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| 1 | The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools | Nucleic Acids Research | 2012 | 23,218 |
| 2 | Evaluation of general 16S ribosomal RNA gene PCR primers for classical and next-generation sequencing-based diversity studies | Nucleic Acids Research | 2013 | 6,678 |
| 3 | SILVA: a comprehensive online resource for quality checked and aligned ribosomal RNA sequence data compatible with ARB | Nucleic Acids Research | 2007 | 5,955 |
| 4 | Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property | Nature | 2011 | 4,455 |
| 5 | SINA: Accurate high-throughput multiple sequence alignment of ribosomal RNA genes | Bioinformatics | 2012 | 2,911 |
| 6 | The SILVA and “All-species Living Tree Project (LTP)” taxonomic frameworks | Nucleic Acids Research | 2014 | 2,900 |
| 7 | A marine microbial consortium apparently mediating anaerobic oxidation of methane | Nature | 2000 | 2,693 |
| 8 | The microbial nitrogen-cycling network | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2018 | 2,596 |
| 9 | Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 2,287 |
| 10 | Revealing structure and assembly cues for Arabidopsis root-inhabiting bacterial microbiota | Nature | 2012 | 2,229 |
| 11 | JSpeciesWS: a web server for prokaryotic species circumscription based on pairwise genome comparison | Bioinformatics | 2016 | 2,179 |
| 12 | Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2014 | 2,090 |
| 13 | antiSMASH 3.0—a comprehensive resource for the genome mining of biosynthetic gene clusters | Nucleic Acids Research | 2015 | 1,797 |
| 14 | Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea | Nature Biotechnology | 2017 | 1,660 |
| 15 | Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria | Nature | 2010 | 1,578 |
| 16 | Multivariate analyses in microbial ecology | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2007 | 1,549 |
| 17 | Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane: Progress with an Unknown Process | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2009 | 1,458 |
| 18 | Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2019 | 1,269 |
| 19 | Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by anammox bacteria in the Black Sea | Nature | 2003 | 1,098 |
| 20 | The minimum information about a genome sequence (MIGS) specification | Nature Biotechnology | 2008 | 1,076 |
| 21 | Impacts of Atmospheric Anthropogenic Nitrogen on the Open Ocean | Science | 2008 | 986 |
| 22 | Where less may be more: how the rare biosphere pulls ecosystems strings | ISME Journal | 2017 | 935 |
| 23 | The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing | PLoS Biology | 2014 | 919 |
| 24 | Symbiotic diversity in marine animals: the art of harnessing chemosynthesis | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2008 | 900 |
| 25 | Groundwater and pore water inputs to the coastal zone | Biogeochemistry | 2003 | 849 |
| 26 | Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies | Nature | 1996 | 799 |
| 27 | Molecular mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation | Nature | 2011 | 744 |
| 28 | Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster | Nature Chemical Biology | 2015 | 743 |
| 29 | Photic Zone Euxinia During the Permian-Triassic Superanoxic Event | Science | 2005 | 731 |
| 30 | 25 years of serving the community with ribosomal RNA gene reference databases and tools | Journal of Biotechnology | 2017 | 731 |
| 31 | Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 695 |
| 32 | From The Cover: Massive nitrogen loss from the Benguela upwelling system through anaerobic ammonium oxidation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 671 |
| 33 | Iron corrosion by novel anaerobic microorganisms | Nature | 2004 | 664 |
| 34 | Corrosion of Iron by Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria: New Views of an Old Problem | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2014 | 663 |
| 35 | Single-cell identification in microbial communities by improved fluorescence in situ hybridization techniques | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2008 | 658 |
| 36 | Biogeographical distribution and diversity of microbes in methane hydrate-bearing deep marine sediments on the Pacific Ocean Margin | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 652 |
| 37 | Ecology of marine Bacteroidetes: a comparative genomics approach | ISME Journal | 2013 | 643 |
| 38 | Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications | Nature Biotechnology | 2011 | 639 |
| 39 | A computational framework to explore large-scale biosynthetic diversity | Nature Chemical Biology | 2020 | 638 |
| 40 | New processes and players in the nitrogen cycle: the microbial ecology of anaerobic and archaeal ammonia oxidation | ISME Journal | 2007 | 631 |
| 41 | Uncultivated microbes in need of their own taxonomy | ISME Journal | 2017 | 622 |
| 42 | Methane formation from long-chain alkanes by anaerobic microorganisms | Nature | 1999 | 599 |
| 43 | Feast and famine — microbial life in the deep-sea bed | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2007 | 588 |
| 44 | Novel microbial communities of the Haakon Mosby mud volcano and their role as a methane sink | Nature | 2006 | 582 |
| 45 | Microbial Nitrogen Cycling Processes in Oxygen Minimum Zones | Annual Review of Marine Science | 2011 | 566 |
| 46 | Diversity and Distribution of Methanotrophic Archaea at Cold Seeps | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 563 |
| 47 | Contribution of Archaea to Total Prokaryotic Production in the Deep Atlantic Ocean | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 538 |
| 48 | Predominant archaea in marine sediments degrade detrital proteins | Nature | 2013 | 538 |
| 49 | Global Patterns of Bacterial Beta-Diversity in Seafloor and Seawater Ecosystems | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 537 |
| 50 | Coral mucus functions as an energy carrier and particle trap in the reef ecosystem | Nature | 2004 | 522 |
