June 9 , 2026

Human Microbiome

Remodelling of cystic fibrosis respiratory microbiota in response to extended elexacaftor–tezacaftor–ivacaftor therapy – Helen Gavillet – microbiome

Metabolic host-microbe crosstalk in stabilization of epithelial HIF – Alexander S. Dowdel – microbiome

Animal Microbiome

Reproductive aging drives deterministic microbiota assembly to mitigate uterine oxidative phosphorylation impairment via spermidine production in laying hens – Dong Dai – microbiome

Gut bacterial regulation of primate adaptive thermogenesis at high altitude -Xiaochen Wang – microbiome

Livestock Microbiome

Yeast culture promotes butyrate produced fibrolytic bacteria as intracellular hydrogen sink in the rumen – Li Wang – microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Deterministic assembly of rhizosphere bacterial community enables predictable and stable suppression of Verticillium wilt via microbial homeostasis – jiamin Ai – microbiome

Steering root-associated microbiomes via direct and soil legacy effects of neighbors – Mireadili Kuerban – microbiome

Biosynthesized selenium nanoparticles increase soybean resistance to root rot by recruiting beneficial microbes and reprogramming host metabolism – Haixu Liu – microbiome

Environmental / Built Microbiome

Longitudinal analysis of stowaway microorganisms aboard modules and cargo spacecraft of the Chinese Space Station – Ying Zhang – microbiome

Marine Microbiome

Ammonia oxidation and recalcitrant carbon degradation fuel mixotrophic growth in the symbiont community of a deep-sea sponge – Alessandro N. Garritano – microbiome

June 4 , 2026

Gut Microbiome

Associations between body composition and gut microbiota in female college students with and without dance training – Caifang Qiu – PLOS ONE

Imaging the impact of rotifer consumption on bacterial behaviors in the zebrafish gut – Susana Marquez Rosales – PLOS ONE

Environmental Microbiome

The livestock drinking water system as an active reservoir for antimicrobial resistance: A systematic review and one health gap analysis – Sujan Adhikar – PLOS ONE

Viral Microbiome

ViralMultiNet: A structure-aware multimodal framework for viral protein function prediction in wastewater surveillance – FuGuo Liu – PLOS ONE

Virological investigation and comparative genomic analysis of elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus 1B infection in an Australian captive herd of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) – Jack W Wheelahan – PLOS ONE

Expanding diversity of tick-borne phleboviruses (Phlebovirus mukawaense, Mudanjiang phlebovirus, Gomselga Virus, and Onega tick phlebovirus) in Russia – Mikhail Y Kartasho – PLOS ONE

Phage / Mobile Genetic Elements

Phage-plasmid-like elements are found throughout diverse environments and encode niche-specific functional traits – James I Mulle – PLOS ONE

Microbiological quality assessment of potential pathogenic bacteria and multidrug resistance patterns in commercial electrolyte drinks in Dhaka, Bangladesh – Sananda Saha – PLOS ONE

Pathogen & Disease-related Microbiology

Leishmania major virulence attenuation in vitro: An old conundrum revisited in the omics era – Evgeny S Gerasimov – PLOS ONE

Microbiological quality assessment of potential pathogenic bacteria and multidrug resistance patterns in commercial electrolyte drinks in Dhaka, Bangladesh – Sananda Saha – PLOS ONE

Microbiome Tools / Bioinformatics / Methods

TIPP-SD: A new method for species detection in microbiomes – Chengze Shen – PLOS ONE

AgrOmicSo: A client-server interface for accessible large-scale analysis of next-generation sequencing data – Dong-Jun Lee – PLOS ONE

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR Microbiome)

The livestock drinking water system as an active reservoir for antimicrobial resistance: A systematic review and one health gap analysis
Sujan Adhikar

April 29 , 2026

Gut microbiome

Gut microbiota induces dysspermatogenesis via microbial-derived phenylacetylglycine in Ggt1-deficient mice – Jinhua Tang – Microbiome

Puerarin modulates the gut-liver-ovarian axis to ameliorate reproductive aging in breeder hens – Zhenwu Huang – microbiome

Gastrointestinal microbial nitrogen metabolic landscape underlies nitrogen utilization efficiency of goats fed distinct dietary protein sources – Yechan Zhao – microbiome

