OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbial Ecology is 11. 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.)

Article	Citations
Bacteriocin-Producing Enterococci Modulate Cheese Microbial Diversity	134
Sediment DNA Records the Critical Transition of Bacterial Communities in the Arid Lake	127
Impacts of Thermal Drainage on Bacterial Diversity and Community Construction in Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant	81
Sources of Fungal Symbionts in the Microbiome of a Mobile Insect Host, Spodoptera frugiperda	72
The Toxic Effects of Cu and CuO Nanoparticles on Euplotes aediculatus	64
Temperature Sensitivity of Microbial Litter Decomposition in Freshwaters: Role of Leaf Litter Quality and Environmental Characteristics	60
Comparative Analyses of Scylla olivacea Gut Microbiota Composition and Function Suggest the Capacity for Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biosynthesis	54
Microsporidian Infection in Mosquitoes (Culicidae) Is Associated with Gut Microbiome Composition and Predicted Gut Microbiome Functional Content	50
Polyurethane-Degrading Potential of Alkaline Groundwater Bacteria	50
Mechanisms Driving the Distribution and Activity of Mineralization and Nitrification in the Reservoir Riparian Zone	47
Distinct Phyllosphere Microbiome of Wild Tomato Species in Central Peru upon Dysbiosis	45
Response of Alternaria and Fusarium Species to Low Precipitation in a Drought-Tolerant Plant in Morocco	42
Distinguishable Influence of the Delivery Mode, Feeding Pattern, and Infant Sex on Dynamic Alterations in the Intestinal Microbiota in the First Year of Life	38
Effects of Hyphomonas Strains on the Growth of Red Algae Pyropia Species by Attaching Specifically to Their Rhizoids	37
Green Manures Alter Taxonomic and Functional Characteristics of Soil Bacterial Communities	36
Marine Heatwave Caused Differentiated Dysbiosis in Photosymbiont Assemblages of Corals and Hydrocorals During El Niño 2015/2016	36
Uncovering the Role of Autochthonous Deteriogenic Biofilm Community: Rožanec Mithraeum Monument (Slovenia)	35
Cyanosphere Dynamic During Dolichospermum Bloom: Potential Roles in Cyanobacterial Proliferation	35
The Effects of Shrub Removal on Soil Microbial Communities in Primary Forest, Secondary Forest and Plantation Forest on Changbai Mountain	32
Quantitative Amplicon Sequencing Is Necessary to Identify Differential Taxa and Correlated Taxa Where Population Sizes Differ	31
Metagenomic Analysis of Rhizospheric Bacterial Community of Citrus Trees Expressing Phloem-Directed Antimicrobials	31
Succession of Fungal Communities and Their Functional Profiles in a Decaying Foundation Species	29
Microbial Diversity and Activity of Biofilms from Geothermal Springs in Croatia	28
Highly Diverse Symbiodiniaceae Types Hosted by Corals in a Global Hotspot of Marine Biodiversity	28
Experimental Evidence for Manure-Borne Bacteria Invasion in Soil During a Coalescent Event: Influence of the Antibiotic Sulfamethazine	27

Selected Bacteria Are Critical for Karst River Carbon Sequestration via Integrating Multi-omics and Hydrochemistry Data	27
Comparative Genomics Reveal the High Conservation and Scarce Distribution of Nitrogen Fixation nif Genes in the Plant-Associated Genus Herbaspirillum	26
A Comprehensive Insight of Current and Future Challenges in Large-Scale Soil Microbiome Analyses	26
Nitrogen Fertilization Increases Soil Microbial Biomass and Alters Microbial Composition Especially Under Low Soil Water Availability	25
Diverse Microbial Hot Spring Mat Communities at Black Canyon of the Colorado River	25
Elevated O3 Exerts Stronger Effects than Elevated CO2 on the Functional Guilds of Fungi, but Collectively Increase the Structural Complexity of Fungi in a Paddy Soil	25
Genomic Comparisons of Two Armillaria Species with Different Ecological Behaviors and Their Associated Soil Microbial Communities	24
Prokaryotic Diversity and Community Distribution in the Complex Hydrogeological System of the Añana Continental Saltern	24
Paenibacillus as a Biocontrol Agent for Fungal Phytopathogens: Is P. polymyxa the Only One Worth Attention?	24
Peanut-based Rotation Stabilized Diazotrophic Communities and Increased Subsequent Wheat Yield	24
Paired Root-Soil Samples and Metabarcoding Reveal Taxon-Based Colonization Strategies in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Communities in Japanese Cedar and Cypress Stands	23
Role of Fungi in Imparting General Disease Suppressiveness in Soil from Organic Field	23
Effects of Vineyard Agro-management Practices on Soil Bacterial Community Composition, and Diversity	23
