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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Genomic differentiation of three pico‐phytoplankton species in the Mediterranean Sea81
Enhanced ability of freshwater bacteria to secrete extracellular vesicles upon interaction with virus77
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Long‐Term Impact of the Largest Environmental Disaster in Latin America (Fundão Dam Failure) on Microbial Communities in Lakes of the Doce River Basin, Brazil70
Single‐amplified genomes reveal most streamlined free‐living marine bacteria62
Intra‐genomic rRNA gene variability of Nassellaria and Spumellaria (Rhizaria, Radiolaria) assessed by Sanger, MinION 61
The carnitine degradation pathway of Acinetobacter baumannii and its role in virulence60
The toxicological spectrum of the Bacillus cereus toxin cereulide points towards niche‐specific specialisation55
Hydrologic History Regulates Microbial Biofilm Diversity and Ecosystem Function53
Integrons, transposons and IS elements promote diversification of multidrug resistance plasmids and adaptation of their hosts to antibiotic pollutant51
Genomic and Transcriptomic Insights Into the Autotrophic Metabolism on H 2 51
How does metal soil pollution change the plant mycobiome?50
Hunting for pigments in bacterial settlers of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch47
Beyond purified dietary fibre supplements: Compositional variation between cell wall fibre from different plants influences human faecal microbiota activity and growth in vitro46
One substrate, many fates: different ways of methanol utilization in the acetogen Acetobacterium woodii 46
Late Pleistocene‐dated divergence between South Hemisphere populations of the non‐conventional yeast L . cidri46
Validation of key sponge symbiont pathways using genome‐centric metatranscriptomics44
When the going gets tough, the tough get going—Novel bacterial AAA + disaggregases provide extreme heat resistance43
Assembly and comparative analyses of the Geosiphon pyriformis metagenome40
Microbe–sediment interactions in Great Lakes recreational waters: Implications for human health risk39
Microbial community origin and fate through a rural wastewater treatment plant38
A lipopolysaccharide‐dependent phage infects a pseudomonad phytopathogen and can evolve to evade phage resistance36
Prescribed fire selects for a pyrophilous soil sub‐community in a northern California mixed conifer forest36
Effects of chaotropic salts on global proteome stability in halophilic archaea: Implications for life signatures on Mars35
Edible Fungi Are a Hidden Source of Carbon Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide35
Virus ecology and 7‐year temporal dynamics across a permafrost thaw gradient35
Anaerobic methanotrophy is stimulated by graphene oxide in a brackish urban canal sediment34
Volatile Organic Compounds of Diverse Origins and Their Changes Associated With Cultivar Decay in a Fungus‐Farming Termite34
High diversity of pathogenic Escherichia coli clones carrying mcr‐1 among gulls underlines the need for st34
Prophages carrying Zot toxins on different Vibrio genomes: A comprehensive assessment using multilayer33
Discovery of the non‐cosmopolitan lineages in Candidatus Thermoprofundales33
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Composition, Growth, Succession, and Function in the Cladophora Microbiome: Insights From Quantita32
Effects of Fire Intensity on Soil Microbial Ecology in a Grassland Ecosystem32
Environmental vibrio phage–bacteria interaction networks reflect the genetic structure of host populations32
Physiological stage drives fungal community dynamics and diversity in Leptospermum scoparium (mānu31
The Bacterial Genus Ramlibacter : Betaproteobacteria Capable of Surviving in Oligotrophic Environments Thanks to Several Shared Genetic Adaptation Traits31
Oak Wilt Disease May Reduce the Initial Decay Rate of Dead Quercus serrata Stems by Altering Funga31
Fossilisation of Fish Soft Tissue in Oxidative Microniches of Anoxic Sediments30
New Insight Into the Mechanism of Nitrite Enhancement on Heterotrophic Nitrification and Aerobic Denitrification Bacterium in Gene Expression29
Fine‐scale mapping of physicochemical and microbial landscapes of the coral skeleton29
Drivers of fungal diversity and community biogeography differ between green roofs and adjacent ground‐level green space28
A meta‐analysis study of the robustness and universality of gut microbiota–shrimp diseases relationship27
Millimetre‐Scale Stratification of Microbial Communities in Hydrothermal Sediments27
Impact of salinity origin on microbial communities in saline springs within the Illinois Basin, USA27
Leached Nitrate Reduces the Abundance of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Deep Soil Layers up to 10 m27
Coupled C, H, N, S and Fe biogeochemical cycles operating in the continental deep subsurface of the Iberian Pyrite Belt26