Environmental Microbiome

Unveiling microbial risks in Chinese household dust: a comprehensive analysis from absolute abundance to virulence unit – Lu Long – microbiome

Livestock Microbiome

Curcumin modulates hepatic pyroptosis-autophagy crosstalk induced by aflatoxin B1 via rumen microbiota-blood-liver axis – Tongwei Liu – microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Metabolome-driven rhizosphere microbiome assembly determining the health of medicinal herb (Angelica sinensis) against root rot – Chuan You – microbiome

Microbiome & Cancer / Immunology

Trimethylamine-producing microbe Bacillus megaterium KCTC 3007 promotes antitumor immunity in endometrial cancer via type I interferon response pathways – Kyungchan Min – microbiome

April 28 ,2026

Plant microbiome

What do we know about the seed microbiome? – Xiangning Qi – microbiome

Human gut microbiome

Porphyromonas gingivalis induces intestinal inflammation through gingipain-dependent gut microbiome dysbiosis – Ming Li – microbiome

Tryptophan metabolism mediated by the gut microbiota inhibits pyroptosis via the AhR signaling pathway to maintain intestinal epithelial homeostasis Mengqi Liu – microbiome

Marine microbiome

Coral color morphs exhibit distinct microbial and proteomic profiles linked to stress and immune mechanisms in a changing ocean – Nathalia Delgadillo-Ordoñez – microbiome

Environmental microbiome

Microbial decomposer diversity and metabolic function during the decomposition of brine shrimp carcasses in a saline lake – Bao-Zhu Fang – microbiome

March 31,2026

Human Microbiome

The interplay between Peptostreptococcus and Fusobacterium as novel signatures in colorectal cancer recurrence – Yunhui Zhang – microbime

Dysbiosis of the nasal microbiome is associated with prospective acute exacerbation of COPD – Cristian Roca – microbiome

Water–vapor treatment of shower systems in healthcare facilities: reshaping built-environment microbiomes to improve Legionella control and protect at-risk patients – Tian You – microbiome

Animal Microbiome

Limosilactobacillus reuteri enhances production performance and ovarian function via modulation of the gut-ovary axis in laying hens – Yanchao Geng – microbiome

Heat stress suppresses lactation through potential rumen-mammary communication mediated by extracellular vesicles: integrated analysis of microbiome, metabolome, and miRNA profiles – Qi Huang – microbiome

Characterization of age-related changes in the gut microbiome and metabolome of Kunming dogs and their associations with police performance – Le Xu – microbiome

plant microbiome

Differential contributions of an antimicrobial effector from Verticillium dahliae to virulence and tomato microbiota assembly across natural soils – Wilko Punt – microbiome

Environmental & Data Microbiome

Microbiome Datahub: an open-access platform integrating environmental metadata, taxonomy, and functional annotation for comprehensive metagenome-assembled genome datasets – Hiroshi Mori – mi9crobiome

March 3rd ,2026

Human Microbiome

Early risperidone exposure impairs cognitive function by perturbation of the gut microbiome and bile acids/tyrosine-PTP1B axis – Huaiyu Ye – microbiome

Human DNA levels in feces reflect gut inflammation and associate with presence of gut species in IBD patients across the age spectrum -Chiara Mazzoni – microbiome

Animal Microbiome

Probiotic efficacy of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens TL106 from Tibetan pigs in metabolic syndrome: modulation of gut microbiota and metabolic in sows and suckling piglets – Wangyuan Yao – microbiome

Enhancing the fiber degradation efficiency in dairy cattle rumen through engineered bacterial communities – Jiayi Zhang – microbiome

Gut T cell-microbiota crosstalk orchestrates antibacterial immunity and mucosal homeostasis in teleost – Ming Geng – microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Host-driven evolution shapes the polysaccharide utilization profiles of alga-associated Flavobacteriaceae – Guanjing Cai – microbiome

Ecology-guided Bacillus SynCom from a rice–duckweed core reveals division of labor for concurrent growth promotion and sheath blight suppression – Yingjie Song – microbiome

Mikania micrantha invasion restructures rhizosphere nitrogen cycling through enzyme activation, microbial recruitment, and allelopathic regulation – Ruonan Wang – microbiome

