OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbial Ecology 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Bacteriocin-Producing Enterococci Modulate Cheese Microbial Diversity	170
Sediment DNA Records the Critical Transition of Bacterial Communities in the Arid Lake	159
Mechanisms Driving the Distribution and Activity of Mineralization and Nitrification in the Reservoir Riparian Zone	90
Polyurethane-Degrading Potential of Alkaline Groundwater Bacteria	76
Effects of Hyphomonas Strains on the Growth of Red Algae Pyropia Species by Attaching Specifically to Their Rhizoids	68
Impacts of Thermal Drainage on Bacterial Diversity and Community Construction in Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant	64
Comparative Analyses of Scylla olivacea Gut Microbiota Composition and Function Suggest the Capacity for Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Biosynthesis	62
Sources of Fungal Symbionts in the Microbiome of a Mobile Insect Host, Spodoptera frugiperda	61
Response of Alternaria and Fusarium Species to Low Precipitation in a Drought-Tolerant Plant in Morocco	57
Temperature Sensitivity of Microbial Litter Decomposition in Freshwaters: Role of Leaf Litter Quality and Environmental Characteristics	48
Distinguishable Influence of the Delivery Mode, Feeding Pattern, and Infant Sex on Dynamic Alterations in the Intestinal Microbiota in the First Year of Life	45
Metagenomic Analysis of Rhizospheric Bacterial Community of Citrus Trees Expressing Phloem-Directed Antimicrobials	43
Cyanosphere Dynamic During Dolichospermum Bloom: Potential Roles in Cyanobacterial Proliferation	40
Succession of Fungal Communities and Their Functional Profiles in a Decaying Foundation Species	39
Uncovering the Role of Autochthonous Deteriogenic Biofilm Community: Rožanec Mithraeum Monument (Slovenia)	38
Prokaryotic Diversity and Community Distribution in the Complex Hydrogeological System of the Añana Continental Saltern	37
Comparative Genomics Reveal the High Conservation and Scarce Distribution of Nitrogen Fixation nif Genes in the Plant-Associated Genus Herbaspirillum	37
A Comprehensive Insight of Current and Future Challenges in Large-Scale Soil Microbiome Analyses	37
Peanut-based Rotation Stabilized Diazotrophic Communities and Increased Subsequent Wheat Yield	35
Highly Diverse Symbiodiniaceae Types Hosted by Corals in a Global Hotspot of Marine Biodiversity	35
Marine Heatwave Caused Differentiated Dysbiosis in Photosymbiont Assemblages of Corals and Hydrocorals During El Niño 2015/2016	33
Diverse Microbial Hot Spring Mat Communities at Black Canyon of the Colorado River	32
Quantitative Amplicon Sequencing Is Necessary to Identify Differential Taxa and Correlated Taxa Where Population Sizes Differ	32
Selected Bacteria Are Critical for Karst River Carbon Sequestration via Integrating Multi-omics and Hydrochemistry Data	31
Experimental Evidence for Manure-Borne Bacteria Invasion in Soil During a Coalescent Event: Influence of the Antibiotic Sulfamethazine	31

Nitrogen Fertilization Increases Soil Microbial Biomass and Alters Microbial Composition Especially Under Low Soil Water Availability	30
Paenibacillus as a Biocontrol Agent for Fungal Phytopathogens: Is P. polymyxa the Only One Worth Attention?	30
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	30
Microbial Diversity and Activity of Biofilms from Geothermal Springs in Croatia	30
Paired Root-Soil Samples and Metabarcoding Reveal Taxon-Based Colonization Strategies in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Communities in Japanese Cedar and Cypress Stands	29
Potential Plant-To-Plant Transmission: Shared Endophytic Bacterial Community Between Ziziphus lotus and Its Parasite Cuscuta epithymum	28
Role of Fungi in Imparting General Disease Suppressiveness in Soil from Organic Field	28
Chemical Links Between Redox Conditions and Estimated Community Proteomes from 16S rRNA and Reference Protein Sequences	28
Host Specificity and Seasonal Variation in the Colonization of Tubakia sensu lato Associated with Evergreen Oak Species in Eastern Japan	28
Effects of Vineyard Agro-management Practices on Soil Bacterial Community Composition, and Diversity	28
Stochastic Processes Dominate in the Water Mass–Based Segregation of Diazotrophs in a High Arctic Fjord (Svalbard)	26
Differences in Exudates Between Strains of Chlorella sorokiniana Affect the Interaction with the Microalga Growth-Promoting Bacteria Azospirillum brasilense	26
Cover Crop Amendments and Lettuce Plant Growth Stages Alter Rhizobacterial Properties and Roles in Plant Performance	26
A Matter of Metals: Copper but Not Cadmium Affects the Microbial Alpha-Diversity of Soils and Sediments — a Meta-analysis	25
Effect of CO2 Concentrations on Entomopathogen Fitness and Insect-Pathogen Interactions	25
