Highlights!

Genome-scale metabolic modeling of Aspergillus fumigatus strains reveals growth dependencies on the lung microbiome – Mohammad H Mirhakkak – Nature Communications

Depletion of butyrate-producing microbes of the Firmicutes predicts nonresponse to FMT therapy in patients with recurrent Clostridium difficile infection – Hongliang Tian – Gut Microbes

Chagas disease is related to structural changes of the gut microbiota in adults with chronic infection (TRIPOBIOME Study) – José A Pérez-Molina – PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Human and General Microbiome

Study of the gut microbiome in Egyptian patients with Parkinson’s Disease – Mohammad Mehanna – BMC Microbiology

Intestinal microbiota controls graft-versus-host disease independent of donor-host genetic disparity – Motoko Koyama – Immunity

A systematic review exploring the association between the human gut microbiota and brain connectivity in health and disease – Danique Mulder – Molecular Psychiatry

A macroecological perspective on genetic diversity in the human gut microbiome – William R Shoemaker – PloS One

Gut microbiota metabolites mediate the interplay between childhood maltreatment and psychopathology in patients with eating disorders – Giovanni Castellini – Scientific Reports

In-depth metataxonomic investigation reveals low richness, high intervariability, and diverse phylotype candidates of archaea in the human urogenital tract – Yeon Bee Kim – Scientific Reports

Host microbiome-pathogen interactions in pediatric infections – Jillian H Hurst – Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Intratumoural microbiome can predict the prognosis of hepatocellular carcinoma after surgery – Lejia Sun – Clinical and Translational Medicine

A shotgun metagenomic analysis of the fecal microbiome in humans infected with Giardia duodenalis – Brett A McGregor – Parasites & Vectors

Microbiome-derived cobalamin and succinyl-CoA as biomarkers for improved screening of anal cancer – Sergio Serrano-Villar – Nature Medicine

Bacterial clade-specific analysis identifies distinct epithelial responses in inflammatory bowel disease – Gemma L D’Adamo – Cell Reports. Medicine

Multimodal immune cell phenotyping in GI biopsies reveals microbiome-related T cell modulations in human GvHD – Sebastian Jarosch – Cell Reports. Medicine

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Prebiotics and the risk of upper digestive tract and stomach cancers: the PrebiotiCa study – Federica Turati – Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Plant Microbiome

Disturbance of eucalypt forests alters the composition, function, and assembly of soil microbial communities – Ernest D Osburn – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Reciprocal influence of soil, phyllosphere, and aphid microbiomes – Adrian Wolfgang – Environmental Microbiome

Review: Co-evolution within the plant holobiont drives host performance – Fantin Mesny – EMBO Reports

Environmental Microbiome

May microbial ecological baseline exist in continental groundwater? – Sining Zhong – Microbiome

Evolutionary patterns of archaea predominant in acidic environment – Rafael Bargiela – Environmental Microbiome

Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques

Machine learning-based approaches for cancer prediction using microbiome data – Pedro Freitas – Scientific Reports

Bioinformatic mining for RiPP biosynthetic gene clusters in Bacteroidales reveals possible new subfamily architectures and novel natural products – Maria Victoria Fernandez-Cantos – Frontiers in Microbiology

A bioinformatic analysis of zinc transporters in intestinal Lactobacillaceae – Uyen Huynh – Metallomics

Uncovering the Carboxylated Metabolome in Gut Microbiota-Host Co-metabolism: A Chemical Derivatization-Molecular Networking Approach – Yan-Zhen Wang – Analytical Chemistry