Annual Review of Microbiology

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.)
ArticleCitations
Accelerated Evolution by Diversity-Generating Retroelements214
The Small-Molecule Language of Dynamic Microbial Interactions143
Small RNAs, Large Networks: Posttranscriptional Regulons in Gram-Negative Bacteria141
Plasmodium vivax Latent Liver Stage Infection and Relapse: Biological Insights and New Experimental Tools141
Life in the Dark: Phylogenetic and Physiological Diversity of Chemosynthetic Symbioses75
The Bacterial Hsp90 Chaperone: Cellular Functions and Mechanism of Action68
Frameworks for Interpreting the Early Fossil Record of Eukaryotes68
Raising a Bacterium to the Rank of a Model System: The Listeria Paradigm63
Molecular Biology of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Caused by Wolbachia Endosymbionts62
Versatility and Complexity: Common and Uncommon Facets of LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulators62
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Toward Microbiome Engineering: Expanding the Repertoire of Genetically Tractable Members of the Human Gut Microbiome56
Plasmodium Egress Across the Parasite Life Cycle53
The Microbiology of Biological Soil Crusts51
Bacterial Multicellularity: The Biology of Escherichia coli Building Large-Scale Biofilm Communities51
Molecular Basis of Lysis–Lysogeny Decisions in Gram-Positive Phages49
Mechanisms Underlying Ophiocordyceps Infection and Behavioral Manipulation of Ants: Unique or Ubiquitous?48
Understanding the Diversity, Evolution, Ecology, and Applications of Mycoviruses48
Introduction47
Genome-Scale Metabolic Modeling of the Human Microbiome in the Era of Personalized Medicine46
Signal Transduction Network Principles Underlying Bacterial Collective Behaviors46
The Dynamic Fungal Genome: Polyploidy, Aneuploidy and Copy Number Variation in Response to Stress45
When the Host Encounters the Cell Wall and Vice Versa44
The Brucella Cell Envelope43
Apicomplexan Pore-Forming Toxins41
Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut40
Periplasmic Chaperones: Outer Membrane Biogenesis and Envelope Stress40
Metabolic Enabling and Detoxification by Mammalian Gut Microbes40
Trypanosome Signaling—Quorum Sensing40
The Impact of RNA-DNA Hybrids on Genome Integrity in Bacteria40
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Compartmentalization of RNA Degradosomes in Bacteria Controls Accessibility to Substrates and Ensures Concerted Degradation of mRNA to Nucleotides38
Evolution of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis38
The Origin of Metazoan Multicellularity: A Potential Microbial Black Swan Event37
Mechanisms of Virulence Reprogramming in Bacterial Pathogens36
Are Bacteria Leaky? Mechanisms of Metabolite Externalization in Bacterial Cross-Feeding36
Culturing Human Gut Microbiomes in the Laboratory35
Hostile Takeover: How Viruses Reprogram Prokaryotic Metabolism34
Expanding Archaeal Diversity and Phylogeny: Past, Present, and Future32
Targeting Aminoacyl tRNA Synthetases for Antimalarial Drug Development31
Growth and Division of the Peptidoglycan Matrix31
Oxygenases as Powerful Weapons in the Microbial Degradation of Pesticides31
The History of Microbiology—A Personal Interpretation30
Microbial Rhodopsins: The Last Two Decades30
Evolution and Physiology of Amphibious Yeasts29
Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods29
Cell Wall Biology of Vibrio cholerae29
Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Remodeling in Malaria Parasites27
Emerging Concepts in Cholera Vaccine Design27
Beyond Restriction Modification: Epigenomic Roles of DNA Methylation in Prokaryotes27
Microbial Interspecies Interactions and Their Impact on the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance26
Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP): From Biochemistry to Global Ecological Significance26
Introduction26
Structural Insights into Type III Secretion Systems of the Bacterial Flagellum and Injectisome22
Regulation of Biofilm Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Degradation inPseudomonas aeruginosa22
Two P or Not Two P: Understanding Regulation by the Bacterial Second Messengers (p)ppGpp22
Origin and Early Evolution of the Eukaryotic Cell21
DNA Phosphorothioate Modification Systems and Associated Phage Defense Systems21
Introduction21
Virulence and Pathogenicity of Chytrid Fungi Causing Amphibian Extinctions19
Electron Transfer Beyond the Outer Membrane: Putting Electrons to Rest19
Cyanobacteriochromes: A Rainbow of Photoreceptors18
Past, Present, and Future of Extracytoplasmic Function σ Factors: Distribution and Regulatory Diversity of the Third Pillar of Bacterial Signal Transduction17
Collab or Cancel? Bacterial Influencers of Inflammasome Signaling16
Recent Advances in Understanding the Human Fungal Pathogen Hypoxia Response in Disease Progression14
Imaging Infection Across Scales of Size: From Whole Animals to Single Molecules14
Interdependency and Redundancy Add Complexity and Resilience to Biogenesis of Bacterial Ribosomes13
Habitat Transition in the Evolution of Bacteria and Archaea13
Unique Properties of Apicomplexan Mitochondria13
Mechanisms Underlying Vibrio cholerae Biofilm Formation and Dispersion13
Division and Transmission: Malaria Parasite Development in the Mosquito13
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