ISME Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of ISME Journal is 21. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments489
Understanding prokaryotic adaptation through advanced DNA methylation detection techniques179
Localized coevolution between microbial predator and prey alters community-wide gene expression and ecosystem function174
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities163
SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway136
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments130
Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions130
Correction to: Integrated overview of stramenopile ecology, taxonomy, and heterotrophic origin128
Warming mitigates root exudate-induced priming effects via changes to microbial biomass, community structure, and gene abundance123
Rice gs3 allele and low-nitrogen conditions enrich rhizosphere microbiota that mitigate methane emissions and promote beneficial crop traits119
Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves115
Increased genetic diversity loss and genetic differentiation in a model marine diatom adapted to ocean warming compared to high CO2114
Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil113
In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection106
Land use drives drug resistance in an airborne human fungal pathogen103
Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux101
Eco-evolutionary dynamics sustain a potent yet rare antibiotic gene cluster in Streptomyces94
Inositol phosphates as an overlooked phosphorous source in marine ecosystems88
Plant and soil biodiversity sustain root mycorrhizal fungal richness under drought stress88
Priority effects shape the structure of infant-type Bifidobacterium communities on human milk oligosaccharides86
Offensive role of the Bacillus extracellular matrix in driving metabolite-mediated dialog and adaptive strategies with the fungus 86
Distinct transcriptomic strategies underlie differential heat tolerance in Symbiodiniaceae symbionts83
Co-cultivation rescues suicidal Paenibacillus amylolyticus swarms82
Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes82
Hyphosphere microorganisms facilitate hyphal spreading and root colonization of plant symbiotic fungus in ammonium-enriched soil82
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism80
Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment80
Aminolipids in bacterial membranes and the natural environment79
Holocene and contemporary marine dinoflagellate community patterns predict expansion of generalist dinoflagellate blooms in warming oceans76
Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants76
Colonization history of snow algae on Hawai‘i island74
Drug delivery dynamics dictate evolution of bacterial antibiotic responses73
Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential73
Asgard ESCRT-III and VPS4 reveal conserved chromatin binding properties of the ESCRT machinery72
Cryptochrome PtCPF1 regulates high temperature acclimation of marine diatoms through coordination of iron and phosphorus uptake72
Rapid resistance evolution against phage cocktails71
Dynamics and activity of an ammonia-oxidizing archaea bloom in South San Francisco Bay70
Transportome remodeling of a symbiotic microalga inside a planktonic host70
Metabolic potential of Nitrososphaera-associated clades67
Divergent molecular strategies drive evolutionary adaptation to competitive fitness in biofilm formation66
Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment66
Symbiont diversity within Loripes orbiculatus and the case for multiple hosts66
Hot moment of N2O emissions in seasonally frozen peatlands66
Mutations in legume genes that influence symbiosis create a complex selective landscape for rhizobial symbionts65
Climate change-related warming reduces thermal sensitivity and modifies metabolic activity of coastal benthic bacterial communities65
Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana64
Gut microbiota contribute to variations in honey bee foraging intensity63
Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans63
Long-term metagenomic insights into the roles of antiviral defense systems in stabilizing activated sludge bacterial communities63
Dominance of phage particles carrying antibiotic resistance genes in the viromes of retail food sources62
Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities61
Replicated life-history patterns and subsurface origins of the bacterial sister phyla Nitrospirota and Nitrospinota61
Beneficial and detrimental fungi within the culturable mycobiome of the Red Sea coral Stylophora pistillata60
Phyllosphere symbiont promotes plant growth through ACC deaminase production60
Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont60
Mixed heavy metal stress induces global iron starvation response59
MicroRNA-mediated regulation of lipid metabolism in virus-infected Emiliania huxleyi59
