Environmental Microbiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Microbiology is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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Prevalence, complete genome, and metabolic potentials of a phylogenetically novel cyanobacterial symbiont in the coral‐killing sponge, Terpios hoshinota99
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ArsV and ArsW provide synergistic resistance to the antibiotic methylarsenite98
Specificity and genetic polymorphism in the Vfm quorum sensing system of plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Dickeya95
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA+ disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance90
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch78
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome78
Iron corrosion by methanogenic archaea characterized by stable isotope effects and crust mineralogy74
Particle‐associated and free‐living bacterial communities in an oligotrophic sea are affected by different environmental factors64
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics61
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk57
Sulfidic acetate mineralization at 45°C by an aquifer microbial community: key players and effects of heat changes on activity and community structure56
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION and Illumina sequencing54
The carnitine degradation pathway ofAcinetobacter baumanniiand its role in virulence53
Enrichment of nosZ‐type denitrifiers by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi mitigates N2O emissions from soybean stubbles53
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L. cidri50
An atlas of bacterial secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters50
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus50
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance49
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea49
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest49
One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii49
PeMetR‐mediated sulfur assimilation is essential for virulence and patulin biosynthesis in Penicillium expansum47
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?46
Distinctive features of the Gac‐Rsm pathway in plant‐associated Pseudomonas46
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutants from pharmaceutical companies44
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria43
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro43
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation42
The Bacterial Genus Ramlibacter: Betaproteobacteria Capable of Surviving in Oligotrophic Environments Thanks to Several Shared Genetic Adaptation Traits41
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant41
Oak Wilt Disease May Reduce the Initial Decay Rate of Dead Quercus serrata Stems by Altering Fungal Communities in the Wood40
New Insight Into the Mechanism of Nitrite Enhancement on Heterotrophic Nitrification and Aerobic Denitrification Bacterium in Gene Expression40
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Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA40
Carbon substrate re‐orders relative growth of a bacterium using Mo‐, V‐, or Fe‐nitrogenase for nitrogen fixation39
Volatile Organic Compounds of Diverse Origins and Their Changes Associated With Cultivar Decay in a Fungus‐Farming Termite39
Coupled C, H, N, S and Fe biogeochemical cycles operating in the continental deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt39
Effects of chaotropic salts on global proteome stability in halophilic archaea: Implications for life signatures on Mars38
Environmental vibrio phage–bacteria interaction networks reflect the genetic structure of host populations38
Molecular mechanisms underlying glyphosate resistance in bacteria37
Bacterial community dynamics on bats and the implications for pathogen resistance37
Protein acetylation and deacetylation in plant‐pathogen interactions37
Ornithine decarboxylase of the fungal pathogenColletotrichum higginsianumplays an important role in regulating global metabolic pathways and virulence37
Life strategies and metabolic interactions of core microbes during thiosulphate‐based denitrification37
Discovery of the non‐cosmopolitan lineages in Candidatus Thermoprofundales36
Wolbachia in scale insects: a distinct pattern of infection frequencies and potential transfer routes via ant associates36
Biodegradation of pollutants by exoelectrogenic bacteria is not always performed extracellularly36
Biogeography of culturable marine bacteria from both poles reveals that ‘everything is not everywhere’ at the genomic level36
Physiological stage drives fungal community dynamics and diversity in Leptospermum scoparium (mānuka) flowers35
Coral holobiont research needs spatial analyses at the microbial scale35
Prophages carrying Zot toxins on different Vibrio genomes: A comprehensive assessment using multilayer networks35
High diversity of pathogenic Escherichia coli clones carrying mcr‐1 among gulls underlines the need for strategies at the environment–livestock–human interface33
Anaerobic methanotrophy is stimulated by graphene oxide in a brackish urban canal sediment33
