Environmental Microbiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Microbiology is 4. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Specificity and genetic polymorphism in the Vfm quorum sensing system of plant pathogenic bacteria of the genus Dickeya118
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION 89
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro75
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch68
The carnitine degradation pathway of Acinetobacter baumannii and its role in virulence67
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutant62
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics60
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant59
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance58
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk55
One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii 53
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation50
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest48
Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea47
Long‐Term Impact of the Largest Environmental Disaster in Latin America (Fundão Dam Failure) on Microbial Communities in Lakes of the Doce River Basin, Brazil47
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Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L . cidri45
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Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus45
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome44
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria43
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA + disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance43
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?43
Fossilisation of Fish Soft Tissue in Oxidative Microniches of Anoxic Sediments42
Sulfidic acetate mineralization at 45°C by an aquifer microbial community: key players and effects of heat changes on activity and community structure42
Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient41
Composition, Growth, Succession, and Function in the Cladophora Microbiome: Insights From Quantita41
Biodegradation of pollutants by exoelectrogenic bacteria is not always performed extracellularly39
Carbon substrate re‐orders relative growth of a bacterium using Mo‐, V‐, or Fe‐nitrogenase for nitrogen fixation38
Effects of chaotropic salts on global proteome stability in halophilic archaea: Implications for life signatures on Mars38
Drivers of fungal diversity and community biogeography differ between green roofs and adjacent ground‐level green space36
The Bacterial Genus Ramlibacter : Betaproteobacteria Capable of Surviving in Oligotrophic Environments Thanks to Several Shared Genetic Adaptation Traits35
The acetoin assimilation pathway of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is regulated b35
Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA35
Coupled C, H, N, S and Fe biogeochemical cycles operating in the continental deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt35
Volatile Organic Compounds of Diverse Origins and Their Changes Associated With Cultivar Decay in a Fungus‐Farming Termite35
A meta‐analysis study of the robustness and universality of gut microbiota–shrimp diseases relationship34
Oak Wilt Disease May Reduce the Initial Decay Rate of Dead Quercus serrata Stems by Altering Funga33
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Toward an accurate mechanistic understanding of Wolbachia‐ induced cytoplasmic incompatibility31
Response of the plant core microbiome to Fusarium oxysporum infection and identification of the pa31
Effects of Fire Intensity on Soil Microbial Ecology in a Grassland Ecosystem31
High diversity of pathogenic Escherichia coli clones carrying mcr‐1 among gulls underlines the need for st31
Prophages carrying Zot toxins on different Vibrio genomes: A comprehensive assessment using multilayer31
CARD‐FISH and prey tracer techniques reveal the role of overlooked flagellate groups as major bacterivores in freshwater hypertrophic shallow lakes30
Life strategies and metabolic interactions of core microbes during thiosulphate‐based denitrification30
Anaerobic methanotrophy is stimulated by graphene oxide in a brackish urban canal sediment30
Fine‐scale mapping of physicochemical and microbial landscapes of the coral skeleton29
Wolbachia in scale insects: a distinct pattern of infection frequencies and potential transfer routes via ant associates29
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Biogeography of culturable marine bacteria from both poles reveals that ‘everything is not everywhere’ at the genomic level29
Discovery of the non‐cosmopolitan lineages in Candidatus Thermoprofundales29
Physiological stage drives fungal community dynamics and diversity in Leptospermum scoparium (mānu29
New Insight Into the Mechanism of Nitrite Enhancement on Heterotrophic Nitrification and Aerobic Denitrification Bacterium in Gene Expression28