Safeguarding microbial biodiversity: microbial conservation specialist group within the species survival commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature57
Land conversion to cropland homogenizes variation in soil biota, gene assemblages, and ecological strategies on local and regional scales56
Microbiome spatial scaling varies among members, hosts, and environments across model island ecosystems56
Celebrating 15 years of The ISME Journal56
Microbial cross-feeding stabilized by segregation of a dependent mutant from its independent ancestor55
Fast track to environmentally adapted rhizobia for growing soybean at northern latitudes using citizen science55
Bacteriophage-mediated lysis supports robust growth of amino acid auxotrophs54
Large-scale single-virus genomics uncovers hidden diversity of river water viruses and diversified gene profiles53
Ectomycorrhizal fungi recruit hyphae-associated bacteria that metabolize thiamine to promote pine symbiosis53
Metabolic labour division trade-offs in denitrifying microbiomes52
Expression of macromolecular organic nitrogen degrading enzymes identifies potential mediators of soil organic N availability to an annual grass52
Comprehensive profile of the companion animal gut microbiome integrating reference-based and reference-free methods51
Benzoic acid facilitates ANF in monocot crops by recruiting nitrogen-fixing Paraburkholderia50
Strain-level diversity of giant viruses infecting chlorarachniophyte algae in the subtropical North Pacific50
Plant microbiomes harbor potential to promote nutrient turnover in impoverished substrates of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot49
Growth promotion of milk-associated Candida zeylanoides by a cyclic lipopeptide produced by Pseudomonas49
Sulfur disproportionation occurs globally across anoxic habitats and has multiple mechanisms of independent evolutionary origin49
Ginsenoside Rg3 enriches SCFA-producing commensal bacteria to confer protection against enteric viral infection via the cGAS-STING-type I IFN axis48
Chlorine redox chemistry is widespread in microbiology48
Dietary protein source alters gut microbiota composition and function47
Strain phylogroup and environmental constraints shape Escherichia coli dynamics and diversity over a 20-year human gut time series47
Evolution of specialized toxin arsenals in a bacterial symbiont of arthropods47
Functional convergence in slow-growing microbial communities arises from thermodynamic constraints47
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe47
Bacterial transmission within social groups shapes the underexplored gut microbiome in the lemur Indri indri46
Extracellular aminopeptidase regulates exopolysaccharide production of Pseudomonas aeruginosa via quorum sensing46
Tailless and filamentous prophages are predominant in marine Vibrio46
Host species-specific gene expression by a widespread and flexible chemosynthetic symbiont46
Metabolite release by nitrifiers facilitates metabolic interactions in the ocean45
Swarming bacteria exhibit developmental phase transitions to establish scattered colonies in new regions45
Intracellular symbiont Symbiodolus is vertically transmitted and widespread across insect orders45
Adaptive survival strategies of rumen microbiota with solid diet deficiency in early life cause epithelial mitochondrial dysfunction44
Unexplored diversity and ecological functions of transposable phages44
Ammonia oxidation by aerobic methanotrophs as a source of marine nitrous oxide44
Availability of vitamin B12 and its lower ligand intermediate α-ribazole impact prokaryotic and protist communities in oceanic systems44
Diazotrophs are overlooked contributors to carbon and nitrogen export to the deep ocean44
α-cyanobacteria possessing form IA RuBisCO globally dominate aquatic habitats43
Long-term maintenance of a heterologous symbiont association in Acropora palmata on natural reefs42
Surface-layer protein is a public-good matrix exopolymer for microbial community organisation in environmental anammox biofilms42
Functional and structural diversification of incomplete phosphotransferase system in cellulose-degrading clostridia42
Targeting Catenibacterium mitsuokai with icariin modulates gut microbiota and improves hepatic lipid metabolism in intrauterine growth restriction41
Microbial community composition predicts bacterial production across ocean ecosystems41
Conversion of steppe to cropland increases spatial heterogeneity of soil functional genes41
Temperature, pH, and oxygen availability contributed to the functional differentiation of ancient Nitrososphaeria41
Latitudinal diversity in circadian and light-sensing genes in an ecologically vital group of marine picoeukaryote algae41
Temporal enrichment of comammox Nitrospira and Ca. Nitrosocosmicus in a coastal plastisphere41
Extreme summers impact cropland and grassland soil microbiomes41
Endofungal bacteria as hidden facilitators of biotic interactions40
