Category Archives: Pregnancy and birth

August 01, 2024

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Pregnancy and early life

Diet at birth is critical for healthy growth, independent of effects on the gut microbiota – van den Elsen et al. – Microbiome

Human oral microbiome

Comparative analysis of microbiome in coronal and root caries – Gondo et al. – BMC Oral Health

Human gut microbiome

Gut microbiota carcinogen metabolism causes distal tissue tumours – Roje et al. – Nature

Time-Dependent Shifts in Intestinal Bacteriome, Klebsiella Colonization and Incidence of Antibiotic-Resistance Genes after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation – Moiseev et al. – biomedicines

[PREPRINT]Comparative analysis of the treatment-naive microbiome across rheumatic diseases to predict MTX treatment response – Amend et al. – bioRxiv

Meta-analysis identifies common gut microbiota associated with multiple sclerosis – Lin et al. – Genome Medicine

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

[PREPRINT]Ganoderma lucidum alleviates kidney aging by modulating gut microbiota – Liu et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]Dietary fiber content in clinical ketogenic diets modifies the gut microbiome and seizure resistance in mice – Ozcan et al. – bioRxiv

Effects of antibiotic cocktail on the fecal microbiota and their potential correlation of local immune response – Liu et al. – BMC Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[REVIEW]Practical applications of soil microbiota to improve ecosystem restoration: current knowledge and future directions – Peddle et al. – Biological Reviews

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

Impact of host species on assembly, composition, and functional profiles of phycosphere microbiomes – Roager et al. – mSystems

Metaproteomic analysis decodes trophic interactions of microorganisms in the dark ocean – Zhao et al. – Nature Communications

Microbial communities on microplastics from seawater and mussels: Insights from the northern Adriatic Sea – Kolenc et al. – Science of The Total Environment

Built environment (subways, indoor surfaces)

A global metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance – Danko et al. – Cell

Bioinformatics

Solving genomic puzzles: computational methods for metagenomic binning – Mallawaarachchi et al. – Briefings in Bioinformatics

July 31, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

The gut mycobiome signatures in long-lived populations – Lixia Pu et al – Cell iScience

Viral metagenomics combined with non-targeted serum metabolomics reveals the role of enteroviruses in a mouse model of coronary heart disease – Xiang Li et al – BMC Virology

Core microbiome-associated proteins associated with ulcerative colitis interact with cytokines for synergistic or antagonistic effects on gut bacteria – Ting Zhang et al – ISME Journal

Comparison between 16S rRNA and shotgun sequencing in colorectal cancer, advanced colorectal lesions, and healthy human gut microbiota – David Bars-Cortina et al – BMC Genomics

Effect of different delivery modes on intestinal microbiota and immune function of neonates – Chunhui Lai et al – Scientific Reports

Animal experiments

Effects of Akkermansia muciniphila on Gut Morphology, Antioxidant Indices, and Gut Microbiome of Mice Under Heat Stress – Caiyu Luo et al – Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

Gut microbiota mediates the anti-inflammatory effects of supplemental infrared irradiation in mice – Shijing Wang et al – Photochemistry and Photobiology

Short-chain fatty acids ameliorate imiquimod-induced skin thickening and IL-17 levels and alter gut microbiota in mice: a metagenomic association analysis – Yi-Ju Chen et al – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome

Facultative endosymbiosis between cellulolytic protists and methanogenic archaea in the gut of the Formosan termite Coptotermes formosanus – Masayuki Kaneko et al – ISME Communications

Rodents consuming the same toxic diet harbor a unique functional core microbiome – Tess E. Stapleton et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

The plant-sucking insect selects assembly of the gut microbiota from environment to enhance host reproduction – Hong-Wei Shan et al – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

Alterations in captive Alexandrine parakeet (Palaeornis eupatria) gut microbiome and metabolome in response to dietary change – Xin Feng et al – Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology

Link between bacterial communities and contrasted loads in ectoparasitic monogeneans from the external mucus of two wild sparid species (Teleostei) – Judith Revault et al – BMC Animal Microbiome