Environmental vibrio phage–bacteria interaction networks reflect the genetic structure of host populations28
Low phosphate mitigates cadmium‐induced oxidative stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by enhancing endogenous antioxidant defence system28
Coral holobiont research needs spatial analyses at the microbial scale28
Seasonal shifts in Fe‐acquisition strategies in Southern Ocean microbial communities revealed by metagenomics and autonomous sampling28
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and microbial evolution27
Unexpected role of electron‐transfer hub in direct degradation of pollutants by exoelectrogenic bacteria27
Diversity and ecology of Radiolaria in modern oceans27
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Phytoplankton exudates provide full nutrition to a subset of accompanying heterotrophic bacteria via carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus allocation26
The fitness benefit of pyoverdine cross‐feeding by Pseudomonas protegens Pf‐5 26
Distribution, causal agents, and infection dynamic of emerging ink disease of sweet chestnut in Southern Switzerland26
Long‐range alteration of the physical environment mediates cooperation between Pseudomonas aeruginosa 26
Time after time: detecting annual patterns in stream bacterial biofilm communities26
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Enteroviruses in Water: Epidemiology, Detection and Inactivation26
Correction to “Preventing multiresistance: New insights for managing fungal adaptation”25
Optimal Cell Length for Exploration and Exploitation in Chemotactic Planktonic Bacteria25
Diversity of novel archaeal viruses infecting methanogens discovered through coupling of stable isotope probing and metagenomics25
A w Mel Wolbachia variant in Aedes aegypti from field‐colle25
Nitrogen fertilization differentially affects the symbiotic capacity of two co‐occurring ectomycorrhizal species24
Core rhizosphere microbiome of Panax notoginseng and its associations with belowground biomass and saponin contents24
Environmental exposure more than plastic composition shapes marine microplastic‐associated bacterial communities in Pacific versus 24
The filamentous γ ‐prefoldin chaperone is not essential for growth and thermal adaptation in Methanocaldococcus jannaschii24
Ferroptosis induced by the biocontrol agent Pythium oligandrum enhances soybean resistance to Phytophthora sojae24
Unravelling Biodiversity, Assembly Mechanisms and Coexistence Patterns of Abundant and Rare Microeukaryotes in Water and Sediment: New Insights From Volcanic Lakes in Arxan Geopark24
Novel oil‐associated bacteria in Arctic seawater exposed to different nutrient biostimulation regimes24
Seasonal variation significantly influenced the stochasticity of community assembly of amphibian symbiotic bacteria24
How Useful Are Plant Traits in Explaining Variation in Phyllosphere Microbial Abundance and Composition Across Hosts?24
Substrate Effect on the Contribution of Ammonium and Urea to Marine Nitrification and Nitrous Oxide Production23
Revealing human impact on natural ecosystems through soil bacterial DNA sampled from an archaeological site23
How good are global DNA ‐based environmental surveys for detecting all protist diversity? Arcellinida as an example of biased representation23
Highly Dynamic Archaeal and Bacterial Communities From the Surface to the Deep in the Atlantic Ocean23
Metabolic Segregation and Functional Gene Clusters in Anaerobic Digestion Consortia23
Cyanophage Infections in a Sponge Intracellular Cyanobacterial Symbiont22
Widespread formation of intracellular calcium carbonates by the bloom‐forming cyanobacterium Microcystis 22
Countrywide inter‐epidemic region migration pattern suggests the role of southwestern population in wheat stripe rust epidemics in China22
MoOpy2 is essential for fungal development, pathogenicity, and autophagy in Magnaporthe oryzae22
Relationships between fluid mixing, biodiversity, and chemosynthetic primary productivity in Yellowstone hot springs22
A novel soluble di‐iron monooxygenase from the soil bacterium Solimonas soli 22
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Geography and environmental pressure are predictive of class‐specific radioresistance in black fungi22
Influence of Seasonal Succession on Microbiological and Physiochemical Composition in Shallow Estuarine Sediments22
Long‐term unsustainable patterns of development rather than recent deforestation caused the emergence of Orthocoronavirinae species21
Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports21
Inhibition of nitrous oxide reduction in forest soil microcosms by different forms of methanobactin20
The pH signalling transcription factor PacC modulate growth, development, stress response and path20
Membrane lipid renovation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ‐ implications for phage therapy?20
Oxic–anoxic cycling promotes coupling between complex carbon metabolism and denitrification in woodchip bioreactors20
