Human gut microbiome

Association between gut microbiota and influenza: a bidirectional two-sample mendelian randomization study – Xu et al. – BMC Infectious Diseases

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

LACC1 regulates changes in the intestinal flora in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease – Xu & Wang – BMC Gastroenterology

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

[PREPRINT]Sex-specific gut bacteria manipulation impacts offspring production in the honeybee parasite small hive beetle, Aethina tumida Murray – Biswas et al. – bioRxiv

Selective enrichment of founding reproductive microbiomes allows extensive vertical transmission in a fungus-farming termite – Sinotte et al. – Proc. R. Soc. B

Microbiome variations among age classes and diets of captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Thailand using full-length 16S rRNA nanopore sequencing – Klinsawat et al. – Scientific Reports

Temporal and spatial variations in body mass and thermogenic capacity associated with alterations in the gut microbiota and host transcriptome in mammalian herbivores – Ren et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Metagenome sequencing and recovery of 444 metagenome-assembled genomes from the biofloc aquaculture system – Rajeev et al. – Scientific Data

Net-spinning caddisflies create denitrifier-enriched niches in the stream microbiome – Bertagnolli et al. – ISME Communications

Parasites, Phages and viruses

Effects of heat tolerance on the gut microbiota of Sarcophaga peregrina (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) and impacts on the life history traits – Ren et al. – Parasites & Vectors

Bioinformatics / Techniques

[PREPRINT]Comprehensive Identification of Pathogenic Microbes and Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Food Products Using Nanopore Sequencing-Based Metagenomics – Wing-Tung et al. – bioRxiv

Causal inference on microbiome-metabolome relations in observational host-microbiome data via in silico in vivo association pattern analyses – Hertel et al. – Cell Reports Methods

Rank selection for non-negative matrix factorization – Cai, Gu & Kenney