Trends in Microbiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Microbiology is 4. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Starvation helps transition to abundance – a ferrosome story547
Advisory Board and Contents343
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A sweet story from Phytophthora-soybean interaction154
Phenotypic plasticity through disposable genetic adaptation in ciliates143
Aerobic marine bacteria can use H2 for growth142
Advisory Board and Contents118
Cryptococcus neoformans: plant–microbe interactions and ecology111
Strategies for developing phages into novel antimicrobial tailocins110
The HIPS 2024 symposium: highlighting advances in pharmaceutical sciences in infection research89
Azotobacter vinelandii81
Better together? Lessons on sociality from Trichodesmium80
Features and algorithms: facilitating investigation of secreted effectors in Gram-negative bacteria79
Vertical and horizontal quorum-sensing-based multicellular communications78
Targeting gut microbiota to counteract acetaminophen-induced acute liver injury74
Biofilms vs. cities and humans vs. aliens – a tale of reproducibility in biofilms73
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Two-step recognition of HIV-1 DNA in the cytosol67
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Sleeping monsters: chronic infections in COVID-19 pathogenesis66
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Microbiota and Us: Of Playing Hosts and Hosting (Inter)plays64
Microbial redox coenzyme engineering and applications in biosynthesis63
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Microbes guide corals looking to find a home60
Metabolic flux phenotyping of secondary metabolism in cyanobacteria59
Masking of typical TLR4 and TLR5 ligands modulates inflammation and resolution by Helicobacter pylori58
Advisory Board and Contents57
Emerging Role for MAIT Cells in Control of Antimicrobial Resistance57
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Trichoderma reesei56
Cell-free DNA: a promising biomarker in infectious diseases56
Copper Handling in the Salmonella Cell Envelope and Its Impact on Virulence55
Early-life chemical exposome and gut microbiome development: African research perspectives within a global environmental health context54
Navigating during the Pandemic: Dialogues across Career Stages54
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Host Delipidation Mediated by Bacterial Effectors53
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The roles of calcium signaling and calcium deposition in microbial multicellularity52
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Disease-causing human viruses: novelty and legacy51
Gonococcal PorB: a multifaceted modulator of host immune responses50
Senescent cell: the ‘factory of viral amplification’50
Projecting global biological N2 fixation under climate warming across land and ocean46
Enigmatic evolution of microbial nitrogen fixation: insights from Earth’s past46
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Balancing act: counteracting adverse drug effects on the microbiome46
Exploiting predatory bacteria as biocontrol agents across ecosystems46
HIV-1-induced translocation of CPSF6 to biomolecular condensates45
The protist cultural renaissance45
The energetic costs of cellular complexity in evolution45
Response to Wang et al.: evidence contradicting the cytochrome-only model45
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Spore germination receptors – a new paradigm45
Retracing lineage history: time to emphasize genetic turnover44
The Next Million Names for Archaea and Bacteria44
Bacterial extracellular vesicles: an emerging avenue to tackle diseases44
Host cell environments and antibiotic efficacy in tuberculosis43
Dickeya solani43
Bacterial culturing is crucial to boost sustainable agriculture43
Advisory Board and Contents42
Scaling up and down: movement ecology for microorganisms42
Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System42
Cross-correlation of virome–bacteriome–host–metabolome to study respiratory health42
Staphylococcus lugdunensis42
Computational methods and challenges in analyzing intratumoral microbiome data41
Staphylococcus aureus41
Shedding light on immune suppression at high temperature40
Influenza immune escape under heterogeneous host immune histories40
Microbial biostimulants – the need for clarification in EU regulation38
Likelihood of amyloid formation in COVID-19-induced ARDS38
The exometabolome as a hidden driver of bacterial virulence and pathogenesis38
Geminiviruses also encode small proteins with specific functions38
Enhancing Microbial Pollutant Degradation by Integrating Eco-Evolutionary Principles with Environmental Biotechnology37
Bacterial Coinfections in Coronavirus Disease 201937
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Revisiting AMPylation through the lens of Fic enzymes36
Bradyrhizobium japonicum (diazoefficiens)36
RNase III-CLASH brings bacterial RNA networks into focus35
FtsK and SpoIIIE, coordinators of chromosome segregation and envelope remodeling in bacteria35
Unappreciated Roles for K+ Channels in Bacterial Physiology35
Regulation of chlamydial colonization by IFNγ delivered via distinct cells35
Genome-powered classification of microbial eukaryotes: focus on coral algal symbionts34
