Human and General Microbiome
Resistome expansion in disease-associated human gut microbiomes – Simen Fredriksen – Microbiome
A microbial causal mediation analytic tool for health disparity and applications in body mass index – Chan Wang – Microbiome
Alterations of gut microbiota in biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy and a long history of diabetes without kidney damage – Xiao Lu – Scientific Reports
Assessment of infant outgrowth of cow’s milk allergy in relation to the faecal microbiome and metaproteome – Diana M Hendrickx – Scientific Reports
Analysis of bacterial vaginosis, the vaginal microbiome, and sexually transmitted infections following the provision of menstrual cups in Kenyan schools: Results of a nested study within a cluster randomized controlled trial – Supriya D Mehta – PLoS Medicine
Evolutionary modeling suggests that addictions may be driven by competition-induced microbiome dysbiosis – Ohad Lewin-Epstein – Communications Biology
Alterations in the gut microbiome implicate key taxa and metabolic pathways across inflammatory arthritis phenotypes – Kelsey N Thompson – Science Translational Medicine
Increased genital mucosal cytokines in Canadian women associate with higher antigen-presenting cells, inflammatory metabolites, epithelial barrier disruption, and the depletion of L. crispatus – Christina Farr Zuend – Microbiome
Insulin alleviates murine colitis through microbiome alterations and bile acid metabolism – Shuying He – Journal of Translational Medicine
The Vaginal Microbiota of Pregnant Women Varies with Gestational Age, Maternal Age, and Parity – Roberto Romero – Microbiology Spectrum
Unique microbial landscape in the human oropharynx during different types of acute respiratory tract infections – Hui Li – Microbiome
Systematic Review: Probiotics to prevent necrotising enterocolitis in very preterm or very low birth weight infants – Sahar Sharif – The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Comment: A gut feeling for drugs that have metabolic benefits – Eryun Zhang – Nature Communications
Review: Antibiotic perturbations to the gut microbiome – Skye R S Fishbein – Nature Reviews. Microbiology
Review: The global human gut microbiome: genes, lifestyles, and diet – Mona Parizadeh – Trends in Molecular Medicine
Beneficial Microbes and Compounds
5-Aminosalicylic acid alters the gut microbiota and altered microbiota transmitted vertically to offspring have protective effects against colitis – Haruka Wada – Scientific Reports
Food Microbiome
Presence of an ultra-small microbiome in fermented cabbages – Hae-Won Lee – PeerJ
Animal Microbiome
The long-term gut bacterial signature of a wild primate is associated with a timing effect of pre- and postnatal maternal glucocorticoid levels – Simone Anzà – Microbiome
Early-life prophylactic antibiotic treatment disturbs the stability of the gut microbiota and increases susceptibility to H9N2 AIV in chicks – Xianghui Liang – Microbiome
Human-influenced diets affect the gut microbiome of wild baboons – Madelyn Moy – Scientific Reports
Expanding the range of the respiratory infectome in Australian feedlot cattle with and without respiratory disease using metatranscriptomics – Barbara P Brito – Microbiome
Social network position is a major predictor of ant behavior, microbiota composition, and brain gene expression – Tomas Kay – PLoS Biology
Plant Microbiome
The root microbiome: techniques for exploration and agricultural applications – Ashling Cannon – BioTechniques
Environmental Microbiome
Recently-formed Antarctic lakes host less diverse benthic bacterial and diatom communities than their older counterparts – Jan Kollár – FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Microbiome Research: Resources, Tools and Techniques
Greengenes2 unifies microbial data in a single reference tree – Daniel McDonald – Nature Biotechnology
CheckM2: a rapid, scalable and accurate tool for assessing microbial genome quality using machine learning – Alex Chklovski – Nature Methods
Lectin-Seq: A method to profile lectin-microbe interactions in native communities – Robert L McPherson – Science Advances
A mixed-model approach for estimating drivers of microbiota community composition and differential taxonomic abundance – Amy R Sweeny – mSystems
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