Category Archives: General Microbiome

March 17, 2024

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Human Microbiome

Stratification of Fusobacterium nucleatum by local health status in the oral cavity defines its subspecies disease association – Madeline Krieger – Cell Host & Microbe

Bile acids modified by the intestinal microbiota promote colorectal cancer growth by suppressing CD8(+) T cell effector functions – Jingjing Cong – Immunity

Longitudinal profiling of the microbiome at four body sites reveals core stability and individualized dynamics during health and disease – Xin Zhou – Cell Host & Microbe

Body mass index can mediate the interplay between gut microbiome and sleep disorders – Lng Adami – Sleep Medicine

Review: Postbiotic butyrate: role and its effects for being a potential drug and biomarker to pancreatic cancer – Abinaya Elango – Archives of Microbiology

Whole-body metabolic modelling reveals microbiome and genomic interactions on reduced urine formate levels in Alzheimer’s disease – Filippo Martinelli – Scientific Reports

Antibacterial activity of nonantibiotics is orthogonal to standard antibiotics – Mariana Noto Guillen – Science

Defining Porphyromonas gingivalis strains associated with periodontal disease – Vijaya Murugaiyan – Scientific Reports

Review: The individual response to antibiotics and diet – insights into gut microbial resilience and host metabolism – Lars M M Vliex – Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Unveiling the immunomodulatory effect of the novel probiotic Akkermansia muciniphila and its protective effect in vitro – Alba Calvo – Microbiological Research

Microbial metabolite enhances immunotherapy efficacy by modulating T cell stemness in pan-cancer – Dingjiacheng Jia – Cell

Animal Microbiome

Rice straw ash and amphibian health: A deep dive into microbiota changes and potential ecological consequences – Wen-Jing Dong – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbial community composition in the dung of five sympatric European herbivore species – Xingzhao Sun – Ecology and Evolution

Antibiotics treatment promotes vasculogenesis in the brain of glioma-bearing mice – Maria Rosito – Cell Death & Disease

Environmental Microbiome

Microecological characteristics of water bodies/sediments and microbial remediation strategies after 50 years of pollution exposure in ammunition destruction sites in China – Xu Yang – Environmental Research

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Protocols, Techniques and Resources

Review: Transkingdom Network Analysis (TkNA): a systems framework for inferring causal factors underlying host-microbiota and other multi-omic interactions – Nolan K Newman – Nature Protocols

Resource competition predicts assembly of gut bacterial communities in vitro – Po-Yi Ho – Nature Microbiology

March 10, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

A cryptic plasmid is among the most numerous genetic elements in the human gut – Emily C. Fogarty – Cell

Associations between bacterial and fungal communities in the human gut microbiota and their implications for nutritional status and body weight – Ricardo García-Gamboa – Scientific Reports

Multicomponent (bio)markers for obesity risk prediction: a scoping review protocol – Farhad Vahid – BMJ Open

Gut microbiome-derived bacterial extracellular vesicles in patients with solid tumours – Surbhi Mishra – Journal of Advanced Research

Comparative analysis of the vaginal bacteriome and virome in healthy women living in high-altitude and sea-level areas – Chaoran Li – European Journal of Medical Research

Cas9-assisted biological containment of a genetically engineered human commensal bacterium and genetic elements – Naoki Hayashi – Nature Communications

Review: Unlocking the secrets: exploring the influence of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and microbiome on cancer development – Menatallah Rayan – Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters

Environmental Microbiome

Review: Multi-omics and gut microbiome: Unveiling the pathogenic mechanisms of early-life pesticide exposure – Yifan Yue – Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology

Ancient Microbiome

Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans – Nora Bergfeldt – Scientific Reports

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Protocols, Techniques and Resources

A comparison of short-read, HiFi long-read, and hybrid strategies for genome-resolved metagenomics – Raphael Eisenhofer – Microbiology Spectrum

OMEinfo: global geographic metadata for -omics experiments – Matthew Crown – Bioinformatics Advances

Successful topical treatment of human biofilms using multiple antibiotic elution from a collagen-rich hydrogel – Ayushi D Sharma – Scientific Reports

