| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 18,390 |
| 2 | Naïve Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial Taxonomy | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 17,125 |
| 3 | Profiling of complex microbial populations by denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis analysis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified genes coding for 16S rRNA | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1993 | 9,925 |
| 4 | Greengenes, a Chimera-Checked 16S rRNA Gene Database and Workbench Compatible with ARB | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 9,859 |
| 5 | UniFrac: a New Phylogenetic Method for Comparing Microbial Communities | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 7,007 |
| 6 | Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2013 | 5,923 |
| 7 | Use of nuclepore filters for counting bacteria by fluorescence microscopy | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1977 | 4,148 |
| 8 | Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flow cytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1990 | 3,720 |
| 9 | Does the Antibacterial Activity of Silver Nanoparticles Depend on the Shape of the Nanoparticle? A Study of the Gram-Negative Bacterium Escherichia coli | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 3,422 |
| 10 | Modeling of the Bacterial Growth Curve | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1990 | 3,339 |
| 11 | Development of primer sets designed for use with the PCR to amplify conserved genes from filamentous ascomycetes | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1995 | 3,327 |
| 12 | Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 3,268 |
| 13 | DNA recovery from soils of diverse composition | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1996 | 2,540 |
| 14 | Quantitative and Qualitative β Diversity Measures Lead to Different Insights into Factors That Structure Microbial Communities | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 2,418 |
| 15 | The ammonia monooxygenase structural gene amoA as a functional marker: molecular fine-scale analysis of natural ammonia-oxidizing populations | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1997 | 2,408 |
| 16 | Rapid and Simple Determination of the Escherichia coli Phylogenetic Group | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2000 | 2,352 |
| 17 | Introducing DOTUR, a Computer Program for Defining Operational Taxonomic Units and Estimating Species Richness | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 2,215 |
| 18 | Novel Mode of Microbial Energy Metabolism: Organic Carbon Oxidation Coupled to Dissimilatory Reduction of Iron or Manganese | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1988 | 2,105 |
| 19 | Use of Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria for Biocontrol of Plant Diseases: Principles, Mechanisms of Action, and Future Prospects | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 2,025 |
| 20 | Electricity Production by Geobacter sulfurreducens Attached to Electrodes | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2003 | 1,966 |
| 21 | A new medium for the enumeration and subculture of bacteria from potable water | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1985 | 1,958 |
| 22 | Characterization of microbial diversity by determining terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms of genes encoding 16S rRNA | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1997 | 1,860 |
| 23 | Classification and Characterization of Heterotrophic Microbial Communities on the Basis of Patterns of Community-Level Sole-Carbon-Source Utilization | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1991 | 1,824 |
| 24 | Inhibition and facilitation of nucleic acid amplification | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1997 | 1,809 |
| 25 | Microbiology of the Phyllosphere | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2003 | 1,779 |
| 26 | Bias caused by template annealing in the amplification of mixtures of 16S rRNA genes by PCR | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1996 | 1,646 |
| 27 | Antibacterial Activity and Mechanism of Action of the Silver Ion in Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 1,561 |
| 28 | Use of Congo red-polysaccharide interactions in enumeration and characterization of cellulolytic bacteria from the bovine rumen | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1982 | 1,508 |
| 29 | Role of Pseudomonas putida Indoleacetic Acid in Development of the Host Plant Root System | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2002 | 1,498 |
| 30 | Design and Evaluation of Useful Bacterium-Specific PCR Primers That Amplify Genes Coding for Bacterial 16S rRNA | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1998 | 1,498 |
| 31 | Identifying the Dominant Soil Bacterial Taxa in Libraries of 16S rRNA and 16S rRNA Genes | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 1,462 |
| 32 | Methods of multilocus enzyme electrophoresis for bacterial population genetics and systematics | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1986 | 1,438 |
| 33 | Rapid Method for Coextraction of DNA and RNA from Natural Environments for Analysis of Ribosomal DNA- and rRNA-Based Microbial Community Composition | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2000 | 1,422 |
| 34 | High diversity in DNA of soil bacteria | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1990 | 1,378 |
| 35 | Critical Evaluation of Two Primers Commonly Used for Amplification of Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 1,318 |
| 36 | Analysis of actinomycete communities by specific amplification of genes encoding 16S rRNA and gel-electrophoretic separation in denaturing gradients | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1997 | 1,298 |
| 37 | Bactericidal Activity of Photocatalytic TiO 2 Reaction: toward an Understanding of Its Killing Mechanism | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1999 | 1,295 |
| 38 | Contrasting Soil pH Effects on Fungal and Bacterial Growth Suggest Functional Redundancy in Carbon Mineralization | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 1,280 |
| 39 | The Phenolic Hydroxyl Group of Carvacrol Is Essential for Action against the Food-Borne Pathogen Bacillus cereus | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2002 | 1,274 |
| 40 | Organic Matter Mineralization with Reduction of Ferric Iron in Anaerobic Sediments | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1986 | 1,270 |
| 41 | Direct Analysis of Genes Encoding 16S rRNA from Complex Communities Reveals Many Novel Molecular Species within the Human Gut | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1999 | 1,253 |
| 42 | Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure by Use of Taxon-Specific Quantitative PCR Assays | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 1,227 |
| 43 | Bias in Template-to-Product Ratios in Multitemplate PCR | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1998 | 1,220 |
| 44 | Ink and Vinegar, a Simple Staining Technique for Arbuscular-Mycorrhizal Fungi | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1998 | 1,210 |
| 45 | PCR primers to amplify 16S rRNA genes from cyanobacteria | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1997 | 1,206 |
| 46 | Metallic Copper as an Antimicrobial Surface | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2011 | 1,205 |
| 47 | Phospholipid Fatty Acid Composition, Biomass, and Activity of Microbial Communities from Two Soil Types Experimentally Exposed to Different Heavy Metals | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1993 | 1,191 |
| 48 | Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Analysis of 16S rRNA from Human Fecal Samples Reveals Stable and Host-Specific Communities of Active Bacteria | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1998 | 1,186 |
| 49 | Antibacterial Activity and Mechanism of Action of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles against Campylobacter jejuni | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2011 | 1,167 |
| 50 | Relationships between Biovolume and Biomass of Naturally Derived Marine Bacterioplankton | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1987 | 1,156 |
