Highlights!

Ultra-deep sequencing of Hadza hunter-gatherers recovers vanishing gut microbes – Matthew M Carter – Cell

A genetic system for Akkermansia muciniphila reveals a role for mucin foraging in gut colonization and host sterol biosynthesis gene expression – Lauren E Davey – Nature Microbiology

The first international Rome consensus conference on gut microbiota and faecal microbiota transplantation in inflammatory bowel disease – Loris Riccardo Lopetuso – Gut

Global branches and local states of the human gut microbiome define associations with environmental and intrinsic factors – Julien Tap – Nature Communications

Human and General Microbiome

Key bacterial taxa determine longitudinal dynamics of aromatic amino acid catabolism in infants’ gut – Martin F Laursen – Gut Microbes

Low diversity microbiota and an increased metabolism of arginine and aromatic amino acids: a hallmark of hepatic encephalopathy in western Mexican patients with alcohol-associated cirrhosis – Tonatiuh Abimael Baltazar-Díaz – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Alterations in the gut virome are associated with type 2 diabetes and diabetic nephropathy – Gang Fan – Gut Microbes

Species-Specific Analysis of Bacterial Vaginosis-Associated Bacteria – John Osei Sekyere – Microbiology Spectrum

Gut microbiota in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a PREDIMED-Plus trial sub analysis – Ana María Gómez-Pérez – Gut Microbes

Associations of Circulating Estrogens and Estrogen Metabolites with Fecal and Oral Microbiome in Postmenopausal Women in the Ghana Breast Health Study – Zeni Wu – Microbiology Spectrum

Meta-analysis of the effects of proton pump inhibitors on the human gut microbiota – Jiayi Zhang – BMC Microbiology

Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiomes of captive primates show phylosymbiosis, respond to dietary sugar reduction, and select for host-specific dietary microbes – Sally L Bornbusch – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Environmental Microbiome

Characterization of two keystone taxa, sulfur-oxidizing, and nitrate-reducing bacteria, by tracking their role transitions in the benzo[a]pyrene degradative microbiome – Xiaolan Lin – Microbiome

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

Inferring microbial co-occurrence networks from amplicon data: a systematic evaluation – Dileep Kishore – mSystems

Human microbiome cultivation expands with AI – Marta Selma-Royo – Nature Biotechnology

GutBug: A Tool for Prediction of Human Gut Bacteria Mediated Biotransformation of Biotic and Xenobiotic Molecules Using Machine Learning – Aditya S Malwe – Journal of Molecular Biology

Comparison of DNA extraction methods for 16S rRNA gene sequencing in the analysis of the human gut microbiome – Céline Elie – Scientific Reports

Optimizing metaproteomics database construction: lessons from a study of the vaginal microbiome – Elliot M Lee – mSystems

Assumptions on decision making and environment can yield multiple steady states in microbial community models – Axel Theorell – BMC Bioinformatics

EMBED: Essential MicroBiomE Dynamics, a dimensionality reduction approach for longitudinal microbiome studies – Mayar Shahin – NPJ Systems Biology and Applications

Ordering taxa in image convolution networks improves microbiome-based machine learning accuracy – Oshrit Shtossel – Gut Microbes