Human and General Microbiome

Gut

Metaproteomic portrait of the healthy human gut microbiota – Alessandro Tanca – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Microbiome and Growth in Infants with Congenital Heart Disease – Michael P Fundora – The Journal of Pediatrics

Driving gut microbiota enterotypes through host genetics – Catherine Larzul – Microbiome

Obesity-associated microbiomes instigate visceral adipose tissue inflammation by recruitment of distinct neutrophils – Dharti Shantaram – Nature Communications

Fecal, Duodenal and Tumor Microbiota Composition of Esophageal Carcinoma Patients, a Longitudinal Prospective Cohort – Tom van den Ende – Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Review: Role of the intestinal microbiota in contributing to weight disorders and associated comorbidities – Matthias Van Hul – Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Review: The role of the gut microbiome in disorders of gut-brain interaction – Brent J Gawey – The FEBS Journal

Skin

Multi-omics signatures reveal genomic and functional heterogeneity of Cutibacterium acnes in normal and diseased skin – Tianze Yu – Cell Host & Microbe

Genitourinary Tract

Vaginal anaerobes are associated with cervicitis: a case-control study – Erica L Plummer – The Journal of Infection

Oral and Respiratory Tract

Review: The Impact of Oral Diseases on Respiratory Health and the Influence of Respiratory Infections on the Oral Microbiome – Annapurna Gupta – Journal of Dentistry

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Lactobacillus acidophilus protects against Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection by regulating the autophagy of macrophages and maintaining gut microbiota homeostasis in C57BL/6 mice – Dengliang Li – mSystems

Exploring novel microbial metabolites and drugs for inhibiting Clostridioides difficile – Ahmed A Abouelkhair – mSphere

Ketogenic diet-induced bile acids protect against obesity through reduced calorie absorption – Xiao Li – Nature Metabolism

Review: How Diet and Lifestyle Can Fine-Tune Gut Microbiomes for Healthy Aging – M Tamayo – Annual Review of Food Science and Technology

Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiota signatures of vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans – Solveiga Samulėnaitė – Gut

Group membership, not diet, structures the composition and functional potential of the gut microbiome in a wild primate – Peter M Finnegan – mSphere

Maternal transmission as a microbial symbiont sieve, and the absence of lactation in male mammals – Brennen T Fagan – Nature Communications

Built Environment Microbiome

A metagenomic assessment of bacterial community in spices sold open-air markets in Saint-Louis, Senegal – Sarbanding Sané – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Compositionally aware estimation of cross-correlations for microbiome data – Ib Thorsgaard Jensen – PloS ONE

Bioinformatic Workflows for Metaproteomics – Tanja Holstein – Methods in Molecular Biology 

Floria: fast and accurate strain haplotyping in metagenomes – Jim Shaw – Bioinformatics 

Enhancing antimicrobial resistance detection with MetaGeneMiner: Targeted gene extraction from metagenomes – Chang Liu – Chinese Medical Journal

Benchmarking low- and high-throughput protein cleanup and digestion methods for human fecal metaproteomics – Alessandro Tanca – mSystems

Genome Watch: Bacterial barcoding facilitates plant microbiome studies – Hualan Liu – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Other

Retraction Note: Microbiome analyses of blood and tissues suggest cancer diagnostic approach – Gregory D Poore – Nature