Toward an accurate mechanistic understanding of Wolbachia‐ induced cytoplasmic incompatibility26
Resilient Communities: The Role of Biofilms in Salmonella enterica Ecology, Persistence and Pathog26
Response of the plant core microbiome to Fusarium oxysporum infection and identification of the pa25
Cyanophage Infections in a Sponge Intracellular Cyanobacterial Symbiont25
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The acetoin assimilation pathway of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 is regulated b25
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and microbial evolution25
Coral holobiont research needs spatial analyses at the microbial scale25
Life strategies and metabolic interactions of core microbes during thiosulphate‐based denitrification25
Diversity of novel archaeal viruses infecting methanogens discovered through coupling of stable isotope probing and metagenomics25
Widespread formation of intracellular calcium carbonates by the bloom‐forming cyanobacterium Microcystis 24
Highly Dynamic Archaeal and Bacterial Communities From the Surface to the Deep in the Atlantic Ocean24
Metabolic Segregation and Functional Gene Clusters in Anaerobic Digestion Consortia24
A novel soluble di‐iron monooxygenase from the soil bacterium Solimonas soli 24
Substrate Effect on the Contribution of Ammonium and Urea to Marine Nitrification and Nitrous Oxide Production23
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The filamentous γ ‐prefoldin chaperone is not essential for growth and thermal adaptation in Methanocaldococcus jannaschii23
Revealing human impact on natural ecosystems through soil bacterial DNA sampled from an archaeological site23
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Correction to “Preventing multiresistance: New insights for managing fungal adaptation”23
Unravelling Biodiversity, Assembly Mechanisms and Coexistence Patterns of Abundant and Rare Microeukaryotes in Water and Sediment: New Insights From Volcanic Lakes in Arxan Geopark23
Time after time: detecting annual patterns in stream bacterial biofilm communities23
The fitness benefit of pyoverdine cross‐feeding by Pseudomonas protegens Pf‐5 22
Optimal Cell Length for Exploration and Exploitation in Chemotactic Planktonic Bacteria22
Enteroviruses in Water: Epidemiology, Detection and Inactivation22
How Useful Are Plant Traits in Explaining Variation in Phyllosphere Microbial Abundance and Composition Across Hosts?22
Geography and environmental pressure are predictive of class‐specific radioresistance in black fungi21
Core rhizosphere microbiome of Panax notoginseng and its associations with belowground biomass and saponin contents21
Long‐range alteration of the physical environment mediates cooperation between Pseudomonas aeruginosa 21
Relationships between fluid mixing, biodiversity, and chemosynthetic primary productivity in Yellowstone hot springs21
How good are global DNA ‐based environmental surveys for detecting all protist diversity? Arcellinida as an example of biased representation21
Environmental exposure more than plastic composition shapes marine microplastic‐associated bacterial communities in Pacific versus 21
Novel oil‐associated bacteria in Arctic seawater exposed to different nutrient biostimulation regimes21
Seasonal shifts in Fe‐acquisition strategies in Southern Ocean microbial communities revealed by metagenomics and autonomous sampling21
Distribution, causal agents, and infection dynamic of emerging ink disease of sweet chestnut in Southern Switzerland21
Influence of Seasonal Succession on Microbiological and Physiochemical Composition in Shallow Estuarine Sediments21
Ferroptosis induced by the biocontrol agent Pythium oligandrum enhances soybean resistance to Phytophthora sojae21
Seasonal variation significantly influenced the stochasticity of community assembly of amphibian symbiotic bacteria21
Linear scaling between microbial predator and prey densities in the global ocean20
Environmental Microbiology and Environmental Microbiology Reports20
Correction to “Five structural genes required for ceramide synthesis in Caulobacter and for bacter20
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Biodegradation in wastewater treatment plants: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology20
Long‐term unsustainable patterns of development rather than recent deforestation caused the emergence of Orthocoronavirinae species20
Herbicides Have Minimal and Variable Effects on the Structure and Function of Bacterial Communities in Agricultural Soils20
Clarifying Terminology in Microbial Ecology: A Call for Precision in Scientific Communication20
Experimental evidence that lignin‐modifying enzymes are essential for degrading plant cell wall lignin by Pleurotus ostreatus using <19
Methylated cycloalkanes fuel a novel genus in the Porticoccaceae family (Ca. Reddybacter gen. nov)19
Water Quality and Land Use Shape Bacterial Communities Across 621 Canadian Lakes19
