Pregnancy and early life

Gut Microbiota and Body Weight in School‐Aged Children: The KOALA Birth Cohort Study – Catherine A. Mbakwa – Obesity

Multi-site human microbiome

Grow With the Challenge – Microbial Effects on Epithelial Proliferation, Carcinogenesis, and Cancer Therapy – Jakob von Frieling – Frontiers in Microbiology

Human respiratory microbiome

Microbiome dataset from the upper respiratory tract of patients living with HIV, HIV/TB and TB from Myanmar – Kyaw SoeHtuna – Data in Brief

Human skin microbiome

The microbiome of the “sterile” pustules in palmoplantar pustulosis – Kana Masuda‐Kuroki – Experimental Dermatology

Human vaginal microbiome

Evaluation of patient- versus provider-collected vaginal swabs for microbiome analysis during pregnancy – Kristine M. Wylie – BMC Research Notes

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Animal experiments

Protective effects of a triple-fermented barley extract (FBe) against HCl/EtOH-induced gastric mucosa damage in mice – Jong‐Min Lim – Food Science & Nutrition

Guarana (Paullinia cupana Mart.) alters gut microbiota and modulates redox status, partially via caffeine in Wistar rats – Alexandre Kleber Silveira – Phytotherapy Research

Gut microbiota–dependent modulation of innate immunity and lymph node remodeling affects cardiac allograft outcomes – Jonathan S. Bromberg – JCI Insight

Prokaryotic communities of Indo-Pacific giant barrel sponges are more strongly influenced by geography than host phylogeny – T Swierts – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

In vitro experiments

A Simple In Vitro Gut Model for Studying the Interaction between Escherichia coli and the Intestinal Commensal Microbiota in Cecal Mucus – Matthew E Mokszycki – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Animal microbiome

Tissue-specific immune responses to Vibrio sp. infection in mussels (Perna canaliculus): A metabolomics approach – Thao V. Nguyen – Aquaculture

Conserved microbiota among young Heliconius butterfly species – Bas van Schooten – Peer J

Microbial community composition of nest-carton and adjoining soil of the ant Lasius fuliginosus and the role of host secretions in structuring microbial communities – Pina Brinker – Fungal Ecology

Comparative metagenomics of the gut microbiota in wild greylag geese (Anser anser) and ruddy shelducks (Tadorna ferruginea) – Wen Wang – Microbiology Open

Microbiome and Blood Analyte Differences Point to Community and Metabolic Signatures in Lean and Obese Horses – Amy S. Biddle – Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Determinants of Deadwood-Inhabiting Fungal Communities in Temperate Forests: Molecular Evidence From a Large Scale Deadwood Decomposition Experiment – Witoon Purahong –

Induction of defense mechanisms involved in disease resistance of onion blight disease caused by Botrytis allii – Mohamed M A Hussein – Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control

Ectomycorrhizal fungi may not act as a barrier inhibiting host plant absorption of heavy metals – Yangze Tang – Chemosphere

The impacts of deglaciation and human activity on the taxonomic structure of prokaryotic communities in Antarctic soils on King George Island – E.V. Pershina – Antarctic Science

Fungal, Bacterial, and Archaeal Diversity in Soils Beneath Native and Introduced Plants in Fiji, South Pacific – Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci – Microbial Ecology

Mangrove Sediment Microbiome: Adaptive Microbial Assemblages and Their Routed Biogeochemical Processes in Yunxiao Mangrove National Nature Reserve, China – Xiaolan Lin – Microbial Ecology

Draft Genome Sequence of Burkholderia reimsis BE51, a Plant-Associated Bacterium Isolated from Agricultural Rhizosphere – Qassim Esmaeel – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Rhizosphere microbial response to multiple metal(loid)s in different contaminated arable soils indicates crop-specific metal-microbe interactions – Weimin Sun – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Draft Genome Sequence of Burkholderia reimsis BE51, a Plant-Associated Bacterium Isolated from Agricultural Rhizosphere – Qassim Esmaeel – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Rhizosphere microbial response to multiple metal(loid)s in different contaminated arable soils indicates crop-specific metal-microbe interactions – Weimin Sun – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Apple rootstocks of different nitrogen tolerance affect the rhizosphere bacterial community composition – Xiaofen Chai – Journal of Applied Microbiology

Draft Genome Sequence of Pseudomonas sp. Strain MWU13-2860, Isolated from a Wild Cranberry Bog in Truro, Massachusetts – Ghazal Ebadzadsahrai – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Biotechnological potential of plant growth-promoting bacteria from the roots and rhizospheres of endemic plants in ironstone vegetation in southeastern Brazil – Érica Barbosa Felestrino – World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology

