Human and General Microbiome

Microbiome diversity protects against pathogens by nutrient blocking – Frances Spragge – Science 

Shotgun metagenomics reveals interkingdom association between intestinal bacteria and fungi involving competition for nutrients – Zixuan Xie – Microbiome

Functional alterations and predictive capacity of gut microbiome in type 2 diabetes – Nihar Ranjan Dash – Scientific Reports

Fecal metabolite profiling identifies liver transplant recipients at risk for postoperative infection – Christopher J Lehmann – Cell Host & Microbe

Establishment of oral microbiome in very low birth weight infants during the first weeks of life and the impact of oral diet implementation – Pedro A R Vanzele – PloS One

Infant gut DNA bacteriophage strain persistence during the first 3 years of life – Yue Clare Lou – Cell Host & Microbe

Metabolic diversity in commensal protists regulates intestinal immunity and trans-kingdom competition – Elias R Gerrick – Cell

Poly-omic risk scores predict inflammatory bowel disease diagnosis – Christopher H Arehart – mSystems

Review: Impact of glyphosate (Roundup(^TM)) on the composition and functionality of the gut microbiome – Lauren Walsh – Gut Microbes

Rapid turnover and short-term blooms of Escherichia coli in the human gut – Na Han – Journal of Bacteriology

Designing a multi-epitope vaccine against Peptostreptococcus anaerobius based on an immunoinformatics approach – Yudan Mao – Synthetic and Systems Biotechnology

Twnbiome: a public database of the healthy Taiwanese gut microbiome – Amrita Chattopadhyay – BMC Bioinformatics

Identification of inulin-responsive bacteria in the gut microbiota via multi-modal activity-based sorting – Alessandra Riva – Nature Communications

Review: Application of omics technologies in cariology research: A critical review with bibliometric analysis – Josie Shizhen Zhang – Journal of Dentistry

Dysbiosis and associated stool features improve prediction of response to biological therapy in inflammatory bowel disease – Clara Caenepeel – Gastroenterology

Highlight: Female Reproductive Tract Microbiome

Review: Culturomics in Unraveling the Upper Female Reproductive Tract Microbiota – Robin Vanstokstraeten – Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

A manifold-based framework for studying the dynamics of the vaginal microbiome – Mor Tsamir-Rimon – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Culturomics reveals a hidden world of vaginal microbiota with the isolation of 206 bacteria from a single vaginal sample – Linda Abou Chacra – Archives of Microbiology

Effects of variation in sample storage conditions and swab order on 16S vaginal microbiome analyses – Tanya Kumar – Microbiology Spectrum

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Activity budget and gut microbiota stability and flexibility across reproductive states in wild capuchin monkeys in a seasonal tropical dry forest – Shasta E Webb – Animal Microbiome

Validation of method for faecal sampling in cats and dogs for faecal microbiome analysis – Xavier Langon – BMC Veterinary Research

Transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the gut microbiome of gregarious cockroaches: the importance of interaction between antibiotic exposed and non-exposed populations – Amalia Bogri – mSystems

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Fungal community composition changes and reduced bacterial diversity drive improvements in the soil quality index during arable land restoration – Pingxing Wan – Environmental Research

Two-for-one: root microbiota orchestrates both soil pH and plant nutrition – João Antonio Siqueira – Trends in Plant Science

Cotton microbiome profiling and Cotton Leaf Curl Disease (CLCuD) suppression through microbial consortia associated with Gossypium arboreum – Rhea Aqueel – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Environmental Microbiome

Benthic microbial biogeographic trends in the North Sea are shaped by an interplay of environmental drivers and bottom trawling effort – Guido Bonthond – ISME Communications

Increased prokaryotic diversity in the Red Sea deep scattering layer – Tamara Megan Huete-Stauffer – Environmental Microbiome