| Introducing mothur: open-source, platform-independent, community-supported software for describing and comparing microbial communities | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 13.8K |
| Ecoenzymatic stoichiometry of microbial organic nutrient acquisition in soil and sediment | Nature | 2009 | 624 |
| Genome, transcriptome, and secretome analysis of wood decay fungus Postia placenta supports unique mechanisms of lignocellulose conversion | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 479 |
| A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change | Ecology | 2009 | 372 |
| Tree die-off in response to global change-type drought: mortality insights from a decade of plant water potential measurements | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment | 2009 | 371 |
| Reduced susceptibility to praziquantel among naturally occurring Kenyan isolates of Schistosoma mansoni | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2009 | 285 |
| Mechanisms of estrogen signaling and gene expression via GPR30 | Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology | 2009 | 279 |
| Parasites, democratization, and the liberalization of values across contemporary countries | Biological Reviews | 2009 | 258 |
| Biochemistry, physiology and biotechnology of sulfate-reducing bacteria | Advances in Applied Microbiology | 2009 | 227 |
| A general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 218 |
| Ciliary targeting motif VxPx directs assembly of a trafficking module through Arf4 | EMBO Journal | 2009 | 197 |
| Extensions and evaluations of a general quantitative theory of forest structure and dynamics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 192 |
| Two-phase increase in the maximum size of life over 3.5 billion years reflects biological innovation and environmental opportunity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 192 |
| When cold is better: climate-driven elevation shifts yield complex patterns of diversification and demography in an alpine specialist (American pika, Ochotona princeps) | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2009 | 191 |
| New discoveries on the biology and detection of human chorionic gonadotropin | Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology | 2009 | 178 |
| Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Denitrification | Limnology and Oceanography | 2009 | 155 |
| Experimental evidence for reduced rodent diversity causing increased hantavirus prevalence | PLoS ONE | 2009 | 147 |
| Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Total uptake | Limnology and Oceanography | 2009 | 142 |
| Catalytic asymmetric oxa-Michael-Michael cascade for facile construction of chiral chromans via an aminal intermediate | Organic Letters | 2009 | 140 |
| Temperature dependence, spatial scale, and tree species diversity in eastern Asia and North America | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 136 |
| GC-biased gene conversion promotes the fixation of deleterious amino acid changes in primates | Trends in Genetics | 2009 | 136 |
| Beneficial role of the GPR30 agonist G-1 in an animal model of multiple sclerosis | Journal of Neuroimmunology | 2009 | 135 |
| Resonance chemical imaging of polythiophene/fullerene photovoltaic thin films: mapping morphology-dependent aggregated and unaggregated C=C Species | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 2009 | 135 |
| The evolution of food preferences in Coccinellidae | Biological Control | 2009 | 127 |
| A selective and sensitive "turn-on" fluorescent chemodosimeter for Hg(2+) in aqueous media via Hg(2+) promoted facile desulfurization-lactonization reaction | Chemical Communications | 2009 | 122 |
