Human and General Microbiome

Akkermansia muciniphila and Parabacteroides distasonis as prognostic markers for relapse in ulcerative colitis patients – Ana Mendes-Frias – Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Obesity-enriched gut microbe degrades myo-inositol and promotes lipid absorption – Chao Wu – Cell Host & Microbe

Gut microbiome in endometriosis: a cohort study on 1000 individuals – Inmaculada Pérez-Prieto – BMC Medicine

Metagenomic analysis reveals altered gut virome and diagnostic potential in pancreatic cancer – Pan Zhang – Journal of Medical Virology

The tumor microbiome as a predictor of outcomes in patients with metastatic melanoma treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors – Caroline E Dravillas – Cancer Research Communications

Gut microbiome diversity within Clostridia is negatively associated with human obesity – Laura Salazar-Jaramillo – mSystems

Early depletion of gut microbiota shape oligodendrocyte response after traumatic brain injury – Kirill Shumilov – Journal of Neuroinflammation

Effect of progestin-based contraceptives on HIV-associated vaginal immune biomarkers and microbiome in adolescent girls – Mélodie A Nasr – PloS One

Review: Microbiome and pancreatic cancer: time to think about chemotherapy – Juliana de Castilhos – Gut Microbes

Review: Host control of the microbiome: Mechanisms, evolution, and disease – Jacob Wilde – Science

Review: Connecting microbial community assembly and function – Leonora S Bittleston – Current Opinion in Microbiology

Review: Microbiota of Saliva: A Non-invasive Diagnostic Tool – Dasharath B Shinde – Indian Journal of Microbiology

Beneficial Microbes, Compounds and Interventions

Topical prebiotic nitrate: optimizing the ‘hang-time’, source and dose for specific oral or systemic effects – Bob T Rosier – NPJ Biofilms and Microbiomes

An improved diet-based nutritional interventions can improve childhood obesity with the synergistic regulation of gut microbiota – M Zhou – Beneficial Microbes

Intermittent fasting, calorie restriction, and a ketogenic diet improve mitochondrial function by reducing lipopolysaccharide signaling in monocytes during obesity: A randomized clinical trial – Martha Guevara-Cruz – Clinical Nutrition 

Food Microbiome

Influence of the initial microbiota on eggplant shibazuke pickle and eggplant juice fermentation – Kazunori Sawada – Microbiology Spectrum

Metatranscriptomics reveals microbial community function succession and characteristic flavor formation mechanisms during black rice wine fermentation – Aoxing Tang – Food Chemistry

Animal Model Microbiome

Gα13 restricts nutrient driven proliferation in mucosal germinal centers – Hang T Nguyen – Nature Immunology

Gut microbiota mediates ambient PM(2.5) exposure-induced abnormal glucose metabolism via short-chain fatty acids – Wenpu Shao – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Non-Model Animal Microbiome

Domestication and evolutionary histories of specialized gut symbionts across cephalotine ants – Christian Cabuslay – Molecular Ecology

Review: The interplay between gut symbionts and behavioral variation in social insects – Joanito Liberti – Current Opinion in Insect Science

Meta-transcriptomic analysis of companion animal infectomes reveals their diversity and potential roles in animal and human disease – Wei-Chen Wu – mSphere

Alcohol consumption during pregnancy differentially affects the fecal microbiota of dams and offspring – Tamara S Bodnar – Scientific Reports

Environmental Microbiome

Meta-omics analysis reveals the marine arsenic cycle driven by bacteria – Zhao-Jie Teng – Journal of Hazardous Materials

Using Machine Learning to Identify Environmental Factors that Collectively Determine Microbial Community Structure of Activated Sludge – Lu Wang – Environmental Research

Microplastic pollution promotes soil respiration: A global-scale meta-analysis – Shuling Zhao – Global Change Biology

SMMP: A Deep-Coverage Marine Metaproteome Method for Microbial Community Analysis throughout the Water Column Using 1 L of Seawater – Songduo Wang – Analytical Chemistry

Metagenomic insights into microbial community structure and metabolism in alpine permafrost on the Tibetan Plateau – Luyao Kang – Nature Communications

Top-down and bottom-up microbiome engineering approaches to enable biomanufacturing from waste biomass – Xuejiao Lyu – Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology

Microbiome Analysis

GSearch: ultra-fast and scalable genome search by combining K-mer hashing with hierarchical navigable small world graphs – Jianshu Zhao – Nucleic Acids Research

Multi-omics machine learning to study host-microbiome interactions in early-onset colorectal cancer – Thejus T Jayakrishnan – NPJ Precision Oncology

3D printed rectal swabs for assessing the gut microbiome, metabolome and inflammation – Robert W Perry – Scientific Reports

AFITbin: a metagenomic contig binning method using aggregate l-mer frequency based on initial and terminal nucleotides – Amin Darabi – BMC Bioinformatics

JASPER: Fast, powerful, multitrait association testing in structured samples gives insight on pleiotropy in gene expression – Joelle Mbatchou – American Journal of Human Genetics

Microbial Evolution

The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system – Edmund R R Moody – Nature Ecology & Evolution