Human and General Microbiome

Bacteroides vulgatus and Bacteroides dorei predict immune-related adverse events in immune checkpoint blockade treatment of metastatic melanoma – Mykhaylo Usyk – Genome Medicine

A Genome-Phenome Association study in native microbiomes identifies a mechanism for cytosine modification in DNA and RNA – Weiwei Yang – eLife

The Gut Microbiome Modifies the Association between a Mediterranean Diet and Diabetes in US Hispanic / Latino Population – Dong D Wang – The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Proteomics analysis of the gut-brain axis in a gut microbiota-dysbiosis model of depression – Yiyun Liu – Translational Psychiatry

The Capacity to Produce Hydrogen Sulfide (H(2)S) via Cysteine Degradation Is Ubiquitous in the Human Gut Microbiome – Domenick J Braccia – Frontiers in Microbiology

Identification of a novel cancer microbiome signature for predicting prognosis of human breast cancer patients – A W Mao – Clinical & Translational Oncology

Gut microbiota of adults with asthma is broadly similar to non-asthmatics in a large population with varied ethnic origins – Robert F J Kullberg – Gut Microbes

Effects of fecal microbiota transplant on DNA methylation in subjects with metabolic syndrome – Eduard W J van der Vossen – Gut Microbes

The Mucosally-Adherent Rectal Microbiota Contains Features Unique to Alcohol-Related Cirrhosis – Ting-Chin David Shen – Gut Microbes

Multiple bacterial virulence factors focused on adherence and biofilm formation associate with outcomes in cirrhosis – Jasmohan S Bajaj – Gut Microbes

Long-term dynamics of the human oral microbiome during clinical disease progression – Ana Duran-Pinedo – BMC Biology

Microbiome characteristics and the key biochemical reactions identified on stone world cultural heritage under different climate conditions – Xinghua Ding – Journal of Environmental Management

Fecal biomarkers of environmental enteric dysfunction and the gut microbiota of rural Malawian children: An observational study – David Chaima – Heliyon

Review: The Evolving Role of Consensus Molecular Subtypes: a Step Beyond Inpatient Selection for Treatment of Colorectal Cancer – Javier Ros – Current Treatment Options in Oncology

Review: The role of the host microbiome in autism and neurodegenerative disorders and effect of epigenetic procedures in the brain functions – Bahman Yousefi – Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Review: The Oral Microbiota and its Role in Carcinogenesis – Mark Stasiewicz – Seminars in Cancer Biology

Review: Gut microbiota: sculptors of the intestinal stem cell niche in health and inflammatory bowel disease – Manasvini Markandey – Gut Microbes

Review: The gastrointestinal microbiota in colorectal cancer cell migration and invasion – Charlotte Henstra – Clinical & Experimental Metastasis

Review: Akkermansia muciniphila and host interaction within the intestinal tract – Andrei M Karamzin – Anaerobe

Review: Effects of anti-aging interventions on intestinal microbiota – Yanjiao Du – Gut Microbes

Review: Impact of the environment on the microbiome – Herberto José Chong Neto – Jornal de Pediatria

Review: Progress and prospects of the healthy human gut virome – Stephen R Stockdale – Current Opinion in Virology

Forensic Microbiome

Review: Integrating the human microbiome in the forensic toolkit: Current bottlenecks and future solutions – Celia Díez López – Forensic Science International. Genetics

Beneficial Microbes, Compounds and Interventions

Bioactives and their metabolites from Tetrastigma hemsleyanum leaves ameliorate DSS-induced colitis via protecting the intestinal barrier, mitigating oxidative stress and regulating the gut microbiota – Tong Wu – Food & Function

Bacterial membrane vesicles and phages in blood after consumption of Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus JB-1 – Kevin Champagne-Jorgensen – Gut Microbes

β-Glucan-triggered Akkermansia muciniphila expansion facilitates the expulsion of intestinal helminth via TLR2 in mice – Xuemin Jin – Carbohydrate Polymers

Review: The impact of a low-calorie, low-glycemic diet on systemic lupus erythematosus: a systematic review – Aline Mizusaki Imoto – Advances in Rheumatology

Review: Recent advances in the concept of paraprobiotics: Nutraceutical/functional properties for promoting children health – Harsh Kumar – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Review: Breastfeeding Contributes to Physiological Immune Programming in the Newborn – Alberto Camacho-Morales – Frontiers in Pediatrics

Animal Model Microbiome

Electroacupuncture could balance the gut microbiota and improve the learning and memory abilities of Alzheimer’s disease animal model – Jing Jiang – PloS ONE

Protective Effects of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens 40 Against Clostridium perfringens Infection in Mice – Zipeng Jiang – Frontiers in Nutrition

Animal Microbiome (non-models)

Evidence of MHC class I and II influencing viral and helminth infection via the microbiome in a non-human primate – B Karina Montero – PLoS Pathogens

Metagenomic and network analysis revealed wide distribution of antibiotic resistance genes in monkey gut microbiota – Yueyang Yan – Microbiological Research

Comparative Study of the Gut Microbiota Among Four Different Marine Mammals in an Aquarium – Shijie Bai – Frontiers in Microbiology

Bacterial Communities of Lab and Field Northern House Mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) Throughout Diapause – Elise M Didion – Journal of Medical Entomology

Gut Microbiome of Wild Baltic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) Parr – Vesta Skrodenytė-Arbačiauskienė – Microbial Ecology

Concerted impacts of antiherbivore defenses and opportunistic Serratia pathogens on the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) – Charles J Mason – Oecologia

Plant Microbiome

Review: Sculpting the soil microbiota – Valéria Custódio – The Plant Journal

Extremophiles

Review: Microbial diversity in extreme environments – Wen-Sheng Shu – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Preprint: A large-scale genome-based survey of acidophilic Bacteria suggests that genome streamlining is an adaption for life at low pH – Diego Nahuel Cortez – BioRxiv

Other Microbes

Bacterial Community Structure and Metabolic Function Succession During the Composting of Distilled Grain Waste – Shi-Peng Wang – Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

AMDB: a database of animal gut microbial communities with manually curated metadata – Junwon Yang – Nucleic Acids Research

RESCRIPt: Reproducible sequence taxonomy reference database management – Michael S 2nd Robeson – PLoS Computational Biology

Reprocessing 16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequencing Studies: (Meta)Data Issues, Robustness, and Reproducibility – Xiongbin Kang – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology