General microbiome

Public human microbiome data are dominated by highly developed countries – Abdill, Adamowicz & Blekhman – PLOS Biology

Beyond the Microbiome: Germ-ganism? An Integrative Idea for Microbial Existence, Organization, Growth, Pathogenicity, and Therapeutics – Kambouris et al. – OMICS

Quantifying and Cataloguing Unknown Sequences within Human Microbiomes – Modha et al. – mSystems

Human respiratory microbiome

Alterations of lung microbiota in patients with non-small cell lung cancer – Zeng et al. – Bioengineered

Human vaginal microbiome

Evaluation of microbiome enrichment and host DNA depletion in human vaginal samples using Oxford Nanopore’s adaptive sequencing – Marquet et al. – Scientific Reports

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Personal diet–microbiota interactions and weight loss – Roager & Christensen

Integrated analysis of gut microbiome and host immune responses in COVID-19 – Xu et al. – Frontiers in Medicine

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Gut microbiome modifications over time when removing in-feed antibiotics from the prophylaxis of post-weaning diarrhea in piglets – Cremonesi et al. – PLOS One

Complete Genome Sequences of Three Staphylococcus haemolyticus Strains Isolated from the Lung of a TGFβ1 Transgenic Mouse with Lung Fibrosis – Abdel-Hamid et al. – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Colitis-associated microbiota drives changes in behaviour in male mice in the absence of inflammation – Vicentini et al. – Brain, Behaviour, and Immunity

Comprehensive mouse microbiota genome catalog reveals major difference to its human counterpart – Kieser, Zdobnov & Trajkovski – PLOS Comp Biol

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

The microbiome and resistome of apple fruits alter in the post-harvest period – Wassermann et al. – Environmental Microbiome

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Effects of Ocean Warming on the Underexplored Members of the Coral Microbiome – Maire et al. – Integrative and Comparative Biology

Techniques

[PREPRINT]A comparison of six DNA extraction protocols for 16S, ITS, and shotgun metagenomic sequencing of microbial communities – Shaffer et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]A comparison of hard and soft direct methods for DNA extraction from soil – Hill et al. – bioRxiv