The astounding exhaustiveness and speed of the Astral mass analyzer for highly complex samples is a quantum leap in the functional analysis of microbiomes – Thibaut Dumas – Microbiome

March 7, 2024

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General microbiome

[OPINION]Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence – Custer, Bresciani & Dini-Andreote – Trends in Microbiology

Studying mixed-species biofilms of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus using evolutionary game theory – Dühring & Schuster – PLOS One

Human oral microbiome

Microbial Communities and Functional Genes in Periodontitis and Healthy Controls – Ma et al. – International Dental Journal

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]Unlocking the secrets: exploring the influence of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor and microbiome on cancer development – Rayan et al. – Cellular & Molecular Biology Letters

Short term supplementation with cranberry extract modulates gut microbiota in human and displays a bifidogenic effect – Lessard-Lord et al. – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Fecal microbiota impacts development of Cryptosporidium parvum in the mouse – Widmer & Creasey – Scientific reports

High fat diet is associated with gut microbiota dysbiosis and decreased gut microbial derived metabolites related to metabolic health in young Göttingen Minipigs – Lützhøft et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Gustatory Responsiveness of Honey Bees Colonized with a Defined or Conventional Gut Microbiota – Suenami, Sato & Miyazaki – Microbes and Environments

[REVIEW]Fungal infection of insects: molecular insights and prospects – Hong et al. – Trends in Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbiome sequencing revealed the abundance of uncultured bacteria in the Phatthalung sago palm-growing soil – Nutaratat et al. – PLOS One

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Assigning the unassigned: A signature-based classification of rDNA metabarcodes reveals new deep-sea diversity – Angeles et al. – PLOS One

March 6, 2024

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Vaginal Microbiome

Modeling Healthy and Dysbiotic Vaginal Microenvironments in a Human Vagina-on-a-Chip – Aakanksha Gulati et al – JoVE Bioengineering

Cancer microbiome

Multi-omics analysis elucidates the relationship between intratumor microbiome and host immune heterogeneity in breast cancer – Jia Li et al – Microbiology Spectrum

Human gut microbiome

Protein combined with certain dietary fibers increases butyrate production in gut microbiota fermentation – Rachel Jackson et al – Food & Function

A human milk oligosaccharide prevents intestinal inflammation in adulthood via modulating gut microbial metabolism – Kasey M. Schalich et al – mBio

Taxonomic and metabolic development of the human gut microbiome across life stages: a worldwide metagenomic investigation – Leonardo Mancabelli et al – mSystems

Cadaver microbiome

Decomposer communities are universal in death – Michael S. Strickland – Nature Microbiology

Animal microbiome

The coral microbiome in sickness, in health and in a changing world – Christian R. Voolstra et al – Nature Reviews Microbiology

The effects of hydrolyzed protein on macronutrient digestibility, fecal metabolites and microbiota, oxidative stress and inflammatory biomarkers, and skin and coat quality in adult dogs – Clare Hsu et al – Journal of Animal Science

Host starvation and in hospite degradation of algal symbionts shape the heat stress response of the Cassiopea-Symbiodiniaceae symbiosis – Gaëlle Toullec et al – BMC Microbiome

An engineered bacterial symbiont allows noninvasive biosensing of the honey bee gut environment – Audam Chhun et al – PLOS Biology

From phyllosphere to insect cuticles: silkworms gather antifungal bacteria from mulberry leaves to battle fungal parasite attacks – Pengfei Zhao et al – BMC Microbiome

Phages and viruses

Discovery and characterization of novel DNA viruses in Apis mellifera: expanding the honey bee virome through metagenomic analysis – Dominika Kadlečková et al – mSystems

Taxonomic difference in marine bloom-forming phytoplanktonic species affects the dynamics of both bloom-responding prokaryotes and prokaryotic viruses – Hiroaki Takebe et al – mSystems

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Microbiome sequencing revealed the abundance of uncultured bacteria in the Phatthalung sago palm-growing soil – Pumin Nutaratat et al – PLOS ONE

