Microbiome Digest – Bik's Picks

A daily digest of scientific microbiome papers, by the MD team. Founded by Elisabeth Bik, microbiome and science integrity consultant. Twitter: @microbiomdigest

March 20, 2026

Posted on March 20, 2026 by Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic

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Gut microbiome

Gut microbiota modulation via repeated donor fecal transplantation improves motor and gastrointestinal symptoms in drug-naïve Parkinson’s disease: a randomized phase 2 trial – Rui Zhang – Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Clinical Review: Advances in the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of celiac disease – John B Doyle – BMJ

Circulating gut microbial metabolites and risk of coronary heart disease: A prospective multi-stage metabolomics study – Yulu Zheng – Plos Medicine

Nasal microbiome

Composition and dynamics of the adult nasal microbiome – Cindy M. Liu – Microbiome

Respiratory tract microbiome

Mass azithromycin distribution and antibiotic resistance in the gut and nasopharynx: a cluster-randomized trial – Thuy Doan – Nature Medicine

Animal microbiome

Microbial communities associated with two populations of the sponge Chondrilla nucula under present and projected climate conditions in the Aegean Sea – Gioti Anastasia – ARPHA Preprints

Comparative analysis of stress markers, metabolic health, and gut microbiota in healthy and disabled dogs in long-term shelters in Thailand – Adul Saengthong – Plos One

Priority effects drive strain-level community composition of honeybee gut microbiota – Aiswarya Prasad – The ISME Journal

Animal experiments

Estropausal gut microbiota transplant improves measures of ovarian function in adult mice – Minhoo Kim – Nature Aging

Plant, root, soil microbiome

Breeding effects on the root-associated microbiome of Zea mays L. are linked to plant-induced variation in soil water potentials – Nicolas Tyborski – ISME Communications

Food microbiome

Leveraging publicly available datasets and machine learning approaches for predicting the health benefits of fermented foods – Elizabeth A. McDaniel – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

MATRIX: Rapid Quantification of Total and Active Microbial Cells with Single Cell Phenotypes for Environmental Microbiomes – Milena Gonzalo – bioRxiv

January 29, 2026

Posted on January 29, 2026 by Bugembe Allan

Animal microbiome

Host genetic background and environment have different effects on the establishment and structure of the adult worker honey bee gut microbiota – Breven Stark – PLOS ONE

Microbiota discovered in scorpion venom – Barbara Murdoch – PLOS ONE

Animal experiments / Disease models

Intestinal decontamination with rifaximin attenuates LSEC dysfunction and liver fibrosis in mice – Tingting Su – PLOS ONE

Periplaneta americana extract ameliorates recurrent oral ulcers in rats by enhancing the intestinal epithelial barrier and regulating gut microbiota – Kailing Li – PLOS ONE

Formononetin ameliorates SP-induced urticaria in mice via suppressing TAK1/MAK signaling pathway -Yan Wu –PLOS ONE

Lipopolysaccharide induced mouse depression model can better simulate changes in peripheral blood FFAs in alMDD -Jincai Pan –PLOS ONE

Human microbiome (gut & reproductive)

Stool and vaginal microbiome profiles patterns among Black and White endometrial cancer survivors: A pilot study in North Carolina – Mu Jin – PLOS ONE

Infection, immunity & host–microbe interactions

Examining the role of IgA in a persistent model of Staphylococcus aureus colonization – Yunys Perez-Betancourt – PLOS Pathogens

Diversify and conquer: How effector diversity is shaped by host–microbe co-evolution -Marion C Müller – PLOS Pathogens

Oo-No: Ophidiomyces ophidiicola–bacterial interactions and the role of skin lipids in development of ophidiomycosis – Jason W Dallas – PLOS Pathogens

Probiotics & food microbiology

In-vitro evaluation of probiotic potential of gut microbes isolated from retail chicken – Sangram Biswas – PLOS ONE

Antimicrobial resistance & clinical microbiology

Extended-spectrum β-lactamase and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales among adult patients and their family members at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Dessie Abera – PLOS ONE

Microbiome methods & bioinformatics

PCR bias impacts microbiome ecological analyses – Dharmik R Rathod – PLOS Computational Biology

CoSMIC: A hybrid approach for large-scale, high-resolution microbial profiling of novel niches – Maor Knafo – PLOS ONE