Genome‐Scale Model of Rhizopus microsporus : Metabolic integration of a fungal holobiont with its bacterial and viral endosymbionts20
Herbicides Have Minimal and Variable Effects on the Structure and Function of Bacterial Communities in Agricultural Soils20
Phylogenomics, epigenomics, virulome and mobilome of Gram‐negative bacteria co‐resistant to carbapenems and polymyxins: a One Health systematic revie20
The brown root rot fungus Phellinus noxius affects microbial communities in different root‐associated niches of Ficus 19
Genome and proteome analyses show the gaseous alkane degrader Desulfosarcina sp. strain BuS5 as an ext19
Elevated O 3 concentrations alter the compartment‐specific microbial com19
Climate dictates microbial community composition and diversity in Australian biological soil crusts (biocrusts)19
Correction to “Five structural genes required for ceramide synthesis in Caulobacter and for bacter19
Biodegradation in wastewater treatment plants: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology19
Linear scaling between microbial predator and prey densities in the global ocean19
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Resource availability drives bacteria community resistance to pathogen invasion via altering bacterial pairwise interactions19
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Water Quality and Land Use Shape Bacterial Communities Across 621 Canadian Lakes19
Microbiome Stability Is Linked to Acropora Coral Thermotolerance in Northwestern Philippines19
Biogeographical patterns of abundant and rare bacterial biospheres in paddy soils across East Asia19
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Microscale imaging sheds light on species‐specific strategies for photo‐regulation and photo‐acclimation of microphytobenthic diatoms18
Does diet breadth affect the complexity of the phytophagous insect microbiota? The case study of Chrysomelidae18
Respiratory protein interactions in Dehalobacter sp. strain 8M 18
Exploring the Exclusive Isolation of Pseudomonas syringae in Peltigera 18
Uniform selective pressures within redox zones drive gradual changes in microbial community composition in hadal sediments18
From ubiquity to specificity: The diverse functions of bacterial thioredoxin systems18
Methylated cycloalkanes fuel a novel genus in the Porticoccaceae family (Ca. Reddybacter gen. nov)18
CotG controls spore surface formation in response to the temperature of growth in Bacillus subtilis18
An ArsRC fusion protein enhances arsenate sensing and detoxification18
Novel virulent and temperate cyanophages predicted to infect Microcoleus associated with anatoxin‐producing benthic mats18
Microbial Community of a Sandy Beach Subterranean Estuary is Spatially Heterogeneous and Impacted by Winter Waves18
Clarifying Terminology in Microbial Ecology: A Call for Precision in Scientific Communication18
Sarracenia pitcher plant‐associated microbial communities differ primarily by host species across a longitudinal gradient18
Novel broad‐spectrum bacteriophages against Xanthomonas oryzae and their biocontrol potential in rice bacterial diseases18
Experimental evidence that lignin‐modifying enzymes are essential for degrading plant cell wall lignin by Pleurotus ostreatus using <18
Bacterial inoculation of Quercus pyrenaica trees alters co‐occurrence patterns but not the composition of the rhizosphere bacteriome in wild conditions18
Selective Pressure Influences Inter‐Biome Dispersal in the Assembly of Saline Microbial Communities18
Rehabilitation of the ‘bad guys’ for biocontrol applications17
Isolation and characterization of a phage collection against Pseudomonas putida 17
Bacteriophages vehiculate a high amount of antibiotic resistance determinants of bacterial origin in the Orne River ecosystem17
Genetic Analysis of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Biosynthesis Pathway Determines Four Distinct Thraustochytrid Types17
Metagenomic evidence of a novel family of anammox bacteria in a subsea environment17
Differential apicomplexan presence predicts thermal stress mortality in the Mediterranean coral Paramuricea clavata17
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Adaptation of Listeria monocytogenes to perturbation of c‐di‐AMP metabolism underpins its role in osmo17
Denitrification fractionates N and O isotopes of nitrate following a ratio independent of carbon sources in freshwaters17
Multi‐omics analysis of antagonistic interactions among free‐living Pseudonocardia from diverse ecosystems17
High salinity gradients and intermediate spatial scales shaped similar biogeographical and co‐occurrence patterns of microeukaryotes in a tropical freshwater‐saltwater ecosystem17
Interactions between Bdellovibrio and like organisms and bacteria in biofilms: beyond predator–prey dynamics17
Investigating the inoculum dynamics of Cladosporium on the surface of raspberry fruits and in the air17
Employing a triple metabarcoding approach to differentiate active, dormant and dead microeukaryotes in sediments17
