OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Extremophiles is 3. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Pigment production by cold-adapted bacteria and fungi: colorful tale of cryosphere with wide range applications	84
Fungi in glacial ice of Antarctica: diversity, distribution and bioprospecting of bioactive compounds	27
The smallest space miners: principles of space biomining	25
The influence of the specific growth rate on the lipid composition of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius	24
Biodegradation of organophosphorus pesticide chlorpyrifos by Sphingobacterium sp. C1B, a psychrotolerant bacterium isolated from apple orchard in Himachal Pradesh of India	24
Microorganisms harbor keys to a circular bioeconomy making them useful tools in fighting plastic pollution and rising CO2 levels	23
Haloprofundus salilacus sp. nov., Haloprofundus halobius sp. nov. and Haloprofundus salinisoli sp. nov.: three extremely halophilic archaea isolated from salt lake and saline soil	22
Diversity, distribution, and ecology of viable fungi in permafrost and active layer of Maritime Antarctica	21
Root endophytic Penicillium promotes growth of Antarctic vascular plants by enhancing nitrogen mineralization	20
Biochemical characterization of an alkaline surfactant-stable keratinase from a new keratinase producer, Bacillus zhangzhouensis	20
Assessment of fungal diversity present in lakes of Maritime Antarctica using DNA metabarcoding: a temporal microcosm experiment	20
Electron carriers involved in autotrophic and heterotrophic acetogenesis in the thermophilic bacterium Thermoanaerobacter kivui	18
Diversity, ecology, and bioprospecting of culturable fungi in lakes impacted by anthropogenic activities in Maritime Antarctica	16
Fungal diversity present on rocks from a polar desert in continental Antarctica assessed using DNA metabarcoding	16
Contribution of mechanosensitive channels to osmoadaptation and ectoine excretion in Halomonas elongata	15
Poorly known microbial taxa dominate the microbiome of hypersaline Sambhar Lake salterns in India	15
Methanogenesis in the Lake Elton saline aquatic system	14
Fungal diversity in a sediment core from climate change impacted Boeckella Lake, Hope Bay, north-eastern Antarctic Peninsula assessed using metabarcoding	14
Geothermal springs in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh: potential sources of hydrolase-producing thermophilic bacilli	14
Fast decolorization of azo dyes in alkaline solutions by a thermostable metal-tolerant bacterial laccase and proposed degradation pathways	13
Antarctica as a reservoir of planetary analogue environments	13
Study on the osmoregulation of “Halomonas socia” NY-011 and the degradation of organic pollutants in the saline environment	12
Defining heat shock response for the thermoacidophilic model crenarchaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius	12
Soil fungal community composition differs significantly among the Antarctic, Arctic, and Tibetan Plateau	12
Osmolytes and membrane lipids in adaptive response of thermophilic fungus Rhizomucor miehei to cold, osmotic and oxidative shocks	11

Metagenomic insights into Himalayan glacial and kettle lake sediments revealed microbial community structure, function, and stress adaptation strategies	11
Energy conservation under extreme energy limitation: the role of cytochromes and quinones in acetogenic bacteria	11
The monofunctional CO dehydrogenase CooS is essential for growth of Thermoanaerobacter kivui on carbon monoxide	11
Insights into the metabolism pathway and functional genes of long-chain aliphatic alkane degradation in haloarchaea	10
Halorussus vallis sp. nov., Halorussus aquaticus sp. nov., Halorussus gelatinilyticus sp. nov., Halorussus limi sp. nov., Halorussus salilacus sp. nov., Halorussus salinisoli sp. nov.: six extremely h	10
The largest moss carpet transplant in Antarctica and its bryosphere cryptic biodiversity	10
Essentiality of the glnA gene in Haloferax mediterranei: gene conversion and transcriptional analysis	10
Metabolomics and lipid profile analysis of Coccomyxa melkonianii SCCA 048	10