Beneficial microbes and compounds

Unearthing Lactococcus lactis and Scheffersomyeces symbionts from edible wood-boring beetle larvae as a bio-resource for industrial applications – Shadrick Kibet et al – BMC Microbiology

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[OPINION] Microbiome Bioprospecting for Sustainable Agrobiome and Circular Bioeconomy – Dhananjaya Pratap Singh – Anthropocene Science

Host genetic variation and specialized metabolites from wheat leaves enriches for phyllosphere Pseudomonas spp. with enriched antibiotic resistomes – Qian Xiang et al – ISME Journal

Rhizosphere microbiome assembly, drivers and functions in perennial ligneous plant health – Morgane Duret et al – Microbiological Research

Diversity, composition and potential roles of sedimentary microbial communities in different coastal substrates around subtropical Okinawa Island, Japan – Kohei Hamamoto et al – BMC Environmental Microbiome

July 25, 2024

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Pregnancy and early life

Human cytomegalovirus in breast milk is associated with milk composition and the infant gut microbiome and growth – Johnson et al. – Nature Communications

[PREPRINT]First-Year Dynamics of the Anaerobic Microbiome and Archaeome in Infants Oral and Gastrointestinal Systems – Neumann et al. – bioRxiv

Human skin microbiome

A Mendelian randomization analysis reveals the multifaceted role of the skin microbiota in liver cancer – Wang & Zhu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Metagenomic sequencing of the skin microbiota of the scalp predicting the risk of surgical site infections following surgery of traumatic brain injury in sub-Saharan Africa – Lekuya et al. – PLOS One

Human gut microbiome

[REVIEW]The interplay between diet and the gut microbiome: implications for health and disease – Ross et al. – Nature Reviews Microbiology

Microbiota composition effect on immunotherapy outcomes in colorectal cancer patients: A systematic review – Ajab et al. – PLOS One

Animal microbiome

Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia – Glendinning et al. – Microbiome

Effect of soybean and seaweed-based diets on growth performance, feed utilization, and gut microbiota of tilapia: A systematic review and meta-analysis – Viagem et al. – PLOS One

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Plant species influences the composition of root system microbiome and its antibiotic resistance profile in a constructed wetland receiving primary treated wastewater – Riva et al. – Frontiers in Microbiology

Phages and viruses

Endogenous retroviruses mediate transcriptional rewiring in response to oncogenic signaling in colorectal cancer – Ivancevic et al. – Science Advances

The plasma viral communities associate with clinical profiles in a large-scale haematological patients cohort – Ma et al. – Microbiome

Viruses of free-roaming and hunting dogs in Uganda show elevated prevalence, richness and abundance across a gradient of contact with wildlife – Tayebwa et al. – Journal of General Virology

June 7, 2024

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Today’s digest features AMPSphere, Candida pathogenesis, rhizosphere microbiome in the Himalayas, imaging of oral microbiome, and more.
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Global microbiome

Discovery of antimicrobial peptides in the global microbiome with machine learning – Célio Dias Santos-Júnior and Marcelo D.T. Torres – Cell

Bioenergetic mapping of ‘healthy microbiomes’ via compound processing potential imprinted in gut and soil metagenomes – Craig Liddicoat – Science of The Total Environment

Infant microbiome

The impact of perinatal maternal stress on the maternal and infant gut and human milk microbiomes: A scoping review protocol – Niamh Ryan – Plos One

Oral microbiome

Improved Visualization of Oral Microbial Consortia – S.T. Ramirez-Puebla – Journal of Dental Research

Animal microbiome

Changes of faecal bacterial communities and microbial fibrolytic activity in horses aged from 6 to 30 years old – Marylou Baraille – Plos One

Compendium of 5810 genomes of sheep and goat gut microbiomes provides new insights into the glycan and mucin utilization – Ke Zhang – Microbiome

Animal experiments

Bacteroides uniformis CECT 7771 requires adaptive immunity to improve glucose tolerance but not to prevent body weight gain in diet-induced obese mice – Marina Romaní-Pérez – Microbiome

The impact of microplastics polystyrene on the microscopic structure of mouse intestine, tight junction genes and gut microbiota – Qi-Ling Su – Plos One