Inhibition of nitrous oxide reduction in forest soil microcosms by different forms of methanobactin19
Membrane lipid renovation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ‐ implications for phage therapy?19
Microscale imaging sheds light on species‐specific strategies for photo‐regulation and photo‐acclimation of microphytobenthic diatoms19
Elevated O 3 concentrations alter the compartment‐specific microbial com19
Novel virulent and temperate cyanophages predicted to infect Microcoleus associated with anatoxin‐producing benthic mats19
An Explicit Test of Kill the Winner: Protistan Grazing and Phage Lysis Differentially Impact Fast‐Growing Bacterial Taxa in the Coastal Antarctic19
Exploring the Exclusive Isolation of Pseudomonas syringae in Peltigera 19
Integrated Analysis of Midgut Transcriptome and Microbiome Reveals That Manganese‐Induced Dysbiosis Drives Metabolic Disruption and Developmental Toxicity in 19
Resource availability drives bacteria community resistance to pathogen invasion via altering bacterial pairwise interactions19
Oxic–anoxic cycling promotes coupling between complex carbon metabolism and denitrification in woodchip bioreactors19
The cAMP‐PKA signalling pathway regulates hyphal growth, conidiation, trap morphogenesis, stress tolerance, and autophagy in A18
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Biogeographical patterns of abundant and rare bacterial biospheres in paddy soils across East Asia18
Microbiome Stability Is Linked to Acropora Coral Thermotolerance in Northwestern Philippines18
Novel broad‐spectrum bacteriophages against Xanthomonas oryzae and their biocontrol potential in rice bacterial diseases18
Microbial Community of a Sandy Beach Subterranean Estuary is Spatially Heterogeneous and Impacted by Winter Waves18
Bacterial inoculation of Quercus pyrenaica trees alters co‐occurrence patterns but not the composition of the rhizosphere bacteriome in wild conditions18
Respiratory protein interactions in Dehalobacter sp. strain 8M 18
From ubiquity to specificity: The diverse functions of bacterial thioredoxin systems18
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High‐Resolution Community Profiling of Active Bacteria and Eukaryotes in Replant‐Diseased Blueberry Farm Soils From New Jersey, USA18
Kinetic modulation of bacterial hydrolases by microbial community structure in coastal waters18
Toward a molecular understanding of fluoride stress in a model Pseudomonas strain18
Iron Sulfides Produced by Thermococcales: An Iron Detoxification Mechanism18
Initially Coexisting Endosymbionts Migrate Into Different Tissues During Ontogeny of Host Cicadas18
Countrywide inter‐epidemic region migration pattern suggests the role of southwestern population in wheat stripe rust epidemics in China18
Climate dictates microbial community composition and diversity in Australian biological soil crusts (biocrusts)18
Genome‐Scale Model of Rhizopus microsporus : Metabolic integration of a fungal holobiont with its bacterial and viral endosymbionts18
Adaptation of Listeria monocytogenes to perturbation of c‐di‐AMP metabolism underpins its role in osmo17
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Production and utilization of pseudocobalamin in marine Synechococcus cultures and communities17
Rehabilitation of the ‘bad guys’ for biocontrol applications17
Uniform selective pressures within redox zones drive gradual changes in microbial community composition in hadal sediments17
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Microbial biofilms: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology17
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Hierarchical phylogenetic community assembly of soil protists in a temperate agricultural field17
Genetic Diversity and Anatoxin Profiles of Freshwater Benthic Cyanobacteria From Nova Scotia (Canada)16
Selective Pressure Influences Inter‐Biome Dispersal in the Assembly of Saline Microbial Communities16
Water deficit affects inter‐kingdom microbial connections in plant rhizosphere16
Employing a triple metabarcoding approach to differentiate active, dormant and dead microeukaryotes in sediments16
Genetic Analysis of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Biosynthesis Pathway Determines Four Distinct Thraustochytrid Types16
Multi‐omics analysis of antagonistic interactions among free‐living Pseudonocardia from diverse ecosystems16
Differential apicomplexan presence predicts thermal stress mortality in the Mediterranean coral Paramuricea clavata16
Golgi‐localized calcium/manganese transporters FgGdt1 and FgPmr1 regulate fungal development and v16
Bacterial Dynamics in Newly Settled Acropora kenti : Insights From Inoculations With Individual Probiotic Candidates16
Denitrification fractionates N and O isotopes of nitrate following a ratio independent of carbon sources in freshwaters16
Stability of a dominant sponge‐symbiont in spite of antibiotic‐induced microbiome disturbance16
