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Human and General Microbiome

Dietary fiber and probiotics influence the gut microbiome and melanoma immunotherapy response – Christine N Spencer – Science 

Association of the gut microbiota and fecal short-chain fatty acids with skeletal muscle mass and strength in children – Fengyan Chen – FASEB Journal

Characteristics of Fecal Microbiota and Machine Learning Strategy for Fecal Invasive Biomarkers in Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Xinqiong Wang – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

The microbial gbu gene cluster links cardiovascular disease risk associated with red meat consumption to microbiota L-carnitine catabolism – Jennifer A Buffa – Nature Microbiology

Gut Microbiota Exceeds Cervical Microbiota for Early Diagnosis of Endometriosis – Liujing Huang – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Natural selection for imprecise vertical transmission in host-microbiota systems – Marjolein Bruijning – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Comparison of the airway microbiota in children with chronic suppurative lung disease – Bushra Ahmed – BMJ Open Respiratory Research

VicRK and CovR polymorphisms in Streptococcus mutans strains associated with cardiovascular infections – Letícia T Oliveira – Journal of Medical Microbiology

Oral Colonization by Entamoeba gingivalis and Trichomonas tenax: A PCR-Based Study in Health, Gingivitis, and Periodontitis – Alaa Yaseen – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Human and General Microbiome – Reviews

Systematic Review: Probiotics Evaluation in Oncological Surgery: A Systematic Review of 36 Randomized Controlled Trials Assessing 21 Diverse Formulations – Elise Cogo – Current Oncology

Review: Untangling human milk oligosaccharides and infant gut microbiome – Andrea C Masi – iScience

Review: Periodontal Disease: The Good, The Bad, and The Unknown – Lea M Sedghi – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Review: Clinical implications of preterm infant gut microbiome development – David B Healy – Nature Microbiology

COVID19 and Microbiome

Genomic characterization of the dominating Beta variant carrying vaccinated (Oxford-AstraZeneca) and non-vaccinated COVID-19 patient samples in Bangladesh: A metagenomics and whole genome approach – Md Mizanur Rahaman – Journal of Medical Virology

Animal Microbiome

Concepts and Consequences of a Core Gut Microbiota for Animal Growth and Development – Daphne Perlman – Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

Playing by their own rules: the vertebrate archaeome – Sarah M Hird – Trends in Microbiology

Integration of whole genome sequencing and transcriptomics reveals a complex picture of the reestablishment of insecticide resistance in the major malaria vector Anopheles coluzzii – Victoria A Ingham – PLoS Genetics

Comparative Study of Intestinal Microbiota Composition of Six Edible Fish Species – Tamir Ofek – Frontiers in Microbiology

Captivity Influences the Gut Microbiome of Rhinopithecus roxellana – Xiaochen Wang – Frontiers in Microbiology

Assessment of Changes in the Oral Microbiome That Occur in Dogs with Periodontal Disease – Rodrigo Santibáñez – Veterinary Sciences

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Evaluation of Microbiome Alterations Following Consumption of BIOHM, a Novel Probiotic – Mahmoud A Ghannoum – Current Issues in Molecular Biology

Lactobacillus rhamnosus attenuates Thai chili extracts induced gut inflammation and dysbiosis despite capsaicin bactericidal effect against the probiotics, a possible toxicity of high dose capsaicin – Wimonrat Panpetch – PloS ONE

Plant and Soil Microbiome

May the dark be with roots: A perspective on how root illumination may bias in vitro research on plant-environment interactions – Javier Cabrera – The New Phytologist

Site and land-use associations of soil bacteria and fungi define core and indicative taxa – Gschwend Florian – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Bioinformatics

tascCODA: Bayesian Tree-Aggregated Analysis of Compositional Amplicon and Single-Cell Data – Johannes Ostner – Frontiers in Genetics