Published in ISME J on May 10, 2007
The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 12.99
Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 12.39
Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 11.21
Microbial community profiling for human microbiome projects: Tools, techniques, and challenges. Genome Res (2009) 7.12
The placenta harbors a unique microbiome. Sci Transl Med (2014) 5.10
Temporal dynamics of the human vaginal microbiota. Sci Transl Med (2012) 4.58
Genes and molecules of lactobacilli supporting probiotic action. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2008) 3.12
Bacterial communities in women with bacterial vaginosis: high resolution phylogenetic analyses reveal relationships of microbiota to clinical criteria. PLoS One (2012) 2.79
Evidence of uncultivated bacteria in the adult female bladder. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 2.75
Diversity of human vaginal bacterial communities and associations with clinically defined bacterial vaginosis. Appl Environ Microbiol (2008) 2.73
Deep sequencing of the vaginal microbiota of women with HIV. PLoS One (2010) 2.59
The human vaginal bacterial biota and bacterial vaginosis. Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis (2009) 2.56
Comparative analyses of the bacterial microbiota of the human nostril and oropharynx. MBio (2010) 2.53
Fundamentals of microbial community resistance and resilience. Front Microbiol (2012) 2.53
From structure to function: the ecology of host-associated microbial communities. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev (2010) 2.42
The vaginal microbiome: new information about genital tract flora using molecular based techniques. BJOG (2011) 2.41
Evaluation of methods for the extraction and purification of DNA from the human microbiome. PLoS One (2012) 2.34
The composition and stability of the vaginal microbiota of normal pregnant women is different from that of non-pregnant women. Microbiome (2014) 2.24
The effects of circumcision on the penis microbiome. PLoS One (2010) 2.15
The Human Microbiome Project strategy for comprehensive sampling of the human microbiome and why it matters. FASEB J (2012) 2.13
Microbiota of the seminal fluid from healthy and infertile men. Fertil Steril (2013) 2.10
Characterization of the diversity and temporal stability of bacterial communities in human milk. PLoS One (2011) 2.09
Cervicovaginal bacteria are a major modulator of host inflammatory responses in the female genital tract. Immunity (2015) 2.05
Molecular analysis of the diversity of vaginal microbiota associated with bacterial vaginosis. BMC Genomics (2010) 2.04
Bacterial vaginosis assessed by gram stain and diminished colonization resistance to incident gonococcal, chlamydial, and trichomonal genital infection. J Infect Dis (2010) 2.02
Vaginal microbiome: rethinking health and disease. Annu Rev Microbiol (2012) 1.94
Comparison of self-collected and physician-collected vaginal swabs for microbiome analysis. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.82
Role of the gut microbiota in defining human health. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther (2010) 1.73
Quantitative PCR assessments of bacterial species in women with and without bacterial vaginosis. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.69
Severity of bacterial vaginosis and the risk of sexually transmitted infection. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2011) 1.69
The vaginal bacterial communities of Japanese women resemble those of women in other racial groups. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol (2009) 1.59
Structure of the human gastric bacterial community in relation to Helicobacter pylori status. ISME J (2010) 1.58
Heterogeneity of vaginal microbial communities within individuals. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 1.50
Recent advances in understanding the microbiology of the female reproductive tract and the causes of premature birth. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol (2010) 1.43
The interpersonal and intrapersonal diversity of human-associated microbiota in key body sites. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2012) 1.35
At the crossroads of vaginal health and disease, the genome sequence of Lactobacillus iners AB-1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 1.30