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Isolation and characterization of a phage collection against Pseudomonas putida 16
Bacteriophages vehiculate a high amount of antibiotic resistance determinants of bacterial origin in the Orne River ecosystem16
Distinct strategies of the habitat generalists and specialists in sediment of Tibetan lakes16
Diverse viruses of marine archaea discovered using metagenomics15
Coexistence Theory for Microbial Ecology, and Vice Versa15
Tolerance to Herbicides and Resistance to Antibacterial Drugs of Bacterial Isolates From the Guarani Aquifer System (Brazil)15
Following the flow—Microbial ecology in surface‐ and groundwaters in the glacial forefield of a rapidly retreating glacier in Iceland15
Correction to “How to Identify and Quantify the Members of the Bacillus Genus?”15
Marine microbes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology15
Web Alert: Microbes and plastics: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology15
Percent‐Level Copper Mineralisation Promoted by Copper‐Tolerant Iron‐Oxidising Bacteria in Circumneutral Mine Drainage15
Antibiotic Persister Cells in Acinetobacter baumannii : Overview of Molecular Mechanisms and Remov15
Warm temperature inhibits cytoplasmic incompatibility induced by endosymbiotic Rickettsiella in spider hosts15
Investigating the inoculum dynamics of Cladosporium on the surface of raspberry fruits and in the air15
The bianchetto truffle ( Tuber borchii ) a lead‐resistant ectomycorrhizal fungus increases 15
Identification of dominant taxa of sooty moulds and their impact on the leaf microbiome15
Microecosystem of yak rumen on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau is stable and is unaffected by soil or grass microbiota14
The Influence of Symbiont Identity on the Proteomic and Metabolomic Responses of the Model Cnidarian Aiptasia to Thermal Stress14
Functional analysis of the apple fruit microbiome based on shotgun metagenomic sequencing of conventional and organic orchard samples14
Continuous Rice Cultivation Increases Celery Yield by Enhancing Plant Beneficial Bacteria in Rice‐Celery Rotations14
New Strains of the Deep Branching Streptophyte Streptofilum : Phylogenetic Position, Cell Biological and Ecophysiological Traits, and Description of 14
Microplastic ingestion affects hydrogen production and microbiomes in the gut of the terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber 14
Warming Seawater Temperature and Nutrient Depletion Alters Microbial Community Composition on a Foundational Canopy Kelp Species14
Distribution and Feeding of Hexatilemonas jangsaensis , a Novel Cosmopolitan Member of the Uncultured Marine Apusomonad Clade14
Cold Surface Waters of the Sub‐Antarctic Pacific Ocean Support High Cyanophage Abundances and Infection Levels14
Summer thaw duration is a strong predictor of the soil microbiome and its response to permafrost thaw in arctic tundra14
The 2‐methylpropene degradation pathway in Mycobacteriaceae family strains14
Drivers of Marine Phytoplankton Diversity and Connectivity in the Galápagos Archipelago Spanning an ENSO Cycle13
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Growth of nitrite‐oxidizing Nitrospira and ammonia‐oxidizing Nitrosomonas in marine recirculating tricklin13
Short‐term plastisphere colonization dynamics across six plastic types13
Gene expression in the microbial consortia of colonial Microcystis aeruginosa ‐a potential buoyant particulate biofilm13
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Unravelling the genomic and environmental diversity of the ubiquitous Solirubrobacter13
Polar flagellar wrapping and lateral flagella jointly contribute to Shewanella putrefaciens environmental spreading13
Antidepressants: A new front in the war against antibiotics resistance13
Microbial Metabolism and Disease Virulence Changes Across Day and Night in Coral Black Band Disease Lesions13
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Isolation and characterization of a novel methanogen Methanosarcina hadiensis sp. nov. from subsurface Boom Clay pore water13
Continental‐scale niche differentiation of dominant topsoil archaea in drylands13
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Metatranscriptomes reveal the diverse responses of Thaumarchaeota ecotypes to environmental variat13
Complex and flexible catabolism in Aromatoleum aromaticumpCyN113
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Genome analysis and description of Tunturibacter gen. nov. expands the diversity of Terriglobia in tundra 12
Correction to “Unveiling Unusual Ecofunctional Traits of Endozoicomonas Species Through Comprehensive Comparative Genomics”12
Bacteriophage–Bacteria Interactions Promote Ecological Multifunctionality in Compost‐Applied Soils12
Soil Functionality Undermined by Symbiotic Fungal Decline Following Forest Conversion12
Adaptive Responses of Cyanobacteria to Phosphate Limitation: A Focus on Marine Diazotrophs12
