ISME Journal

Papers
(The TQCC of ISME Journal is 24. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Localized coevolution between microbial predator and prey alters community-wide gene expression and ecosystem function261
Resurrection of a diatom after 7000 years from anoxic Baltic Sea sediment244
Pulsed, continuous or somewhere in between? Resource dynamics matter in the optimisation of microbial communities191
Emergent antibiotic persistence in a spatially structured synthetic microbial mutualism182
SLC24A-mediated calcium exchange as an indispensable component of the diatom cell density-driven signaling pathway162
Spatial separation of ribosomes and DNA in Asgard archaeal cells154
In vivo evolution of antimicrobial resistance in a biofilm model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lung infection148
Correction to: Integrated overview of stramenopile ecology, taxonomy, and heterotrophic origin137
Increased genetic diversity loss and genetic differentiation in a model marine diatom adapted to ocean warming compared to high CO2136
Aminolipids in bacterial membranes and the natural environment135
Hyphosphere microorganisms facilitate hyphal spreading and root colonization of plant symbiotic fungus in ammonium-enriched soil126
Physiological and evolutionary contexts of a new symbiotic species from the nitrogen-recycling gut community of turtle ants124
Endosymbionts modulate virus effects on aphid-plant interactions113
Role of the flagellar hook in the structural development and antibiotic tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms111
Microbial invasion of a toxic medium is facilitated by a resident community but inhibited as the community co-evolves109
Priority effects shape the structure of infant-typeBifidobacteriumcommunities on human milk oligosaccharides107
Population differentiation of Rhodobacteraceae along with coral compartments104
Novel order-level lineage of ammonia-oxidizing archaea widespread in marine and terrestrial environments102
Biotic interactions between benthic infauna and aerobic methanotrophs mediate methane fluxes from coastal sediments101
Community context matters for bacteria-phage ecology and evolution101
Viral lysing can alleviate microbial nutrient limitations and accumulate recalcitrant dissolved organic matter components in soil101
Phage co-transport with hyphal-riding bacteria fuels bacterial invasion in a water-unsaturated microbial model system96
Revisiting biocrystallization: purine crystalline inclusions are widespread in eukaryotes94
Gut microbiota contribute to variations in honey bee foraging intensity92
Bacterial type VI secretion system helps prevent cheating in microbial communities91
Cryptochrome PtCPF1 regulates high temperature acclimation of marine diatoms through coordination of iron and phosphorus uptake89
Transportome remodeling of a symbiotic microalga inside a planktonic host86
Flavobacterial exudates disrupt cell cycle progression and metabolism of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana85
Dominance of phage particles carrying antibiotic resistance genes in the viromes of retail food sources84
Metabolic potential of Nitrososphaera-associated clades84
Transcriptional responses of Trichodesmium to natural inverse gradients of Fe and P availability80
Correction: Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals enhance the transmission of exogenous antibiotic resistance genes through bacterial transformation79
Hot moment of N2O emissions in seasonally frozen peatlands78
Long-term metagenomic insights into the roles of antiviral defense systems in stabilizing activated sludge bacterial communities77
Fireworms are a reservoir and potential vector for coral-infecting apicomplexans76
Diurnal transcriptional variation is reduced in a nitrogen-fixing diatom endosymbiont75
Population dynamics of microbial cross-feeding are determined by co-localization probabilities and cooperation-independent cheater growth75
Genetic and species rearrangements in microbial consortia impact biodegradation potential75
Dynamics and activity of an ammonia-oxidizing archaea bloom in South San Francisco Bay75
Asgard ESCRT-III and VPS4 reveal conserved chromatin binding properties of the ESCRT machinery75
Divergent molecular strategies drive evolutionary adaptation to competitive fitness in biofilm formation74
Laminarin stimulates single cell rates of sulfate reduction whereas oxygen inhibits transcriptomic activity in coastal marine sediment71
Siderophores as an iron source for picocyanobacteria in deep chlorophyll maximum layers of the oligotrophic ocean68
Catabolic protein degradation in marine sediments confined to distinct archaea67
Phyllosphere symbiont promotes plant growth through ACC deaminase production66
Climate change-related warming reduces thermal sensitivity and modifies metabolic activity of coastal benthic bacterial communities64
Whole genome sequences reveal the Xanthomonas perforans population is shaped by the tomato production system64
Unraveling negative biotic interactions determining soil microbial community assembly and functioning63