Environmental & applied microbiology

Developing a simple, cost-effective proof-of-concept vaccine candidate against EHEC for cattle – Cecilia M Duarte – PLOS ONE

Preventive effect of bentonite against pyoderma via direct binding capability of staphylococci – Mao Kaneki – PLOS ONE

Ultraviolet light and polyethylene glycol as environmental cleaning agents to reduce contamination of Pseudogymnoascus destructans in bat hibernacula – Alyssa J Stulberg – PLOS ONE

Water, pollution & human exposure

Micro- and nanoplastics in biological samples following a drinking water intervention in Barcelona, Spain – Emma Calikanzaros – PLOS Water

Human disease & biomarkers

Evidence of an allostatic response by intestinal tissues following induction of joint inflammation – Meghan M Moran – PLOS ONE

Multi-modal data to identify key factors influencing lung injury in ARDS patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation: A prospective multi-center observational study protocol – Zhimei Duan – PLOS ONE

Integrative genomic analysis reveals DHX58 as a key player in gastric cancer – Yan Li – PLOS ONE

Identifying biomarkers for diagnosis and disease activity monitoring in PSC-IBD and UC through proteomic profiling: A prospective study protocol – Ondrej Fabian – PLOS ONE

S100-alarmins, antenatal corticosteroids and the risk of late-onset sepsis in preterm infants – Gloria Kessler – PLOS ONE

Exploring the role of the key gene TNFAIP3 between periodontitis and influenza A through bioinformatic analysis and molecular docking – Mingxiang Xu – PLOS ONE

GC-MS based bioactive profiling of Phyllanthus niruri and its antibacterial potential – Zubair Khalid Labu – PLOS ONE

January 28, 2026

Posted on January 27, 2026 by muwanikajoel1

Reproductive / Urogenital Microbiome & Host–Pathogen Interactions

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

Gut Microbiome, Diet, and Host Health

Total and different types of olive oil consumption, gut microbiota, and cognitive function changes in older adults –Jiaqi 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 aerobiomes – Russell 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-life – Elena Fernández-Trapote – microbiome

Microbiome–Immune System Interactions

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

Animal microbiome

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

January 16, 2026

Posted on January 16, 2026 by Nkiruka Efenji

Human Microbiome

The testobolome in microbial testosterone metabolism and human health – Liisa Veerus –
npj biofilms and microbiomes

Multi-omic definition of metabolic obesity through adipose tissue–microbiome interactions – Rima M. Chakaroun – Nature Medicine

Gut microbiome

The microbiome at the centre of NAD⁺ supplementation – Youngjae Jo – Nature Metabolism

Meta-analysis of H. pylori and the gut microbiome interactions and clinical outcomes – Xiongjian Wu – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Environmental Microbiome

High microbial diversity in glacial habitats uncoupled from the specialized microbiomes of resident chironomid fauna – Valeria Lencioni – PLOS One

Bacterial communities show distinctive spatial diversity patterns in productive truffle orchards amended with peat-based substrate – Pedro Marco – Environmental Microbiome

Plant Microbiome

Root Triterpenoid Metabolites Drive the Assembly and Feedback Regulation of the Rhizosphere Microbiome During Flowering to Senescence in Rhododendron hybridum – Fei Shan – Frontiers in Microbiology

Drought-Tolerant Rhizobacterial Consortia Enhance Grapevine Growth and Tolerance to Water Deficit – Ginevra Canavera – Frontiers in Plant Science

Bioinformatics

Integrative analysis across metagenomic taxonomic classifiers: A case study of the gut microbiome in aging and longevity in the Integrative Longevity Omics Study – Tanya T. Karagiannis – PLOS Computational Biology

Novel artificial selection method improves function of simulated microbial communities – Bjorn Vessman – PLOS Computational Biology

December 05, 2025

Posted on December 4, 2025 by Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic

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General microbiome

Consensus Statement: STREAMS guidelines: standards for technical reporting in environmental and host-associated microbiome studies – Julia M. Kelliher – Nature Microbiology

Urinary microbiome

Urinary biochemical ecology reveals microbiome-metabolite interactions and metabolic markers of recurrent urinary tract infection – Michael L. Neugent – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Vaginal microbiome

Microbial and seminal traces of sexual intercourse and forensic implications – Sarah Ahannach – Microbiome