Epithelial hypoxia maintains colonization resistance against Candida albicans – Hannah P. Savage – Cell Host & Microbe

Viruses and phages

Characterizing the gut phageome and phage-borne antimicrobial resistance genes in pigs – Jun Hu – Microbiome

Water microbiome

Deep long-read metagenomic sequencing reveals niche differentiation in carbon cycling potential between benthic and planktonic microbial populations – Tomeu Viver – bioRxiv

Root, soil, plant microbiome

Altitude-Dependent Influence of Artemisia brevifolia on its Rhizosphere Microbiome in Ladakh Region of the Western Himalayas – Manzoor Hussain – Rhizosphere

Bioinformatics

Lightweight taxonomic profiling of long-read sequenced metagenomes with Lemur and Magnet – Nicolae Sapoval – bioRxiv

Comprehensive profiling of genomic invertons in defined gut microbial community reveals associations with intestinal colonization and surface adhesion – Xiaofan Jin – bioRxiv

May 29, 2024

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Human microbiomes

Gut microbiome remodeling and metabolomic profile improves in response to protein pacing with intermittent fasting versus continuous caloric restriction – Alex E. Mohr – Nature Communications

[PREPRINT] Towards a Health-Associated Core Keystone (HACK) index for the human gut microbiome – Abishek Goel – bioRxiv

Exposure to environmental pollutants selects for xenobiotic-degrading functions in the human gut microbiome – Francesca De Fillipis – Nature Communications

The interrelation between microbial immunoglobulin coating, vaginal microbiota, ethnicity, and preterm birth – H.J. Schuster – BMC Microbiome

Porphyromonas gingivalis, a bridge between oral health and immune evasion in gastric cancer – Matías Muñoz-Medel – Frontiers in Oncology

Differences in maternal subgingival microbiome between preterm and term births: The MOHEPI study – Jung Soo Park – Journal of Periodontal Resaerch

Animal microbiome

Integrating uterine microbiome and metabolome to advance the understanding of the uterine environment in dairy cows with metritis – S. Casaro – BMC Animal Microbiome

Responses of nutrient utilization, rumen fermentation and microorganisms to different roughage of dairy buffaloes – Shichun He – BMC Microbiology

Identification of the mutual gliding locus as a factor for gut colonization in non-native bee hosts using the ARTP mutagenesis – Yujie Meng – BMC Microbiome

Co-habiting ants and silverfish display a converging feeding ecology – Thomas Parmentier – BMC Biology

Temperature-dependent differences in mouse gut motility are mediated by stress – Alvin Han – Nature Lab Animal

Food microbiome

Evaluation of microbiota-induced changes in biochemical, sensory properties and volatile profile of kombucha produced by reformed microbial community – Hilal Kilmanoglu – Food Chemistry X

Plant, soil, and root microbiome

Microbial polyphenol metabolism is part of the thawing permafrost carbon cycle – Bridget B. McGivern – Nature Microbiology

[PREPRINT] Soil viral community dynamics over seven years of heat disturbance: spatial variation exceeds temporal in annually sampled soils – Samuel E. Barnett & Ashley Shade – bioRxiv

Global soil metagenomics reveals distribution and predominance of Deltaproteobacteria in nitrogen-fixing microbiome – Yoko Masuda – BMC Microbiome

Water & extremophile microbiome

Bacterial dynamics of the plastisphere microbiome exposed to sub-lethal antibiotic pollution – Brune Jounnard & Concepcion Sanchez-Cid – BMC Microbiome

Exploring potential polysaccharide utilization loci involved in the degradation of typical marine seaweed polysaccharides by Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron – Biao Yu – Frontiers in Microbiology

Organic matter degradation in the deep, sulfidic waters of the Black Sea: insights into the ecophysiology of novel anaerobic bacteria – Subhash Yadav – BMC Microbiome

May 15, 2024

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Human gut microbiome

A shared group of bacterial taxa in the duodenal microbiota of undernourished Pakistani children with environmental enteric dysfunction – Najeeha T Iqbal – mSphere

Gut microbiota, blood metabolites, and left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in US Hispanics/Latinos – Kai Luo – BMC Microbiome