Replicated life-history patterns and subsurface origins of the bacterial sister phyla Nitrospirota and Nitrospinota61
Dietary protein source alters gut microbiota composition and function61
Bolstering fitness via CO2 fixation and organic carbon uptake: mixotrophs in modern groundwater61
Comprehensive profile of the companion animal gut microbiome integrating reference-based and reference-free methods59
Chlorine redox chemistry is widespread in microbiology59
Expression of macromolecular organic nitrogen degrading enzymes identifies potential mediators of soil organic N availability to an annual grass58
Ginsenoside Rg3 enriches SCFA-producing commensal bacteria to confer protection against enteric viral infection via the cGAS-STING-type I IFN axis56
The fungal root endophyte Serendipita vermifera displays inter-kingdom synergistic beneficial effects with the microbiota in Arabidopsis thaliana and barley56
Benzoic acid facilitates ANF in monocot crops by recruiting nitrogen-fixing Paraburkholderia56
Large-scale single-virus genomics uncovers hidden diversity of river water viruses and diversified gene profiles56
Metabolic labour division trade-offs in denitrifying microbiomes55
Celebrating 15 years of The ISME Journal55
Mechanisms driving genome reduction of a novel Roseobacter lineage54
Correction: Limits to the cellular control of sequestered cryptophyte prey in the marine ciliate Mesodinium rubrum54
MicroRNA-mediated regulation of lipid metabolism in virus-infected Emiliania huxleyi52
Integrating plant-to-plant communication and rhizosphere microbial dynamics: ecological and evolutionary implications and a call for experimental rigor51
Mixed heavy metal stress induces global iron starvation response51
Plant microbiomes harbor potential to promote nutrient turnover in impoverished substrates of a Brazilian biodiversity hotspot51
Bacteriophage-mediated lysis supports robust growth of amino acid auxotrophs51
Tailless and filamentous prophages are predominant in marine Vibrio50
Diazotrophs are overlooked contributors to carbon and nitrogen export to the deep ocean49
Nutrient supplementation by genome-eroded Burkholderia symbionts of scale insects49
Metagenomic methylation patterns resolve bacterial genomes of unusual size and structural complexity49
Novel Antarctic yeast adapts to cold by switching energy metabolism and increasing small RNA synthesis49
Photoferrotrophy and phototrophic extracellular electron uptake is common in the marine anoxygenic phototroph Rhodovulum sulfidophilum49
Temporal enrichment of comammox Nitrospira and Ca. Nitrosocosmicus in a coastal plastisphere49
Microbial solutions must be deployed against climate catastrophe48
Correction to: Ice nucleation in a Gram-positive bacterium isolated from precipitation depends on a polyketide synthase and non-ribosomal peptide synthetase48
Swarming bacteria exhibit developmental phase transitions to establish scattered colonies in new regions48
Strain phylogroup and environmental constraints shape Escherichia coli dynamics and diversity over a 20-year human gut time series48
Metabolite release by nitrifiers facilitates metabolic interactions in the ocean47
Universal activity-based labeling method for ammonia- and alkane-oxidizing bacteria46
Microbial community composition predicts bacterial production across ocean ecosystems46
Network structure of resource use and niche overlap within the endophytic microbiome46
Unexplored diversity and ecological functions of transposable phages46
Intracellular symbiont Symbiodolus is vertically transmitted and widespread across insect orders45
Long-term maintenance of a heterologous symbiont association in Acropora palmata on natural reefs44
Functional convergence in slow-growing microbial communities arises from thermodynamic constraints44
Ammonia-oxidizing archaea have similar power requirements in diverse marine oxic sediments44
α-cyanobacteria possessing form IA RuBisCO globally dominate aquatic habitats43
Microbial drivers of DMSO reduction and DMS-dependent methanogenesis in saltmarsh sediments43
Functional and structural diversification of incomplete phosphotransferase system in cellulose-degrading clostridia42
Inter-kingdom interactions and stability of methanogens revealed by machine-learning guided multi-omics analysis of industrial-scale biogas plants42
Novel metabolic interactions and environmental conditions mediate the boreal peatmoss-cyanobacteria mutualism42
Ectomycorrhizal fungi mediate belowground carbon transfer between pines and oaks41
Extracellular aminopeptidase regulates exopolysaccharide production of Pseudomonas aeruginosa via quorum sensing41
Conversion of steppe to cropland increases spatial heterogeneity of soil functional genes41
Surface-layer protein is a public-good matrix exopolymer for microbial community organisation in environmental anammox biofilms41
Genomic landscape of a relict fir-associated fungus reveals rapid convergent adaptation towards endophytism41
Temperature, pH, and oxygen availability contributed to the functional differentiation of ancient Nitrososphaeria41
