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| Experimental factors affecting PCR-based estimates of microbial species richness and evenness A Engelbrektson, V Kunin, KC Wrighton, N Zvenigorodsky, F Chen, ... The ISME journal 4 (5), 642-647, 2010 | 563 | 2010 |
| Fermentation, hydrogen, and sulfur metabolism in multiple uncultivated bacterial phyla KC Wrighton, BC Thomas, I Sharon, CS Miller, CJ Castelle, ... Science 337 (6102), 1661-1665, 2012 | 509 | 2012 |
| Genomic expansion of domain archaea highlights roles for organisms from new phyla in anaerobic carbon cycling CJ Castelle, KC Wrighton, BC Thomas, LA Hug, CT Brown, MJ Wilkins, ... Current biology 25 (6), 690-701, 2015 | 397 | 2015 |
| A novel ecological role of the Firmicutes identified in thermophilic microbial fuel cells KC Wrighton, P Agbo, F Warnecke, KA Weber, EL Brodie, TZ DeSantis, ... The ISME journal 2 (11), 1146-1156, 2008 | 308 | 2008 |
| Community genomic analyses constrain the distribution of metabolic traits across the Chloroflexi phylum and indicate roles in sediment carbon cycling LA Hug, CJ Castelle, KC Wrighton, BC Thomas, I Sharon, KR Frischkorn, ... Microbiome 1 (1), 1-17, 2013 | 307 | 2013 |
| The human gut and groundwater harbor non-photosynthetic bacteria belonging to a new candidate phylum sibling to Cyanobacteria SC Di Rienzi, I Sharon, KC Wrighton, O Koren, LA Hug, BC Thomas, ... elife 2, e01102, 2013 | 278 | 2013 |
| Diverse uncultivated ultra-small bacterial cells in groundwater B Luef, KR Frischkorn, KC Wrighton, HYN Holman, G Birarda, BC Thomas, ... Nature communications 6 (1), 1-8, 2015 | 252 | 2015 |
| Small genomes and sparse metabolisms of sediment-associated bacteria from four candidate phyla RS Kantor, KC Wrighton, KM Handley, I Sharon, LA Hug, CJ Castelle, ... MBio 4 (5), e00708-13, 2013 | 208 | 2013 |
| Evidence for direct electron transfer by a Gram-positive bacterium isolated from a microbial fuel cell KC Wrighton, JC Thrash, RA Melnyk, JP Bigi, KG Byrne-Bailey, JP Remis, ... Applied and environmental microbiology 77 (21), 7633-7639, 2011 | 179 | 2011 |
| Extraordinary phylogenetic diversity and metabolic versatility in aquifer sediment CJ Castelle, LA Hug, KC Wrighton, BC Thomas, KH Williams, D Wu, ... Nature communications 4 (1), 1-10, 2013 | 159 | 2013 |
| The bright side of microbial dark matter: lessons learned from the uncultivated majority L Solden, K Lloyd, K Wrighton Current opinion in microbiology 31, 217-226, 2016 | 158 | 2016 |
| Microbial metabolisms in a 2.5-km-deep ecosystem created by hydraulic fracturing in shales RA Daly, MA Borton, MJ Wilkins, DW Hoyt, DJ Kountz, RA Wolfe, ... Nature Microbiology 1 (10), 1-9, 2016 | 154 | 2016 |
| Metabolic interdependencies between phylogenetically novel fermenters and respiratory organisms in an unconfined aquifer KC Wrighton, CJ Castelle, MJ Wilkins, LA Hug, I Sharon, BC Thomas, ... The ISME journal 8 (7), 1452-1463, 2014 | 145 | 2014 |
| Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome (MIUViG) S Roux, EM Adriaenssens, BE Dutilh, EV Koonin, AM Kropinski, ... Nature biotechnology 37 (1), 29-37, 2019 | 141 | 2019 |
| Host-linked soil viral ecology along a permafrost thaw gradient JB Emerson, S Roux, JR Brum, B Bolduc, BJ Woodcroft, HB Jang, ... Nature microbiology 3 (8), 870-880, 2018 | 136 | 2018 |
| Bacterial community structure corresponds to performance during cathodic nitrate reduction KC Wrighton, B Virdis, P Clauwaert, ST Read, RA Daly, N Boon, Y Piceno, ... The ISME journal 4 (11), 1443-1455, 2010 | 135 | 2010 |
| Clades of huge phages from across Earth’s ecosystems B Al-Shayeb, R Sachdeva, LX Chen, F Ward, P Munk, A Devoto, ... Nature 578 (7795), 425-431, 2020 | 118 | 2020 |
| Methanogenesis in oxygenated soils is a substantial fraction of wetland methane emissions JC Angle, TH Morin, LM Solden, AB Narrowe, GJ Smith, MA Borton, ... Nature communications 8 (1), 1-9, 2017 | 111 | 2017 |
| Short-read assembly of full-length 16S amplicons reveals bacterial diversity in subsurface sediments CS Miller, KM Handley, KC Wrighton, KR Frischkorn, BC Thomas, ... PloS one 8 (2), e56018, 2013 | 102 | 2013 |
