| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Nitrite-driven anaerobic methane oxidation by oxygenic bacteria | Nature | 2010 | 1,521 |
| 2 | Complete nitrification by a single microorganism | Nature | 2015 | 1,336 |
| 3 | A microbial consortium couples anaerobic methane oxidation to denitrification | Nature | 2006 | 1,115 |
| 4 | Anaerobic ammonium oxidation by anammox bacteria in the Black Sea | Nature | 2003 | 1,081 |
| 5 | Deciphering the evolution and metabolism of an anammox bacterium from a community genome | Nature | 2006 | 1,075 |
| 6 | Archaeal nitrification in the ocean | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 999 |
| 7 | Startup of reactors for anoxic ammonium oxidation: Experiences from the first full-scale anammox reactor in Rotterdam | Water Research | 2007 | 983 |
| 8 | Molecular mechanism of anaerobic ammonium oxidation | Nature | 2011 | 707 |
| 9 | Revising the nitrogen cycle in the Peruvian oxygen minimum zone | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 677 |
| 10 | 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 | 664 |
| 11 | A New Perspective on Microbes Formerly Known as Nitrite-Oxidizing Bacteria | Trends in Microbiology | 2016 | 625 |
| 12 | A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes | Nature Communications | 2014 | 617 |
| 13 | Candidatus “Scalindua brodae”, sp. nov., Candidatus “Scalindua wagneri”, sp. nov., Two New Species of Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidizing Bacteria | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | 2003 | 535 |
| 14 | Microbiology and application of the anaerobic ammonium oxidation (‘anammox’) process | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 2001 | 534 |
| 15 | Candidatus “Anammoxoglobus propionicus” a new propionate oxidizing species of anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | 2007 | 511 |
| 16 | Evaluation of activity and inhibition effects on Anammox process by batch tests based on the nitrogen gas production | Enzyme and Microbial Technology | 2007 | 480 |
| 17 | Archaea catalyze iron-dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 470 |
| 18 | Anammox bacteria disguised as denitrifiers: nitrate reduction to dinitrogen gas via nitrite and ammonium | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 462 |
| 19 | Enrichment and Molecular Detection of Denitrifying Methanotrophic Bacteria of the NC10 Phylum | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2009 | 446 |
| 20 | Biochemistry and molecular biology of anammox bacteria | Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | 2009 | 441 |
| 21 | Nitrogen-fixing populations of Planctomycetes and Proteobacteria are abundant in surface ocean metagenomes | Nature Microbiology | 2018 | 436 |
| 22 | How to make a living from anaerobic ammonium oxidation | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 2013 | 433 |
| 23 | Rare earth metals are essential for methanotrophic life in volcanic mudpots | Environmental Microbiology | 2014 | 433 |
| 24 | Environmental, genomic and taxonomic perspectives on methanotrophic Verrucomicrobia | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 2009 | 431 |
| 25 | Linearly concatenated cyclobutane lipids form a dense bacterial membrane | Nature | 2002 | 426 |
| 26 | DRAM for distilling microbial metabolism to automate the curation of microbiome function | Nucleic Acids Research | 2020 | 410 |
| 27 | New concepts of microbial treatment processes for the nitrogen removal in wastewater | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 2003 | 407 |
| 28 | Denitrifying bacteria anaerobically oxidize methane in the absence of Archaea | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 404 |
| 29 | Methanotrophy below pH 1 by a new Verrucomicrobia species | Nature | 2007 | 388 |
| 30 | Candidatus âBrocadia fulgidaâ: an autofluorescent anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacterium | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2008 | 388 |
| 31 | Methanotrophic symbionts provide carbon for photosynthesis in peat bogs | Nature | 2005 | 379 |
| 32 | Genome-based microbial ecology of anammox granules in a full-scale wastewater treatment system | Nature Communications | 2016 | 373 |
| 33 | Methane Feedbacks to the Global Climate System in a Warmer World | Reviews of Geophysics | 2018 | 354 |
| 34 | Propionate Oxidation by and Methanol Inhibition of Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing Bacteria | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 353 |
| 35 | Cell compartmentalisation in planctomycetes: novel types of structural organisation for the bacterial cell | Archives of Microbiology | 2001 | 334 |
| 36 | Biomarkers for In Situ Detection of Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing (Anammox) Bacteria | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2005 | 325 |
| 37 | PQQ-dependent methanol dehydrogenases: rare-earth elements make a difference | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2014 | 323 |
| 38 | AmoA-Targeted Polymerase Chain Reaction Primers for the Specific Detection and Quantification of Comammox Nitrospira in the Environment | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2017 | 313 |
| 39 | Whole-Genome Sequencing of Bacterial Pathogens: the Future of Nosocomial Outbreak Analysis | Clinical Microbiology Reviews | 2017 | 310 |
| 40 | Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing bacteria in marine environments: widespread occurrence but low diversity | Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 307 |
| 41 | High-level functional expression of a fungal xylose isomerase: the key to efficient ethanolic fermentation of xylose by ? | FEMS Yeast Research | 2003 | 300 |
| 42 | Anaerobic Oxidation of Methane and Ammonium | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2004 | 285 |
| 43 | Anaerobic ammonia oxidation in a fertilized paddy soil | ISME Journal | 2011 | 259 |
| 44 | Characterization of Romboutsia ilealis gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the gastro-intestinal tract of a rat, and proposal for the reclassification of five closely related members of the genus Clostridium into the genera Romboutsia gen. nov., Intestinibacter gen. nov., Terrisporobacter gen. nov. and Asaccharospora gen. nov. | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2014 | 259 |
| 45 | Nitrogen Removal by a Nitritation-Anammox Bioreactor at Low Temperature | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2013 | 258 |
| 46 | A microdiversity study of anammox bacteria reveals a novel Candidatus Scalindua phylotype in marine oxygen minimum zones | Environmental Microbiology | 2008 | 250 |
| 47 | The metagenome of the marine anammox bacterium ‘Candidatus Scalindua profunda’ illustrates the versatility of this globally important nitrogen cycle bacterium | Environmental Microbiology | 2013 | 246 |
| 48 | Simultaneous partial nitritation and anammox at low temperature with granular sludge | Water Research | 2014 | 244 |
| 49 | The anammoxosome: an intracytoplasmic compartment in anammox bacteria | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2004 | 243 |
| 50 | Pilot-scale evaluation of anammox-based mainstream nitrogen removal from municipal wastewater | Environmental Technology (United Kingdom) | 2015 | 241 |
