| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Precise Measurement of the G+C Content of Deoxyribonucleic Acid by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography | International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology | 1989 | 4,459 |
| 2 | Prokaryotes: The unseen majority | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1998 | 3,950 |
| 3 | Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2014 | 2,000 |
| 4 | Mobile genetic elements: the agents of open source evolution | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2005 | 1,428 |
| 5 | Molecular Biology of the LysR Family of Transcriptional Regulators | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1993 | 1,042 |
| 6 | Metabolic, Phylogenetic, and Ecological Diversity of the Methanogenic Archaea | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2008 | 998 |
| 7 | Depletion of 13C in lignin and its implications for stable carbon isotope studies | Nature | 1987 | 936 |
| 8 | Interaction and signalling between a cosmopolitan phytoplankton and associated bacteria | Nature | 2015 | 875 |
| 9 | Proposal to reclassify the proteobacterial classes Deltaproteobacteria and Oligoflexia, and the phylum Thermodesulfobacteria into four phyla reflecting major functional capabilities | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2020 | 830 |
| 10 | The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2010 | 562 |
| 11 | Transposon Tn 21 , Flagship of the Floating Genome | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 1999 | 551 |
| 12 | Quantitative Comparisons of 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Libraries from Environmental Samples | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2001 | 550 |
| 13 | Differentiation of Bartonella-like isolates at the species level by PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism in the citrate synthase gene | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1995 | 490 |
| 14 | Time to set the agenda for schistosomiasis elimination | Acta Tropica | 2013 | 484 |
| 15 | Lack of a Role for Iron in the Lyme Disease Pathogen | Science | 2000 | 469 |
| 16 | RNA-Dependent Cysteine Biosynthesis in Archaea | Science | 2005 | 468 |
| 17 | Degradation of Human Antimicrobial Peptide LL-37 by Staphylococcus aureus -Derived Proteinases | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2004 | 454 |
| 18 | Relative impacts of land-use, management intensity and fertilization upon soil microbial community structure in agricultural systems | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2008 | 450 |
| 19 | RNA-dependent conversion of phosphoserine forms selenocysteine in eukaryotes and archaea | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 428 |
| 20 | Genome sequence of Silicibacter pomeroyi reveals adaptations to the marine environment | Nature | 2004 | 415 |
| 21 | Land-use history has a stronger impact on soil microbial community composition than aboveground vegetation and soil properties | Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 2011 | 362 |
| 22 | Genome characteristics of a generalist marine bacterial lineage | ISME Journal | 2010 | 358 |
| 23 | Cryptic carbon and sulfur cycling between surface ocean plankton | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015 | 348 |
| 24 | Social and developmental biology of the myxobacteria | Microbiological Reviews | 1990 | 336 |
| 25 | Ecological Genomics of Marine Roseobacters | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 327 |
| 26 | Measurement of deoxyguanosine/thymidine ratios in complex mixtures by high-performance liquid chromatography for determination of the mole percentage guanine + cytosine of DNA | Journal of Chromatography A | 1989 | 320 |
| 27 | Utilization of inorganic and organic nitrogen by bacteria in marine systems1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1986 | 315 |
| 28 | Geobacter lovleyi sp. nov. Strain SZ, a Novel Metal-Reducing and Tetrachloroethene-Dechlorinating Bacterium | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 306 |
| 29 | Sizing up metatranscriptomics | ISME Journal | 2013 | 298 |
| 30 | Bacterial Taxa That Limit Sulfur Flux from the Ocean | Science | 2006 | 296 |
| 31 | Type VI secretion is a major virulence determinant inBurkholderia mallei | Molecular Microbiology | 2007 | 293 |
| 32 | Phylogenomic analyses of a clade within the roseobacter group suggest taxonomic reassignments of species of the genera Aestuariivita, Citreicella, Loktanella, Nautella, Pelagibaca, Ruegeria, Thalassobius, Thiobacimonas and Tropicibacter, and the proposal of six novel genera | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2018 | 293 |
| 33 | Development and evaluation of a real-time Taqman RT-PCR assay for the detection of infectious bronchitis virus from infected chickens | Journal of Virological Methods | 2006 | 282 |
| 34 | The effect of organic matter and oxygen on the degradation of bacterial membrane lipids in marine sediments | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 1986 | 274 |
| 35 | Molecular Hydrogen as an Energy Source for Helicobacter pylori | Science | 2002 | 273 |
| 36 | Methanogenesis | Current Biology | 2018 | 267 |
| 37 | Gram-positive bacteria are a major reservoir of Class 1 antibiotic resistance integrons in poultry litter | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2004 | 262 |
| 38 | New rfp - and pES213-Derived Tools for Analyzing Symbiotic Vibrio fischeri Reveal Patterns of Infection and lux Expression In Situ | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 256 |
| 39 | Whole Genome Analyses Suggests that Burkholderia sensu lato Contains Two Additional Novel Genera (Mycetohabitans gen. nov., and Trinickia gen. nov.): Implications for the Evolution of Diazotrophy and Nodulation in the Burkholderiaceae | Genes | 2018 | 252 |
| 40 | Isolation and Characterization of Desulfitobacterium dehalogenans gen. nov., sp. nov., an Anaerobic Bacterium Which Reductively Dechlorinates Chlorophenolic Compounds | International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology | 1994 | 246 |
| 41 | Mercury released from dental "silver" fillings provokes an increase in mercury- and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in oral and intestinal floras of primates | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 1993 | 237 |
| 42 | Energetics of microbial food webs | Hydrobiologia | 1988 | 236 |
| 43 | Prokaryotic Heme Biosynthesis: Multiple Pathways to a Common Essential Product | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2017 | 236 |
| 44 | Untwist and shout: a heavy metal-responsive transcriptional regulator | Journal of Bacteriology | 1992 | 232 |
| 45 | 1,003 reference genomes of bacterial and archaeal isolates expand coverage of the tree of life | Nature Biotechnology | 2017 | 222 |
| 46 | Intercellular Signaling During Fruiting-Body Development ofMyxococcus xanthus | Annual Review of Microbiology | 1999 | 221 |
| 47 | Human ferrochelatase is an iron-sulfur protein | Biochemistry | 1994 | 217 |
| 48 | Microbulbifer hydrolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., and Marinobacterium georgiense gen. nov., sp. nov., Two Marine Bacteria from a Lignin-Rich Pulp Mill Waste Enrichment Community | International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology | 1997 | 217 |
| 49 | Immunology of human schistosomiasis | Parasite Immunology | 2014 | 216 |
| 50 | Rubrerythrin and Rubredoxin Oxidoreductase in Desulfovibrio vulgaris : a Novel Oxidative Stress Protection System | Journal of Bacteriology | 2001 | 213 |