Ambient temperature affects the composition of the vaginal microbiome, and temperature-sensitive vaginal microbes influence assisted reproductive technology outcomes – Zheng Liu – – Microbiome

Gut microbiome

HGMT: a database of human gut microbiota for tumors and immunotherapy response – Jinxin Liu – Genome Biology

Review: Circadian rhythms as a modulator of gut microbiota-tumor microenvironment crosstalk – Qinglong Xu – Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

Dynamics of gut metabolome and microbiota maturation during early life – Anna-Katariina Aatsinki – iScience

Assembly of the infant gut microbiome and resistome are linked to bacterial strains in mother’s milk – Pamela Ferretti – Nature Communications

Animal microbiome

Core rumen microbes are functional generalists that sustain host metabolism and gut ecosystem function – Omar E. Tovar-Herrera – Nature Ecology & Evolution

Longitudinal changes in gut microbiota across reproductive states in wild baboons – Chelsea A. Southworth – bioRxiv

Probiotic effect of B. subtilis PS-216 in broiler chickens: modulation of weight, feed conversion, short chain fatty acids, microbiota and meat quality – Katarina Šimunović – Animal Microbiome

Animal experiments

The microbial metabolite imidazole propionate modulates hypothalamic activity and stress-induced behaviors – Gulistan Agirman – Cell Host & Microbe

Using gnotobiotic mice to decipher effects of gut microbiome repair in undernourished children on tuft and goblet cell function – Yi Wang – PNAS

Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior – Taichi A. Suzuki – Nature Communications

Postbiotics

Review: Postbiotics as microbial-derived therapeutics for wound healing disorders: from molecular mechanisms to future application – Miroslav Dinić – Home Cell Communication and Signaling

Phages and viruses

Unveiling the global urban virome through wastewater metagenomics – Nathalie Worp – Nature Communications

Soil, root and plant microbiome

Rare taxa modulate the emergence of dominants in microbial communities – Jianing Wang – mBio

Integrated effects of anaerobic soil disinfestation and beneficial microbes in strawberry production – Baker D. Aljawasim – PlosOne

Food microbiome

Exploring diversity and functional contribution of the microbiome of traditional Italian dry-cured hams – Giulia Longhi – Current Research in Microbial Sciences

Environmental microbiome

The Microflora Danica atlas of Danish environmental microbiomes – C. M. Singleton – Nature

Bioinformatics

TAGINE: Fast Taxonomy-based Feature Engineering for Microbiome Analysis – Shiri Baum – bioRxiv

Creating unity: linking 16S rRNA gene sequence information to the core taxonomy of genomes – Hilde Vinje – Environmental Microbiome

LorBin: efficient binning of long-read metagenomes by multiscale adaptive clustering and evaluation – Wei Xue – Nature Communications

October 10, 2025

Posted on October 10, 2025 by Bugembe Allan

Gut Microbiome & Health

Effects of ethnicity and geography on the fecal microbiota and dietary habits of Tibeto-Burman hill tribes in Northern Thailand – Tanapon Seetaraso – PLOS ONE

Relationship between Gut microbiome and brain volumes among Japanese Men – Sabrina Ahmed – PLOS ONE

Association of serum intestinal fatty-acid binding protein, inflammatory and oxidative stress markers with colorectal cancer among Ghanaian patients – Genevieve Kwao-Zigah – PLOS ONE

Trends in incidence, mortality and disability-adjusted life years of colorectal cancer in East Asia (1990–2021): An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study 2021 – Yuanyi Cao – PLOS ONE

Pathogens, Immunity & Host Interactions

Host- and microbial-mediated mucin degradation differentially shape Pseudomonas aeruginosa physiology and gene expression – Sabrina J. Arif – PLOS Pathogens

Blockade of mTOR ameliorates IgA nephropathy by correcting CD89 and CD71 dysfunctions in humanized mice – Alexandra Cambier – PLOS ONE

Single-cell analysis reveals an important role of CD137L+ macrophages in the host response to uropathogenic Escherichia coli infection in the bladder – Yaxiao Liu – PLOS Pathogens

Intestinal inflammation induced by heat-labile toxin-producing enterotoxigenic E. coli infection and impact on immune responses in an experimental human challenge model – Xueyan Zhang – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Vector-Borne & Parasitic Infections

