Good morning from New Jersey! Lots of papers to share today, particularly regarding animal microbiota and new bioinformatics tools.

General microbiome

Human breast microbiome correlates with prognostic features and immunological signatures in breast cancer, Alice Tzeng et al., Genome Medicine

Pregnancy and early life

The infant gut resistome associates with E. coli, environmental exposures, gut microbiome maturity, and asthma-associated bacterial composition, Xuanji Li et al., Cell Host & Microbe

Multi-site human microbiome

Review: Microbiome-immune interactions in tuberculosis, Giorgia Mori et al., PLOS Pathogens

Human gut microbiome

Dynamic Changes in Microbiome Composition Following Mare’s Milk Intake for Prevention of Collateral Antibiotic Effect, Almagul Kushugulova et al., Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Review: The aging gut microbiome and its impact on host immunity, Bosco and Noti, Genes & Immunity

Animal experiments

Ingestion of Bifidobacterium longum changes miRNA levels in the brains of mice, DeVries and Horstman et al., PLOS ONE

Heat-inactivated Lactobacillus plantarum nF1 promotes intestinal health in Loperamide-induced constipation rats, Seon-Ah Park et al., PLOS ONE

The pregnane X receptor drives sexually dimorphic hepatic changes in lipid and xenobiotic metabolism in response to gut microbiota in mice, Sharon Ann Barretto et al., Microbiome

One dog’s waste is another dog’s wealth: A pilot study of fecal microbiota transplantation in dogs with acute hemorrhagic diarrhea syndrome, Arnon Gal et al., PLOS ONE

Animal microbiome

Diversity and functional landscapes in the microbiota of animals in the wild, Levin, Raab, Pinto, and Rothschild et al., Science

Microbiome reduction and endosymbiont gain from a switch in sea urchin life history, Tyler J. Carrier et al., PNAS

Diet and gut microbiome enterotype are associated at the population level in African buffalo, Claire E. Couch et al., Nature Communications

Coral microbiome changes over the day–night cycle, Alicia M. Caughman et al., Coral Reefs

An investigation of conventional microbial culture for the Naja atra bite wound, and the comparison between culture-based 16S Sanger sequencing and 16S metagenomics of the snake oropharyngeal bacterial microbiota, Mao and Chuang et al., PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Preprint: Genome-centric analyses of seasonal phyllosphere microbiome activities in perennial crops, Adina Howe et al., bioRxiv

Influence of Plant Host and Organ, Management Strategy, and Spore Traits on Microbiome Composition, Kristi Gdanetz et al., Phytobiomes Journal

Built environment

Categorisation of culturable bioaerosols in a fruit juice manufacturing facility, Shirleen M. Theisinger et al., PLOS ONE

Bioinformatics

Preprint: Deconstructing taxa x taxa x environment interactions in the microbiota: A theoretical examination, Senay Yitbarek et al., bioRxiv

Preprint: Extended taxonomic profiling of diverse environments with mOTUs 2.6, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh et al., bioRxiv

Evaluation of the Microba Community Profiler for Taxonomic Profiling of Metagenomic Datasets From the Human Gut Microbiome, Donovan H. Parks et al., Frontiers in Microbiology

Supervised extraction of near-complete genomes from metagenomic samples: A new service in PATRIC, Bruce Parrello et al., PLOS ONE