Biological interactions with Prochlorococcus: implications for the marine carbon cycle34
Unique relationships between phages and endospore-forming hosts34
Productivity metrics and hiring rubrics are warped by cultural schemas of merit33
Risk assessment of SARS-CoV-2 replicating and evolving in animals33
Thermotoga neapolitana33
Ecological principles of fecal microbiota transplantation32
Reductive biomining of pyrite by methanogens32
Crosslink cleaving enzymes: the smart autolysins that remodel the bacterial cell wall32
Akkermansia muciniphila31
Staphylococcus aureus membrane vesicles: an evolving story31
Deep Learning for Imaging and Detection of Microorganisms31
Tradeoffs and constraints on the evolution of tailocins31
Bacteria-derived short-chain fatty acids as potential regulators of fungal commensalism and pathogenesis31
How does plant sex alter microbiota assembly in dioecious plants?31
Small peptides: novel targets for modulating plant–rhizosphere microbe interactions31
Podospora anserina30
Why do hosts malfunction without microbes? Missing benefits versus evolutionary addiction30
Adaptive strategies and ecological roles of phages in habitats under physicochemical stress30
Bordetella pertussis30
Border Control: Regulating LPS Biogenesis29
Metabolic interactions shape a community's phenotype29
Advancing research on ectomycorrhizal fungal adaptation with landscape genomics29
Complex regulatory networks of virulence factors in Vibrio vulnificus29
Microbial synthesis of glycosaminoglycans and their oligosaccharides28
Toward an integrative framework for microbial community coalescence28
Structure and molecular mechanism of bacterial transcription activation28
Transposon-Associated CRISPR-Cas System: A Powerful DNA Insertion Tool28
Current state and perspective of implementation of clinical metagenomics: Geneva ICCMg meeting report28
Programming therapeutic probiotics by self-tunable sense-and-respond genetic circuits28
Engineering insects from the endosymbiont out28
Viral manipulation of host cell necroptosis and pyroptosis28
Glycan-mediated molecular interactions in bacterial pathogenesis27
The Emerging Role of Iron Acquisition in Biofilm-Associated Infections27
Emerging Patterns of Microbial Functional Traits27
Epulopiscium spp.27
Enhancing agroecosystem nitrogen management: microbial insights for improved nitrification inhibition27
Bacterial adaptation strategies to host-derived fatty acids27
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence27
Nuclear antiviral innate responses at the intersection of DNA sensing and DNA repair26
Intermicrobial Hitchhiking: How Nonmotile Microbes Leverage Communal Motility26
Extracellular vesicles: new bullets in the fungal armory26
Type VII Toxin/Antitoxin Classification System for Antitoxins that Enzymatically Neutralize Toxins26
Intentional and Unintentional Benefits of Minority Writing Accountability Groups26
Metallo-β-lactamase-mediated antimicrobial resistance and progress in inhibitor discovery26
Models are useful until high-resolution structures are available26
Advisory Board and Contents26
Emerging models to study competitive interactions within bacterial communities25
Borrelia (Borreliella) burgdorferi25
Funding and collaboration inequalities in infectious disease research – why does it matter?25
Loading and unloading plasmid cargoes25
Impacts of trophic interactions on carbon accrual in soils25
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LegionellaDB – A Database on Legionella Outbreaks23
Machine-learning approaches prevent post-treatment resistance-gaining bacterial recurrences23
Exploring the shared pathogenic strategies of independently evolved effectors across distinct plant viruses23
New insights on nitrogen transformation and attack on world stone monuments23
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Klebsiella pneumoniae emerging anti-immunology paradigms: from stealth to evasion23
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Viral sponges sequester nucleotide signals to inactivate immunity23
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: the anaerobic microbial ancestry of aerobic respiration22
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When PARPs Meet Antiviral Innate Immunity22
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Porphyromonas gingivalis21
Novel technologies are turning a dream into reality: conditionally replicating viruses as vaccines21
The aerobiome–health axis: a paradigm shift in bioaerosol thinking21
Demystifying Cell Cycle Arrest by HIV-1 Vif21
A changing gut virome ecological landscape with longevity21
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Chlamydia overcomes multiple gastrointestinal barriers to achieve long-lasting colonization21
Joining European Scientific Forces to Face Pandemics21
HCV egress – unconventional secretion of assembled viral particles20
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Interplay between endogenous and exogenous human retroviruses20
New views on PII signaling: from nitrogen sensing to global metabolic control20
Microbes and Parkinson’s disease: from associations to mechanisms20
Cysteine and resistance to oxidative stress: implications for virulence and antibiotic resistance20
Advisory Board and Contents19
Micronutrient–microbiome interplay: a critical regulator of soil–plant health19