Pyrosequencing analysis of the human microbiota of healthy Chinese undergraduates. BMC Genomics (2013) 1.26
Identification and genotyping of bacteria from paired vaginal and rectal samples from pregnant women indicates similarity between vaginal and rectal microflora. BMC Infect Dis (2009) 1.26
Composition of the vaginal microbiota in women of reproductive age--sensitive and specific molecular diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis is possible? PLoS One (2013) 1.21
Comparative analysis of fecal microbiota in infants with and without eczema. PLoS One (2010) 1.20
Differences in vaginal microbiome in African American women versus women of European ancestry. Microbiology (2014) 1.20
Understanding vaginal microbiome complexity from an ecological perspective. Transl Res (2012) 1.19
Gardnerella vaginalis does not always cause bacterial vaginosis. J Infect Dis (2014) 1.17
The vaginal microbiome during pregnancy and the postpartum period in a European population. Sci Rep (2015) 1.17
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) candidate bacteria: associations with BV and behavioural practices in sexually-experienced and inexperienced women. PLoS One (2012) 1.16
Characterization of the vaginal microbiota of healthy Canadian women through the menstrual cycle. Microbiome (2014) 1.13
Quantification of bacterial species of the vaginal microbiome in different groups of women, using nucleic acid amplification tests. BMC Microbiol (2012) 1.12
The cervical microbiome over 7 years and a comparison of methodologies for its characterization. PLoS One (2012) 1.11
Interaction between lactobacilli, bacterial vaginosis-associated bacteria, and HIV Type 1 RNA and DNA Genital shedding in U.S. and Kenyan women. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses (2012) 1.11
Characterization of the vaginal micro- and mycobiome in asymptomatic reproductive-age Estonian women. PLoS One (2013) 1.07
Functional genomics of lactic acid bacteria: from food to health. Microb Cell Fact (2014) 1.06
Inhibition of Neisseria gonorrhoeae epithelial cell interactions by vaginal Lactobacillus species. Infect Immun (2008) 1.05
The role of bacterial vaginosis and trichomonas in HIV transmission across the female genital tract. Curr HIV Res (2012) 1.05
Bacterial succession in a glacier foreland of the High Arctic. ISME J (2009) 1.04
Comparative functional genomics of Lactobacillus spp. reveals possible mechanisms for specialization of vaginal lactobacilli to their environment. J Bacteriol (2014) 1.02
Vaginal microbiota of adolescent girls prior to the onset of menarche resemble those of reproductive-age women. MBio (2015) 1.01
Diversity of cervicovaginal microbiota associated with female lower genital tract infections. Microb Ecol (2011) 1.01
The vaginal microbiome in health and disease. Trends Endocrinol Metab (2011) 1.01
Identification and characterisation of vaginal lactobacilli from South African women. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 1.00
Vaginal microbiota of women with frequent vulvovaginal candidiasis. Infect Immun (2009) 1.00
Antimicrobial and immune modulatory effects of lactic acid and short chain fatty acids produced by vaginal microbiota associated with eubiosis and bacterial vaginosis. Front Physiol (2015) 1.00
A new era of the vaginal microbiome: advances using next-generation sequencing. Chem Biodivers (2012) 0.99
The microbiota of the human genitourinary tract: trying to see the forest through the trees. Trans Am Clin Climatol Assoc (2012) 0.98
Vaginal microbiota and the use of probiotics. Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis (2009) 0.98
Vaginal and oral microbes, host genotype and preterm birth. Med Hypotheses (2009) 0.97
Application of ecological network theory to the human microbiome. Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis (2008) 0.96
Vaginal microbiota of healthy pregnant Mexican women is constituted by four Lactobacillus species and several vaginosis-associated bacteria. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol (2011) 0.96
Biofilms 2009: new perspectives at the heart of surface-associated microbial communities. J Bacteriol (2010) 0.94
Adhesion of human probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus to cervical and vaginal cells and interaction with vaginosis-associated pathogens. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol (2009) 0.93
