OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Microbiology is 13. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements	214
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions	143
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria	141
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools	141
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses	75
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action	68
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes	68
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm	63
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts	62
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators	62
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Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome	56
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle	53
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts	51
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities	51
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages	49
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?	48
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses	48
Introduction	47
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors	46
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine	46
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress	45
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa	44
The Brucella Cell Envelope	43
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins	41

The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria	40
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Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut	40
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress	40
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes	40
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing	40
Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides	38
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis	38
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event	37
Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens	36
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding	36
Culturing Human Gut Microbiomes in the Laboratory	35
Hostile Takeover: How Viruses Reprogram Prokaryotic Metabolism	34
Expanding Archaeal Diversity and Phylogeny: Past, Present, and Future	32
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development	31
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix	31
Oxygenases as Powerful Weapons in the Microbial Degradation of Pesticides	31
The History of Microbiology—A Personal Interpretation	30
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades	30
Evolution and Physiology of Amphibious Yeasts	29
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods	29
Cell Wall Biology of Vibrio cholerae	29
Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Remodeling in Malaria Parasites	27
Emerging Concepts in Cholera Vaccine Design	27
Beyond Restriction Modification: Epigenomic Roles of DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes	27
Introduction	26
Microbial Interspecies Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance	26
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP): From Biochemistry to Global Ecological Significance	26
Two P or Not Two P: Understanding Regulation by the Bacterial Second Messengers (p)ppGpp	22
Structural Insights into Type III Secretion Systems of the Bacterial Flagellum and Injectisome	22
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa	22
Introduction	21
Origin and Early Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell	21
DNA Phosphorothioate Modification Systems and Associated Phage Defense Systems	21
Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest	19
Virulence and Pathogenicity of Chytrid Fungi Causing Amphibian Extinctions	19
Cyanobacteriochromes: A Rainbow of Photoreceptors	18
Past, Present, and Future of Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors: Distribution and Regulatory Diversity of the Third Pillar of Bacterial Signal Transduction	17
Collab or Cancel? Bacterial Influencers of Inflammasome Signaling	16
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression	14
Imaging Infection Across Scales of Size: From Whole Animals to Single Molecules	14
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes	13
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea	13
Unique Properties of Apicomplexan Mitochondria	13
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion	13
Division and Transmission: Malaria Parasite Development in the Mosquito	13