Response of the plant core microbiome to Fusarium oxysporum infection and identification of the pathobiome33
Low phosphate mitigates cadmium‐induced oxidative stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by enhancing endogenous antioxidant defence system32
Symbiotic germination and development of fully mycoheterotrophic plants convergently targeting similar Glomeraceae taxa32
A meta‐analysis study of the robustness and universality of gut microbiota–shrimp diseases relationship32
Fine‐scale mapping of physicochemical and microbial landscapes of the coral skeleton32
Toward an accurate mechanistic understanding of Wolbachia‐induced cytoplasmic incompatibility32
Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient31
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and microbial evolution31
The acetoin assimilation pathway of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is regulated by overlapping global regulatory elements that respond to nutritional cues31
Drivers of fungal diversity and community biogeography differ between green roofs and adjacent ground‐level green space31
Optimal Cell Length for Exploration and Exploitation in Chemotactic Planktonic Bacteria31
Lysobacter enzymogenes antagonizes soilborne bacteria using the type IV secretion system31
CARD‐FISH and prey tracer techniques reveal the role of overlooked flagellate groups as major bacterivores in freshwater hypertrophic shallow lakes31
Metabolic Segregation and Functional Gene Clusters in Anaerobic Digestion Consortia31
Seasonal variation significantly influenced the stochasticity of community assembly of amphibian symbiotic bacteria30
Correction to “Preventing multiresistance: New insights for managing fungal adaptation”30
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Relationships between fluid mixing, biodiversity, and chemosynthetic primary productivity in Yellowstone hot springs29
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Phytoplankton exudates provide full nutrition to a subset of accompanying heterotrophic bacteria via carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus allocation29
Highly Dynamic Archaeal and Bacterial Communities From the Surface to the Deep in the Atlantic Ocean29
Revealing human impact on natural ecosystems through soil bacterial DNA sampled from an archaeological site29
Novel oil‐associated bacteria in Arctic seawater exposed to different nutrient biostimulation regimes28
How good are global DNA‐based environmental surveys for detecting all protist diversity? Arcellinida as an example of biased representation28
A novel soluble di‐iron monooxygenase from the soil bacterium Solimonas soli28
The fitness benefit of pyoverdine cross‐feeding by Pseudomonas protegens Pf‐528
Long‐range alteration of the physical environment mediates cooperation between Pseudomonas aeruginosa swarming colonies27
Diversity of novel archaeal viruses infecting methanogens discovered through coupling of stable isotope probing and metagenomics27
Distribution, causal agents, and infection dynamic of emerging ink disease of sweet chestnut in Southern Switzerland27
Widespread formation of intracellular calcium carbonates by the bloom‐forming cyanobacterium Microcystis27
Ferroptosis induced by the biocontrol agent Pythium oligandrum enhances soybean resistance to Phytophthora sojae27
Geography and environmental pressure are predictive of class‐specific radioresistance in black fungi27
Seasonal shifts in Fe‐acquisition strategies in Southern Ocean microbial communities revealed by metagenomics and autonomous sampling27
Time after time: detecting annual patterns in stream bacterial biofilm communities26
Nitrogen fertilization differentially affects the symbiotic capacity of two co‐occurring ectomycorrhizal species26
Dissection of FixK2 protein–DNA interaction unveils new insights into Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens lifestyles control26
The filamentous γ‐prefoldin chaperone is not essential for growth and thermal adaptation in Methanocaldococcus jannaschii26
MoOpy2 is essential for fungal development, pathogenicity, and autophagy in Magnaporthe oryzae26
Evidence for reciprocal evolution of the global repressor Mlc and its cognate phosphotransferase system sugar transporter26
Synthesis of the unusual lipid bis(monoacylglycero)phosphate in environmental bacteria26
Environmental exposure more than plastic composition shapes marine microplastic‐associated bacterial communities inPacificversusCaribbeanfield incubations26
Unexpected role of electron‐transfer hub in direct degradation of pollutants by exoelectrogenic bacteria26
Fate of glacier surface snow‐originating bacteria in the glacier‐fed hydrologic continuums26
A fungal powdery mildew pathogen induces extensive local and marginal systemic changes in the Arabidopsis thaliana microbiota26
AwMelWolbachiavariant inAedes aegyptifrom field‐collectedDrosophila melanogasterwith increased phenotypic stability under heat stress25
Correction to “Five structural genes required for ceramide synthesis in Caulobacter and for bacterial survival”25
Diversity and ecology of Radiolaria in modern oceans25
Comprehensive analysis of the regulatory network of blue‐light‐regulated conidiation and hydrophobin production in Trichoderma guizhouense25