Correction to: Environment and Host Genetics Influence the Biogeography of Plant Microbiome Structure	24
Persistence of Marine Bacterial Plasmid in the House Fly (Musca domestica): Marine-Derived Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Have a Chance of Invading the Human Environment	24
Methylotrophic Communities Associated with a Greenland Ice Sheet Methane Release Hotspot	24
The Microbial Diversity of Biological Moss Crust: Application in Saline-Alkali Soil Management	23
Origin, Selection, and Succession of Coastal Intertidal Zone-Derived Bacterial Communities Associated with the Degradation of Various Lignocellulose Substrates	22
Metabolic Profiling of Endophytic Bacteria in Relation to Their Potential Application as Components of Multi-Task Biopreparations	22
Microbial Mediation of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Sulfur Cycles During Solid Waste Decomposition	21
A Novel Bifidobacterium/Klebsiella Ratio in Characterization Analysis of the Gut and Bile Microbiota of CCA Patients	21
Yeast Biodiversity of Karst Waters: Interest of Four Culture Media and an Improved MALDI-TOF MS Database	21
Temperature Adaptation of Aquatic Bacterial Community Growth Is Faster in Response to Rising than to Falling Temperature	21
Bacterial Communities Are Less Diverse in a Strepsipteran Endoparasitoid than in Its Fruit Fly Hosts and Dominated by Wolbachia	21
Location Matters: Variations in Cloacal Microbiota Composition of Spatially Separated Freshwater Turtles	20
The Microbiomes in Lichen and Moss Biocrust Contribute Differently to Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles in Arid Ecosystems	20
The Microbiota of a Mite Prey-Predator System on Different Host Plants Are Characterized by Dysbiosis and Potential Functional Redundancy	20
Water Level Fluctuations Modulate the Microbiomes Involved in Biogeochemical Cycling in Floodplains	20
Comparative Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses Provide New Insights into the Tolerance to Cyclic Dehydration in a Lichen Phycobiont	20
Multifarious Responses of Forest Soil Microbial Community Toward Climate Change	19
Seasonality and Strain Specificity Drive Rapid Co-evolution in an Ostreococcus-Virus System from the Western Baltic Sea	19
Host Genetic Background Effect on Vertical Seed Transmission of Epichloë Endophyte Strains in Tall Fescue	19
Root Rot Management in Common Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Through Integrated Biocontrol Strategies using Metabolites from Trichoderma harzianum, Serratia marcescens, and Vermicompost Tea	19
Soil Bacterial Assemblage Across a Production Landscape: Agriculture Increases Diversity While Revegetation Recovers Community Composition	19
Insights into Endophytic and Rhizospheric Bacteria of Five Sugar Beet Hybrids in Terms of Their Diversity, Plant-Growth Promoting, and Biocontrol Properties	18
Depth-Dependent Distribution of Prokaryotes in Sediments of the Manganese Crust on Nazimov Guyots of the Magellan Seamounts	18
Years After a Fire, Biocrust Microbial Communities are Similar to Unburned Communities in a Coastal Grassland	18
The Dynamics of Symbiodiniaceae and Photosynthetic Bacteria Under High-Temperature Conditions	18
Plant Host Traits Mediated by Foliar Fungal Symbionts and Secondary Metabolites	18
Correction to: Intermediate levels of predation and nutrient enrichment enhance the activity of ibuprofen degrading bacteria	18
Recover of Soil Microbial Community Functions in Beech and Turkey Oak Forests After Coppicing Interventions	18
Implications of Domestication in Theobroma cacao L. Seed-Borne Microbial Endophytes Diversity	17
Streptomyces fradiae Mitigates the Impact of Potato Virus Y by Inducing Systemic Resistance in Two Egyptian Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) Cultivars	17
Niche-Aware Metagenomic Screening for Enzyme Methioninase Illuminates Its Contribution to Metabolic Syntrophy	17
Gardnerella vaginalis, Fannyhessea vaginae, and Prevotella bivia Strongly Influence Each Other's Transcriptome in Triple-Species Biofilms	17
Metagenomics Unveils Microbial Diversity and Their Biogeochemical Roles in Water and Sediment of Thermokarst Lakes in the Yellow River Source Area	17
Dynamics of Gut Bacteria Across Different Zooplankton Genera in the Baltic Sea	17
Host-associated and Environmental Microbiomes in an Open-Sea Mediterranean Gilthead Sea Bream Fish Farm	17

Uncovering the Secrets of Slow-Growing Bacteria in Tropical Savanna Soil Through Isolation and Genomic Analysis	17
Coexistence of Psychrophilic, Mesophilic, and Thermophilic Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in a Deep Subsurface Aquifer Associated with Coal-Bed Methane Production	17
Gut Site and Gut Morphology Predict Microbiome Structure and Function in Ecologically Diverse Lemurs	17
Does Host Plant Drive Variation in Microbial Gut Communities in a Recently Shifted Pest?	17
