General microbiome
The intestinal 3M (microbiota, metabolism, metabolome) Zeitgeist – from fundamentals to future challenges – Dey et al. – Free Radical Biology and Medicine
Pregnancy and early life
Gut microbiota changes in preeclampsia, abnormal placental growth and healthy pregnant women – Huang et al. – BMC Microbiology
Human respiratory microbiome
Refinement of microbiota analysis of specimens from patients with respiratory infections using next-generation sequencing – Ikegami et al. – Scientific Reports
Human skin microbiome
Experimental Dermatology Special Issue with Focus on ‘Skin microbiome and antimicrobial peptides’
Human gut microbiome
[REVIEW]Gut microbiome in pediatric acute leukemia: from predisposition to cure – Masetti et al. – Blood Advances
Animal microbiome
Effects of moderate exercise on hepatic amino acid and fatty acid composition, liver transcriptome, and intestinal microbiota in channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) – Zhang et al. – Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part D: Genomics and Proteomics
Metagenomic Sequencing Reveals that High-Grain Feeding Alters the Composition and Metabolism of Cecal Microbiota and Induces Cecal Mucosal Injury in Sheep – Xie, Wang & Mao – mSystems
Plant, root, and soil microbiome
Biodegradable and conventional microplastics exhibit distinct microbiome, functionality, and metabolome changes in soil – Sun et al. – Journal of Hazardous Materials
Soil microbiota and microarthropod communities in oil contaminated sites in the European Subarctic – Melekhina et al. – Scientific Reports
Fast and persistent responses of alpine permafrost microbial communities to in situ warming – Perez-Mon et al. – Science of The Total Environment
Built environment (subways, indoor surfaces)
Environmental dynamics of hospital microbiome upon transfer from a major hospital to a new facility – Ashokan et al. – Journal of Infection
Bioinformatics
[Commentary]Predicting Microbiome Metabolism and Interactions through Integrating Multidisciplinary Principles – Schmidt, Ghadermazi & Chan – mSystems
Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) Reveals Composite Patterns and Resolves Visualization Artifacts in Microbiome Data – Armstrong et al. – mSystems