The effects of mating and blood feeding on the immune defense of female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes – Brendan J. Kelly – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Temporal and spatial profiling of Aedes albopictus immune responses to chikungunya virus infection – Maria Greta Dipaola – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Distribution of schistosomes and soil-transmitted helminth infections and their association with growth and nutritional status of school-aged children in Cameroon – Estelle Mezajou Mewamba – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Risk factors influencing Coxiella burnetii seropositivity in water buffalo populations of Egypt’s Nile Delta – Abdelfattah Selim – PLOS ONE

Global genomic and antimicrobial resistance profiling of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Insights from whole genome sequencing and minimum inhibitory concentration analysis – Elaheh Ebrahimi – PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Oral & Other Microbiomes

Oral microbiome dysbiosis in acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack patients – Duangnapa Roongpiboonsopit – PLOS ONE

Bacterial communities of fungus-growing ant queens are species-specific and suggest vertical transmission – Victoria A. Sadowski – PLOS ONE

Captivity-driven microbiota reshaping: A cross-species analysis of divergent patterns in the gut microbiota of giant pandas, red pandas, and Asiatic black bears – Lin Xu – PLOS ONE

Environmental & Soil Microbiomes

Microbiome characterization of a pre-Hispanic man from Zimapán, Mexico: Insights into ancient gut microbial communities – Santiago Rosas-Plaza – PLOS ONE

The spatial distribution of salt tolerant bacteria and other soil parameters under different agricultural systems of the Indian Sundarbans – Sreemoyee Mitra – PLOS ONE

Pilot-scale depuration demonstrates the suitability of non-pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus as a surrogate for commercial-scale validation studies – Spencer L. Lunda – PLOS ONE

Public Health & Perception

Public perceptions and support for introduced microbes to combat hospital-acquired infections and antimicrobial resistance – Christopher L. Cummings – PLOS ONE

Nutritional status and bacteremia patterns in children with diarrheal diseases: A comparative analysis of bacteremia from Salmonella Typhi versus other pathogens – Md Rezaul Hossain – PLOS ONE

Exploration of common biomarkers and pathogenesis of primary Sjögren’s syndrome and interstitial lung disease by machine learning and weighted gene co-expression networks – Jingqi Dong – PLOS ONE

September 19, 2025

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic

prepared by Bugembe Allan

Gut microbiome

Iron-saturated bovine lactoferrin preserves microbiota diversity and healthy ageing-associated taxa in an in vitro colon model of elderly gut microbiota – María Ruiz-Rico – PLOS ONE

Repopulation of the gut microbiota after a screening colonoscopy – Yezaz A. Ghouri – PLOS ONE

Gut microbiome signatures in iNPH: Insights from a shotgun metagenomics study – Rahel Park – PLOS ONE

Animal microbiome

Bacterial assemblages on eggs reflect nesting strategies in wetland-associated birds – Wouter F. D. van Dongen – PLOS ONE

Substrate degradation and black soldier fly larvae bioconversion performance profile on co-digested oil palm biomass-based feedstock – Mulki Salendra Kusumah – PLOS ONE

Soil microbiome

Mycelial traits and GRSP in enhancing soil stability on cold region highway slopes: Comparative effects of three shrub species – Yibo Li – PLOS ONE

Food microbiome

Investigation of bacterial community and histamine production in fresh mackerel at low temperature storage – Grace Margareta – PLOS ONE

Combinatorial effects of Zingiber officinale and Citrus limon juices: Hypolipidemic and antioxidant insights from in vivo, in vitro, and in silico investigations – Oussama Bekkouch – PLOS ONE

Human Health & Disease

Maternal-infant rotavirus-specific antibody kinetics to inform timing of vaccine boosting in Malawi: An observational study – Jonathan Mandolo – PLOS Medicine

Mother-child autonomic nervous system interaction as an indication of parental stress: 24-hour cross recurrence plot analysis – Jiarui Li – PLOS ONE

Pre-infection cerebral cortex structure predicts murine sepsis outcome – Robert M. Gallant – PLOS ONE

Optimized processing of Gardenia Fruits with ginger juice: Unveiling therapeutic mechanisms for cholestatic liver injury through TLR4/NF-κB, FXR/PPAR-α, and PI3K/AKT/GSK-3β – Chenzi Lyu – PLOS ONE