Correction to: Cave Microbes as a Potential Source of Drugs Development in the Modern Era	23
Chemical Links Between Redox Conditions and Estimated Community Proteomes from 16S rRNA and Reference Protein Sequences	22
Stochastic Processes Dominate in the Water Mass–Based Segregation of Diazotrophs in a High Arctic Fjord (Svalbard)	22
Gardnerella Vaginalis Dominates Multi-Species Biofilms in both Pre-Conditioned and Competitive In Vitro Biofilm Formation Models	22
Cover Crop Amendments and Lettuce Plant Growth Stages Alter Rhizobacterial Properties and Roles in Plant Performance	22
Host Specificity and Seasonal Variation in the Colonization of Tubakia sensu lato Associated with Evergreen Oak Species in Eastern Japan	22
A Matter of Metals: Copper but Not Cadmium Affects the Microbial Alpha-Diversity of Soils and Sediments — a Meta-analysis	21
Bio-fertilizer Affects Structural Dynamics, Function, and Network Patterns of the Sugarcane Rhizospheric Microbiota	21
FungalTraits vs. FUNGuild: Comparison of Ecological Functional Assignments of Leaf- and Needle-Associated Fungi Across 12 Temperate Tree Species	21
Differences in Exudates Between Strains of Chlorella sorokiniana Affect the Interaction with the Microalga Growth-Promoting Bacteria Azospirillum brasilense	21
The Role of Diversity in Mediating Microbiota Structural and Functional Differences in Two Sympatric Species of Abalone Under Stressed Withering Syndrome Conditions	20
Experimental Exposure to Noise Alters Gut Microbiota in a Captive Songbird	20
The Microbial Diversity of Biological Moss Crust: Application in Saline-Alkali Soil Management	20
Effect of CO2 Concentrations on Entomopathogen Fitness and Insect-Pathogen Interactions	20
Potential Plant-To-Plant Transmission: Shared Endophytic Bacterial Community Between Ziziphus lotus and Its Parasite Cuscuta epithymum	20
Correction to: Environment and Host Genetics Influence the Biogeography of Plant Microbiome Structure	20
Vertical Microbial Profiling of Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimal Zone Reveals Complex Bacterial Communities and Distinct Functional Implications	20
Methylotrophic Communities Associated with a Greenland Ice Sheet Methane Release Hotspot	20
Low Endosymbiont Incidence in Drosophila Species Across Peninsula Thailand	20
A Novel Bifidobacterium/Klebsiella Ratio in Characterization Analysis of the Gut and Bile Microbiota of CCA Patients	19
Persistence of Marine Bacterial Plasmid in the House Fly (Musca domestica): Marine-Derived Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Have a Chance of Invading the Human Environment	19
Microbial Mediation of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Cycles During Solid Waste Decomposition	19
The Microbiota of a Mite Prey-Predator System on Different Host Plants Are Characterized by Dysbiosis and Potential Functional Redundancy	19
Location Matters: Variations in Cloacal Microbiota Composition of Spatially Separated Freshwater Turtles	19
Bacterial Communities Are Less Diverse in a Strepsipteran Endoparasitoid than in Its Fruit Fly Hosts and Dominated by Wolbachia	19
Temperature Adaptation of Aquatic Bacterial Community Growth Is Faster in Response to Rising than to Falling Temperature	19
Origin, Selection, and Succession of Coastal Intertidal Zone-Derived Bacterial Communities Associated with the Degradation of Various Lignocellulose Substrates	18
Metabolic Profiling of Endophytic Bacteria in Relation to Their Potential Application as Components of Multi-Task Biopreparations	18
Unboxing the black box—one step forward to understand the soil microbiome: A systematic review	18
Archaeal and Bacterial Diversity and Distribution Patterns in Mediterranean-Climate Vernal Pools of Mexico and the Western USA	18
Yeast Biodiversity of Karst Waters: Interest of Four Culture Media and an Improved MALDI-TOF MS Database	18
Water Level Fluctuations Modulate the Microbiomes Involved in Biogeochemical Cycling in Floodplains	18
The Microbiomes in Lichen and Moss Biocrust Contribute Differently to Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles in Arid Ecosystems	18
Root Rot Management in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Through Integrated Biocontrol Strategies using Metabolites from Trichoderma harzianum, Serratia marcescens, and Vermicompost Tea	17
Thermostable Keystone Bacteria Maintain the Functional Diversity of the Ixodes scapularis Microbiome Under Heat Stress	17
Faecal Microbiota Divergence in Allopatric Populations of Podarcis lilfordi and P. pityusensis, Two Lizard Species Endemic to the Balearic Islands	17