Effects of consecutive monoculture of sweet potato on soil bacterial community as determined by pyrosequencing – Huan Li – Journal of Basic Microbiology

Air and waterborne microbiome of a pharmaceutical plant provide insights on spatiotemporal variations and community resilience after disturbance – Filippo Pacchioni – BMC Microbiology

Spatial variability of microbial communities in a fractured sedimentary rock matrix impacted by a mixed organics plume – Gláucia da P. Lima – Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Modeling microbial communities from atrazine contaminated soils promotes the development of biostimulation solutions – Xihui Xu – The ISME Journal

Root growth, function and rhizosphere microbiome analyses show local rather than systemic effects in apple plant response to replant disease soil – Maik Lucas – PLOS One

Rhizosphere microbiome structure alters to enable wilt resistance in tomato – Min-Jung Kwak – Nature Biotechnology

Soil microbial community structure in the rhizosphere of Robinia pseudoacacia L. seedlings exposed to elevated air temperature and cadmium-contaminated soils for 4 years – X.Jia – Science of the Total Environment

Water and extremophile microbiome

Desiccation- and Saline-Tolerant Bacteria and Archaea in Kalahari Pan Sediments – Steffi Genderjahn – Frontiers in Microbiology

Air and waterborne microbiome of a pharmaceutical plant provide insights on spatiotemporal variations and community resilience after disturbance – Filippo Pacchioni – BMC Microbiology

High diversity of thermophilic cyanobacteria in Rupite hot spring identified by microscopy, cultivation, single-cell PCR and amplicon sequencing – Otakar Strunecký – Extremophiles

Structure of Microbial Mats in the Mramornaya Bay (Crimea) Coastal Areas – N. V. Pimenov – Microbiology

Characterization of a novel bacteriophage specific to Exiguobacterium indicum isolated from a plateau eutrophic lake – Shiying Zhang – Journal of Basic Biology

Pangenomic comparison of globally distributed Poribacteria associated with sponge hosts and marine particles – Sheila Podell – The ISME Journal

The impact of iron nanoparticles on technetium-contaminated groundwater and sediment microbial communities – Laura Newsome – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Microbial diversity and antibiotic resistance in a final effluent-receiving lake – Kinga Bondarczuk – Science of the Total Environment

Reduced chlorine in drinking water distribution systems impacts bacterial biodiversity in biofilms – Claire Bertelli – Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Ecology

A Microbial Saga: How to Study an Unexpected Hot Spot of Microbial Biodiversity from Scratch? – Valeria Souza – Cuatro Ciénegas Ecology, Natural History and Microbiology

How Divergent Is the Cuatro Ciénegas Oasis? Genomic Studies of Microbial Populations and Niche Differentiation – Zulema Gomez-Lunar – Cuatro Ciénegas Ecology, Natural History and Microbiology

Trace metals supplementation enhanced microbiota and biohythane production by two-stage thermophilic fermentation – Chonticha Mamimin – International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

Microcosms and Mesocosms: A Way to Test the Resilience of Microbial Communities in Cuatro Ciénegas – Nguyen E. López-Lozano – Cuatro Ciénegas Ecology, Natural History and Microbiology

Resistome

Candida albicans biofilm–induced vesicles confer drug resistance through matrix biogenesis – Robert Zarnowski – PLOS One

Microbes in space

Comparing Spore Resistance of Bacillus Strains Isolated from Hydrothermal Vents and Spacecraft Assembly Facilities to Environmental Stressors and Decontamination Treatments – Vincenzo Zammuto – Mary Ann Liebert Publishers

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Probiotics / prebiotics

Understanding mode of action can drive the translational pipeline towards more reliable health benefits for probiotics – Michiel Kleerebezem – Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Systematic review with meta‐analysis: the efficacy of prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics and antibiotics in irritable bowel syndrome – Alexander C. Ford – Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Phages and viruses

Characterization of dog serum virome from Northeastern Brazil – M.N.Weber – Virology

Hyperdiverse Viral Communities in an Oligotrophic Oasis (Cuatro Ciénegas): Marine Affinities and Microgeographic Differentiation – P. Isa – Cuatro Ciénegas Ecology, Natural History and Microbiology

Bioinformatics

IMG/M v.5.0: an integrated data management and comparative analysis system for microbial genomes and microbiomes – I-Min A Chen – Nucleic Acids Research

Strain-GeMS: Optimized subspecies identification from microbiome data based on accurate variant modeling – Chongyang Tan – Bioinformatics

Strain-GeMS: Optimized subspecies identification from microbiome data based on accurate variant modeling – Chongyang Tan – Bioinformatics