Availability of vitamin B12 and its lower ligand intermediate α-ribazole impact prokaryotic and protist communities in oceanic systems41
Adaptive survival strategies of rumen microbiota with solid diet deficiency in early life cause epithelial mitochondrial dysfunction41
Cultivation and biogeochemical analyses reveal insights into methanogenesis in deep subseafloor sediment at a biogenic gas hydrate site40
CRISPR-Cas provides limited phage immunity to a prevalent gut bacterium in gnotobiotic mice40
VapC10 toxin of the legume symbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti targets tRNASer and controls intracellular lifestyle40
The atmosphere: a transport medium or an active microbial ecosystem?40
Reductive dissolution of pyrite by methanogenic archaea40
Extreme summers impact cropland and grassland soil microbiomes40
Cell aggregation is associated with enzyme secretion strategies in marine polysaccharide-degrading bacteria40
Diversity, prevalence, and expression of cyanase genes (cynS) in planktonic marine microorganisms40
Specialized digestive mechanism for an insect-bacterium gut symbiosis39
Transglobal spread of an ecologically relevant sea urchin parasite39
Non-diphtheriae Corynebacterium species are associated with decreased risk of pneumococcal colonization during infancy39
Bridging ecological assembly process and community stability upon bacterial invasions39
Proteomic evidence for aerobic methane production in groundwater by methylotrophic Methylotenera39
Stepwise pathway for early evolutionary assembly of dissimilatory sulfite and sulfate reduction39
Rethinking CSR theory to incorporate microbial metabolic diversity and foraging traits39
Thermal stress triggers productive viral infection of a key coral reef symbiont38
Mechanisms underlying interactions between two abundant oral commensal bacteria38
The Constructive Black Queen hypothesis: new functions can evolve under conditions favouring gene loss38
Large-scale protein level comparison of Deltaproteobacteria reveals cohesive metabolic groups38
The rates of global bacterial and archaeal dispersal38
Benzo[a]pyrene stress impacts adaptive strategies and ecological functions of earthworm intestinal viromes38
Microbial drivers of methane emissions from unrestored industrial salt ponds37
Experimental evolution at ecological scales allows linking of viral genotypes to specific host strains37
High niche specificity and host genetic diversity of groundwater viruses37
Correction to: Diversity and evolution of surface polysaccharide synthesis loci in Enterobacteriales37
Magnetotactic bacteria affiliated with diverse Pseudomonadota families biomineralize intracellular Ca-carbonate37
Cytokinin drives assembly of the phyllosphere microbiome and promotes disease resistance through structural and chemical cues37
Proximity-based defensive mutualism between Streptomyces and Mesorhizobium by sharing and sequestering iron36
Coevolution between marine Aeromonas and phages reveals temporal trade-off patterns of phage resistance and host population fitness36
Soil microbial community response to corrinoids is shaped by a natural reservoir of vitamin B1236
Episomal virus maintenance enables bacterial population recovery from infection and promotes virus-bacterial coexistence36
Biofilms inactivate the free-living stage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the most destructive pathogen for vertebrate diversity36
Insight into the function and evolution of the Wood–Ljungdahl pathway in Actinobacteria35
Targeting Fusobacterium nucleatum through chemical modifications of host-derived transfer RNA fragments35
Microbial communities of Auka hydrothermal sediments shed light on vent biogeography and the evolutionary history of thermophily35
High abundance of hydrocarbon-degrading Alcanivorax in plumes of hydrothermally active volcanoes in the South Pacific Ocean35
Distribution of fitness effects of cross-species transformation reveals potential for fast adaptive evolution35
Copper stress shapes the dynamic behavior of amoebae and their associated bacteria35
Sulfur cycling connects microbiomes and biogeochemistry in deep-sea hydrothermal plumes35
Spatio-temporal pattern formation of living organisms at the edge of chaos35
Correction to 29 articles due to inaccurate manuscript submission dates34
Antibiotic-degrading resistance changes bacterial community structure via species-specific responses34
Genome diversification of symbiotic fungi in beetle-fungus mutualistic symbioses34
Seasonality of parasitic and saprotrophic zoosporic fungi: linking sequence data to ecological traits34
Marine phytoplankton downregulate core photosynthesis and carbon storage genes upon rapid mixed layer shallowing34
Phylosymbiosis shapes skin bacterial communities and pathogen-protective function in Appalachian salamanders34
Correction to: Internal carbon recycling by heterotrophic prokaryotes compensates for mismatches between phytoplankton production and heterotrophic consumption34
Rhizobacterial syntrophy between a helper and a beneficiary promotes tomato plant health34
Siderophores and competition for iron govern myxobacterial predation dynamics34