The role of metagenomics in understanding the human microbiome in health and disease. Virulence (2014) 0.93
Lactobacillus jensenii surface-associated proteins inhibit Neisseria gonorrhoeae adherence to epithelial cells. Infect Immun (2010) 0.92
Characterization of culturable vaginal Lactobacillus species among women with and without bacterial vaginosis from the United States and India: a cross-sectional study. J Med Microbiol (2014) 0.92
The vaginal microbiota, host defence and reproductive physiology. J Physiol (2016) 0.91
Primate vaginal microbiomes exhibit species specificity without universal Lactobacillus dominance. ISME J (2014) 0.90
Incidence and epidemiology of Streptococcus pseudoporcinus in the genital tract. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 0.90
Identification of vaginal lactobacilli with potential probiotic properties isolated from women in North Lebanon. Microb Ecol (2014) 0.90
The significance of Lactobacillus crispatus and L. vaginalis for vaginal health and the negative effect of recent sex: a cross-sectional descriptive study across groups of African women. BMC Infect Dis (2015) 0.89
Pregnancy's stronghold on the vaginal microbiome. PLoS One (2014) 0.89
Rapid species-level identification of vaginal and oral lactobacilli using MALDI-TOF MS analysis and 16S rDNA sequencing. BMC Microbiol (2014) 0.88
Differences in vaginal lactobacilli composition of Iranian healthy and bacterial vaginosis infected women: a comparative analysis of their cytotoxic effects with commercial vaginal probiotics. Iran Red Crescent Med J (2013) 0.88
Vaginal microbial flora analysis by next generation sequencing and microarrays; can microbes indicate vaginal origin in a forensic context? Int J Legal Med (2012) 0.87
Temporal Shifts in Microbial Communities in Nonpregnant African-American Women with and without Bacterial Vaginosis. Interdiscip Perspect Infect Dis (2009) 0.85
Making inroads into improving treatment of bacterial vaginosis - striving for long-term cure. BMC Infect Dis (2015) 0.84
Changes in the predominant human Lactobacillus flora during in vitro fertilisation. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob (2008) 0.84
A Study of the Vaginal Microbiome in Healthy Canadian Women Utilizing cpn60-Based Molecular Profiling Reveals Distinct Gardnerella Subgroup Community State Types. PLoS One (2015) 0.84
The changing landscape of the vaginal microbiome. Clin Lab Med (2014) 0.84
Lactobacillus species isolated from vaginal secretions of healthy and bacterial vaginosis-intermediate Mexican women: a prospective study. BMC Infect Dis (2013) 0.83
Homogeneity of the vaginal microbiome at the cervix, posterior fornix, and vaginal canal in pregnant Chinese women. Microb Ecol (2014) 0.83
Microbiota and pelvic inflammatory disease. Semin Reprod Med (2014) 0.83
Prevalent high-risk HPV infection and vaginal microbiota in Nigerian women. Epidemiol Infect (2015) 0.83
Adhesion Properties of Lactic Acid Bacteria on Intestinal Mucin. Microorganisms (2016) 0.82
Mageeibacillus indolicus gen. nov., sp. nov.: a novel bacterium isolated from the female genital tract. Anaerobe (2014) 0.82
Characterization of the vaginal microbiota among sexual risk behavior groups of women with bacterial vaginosis. PLoS One (2013) 0.81
Potential influence of the microbiome on infertility and assisted reproductive technology. Semin Reprod Med (2014) 0.80
Bacterial communities in penile skin, male urethra, and vaginas of heterosexual couples with and without bacterial vaginosis. Microbiome (2016) 0.80
Anaerobes and bacterial vaginosis in pregnancy: virulence factors contributing to vaginal colonisation. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2014) 0.80
Behavioral predictors of colonization with Lactobacillus crispatus or Lactobacillus jensenii after treatment for bacterial vaginosis: a cohort study. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol (2012) 0.79
Novel PCR-based methods enhance characterization of vaginal microbiota in a bacterial vaginosis patient before and after treatment. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.79
Fine-scale analysis of 16S rRNA sequences reveals a high level of taxonomic diversity among vaginal Atopobium spp. Pathog Dis (2015) 0.78
Vaginal microbiome of reproductive-age women. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 12.39
