Happy New Year from the Microbiome Digest Team!

Human and General Microbiome

Microbiome Characteristics in Early Threatened Miscarriage Study (MCETMS): a study protocol for a prospective cohort investigation in China – Xiaofeng Chen – BMJ Open

Mapping the early life gut microbiome in neonates with critical congenital heart disease: multiomics insights and implications for host metabolic and immunological health – Yuan Huang – Microbiome

Metagenomic analysis reveals unexplored diversity of archaeal virome in the human gut – Ran Li – Nature Communications

Fecal level of butyric acid, a microbiome-derived metabolite, is increased in patients with severe carotid atherosclerosis – Kristine Stø – Scientific Reports

Transition in vaginal Lactobacillus species during pregnancy and prediction of preterm birth in Korean women – Young-Ah You – Scientific Reports

Evaluating the ecological hypothesis: early life salivary microbiome assembly predicts dental caries in a longitudinal case-control study – Freida Blostein – Microbiome

Systematic Review: The effects of microbiota abundance on symptom severity in Parkinson’s disease: A systematic review – Eliša Papić – Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience

Systematic Review: A systematic review of microbiome-derived biomarkers for early colorectal cancer detection – Florine H Zwezerijnen-Jiwa – Neoplasia

Review: Current insights into skin lipids and their roles in cutaneous health and disease – Anna Nicolaou – Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Akkermansia supplementation reverses the tumor-promoting effect of the fecal microbiota transplantation in ovarian cancer – Zizhuo Wang – Cell Reports

Review: A novel approach to Lactiplantibacillus plantarum: From probiotic properties to the omics insights – Noemí Echegaray – Microbiological Research

Animal Microbiome

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbial communities associated with coral species have high host specificity in the South China Sea – Keke Cheng – The Science of the Total Environment

Assessing the causes and consequences of gut mycobiome variation in a wild population of the Seychelles warbler – Sarah F Worsley – Microbiome

Gut microbe Lactiplantibacillus plantarum undergoes different evolutionary trajectories between insects and mammals – Elisa Maritan – BMC Biology

Environmental Microbiome

Permafrost in the Cretaceous supergreenhouse – Juan Pedro Rodríguez-López – Nature Communications

Degradation pathways for organic matter of terrestrial origin are widespread and expressed in Arctic Ocean microbiomes – Thomas Grevesse – Microbiome

Temporary establishment of bacteria from indoor plant leaves and soil on human skin – Gwynne Á Mhuireach – Environmental Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis

Stochastic variational variable selection for high-dimensional microbiome data – Tung Dang – Microbiome