First come, first served: superinfection exclusion in Deformed wing virus is dependent upon sequence identity and not the order of virus acquisition34
Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions34
Host-specific viral predation network on coral reefs33
Decreased efficacy of antimicrobial agents in a polymicrobial environment33
Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteriocin A37 kills natural competitors with a unique mechanism of action33
Cell surface carbohydrates of symbiotic dinoflagellates and their role in the establishment of cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis33
Genomic insights into the phylogeny and biomass-degrading enzymes of rumen ciliates33
Proteomes of native and non-native symbionts reveal responses underpinning host-symbiont specificity in the cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis33
Taeniasis impacts human gut microbiome composition and function33
Trophic modulation of endophytes by rhizosphere protists32
Drivers and implications of distance decay differ for ectomycorrhizal and foliar endophytic fungi across an anciently fragmented landscape32
Hydrocarbon metabolism and petroleum seepage as ecological and evolutionary drivers for Cycloclasticus32
Microbial controls over soil priming effects under chronic nitrogen and phosphorus additions in subtropical forests32
Correction: Discovery and characterization of UipA, a uranium- and iron-binding PepSY protein involved in uranium tolerance by soil bacteria32
Lysogenic bacteriophages encoding arsenic resistance determinants promote bacterial community adaptation to arsenic toxicity32
Community composition and physiological plasticity control microbial carbon storage across natural and experimental soil fertility gradients32
Spatial sensing as a strategy for public goods regulation by gut microbes32
Evolution of snow algae, from cosmopolitans to endemics, revealed by DNA analysis of ancient ice31
Secondary messenger signalling influences Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation to sinus and lung environments31
Evolutionary origin and ecological implication of a unique nif island in free-living Bradyrhizobium lineages31
Differential aggregation patterns of Endozoicomonas within tissues of the coral Acropora loripes31
Coral-associated nitrogen fixation rates and diazotrophic diversity on a nutrient-replete equatorial reef31
Pathobiont and symbiont contribute to microbiota homeostasis through Malpighian tubules–gut countercurrent flow in Bactrocera dorsalis31
Collective protection against the type VI secretion system in bacteria31
Quantifying the effects of hydrogen on carbon assimilation in a seafloor microbial community associated with ultramafic rocks31
Millimeter-scale vertical partitioning of nitrogen cycling in hypersaline mats reveals prominence of genes encoding multi-heme and prismane proteins31
Chemotaxis may assist marine heterotrophic bacterial diazotrophs to find microzones suitable for N2 fixation in the pelagic ocean31
High resolution functional analysis and community structure of photogranules30
Pollutant profile complexity governs wastewater removal of recalcitrant pharmaceuticals30
Gene loss and symbiont switching during adaptation to the deep sea in a globally distributed symbiosis30
Reduced bacterial mortality and enhanced viral productivity during sinking in the ocean30
Ecological niches and assembly dynamics of diverse microbial consortia in the gastrointestine of goat kids30
Flavonoid-attracted Aeromonas sp. from the Arabidopsis root microbiome enhances plant dehydration resistance30
Genomic basis of environmental adaptation in the widespread poly-extremophilic Exiguobacterium group30
Insecticide susceptibility in a planthopper pest increases following inoculation with cultured Arsenophonus30
Enzyme promiscuity in natural environments: alkaline phosphatase in the ocean30
Protozoan predation enhances stress resistance and antibiotic tolerance in Burkholderia cenocepacia by triggering the SOS response30
Lineage-specific energy and carbon metabolism of sponge symbionts and contributions to the host carbon pool30
Correction: Trichlorobacter ammonificans, a dedicated acetate-dependent ammonifier with a novel module for dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonia29
Coral holobiont cues prime Endozoicomonas for a symbiotic lifestyle29
Ecological and evolutionary responses of earthworm holobionts to environmental changes29
Phototroph-heterotroph interactions during growth and long-term starvation across Prochlorococcus and Alteromonas diversity29
Humic acid-dependent respiratory growth of Methanosarcina acetivorans involves pyrroloquinoline quinone29
Drosophila attack inhibits hyphal regeneration and defense mechanisms activation for the fungus Trichoderma atroviride29
Adaptations of Pseudoxylaria towards a comb-associated lifestyle in fungus-farming termite colonies29
Ubiquitous occurrence of a dimethylsulfoniopropionate ABC transporter in abundant marine bacteria29
Identification and cultivation of anaerobic bacterial scavengers of dead cells29
