Published in Orig Life Evol Biosph on November 29, 2006
Deep-sea biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: the known, the unknown, and the unknowable. PLoS One (2010) 2.42
Protistan community patterns within the brine and halocline of deep hypersaline anoxic basins in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Extremophiles (2008) 1.10
Salinity constraints on subsurface archaeal diversity and methanogenesis in sedimentary rock rich in organic matter. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.02
Metazoans of redoxcline sediments in Mediterranean deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basins. BMC Biol (2015) 0.87
Heterotrophic protists in hypersaline microbial mats and deep hypersaline basin water columns. Life (Basel) (2013) 0.83
Evidence for isolated evolution of deep-sea ciliate communities through geological separation and environmental selection. BMC Microbiol (2013) 0.83
Inter-comparison of the potentially active prokaryotic communities in the halocline sediments of Mediterranean deep-sea hypersaline basins. Extremophiles (2015) 0.79
Characterization of a novel Rieske-type alkane monooxygenase system in Pusillimonas sp. strain T7-7. J Bacteriol (2013) 0.79
Metabolic traits of an uncultured archaeal lineage -MSBL1- from brine pools of the Red Sea. Sci Rep (2016) 0.78
Environmental selection of protistan plankton communities in hypersaline anoxic deep-sea basins, Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Microbiologyopen (2012) 0.77
A Three-Component Microbial Consortium from Deep-Sea Salt-Saturated Anoxic Lake Thetis Links Anaerobic Glycine Betaine Degradation with Methanogenesis. Microorganisms (2015) 0.75
Genome sequence of the ubiquitous hydrocarbon-degrading marine bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis. Nat Biotechnol (2006) 2.69
Obligate oil-degrading marine bacteria. Curr Opin Biotechnol (2007) 2.67
Retracted Reactome array: forging a link between metabolome and genome. Science (2009) 2.27
The enigma of prokaryotic life in deep hypersaline anoxic basins. Science (2005) 2.17
Microbial enzymes mined from the Urania deep-sea hypersaline anoxic basin. Chem Biol (2005) 1.82
Limits of life in MgCl2-containing environments: chaotropicity defines the window. Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.80
Stratified prokaryote network in the oxic-anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline. Nature (2006) 1.54
Novel hydrolase diversity retrieved from a metagenome library of bovine rumen microflora. Environ Microbiol (2005) 1.52
Primary producing prokaryotic communities of brine, interface and seawater above the halocline of deep anoxic lake L'Atalante, Eastern Mediterranean Sea. ISME J (2007) 1.49
Novel polyphenol oxidase mined from a metagenome expression library of bovine rumen: biochemical properties, structural analysis, and phylogenetic relationships. J Biol Chem (2006) 1.36
Mining enzymes from extreme environments. Curr Opin Microbiol (2007) 1.30
Chaperonins govern growth of Escherichia coli at low temperatures. Nat Biotechnol (2003) 1.30
Polychlorinated biphenyl-degrading microbial communities in soils and sediments. Curr Opin Microbiol (2002) 1.28
Contribution of crenarchaeal autotrophic ammonia oxidizers to the dark primary production in Tyrrhenian deep waters (Central Mediterranean Sea). ISME J (2011) 1.28
Systems approaches to microbial communities and their functioning. Curr Opin Biotechnol (2010) 1.26
Oleispira antarctica gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel hydrocarbonoclastic marine bacterium isolated from Antarctic coastal sea water. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol (2003) 1.23
Mining genomes and 'metagenomes' for novel catalysts. Curr Opin Biotechnol (2005) 1.22
Natural microbial diversity in superficial sediments of Milazzo Harbor (Sicily) and community successions during microcosm enrichment with various hydrocarbons. Environ Microbiol (2005) 1.21
Proteomic insights into metabolic adaptations in Alcanivorax borkumensis induced by alkane utilization. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.18
Metagenomics for mining new genetic resources of microbial communities. J Mol Microbiol Biotechnol (2008) 1.17
Study of bacterial communities in Antarctic coastal waters by a combination of 16S rRNA and 16S rDNA sequencing. Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.15
