Human and General Microbiome

Altered gut microbiota as potential biomarker biomarkers for autism spectrum disorder in early childhood – Yingxin Zhao – Neuroscience

The composition of environmental microbiota in three tree fruit packing facilities changed over seasons and contained taxa indicative of L. monocytogenes contamination – M Laura Rolon – Microbiome

Succession and determinants of the early life nasopharyngeal microbiota in a South African birth cohort – Shantelle Claassen-Weitz – Microbiome

Secreted Akkermansia muciniphila threonyl-tRNA synthetase functions to monitor and modulate immune homeostasis – Su-Man Kim – Cell Host & Microbe

Gut Microbiome Composition is associated with future onset of Crohn’s Disease in Healthy First-Degree Relatives – Juan Antonio Raygoza Garay – Gastroenterology

Metagenome Investigation of Ocular Microbiota of Cataract Patients With and Without Type 2 Diabetes – Zheng Shao – Translational Vision Science & Technology

Longitudinal Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Underlies Olanzapine-Induced Weight Gain – Li Qian – Microbiology Spectrum

Metagenome-mining indicates an association between bacteriocin presence and strain diversity in the infant gut – Ida Ormaasen – BMC Genomics

Review: The Microbiome in Advanced Melanoma: Where Are We Now? – Dylan D Fortman – Current Oncology Reports

Review: Human gut microbiome: A primer for the clinician – Saurabh Kedia – JGH Open

Review: Role of gut microbiota and bacterial metabolites in mucins of colorectal cancer – Ming Gu – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Bacteriophage targeting microbiota alleviates non-alcoholic fatty liver disease induced by high alcohol-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae – Lin Gan – Nature Communications

Clostridium butyricum improves cognitive dysfunction in ICV-STZ-induced Alzheimer’s disease mice via suppressing TLR4 signaling pathway through the gut-brain axis – Yunfang Su – PloS One

Review: Regulation of gut microbiota by vitamin C, vitamin E and β-carotene – Xin-Yu Li – Food Research International

Animal Microbiome

Diversity of the Pacific Ocean coral reef microbiome – Pierre E Galand – Nature Communications

Effects of Aeromonas hydrophila infection on the intestinal microbiota, transcriptome, and metabolomic of common carp (Cyprinus carpio) – Lan Zhang – Fish & Shellfish Immunology

Genital tract microbiome dynamics are associated with time of Chlamydia infection in mice – Lihong Zhao – Scientific Reports

Environmental Microbiome

The core mangrove microbiome reveals shared taxa potentially involved in nutrient cycling and promoting host survival – Benjamin J Wainwright – Environmental Microbiome

Microbiome Research Tools and Techniques

Formation and Analysis of Mono-species and Polymicrobial Oral Biofilms in Flow-Cell Models – Jessica Neilands – Methods in Molecular Biology

MAIRA: Protein-based Analysis of MinION Reads on a Laptop – Caner Bağcı – Methods in Molecular Biology 

Recovery and Analysis of Long-Read Metagenome-Assembled Genomes – Krithika Arumugam – Methods in Molecular Biology 

Evaluation of 96-well high-throughput DNA extraction methods for 16S rRNA gene metabarcoding – Marie-Pierre Chapuis – Molecular Ecology Resources