The rhizosphere microbiome reduces the uptake of arsenic and tungsten by Blechnum orientale by increasing nutrient cycling in historical tungsten mining area soils – Xiaolong Lan et al – Science of the Total Environment

Non-Microbiology/Science Communication

[PREPRINT] Sci-comm “behind the scenes”: Gendered narratives of scientific outreach activities in the life sciences – Perry G. Beasley-Hall et al – bioRxiv

March 3, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

The influence of placenta microbiota of normal term pregnant women on immune regulation during pregnancy – Ping Yang – BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Effect of gut microbiome modulation on muscle function and cognition: the PROMOTe randomised controlled trial – Mary Ni Lochlainn – Nature Communications

A metagenomic catalog of the early-life human gut virome – Shuqin Zeng – Nature Communications

Exploring the gut DNA virome in fecal immunochemical test stool samples reveals associations with lifestyle in a large population-based study – Paula Istvan – Nature Communications

Bisphenol A exposure affects specific gut taxa and drives microbiota dynamics in childhood obesity – Ana Lopez-Moreno – mSystems

Prevotella, a dominant bacterium in young people with stage Ⅲ periodontitis, related to the arachidonic acid metabolism pathway – Qin Ye – Microbes and Infection

Dual membrane-spanning anti-sigma factors regulate vesiculation in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron – Evan J Pardue – PNAS

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Blautia coccoides is a Newly Identified Bacterium Increased by Leucine Deprivation and has a Novel Function in Improving Metabolic Disorders – Yuguo Niu – Advanced Science

Fecal Microbiota Transplantation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Clinical Protocol and Evaluation of Microbiota Immunity Axis – Elena Niccolai – Methods in Molecular Biology

Effect of Lactobacillus reuteri NCIMB 30351 drops on symptoms of infantile functional gastrointestinal disorders and gut microbiota in early infants: Results from a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial – Oleg Yu Tyrsin – European Journal of Pediatrics

Animal Microbiome

Gut microbiota facilitate adaptation of invasive moths to new host plants – Shouke Zhang – The ISME Journal

Plant Microbiome

A Synthetic Microbiome Based on Dominant Microbes in Wild Rice Rhizosphere to Promote Sulfur Utilization – Changji Wang – Rice

Environmental Microbiome

Life at the borderlands: microbiomes of interfaces critical to One Health – Simon R Law – FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Neural network establishes co-occurrence links between transformation products of the contaminant and the soil microbiome – Yuhui Xiang – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Protocols, Techniques and Resources

Review: Transforming Big Data into AI-ready data for nutrition and obesity research – Diana M Thomas – Obesity

Explainable artificial intelligence for microbiome data analysis in colorectal cancer biomarker identification – Pierfrancesco Novielli – Frontiers in Microbiology

A metatranscriptomics strategy for efficient characterization of the microbiome in human tissues with low microbial biomass – Joana Pereira-Marques – Gut Microbes

On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling – Monica Steffi Matchado – Microbial Genomics


February 26, 2024

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General and Human Microbiome

Fusobacterium nucleatum promotes tumor progression in KRAS p.G12D-mutant colorectal cancer by binding to DHX15 – Huiyuan Zhu – Nature Communications

Gut microbial co-metabolite 2-methylbutyrylcarnitine exacerbates thrombosis via binding to and activating integrin α2β1 – Kan Huang – Cell Metabolism

Robustness of cancer microbiome signals over a broad range of methodological variation – Gregory D Sepich-Poore – Oncogene

A cross-sectional study observing the association of psychosocial stress and dietary intake with gut microbiota genera and alpha diversity among a young adult cohort of black and white women in Birmingham, Alabama – Rachel O Knight – BMC Women’s Health

Faecal hsa-miR-7704 inhibits the growth and adhesion of Bifidobacterium longum by suppressing ProB and aggravates hepatic encephalopathy – Yuchong Wang – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Review: How probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, and postbiotics prevent dental caries: an oral microbiota perspective – Si-Chen Luo – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Review: Limosilactobacillus fermentum Strains as Novel Probiotic Candidates to Promote Host Health Benefits and Development of Biotherapeutics: A Comprehensive Review – Micaelle Oliveira de Luna Freire – Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins

