Human and General Microbiome

Assessment of microbiota in the gut and upper respiratory tract associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection – Jiarui Li – Microbiome

Population-level impacts of antibiotic usage on the human gut microbiome – Kihyun Lee – Nature Communications

A bacterial sulfoglycosidase highlights mucin O-glycan breakdown in the gut ecosystem – Toshihiko Katoh – Nature Chemical Biology

Microbiota-derived genotoxin tilimycin generates colonic stem cell mutations – Lisa Pöltl – Cell Reports

Review: Impact of caloric restriction on the gut microbiota – Lara Kern – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Animal Microbiome

Romboutsia lituseburensis JCM1404 supplementation ameliorated endothelial function via gut microbiota modulation and lipid metabolisms alterations in obese rats – Honggang Yin – FEMS Microbiology Letters

Disparate population and holobiont structure of pocilloporid corals across the Red Sea gradient demonstrate species-specific evolutionary trajectories – Carol Buitrago-López – Molecular Ecology

Omics and imaging combinatorial approach reveals butyrate-induced inflammatory effects in the zebrafish gut – Adrià López Nadal – Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiome is linked to functions of peripheral immune cells in transition cows during excessive lipolysis – Fengfei Gu – Microbiome

Maternal effects drive intestinal development beginning in the embryonic period on the basis of maternal immune and microbial transfer in chickens – Haizhou Gong – Microbiome

Mouse mammary tumor virus is implicated in severity of colitis and dysbiosis in the IL-10(-/-) mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease – Heather Armstrong – Microbiome

Microplastics affect arsenic bioavailability by altering gut microbiota and metabolites in a mouse model – Shan Chen – Environmental Pollution 

Substantial viral and bacterial diversity at the bat-tick interface – Ayda Susana Ortiz-Baez – Microbial Genomics

Review: Perturbation of maternal gut microbiota in mice during a critical perinatal window influences early neurobehavioral outcomes in offspring – Cassandre Morel – Neuropharmacology

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Local environment drives rapid shifts in composition and phylogenetic clustering of seagrass microbiomes – Melissa R Kardish – Scientific Reports

Experimental community coalescence sheds light on microbial interactions in soil and restores impaired functions – Sarah Huet – Microbiome

Microbiome Analysis: Tools and Techniques

Infants’ gut microbiome data: A Bayesian Marginal Zero-inflated Negative Binomial regression model for multivariate analyses of count data – Morteza Hajihosseini – Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal

From defaults to databases: parameter and database choice dramatically impact the performance of metagenomic taxonomic classification tools – Robyn J Wright – Microbial Genomics

Using strain-resolved analysis to identify contamination in metagenomics data – Yue Clare Lou – Microbiome

Preprint: Transkingdom Network Analysis (TkNA): a systems approach inferring causal factors underlying host-microbiota interactions – Nolan K Newman – bioRxiv