Pathogens & Virulence

How Klebsiella pneumoniae controls its virulence – To Nguyen Thi Nguyen – PLOS Pathogens

Coronavirus M protein impairs cilium during early infection by enhancing the AurA-HDAC6 axis – Tenghan Zhuang – PLOS Pathogens

Virulence gene profile and antimicrobial resistance patterns of Aeromonas hydrophila in farmed catfishes – Farjana Ferdousi – PLOS ONE

Chimeric PRR T-cell-engager targeting cell surface β-1,3-glucan for invasive candidiasis – Yu Fang Sun – PLOS Pathogens

September 5, 2025

Posted on September 4, 2025 by Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic

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Gut microbiome

Gut fungi are associated with human genetic variation and disease risk – Emily P. Van Syoc – Plos Biology

The resident gut microbiome modulates the effect of synbiotics on the immunogenicity after SARS-COV-2 vaccination in elderly and diabetes patients – Lin Zhang – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Subspecies of the human gut microbiota carry implicit information for in-depth microbiome research – Matija Tričković – Cell Host & Microbe

Impact of early life antibiotic and probiotic treatment on gut microbiome and resistome of very-low-birth-weight preterm infants – Raymond Kiu – Nature Communications

A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation – David Gopaulchan – Nature Microbiology

Gut microbiome alterations precede graft rejection in kidney transplantation patients – Johannes Holle – American Journal of Transplantation

Adolescent girls at familial risk for depression with more advanced adrenarche have altered gut microbiota – A. Kolobaric – bioRxiv

Effects of a combined energy restriction and vigorous-intensity exercise intervention on the human gut microbiome: A randomised controlled trial – Russell G. Davies – The Journal of Physiology

Resistome

Variation and prognostic potential of the gut antibiotic resistome in the FINRISK 2002 cohort – Katariina Pärnänen – Nature Communications

Oral microbiome

Complementary Predictors for Asthma Attack Prediction in Children: Salivary Microbiome, Serum Inflammatory Mediators, and Past Attack History – Shahriyar Shahbazi Khamas – Allergy

Profiles of oral microbiota and metabolites in periodontitis and benign prostatic hyperplasia patients: a pilot study – Cong Zhu – Microbiology Spectrum

SANA-Biome: A Protocol for a Cross-Sectional Study on Oral Health, Diet, and the Oral Microbiome in Romania – Sterling L. Wright – Healthcare

Animal microbiome

Metagenomics reveals fibre fermentation and AMR pathways in red grouse (Lagopus scotica) microbiota – Anum Ali Ahmad – BMC Microbiology

Establishment of the early gut microbiota in vaginally delivered infants: the influence of maternal gut microbiota outweighs vaginal microbiota – Haishan Xie – Microbiology Spectrum

Integrative multi-omics analysis of dietary fibre-induced modulations in the composition and function of chicken caecal microbiota – Anum Ali Ahmad – bioRxiv

Vaginal microbiome

Degradation of Resistant α-1,4-glucan by Vaginal Gardnerella Species is Associated with Bacterial Vaginosis – Rosanne Hertzberger – Current Microbiology

Animal experiments

The microbiome is associated with obesity-related metabolome signature in the process of aging – Dana Binyamin – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Evidence for an indigenous female mouse urobiome – Sidra Sohail – bioRxiv

Food microbiome

Microbiome profiling of Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano cheeses reveals cheese-specific biomarkers, psychobiotic potential, and bioprotective activities – Vincenzo Valentino – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Metabolomics

Microbes release lower-value metabolites at higher rates – Snorre Sulheim – bioRxiv

Soil microbiome

236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient – Xiang Xiong – Scientific Data

Bioinformatics

StrainFacts accurately quantifies both endogenous and live biotherapeutic product strain abundances in simulated and clinical vaginal microbiota samples – Johnathan Shih – bioRxiv

Comparison of iSeq and Miseq in 16S rRNA sequencing-based human gut microbiome analysis – Yanling Wang – bioRxiv

Podcast

Biopolis – into the microbiome A young scientist is looking for answers in the human microbiome.