AGA Clinical Practice Guideline on Fecal Microbiota-Based Therapies for Select Gastrointestinal Diseases – Anne F Peery – Gastroenterology

Plant Microbiome

Root endophyte-mediated alteration in plant H2O2 homeostasis regulates symbiosis outcome and reshapes the rhizosphere microbiota – Kai Sun – Journal of Experimental Botany

Micronutrient-microbiome interplay: a critical regulator of soil-plant health – Muhammad Noman – Trends in Microbiology

Dynamic root microbiome sustains soybean productivity under unbalanced fertilization – Mingxing Wang – Nature Communications

Environmental Microbiome

Adaptive response of prokaryotic communities to extreme pollution flooding in a Paleolithic rock art cave (Pindal Cave, northern Spain) – Tamara Martin-Pozas – The Science of the Total Environment

Effects of running time on biological activated carbon filters: water purification performance and microbial community evolution – Shuangjia Shi – Environmental Science and Pollution Research International

February 15, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Review: Gastrointestinal and brain barriers: unlocking gates of communication across the microbiota-gut-brain axis – María R Aburto – Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Alterations of gut microbiota in infants with biliary atresia identified by 16S rRNA-sequencing – Fei Liu – BMC Pediatrics

Culture- and non-culture-based approaches reveal unique features of the ocular microbiome in dry eye patients – Maria Naqvi – The Ocular Surface

Animal Microbiome

Herptile gut microbiomes: a natural system to study multi-kingdom interactions between filamentous fungi and bacteria – Lluvia Vargas-Gastélum – mSphere

Beneficial Microbes 

Colonic probiotic insufflation: clinical proposal for an economical game-changer for restoration of the gut microbiome in colorectal cancer and beyond – Ryan Varghese – International Journal of Surgery

Neuroprotective Effect of a Multistrain Probiotic Mixture in SOD1(G93A) Mice by Reducing SOD1 Aggregation and Targeting the Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis – Zikai Xin – Molecular Neurobiology

Plant Microbiome

Metagenomic and biochemical analyses reveal the potential of silicon to alleviate arsenic toxicity in rice (Oryza sativa L.) – Temoor Ahmed – Environmental Pollution

Mechanisms on salt tolerant of Paenibacillus polymyxa SC2 and its growth-promoting effects on maize seedlings under saline conditions – Chengqiang Wang – Microbiological Research

Environmental Microbiome

Novel insights into the rhizosphere and seawater microbiome of Zostera marina in diverse mariculture zones – Hao Sun – Microbiome

Biogeography and assembly processes of abundant and rare soil microbial taxa in the southern part of the Qilian Mountain National Park, China – Zhilin Feng – Ecology and Evolution


Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

A Clinical Breathomics Dataset – Ping-Hung Kuo – Scientific Data

DeepMPTB: a vaginal microbiome-based deep neural network as artificial intelligence strategy for efficient preterm birth prediction – Oshma Chakoory – Biomarker Research

MicroMPN: methods and software for high-throughput screening of microbe suppression in mixed populations – Karla Franco Meléndez – Microbiology Spectrum

Nanopore sequencing of infectious fluid is a promising supplement for gold-standard culture in real-world clinical scenario – Manna Zhao – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

February 13, 2024

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General microbiome

Model-free prediction of microbiome compositions – Asher & Bashan – Microbiome

Pregnancy and early life

Divergent maturational patterns of the infant bacterial and fungal gut microbiome in the first year of life are associated with inter-kingdom community dynamics and infant nutrition – Mercer et al. – Microbiome

Human airway microbiome

Genomic attributes of airway commensal bacteria and mucosa – Cuthbertson et al. – Communications Biology

Human skin microbiome

[REVIEW]Triggers for the onset and recurrence of psoriasis: a review and update – Liu et al. – Cell Communication and Signaling

Human vaginal microbiome

Uterine fibroids and longitudinal profiles of the vaginal microbiota in a cohort presenting for transvaginal ultrasound – Robbins – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

Microbial-derived imidazole propionate links the heart failure-associated microbiome alterations to disease severity – Raju et al. – Genome Medicine