Inter-kingdom interactions and stability of methanogens revealed by machine-learning guided multi-omics analysis of industrial-scale biogas plants40
Impact of diazotrophs on marine food webs and the biological carbon pump: progress and remaining challenges40
Urea-driven nitrification contributes to N2O production in the oligotrophic euphotic ocean39
Microbial drivers of DMSO reduction and DMS-dependent methanogenesis in saltmarsh sediments39
Specialized digestive mechanism for an insect-bacterium gut symbiosis39
Nutrient supplementation by genome-eroded Burkholderia symbionts of scale insects39
The atmosphere: a transport medium or an active microbial ecosystem?39
VapC10 toxin of the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti targets tRNASer and controls intracellular lifestyle39
Diversity and evolution of prokaryotic viral lytic proteins39
Intra-colony light gradients drive variation in coral symbiont morphology and carbon storage38
Bridging ecological assembly process and community stability upon bacterial invasions38
Rethinking CSR theory to incorporate microbial metabolic diversity and foraging traits38
The Constructive Black Queen hypothesis: new functions can evolve under conditions favouring gene loss37
CRISPR-Cas provides limited phage immunity to a prevalent gut bacterium in gnotobiotic mice37
Stepwise pathway for early evolutionary assembly of dissimilatory sulfite and sulfate reduction37
Metabolic interactions underlying phyllosphere microbiota assembly37
Proteomic evidence for aerobic methane production in groundwater by methylotrophic Methylotenera37
Functional division of labor in motility, lignocellulose digestion, and nitrogen metabolism revealed for the Mixotricha paradoxa holobiont37
Transglobal spread of an ecologically relevant sea urchin parasite37
Cell aggregation is associated with enzyme secretion strategies in marine polysaccharide-degrading bacteria36
Resilient Antarctic soil bacteria consume trace gases across wide temperature ranges36
Persistent auxiliary microbiome of early novel colonizers in the developing rumen with lasting functional significance36
Benzo[a]pyrene stress impacts adaptive strategies and ecological functions of earthworm intestinal viromes35
Spatio-temporal pattern formation of living organisms at the edge of chaos35
Soil microbial community response to corrinoids is shaped by a natural reservoir of vitamin B1235
Altered rhizosphere microbiome composition associated with B-subgenome cultivars of diploid and triploid banana plants35
Distribution of fitness effects of cross-species transformation reveals potential for fast adaptive evolution35
Enrichment of horizontally transferred gene clusters in bacterial extracellular vesicles via non lytic mechanisms35
Chemotaxis, growth, and inter-species interactions shape early bacterial community assembly35
High niche specificity and host genetic diversity of groundwater viruses34
Polyphenol rewiring of the microbiome reduces methane emissions33
Biofilms inactivate the free-living stage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the most destructive pathogen for vertebrate diversity33
Membrane perturbation by the last-resort antibiotic polymyxin B drives biphasic regulation of horizontal gene transfer33
Coevolution between marine Aeromonas and phages reveals temporal trade-off patterns of phage resistance and host population fitness33
Bioplastic biodegradability shapes microbial communities in a coastal brackish environment33
Cooperative microbial metabolism enhances tryptophan-mediated insecticide detoxification in the fall armyworm33
Biofilm lifestyle across different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea32
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia impedes Bacillus biocontrol of tomato wilt disease by degrading its lipopeptide antibiotics32
Sulfur cycling connects microbiomes and biogeochemistry in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes32
Microbial dispersal into surface soil is limited on a meter scale32
Proximity-based defensive mutualism between Streptomyces and Mesorhizobium by sharing and sequestering iron31
Targeting Fusobacterium nucleatum through chemical modifications of host-derived transfer RNA fragments31
DNA virus–host patterns in lake and marine environments over the last glacial cycle31
Sulfide stress tolerance as a controller of methane production in temperate wetlands31
High abundance of hydrocarbon-degrading Alcanivorax in plumes of hydrothermally active volcanoes in the South Pacific Ocean31
Dysbiotic gut fungi exacerbate Klebsiella pneumoniae lung infection via Dectin-1-mediated alveolar macrophage hyperactivation31
Global terrestrial distribution of N2O-reducing Acidobacteriota members31
Experimental evolution at ecological scales allows linking of viral genotypes to specific host strains31
Distinct lactate utilization strategies drive niche differentiation between two co-existing Megasphaera species in the rumen microbiome31
Pathogen-pathogen interactions during co-infections31
