Human and General Microbiome

Bacterial Community Modifies Host Genetics Effect on Early Childhood Caries – F Blostein – Journal of Dental Research

Clostridioides difficile infection in infants: a case report and literature review – Zhirong Li – Gut Pathogens

The microbiota of pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2 and their infants – Heidi K Leftwich – Microbiome

Multi-level analysis of the gut-brain axis shows autism spectrum disorder-associated molecular and microbial profiles – James T Morton – Nature Neuroscience

Human gut bacteria tailor extracellular vesicle cargo for the breakdown of diet- and host-derived glycans – Mariana G Sartorio – PNAS

Site-specialization of human oral Gemella species – Julian Torres-Morales – Journal of oral Microbiology

Review: Gut OncoMicrobiome Signatures (GOMS) as next-generation biomarkers for cancer immunotherapy – Andrew Maltez Thomas – Nature Reviews. Clinical Oncology

Review: Current concepts, advances, and challenges in deciphering the human microbiota with metatranscriptomics – Teija Ojala – Trends in Genetics

Review: Bacteria from the gut influence the host micronutrient status – Dorgeles Kouakou Dje Kouadio – Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Milk kefir alters fecal microbiota impacting gut and brain health in mice – Mariana de Fátima Albuquerque Pereira – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Review: Calorie restriction mimetic drugs could favorably influence gut microbiota leading to lifespan extension – Tomoya Shintani – GeroScience

Are probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics beneficial in primary thyroid diseases? A systematic review with meta-analysis – Karolina Zawadzka – Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Akkermansia muciniphila and Lactobacillus plantarum ameliorate systemic lupus erythematosus by possibly regulating immune response and remodeling gut microbiota – Mengchen Guo – mSphere

Effect of prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics on depression: results from a meta-analysis – Qin Zhang – BMC Psychiatry

Animal Microbiome and Animal Model Microbiome

Patterns and determinants of the global herbivorous mycobiome – Casey H Meili – Nature Communications

Resistant starches from dietary pulses modulate the gut metabolome in association with microbiome in a humanized murine model of ageing – Saurabh Kadyan – Scientific Reports

The microbial composition of larval airways from Drosophila melanogaster differ between specimens from laboratory and natural habitats – Hanna Angstmann – Environmental Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Different Techniques reveal the Difference of Community Structure and Function of Fungi from Root and Rhizosphere of Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge – C Li – Plant Biology (Stuttgart, Germany)

Rhizobial nitrogen fixation efficiency shapes endosphere bacterial communities and Medicago truncatula host growth – Beatriz Lagunas – Microbiome

Core community drives phyllosphere bacterial diversity and function in multiple ecosystems – Ran Xue – The Science of the Total Environment

Environmental Microbiome

A Metagenomic Time-Series Approach to Assess the Ecological Stability of Microbial Mats in a Seasonally Fluctuating Environment – David Madrigal-Trejo – Microbial Ecology

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

MetaPro: a scalable and reproducible data processing and analysis pipeline for metatranscriptomic investigation of microbial communities – Billy Taj – Microbiome

Supervised learning and model analysis with compositional data – Shimeng Huang – PLoS Computational Biology

Bakdrive: identifying a minimum set of bacterial species driving interactions across multiple microbial communities – Qi Wang – Bioinformatics

Creation of a milk oligosaccharide database, MilkOligoDB, reveals common structural motifs and extensive diversity across mammals – Sierra D Durham – Scientific Reports

Review: Genetic Engineering of Resident Bacteria in the Gut Microbiome – Jack Arnold – Journal of Bacteriology

Review: Tutorial: integrative computational analysis of bulk RNA-sequencing data to characterize tumor immunity using RIMA – Lin Yang – Nature Protocols