Diverse viruses of marine archaea discovered using metagenomics17
Toward a molecular understanding of fluoride stress in a model Pseudomonas strain16
Kinetic modulation of bacterial hydrolases by microbial community structure in coastal waters16
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Stability of a dominant sponge‐symbiont in spite of antibiotic‐induced microbiome disturbance16
Production and utilization of pseudocobalamin in marine Synechococcus cultures and communities16
Marine microbes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology16
Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa16
Genetic Diversity and Anatoxin Profiles of Freshwater Benthic Cyanobacteria From Nova Scotia (Canada)16
The cAMP‐PKA signalling pathway regulates hyphal growth, conidiation, trap morphogenesis, stress tolerance, and autophagy in A16
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Microbial biofilms: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology16
Golgi‐localized calcium/manganese transporters FgGdt1 and FgPmr1 regulate fungal development and v16
Identification of dominant taxa of sooty moulds and their impact on the leaf microbiome16
Water deficit affects inter‐kingdom microbial connections in plant rhizosphere16
Distinct strategies of the habitat generalists and specialists in sediment of Tibetan lakes16
Hierarchical phylogenetic community assembly of soil protists in a temperate agricultural field16
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Warm temperature inhibits cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by endosymbiotic Rickettsiella in spider hosts16
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Bacterial Dynamics in Newly Settled Acropora kenti : Insights From Inoculations With Individual Probiotic Candidates16
The 2‐methylpropene degradation pathway in Mycobacteriaceae family strains16
Biosolids for safe land application: does wastewater treatment plant size matters when considering antibiotics, pollutants, microbiome, mobile genetic elements and associated resistance genes?16
The tetrameric assembly of 2‐aminomuconic 6‐semialdehyde dehydrogenase is a functional requirement of cofactor NAD + b16
Following the flow—Microbial ecology in surface‐ and groundwaters in the glacial forefield of a rapidly retreating glacier in Iceland15
Isolation and characterization of a novel methanogen Methanosarcina hadiensis sp. nov. from subsurface Boom Clay pore water15
Conditional filamentation as an adaptive trait of bacteria and its ecological significance in soils15
Long‐term fertilization and tillage regimes have limited effects on structuring bacterial and denitrifier communities in a sandy loam UK soil15
Cold Surface Waters of the Sub‐Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels15
The bianchetto truffle ( Tuber borchii ) a lead‐resistant ectomycorrhizal fungus increases 15
Functional analysis of the apple fruit microbiome based on shotgun metagenomic sequencing of conventional and organic orchard samples15
Plant salt tolerance: ACC deaminase‐producing endophytes change plant proteomic profiles15
New Strains of the Deep Branching Streptophyte Streptofilum : Phylogenetic Position, Cell Biological and Ecophysiological Traits, and Description of 15
Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals different adaptation mechanisms for degradation of very long‐chain and normal long‐chain alkanes in Dietzia sp15
Web Alert: Microbes and plastics: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology15
Tolerance to Herbicides and Resistance to Antibacterial Drugs of Bacterial Isolates From the Guarani Aquifer System (Brazil)15
Continuous Rice Cultivation Increases Celery Yield by Enhancing Plant Beneficial Bacteria in Rice‐Celery Rotations15
Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species15
Prevalence of genetically similar Flavobacterium columnare phages across aquaculture environments reveals a strong potential for pathogen control15
Experimental evolution of Pseudomonas putida under silver ion versus nanoparticle stress15
Summer thaw duration is a strong predictor of the soil microbiome and its response to permafrost thaw in arctic tundra15
Microplastic ingestion affects hydrogen production and microbiomes in the gut of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber 15
Microecosystem of yak rumen on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau is stable and is unaffected by soil or grass microbiota15
Fluid dynamics and cell‐bound Psl polysaccharide allows microplastic capture, aggregation and subsequent sedimentation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in water15
The Influence of Symbiont Identity on the Proteomic and Metabolomic Responses of the Model Cnidarian Aiptasia to Thermal Stress15
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Adaptive Responses of Cyanobacteria to Phosphate Limitation: A Focus on Marine Diazotrophs14
Wolbachia Feminises a Spider Host With Assistance From Co‐Infecting Symbionts14
