| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Generic Assignments, Strain Histories and Properties of Pure Cultures of Cyanobacteria | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1979 | 4,194 |
| 2 | Quantification of biofilm structures by the novel computer program comstat | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2000 | 1,899 |
| 3 | R Factor Transfer in Rhizobium leguminosarum | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1974 | 1,795 |
| 4 | Determination of bacterial load by real-time PCR using a broad-range (universal) probe and primers set | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2002 | 1,683 |
| 5 | The structure and function of fungal laccases | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1994 | 1,682 |
| 6 | Quorum sensing and Chromobacterium violaceum: exploitation of violacein production and inhibition for the detection of N-acylhomoserine lactones | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1997 | 1,543 |
| 7 | Metals, minerals and microbes: geomicrobiology and bioremediation | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2010 | 1,496 |
| 8 | Biofilm exopolysaccharides: a strong and sticky framework | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2001 | 1,469 |
| 9 | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPRs) have spacers of extrachromosomal origin | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2005 | 1,396 |
| 10 | Short motif sequences determine the targets of the prokaryotic CRISPR defence system | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2009 | 1,267 |
| 11 | Autotrophic growth of anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing micro-organisms in a fluidized bed reactor | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1996 | 1,195 |
| 12 | Application of a suite of 16S rRNA-specific oligonucleotide probes designed to investigate bacteria of the phylum cytophaga-flavobacter-bacteroides in the natural environment | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1996 | 1,114 |
| 13 | CRISPR elements in Yersinia pestis acquire new repeats by preferential uptake of bacteriophage DNA, and provide additional tools for evolutionary studies | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2005 | 1,083 |
| 14 | Biochemistry of methanogenesis: a tribute to Marjory Stephenson:1998 Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1998 | 987 |
| 15 | A multilocus sequence typing scheme for Streptococcus pneumoniae: identification of clones associated with serious invasive disease | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1998 | 982 |
| 16 | Are dental diseases examples of ecological catastrophes? | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2003 | 931 |
| 17 | Inhibition of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm bacteria by a halogenated furanone compound | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2002 | 919 |
| 18 | The ecology, epidemiology and virulence of Enterococcus | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2009 | 896 |
| 19 | New approaches to typing and identification of bacteria using the 16S-23S rDNA spacer region | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1996 | 889 |
| 20 | Long-term impacts of antibiotic exposure on the human intestinal microbiota | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2010 | 859 |
| 21 | The Growth of Micro-organisms in Relation to their Energy Supply | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1960 | 838 |
| 22 | Plant-beneficial effects of Trichoderma and of its genes | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2012 | 796 |
| 23 | Structure and function of the LysR-type transcriptional regulator (LTTR) family proteins | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2008 | 782 |
| 24 | A new genotype of hepatitis B virus: complete genome and phylogenetic relatedness | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2000 | 773 |
| 25 | The Infection of Clover Root Hairs by Nodule Bacteria Studied by a Simple Glass Slide Technique | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1957 | 745 |
| 26 | The mcrA gene as an alternative to 16S rRNA in the phylogenetic analysis of methanogen populations in landfill b bThe GenBank accession numbers for the mcrA sequences reported in this paper are AF414034–AF414051 (see Fig. 2) and AF414007–AF414033 (environmental isolates in Fig. 3). | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2002 | 740 |
| 27 | Aspergillus flavus: human pathogen, allergen and mycotoxin producer | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2007 | 716 |
| 28 | Candida dubliniensis sp. nov.: phenotypic and molecular characterization of a novel species associated with oral candidosis in HIV-infected individuals | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1995 | 701 |
| 29 | Numerical Classification of Streptomyces and Related Genera | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1983 | 700 |
| 30 | The Application of Computers to Taxonomy | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1957 | 656 |
| 31 | Gene cassettes: a new class of mobile element | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1995 | 630 |
| 32 | A vector for systematic gene inactivation in Bacillus subtilis | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1998 | 620 |
| 33 | Genetic Recombination in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1955 | 576 |
| 34 | Quorum sensing, communication and cross-kingdom signalling in the bacterial world | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2007 | 568 |
| 35 | Cloning of Candida albicans genes conferring resistance to azole antifungal agents: characterization of CDR2, a new multidrug ABC transporter gene | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1997 | 565 |
| 36 | Evidence that halogenated furanones from Delisea pulchra inhibit acylated homoserine lactone (AHL)-mediated gene expression by displacing the AHL signal from its receptor protein | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1999 | 565 |
| 37 | In vivo measurement of cytosolic and mitochondrial pH using a pH-sensitive GFP derivative in Saccharomyces cerevisiae reveals a relation between intracellular pH and growth | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2009 | 562 |
| 38 | Yeast-enhanced green fluorescent protein (yEGFP): a reporter of gene expression in Candida albicans | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1997 | 559 |
| 39 | Classification and identification of bacteria by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1991 | 548 |
| 40 | Genetic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on variable numbers of tandem DNA repeats | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1998 | 547 |
| 41 | Classification of rhizobia based on nodC and nifH gene analysis reveals a close phylogenetic relationship among Phaseolus vulgaris symbionts The GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AF217261 through AF217272 for nodC and AF218126, AF275670 and AF275671 for nifH. | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2001 | 545 |
| 42 | Replication of hepatitis C virus | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2000 | 537 |
| 43 | Specialized transduction: an efficient method for generating marked and unmarked targeted gene disruptions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. bovis BCG and M. smegmatis | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2002 | 534 |
| 44 | Halogenated furanones inhibit quorum sensing through accelerated LuxR turnover | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2002 | 526 |
| 45 | In situ probing of Gram-positive bacteria with high DNA G + C content using 23S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotides | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1994 | 525 |
| 46 | Attachment to and biofilm formation on abiotic surfaces by Acinetobacter baumannii: involvement of a novel chaperone-usher pili assembly system | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2003 | 518 |
| 47 | Evaluation of the DNA fingerprinting method AFLP as a new tool in bacterial taxonomy | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 1996 | 514 |
| 48 | Bacterial respiration: a flexible process for a changing environment 1999 Fleming Lecture (Delivered at the 144th meeting of the Society for General Microbiology, 8 September 1999) | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2000 | 508 |
| 49 | Re-emergence of chikungunya and o’nyong-nyong viruses: evidence for distinct geographical lineages and distant evolutionary relationships | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2000 | 504 |
| 50 | Re-annotation of the genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2002 | 499 |