Linking meta-omics to the kinetics of denitrification intermediates reveals pH-dependent causes of N2O emissions and nitrite accumulation in soil29
Abundant and cosmopolitan lineage of cyanopodoviruses lacking a DNA polymerase gene29
Diversity and origins of bacterial and archaeal viruses on sinking particles reaching the abyssal ocean29
Association of bacterial community types, functional microbial processes and lung disease in cystic fibrosis airways28
Diversification of single-cell growth dynamics under starvation influences subsequent reproduction in a clonal bacterial population28
Correction to: Linking meta-omics to the kinetics of denitrification intermediates reveals pH-dependent causes of N2O emissions and nitrite accumulation in soil28
Ongoing diversification of the global fish pathogenPiscirickettsia salmonisthrough genetic isolation and transposition bursts28
Species-specific relationships between deep sea sponges and their symbiotic Nitrosopumilaceae28
Coral mucus as a reservoir of bacteriophages targeting Vibrio pathogens28
Distribution and survival strategies of endemic and cosmopolitan diazotrophs in the Arctic Ocean28
Reprogramming the metabolism of an acetogenic bacterium to homoformatogenesis28
Microorganisms in subarctic soils are depleted of ribosomes under short-, medium-, and long-term warming28
Competition for iron shapes metabolic antagonism betweenBacillus subtilisandPseudomonas marginalis27
Rumen microbiome-driven insight into bile acid metabolism and host metabolic regulation27
Gut microbiota facilitate adaptation of invasive moths to new host plants27
Response to substrate limitation by a marine sulfate-reducing bacterium27
Chronic exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons alters skin virome composition and virus–host interactions27
Two-tiered mutualism improves survival and competitiveness of cross-feeding soil bacteria27
Leveraging genome-scale metabolic models to understand aerobic methanotrophs27
Genetic disruption of Arabidopsis secondary metabolite synthesis leads to microbiome-mediated modulation of nematode invasion27
Small changes in rhizosphere microbiome composition predict disease outcomes earlier than pathogen density variations26
Microbiota of pest insect Nezara viridula mediate detoxification and plant defense repression26
Prevalence of trace gas-oxidizing soil bacteria increases with radial distance from Polloquere hot spring within a high-elevation Andean cold desert26
The novel genus, ‘Candidatus Phosphoribacter’, previously identified as Tetrasphaera, is the dominant polyphosphate accumulating lineage in EBPR wastewater treatment plants worldwide26
Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis is the key process in the obligately syntrophic consortium of the anaerobic ameba Pelomyxa schiedti26
Metabolic flexibility allows bacterial habitat generalists to become dominant in a frequently disturbed ecosystem26
Simple Porifera holobiont reveals complex interactions between the host, an archaeon, a bacterium, and a phage26
Plant neighborhood shapes diversity and reduces interspecific variation of the phyllosphere microbiome26
Petrobactin, a siderophore produced by Alteromonas, mediates community iron acquisition in the global ocean26
Microbially mediated sulfur oxidation coupled with arsenate reduction within oligotrophic mining–impacted habitats26
Microbial consortium assembly and functional analysis via isotope labelling and single-cell manipulation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degraders25
Ecologically coherent population structure of uncultivated bacterioplankton25
Holobiont perspectives on tripartite interactions among microbiota, mosquitoes, and pathogens25
Polyhydroxybutyrate production by freshwater SAR11 (LD12)25
Correction to: Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals promote the transmission of multidrug resistance plasmids through intra- and intergenera conjugation25
Phycosphere pH of unicellular nano- and micro- phytoplankton cells and consequences for iron speciation25
Predatory protists impact plant performance by promoting plant growth-promoting rhizobacterial consortia25
Microbial gene expression in Guaymas Basin subsurface sediments responds to hydrothermal stress and energy limitation25
Modeling host-associating microbes under selection25
Correction to: Incomplete tricarboxylic acid cycle and proton gradient in Pandoravirus massiliensis: is it still a virus?24
A nitrite-oxidising bacterium constitutively consumes atmospheric hydrogen24
Abundant and active community members respond to diel cycles in hot spring phototrophic mats24
SeqCode in the golden age of prokaryotic systematics24
Global and seasonal variation of marine phosphonate metabolism24
Pacmanvirus isolated from the Lost City hydrothermal field extends the concept of transpoviron beyond the family Mimiviridae24
Diel investments in metabolite production and consumption in a model microbial system24
Genome reduction occurred in early Prochlorococcus with an unusually low effective population size24
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