Horizontal gene transfer after faecal microbiota transplantation in adolescents with obesity – Behling et al. – Microbiome

Differential effects of antiretroviral treatment on immunity and gut microbiome composition in people living with HIV in rural versus urban Zimbabwe – Colorado et al. – Microbiome

Gut microbiome signature of metabolically healthy obese individuals according to anthropometric, metabolic and inflammatory parameters – Lee et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Metagenome-assembled genome reveals species and functional composition of Jianghan chicken gut microbiota and isolation of Pediococcus acidilactic with probiotic properties – Shen et al. – Microbiome

Falcon gut microbiota is shaped by diet and enriched in Salmonella – Ahmad et al. – PLOS One

Sex differences in colonic gene expression and fecal microbiota composition in a mouse model of obesity-associated colorectal cancer – Chang et al. – Scientific Reports

Cadaver decomposition microbiome

A conserved interdomain microbial network underpins cadaver decomposition despite environmental variables – Burcham et al. – Nature Microbiology

Bioinformatics

YACHT: an ANI-based statistical test to detect microbial presence/absence in a metagenomic sample – Koslicki et al. – Bioinformatics

Gut microbiome-metabolome interactions predict host condition – Shtossel et al. – Microbiome

Techniques

Fecal microbiome composition and diversity of cryopreserved canine stool at different duration and storage conditions – Barko et al. – PLOS One

January 31, 2024

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General microbiome

Finding Candida auris in public metagenomic repositories – Mario-Vasquez et al. – PLOS One

Pregnancy and early life

A pilot study of fecal pH and redox as functional markers in the premature infant gut microbiome – Letourneau et al. – PLOS One

[PREPRINT]Assembly, stability, and dynamics of the infant gut microbiome are linked to bacterial strains and functions in mother’s milk – Allert et al. – bioRxiv

Human nasal microbiome

A genome-wide association study reveals the relationship between human genetic variation and the nasal microbiome – Liu et al. – Communications Biology

Human gut microbiome

Differential peripheral immune signatures elicited by vegan versus ketogenic diets in humans – Link et al. – Nature Medicine

Metagenomic analyses of 7000 to 5500 years old coprolites excavated from the Torihama shell-mound site in the Japanese archipelago – Nishimura et al. – PLOS One

[PREPRINT]Unravelling the ancient fungal DNA from the Iceman’s gut – Oskolkov et al. – bioRxiv

Animal experiments (mouse/rat experiments, chickens/pigs on different diets)

Streptococcus anginosus promotes gastric inflammation, atrophy, and tumorigenesis in mice – Fu et al. – Cell

Gut complement induced by the microbiota combats pathogens and spares commensals – Wu et al. – Cell

Complement in breast milk modifies offspring gut microbiota to promote infant health – Xu et al. – Cell

Antidiabetic effects and mechanism of γ-polyglutamic acid on type II diabetes mice – Li et al. – International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Bacterial microbiome associated with cigarette beetle Lasioderma serricorne (F.) and its microbial plasticity in relation to diet sources – Srinivasan et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Metagenomics reveals the temporal dynamics of the rumen resistome and microbiome in goat kids – Chai et al. – Microbiome

[PREPRINT]Thermal fluctuations independently modulate physiological plasticity and the dynamics of the gut microbiome in a tropical rocky shore oyster – Arromrak et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Diversity and structure of the deep-sea sponge microbiome in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean – Williams et al. – bioRxiv

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[PREPRINT]Temporal and spatial dynamics within the fungal microbiome of grape fermentation – Onetto et al. – bioRxiv

Water and extremophile microbiome (sea, rivers, lakes, glaciers, permafrost, high-salt)

Autotrophic biofilms sustained by deeply sourced groundwater host diverse bacteria implicated in sulfur and hydrogen metabolism – Valentin-Alvarado et al. – Microbiome

Phages and viruses

[PREPRINT]Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes – Zheludev et al. – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]DeepGOMeta: Predicting functions for microbes – Hoehndorf et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Predicting microbial genome-scale metabolic networks directly from 16S rRNA gene sequences – Øyås et al. – bioRxiv