Core rhizosphere microbiome ofPanax notoginsengand its associations with belowground biomass and saponin contents25
Enteroviruses in Water: Epidemiology, Detection and Inactivation25
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Linear scaling between microbial predator and prey densities in the global ocean24
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Biodegradation in wastewater treatment plants: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology24
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Water Quality and Land Use Shape Bacterial Communities Across 621 Canadian Lakes23
Respiratory protein interactions in Dehalobacter sp. strain 8M revealed through genomic and native proteomic analyses23
Novel virulent and temperate cyanophages predicted to infect Microcoleus associated with anatoxin‐producing benthic mats23
Exploring the Exclusive Isolation of Pseudomonas syringae in Peltigera Lichens via Metabolite Analysis and Growth Assays23
Does diet breadth affect the complexity of the phytophagous insect microbiota? The case study of Chrysomelidae23
Methylated cycloalkanes fuel a novel genus in the Porticoccaceae family (Ca. Reddybacter gen. nov)23
Biogeographical patterns of abundant and rare bacterial biospheres in paddy soils across East Asia23
Novel broad‐spectrum bacteriophages against Xanthomonas oryzae and their biocontrol potential in rice bacterial diseases23
An ArsRC fusion protein enhances arsenate sensing and detoxification22
CotG controls spore surface formation in response to the temperature of growth in Bacillus subtilis22
The brown root rot fungus Phellinus noxius affects microbial communities in different root‐associated niches of Ficus trees22
Genome‐Scale Model of Rhizopus microsporus: Metabolic integration of a fungal holobiont with its bacterial and viral endosymbionts22
Phylogenomics, epigenomics, virulome and mobilome of Gram‐negative bacteria co‐resistant to carbapenems and polymyxins: a One Health systematic review and meta‐analyses22
Ecology of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species in India: the occurrence, resistance to biocides, genomic landscape and biocontrol22
Genome and proteome analyses show the gaseous alkane degrader Desulfosarcina sp. strain BuS5 as an extreme metabolic specialist22
The pH signalling transcription factor PacC modulate growth, development, stress response and pathogenicity of Trichothecium roseum22
Dynamics of Baltic Sea phages driven by environmental changes22
Functional characterization of a high‐affinity iron transporter (PiFTR) from the endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica and its role in plant growth and development21
Sarracenia pitcher plant‐associated microbial communities differ primarily by host species across a longitudinal gradient21
Resource availability drives bacteria community resistance to pathogen invasion via altering bacterial pairwise interactions21
Long‐term unsustainable patterns of development rather than recent deforestation caused the emergence of Orthocoronavirinae species21
Membrane lipid renovation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ‐ implications for phage therapy?21
Isolation and evaluation of the biocontrol potential of Talaromyces spp. against rice sheath blight guided by soil microbiome21
Experimental evidence that lignin‐modifying enzymes are essential for degrading plant cell wall lignin byPleurotus ostreatususingCRISPR/Cas921
Viable but non‐cultivable state: a strategy for Staphylococcus aureus survivable in dual‐species biofilms with Pseudomonas aeruginosa?21
Climate dictates microbial community composition and diversity in Australian biological soil crusts (biocrusts)21
Elevated O3 concentrations alter the compartment‐specific microbial communities inhabiting rust‐infected poplars21
Microbiome Stability Is Linked to Acropora Coral Thermotolerance in Northwestern Philippines21
The quorum‐sensing systems of Vibrio campbelliiDS40M4 and BB120 are genetically and functionally distinct21
Countrywide inter‐epidemic region migration pattern suggests the role of southwestern population in wheat stripe rust epidemics in China21
A perspective on insect–microbe holobionts facing thermal fluctuations in a climate‐change context21
Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports 2023 and onwards21
Microscale imaging sheds light on species‐specific strategies for photo‐regulation and photo‐acclimation of microphytobenthic diatoms20
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Oxic–anoxic cycling promotes coupling between complex carbon metabolism and denitrification in woodchip bioreactors20
Inhibition of nitrous oxide reduction in forest soil microcosms by different forms of methanobactin20
Microbial biofilms: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology20
From ubiquity to specificity: The diverse functions of bacterial thioredoxin systems20
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Genetic Diversity and Anatoxin Profiles of Freshwater Benthic Cyanobacteria From Nova Scotia (Canada)19
High salinity gradients and intermediate spatial scales shaped similar biogeographical and co‐occurrence patterns of microeukaryotes in a tropical freshwater‐saltwater ecosystem19
Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa19