Co-localization of antibiotic resistance genes is widespread in the infant gut microbiome and associates with an immature gut microbial composition – Xuanji Li – BMC Microbiome

Impact of the gut microbiome composition on social decision-making – Marie Falkenstein – PNAS Nexus

Veillonella and Bacteroides are associated with gestational diabetes mellitus exposure and gut microbiota immaturity – Fernanda Valdez-Palomares – PLOS One

[REVIEW] The neonatal gut microbiome and global health – Pinaki Panigrahi – Gut Microbes

Functional characterization of helminth-associated Clostridiales reveals covariates of Treg differentiation – Shusan Sargisan – BMC Microbiome

Vaginal microbiome

16S rRNA female reproductive microbiome investigation reveals Dalfopristin, Clorgyline, and Hydrazine as potential therapeutics for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis – Sudeepti Kulshrestha – Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Fecal transplant from vaginally seeded infants decreases intraabdominal adiposity in mice – Sivaranjani Namasivayam – Gut Microbes

Animal microbiome

Viruses contribute to microbial diversification in the rumen ecosystem and are associated with certain animal production traits – Ming Yan & Zhongtang Yu – BMC Microbiome

Quantitative microbiome profiling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) guts is predictive of winter colony loss in northern Virginia (USA) – David B. Carlini – Nature Scientific Reports

How do phytophagous insects affect phyllosphere fungi? Tracking fungi from milkweed to monarch caterpillar frass reveals communities dominated by fungal yeast – Ryoko Oono – Environmental Microbiology

Beneficial microbes & compounds

The gut lactic acid bacteria metabolite, 10-oxo- cis-6, trans-11-octadecadienoic acid, suppresses inflammatory bowel disease in mice by modulating the NRF2 pathway and GPCR-signaling – Miki Ando – Frotiers in Immunology

Effect of weight loss program using prebiotics and probiotics on body composition, physique, and metabolic products: longitudinal intervention study – Nayera E Hassan – Nature Scientific Reports

Origin of the neonatal gut microbiota and probiotic intervention: a randomized controlled trial – Zhe Li – Frontiers in Nutrition

Effectiveness of probiotic- and fish oil-loaded water-in-oil-in-water (W1/O/W2) emulsions at alleviating ulcerative colitis – Qingzhao Gu – Food & Function

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Competition mode and soil nutrient status shape the role of soil microbes in the diversity–invasibility relationship – Haokun Li – Ecology and Evolution

Dynamics and drivers of fungal communities in a multipartite ant-plant association – Veronica Barrajon-Santos – BMC Biology

Quorum sensing related activities of beneficial and pathogenic bacteria have important implications for plant and human health – Anton Hartmann – FEMS Microbiology Ecology

Impacts of vegetable processing and cheese making effluent on soil microbial functional diversity, community structure, and denitrification potential of land treatment systems – Geoffrey S. Siemering – Water Environment Research

Role of Bacillus subtilis exopolymeric genes in modulating rhizosphere microbiome assembly – Caroline Sayuri Nishisaka – BMC Environmental Microbiome

The predominant lactic acid bacteria and yeasts involved in the spontaneous fermentation of millet during the production of the traditional porridge Hausa koko in Ghana – Amy Atter – BMC Microbiology

Bioinformatics & Tools

Multi-class boosting for the analysis of multiple incomplete views on microbiome data – Andrea Simeon – BMC Bioinformatics

PrimerEvalPy: a tool for in-silico evaluation of primers for targeting the microbiome – Lara Vázquez-González – BMC Bioinformatics

Readsynth: short-read simulation for consideration of composition-biases in reduced metagenome sequencing approaches – Ryan Kuster – BMC Bioinformatics

February 23, 2024

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Oral microbiome

Favorable subgingival plaque microbiome shifts are associated with clinical treatment for peri-implant diseases – Davide Bazzani – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Nasal microbiome

Nasal commensals reduce Staphylococcus aureus proliferation by restricting siderophore availability – Y Zhao – bioRxiv

