OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of FEMS Microbiology Ecology is 10. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of plant genotype and soil on the wheat rhizosphere microbiome: evidences for a core microbiome across eight African and European soils	121
Temporal dynamics of bacterial communities during seed development and maturation	44
Four decades of soil water stress history together with host genotype constrain the response of the wheat microbiome to soil moisture	43
Different community assembly mechanisms underlie similar biogeography of bacteria and microeukaryotes in Tibetan lakes	42
Insights into dryland biocrust microbiome: geography, soil depth and crust type affect biocrust microbial communities and networks in Mojave Desert, USA	36
Alkaline soil pH affects bulk soil, rhizosphere and root endosphere microbiomes of plants growing in a Sandhills ecosystem	35
Exploring the abundance, metabolic potential and gene expression of subseafloor Chloroflexi in million-year-old oxic and anoxic abyssal clay	34
Seasonal effects of river flow on microbial community coalescence and diversity in a riverine network	32
Temporal changes in microbial communities attached to forages with different lignocellulosic compositions in cattle rumen	31
Insights into the community structure and lifestyle of the fungal root endophytes of tomato by combining amplicon sequencing and isolation approaches with phytohormone profiling	30
Responses of abundant and rare bacterioplankton to temporal change in a subtropical urban reservoir	29
Water management and phenology influence the root-associated rice field microbiota	29
Metagenome-assembled genome distribution and key functionality highlight importance of aerobic metabolism in Svalbard permafrost	29
Supplemental selenium source on gut health: insights on fecal microbiome and fermentation products of growing puppies	29
Abundance, diversity and mobility potential of antibiotic resistance genes in pristine Tibetan Plateau soil as revealed by soil metagenomics	28
The bacterioplankton community composition and a host genotype dependent occurrence of taxa shape the Daphnia magna gut bacterial community	28
Temporal changes in water temperature and salinity drive the formation of a reversible plastic-specific microbial community	26
Effects of simulated drought on biological soil quality, microbial diversity and yields under long-term conventional and organic agriculture	25
Root exposure to apple replant disease soil triggers local defense response and rhizoplane microbiome dysbiosis	25
The marine intertidal zone shapes oyster and clam digestive bacterial microbiota	25
Breeding selection imposed a differential selective pressure on the wheat root-associated microbiome	24
Abiotic factors influence patterns of bacterial diversity and community composition in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica	23
MicroNiche: an R package for assessing microbial niche breadth and overlap from amplicon sequencing data	23
Microbial selenium metabolism: a brief history, biogeochemistry and ecophysiology	23
Diversity and genetic lineages of environmental staphylococci: a surface water overview	23

Editorial: The Environmental Dimension of Antibiotic Resistance	23
Vegetation type determines spore deposition within a forest–agricultural mosaic landscape	22
Community dynamics of duckweed-associated bacteria upon inoculation of plant growth-promoting bacteria	22
Effect of stevia on the gut microbiota and glucose tolerance in a murine model of diet-induced obesity	22
Distribution of phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance and virulence genes in Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolated from cultivated oysters and estuarine water	21
Global warming shifts the composition of the abundant bacterial phyllosphere microbiota as indicated by a cultivation-dependent and -independent study of the grassland phyllosphere of a long-term warm	21
Local factors drive bacterial and microeukaryotic community composition in lake surface sediment collected across an altitudinal gradient	20
Online searching platform for the antibiotic resistome in bacterial tree of life and global habitats	19
Exploring microbial determinants of apple replant disease (ARD): a microhabitat approach under split-root design	19
Redox stratification within cryoconite granules influences the nitrogen cycle on glaciers	19
Response of a methane-driven interaction network to stressor intensification	19
Acinetobacter baumannii in manure and anaerobic digestates of German biogas plants	19
Mucoidy, a general mechanism for maintaining lytic phage in populations of bacteria	18
Culturable diversity of bacterial endophytes associated with medicinal plants of the Western Ghats, India	17
Multi-species relationships in legume roots: From pairwise legume-symbiont interactions to the plant – microbiome – soil continuum	17
Biopolymers modulate microbial communities in municipal organic waste digestion	17
Bacterial community dynamics across developmental stages of fungal fruiting bodies	17
Strong effects of lab-to-field environmental transitions on the bacterial intestinal microbiota ofMus musculusare modulated byTrichuris murisinfection	17
AHL-priming for enhanced resistance as a tool in sustainable agriculture	17