Microbial Life in Playa-Lake Sediments: Adapted Structure, Plastic Function to Extreme Water Activity Variations	17
Diversity and Potential Metabolic Characteristics of Culturable Copiotrophic Bacteria That Can Grow on Low-Nutrient Medium in Zhenbei Seamount in the South China Sea	17
The Bacterial Microbiome of the Coral Skeleton Algal Symbiont Ostreobium Shows Preferential Associations and Signatures of Phylosymbiosis	17
Spatial and Temporal Shifts of Endophytic Bacteria in Conifer Seedlings of Abies religiosa (Kunth) Schltdl. & Cham.	17
Study on Effects of Probiotics on Gut Microbiome and Clinical Course in Patients with Critical Care Illnesses	17
Impact of Cultivation and Origin on the Fruit Microbiome of Apples and Blueberries and Implications for the Exposome	16
Genomic and Transcriptomic Diversification of Flagellin Genes Provides Insight into Environmental Adaptation and Phylogeographic Characteristics in Aeromonas hydrophila	16
Two Complete Genomes of Male-Killing Wolbachia Infecting Ostrinia Moth Species Illuminate Their Evolutionary Dynamics and Association with Hosts	16
Climate and Environmental Variables Drive Stream Biofilm Bacterial and Fungal Diversity on Tropical Mountainsides	16
Gypsum Cave Biofilm Communities are Strongly Influenced by Bat- And Arthropod-Related Fungi	15
Uncovering the Fungal Community Composition of Alive and Dead Posidonia oceanica Matte	15
Seasonal and Spatial Dynamics of Fungal Leaf Endophytes in Eucalyptus crebra (Narrow-Leaved Ironbark)	15
Demethylation Inhibitor Fungicides Have a Significantly Detrimental Impact on Population Growth and Composition of Nectar Microbial Communities	15
Temporal Changes in Gut Microbiota Composition and Pollen Diet Associated with Colony Weakness of a Stingless Bee	15
Implications of Soil Microbial Community Assembly for Ecosystem Restoration: Patterns, Process, and Potential	15
Fishing for the Microbiome of Tropical Tuna	15
The wild solitary bees Andrena vaga, Anthophora plumipes, Colletes cunicularius, and Osmia cornuta microbiota are host specific and dominated by endosymbionts and environmental microorganisms	14
Precipitation Drives Soil Protist Diversity and Community Structure in Dry Grasslands	14
Ciliate Grazing on the Bloom-Forming Microalga Gonyostomum semen	14
Microbiome of Zoophytophagous Biological Control Agent Nesidiocoris tenuis	14
Distinct Communities and Differing Dispersal Routes in Bacteria and Fungi of Honey Bees, Honey, and Flowers	14
Significant Differences in Planktonic Virus Communities Between “Cellular Fraction” (0.22 ~ 3.0 µm) and “Viral Fraction” (< 0.22 μm) in the Ocean	14
Dissecting Light Sensing and Metabolic Pathways on the Millimeter Scale in High-Altitude Modern Stromatolites	14
Environmental Drivers of the Moonmilk Microbiome Diversity in Some Temperate and Tropical Caves	14
Abundance of Live and Dead Bacteriopsammon Inhabiting Sandy Ecosystems of Recreational Marine Beaches of the Southern Baltic Sea	13
Influence of Honey bee Nutritive Jelly Type and Dilution on its Bactericidal Effect on Melissococcus plutonius, the Etiological Agent of European Foulbrood	13
Intraspecific Competition Results in Reduced Evenness of Tuber melanosporum Mating-Type Abundance from the Nursery Stage	13
Spatial Patterns of Microbial Communities in Intertidal Sediments of the Yellow River Estuary, China	13
Bacterial Skin Assemblages of Sympatric Salamanders Are Primarily Shaped by Host Genus	13
First Insights into the Bacterial Diversity of Mount Etna Volcanic Caves	13
A Metagenomic Time-Series Approach to Assess the Ecological Stability of Microbial Mats in a Seasonally Fluctuating Environment	13
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	13
Harnessing PGPRs from Asparagus officinalis to Increase the Growth and Yield of Zea mays L	13
Diversity Patterns of Eukaryotic Phytoplankton in the Medog Section of the Yarlung Zangbo River	13
Bacterial Resuscitation from Starvation-Induced Dormancy Results in Phenotypic Diversity Coupled with Translational Activity Depending on Carbon Substrate Availability	13
Serious Risk of Tigecycline Resistance in Escherichia coli Isolated from Swine Manure	13
Phosphorus Fertilization Boosts Mineral-Associated Soil Organic Carbon Formation Associated with Phagotrophic Protists	13
Distinct Bacterial Communities Within the Nonrhizosphere, Rhizosphere, and Endosphere of Ammodendron bifolium Under Winter Condition in the Takeermohuer Desert	13
A Second Fungal Outbreak in Castañar Cave, Spain, Discloses the Fragility of Subsurface Ecosystems	13
Molecular Characterization Reveals Biodiversity and Biopotential of Rhizobacterial Isolates of Bacillus Spp	13
Soil Micro-eukaryotic Diversity Patterns Along Elevation Gradient Are Best Estimated by Increasing the Number of Elevation Steps Rather than Within Elevation Band Replication	13