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| 1 | Dissolved organic carbon leaching from plastics stimulates microbial activity in the ocean | Nature Communications | 2018 | 448 |
| 2 | Deep mitochondrial origin outside the sampled alphaproteobacteria | Nature | 2018 | 293 |
| 3 | Marine viruses discovered via metagenomics shed light on viral strategies throughout the oceans | Nature Communications | 2017 | 255 |
| 4 | The composition of bacterial communities associated with plastic biofilms differs between different polymers and stages of biofilm succession | PLoS ONE | 2019 | 212 |
| 5 | Synchronous tropical and polar temperature evolution in the Eocene | Nature | 2018 | 197 |
| 6 | Hydrogen peroxide detoxification is a key mechanism for growth of ammonia-oxidizing archaea | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 189 |
| 7 | Genomic diversity, lifestyles and evolutionary origins of DPANN archaea | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2019 | 181 |
| 8 | SAR202 Genomes from the Dark Ocean Predict Pathways for the Oxidation of Recalcitrant Dissolved Organic Matter | MBio | 2017 | 180 |
| 9 | Distributions of 5- and 6-methyl branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (brGDGTs) in East African lake sediment: Effects of temperature, pH, and new lacustrine paleotemperature calibrations | Organic Geochemistry | 2018 | 167 |
| 10 | Organic matter processing by microbial communities throughout the Atlantic water column as revealed by metaproteomics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 160 |
| 11 | The bacterial sulfur cycle in expanding dysoxic and euxinic marine waters | Environmental Microbiology | 2021 | 155 |
| 12 | Proposal of the reverse flow model for the origin of the eukaryotic cell based on comparative analyses of Asgard archaeal metabolism | Nature Microbiology | 2019 | 154 |
| 13 | The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: methodologies for selection, compilation and analysis of latest Paleocene and early Eocene climate proxy data, incorporating version 0.1 of the DeepMIP database | Geoscientific Model Development | 2019 | 141 |
| 14 | Lacipirellula parvula gen. nov., sp. nov., representing a lineage of planctomycetes widespread in low-oxygen habitats, description of the family Lacipirellulaceae fam. nov. and proposal of the orders Pirellulales ord. nov., Gemmatales ord. nov. and Isosphaerales ord. nov. | Systematic and Applied Microbiology | 2020 | 139 |
| 15 | The fate of plastic in the ocean environment – a minireview | Environmental Sciences: Processes and Impacts | 2021 | 134 |
| 16 | Miocene flooding events of western Amazonia | Science Advances | 2017 | 129 |
| 17 | Immediate ecotoxicological effects of short-lived oil spills on marine biota | Nature Communications | 2016 | 127 |
| 18 | Benthic primary producers are key to sustain the Wadden Sea food web: stable carbon isotope analysis at landscape scale | Ecology | 2017 | 124 |
| 19 | Extreme warmth and heat-stressed plankton in the tropics during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum | Science Advances | 2017 | 123 |
| 20 | Chemotaxonomic characterisation of the thaumarchaeal lipidome | Environmental Microbiology | 2017 | 123 |
| 21 | Undinarchaeota illuminate DPANN phylogeny and the impact of gene transfer on archaeal evolution | Nature Communications | 2020 | 112 |
| 22 | Redox-dependent niche differentiation provides evidence for multiple bacterial sources of glycerol tetraether lipids in lakes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 103 |
| 23 | Molecular fossils from phytoplankton reveal secular P co 2 trend over the Phanerozoic | Science Advances | 2018 | 100 |
| 24 | Virus Genomes from Deep Sea Sediments Expand the Ocean Megavirome and Support Independent Origins of Viral Gigantism | MBio | 2019 | 99 |
| 25 | The tropical lapse rate steepened during the Last Glacial Maximum | Science Advances | 2017 | 98 |