Intrinsic disorder and protein function. Biochemistry (2002) 8.54
The importance of intrinsic disorder for protein phosphorylation. Nucleic Acids Res (2004) 8.23
Clearcut: a fast implementation of relaxed neighbor joining. Bioinformatics (2006) 6.99
Intrinsic disorder in cell-signaling and cancer-associated proteins. J Mol Biol (2002) 5.64
Temporal dynamics of the human vaginal microbiota. Sci Transl Med (2012) 4.58
Characterization of vaginal microbial communities in adult healthy women using cultivation-independent methods. Microbiology (2004) 4.26
Statistical methods for characterizing diversity of microbial communities by analysis of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms of 16S rRNA genes. Environ Microbiol (2006) 3.44
An empirical test of the mutational landscape model of adaptation using a single-stranded DNA virus. Nat Genet (2005) 3.15
Predicting intrinsic disorder from amino acid sequence. Proteins (2003) 2.74
Flavors of protein disorder. Proteins (2003) 2.72
Molecular characterization of mucosal adherent bacteria and associations with colorectal adenomas. Gut Microbes (2010) 2.70
Comparing and combining predictors of mostly disordered proteins. Biochemistry (2005) 2.45
Advances in the use of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism (T-RFLP) analysis of 16S rRNA genes to characterize microbial communities. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol (2008) 2.36
The tragedy of the uncommon: understanding limitations in the analysis of microbial diversity. ISME J (2008) 2.35
Evaluation of methods for the extraction and purification of DNA from the human microbiome. PLoS One (2012) 2.34
Protein flexibility and intrinsic disorder. Protein Sci (2004) 2.33
Identification and functions of usefully disordered proteins. Adv Protein Chem (2002) 2.23
Optimizing long intrinsic disorder predictors with protein evolutionary information. J Bioinform Comput Biol (2005) 2.20
Performance-based selection of likelihood models for phylogeny estimation. Syst Biol (2003) 2.15
Microbiota of the seminal fluid from healthy and infertile men. Fertil Steril (2013) 2.10
Characterization of the diversity and temporal stability of bacterial communities in human milk. PLoS One (2011) 2.09
A new method for estimating the size of small populations from genetic mark-recapture data. Mol Ecol (2005) 2.09
Molecular microbial ecology: land of the one-eyed king. Curr Opin Microbiol (2004) 2.06
MiCA: a web-based tool for the analysis of microbial communities based on terminal-restriction fragment length polymorphisms of 16S and 18S rRNA genes. Microb Ecol (2007) 2.04
DisProt: a database of protein disorder. Bioinformatics (2004) 1.99
The complete nucleotide sequence and environmental distribution of the cryptic, conjugative, broad-host-range plasmid pIPO2 isolated from bacteria of the wheat rhizosphere. Microbiology (2002) 1.97
Beneficial fitness effects are not exponential for two viruses. J Mol Evol (2008) 1.94
Vaginal microbiome: rethinking health and disease. Annu Rev Microbiol (2012) 1.94
Comparison of self-collected and physician-collected vaginal swabs for microbiome analysis. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.82
TOP-IDP-scale: a new amino acid scale measuring propensity for intrinsic disorder. Protein Pept Lett (2008) 1.70
Hypertension knowledge, awareness, and attitudes in a hypertensive population. J Gen Intern Med (2005) 1.69
Testing the extreme value domain of attraction for distributions of beneficial fitness effects. Genetics (2007) 1.66
Stability of a promiscuous plasmid in different hosts: no guarantee for a long-term relationship. Microbiology (2007) 1.63
The innate immune system is activated by stimulation of vaginal epithelial cells with Staphylococcus aureus and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1. Infect Immun (2005) 1.62
Increased rectal microbial richness is associated with the presence of colorectal adenomas in humans. ISME J (2012) 1.62
Gut microbial colonisation in premature neonates predicts neonatal sepsis. Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed (2012) 1.59
The vaginal bacterial communities of Japanese women resemble those of women in other racial groups. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol (2009) 1.59
