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Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology

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. Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platformsThe ISME Journal · 2012 · 9,303 citations
  4. Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studiesNucleic Acids Research · 2012 · 9,292 citations
  5. UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial CommunitiesApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 2005 · 8,702 citations
  6. STUDIES OF MARINE PLANKTONIC DIATOMS: I. CYCLOTELLA NANA HUSTEDT, AND DETONULA CONFERVACEA (CLEVE) GRAN.Canadian Journal of Microbiology · 1962 · 7,822 citations
  7. Generic Assignments, Strain Histories and Properties of Pure Cultures of CyanobacteriaMicrobiology · 1979 · 7,820 citations
  8. 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
  9. Spreading Dead Zones and Consequences for Marine EcosystemsScience · 2008 · 6,784 citations
  10. Fluorescence Excitation−Emission Matrix Regional Integration to Quantify Spectra for Dissolved Organic MatterEnvironmental Science & Technology · 2003 · 6,402 citations
  11. The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communitiesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 5,849 citations
  12. TOWARD AN ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF SOIL BACTERIAEcology · 2007 · 5,185 citations
  13. Kraken: ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignmentsGenome biology · 2014 · 5,012 citations
  14. The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysisNucleic Acids Research · 2008 · 4,875 citations
  15. 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
  16. Soil bacterial and fungal communities across a pH gradient in an arable soilThe ISME Journal · 2010 · 4,320 citations
  17. 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
  18. Decoupling function and taxonomy in the global ocean microbiomeScience · 2016 · 3,730 citations
  19. Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics dataMicrobiome · 2018 · 3,716 citations
  20. The Microbial Engines That Drive Earth's Biogeochemical CyclesScience · 2008 · 3,556 citations
  21. Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communitiesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 3,231 citations
  22. MICROBIAL STRESS-RESPONSE PHYSIOLOGY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONEcology · 2007 · 3,120 citations
  23. Cyanobacterial bloomsNature Reviews Microbiology · 2018 · 2,936 citations
  24. The Evolution and Future of Earth’s Nitrogen CycleScience · 2010 · 2,763 citations
  25. Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystemsNature Communications · 2016 · 2,691 citations
  26. Stoichiometry of soil enzyme activity at global scaleEcology Letters · 2008 · 2,627 citations
  27. Quantification of biofilm structures by the novel computer program comstatMicrobiology · 2000 · 2,216 citations
  28. Sequence Analysis of the Genome of the Unicellular Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC6803. II. Sequence Determination of the Entire Genome and Assignment of Potential Protein-coding RegionsDNA Research · 1996 · 2,164 citations
  29. Riddle of Biofilm ResistanceAntimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy · 2001 · 2,007 citations
  30. Biofilm exopolysaccharides: a strong and sticky frameworkMicrobiology · 2001 · 1,811 citations
  31. The ecology of cyanobacteria: their diversity in time and space.2000 · 1,438 citations
  32. Algae–bacteria interactions: Evolution, ecology and emerging applicationsBiotechnology Advances · 2015 · 1,319 citations

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