Uptake of inorganic and organic phosphorus compounds by two marine sponges and their associated bacterial communities in aquaria12
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Marine Bacterioplankton Composition Predicts Oxygen Consumption During Dissolved Organic Matter Degradation Experiments12
Regulation of environmental stress responses: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology12
Antarctic Geothermal Soils Exhibit an Absence of Regional Habitat Generalist Microorganisms12
Identification of putative coral pathogens in endangered Caribbean staghorn coral using machine learning12
Hydrazine Synthase From Anammox Is Inhibited by Linear and Aromatic Alkynes12
The pan‐genome of Splendidus clade species in the family Vibrionaceae : Insights into evolution, adaptation, and pathogenicity12
Histone deacetylase SirE regulates development, DNA damage response and aflatoxin production in Aspergillus flavus 12
High‐Temporal Resolution of Microbial Food Web Dynamics and Structure During Phytoplankton Blooms in the Baltic Sea12
Genomic and Ecological Flexibility Shape the Global Distribution of a Black Fungus12
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Wolbachia Feminises a Spider Host With Assistance From Co‐Infecting Symbionts12
Gene Expression by a Model Fungus in the Ascomycota Provides Insight Into the Decay of Fungal Necromass12
The exometabolome of microbial communities inhabiting bare ice surfaces on the southern Greenland Ice Sheet12
Can we manage microbial systems to enhance carbon storage?12
Structural and functional microbial diversity in deadwood respond to decomposition dynamics12
Dynamics and Eco‐Genomics of Baltic Sea Nitrifiers: Seasonality, Niches, Interactions and Genomic Uniqueness12
Photoelectron‐promoted metabolism of sulphate‐reducing microorganisms in substrate‐depleted environments12
Dissecting host‐microbiome interaction effects on phytoplankton microbiome composition and diversity11
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Illuminating the dark metabolome of Pseudo‐nitzschia –microbiome associations11
Correction to “Mixed‐mode bacterial transmission in the common brooding coral Pocillopora acuta11
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Identification and Global Distribution of a Core Microbiome From High‐Arctic Lakes11
Data‐driven identification of major axes of functional variation in bacteria11
Microbes and toxic aldehydes: An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in environmental microbiology11
Distribution of Surface‐Layer Prokaryotes in the Western Arctic Ocean: Responses to Pacific Water Inflow and Sea Ice Melting11
Is Everything Everywhere? Dispersal Limitation Impacts Methanotroph Community Functioning11
Bacterioplankton dispersal and biogeochemical function across Alaskan Arctic catchments11
Temporal variability in nutrient use among Streptomyces suggests dynamic niche partitioning11
Microdiversity in marine pelagic ammonia‐oxidizing archaeal populations in a Mediterranean long‐read metagenome11
Correction to “ Azospirillum baldaniorum Sp245 exploits Pseudomonas fluorescens A506 11
Ecophysiological analysis reveals distinct environmental preferences in closely related Baltic Sea picocyanobacteria11
Aedes aegypti gut transcriptomes respond differently to microbiome transplants from field‐caught or laboratory‐reared mosquitoes11
Seasonal dynamics in microbial trace metals transporters during phytoplankton blooms in the Southern Ocean11
Rapid Icm/Dot T4SS Inactivation Prevents Resuscitation of Heat‐Induced VBNC Legionella pneumoph11
Distribution of Iron Importers and Ecological Traits in Pseudomonas Species Highlights the Potenti11
Anaerobic Limonene Metabolism in a Methanogenic Enrichment Involves a Glycine Radical Enzyme11
Saliva for molecular detection of SARS‐CoV ‐2 in pre‐school and school‐age children11
Use of Microbial Biofilms to Assess Groundwater Quality in Karstic Ecosystems11
Altering environmental conditions induce shifts in simulated deep terrestrial subsurface bacterial communities—Secretion of primary and secondary metabolites11
Towards Functional Fertilisers: Feed Composition Shapes Microbial Community Structure and Viability in Black Soldier Fly ( Hermetia illucens 11
Geochemical factors impacting nitrifying communities in sandy sediments11
Metaproteomics to understand how microbiota function: The crystal ball predicts a promising future11
ZfpA ‐Dependent Quorum Sensing Shifts in Morphology and Secondary Metabolism in Aspergillus flavus11
Biocrust diazotrophs and bacteria rather than fungi are sensitive to chronic low N deposition10
Correction to ‘Illuminating the dark metabolome of Pseudo‐nitzschia –microbiome associations’10
Exopolysaccharides amylovoran and levan contribute to sliding motility in the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora 10
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