Anaerotalea alkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov., an alkaliphilic, anaerobic, fermentative bacterium isolated from a terrestrial mud volcano	9
Role of extremophiles and their extremozymes in biorefinery process of lignocellulose degradation	9
Modification of the glycolytic pathway in Pyrococcus furiosus and the implications for metabolic engineering	9
Genomic analysis of Caldalkalibacillus thermarum TA2.A1 reveals aerobic alkaliphilic metabolism and evolutionary hallmarks linking alkaliphilic bacteria and plant life	9
Diversity of fungal DNA in lake sediments on Vega Island, north-east Antarctic Peninsula assessed using DNA metabarcoding	9
Prokaryotic diversity in stream sediments affected by acid mine drainage	9
A (6-4)-photolyase from the Antarctic bacterium Sphingomonas sp. UV9: recombinant production and in silico features	8
Selection and re-acclimation of bioprospected acid-tolerant green microalgae suitable for growth at low pH	8
Boosting Escherichia coli’s heterologous production rate of ectoines by exploiting the non-halophilic gene cluster from Acidiphilium cryptum	8
Halorientalis salina sp. nov., Halorientalis marina sp. nov., Halorientalis litorea sp. nov.: three extremely halophilic archaea isolated from a salt lake and coarse sea salt	8
Molecular strategies to enhance stability and catalysis of extremophile-derived α-amylase using computational biology	8
Ecological succession of fungal and bacterial communities in Antarctic mosses affected by a fairy ring disease	8
Halo(natrono)archaea from hypersaline lakes can utilize sulfoxides other than DMSO as electron acceptors for anaerobic respiration	8
The evolutionarily conserved HtrA is associated with stress tolerance and protein homeostasis in the halotolerant cyanobacterium Halothece sp. PCC7418	7
Characteristics of oxidative stress and antioxidant defenses by a mixed culture of acidophilic bacteria in response to Co2+ exposure	7
Salt-tolerant Acidihalobacter and Acidithiobacillus species from Vulcano (Italy) and Milos (Greece)	7
Limits to the three domains of life: lessons from community assembly along an Antarctic salinity gradient	7
Biochemical comparison of two glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase isozymes from a cold-adapted Pseudomonas mandelii	7
Characterization of the DdrD protein from the extremely radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans	7
Biofilm and planktonic microbial communities in highly acidic soil (pH < 3) in the Soos National Nature Reserve, Czech Republic	6
Richness and metallo-tolerance of cultivable fungi recovered from three high altitude glaciers from Citlaltépetl and Iztaccíhuatl volcanoes (Mexico)	6
Temperature and elemental sulfur shape microbial communities in two extremely acidic aquatic volcanic environments	6
Study of osmoadaptation mechanisms of halophilic Halomonas alkaliphila XH26 under salt stress by transcriptome and ectoine analysis	6
Genomic analysis of heavy metal-resistant Halobacterium salinarum isolated from Sfax solar saltern sediments	6
Halegenticoccus tardaugens sp. nov., an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a saline soil	6
A multi-omic screening approach for the discovery of thermoactive glycoside hydrolases	6
Characterization of a novel Cu-containing dissimilatory nitrite reductase from the haloarchaeon Halorussus sp. YCN54	6
Antarctic lichens as a source of phosphate-solubilizing bacteria	6
Effects of pH and temperature on (S)-amine activity of transaminase from the cold-adapted bacterium Psychrobacter cryohalolentis	6
Metagenomic insights into the fungal assemblages of the northwest Himalayan cold desert	5
Halocatena marina sp. nov., a novel filamentous halophilic archaeon isolated from marine tidal flat and emended description of the genus Halocatena	5
Draft genome sequence of Promicromonospora panici sp. nov., a novel ionizing-radiation-resistant actinobacterium isolated from roots of the desert plant Panicum turgidum	5
Characterization of a carboxylesterase with hyper-thermostability and alkali-stability from Streptomyces lividans TK24	5
A bioluminescent reporter for the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii	5
Effect of pH on the activity of ice-binding protein from Marinomonas primoryensis	5