Recover of Soil Microbial Community Functions in Beech and Turkey Oak Forests After Coppicing Interventions	17

Years After a Fire, Biocrust Microbial Communities are Similar to Unburned Communities in a Coastal Grassland	16
Comparative Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses Provide New Insights into the Tolerance to Cyclic Dehydration in a Lichen Phycobiont	16
Correction to: Intermediate levels of predation and nutrient enrichment enhance the activity of ibuprofen degrading bacteria	16
Seasonality and Strain Specificity Drive Rapid Co-evolution in an Ostreococcus-Virus System from the Western Baltic Sea	16
Integration of Microbial Transformation Mechanism of Polyphosphate Accumulation and Sulfur Cycle in Subtropical Marine Mangrove Ecosystems with Spartina alterniflora Invasion	16
Plant Host Traits Mediated by Foliar Fungal Symbionts and Secondary Metabolites	16
Depth-Dependent Distribution of Prokaryotes in Sediments of the Manganese Crust on Nazimov Guyots of the Magellan Seamounts	16
Effect of Chronic Exposure to Sublethal Doses of Imidacloprid and Nosema ceranae on Immunity, Gut Microbiota, and Survival of Africanized Honey Bees	16
The Dynamics of Symbiodiniaceae and Photosynthetic Bacteria Under High-Temperature Conditions	15
Multifarious Responses of Forest Soil Microbial Community Toward Climate Change	15
Taxonomically and Functionally Distinct Ciliophora Assemblages Inhabiting Baltic Sea Ice	15
Coexistence of Psychrophilic, Mesophilic, and Thermophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in a Deep Subsurface Aquifer Associated with Coal-Bed Methane Production	15
Soil Bacterial Assemblage Across a Production Landscape: Agriculture Increases Diversity While Revegetation Recovers Community Composition	15
Microbial Life in Playa-Lake Sediments: Adapted Structure, Plastic Function to Extreme Water Activity Variations	15
Gardnerella vaginalis, Fannyhessea vaginae, and Prevotella bivia Strongly Influence Each Other's Transcriptome in Triple-Species Biofilms	15
Uncovering the Secrets of Slow-Growing Bacteria in Tropical Savanna Soil Through Isolation and Genomic Analysis	15
Niche-Aware Metagenomic Screening for Enzyme Methioninase Illuminates Its Contribution to Metabolic Syntrophy	15
Host Genetic Background Effect on Vertical Seed Transmission of Epichloë Endophyte Strains in Tall Fescue	15
Insights into Endophytic and Rhizospheric Bacteria of Five Sugar Beet Hybrids in Terms of Their Diversity, Plant-Growth Promoting, and Biocontrol Properties	15
Diversity and Potential Metabolic Characteristics of Culturable Copiotrophic Bacteria That Can Grow on Low-Nutrient Medium in Zhenbei Seamount in the South China Sea	15
Nonpoint Source Pollution (NPSP) Induces Structural and Functional Variation in the Fungal Community of Sediments in the Jialing River, China	15
Streptomyces fradiae Mitigates the Impact of Potato Virus Y by Inducing Systemic Resistance in Two Egyptian Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Cultivars	15
Dynamics of Gut Bacteria Across Different Zooplankton Genera in the Baltic Sea	15
Impact of Cultivation and Origin on the Fruit Microbiome of Apples and Blueberries and Implications for the Exposome	14
Temperate Coastal Microbial Communities Rapidly Respond to Low Concentrations of Partially Weathered Diesel	14
Host-associated and Environmental Microbiomes in an Open-Sea Mediterranean Gilthead Sea Bream Fish Farm	14
Two Complete Genomes of Male-Killing Wolbachia Infecting Ostrinia Moth Species Illuminate Their Evolutionary Dynamics and Association with Hosts	14
Spatial and Temporal Shifts of Endophytic Bacteria in Conifer Seedlings of Abies religiosa (Kunth) Schltdl. & Cham.	14
Fungal Patterns from Soils in Madagascar: an Insight from Maromizaha Forest (Evergreen Humid Forest) to Outside (Deciduous Forest)	14
Gut Site and Gut Morphology Predict Microbiome Structure and Function in Ecologically Diverse Lemurs	14
Does Host Plant Drive Variation in Microbial Gut Communities in a Recently Shifted Pest?	14
The Bacterial Microbiome of the Coral Skeleton Algal Symbiont Ostreobium Shows Preferential Associations and Signatures of Phylosymbiosis	14
Implications of Domestication in Theobroma cacao L. Seed-Borne Microbial Endophytes Diversity	14
Study on Effects of Probiotics on Gut Microbiome and Clinical Course in Patients with Critical Care Illnesses	14
Fishing for the Microbiome of Tropical Tuna	13
Metagenomics Unveils Microbial Diversity and Their Biogeochemical Roles in Water and Sediment of Thermokarst Lakes in the Yellow River Source Area	13
Gypsum Cave Biofilm Communities are Strongly Influenced by Bat- And Arthropod-Related Fungi	13