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Structural and functional microbial diversity in deadwood respond to decomposition dynamics14
Can we manage microbial systems to enhance carbon storage?14
Unravelling the genomic and environmental diversity of the ubiquitous Solirubrobacter14
Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands14
Gene expression in the microbial consortia of colonial Microcystis aeruginosa ‐a potential buoyant particulate biofilm14
The Bacillus phage SPβ and its relatives: a temperate phage model system reveals new strains, species,14
Identification of putative coral pathogens in endangered Caribbean staghorn coral using machine learning14
Polar flagellar wrapping and lateral flagella jointly contribute to Shewanella putrefaciens environmental spreading14
Antarctic Geothermal Soils Exhibit an Absence of Regional Habitat Generalist Microorganisms14
Antidepressants: A new front in the war against antibiotics resistance14
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Gene Expression by a Model Fungus in the Ascomycota Provides Insight Into the Decay of Fungal Necromass14
Drivers of Marine Phytoplankton Diversity and Connectivity in the Galápagos Archipelago Spanning an ENSO Cycle14
Disentangle genus microdiversity within a complex microbial community by using a multi‐distance long‐read binning method: example of Candidatus Accumulib14
The exometabolome of microbial communities inhabiting bare ice surfaces on the southern Greenland Ice Sheet14
Metatranscriptomes reveal the diverse responses of Thaumarchaeota ecotypes to environmental variat14
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Microplastics reduce soil microbial network complexity and ecological deterministic selection13
Regulation of environmental stress responses: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology13
Photoelectron‐promoted metabolism of sulphate‐reducing microorganisms in substrate‐depleted environments13
Uptake of inorganic and organic phosphorus compounds by two marine sponges and their associated bacterial communities in aquaria13
Altering environmental conditions induce shifts in simulated deep terrestrial subsurface bacterial communities—Secretion of primary and secondary metabolites13
Complex and flexible catabolism in Aromatoleum aromaticumpCyN113
Bacteriophage–Bacteria Interactions Promote Ecological Multifunctionality in Compost‐Applied Soils13
Seasonal dynamics in microbial trace metals transporters during phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean13
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Microdiversity in marine pelagic ammonia‐oxidizing archaeal populations in a Mediterranean long‐read metagenome13
Geochemical factors impacting nitrifying communities in sandy sediments13
Histone deacetylase SirE regulates development, DNA damage response and aflatoxin production in Aspergillus flavus 13
Growth of nitrite‐oxidizing Nitrospira and ammonia‐oxidizing Nitrosomonas in marine recirculating tricklin13
Short‐term plastisphere colonization dynamics across six plastic types13
Correction to “Mixed‐mode bacterial transmission in the common brooding coral Pocillopora acuta13
Genome analysis and description of Tunturibacter gen. nov. expands the diversity of Terriglobia in tundra 13
Correction to “ Azospirillum baldaniorum Sp245 exploits Pseudomonas fluorescens A506 13
Genetic variation of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is linked to skin bacterial diversity in the Pacific treefrog Hyliola regilla<13
The pan‐genome of Splendidus clade species in the family Vibrionaceae : Insights into evolution, adaptation, and pathogenicity13
The secret life of plant‐beneficial rhizosphere bacteria: insects as alternative hosts13
Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field‐caught or laboratory‐reared mosquitoes12
Temporal variations of Microsporidia diversity and discovery of new host–parasite interactions in a lake ecosystem12
Some like it cold: the cellular organization and physiological limits of cold‐tolerant nitrite‐oxidizing Nitrotoga12
Metabolism of key atmospheric volatile organic compounds by the marine heterotrophic bacterium Pelagibacter HTCC1062 ( SAR1112
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Metaproteomics to understand how microbiota function: The crystal ball predicts a promising future12
High‐Temporal Resolution of Microbial Food Web Dynamics and Structure During Phytoplankton Blooms in the Baltic Sea12
Metabolic Insights Into Microbially Induced Calcite Formation by Bacillaceae for Application in Bio‐Based Construction Materials12
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Environmental paleomicrobiology: using DNA preserved in aquatic sediments to its full potential12
Illuminating the dark metabolome of Pseudo‐nitzschia –microbiome associations12
A polyethylene surrogate for microbial community enrichment and characterization12
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