Semen microbiome

Characterisation and comparison of semen microbiota and sperm function in men with infertility, recurrent miscarriage, or proven fertility – Shahriar Mowla – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

CRISPR-Cas-based identification of a sialylated human milk oligosaccharides utilization cluster in the infant gut commensal Bacteroides dorei – Sivan Kijner – Nature Communications

Microbiome features associated with performance measures in athletic and non-athletic individuals: A case-control study – Kinga Humińska-Lisowska – Plos One

The impact of iron supplementation on the preterm neonatal gut microbiome: A pilot study – Matthew VanOrmer – Plos One

Early-life exposures to specific commensal microbes prevent type 1 diabetes – Jamal Green – bioRxiv

Insights into gut microbiomes in stem cell transplantation by comprehensive shotgun long-read sequencing – Philipp Spohr – Scientific Reports

Donor-recipient intermicrobial interactions impact transfer of subspecies and fecal microbiota transplantation outcome – Qiyi Chen – Cell Host & Microbe

Animal experiment

The gut ileal mucosal virome is disturbed in patients with Crohn’s disease and exacerbates intestinal inflammation in mice – Zhirui Cao – Nature Communications

Animal microbiome

Gut microbiome diversity and function during hibernation and spring emergence in an aquatic frog – Ji-Eun Lee – Plos One

Unraveling the gut microbiota of Tibetan chickens: insights into highland adaptation and ecological advantages – Tao Zeng – bioRxiv

Water microbiome

A difficult coexistence: resolving the iron-induced nitrification delay in groundwater filters – Francesc Corbera-Rubio – bioRxiv

Human virome

Discovering and exploring the hidden diversity of human gut viruses using highly enriched virome samples – Moreno Zolfo – bioRxiv

January 17, 2024

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Pregnancy and early life

Human milk cream alters intestinal microbiome of preterm infants: a prospective cohort study – Adeniyi-Ipadeola et al. – Pediatric Research

A bacterial sialidase mediates early-life colonization by a pioneering gut commensal – Buzun et al. – Cell Host & Microbe

Multi-site human microbiome

[DATA]Multi-cohort shotgun metagenomic analysis of oral and gut microbiota overlap in healthy adults – Rashidi et al. – Scientific Data

Human respiratory microbiome

[REVIEW]Positioning the preventive potential of microbiome treatments for cystic fibrosis in the context of current therapies – Cauwenberghs et al. – Cell Reports Medicine

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

The gut microbiota modulate locomotion via vagus-dependent glucagon-like peptide-1 signaling – Lai et al. – npj Biofilms and Microbiomes volume

Nonylphenol induces depressive behavior in rats and affects gut microbiota: A dose–dependent effect – Pan et al. – Environmental Pollution

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Ocular mucosal homeostasis of teleost fish provides insight into the coevolution between microbiome and mucosal immunity – Kong et al. – Microbiome

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

Unraveling the interplay between root exudates, microbiota, and rhizosheath formation in pearl millet – Alahmad et al. – Microbiome

Biogeographic survey of soil bacterial communities across Antarctica – Varliero et al. – Microbiome

Microbes in space

[PREPRINT]Testing microbial biomining from asteroidal material onboard the International Space Station – Santomartino et al. – bioRxiv

Bioinformatics

[PREPRINT]AnnoView enables large-scale analysis, comparison, and visualization of microbial gene neighborhoods – Wei et al. – bioRxiv

Techniques

Comparison of the DNBSEQ platform and Illumina HiSeq 2000 for bacterial genome assembly – Hu et al. – Scientific Reports

November 28, 2023

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Pregnancy and early life

[PREPRINT]Delivery mode impacts gut bacteriophage colonization during infancy – Subramanian et al. – medRxiv

Human oral microbiome

Oral microbiota analyses of paediatric Saudi population reveals signatures of dental caries – Alyousef et al. – BMC Oral Health

Human gut microbiome

Gastric coinfection with thiopeptide-positive Cutibacterium acnes decreases FOXM1 and pro-inflammatory biomarker expression in a murine model of Helicobacter pylori-induced gastric cancer – Lunger et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