Marine and Aquatic Environmental Microbiome

Reconstruction of coral holobionts and elucidation of the causal relationships among symbiodiniaceae, bacteria, and coral through single-cell raman spectroscopy metabolomics – Yang Shu – microbiome

Unlocking the unexplored AMPSphere in marine rare species – Shen Fan – microbiome

Potential survival strategies of novel comammox and nitrite-oxidizing Nitrospira synthesizing osmoprotectants in a wastewater microbiome treating high-ammonia brackish landfill leachate – Shohei Yasuda – microbiome

Stress-induced enrichment of Pseudomonas sp. stimulates the adaptive response of Auxenochlorella pyrenoidosa and antibiotic-resistant proliferation -Qian Liu – microbiome

Built Environment and Cultural Heritage Microbiome

Unraveling the microbiomes contributing to biodeterioration dynamics of limestone heritage at the Longmen Grottoes archeological site – Xiaoying Zhang – microbiome

February 26 , 2026

Gut Microbiome

Association between the gut microbiome and plasma metabolites linked to vocalization-based temperament in Merino sheep – Luoyang Ding – microbiome

Cross-kingdom genomic variation in chicken gut microbiomes: insights from China’s diverse local breeds – Jiayu Zhang – microbiome

Microbiota-derived propionate suppresses Salmonella virulence gene expression via LuxS quorum sensing – Qianyun Zhang – microbiome

rumen microbiome

Comparative analysis of rumen metagenomes with dietary supplementation of 3-nitrooxypropanol revealed divergent modes of action in hydrogen metabolism and reductant pathways between beef and dairy cattle – Youyoung Choi – microbiome

January 28, 2026

Reproductive / Urogenital Microbiome & Host–Pathogen Interactions

The interactive relationship between Fusobacterium necrophorum, Bacteroides pyogenes, and Porphyromonas levii in driving inflammatory uterine diseaseDianjun Cao – microbiome

 Gut Microbiome, Diet, and Host Health

Total and different types of olive oil consumption, gut microbiota, and cognitive function changes in older adultsJiaqi Ni – microbiome

Environmental Microbiome & Antimicrobial Resistance (Resistome)

Beyond borders: plasmids drive a shared antibiotic resistome in European urban water systems

Wanli He – microbiome

Spatial and temporal patterns of public transit aerobiomesRussell J. S. Or – microbiome

Food Chain, Meat Microbiome & Resistome Dynamics

Microbiome and resistome successions in pig carcasses and fresh pork meat throughout slaughtering, processing and shelf-lifeElena Fernández-Trapote – microbiome

Microbiome–Immune System Interactions

Commensal microbe-derived butyrate enhances T follicular helper cell function to boost mucosal vaccine efficacyHaeun Ko – microbiome

Animal microbiome

A culturomics approach reveals cross-feeding capacity of intestinal pig bacteria upon release of inositol from phytateLena-Sophie Paul – microbiome

January 13 , 2026

Environmental & Wastewater Microbiomes

Viral and eukaryotic drivers of prokaryotic and antibiotic resistance gene diversity in wastewater microbiomesAntonia Weiss – Springer nature

Correction: Global abundance patterns, diversity, and ecology of Patescibacteria in wastewater treatment plantsHuifeng Hu – Springer nature


Ruminant & Livestock Gut Microbiomes

The impact of rumen and hindgut microbiomes on the persistent productivity of long-lived dairy cows – Jianhao Yang – Springer nature

Rumen microbiota modulates metabolic stress in high-yield dairy cows: insights from early to peak lactationMoli Li – Springer nature

Rumen microbiota inoculation indicates collaborative mechanisms enhancing propionate supply to alleviate weaning stress in lambsTianrong Chen – Springer nature


Host-Associated Gut Microbiomes (Non-Human Models)

Ningxiang pig-derived Enterococcus hirae protects against E. coli-induced gut dysbiosis and inflammation via acetate/propionate-MyD88-NF-κB axis in piglets – Longlin Zhang – Springer nature


Insect & Evolutionary Microbiomes

Gut microbiome convergence and functional adaptation underlie the evolution of predation in stink bugs (Heteroptera Pentatomidae)Jingjing Sun – Springer nature