Foodborne antibiotics enrich human gut microbiota with pathogens producing extended-spectrum β-lactamases and carbapenemases31
Episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial population recovery from infection and promotes virus–bacterial coexistence30
Carbon metabolic versatility underpins Bathyarchaeia ecological significance across the global deep subsurface30
Magnetotactic bacteria affiliated with diverse Pseudomonadota families biomineralize intracellular Ca-carbonate30
Temperature alters interactions and keystone taxa in the marine microbiome30
Taeniasis impacts human gut microbiome composition and function30
Kinetic plasticity of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria containing cytoplasmic nitrite oxidoreductase30
Engineering plant holobionts for climate-resilient agriculture30
Genome diversification of symbiotic fungi in beetle-fungus mutualistic symbioses30
Hydrological regime of a continental river system predicts bacterial macroecological patterns29
Copper stress shapes the dynamic behavior of amoebae and their associated bacteria29
Correction to: Internal carbon recycling by heterotrophic prokaryotes compensates for mismatches between phytoplankton production and heterotrophic consumption29
Marine phytoplankton downregulate core photosynthesis and carbon storage genes upon rapid mixed layer shallowing29
Correction to: Horizontal transmission of heat-evolved microalgal symbionts in adult corals29
Predator-prey dynamics of Vibrio cholerae on chitin suggest an alternative mode of biofilm formation in marine snow conditions29
Host-specific viral predation network on coral reefs29
Correction to 29 articles due to inaccurate manuscript submission dates28
Community composition and physiological plasticity control microbial carbon storage across natural and experimental soil fertility gradients28
Trophic modulation of endophytes by rhizosphere protists28
Absolute abundance unveils Basidiobolus as a cross-domain bridge indirectly bolstering gut microbiome homeostasis28
Fungi shape genome evolution of bacteria even in the absence of major growth phenotypes28
Proteomes of native and non-native symbionts reveal responses underpinning host-symbiont specificity in the cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis28
Siderophores and competition for iron govern myxobacterial predation dynamics28
Antibiotic-degrading resistance changes bacterial community structure via species-specific responses28
Lysogenic bacteriophages encoding arsenic resistance determinants promote bacterial community adaptation to arsenic toxicity28
Phylosymbiosis shapes skin bacterial communities and pathogen-protective function in Appalachian salamanders28
Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions28
Manipulation of the Symbiodiniaceae microbiome confers multigenerational impacts on symbioses and reproductive ecology of its Exaiptasia diaphana host27
Microbial controls over soil priming effects under chronic nitrogen and phosphorus additions in subtropical forests27
Genomic insights into the phylogeny and biomass-degrading enzymes of rumen ciliates27
Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteriocin A37 kills natural competitors with a unique mechanism of action27
Seasonality of parasitic and saprotrophic zoosporic fungi: linking sequence data to ecological traits27
Rhizobacterial syntrophy between a helper and a beneficiary promotes tomato plant health27
Hydrocarbon metabolism and petroleum seepage as ecological and evolutionary drivers for Cycloclasticus26
Humic acid-dependent respiratory growth of Methanosarcina acetivorans involves pyrroloquinoline quinone26
Gut microbial production of lithocholic acid reprograms pro-resolutive macrophages to enhance vedolizumab responsiveness via the TGR5/FXR–NF-κB axis26
Elevated temperature simulating heatwaves restructures active nitrifying communities and associated viruses in tidal flats and agricultural soils26
Biochar suppresses conjugative transfer of antibiotic resistance genes in manure-amended soils26
Seed-mediated vertical transmission of Pantoea core endophytes26
Differential aggregation patterns of Endozoicomonas within tissues of the coral Acropora loripes26
Flavonoid-attracted Aeromonas sp. from the Arabidopsis root microbiome enhances plant dehydration resistance26
Persistent antimicrobial resistance during soil remediation driven by residual heavy metal co-selection26
Structured interactions explain the absence of keystone species in synthetic microcosms26
Pollutant profile complexity governs wastewater removal of recalcitrant pharmaceuticals25
Spatial sensing as a strategy for public goods regulation by gut microbes25
Presence of a biofilm beneficiary alters the evolutionary trajectory of a biofilm former25
Ecological niches and assembly dynamics of diverse microbial consortia in the gastrointestine of goat kids25
Function-based selection of synthetic communities enables mechanistic microbiome studies25
