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Gut microbiota and health

Most cited papers

  1. Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial CommunitiesApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 2009 · 22,129 citations
  2. Naive Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial TaxonomyApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 2007 · 20,833 citations
  3. Metagenomic biomarker discovery and explanationGenome biology · 2011 · 17,208 citations
  4. Structure, function and diversity of the healthy human microbiomeNature · 2012 · 12,251 citations
  5. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencingNature · 2010 · 11,952 citations
  6. The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics consensus statement on the scope and appropriate use of the term probioticNature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology · 2014 · 9,596 citations
  7. Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platformsThe ISME Journal · 2012 · 9,303 citations
  8. Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studiesNucleic Acids Research · 2012 · 9,292 citations
  9. UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial CommunitiesApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 2005 · 8,702 citations
  10. Diversity of the Human Intestinal Microbial FloraScience · 2005 · 7,995 citations
  11. Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing PlatformApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 2013 · 7,693 citations
  12. Linking Long-Term Dietary Patterns with Gut Microbial EnterotypesScience · 2011 · 6,727 citations
  13. Metabolic Endotoxemia Initiates Obesity and Insulin ResistanceDiabetes · 2007 · 6,698 citations
  14. Optimizing taxonomic classification of marker-gene amplicon sequences with QIIME 2’s q2-feature-classifier pluginMicrobiome · 2018 · 6,287 citations
  15. Obesity alters gut microbial ecologyProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2005 · 6,271 citations
  16. Impact of diet in shaping gut microbiota revealed by a comparative study in children from Europe and rural AfricaProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 5,745 citations
  17. Gut microbiome influences efficacy of PD-1–based immunotherapy against epithelial tumorsScience · 2017 · 5,745 citations
  18. Expert consensus document: The International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics (ISAPP) consensus statement on the definition and scope of prebioticsNature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology · 2017 · 5,620 citations
  19. The Microbial Metabolites, Short-Chain Fatty Acids, Regulate Colonic T reg Cell HomeostasisScience · 2013 · 5,511 citations
  20. Host-Bacterial Mutualism in the Human IntestineScience · 2005 · 5,387 citations
  21. Revised Estimates for the Number of Human and Bacteria Cells in the BodyPLoS Biology · 2016 · 5,307 citations
  22. The Microbiota-Gut-Brain AxisPhysiological Reviews · 2019 · 5,279 citations
  23. The role of short-chain fatty acids in the interplay between diet, gut microbiota, and host energy metabolismJournal of Lipid Research · 2013 · 5,124 citations
  24. Kraken: ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignmentsGenome biology · 2014 · 5,012 citations
  25. Gut microbiome modulates response to anti–PD-1 immunotherapy in melanoma patientsScience · 2017 · 4,879 citations
  26. The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysisNucleic Acids Research · 2008 · 4,875 citations
  27. Host-Gut Microbiota Metabolic InteractionsScience · 2012 · 4,864 citations
  28. Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newbornsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 4,856 citations
  29. Changes in Gut Microbiota Control Metabolic Endotoxemia-Induced Inflammation in High-Fat Diet–Induced Obesity and Diabetes in MiceDiabetes · 2008 · 4,851 citations
  30. Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Distal Gut MicrobiomeScience · 2006 · 4,726 citations
  31. Molecular-phylogenetic characterization of microbial community imbalances in human inflammatory bowel diseasesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2007 · 4,685 citations
  32. Cross-talk between Akkermansia muciniphila and intestinal epithelium controls diet-induced obesityProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 4,574 citations
  33. Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is an anti-inflammatory commensal bacterium identified by gut microbiota analysis of Crohn disease patientsProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 4,490 citations
  34. Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age womenProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2010 · 4,408 citations
  35. Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samplesEnvironmental Microbiology · 2015 · 4,331 citations
  36. Interactions Between the Microbiota and the Immune SystemScience · 2012 · 4,292 citations
  37. MetaboAnalyst 5.0: narrowing the gap between raw spectra and functional insightsNucleic Acids Research · 2021 · 4,250 citations
  38. Gut Microbiota in Health and DiseasePhysiological Reviews · 2010 · 4,230 citations
  39. Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental ScaleApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 2009 · 4,145 citations
  40. Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics dataMicrobiome · 2018 · 3,716 citations
  41. Microbiome Datasets Are Compositional: And This Is Not OptionalFrontiers in Microbiology · 2017 · 3,336 citations
  42. Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communitiesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 3,231 citations
  43. Review article: the role of butyrate on colonic functionAlimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics · 2007 · 2,783 citations
  44. Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystemsNature Communications · 2016 · 2,691 citations
  45. Fiber and Prebiotics: Mechanisms and Health BenefitsNutrients · 2013 · 2,343 citations
  46. Akkermansia muciniphila and improved metabolic health during a dietary intervention in obesity: relationship with gut microbiome richness and ecologyGut · 2015 · 1,938 citations
  47. Disordered Microbial Communities in Asthmatic AirwaysPLoS ONE · 2010 · 1,878 citations
  48. Dietary fiber and prebiotics and the gastrointestinal microbiotaGut Microbes · 2017 · 1,813 citations
  49. Bifidobacteria and Butyrate-Producing Colon Bacteria: Importance and Strategies for Their Stimulation in the Human GutFrontiers in Microbiology · 2016 · 1,768 citations
  50. Direct Analysis of Genes Encoding 16S rRNA from Complex Communities Reveals Many Novel Molecular Species within the Human GutApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 1999 · 1,496 citations

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