Shotgun metagenomics reveals a heterogeneous prokaryotic community and a wide array of antibiotic resistance genes in mangrove sediment	16
The roles of environmental variation and spatial distance in explaining diversity and biogeography of soil denitrifying communities in remote Tibetan wetlands	16
The proficiency of the original host species determines community-level plasmid dynamics	16
Surface ammonium loading rate shifts ammonia-oxidizing communities in surface water-fed rapid sand filters	15
Plant-associated fungal biofilms—knowns and unknowns	15
Insights into the structure and role of seed-borne bacteriome during maize germination	15
Soil fungal community composition and functional similarity shift across distinct climatic conditions	15
Sea foams are ephemeral hotspots for distinctive bacterial communities contrasting sea-surface microlayer and underlying surface water	15
Impacts of switching tillage to no-tillage and vice versa on soil structure, enzyme activities and prokaryotic community profiles in Argentinean semi-arid soils	14
Macroecological diversification and convergence in a clade of keystone symbionts	14
Characterization and survey in cattle of a rumen Pyrimadobacter sp. which degrades the plant toxin fluoroacetate	14
Biochar as electron donor for reduction of N2O by Paracoccus denitrificans	14
Heterogeneity–disease relationship in the human microbiome-associated diseases	14
Intestinal Enterococcus abundance correlates inversely with excessive weight gain and increased plasma leptin in breastfed infants	14
Safeguarding the fragile rice–wheat ecosystem of the Indo-Gangetic Plains through bio-priming and bioaugmentation interventions	14
Bacteria responsible for antimonite oxidation in antimony-contaminated soil revealed by DNA-SIP coupled to metagenomics	14
Substrate-dependent CO2 fixation in heterotrophic bacteria revealed by stable isotope labelling	14
Cascading effects in freshwater microbial food webs by predatory Cercozoa, Katablepharidacea and ciliates feeding on aplastidic bacterivorous cryptophytes	14
Metal-induced bacterial interactions promote diversity in river-sediment microbiomes	13
PbS biomineralization using cysteine: Bacillus cereus and the sulfur rush	13
Marine sediments harbor diverse archaea and bacteria with the potential for anaerobic hydrocarbon degradation via fumarate addition	13
Bacteria but not fungi respond to soil acidification rapidly and consistently in both a spruce and beech forest	13
Increased temperatures alter viable microbial biomass, ammonia oxidizing bacteria and extracellular enzymatic activities in Antarctic soils	13
Stochastic processes dominate marine free-living Vibrio community assembly in a subtropical gulf	13
Experimental assembly reveals ecological drift as a major driver of root nodule bacterial diversity in a woody legume crop	13
Warming and disturbance alter soil microbiome diversity and function in a northern forest ecotone	13
Soil microbial communities influencing organic phosphorus mineralization in a coastal dune chronosequence in New Zealand	13
Importance of environmental factors over habitat connectivity in shaping bacterial communities in microbial mats and bacterioplankton in an Antarctic freshwater system	13
Deep modifications of the microbiome of rice roots infected by the parasitic nematode Meloidogyne graminicola in highly infested fields in Vietnam	12
Relative contributions of egg-associated and substrate-associated microorganisms to black soldier fly larval performance and microbiota	12
Urbanization and Carpobrotus edulis invasion alter the diversity and composition of soil bacterial communities in coastal areas	12

Protecting the outside: biological tools to manipulate the skin microbiota	12
Characterizing the culturable surface microbiomes of diverse marine animals	12
Synergistic interactions prevail in multispecies biofilms formed by the human gut microbiota on mucin	12
A novel PCR-clamping assay reducing plant host DNA amplification significantly improves prokaryotic endo-microbiome community characterization	12
A genomic perspective of metal-resistant bacteria from gold particles: Possible survival mechanisms during gold biogeochemical cycling	11
Fungal community structure and seasonal trajectories respond similarly to fire across pyrophilic ecosystems	11
miCROPe 2019 – emerging research priorities towards microbe-assisted crop production	11
Restoring degraded microbiome function with self-assembled communities	11
Microbiome variation during culture growth of the European house dust mite,Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus	10
Columbia spotted frogs (Rana luteiventris) have characteristic skin microbiota that may be shaped by cutaneous skin peptides and the environment	10
Multi-stable bacterial communities exhibit extreme sensitivity to initial conditions	10
Dysbiosis in marine aquaculture revealed through microbiome analysis: reverse ecology for environmental sustainability	10
A generalised model for generalised transduction: the importance of co-evolution and stochasticity in phage mediated antimicrobial resistance transfer	10
Metagenomic analysis reveals significant differences in microbiome and metabolic profiles in the rumen of sheep fed low N diet with increased urea supplementation	10