Human and General Microbiome

F. prausnitzii potentially modulates the association between citrus intake and depression – Chatpol Samuthpongtorn – Microbiome

Perturbations in the airway microbiome are associated with type 2 asthma phenotype and severity – Wei Zhang – Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology

Altered intestinal microbiota and fecal metabolites in patients with latent and active pulmonary tuberculosis – Hua Zhang – Tuberculosis

Mendelian randomization analyses support causal relationships between gut microbiome and longevity – Shu Chen – Journal of Translational Medicine

Natal factors influencing newborn’s oral microbiome diversity – Yoon-Hee Kim – Scientific Reports

Age-related loss of intestinal barrier integrity plays an integral role in thymic involution and T cell ageing – Jessica Conway – Aging Cell

Early-life Upper Airway Microbiota are Associated with Decreased Lower Respiratory Tract Infections – Susan Zelasko – The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Human Milk Microbiome Is Associated With Allergic Diseases in Early Childhood – Jie Ma – Allergy

Faecal microbiota composition and impulsivity in a cohort of older adults with metabolic syndrome – Prokopis Konstanti – Scientific Reports

Microbiota-induced alteration of kynurenine metabolism in macrophages drives formation of creeping fat in Crohn’s disease – Jinjie Wu – Cell Host & Microbe

Review: Estimates of microbiome heritability across hosts – Andrew H Morris – Nature Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

High barley intake in non-obese individuals is associated with high natto consumption and abundance of butyrate-producing bacteria in the gut: a cross-sectional study – Satoko Maruyama – Frontiers in Nutrition

Review: Prebiotics in food and dietary supplements: a roadmap to EU health claims – Kieran Tuohy – Gut Microbes

Animal Models

The Microbiome Modifies Manifestations of Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Perforin-Deficient Mice – Jasmin Mann – European Journal of Immunology

Spatiotemporal dynamics during niche remodeling by super-colonizing microbiota in the mammalian gut – Guillaume Urtecho – Cell Systems

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Multi-omics investigation into long-distance road transportation effects on respiratory health and immunometabolic responses in calves – Jiancheng Qi – Microbiome

Plant and Soil Microbiome

Wild again: recovery of a beneficial Cannabis seed endophyte from low domestication genotypes – Carolina Lobato – Microbiome

Trade-offs and adaptation to metalliferous soils: The role of soil microbiome in metal tolerance and uptake in Arabidopsis halleri ecotypes from a reciprocal transplant experiment – Priyanka Kushwaha – The Science of the Total Environment

Effect of plant-derived microbial soil legacy in a grafting system-a turn for the better – Tingting Wang – Microbiome

Environmental Microbiome

Microbiome shifts elicited by ornamental lighting of granite facades identified by MinION sequencing – Anxo Méndez – Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology (B, Biology)

Synthetic communities derived from the core endophytic microbiome of hyperaccumulators and their role in cadmium phytoremediation – Lukuan Huang – Microbiome

Other Microbes

Microbial community evolution in a lab-scale reactor operated to obtain biomass for biochemical methane potential assays – Victoria de la Sovera – Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Procedures and Resources

Faecal sample storage without ethanol for up to 24 h followed by freezing performs better than storage with ethanol for shotgun metagenomic microbiome analysis in patients with inflammatory and non-inflammatory intestinal diseases and healthy controls – Ida Marie Bruun Grønbæk – BMC Research Notes

HMicroDB: A Comprehensive Database of Herpetofaunal Microbiota With a Focus on Host Phylogeny, Physiological Traits, and Environment Factors – Jiaying Li – Molecular Ecology Resources

Comparison of commonly used software pipelines for analyzing fungal metabarcoding data – Theresa Rzehak – BMC Genomics

MosAIC: An annotated collection of mosquito-associated bacteria with high-quality genome assemblies – Aidan Foo – PLoS Biology