News and Opinion World Microbiome Day A collection of Nature Ecology & Evolution articles on microbiomes, including this year's specific focus on antibiotic resistance. Patrick Goymer Jun 27, 2019 Share Tweet Share Share The microbiome beyond the horizon of ecological and evolutionary theory Assessing evolutionary risks of resistance for new antimicrobial therapies Adaptive modulation of antibiotic resistance through intragenomic coevolution Coordinated change at the colony level in fruit bat fur microbiomes through time (plus News & Views) Community richness of amphibian skin bacteria correlates with bioclimate at the global scale (plus News & Views) Compensatory mutations improve general permissiveness to antibiotic resistance plasmids Function and functional redundancy in microbial systems Range-expansion effects on the belowground plant microbiome A macroecological theory of microbial biodiversity Multicopy plasmids potentiate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria Palaeoclimate explains a unique proportion of the global variation in soil bacterial communities High taxonomic variability despite stable functional structure across microbial communities (plus News & Views) Identifying and exploiting genes that potentiate the evolution of antibiotic resistance Drug-mediated metabolic tipping between antibiotic resistant states in a mixed-species community (plus News & Views) A submarine volcanic eruption leads to a novel microbial habitat (plus News & Views) Within-host dynamics shape antibiotic resistance in commensal bacteria (plus News & Views) Diverse modes of eco-evolutionary dynamics in communities of antibiotic-producing microorganisms Gene exchange drives the ecological success of a multi-host bacterial pathogen Hologenomic adaptations underlying the evolution of sanguivory in the common vampire bat Climate warming reduces gut microbiota diversity in a vertebrate ectotherm The unconstrained evolution of fast and efficient antibiotic-resistant bacterial genomes (plus News & Views) Positive selection inhibits gene mobilization and transfer in soil bacterial communities Competition along trajectories governs adaptation rates towards antimicrobial resistance Multicopy plasmids allow bacteria to escape from fitness trade-offs during evolutionary innovation Frequency-dependent selection in vaccine-associated pneumococcal population dynamics