Genetic Analysis of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Biosynthesis Pathway Determines Four Distinct Thraustochytrid Types19
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Microbial Community of a Sandy Beach Subterranean Estuary is Spatially Heterogeneous and Impacted by Winter Waves19
Selective Pressure Influences Inter‐Biome Dispersal in the Assembly of Saline Microbial Communities19
The two Pseudomonas aeruginosa DksA stringent response proteins are largely interchangeable at the whole transcriptome level and in the control of virulence‐related traits18
Isolation and characterization of a phage collection against Pseudomonas putida18
The tetrameric assembly of 2‐aminomuconic 6‐semialdehyde dehydrogenase is a functional requirement of cofactor NAD+ binding18
Differential apicomplexan presence predicts thermal stress mortality in the Mediterranean coral Paramuricea clavata18
Bacterial inoculation ofQuercus pyrenaicatrees alters co‐occurrence patterns but not the composition of the rhizosphere bacteriome in wild conditions18
Warm temperature inhibits cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by endosymbiotic Rickettsiella in spider hosts18
Azole‐resistant Aspergillus fumigatus is highly prevalent in the environment of Vietnam, with marked variability by land use type18
Denitrification fractionates N and O isotopes of nitrate following a ratio independent of carbon sources in freshwaters18
The cAMP‐PKA signalling pathway regulates hyphal growth, conidiation, trap morphogenesis, stress tolerance, and autophagy in Arthrobotrys oligospora18
Production and utilization of pseudocobalamin in marine Synechococcus cultures and communities18
Kinetic modulation of bacterial hydrolases by microbial community structure in coastal waters18
Uniform selective pressures within redox zones drive gradual changes in microbial community composition in hadal sediments18
Toward a molecular understanding of fluoride stress in a model Pseudomonas strain18
The current situation and potential effects of climate change on the microbial load of marine bivalves of the Greek coastlines: an integrative review18
Multi‐omics analysis of antagonistic interactions among free‐living Pseudonocardia from diverse ecosystems18
Hierarchical phylogenetic community assembly of soil protists in a temperate agricultural field18
Microbial metabolism and adaptations in Atribacteria‐dominated methane hydrate sediments18
Stability of a dominant sponge‐symbiont in spite of antibiotic‐induced microbiome disturbance17
Investigating the inoculum dynamics of Cladosporium on the surface of raspberry fruits and in the air17
Rehabilitation of the ‘bad guys’ for biocontrol applications17
Distinct strategies of the habitat generalists and specialists in sediment of Tibetan lakes17
Golgi‐localized calcium/manganese transporters FgGdt1 and FgPmr1 regulate fungal development and virulence by maintaining Ca2+ and Mn2+ homeostasis in Fu17
Bacteriophages vehiculate a high amount of antibiotic resistance determinants of bacterial origin in the Orne River ecosystem17
Interactions between Bdellovibrio and like organisms and bacteria in biofilms: beyond predator–prey dynamics17
Water deficit affects inter‐kingdom microbial connections in plant rhizosphere17
Metagenomic evidence of a novel family of anammox bacteria in a subsea environment17
Towards risk assessment for antibiotic resistant pathogens in recycled water: a systematic review and summary of research needs17
Employing a triple metabarcoding approach to differentiate active, dormant and dead microeukaryotes in sediments17
Adaptation ofListeria monocytogenesto perturbation ofc‐di‐AMPmetabolism underpins its role in osmoadaptation and identifies a fosfomycin uptake system17
Diversification of Bacillus subtilis during experimental evolution on Arabidopsis thaliana and the complementarity in root colonization of evolved subpop17
Cold Surface Waters of the Sub‐Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels16
Microecosystem of yak rumen on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau is stable and is unaffected by soil or grass microbiota16
Stimulated saprotrophic fungi in arable soil extend their activity to the rhizosphere and root microbiomes of crop seedlings16
Conditional filamentation as an adaptive trait of bacteria and its ecological significance in soils16
Identification of dominant taxa of sooty moulds and their impact on the leaf microbiome16
Subcellular architecture and metabolic connection in the planktonic photosymbiosis between Collodaria (radiolarians) and their microalgae16
Long‐term fertilization and tillage regimes have limited effects on structuring bacterial and denitrifier communities in a sandy loam UK soil16
Fluid dynamics and cell‐bound Psl polysaccharide allows microplastic capture, aggregation and subsequent sedimentation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in water16
Isolation and characterization of a novel methanogen Methanosarcina hadiensis sp. nov. from subsurface Boom Clay pore water16
Web Alert: Microbes and plastics: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology16
Airborne and indigenous microbiomes co‐drive the rebound of antibiotic resistome during compost storage16
Continuous Rice Cultivation Increases Celery Yield by Enhancing Plant Beneficial Bacteria in Rice‐Celery Rotations16
Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals different adaptation mechanisms for degradation of very long‐chain and normal long‐chain alkanes in Dietzia sp. DQ12‐45‐1b16
Biosolids for safe land application: does wastewater treatment plant size matters when considering antibiotics, pollutants, microbiome, mobile genetic elements and associated resistance genes?16
Experimental evolution of Pseudomonas putida under silver ion versus nanoparticle stress16
Cryptic genetic structure and copy‐number variation in the ubiquitous forest symbiotic fungus Cenococcum geophilum16
Summer thaw duration is a strong predictor of the soil microbiome and its response to permafrost thaw in arctic tundra16
Marine microbes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology16
Diverse viruses of marine archaea discovered using metagenomics16
The bianchetto truffle (Tuber borchii) a lead‐resistant ectomycorrhizal fungus increases Quercus cerris phytoremediation potential16
The 2‐methylpropene degradation pathway in Mycobacteriaceae family strains16
New Strains of the Deep Branching Streptophyte Streptofilum: Phylogenetic Position, Cell Biological and Ecophysiological Traits, and Description of Streptofilum arcticumsp. nov16
Functional analysis of the apple fruit microbiome based on shotgun metagenomic sequencing of conventional and organic orchard samples16
Microplastic ingestion affects hydrogen production and microbiomes in the gut of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber16
The Influence of Symbiont Identity on the Proteomic and Metabolomic Responses of the Model Cnidarian Aiptasia to Thermal Stress16
Gene expression in the microbial consortia of colonial Microcystis aeruginosa‐a potential buoyant particulate biofilm15
Ability of phages to infect Acinetobacter calcoaceticus‐Acinetobacter baumannii complex species through acquisition of different pectate lyase depolymerase domains15
Following the flow—Microbial ecology in surface‐ and groundwaters in the glacial forefield of a rapidly retreating glacier in Iceland15
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Structural and functional microbial diversity in deadwood respond to decomposition dynamics15
Prevalence of genetically similar Flavobacterium columnare phages across aquaculture environments reveals a strong potential for pathogen control15
Disentangle genus microdiversity within a complex microbial community by using a multi‐distance long‐read binning method: example of Candidatus Accumulibacter15
Bacteria associated with wood tissues of Esca‐diseased grapevines: functional diversity and synergy with Fomitiporia mediterranea to degrade wood components15
Identification of putative coral pathogens in endangered Caribbean staghorn coral using machine learning15
Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands15
Gene Expression by a Model Fungus in the Ascomycota Provides Insight Into the Decay of Fungal Necromass15
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Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species15
Polar flagellar wrapping and lateral flagella jointly contribute to Shewanella putrefaciens environmental spreading15
The exometabolome of microbial communities inhabiting bare ice surfaces on the southern Greenland Ice Sheet15
The Bacillus phage SPβ and its relatives: a temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species, prophage integration loci, conserved proteins and lysogeny management component15
Short‐term plastisphere colonization dynamics across six plastic types15
Proteomic responses of the coccolithophore Emiliania huxleyi to zinc limitation and trace metal substitution15
Evolution under low antibiotic concentrations: a risk for the selection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa multidrug‐resistant mutants in nature15
Adaptive Responses of Cyanobacteria to Phosphate Limitation: A Focus on Marine Diazotrophs15
Plant salt tolerance: ACC deaminase‐producing endophytes change plant proteomic profiles15
Antarctic Geothermal Soils Exhibit an Absence of Regional Habitat Generalist Microorganisms15
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Complex and flexible catabolism in Aromatoleum aromaticumpCyN115
Growth of nitrite‐oxidizing Nitrospira and ammonia‐oxidizing Nitrosomonas in marine recirculating trickling biofilter reactors15
Bacteriophage–Bacteria Interactions Promote Ecological Multifunctionality in Compost‐Applied Soils15
Unravelling the genomic and environmental diversity of the ubiquitous Solirubrobacter15
Diversity of dimethylsulfide‐degrading methanogens and sulfate‐reducing bacteria in anoxic sediments along the Medway Estuary, UK15
Physiology and genetics of ethanologenesis in the acetogenic bacterium Acetobacterium woodii15
Histone deacetylase SirE regulates development, DNA damage response and aflatoxin production in Aspergillus flavus14
Photoelectron‐promoted metabolism of sulphate‐reducing microorganisms in substrate‐depleted environments14
Correction to “Azospirillum baldaniorum Sp245 exploits Pseudomonas fluorescensA506 biofilm to overgrow in dual‐species macrocolonies”14
Individual Microcystis colonies harbour distinct bacterial communities that differ by Microcystis oligotype and with time14
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