April 30, 2025

Posted on April 30, 2025 by Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic

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Skin microbiome

Large-scale skin metagenomics reveals extensive prevalence, coordination, and functional adaptation of skin microbiome dermotypes across body sites – Chengchen Li – bioRxiv

Oral microbiome

Toxic cultures: e-cigarettes and the oral microbial exposome – Michelle Lee-Scott Beverly – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Gut microbiome

The gut microbiota promotes pain in fibromyalgia – Weihua Cai – Neuron

Brief antibiotic use drives human gut bacteria towards low-cost resistance – Eitan Yaffe – Nature

Review: Implication of Gut Mycobiome and Virome in Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus: Uncovering the Hidden Players – Mona Kriti – Phenomics

Unravelling the causality between inflammatory bowel disease and polycystic ovary syndrome mediated by gut microbiota and blood metabolism: insights from two prospective cohort studies – Zhaoman Wan – Gut

Animal experiments

Enhanced propionate and butyrate metabolism in cecal microbiota contributes to cold-stress adaptation in sheep – Xindong Cheng – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Social and environmental predictors of gut microbiome age in wild baboons – Mauna R Dasari – eLife

Effects of parental care on skin microbial community composition in poison frogs – Marie-Therese Fischer – eLife

Food microbiome

The effect of different milk pretreatment methods on microbiome community development during Herrgårds cheese production and ripening – Juan Antonio Rodríguez – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

Assemblies of long-read metagenomes suffer from diverse errors – Florian Trigodet – bioRxiv

Enhanced semantic classification of microbiome sample origins using Large Language Models (LLMs) – Daniela Gaio – bioRxiv

March 14, 2025

Posted on March 13, 2025 by Svetlana Ugarcina Perovic

Happy Friday and see you next week at MVIF 37!

Women’s health

Vaginal microbiota changes during a natural menstrual cycle in the Women4Health cohort highlights specific features of the Italian population – Elena Vinerbi – bioRxiv

Review: Menopausal shift on women’s health and microbial niches – Maria R. Nieto – npj Women’s Health

Gut microbiome

Review: The gut microbiota-immune-brain axis: Therapeutic implications – Kenneth J. O’Riordan – Cell Reports Medicine

Effects of oral supplementation of probiotics on body weight and visceral fat in obese patients: a meta-analysis and systematic review – Manhou Guo – Scientific Reports

Longitudinal phage–bacteria dynamics in the early life gut microbiome – Michael J. Tisza – Nature Microbiology

Skin microbiome

Absolute quantification of the living skin microbiome overcomes relic-DNA bias and reveals specific patterns across volunteers – Deepan Thiruppathy – Microbiome

Animal experiments

Maternal undernutrition exacerbates microbiota-driven growth stunting through pre and postnatal effects – Yadeliz A. Serrano Matos – bioRxiv

Animal microbiome

Rumen microbiome associates with postpartum ketosis development in dairy cows: a prospective nested case–control study – Fanlin Kong – Microbiome

Functional Insights Into the Effect of Feralisation on the Gut Microbiota of Cats Worldwide – Ostaizka Aizpurua – Molecular Ecology

Endometrial microbiome in mares with and without clinical endometritis – Lulu Guo – bioRxiv

Spatial segregation and cross-kingdom interactions drive stingless bee hive microbiome assembly – Lílian Caesar – bioRxiv

Food microbiome

The core microbiomes and associated metabolic potential of water kefir as revealed by pan multi-omics – Samuel Breselge – Communications Biology

Antimicrobial resistance

Effects of cigarette-derived compounds on the spread of antimicrobial resistance in artificial human lung sputum medium, simulated environmental media and wastewater – Peiju Fang – Environmental Health Perspectives

Drinking water plumbing systems are a hot spot for antimicrobial resistant pathogens – Claire Hayward – Journal of Hospital Infection

DRAMMA: a multifaceted machine learning approach for novel antimicrobial resistance gene detection in metagenomic data – Ella Rannon – Microbiome

Bioinformatics

LEMMIv2: Benchmarking Framework for Metagenomic and 16S Amplicon Profilers with a Catalogue of Evaluated Tools – M. Seppey – bioRxiv

A high-quality genomic catalog of the human oral microbiome broadens its phylogeny and clinical insights – Jun Hyung Cha – bioRxiv

Microbial network inference for longitudinal microbiome studies with LUPINE – Saritha Kodikara, Kim-Anh Le Cao – Microbiome

Challenges in capturing the mycobiome from shotgun metagenome data: lack of software and databases – Ekaterina Avershina – Microbiome