Isolation and characterization of crude-oil-degrading bacteria from the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea. Mar Pollut Bull (2011) 1.11
Analysis of storage lipid accumulation in Alcanivorax borkumensis: Evidence for alternative triacylglycerol biosynthesis routes in bacteria. J Bacteriol (2006) 1.10
Thalassolituus oleivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel marine bacterium that obligately utilizes hydrocarbons. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol (2004) 1.10
Sulfur cycling and methanogenesis primarily drive microbial colonization of the highly sulfidic Urania deep hypersaline basin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.09
Unveiling microbial life in the new deep-sea hypersaline Lake Thetis. Part II: a metagenomic study. Environ Microbiol (2011) 1.08
'Candidatus Lumbricincola', a novel lineage of uncultured Mollicutes from earthworms of family Lumbricidae. Environ Microbiol (2009) 1.07
The cellular machinery of Ferroplasma acidiphilum is iron-protein-dominated. Nature (2007) 1.07
Metagenomics approaches in systems microbiology. FEMS Microbiol Rev (2008) 1.07
Unveiling microbial life in new deep-sea hypersaline Lake Thetis. Part I: Prokaryotes and environmental settings. Environ Microbiol (2011) 1.05
Functional consequences of single:double ring transitions in chaperonins: life in the cold. Mol Microbiol (2004) 1.02
Efficacy of intervention strategies for bioremediation of crude oil in marine systems and effects on indigenous hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria. Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.01
Metagenomic analysis of hadopelagic microbial assemblages thriving at the deepest part of Mediterranean Sea, Matapan-Vavilov Deep. Environ Microbiol (2012) 0.97
The environmental and biosecurity characteristics of livestock carcass disposal methods: A review. Waste Manag (2011) 0.97
Microbial β-glucosidases from cow rumen metagenome enhance the saccharification of lignocellulose in combination with commercial cellulase cocktail. Biotechnol Biofuels (2012) 0.96
Diversity of glycosyl hydrolases from cellulose-depleting communities enriched from casts of two earthworm species. Appl Environ Microbiol (2010) 0.95
Microbial community of the deep-sea brine Lake Kryos seawater-brine interface is active below the chaotropicity limit of life as revealed by recovery of mRNA. Environ Microbiol (2015) 0.95
Acidiplasma aeolicum gen. nov., sp. nov., a euryarchaeon of the family Ferroplasmaceae isolated from a hydrothermal pool, and transfer of Ferroplasma cupricumulans to Acidiplasma cupricumulans comb. nov. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol (2009) 0.95
The gut microbiota of larvae of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Oliver (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). BMC Microbiol (2014) 0.95
Predominant growth of Alcanivorax during experiments on "oil spill bioremediation" in mesocosms. Microbiol Res (2006) 0.94
Low temperature-induced systems failure in Escherichia coli: insights from rescue by cold-adapted chaperones. Proteomics (2006) 0.94
Mutation in a "tesB-like" hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A-specific thioesterase gene causes hyperproduction of extracellular polyhydroxyalkanoates by Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2. J Bacteriol (2006) 0.94
Microbial community of a saline mud volcano at San Biagio-Belpasso, Mt. Etna (Italy). Environ Microbiol (2002) 0.93
Genomic and mechanistic insights into the biodegradation of organic pollutants. Curr Opin Biotechnol (2004) 0.93
Functional metagenomics unveils a multifunctional glycosyl hydrolase from the family 43 catalysing the breakdown of plant polymers in the calf rumen. PLoS One (2012) 0.92
Thermoleophilum album and Thermoleophilum minutum are culturable representatives of group 2 of the Rubrobacteridae (Actinobacteria). Int J Syst Evol Microbiol (2003) 0.92
Effect of the earthworms Lumbricus terrestris and Aporrectodea caliginosa on bacterial diversity in soil. Microb Ecol (2009) 0.91
Genome sequence and functional genomic analysis of the oil-degrading bacterium Oleispira antarctica. Nat Commun (2013) 0.91
Crude oil-induced structural shift of coastal bacterial communities of rod bay (Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica) and characterization of cultured cold-adapted hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria. FEMS Microbiol Ecol (2004) 0.91