Techniques

[REVIEW]Unraveling metagenomics through long-read sequencing: a comprehensive review – Kim et al. – Journal of Translational Medicine

Microbes in the news

Non-prescription therapeutics for IBS: where are we? – Costantino – Gut Microbiota for Health by ESNM

January 20, 2024

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Human and General Microbiome

Gut microbiome for predicting immune checkpoint blockade-associated adverse events – Muni Hu – Genome Medicine

The fusion of multi-omics profile and multimodal EEG data contributes to the personalized diagnostic strategy for neurocognitive disorders – Yan Han – Microbiome

Prediction of lung cancer using novel biomarkers based on microbiome profiling of bronchoalveolar lavage fluid – Gihyeon Kim – Scientific Reports

Exploring the intestinal ecosystem: from gut microbiota to associations with subtypes of inflammatory bowel disease – Fan Li – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Simulated digestions of free oligosaccharides and mucin-type O-glycans reveal a potential role for Clostridium perfringens – Andrew G McDonald – Scientific Reports

Oral microbiome associated with differential ratios of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Streptococcus cristatus – Qingguo Wang – Microbiology Spectrum

Impact of intratumoral microbiome on tumor immunity and prognosis in human pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma – Shohei Abe – Journal of Gastroenterology

Evaluation of gut microbiota predictive potential associated with phenotypic characteristics to identify multifactorial diseases – Danielle Cristina Fonseca – Gut Microbes

Review: The Gut Microbiome Affects Atherosclerosis by Regulating Reverse Cholesterol Transport – Yangyang Jiang – Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research

Review: Role of vertical and horizontal microbial transmission of antimicrobial resistance genes in early life: insights from maternal-infant dyads – Manuel Bernabeu – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes and Compounds

Complement in breast milk modifies offspring gut microbiota to promote infant health – Dongqing Xu – Cell

An Oral Nanomedicine Elicits In Situ Vaccination Effect against Colorectal Cancer – Menghang Zu – ACS Nano

Model and Non-Model Animal Microbiome 

Oral bacteria accelerate pancreatic cancer development in mice – Elias Saba – Gut

Bacterial community and diversity in the rumen of 11 Mongolian cattle as revealed by 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing – Yijiu Jia – Scientific Reports

Novel taxonomic and functional diversity of eight bacteria from the upper digestive tract of chicken – Bibiana Rios-Galicia – International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Plant Microbiome

A tripartite bacterial-fungal-plant symbiosis in the mycorrhiza-shaped microbiome drives plant growth and mycorrhization – Changfeng Zhang – Microbiome

Host genotype, soil composition, and geo-climatic factors shape the fonio seed microbiome – Naheed Tabassum – Microbiome

The role of plants in ironstone evolution: iron and aluminium cycling in the rhizosphere – Anat Paz – The Science of the Total Environment

Consistent effects of independent domestication events on the plant microbiota – Riccardo Soldan – Current Biology 

Inactivation of siderophore iron-chelating moieties by the fungal wheat root symbiont Pyrenophora biseptata – Katie S French – Environmental Microbiology Reports

Environmental Microbiome

New insights into inhibition of high Fe(III) content on anaerobic digestion of waste-activated sludge – Xuepeng Wang – The Science of the Total Environment

Microbiome Analysis: Tools, Techniques and Resources

Drying as an effective method to store soil samples for DNA-based microbial community analyses: a comparative study – Emily Smenderovac – Scientific Reports

Mock community taxonomic classification performance of publicly available shotgun metagenomics pipelines – E Michael Valencia – Scientific Data

Metabolic model predictions enable targeted microbiome manipulation through precision prebiotics – Georgios Marinos – Microbiology Spectrum

Metagenomes and metagenome-assembled genomes from ex vivo fecal incubations of six unique donors – Adrienne B Narrowe – Microbiology Resource Announcements

Bioinformatic Approach to Investigate Larvae Gut Microbiota Cellulosimicrobium protaetiae via Whole-Genome Analysis – Han Le Ho – Molecular Biotechnology