome communities on HIV antiretroviral-based pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drug metabolism – Cheu et al. – PLOS Pathogens
Human gut microbiome
The Effect of Probiotics Supplementation on Gut Microbiota After Helicobacter pylori Eradication: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial – Tang et al. – Infectious Diseases and Therapy
Therapeutic potential of natural products against atherosclerosis: Targeting on gut microbiota – Zhao et al. – Pharmacological Research
Glycan utilization systems in the human gut microbiota: a gold mine for structural discoveries – Tamura & Brumer – Current Opinion in Structural Biology
Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)
Distinct gut microbiotas between southern elephant seals and Weddell seals of Antarctica – Kim, Cho & Lee – Journal of Microbiology
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Soil texture and properties rather than irrigation water type shape the diversity and composition of soil microbial communities – Obayomi et al. – Applied Soil Ecology
Microbes in space
[BOOK CHAPTER]Antarctic Bacteria as Astrobiological Models – Abbott & Pearce – Extremophiles as Astrobiological Models
Bioinformatics
MANTA, an integrative database and analysis platform that relates microbiome and phenotypic data – Chen et al. – PLOS One
[REVIEW]Measuring the microbiome: best practices for developing and benchmarking microbiomics methods – Bokulich et al. – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
[REVIEW]Seeing the forest for the trees: retrieving plant secondary biochemical pathways from metabolome networks – Desmet et al. – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
Evaluation of Single Sample Network Inference Methods for Metabolomics-Based Systems Medicine – Jahagirdar & Saccenti – Journal of Proteome Research