[REVIEW]Butterflies in the gut: the interplay between intestinal microbiota and stress – Lai et al. – Journal of Biomedical Science

[REVIEW]Genetics, Nutrition, and Health: A New Frontier in Disease Prevention – Agrawal et al. – Journal of the American Nutrition Association

Age-dependent changes in the gut microbiota and serum metabolome correlate with renal function and human aging – Sun et al. – Aging Cell

The changes of gut microbiota and metabolites in different drug-induced liver injuries – Zhu et al. – Journal of Medical Microbiology

[PREPRINT]The differing prevalences of propionate and butyrate producing bacteria in the human gut microbiota – Christensen et al. – bioRxiv

[PREPRINT]The Parkinson’s drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homeostasis via iron sequestration – Pereira et al. – bioRxiv

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

Mutual modulation of gut microbiota and the immune system in type 1 diabetes models – Rosell-Mases et al. – Nature Communications

[PREPRINT]Microbiota-dependent early life programming of gastrointestinal motility – Frith et al. – bioRxiv

Horizontal transmission of gut microbiota attenuates mortality in lung fibrosis – Gurczynski et al. – JCI insight

High-altitude and low-altitude adapted chicken gut-microbes have different functional diversity – Bhagat et al. – Scientific Reports

Animal microbiome (for animals in the wild)

Introducing an environmental microbiome to axenic Aedes aegypti mosquitoes documents bacterial responses to a blood meal – LaReau et al. – Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Altered microbiota, antimicrobial resistance genes, and functional enzyme profiles in the rumen of yak calves fed with milk replacer – Zhuang et al. – Microbiology Spectrum

Plant, root, and soil microbiome

[PREPRINT]Global patterns in gene content of soil microbiomes emerge from microbial interactions – Crocker et al. – bioRxiv

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

Metagenomic analysis reveals diverse microbial community and potential functional roles in Baner rivulet, India – Brar et al. – Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

Bioinformatics

mb-PHENIX: Diffusion and Supervised Uniform Manifold Approximation for denoising microbiota data – Padron-Manrique et al. – Bioinformatics

Facilitating bioinformatics reproducibility with QIIME 2 provenance Replay – Keefe et al. – PLOS Computational Biology

Techniques

High-throughput identification and quantification of bacterial cells in the microbiota based on 16S rRNA sequencing with single-base accuracy using BarBIQ – Jin, Yamamoto & Shiroguchi

June 16, 2023

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Today’s digest features indigenous chicken in Ethiopia, drug effects on gut microbiome, beach water microbial risk assessment, and more. See you at #MVIF next week!

Microbial ecology

Guild and Niche Determination Enable Targeted Alteration of the Microbiome – Oriane Moyne – bioRxiv

Genital microbiome

Interaction of genital microbiota in infertile couples – David Baud – bioRxiv

Gut microbiome

Emergence of community behaviors in the gut microbiota upon drug treatment – Sarela Garcia-Santamarina – bioRxiv

Skin microbiome

Skin microbiome differentiates into distinct cutotypes with unique metabolic functions upon exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons – Marcus H. Y. Leung – Microbiome

Animal microbiome

Altitude-dependent agro-ecologies impact the microbiome diversity of scavenging indigenous chicken in Ethiopia – Laura Glendinning – bioRxiv

Animal experiments

Effects of fenbendazole on fecal microbiome in BPH/5 mice, a model of hypertension and obesity, a brief report – Kalie F. Beckers – Plos One

Gut microbiota and cognitive development in infant mice: Quantity and source of potable water – Chong-Su Kim and Dong-Mi Shin – Plos One

Plant microbiome

Globally consistent response of plant microbiome diversity across hosts and continents to soil nutrients and herbivores – Eric W. Seabloom – Nature Communications

Methodology

Processing and Storage Methods Affect Oral and Gut Microbiome Composition – Dorothy K. Superdock – bioRxiv

QMRA of beach water by Nanopore sequencing-based viability-metagenomics absolute quantification – Yu Yang – Water Research

Bioinformatics

ResFinderFG v2.0: a database of antibiotic resistance genes obtained by functional metagenomics – Rémi Gschwind – Nucleic Acids Research