Highlights!

Review: Bacterial Translocation as Inflammatory Driver in Crohn’s Disease – Raquel Linares – Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology

Review:  The Gut Microbiome and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases – Yue Shan – Annual Review of Medicine

Vegan vs. omnivore diets paradox: A whole-metagenomic approach for defining metabolic networks during the race in ultra-marathoners- a before and after study  design – Aslı Devrim-Lanpir – PloS ONE

The Prebiotic Potential of Inulin-type Fructans: A Systematic Review – Riley L Hughes – Advances in Nutrition

Next-generation prebiotic promotes selective growth of bifidobacteria, suppressing Clostridioides difficile – Rika Hirano – Gut Microbes

timeOmics: an R package for longitudinal multi-omics data integration – Antoine Bodein – Bioinformatics 

Automation of QIIME2 Metagenomic Analysis Platform – Calvin Fung – Current Protocols

Human and General Microbiome

Persistence of functional microbiota composition across generations – Christian Ramos – Scientific Reports

Gastric microbiota in patients with Helicobacter pylori-negative gastric MALT lymphoma. – Takahide Tanaka – Medicine

Lachnospira is a signature of antihistamine efficacy in chronic spontaneous urticarial – Runqiu Liu – Experimental Dermatology

Association of Female Genital Schistosomiasis With the Cervicovaginal Microbiota and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Zambian Women – Amy S Sturt – Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Gut Lactobacillus Level Is a Predictive Marker for Coronary Atherosclerotic Lesions Progress and Prognosis in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome – Jing Gao – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Causal Effects of Gut Microbiome on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study – Kun Xiang – Frontiers in Immunology

Vaginal microbiome as a tool for prediction of chorioamnionitis in preterm labor: a pilot study – Daichi Urushiyama – Scientific Reports

Genital mycoplasma infection and spontaneous preterm birth outcome: a prospective cohort study. – Giulia Karnauchovas Porto Cunha – BJOG

Endometrial microbiota is more diverse in people with endometriosis than symptomatic controls – Jocelyn M Wessels – Scientific Reports

Periodontitis associates with species-specific gene expression of the oral microbiota – Daniel Belstrøm – NPJ biofilms and microbiomes

Review: Interplay and cooperation of Helicobacter pylori and gut microbiota in gastric carcinogenesis – Seyedeh Zahra Bakhti – BMC Microbiology

Comparative Analyses of the Transport Proteins Encoded within the Genomes of nine Bifidobacterium Species – Hassan Zafar – Microbial Physiology

Review: Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics in microbiome investigations – Anelize Bauermeister – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Gut microbiota depletion exacerbates cholestatic liver injury via loss of FXR signalling – Kai Markus Schneider – Nature Metabolism

Review: Chains of evidence from correlations to causal molecules in microbiome-linked diseases. – Snehal N Chaudhari – Nature Chemical Biology

Review: Host and microbiota metabolic signals in aging and longevity – Yue Zhou – Nature Chemical Biology

Fecal filtrate transplantation protects against necrotizing enterocolitis – Anders Brunse – The ISME Journal

High-fat diet increases the severity of Giardia infection in association with low-grade inflammation and gut microbiota dysbiosis – Thibault Allain – Scientific Reports

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Effects of konjac glucomannan with different molecular weights on gut microflora with antibiotic perturbance in in-vitro fecal fermentation – Yu-Heng Mao – Carbohydrate Polymers

Review: Interactions between dietary polyphenols and aging gut microbiota: A review – Sergio Davinelli – BioFactors

Safety and efficacy of using heat-killed Lactobacillus plantarum L-137: High-dose and long-term use effects on immune-related safety and intestinal bacterial flora – Hiroko Nakai – Journal of Immunotoxicology

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Attenuates DSS-Induced Colitis by Inhibiting the Colonization and Pathogenicity of Candida albicans – Xiaqiong Mao – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Minireview: Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics for the Prevention of Necrotizing Enterocolitis. – Kiera Murphy – Frontiers in Nutrition

Review: Main drivers of (poly)phenol effects on human health: metabolite production and/or gut microbiota-associated metabotypes? – Carlos E Iglesias-Aguirre – Food & Function

Inhibitory effects of Lactobacillus casei Shirota against both Candida auris and Candida spp. isolates that cause vulvovaginal candidiasis and are resistant to antifungals – Aline Lorenzoni Paniágua – BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies

Fructooligosaccharides: From Breast Milk Components to Potential Supplements. A Systematic Review– Valentina De Cosmi – Advances in Nutrition

Effects of Microbiota-Driven Therapy on Circulating Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Metabolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis – Lina Miao – Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Animal Microbiome

The spleen bacteriome of wild rodents and shrews from Marigat, Baringo County, Kenya. – Rehema Liyai – PeerJ

Marked Seasonal Variation in Structure and Function of Gut Microbiota in Forest and Alpine Musk Deer – Feng Jiang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Social groups constrain the spatiotemporal dynamics of wild sifaka gut microbiomes – Amanda C Perofsky – Molecular Ecology

Association of female reproductive tract microbiota with egg production in layer chickens – Yuan Su – GigaScience

Plant Microbiome

Bacillus subtilis Colonization of Arabidopsis thaliana Roots Induces Multiple Biosynthetic Clusters for Antibiotic Production – Harsh Maan – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

Review: Prospects for multi-omics in the microbial ecology of water engineering – Elizabeth A McDaniel – Water Research

Bioinformatics

QSDB-a graphical Quorum Sensing Database – Karsten Klein – Database

Testing microbiome association using integrated quantile regression models – Tianying Wang – Bioinformatics 

timeOmics: an R package for longitudinal multi-omics data integration – Antoine Bodein – Bioinformatics 

Automation of QIIME2 Metagenomic Analysis Platform – Calvin Fung – Current Protocols