| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Every base matters: assessing small subunit rRNA primers for marine microbiomes with mock communities, time series and global field samples | Environmental Microbiology | 2016 | 2,618 |
| 2 | Heavy use of prophylactic antibiotics in aquaculture: a growing problem for human and animal health and for the environment | Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 1,717 |
| 3 | Formation of propionate and butyrate by the human colonic microbiota | Environmental Microbiology | 2017 | 1,597 |
| 4 | Ironing out the wrinkles in the rare biosphere through improved OTU clustering | Environmental Microbiology | 2010 | 1,226 |
| 5 | Complete genome sequence and comparative analysis of the metabolically versatile Pseudomonas putida KT2440 | Environmental Microbiology | 2002 | 1,218 |
| 6 | Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates | Environmental Microbiology | 2010 | 1,138 |
| 7 | The influence of soil pH on the diversity, abundance and transcriptional activity of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 1,104 |
| 8 | Quantifying the roles of immigration and chance in shaping prokaryote community structure | Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 971 |
| 9 | A fluorimetric method for the estimation of G+C mol% content in microorganisms by thermal denaturation temperature | Environmental Microbiology | 2002 | 953 |
| 10 | Beyond the Venn diagram: the hunt for a core microbiome | Environmental Microbiology | 2012 | 940 |
| 11 | Quantitative analyses of the abundance and composition of ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria and ammonia‐oxidizing archaea of a Chinese upland red soil under long‐term fertilization practices | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 877 |
| 12 | Nitrogenase gene diversity and microbial community structure: a cross-system comparison | Environmental Microbiology | 2003 | 844 |
| 13 | Bacteria rather than Archaea dominate microbial ammonia oxidation in an agricultural soil | Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 813 |
| 14 | Towards the human intestinal microbiota phylogenetic core | Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 773 |
| 15 | A genomic update on clostridial phylogeny: Gram‐negative spore formers and other misplaced clostridia | Environmental Microbiology | 2013 | 771 |
| 16 | Novel genes for nitrite reductase and Amo-related proteins indicate a role of uncultivated mesophilic crenarchaeota in nitrogen cycling | Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 758 |
| 17 | The bacterial biogeography of British soils | Environmental Microbiology | 2011 | 753 |
| 18 | Diversity and significance of Burkholderia species occupying diverse ecological niches | Environmental Microbiology | 2003 | 742 |
| 19 | An evaluation of terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis for the study of microbial community structure and dynamics | Environmental Microbiology | 2000 | 720 |
| 20 | Surfactin and fengycin lipopeptides of Bacillus subtilis as elicitors of induced systemic resistance in plants | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 694 |
| 21 | Fresh fruit and vegetables as vehicles for the transmission of human pathogens | Environmental Microbiology | 2010 | 683 |
| 22 | Graphite electrodes as electron donors for anaerobic respiration | Environmental Microbiology | 2004 | 659 |
| 23 | Growth, activity and temperature responses of ammonia‐oxidizing archaea and bacteria in soil microcosms | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 658 |
| 24 | Degradation of alkanes by bacteria | Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 650 |
| 25 | Natural roles of biosurfactants. Minireview | Environmental Microbiology | 2001 | 640 |
| 26 | Cultivation of a thermophilic ammonia oxidizing archaeon synthesizing crenarchaeol | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 621 |
| 27 | Antimicrobial use in aquaculture re‐examined: its relevance to antimicrobial resistance and to animal and human health | Environmental Microbiology | 2013 | 607 |
| 28 | Diversity of human colonic butyrate‐producing bacteria revealed by analysis of the butyryl‐CoA:acetate CoA‐transferase gene | Environmental Microbiology | 2010 | 599 |
| 29 | 'Everything is everywhere, but, the environment selects'; what did Baas Becking and Beijerinck really say? | Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 596 |
| 30 | The role of pH in determining the species composition of the human colonic microbiota | Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 587 |
| 31 | Isolation and characterization of soybean-associated bacteria and their potential for plant growth promotion | Environmental Microbiology | 2004 | 583 |
| 32 | The ecology of the phyllosphere: geographic and phylogenetic variability in the distribution of bacteria on tree leaves | Environmental Microbiology | 2010 | 574 |
| 33 | How natural infection by Nosema ceranae causes honeybee colony collapse | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 570 |
| 34 | Interactions between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and bacteria and their potential for stimulating plant growth | Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 567 |
| 35 | daime, a novel image analysis program for microbial ecology and biofilm research | Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 565 |
| 36 | The rhizosphere as a reservoir for opportunistic human pathogenic bacteria | Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 554 |
| 37 | Metagenomic analysis of stressed coral holobionts | Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 551 |
| 38 | Soil bacterial diversity in the Arctic is not fundamentally different from that found in other biomes | Environmental Microbiology | 2010 | 551 |
| 39 | The Coral Probiotic Hypothesis | Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 545 |
| 40 | Relative contributions of archaea and bacteria to aerobic ammonia oxidation in the environment | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 531 |
| 41 | Enhanced sensitivity of DNA- and rRNA-based stable isotope probing by fractionation and quantitative analysis of isopycnic centrifugation gradients | Environmental Microbiology | 2003 | 530 |
| 42 | Marine diatom species harbour distinct bacterial communities | Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 526 |
| 43 | Are viruses driving microbial diversification and diversity? | Environmental Microbiology | 2003 | 524 |
| 44 | DNA sequence‐based analysis of the Pseudomonas species | Environmental Microbiology | 2010 | 521 |
| 45 | Metagenomic analysis of the microbial community associated with the coral Porites astreoides | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 520 |
| 46 | Interactions and competition within the microbial community of the human colon: links between diet and health | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 518 |
| 47 | Methanogenesis facilitated by electric syntrophy via (semi)conductive iron‐oxide minerals | Environmental Microbiology | 2012 | 516 |
| 48 | Life on the rocks | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 513 |
| 49 | Widespread occurrence and genetic diversity of marine parasitoids belonging to Syndiniales (Alveolata) | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 511 |
| 50 | Abundance and composition of ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria and ammonia‐oxidizing archaea communities of an alkaline sandy loam | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 508 |
