| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome | Science | 2015 | 2,137 |
| 2 | Eukaryotic plankton diversity in the sunlit ocean | Science | 2015 | 1,551 |
| 3 | A Genomic Regulatory Network for Development | Science | 2002 | 1,399 |
| 4 | Volcanic carbon dioxide vents show ecosystem effects of ocean acidification | Nature | 2008 | 1,149 |
| 5 | Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2019 | 1,138 |
| 6 | The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | Science | 2006 | 1,018 |
| 7 | The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing | PLoS Biology | 2014 | 885 |
| 8 | High-Frequency Dynamics of Ocean pH: A Multi-Ecosystem Comparison | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 782 |
| 9 | Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean | Nature | 2016 | 670 |
| 10 | Green and golden seaweed tides on the rise | Nature | 2013 | 633 |
| 11 | Patterns and ecological drivers of ocean viral communities | Science | 2015 | 617 |
| 12 | The globally distributed genus Alexandrium: Multifaceted roles in marine ecosystems and impacts on human health | Harmful Algae | 2012 | 577 |
| 13 | Insights into global diatom distribution and diversity in the world’s ocean | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 561 |
| 14 | Marine DNA Viral Macro- and Microdiversity from Pole to Pole | Cell | 2019 | 541 |
| 15 | Isochores and the evolutionary genomics of vertebrates | Gene | 2000 | 505 |
| 16 | The genome of the seagrass Zostera marina reveals angiosperm adaptation to the sea | Nature | 2016 | 460 |
| 17 | Influence of diatom diversity on the ocean biological carbon pump | Nature Geoscience | 2018 | 451 |
| 18 | Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes | Current Biology | 2014 | 450 |
| 19 | Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union’s Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution | Mediterranean Marine Science | 2012 | 392 |
| 20 | Marine protist diversity in European coastal waters and sediments as revealed by high‐throughput sequencing | Environmental Microbiology | 2015 | 384 |
| 21 | Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom | Nature | 2012 | 367 |
| 22 | A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems Biology | PLoS Biology | 2011 | 353 |
| 23 | Transmitter release induced by injection of calcium ions into nerve terminals | Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, Containing Papers of A Biological Character | 1973 | 344 |
| 24 | Evolutionary genomics of the cold-adapted diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus | Nature | 2017 | 332 |
| 25 | Open science resources for the discovery and analysis of Tara Oceans data | Scientific Data | 2015 | 330 |
| 26 | A Provisional Regulatory Gene Network for Specification of Endomesoderm in the Sea Urchin Embryo | Developmental Biology | 2002 | 319 |
| 27 | A mouse model for hereditary thyroid dysgenesis and cleft palate | Nature Genetics | 1998 | 302 |
| 28 | A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes | Nature Communications | 2018 | 297 |
| 29 | Divergent ecosystem responses within a benthic marine community to ocean acidification | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 296 |
| 30 | Molecular toolbox for studying diatom biology in Phaeodactylum tricornutum | Gene | 2007 | 293 |
| 31 | Formal Revision of the Alexandrium tamarense Species Complex (Dinophyceae) Taxonomy: The Introduction of Five Species with Emphasis on Molecular-based (rDNA) Classification | Protist | 2014 | 283 |
| 32 | Ocean acidification causes ecosystem shifts via altered competitive interactions | Nature Climate Change | 2013 | 276 |
| 33 | Nuclear Organization of Mammalian Genomes | Journal of Cell Biology | 1999 | 273 |
| 34 | Global Trends in Marine Plankton Diversity across Kingdoms of Life | Cell | 2019 | 271 |
| 35 | Phenotype of the Tomato high pigment-2 Mutant Is Caused by a Mutation in the Tomato Homolog of DEETIOLATED1 | Plant Cell | 1999 | 270 |
| 36 | Gene Expression Changes and Community Turnover Differentially Shape the Global Ocean Metatranscriptome | Cell | 2019 | 268 |
| 37 | Gene silencing in the marine diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum | Nucleic Acids Research | 2009 | 264 |
| 38 | Guidelines for the Care and Welfare of Cephalopods in Research –A consensus based on an initiative by CephRes, FELASA and the Boyd Group | Laboratory Animals | 2015 | 262 |
| 39 | An atypical member of the light-harvesting complex stress-related protein family modulates diatom responses to light | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 258 |
| 40 | Emerging themes of plant signal transduction. | Plant Cell | 1994 | 252 |
| 41 | Carotenoids from Marine Organisms: Biological Functions and Industrial Applications | Antioxidants | 2017 | 250 |
| 42 | Bioactivity Screening of Microalgae for Antioxidant, Anti-Inflammatory, Anticancer, Anti-Diabetes, and Antibacterial Activities | Frontiers in Marine Science | 2016 | 249 |
| 43 | A Stress Surveillance System Based on Calcium and Nitric Oxide in Marine Diatoms | PLoS Biology | 2006 | 248 |
| 44 | Pseudo-nitzschia, Nitzschia, and domoic acid: New research since 2011 | Harmful Algae | 2018 | 233 |
| 45 | Global Diversity and Biogeography of Skeletonema Species (Bacillariophyta) | Protist | 2008 | 231 |
| 46 | Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2020 | 227 |
| 47 | Thick-shelled, grazer-protected diatoms decouple ocean carbon and silicon cycles in the iron-limited Antarctic Circumpolar Current | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 216 |
| 48 | Pax8 has a key role in thyroid cell differentiation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2000 | 215 |
| 49 | An isochore map of human chromosomes | Genome Research | 2006 | 208 |
| 50 | MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF THE GENUS CAULERPA (CAULERPALES, CHLOROPHYTA) INFERRED FROM CHLOROPLAST tufA GENE1 | Journal of Phycology | 2002 | 207 |