Genomic and Transcriptomic Diversification of Flagellin Genes Provides Insight into Environmental Adaptation and Phylogeographic Characteristics in Aeromonas hydrophila	13
Phosphorus Fertilization Boosts Mineral-Associated Soil Organic Carbon Formation Associated with Phagotrophic Protists	13
Letter to Microbial Ecology	13
Climate and Environmental Variables Drive Stream Biofilm Bacterial and Fungal Diversity on Tropical Mountainsides	13
Microbiome of Zoophytophagous Biological Control Agent Nesidiocoris tenuis	13
Seasonal and Spatial Dynamics of Fungal Leaf Endophytes in Eucalyptus crebra (Narrow-Leaved Ironbark)	12
The wild solitary bees Andrena vaga, Anthophora plumipes, Colletes cunicularius, and Osmia cornuta microbiota are host specific and dominated by endosymbionts and environmental microorganisms	12
Environmental Drivers of the Moonmilk Microbiome Diversity in Some Temperate and Tropical Caves	12
Host-Associated Bacterial Communities Vary Between Daphnia galeata Genotypes but Not by Host Genetic Distance	12
Uncovering Active Bacterial Symbionts in Three Species of Pollen-feeding Beetles (Nitidulidae: Meligethinae)	12
Precipitation Drives Soil Protist Diversity and Community Structure in Dry Grasslands	12
Uncovering the Fungal Community Composition of Alive and Dead Posidonia oceanica Matte	12
Intraspecific Competition Results in Reduced Evenness of Tuber melanosporum Mating-Type Abundance from the Nursery Stage	12
Demethylation Inhibitor Fungicides Have a Significantly Detrimental Impact on Population Growth and Composition of Nectar Microbial Communities	12
Distinct Communities and Differing Dispersal Routes in Bacteria and Fungi of Honey Bees, Honey, and Flowers	12
Significant Differences in Planktonic Virus Communities Between “Cellular Fraction” (0.22 ~ 3.0 µm) and “Viral Fraction” (< 0.22 μm) in the Ocean	12
Geographic Scale Influences the Interactivities Between Determinism and Stochasticity in the Assembly of Sedimentary Microbial Communities on the South China Sea Shelf	12
Mycorrhizal Infection Can Ameliorate Abiotic Factors in Urban Soils	12
Abundant and Rare Taxa of Planktonic Fungal Community Exhibit Distinct Assembly Patterns Along Coastal Eutrophication Gradient	12
Ciliate Grazing on the Bloom-Forming Microalga Gonyostomum semen	12
Temporal Changes in Gut Microbiota Composition and Pollen Diet Associated with Colony Weakness of a Stingless Bee	12
Implications of Soil Microbial Community Assembly for Ecosystem Restoration: Patterns, Process, and Potential	12
Dissecting Light Sensing and Metabolic Pathways on the Millimeter Scale in High-Altitude Modern Stromatolites	12
Stimulating Anaerobic Degradation of Butyrate via Syntrophomonas wolfei and Geobacter sulfurreducens: Characteristics and Mechanism	11
Bacterial Resuscitation from Starvation-Induced Dormancy Results in Phenotypic Diversity Coupled with Translational Activity Depending on Carbon Substrate Availability	11
Bacterioplankton Assembly Along a Eutrophication Gradient Is Mainly Structured by Environmental Filtering, Including Indirect Effects of Phytoplankton Composition	11
Molecular Characterization Reveals Biodiversity and Biopotential of Rhizobacterial Isolates of Bacillus Spp	11
Perspectives in Searching Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs) Produced by the Microbiota	11
Influence of Honey bee Nutritive Jelly Type and Dilution on its Bactericidal Effect on Melissococcus plutonius, the Etiological Agent of European Foulbrood	11
Influences of Community Coalescence on the Assembly of Bacterial Communities of the Small-Scale Complex Aquatic System from the Perspective of Bacterial Transmission, Core Taxa, and Co-occurrence Patt	11
Harnessing PGPRs from Asparagus officinalis to Increase the Growth and Yield of Zea mays L	11
Uniqueness and Dependence of Bacterial Communities on Microplastics: Comparison with Water, Sediment, and Soil	11
The Gut Microbiome of Two Wild Bumble Bee Species Native of South America: Bombus pauloensis and Bombus bellicosus	11
A Metagenomic Time-Series Approach to Assess the Ecological Stability of Microbial Mats in a Seasonally Fluctuating Environment	11
Bacterial Skin Assemblages of Sympatric Salamanders Are Primarily Shaped by Host Genus	11
Distinct Bacterial Communities Within the Nonrhizosphere, Rhizosphere, and Endosphere of Ammodendron bifolium Under Winter Condition in the Takeermohuer Desert	11
Microbial Diversity on the Surface of Historical Monuments in Lingyan Temple, Jinan, China	11
First Insights into the Bacterial Diversity of Mount Etna Volcanic Caves	11