| 26 | A hydrophobic ammonia‐oxidizing archaeon of the Nitrosocosmicus clade isolated from coal tar‐contaminated sediment | Environmental Microbiology Reports | 2016 | 96 |
| 27 | A progressively wetter climate in southern East Africa over the past 1.3 million years | Nature | 2016 | 94 |
| 28 | Marine Viruses: Key Players in Marine Ecosystems | Viruses | 2017 | 88 |
| 29 | Methanonatronarchaeum thermophilum gen. nov., sp. nov. and 'Candidatus Methanohalarchaeum thermophilum', extremely halo(natrono)philic methyl-reducing methanogens from hypersaline lakes comprising a new euryarchaeal class Methanonatronarchaeia classis nov. | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2018 | 83 |
| 30 | Nitrifier adaptation to low energy flux controls inventory of reduced nitrogen in the dark ocean | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 82 |
| 31 | Phylogenomic analysis of lipid biosynthetic genes of Archaea shed light on the ‘lipid divide’ | Environmental Microbiology | 2017 | 80 |
| 32 | Microbial diversity in the hypersaline Lake Meyghan, Iran | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 80 |
| 33 | A review of microscopy and comparative molecular-based methods to characterize “Plastisphere” communities | Analytical Methods | 2017 | 79 |
| 34 | Ammonia‐oxidizing archaea release a suite of organic compounds potentially fueling prokaryotic heterotrophy in the ocean | Environmental Microbiology | 2019 | 78 |
| 35 | Climate induced human demographic and cultural change in northern Europe during the mid-Holocene | Scientific Reports | 2017 | 77 |
| 36 | Linking extracellular enzymes to phylogeny indicates a predominantly particle-associated lifestyle of deep-sea prokaryotes | Science Advances | 2020 | 74 |
| 37 | Methane oxidation in anoxic lake water stimulated by nitrate and sulfate addition | Environmental Microbiology | 2020 | 72 |
| 38 | Bridging the membrane lipid divide: bacteria of the FCB group superphylum have the potential to synthesize archaeal ether lipids | ISME Journal | 2021 | 72 |
| 39 | The in situ light microenvironment of corals | Limnology and Oceanography | 2014 | 70 |
| 40 | Taurine Is a Major Carbon and Energy Source for Marine Prokaryotes in the North Atlantic Ocean off the Iberian Peninsula | Microbial Ecology | 2019 | 69 |
| 41 | Nitrogen and phosphorus uptake rates of different species from a coral reef community after a nutrient pulse | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 68 |
| 42 | Nitrosopumilus adriaticus sp. nov. and Nitrosopumilus piranensis sp. nov., two ammonia-oxidizing archaea from the Adriatic Sea and members of the class Nitrososphaeria | International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology | 2019 | 67 |
| 43 | Hydrolytic Capabilities as a Key to Environmental Success: Chitinolytic and Cellulolytic Acidobacteria From Acidic Sub-arctic Soils and Boreal Peatlands | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2018 | 64 |
| 44 | Microbial carrying capacity and carbon biomass of plastic marine debris | ISME Journal | 2021 | 62 |
| 45 | Metagenomic insights into zooplankton‐associated bacterial communities | Environmental Microbiology | 2018 | 61 |
| 46 | Characterization and Temperature Dependence of Arctic Micromonas polaris Viruses | Viruses | 2017 | 60 |
| 47 | A combined lipidomic and 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing approach reveals archaeal sources of intact polar lipids in the stratified Black Sea water column | Geobiology | 2019 | 60 |
| 48 | Manganese/iron‐supported sulfate‐dependent anaerobic oxidation of methane by archaea in lake sediments | Limnology and Oceanography | 2020 | 60 |
| 49 | Benthic archaea as potential sources of tetraether membrane lipids in sediments across an oxygen minimum zone | Biogeosciences | 2018 | 59 |
| 50 | Anaerobic Degradation of Sulfated Polysaccharides by Two Novel Kiritimatiellales Strains Isolated From Black Sea Sediment | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2019 | 59 |