Genomic signatures of fifth autotrophic carbon assimilation pathway in bathypelagic Crenarchaeota. Microb Biotechnol (2010) 0.88
Expression of a temperature-sensitive esterase in a novel chaperone-based Escherichia coli strain. Appl Environ Microbiol (2004) 0.88
Structure and activity of the cold-active and anion-activated carboxyl esterase OLEI01171 from the oil-degrading marine bacterium Oleispira antarctica. Biochem J (2012) 0.88
The gill chamber epibiosis of deep-sea shrimp Rimicaris exoculata: an in-depth metagenomic investigation and discovery of Zetaproteobacteria. Environ Microbiol (2014) 0.87
Transcriptional profiling of the marine oil-degrading bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis during growth on n-alkanes. FEMS Microbiol Lett (2011) 0.87
Niche-specificity factors of a marine oil-degrading bacterium Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2. FEMS Microbiol Lett (2008) 0.87
Characterization and role of a metalloprotease induced by chitin in Serratia sp. KCK. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol (2007) 0.86
The 'pH optimum anomaly' of intracellular enzymes of Ferroplasma acidiphilum. Environ Microbiol (2006) 0.86
A purple acidophilic di-ferric DNA ligase from Ferroplasma. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 0.85
Biochemical and structural features of a novel cyclodextrinase from cow rumen metagenome. Biotechnol J (2007) 0.85
Inter-conversion of catalytic abilities in a bifunctional carboxyl/feruloyl-esterase from earthworm gut metagenome. Microb Biotechnol (2009) 0.85
Hydrostatic pressure affects membrane and storage lipid compositions of the piezotolerant hydrocarbon-degrading Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus strain #5. Environ Microbiol (2010) 0.85
Pressure adaptation is linked to thermal adaptation in salt-saturated marine habitats. Environ Microbiol (2014) 0.85
Composition and dynamics of biostimulated indigenous oil-degrading microbial consortia from the Irish, North and Mediterranean Seas: a mesocosm study. FEMS Microbiol Ecol (2012) 0.85
Halorhabdus tiamatea: proteogenomics and glycosidase activity measurements identify the first cultivated euryarchaeon from a deep-sea anoxic brine lake as potential polysaccharide degrader. Environ Microbiol (2014) 0.84
Retraction. Science (2010) 0.84
Gene sets for utilization of primary and secondary nutrition supplies in the distal gut of endangered Iberian lynx. PLoS One (2012) 0.83
Conversion of a carboxylesterase into a triacylglycerol lipase by a random mutation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl (2005) 0.83
The environment shapes microbial enzymes: five cold-active and salt-resistant carboxylesterases from marine metagenomes. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2014) 0.83
Single residues dictate the co-evolution of dual esterases: MCP hydrolases from the α/β hydrolase family. Biochem J (2013) 0.83
Bioremediation of Southern Mediterranean oil polluted sites comes of age. N Biotechnol (2013) 0.83
Isolation and characterization of novel lipases/esterases from a bovine rumen metagenome. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2015) 0.82
Partaking of Archaea to biogeochemical cycling in oxygen-deficient zones of meromictic saline Lake Faro (Messina, Italy). Environ Microbiol (2012) 0.82
Isolation and characterization of two crude oil-degrading yeast strains, Yarrowia lipolytica PG-20 and PG-32, from the Persian Gulf. Mar Pollut Bull (2012) 0.81
Catalytic role of conserved HQGE motif in the CE6 carbohydrate esterase family. FEBS Lett (2007) 0.81
A mesocosm study of the changes in marine flagellate and ciliate communities in a crude oil bioremediation trial. Microb Ecol (2010) 0.80
Recent trends in industrial microbiology. Curr Opin Microbiol (2008) 0.80
Microbial consortia in mesocosm bioremediation trial using oil sorbents, slow-release fertilizer and bioaugmentation. FEMS Microbiol Ecol (2009) 0.80
Characterization of a chitinolytic enzyme from Serratia sp. KCK isolated from kimchi juice. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2007) 0.80
A novel platelet-activating factor acetylhydrolase discovered in a metagenome from the earthworm-associated microbial community. Environ Microbiol (2011) 0.79