Biome-specific distribution of Ni-containing carbon monoxide dehydrogenases	5
The catalytic and structural basis of archaeal glycerophospholipid biosynthesis	5
Electron transfer of extremophiles in bioelectrochemical systems	5
Salinilacihabitans rarus gen. nov., sp. nov., Natrononativus amylolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov., Natronobeatus ordinarius gen. nov., sp. nov., and Halovivax gelatinilyticus sp. nov., halophilic archaea,	5
Purification and characterization of two thermostable xylanases from a halotolerant Bacillus sp. Asc6BA isolated from Salar de Ascotán, Atacama Desert	5
New insights into halophilic prokaryotes isolated from salting–ripening anchovies (Engraulis anchoita) process focused on histamine-degrading strains	4
Natrinema caseinilyticum sp. nov., Natrinema gelatinilyticum sp. nov., Natrinema marinum sp. nov., Natrinema zhouii sp. nov., extremely halophilic archaea isolated from marine environments and a salt	4

Growth and photosynthesis acclimated response of the cyanobacterium Fischerella sp. FS 18 exposed to extreme conditions: alkaline pH, limited irradiance, and carbon dioxide concentration	4
Pentose degradation in archaea: Halorhabdus species degrade D-xylose, L-arabinose and D-ribose via bacterial-type pathways	4
Investigation of lipid profile in Acetobacter pasteurianus Ab3 against acetic acid stress during vinegar production	4
Strategies for anti-oxidative stress and anti-acid stress in bioleaching of LiCoO2 using an acidophilic microbial consortium	4
Diversity analysis of thermophilic hydrogenogenic carboxydotrophs by carbon monoxide dehydrogenase amplicon sequencing using new primers	4
Mechanism of TonB-dependent transport system in Halomonas alkalicola CICC 11012s in response to alkaline stress	4
The insight into diatom diversity, ecology, and biogeography of an extreme cold ultraoligotrophic Lake Labynkyr at the Pole of Cold in the northern hemisphere	4
Natural transformation in Gram-negative bacteria thriving in extreme environments: from genes and genomes to proteins, structures and regulation	4
Soil substrate culturing approaches recover diverse members of Actinomycetota from desert soils of Herring Island, East Antarctica	4
Extremophile enzyme optimization for low temperature and high salinity are fundamentally incompatible	3
Glutamate optimizes enzymatic activity under high hydrostatic pressure in Desulfovibrio species: effects on the ubiquitous thioredoxin system	3
Incomplete denitrification phenotypes in diverse Thermus species from diverse geothermal spring sediments and adjacent soils in southwest China	3
Improved Isolation of SlaA and SlaB S-layer proteins in Sulfolobus acidocaldarius	3
Undecane production by cold-adapted bacteria from Antarctica	3
Isotherm and kinetics modeling of biosorption and bioreduction of the Cr(VI) by Brachybacterium paraconglomeratum ER41	3
Bacterial diversity and community structure in the rhizosphere of the halophyte Halocnemum strobilaceum in an Algerian arid saline soil	3
Comparison of picoeukaryote community structures and their environmental relationships between summer and autumn in the southern Chukchi Sea	3
Anion-type modulates the effect of salt stress on saline lake bacteria	3
Cultivation and characterization of snowbound microorganisms from the South Pole	3
Prokaryotic diversity and biogeochemical characteristics of field living and laboratory cultured stromatolites from the hypersaline Laguna Interna, Salar de Atacama (Chile)	3
Heterologous gene expression and characterization of two serine hydroxymethyltransferases from Thermoplasma acidophilum	3
Simple sequence repeat insertion induced stability and potential ‘gain of function’ in the proteins of extremophilic bacteria	3
The hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus utilizes environmental iron sulfide cluster complexes as an iron source	3
Evansella halocellulosilytica sp. nov., an alkali-halotolerant and cellulose-dissolving bacterium isolated from bauxite residue	3
Variation of salinity and nitrogen concentration affects the pentacyclic triterpenoid inventory of the haloalkaliphilic aerobic methanotrophic bacterium Methylotuvimicrobium alcaliphilum	3