Highlights!

The cancer chemotherapeutic 5-fluorouracil is a potent Fusobacterium nucleatum inhibitor and its activity is modified by intratumoral microbiota – Kaitlyn D LaCourse – Cell Reports

Enterococci enhance Clostridioides difficile pathogenesis – Alexander B Smith – Nature

Host biology, ecology and the environment influence microbial biomass and diversity in 101 marine fish species – Jeremiah J Minich – Nature Communications

Genomic ancestry, diet and microbiomes of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from San Teodoro cave – Gabriele Scorrano – Communications Biology

Human and General Microbiome

Gut microbiota analysis for prediction of clinical relapse in Crohn’s disease – Sylvie Buffet-Bataillon – Scientific Reports

Implications of oral streptococcal bacteriophages in autism spectrum disorder – Zhan Tong – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Reproducible changes in the anorexia nervosa gut microbiota following inpatient therapy remain distinct from non-eating disorder controls – Farnaz Fouladi – Gut Microbes

Nasal microbiome disruption and recovery after mupirocin treatment in Staphylococcus aureus carriers and noncarriers – Valérie O Baede – Scientific Reports

BlpC-mediated selfish program leads to rapid loss of Streptococcus pneumoniae clonal diversity during infection – Surya D Aggarwal – Cell host & Microbe

Treasures from trash in cancer research – Fabiano Cordeiro Moreira – Oncotarget

Human Gut Metagenomes Encode Diverse GH156 Sialidases – Evan Mann – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Species-Specific Patterns of Gut Metabolic Modules in Dutch Individuals with Different Dietary Habits – Sudarshan A Shetty – mSphere

Effect of the intratumoral microbiota on spatial and cellular heterogeneity in cancer – Jorge Luis Galeano Niño – Nature

Broad-spectrum antibiotics associated gut microbiome disturbance impairs T cell immunity and promotes lung cancer metastasis: a retrospective study – Ke Xu – BMC Cancer

Diet-induced modifications to human microbiome reshape colonic homeostasis in irritable bowel syndrome – Hadar Bootz-Maoz – Cell Reports

Review: The dynamic lung microbiome in health and disease – Jake G Natalini – Nature Reviews. Microbiology

Non-model Animal Microbiome 

Modulation of gut microbiota, blood metabolites, and disease resistance by dietary β-glucan in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) – Simon Menanteau-Ledouble – Animal Microbiome

Living in honey: bacterial and fungal communities in honey of sympatric populations of Apis mellifera and the stingless bee Melipona beecheii, in Yucatan, Mexico – Diana Fátima Jacinto-Castillo – Archives of Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

Review: The involvement of organic acids in soil fertility, plant health and environment sustainability – Satyavir S Sindhu – Archives of Microbiology

Bioinformatics and Microbiome Analysis

Investigating the impact of database choice on the accuracy of metagenomic read classification for the rumen microbiome – Rebecca H Smith – Animal Microbiome

dbCAN-seq update: CAZyme gene clusters and substrates in microbiomes – Jinfang Zheng – Nucleic Acids Research

Gene co-expression network analysis of the human gut commensal bacterium Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in R-Shiny – Sandrine Auger – PloS One