General microbiome

Major data analysis errors invalidate cancer microbiome findings – Gihawi et al. – mBio

Relative abundance data can misrepresent heritability of the microbiome – Bruihning et al. – Microbiome

Human gut microbiome

Discrimination exposure impacts unhealthy processing of food cues: crosstalk between the brain and gut – Zhang et al. – Nature Mental Health

[REVIEW]The impact of acute and chronic stress on gastrointestinal physiology and function: a microbiota–gut–brain axis perspective – Leigh et al. – The Journal of Physiology

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Vertical transmission of gut bacteria in commercial chickens is limited – Shterzer et al. – Animal Microbiome

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

[PREPRINT]The role of family and environment in determining the skin microbiome of captive aquatic frogs, Xenopus laevis – Chapman et al. – bioRxiv

Vertical transmission of gut bacteria in commercial chickens is limited – Shterzer et al. – Animal Microbiome

Bioinformatics/Techiques

[PREPRINT]MetaQuad: Shared Informative Variants Discovery in Metagenomic Samples – Xu et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Insertion sequence driven evolution of the microbiota revealed by a novel metagenomics pipeline – Kirsch, Hryckowian & Duerkop

[PREPRINT]A comparison of short-read, HiFi long-read, and hybrid strategies for genome-resolved metagenomics – Eisenhofer et al. – bioRxiv

The newest Oxford Nanopore R10.4.1 full-length 16S rRNA sequencing enables the accurate resolution of species-level microbial community profiling – Zhang et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

[PERSPECTIVE]Challenges and opportunities in sharing microbiome data and analyses – Huttenhower, Finn & McHardy – Nature Microbiology