Deep-sea microbial genetic resources: new frontiers for bioprospecting19
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Bacterial Defense against the Type VI Secretion System19
Cyclin-dependent Kinases as Emerging Targets for Developing Novel Antiviral Therapeutics19
New tools for the new bug Candida auris19
On the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and the emergence of variants of concern19
Capsicum-infecting begomoviruses as global pathogens: host–virus interplay, pathogenesis, and management18
Unraveling the mystery of viroid nuclear import18
Mycobacterium ulcerans18
Advisory Board and Contents18
Microbial nanowires: type IV pili or cytochrome filaments?17
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Frenemies on the reef? Resolving the coral–Endozoicomonas association17
Disentangling the microbial ecological factors impacting honey bee susceptibility to Paenibacillus larvae infection17
CIFAR humans and the microbiome: Banff meeting report17
Plant reoviruses hijack autophagy in insect vectors17
Pseudomonas aeruginosa16
Enhancing microbiome research in sub-Saharan Africa16
Novel molecular insights into the autophagy–virus arms race16
Bacterial dual phototrophy was demystified16
A security check that monitors cell morphogenesis16
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Micromanaging the nitrogen cycle in agroecosystems15
Naturally engineered plant microbiomes in resource-limited ecosystems15
Cutting-edge tools for unveiling the dynamics of plasmid–host interactions15
Synergy between microalgae and microbiome in polluted waters15
The divergent early divisome: is there a functional core?15
Moonlighting antibiotics: the extra job of modulating biofilm formation15
The type III secretion system effector network hypothesis15
Myxococcus xanthus15
Bridging the gap: pathway programs for inclusion and persistence in microbiology15
Environmental microbiome, human fungal pathogens, and antimicrobial resistance14
Monocyte regulation by gut microbial signals14
Temperature sensing and virulence regulation in pathogenic bacteria14
A Radical Reimagining of Fungal Two-Component Regulatory Systems14
Toll-like receptor 4 – a multifunctional virus recognition receptor14
Advisory Board and Contents14
Antimicrobial susceptibility prediction from genomes: a dream come true?14
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Modes of therapeutic delivery in synthetic microbiology13
Revisiting methane-dependent denitrification13
Between a Rock and a Soft Place: The Role of Viruses in Lithification of Modern Microbial Mats13
Viruses shuttle between fungi and plants13
The role of noncoding RNAs in bacterial immunity13
Mycobacterium abscessus13
Aspergillus nidulans13
Targeting bacterial transferrin and lactoferrin receptors for vaccines13
From carrion to soil: microbial recycling of animal carcasses13
Knowns and unknowns of the soil fungal necrobiome13
Connecting the dots: understanding how human mobility shapes TB epidemics12
Recent advances in modelling Shigella infection12
Population genetics, biofilm recalcitrance, and antibiotic resistance evolution12
Rural exclusion from science and academia12
Fungal infection of insects: molecular insights and prospects12
Cancer-associated SNPs in bacteria: lessons from Helicobacter pylori12
The interaction between autophagy, Helicobacter pylori, and gut microbiota in gastric carcinogenesis12
Microbiome selection and evolution within wild and domesticated plants12
Convergent evolution of innate immune-modulating effectors in invasive fungal pathogens12
Exploiting cAMP signaling in Mycobacterium tuberculosis for drug discovery12
A role for bacterial experimental evolution in coral bleaching mitigation?12
Enterococci facilitate polymicrobial infections11
Polymorphic microbes: a new emerging hallmark of cancer11
Ecological and evolutionary solutions to the plasmid paradox11
Importance of Bacteroidetes in host–microbe interactions and ecosystem functioning11
The role of microbial biofilms in range shifts of marine habitat-forming organisms11
The ambivalent role of Bacteroides in enteric infections11
What is microbial dormancy?11
SARS-CoV-2 and the spike protein in endotheliopathy11
T cell immunity in HSV-1- and VZV-infected neural ganglia11
Biofilms on stone monuments: biodeterioration or bioprotection?11
Candida–bacterial cross-kingdom interactions11
Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history11
Severe respiratory viral infections: T-cell functions diverging from immunity to inflammation10
Small intestine changes, large intestine problems10
The challenges of defining the human nasopharyngeal resistome10
QseB/QseC: a two-component system globally regulating bacterial behaviors10
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Membrane lipid composition defines membrane protein spectrum10
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Microbial regulation of feedbacks to ecosystem change10
When ferroptosis meets pathogenic infections10
Inside the microbial black box: a redox-centric framework for deciphering microbial metabolism10
Epigenetics: A New Frontier in Probiotic Research10
Unveiling strain-level dynamics in probiotic activity10
Human milk oligosaccharides and Bifidobacterium species10
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