Gene loss and symbiont switching during adaptation to the deep sea in a globally distributed symbiosis25
Insecticide susceptibility in a planthopper pest increases following inoculation with cultured Arsenophonus25
High resolution functional analysis and community structure of photogranules25
Uptake and leakage rates differentially shape community arrangement and composition of microbial consortia25
Metabolic versatility enables acetogens to colonize ruminants with diet-driven niche partitioning25
Protozoan predation enhances stress resistance and antibiotic tolerance in Burkholderia cenocepacia by triggering the SOS response25
Evolution of snow algae, from cosmopolitans to endemics, revealed by DNA analysis of ancient ice24
Secondary messenger signalling influences Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation to sinus and lung environments24
Novel viruses of Haloquadratum walsbyi expand the known archaeal virosphere of hypersaline environments24
Microorganisms in subarctic soils are depleted of ribosomes under short-, medium-, and long-term warming24
Two-step localization driven by peptidoglycan hydrolase in interbacterial predation24
Genomic basis of environmental adaptation in the widespread poly-extremophilic Exiguobacterium group24
Reprogramming the metabolism of an acetogenic bacterium to homoformatogenesis24
Phenylpropanoid methyl esterase unlocks catabolism of aromatic biological nitrification inhibitors24
Collective protection against the type VI secretion system in bacteria24
Pathobiont and symbiont contribute to microbiota homeostasis through Malpighian tubules–gut countercurrent flow in Bactrocera dorsalis24
Correction: Trichlorobacter ammonificans, a dedicated acetate-dependent ammonifier with a novel module for dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonia24
Chemotaxis may assist marine heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs to find microzones suitable for N2 fixation in the pelagic ocean24
Genetic disruption of Arabidopsis secondary metabolite synthesis leads to microbiome-mediated modulation of nematode invasion23
Antibiotic-altered gut microbiota explain host memory plasticity and disrupt pace-of-life covariation for an aquatic snail23
Abundant and cosmopolitan lineage of cyanopodoviruses lacking a DNA polymerase gene23
Identification and cultivation of anaerobic bacterial scavengers of dead cells23
Leveraging genome-scale metabolic models to understand aerobic methanotrophs23
Chronic exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons alters skin virome composition and virus–host interactions23
Nitrogen availability shapes evolution of phage resistance in cyanobacteria23
Microbiota of pest insect Nezara viridula mediate detoxification and plant defense repression23
Distribution and survival strategies of endemic and cosmopolitan diazotrophs in the Arctic Ocean23
Adaptations of Pseudoxylaria towards a comb-associated lifestyle in fungus-farming termite colonies23
Diversification of single-cell growth dynamics under starvation influences subsequent reproduction in a clonal bacterial population23
Milk IgA promotes symbionts and limits pathobionts in the early life gut23
Simple Porifera holobiont reveals complex interactions between the host, an archaeon, a bacterium, and a phage23
Polyhydroxybutyrate production by freshwater SAR11 (LD12)23
Prevalence of trace gas-oxidizing soil bacteria increases with radial distance from Polloquere hot spring within a high-elevation Andean cold desert23
Net rate of lateral gene transfer in marine prokaryoplankton23
Ongoing diversification of the global fish pathogenPiscirickettsia salmonisthrough genetic isolation and transposition bursts23
Two-tiered mutualism improves survival and competitiveness of cross-feeding soil bacteria22
Species-specific relationships between deep sea sponges and their symbiotic Nitrosopumilaceae22
Coral mucus as a reservoir of bacteriophages targeting Vibrio pathogens22
Sensitivity of microbial spatial self-organization to surface friction depends on metabolic interactions22
Phototroph-heterotroph interactions during growth and long-term starvation across Prochlorococcus and Alteromonas 22
Legume-specific recruitment of rhizobia by hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi22
Predatory protists impact plant performance by promoting plant growth-promoting rhizobacterial consortia22
Synergistic biodegradation of polyethylene by experimentally evolved bacterial biofilms22
Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is the key process in the obligately syntrophic consortium of the anaerobic ameba Pelomyxa schiedti22
Ecological and evolutionary responses of earthworm holobionts to environmental changes22
Gut microbiota facilitate adaptation of invasive moths to new host plants22
Eubacterium limosum modulates tumor microenvironments and produces antitumor metabolites active against colorectal cancer21
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