Prevalence of toxic shock syndrome toxin 1-producing Staphylococcus aureus and the presence of antibodies to this superantigen in menstruating women. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.52
High frequency of mutations that expand the host range of an RNA virus. Genetics (2007) 1.50
Mutational effects and population dynamics during viral adaptation challenge current models. Genetics (2010) 1.50
Assessing allelic dropout and genotype reliability using maximum likelihood. Genetics (2002) 1.48
Recent advances in understanding the microbiology of the female reproductive tract and the causes of premature birth. Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol (2010) 1.43
Evaluating the performance of a successive-approximations approach to parameter optimization in maximum-likelihood phylogeny estimation. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 1.42
Properties of adaptive walks on uncorrelated landscapes under strong selection and weak mutation. J Theor Biol (2006) 1.38
Predicting plasmid promiscuity based on genomic signature. J Bacteriol (2010) 1.36
Measuring species richness based on microbial community fingerprints: the emperor has no clothes. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.35
A novel comparative method for identifying shifts in the rate of character evolution on trees. Evolution (2011) 1.35
Bacterial populations in the vaginas of healthy adolescent women. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol (2009) 1.35
Plasmid donor affects host range of promiscuous IncP-1beta plasmid pB10 in an activated-sludge microbial community. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 1.32
Characterization of microbial communities found in the human vagina by analysis of terminal restriction fragment length polymorphisms of 16S rRNA genes. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 1.29
Broad-host-range plasmids from agricultural soils have IncP-1 backbones with diverse accessory genes. Appl Environ Microbiol (2011) 1.28
Epistasis between beneficial mutations and the phenotype-to-fitness Map for a ssDNA virus. PLoS Genet (2011) 1.27
Estimating population diversity with CatchAll. Bioinformatics (2012) 1.26
The role of the acrosomal matrix in fertilization. Int J Dev Biol (2008) 1.22
OTUbase: an R infrastructure package for operational taxonomic unit data. Bioinformatics (2011) 1.22
Loss of LINE-1 activity in the megabats. Genetics (2008) 1.21
The genetics of adaptation for eight microvirid bacteriophages. J Mol Evol (2009) 1.20
Association between Trichomonas vaginalis and vaginal bacterial community composition among reproductive-age women. Sex Transm Dis (2012) 1.20
Understanding vaginal microbiome complexity from an ecological perspective. Transl Res (2012) 1.19
Alpha and beta chains of hemoglobin inhibit production of Staphylococcus aureus exotoxins. Biochemistry (2007) 1.19
Prediction of boundaries between intrinsically ordered and disordered protein regions. Pac Symp Biocomput (2003) 1.16
Biogeography of the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Appl Environ Microbiol (2003) 1.16
Bacterial diversity in a glacier foreland of the high Arctic. Mol Ecol (2010) 1.15
Detection of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm on tampons and menses components. J Infect Dis (2003) 1.14
Using Mahalanobis distance to compare genomic signatures between bacterial plasmids and chromosomes. Nucleic Acids Res (2008) 1.14
Genotypic and phenotypic diversity within species of purple nonsulfur bacteria isolated from aquatic sediments. Appl Environ Microbiol (2002) 1.13
Use of 16S rRNA gene based clone libraries to assess microbial communities potentially involved in anaerobic methane oxidation in a Mediterranean cold seep. Microb Ecol (2007) 1.13
Preliminary characterization of the normal microbiota of the human vulva using cultivation-independent methods. J Med Microbiol (2007) 1.12
Guidelines: From artificial evolution to computational evolution: a research agenda. Nat Rev Genet (2006) 1.09
Accounting for uncertainty in the tree topology has little effect on the decision-theoretic approach to model selection in phylogeny estimation. Mol Biol Evol (2004) 1.09
Bayesian analysis of amino acid substitution models. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2008) 1.07
Shifts in the host range of a promiscuous plasmid through parallel evolution of its replication initiation protein. ISME J (2010) 1.07