Metaorganisms as the new frontier

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2004 • 5,730 citations

The Human Microbiome Project

2007 • 5,410 citations

Induction of Intestinal Th17 Cells by Segmented Filamentous Bacteria

2009 • 4,117 citations

The gut flora as a forgotten organ

2006 • 2,556 citations

Specific Microbiota Direct the Differentiation of IL-17-Producing T-Helper Cells in the Mucosa of the Small Intestine

2008 • 1,653 citations

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2002 • 1,558 citations

Role of microorganisms in the evolution of animals and plants: the hologenome theory of evolution

2008 • 1,530 citations

The role of microorganisms in coral health, disease and evolution

2007 • 1,400 citations

Symbiotic Bacteria Direct Expression of an Intestinal Bactericidal Lectin

2006 • 1,344 citations

Fungal endophytes limit pathogen damage in a tropical tree

2003 • 1,329 citations

Diversity and distribution of coral-associated bacteria

2002 • 1,260 citations

Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps

2003 • 1,197 citations

Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

2010 • 1,183 citations

The Bacterial Symbiont Wolbachia Induces Resistance to RNA Viral Infections in Drosophila melanogaster

2008 • 1,171 citations

Wolbachia and Virus Protection in Insects

2008 • 1,071 citations

Developmental regulation of intestinal angiogenesis by indigenous microbes via Paneth cells

2002 • 1,055 citations

Lymphoid tissue genesis induced by commensals through NOD1 regulates intestinal homeostasis

2008 • 1,014 citations

Functional metagenomic profiling of nine biomes

2008 • 957 citations

CD4 ⁺ Regulatory T Cells Control T _H 17 Responses in a Stat3-Dependent Manner

2009 • 934 citations

Regulation of microbial populations by coral surface mucus and mucus-associated bacteria

2006 • 893 citations

Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits

2009 • 886 citations

Staphylococcus epidermidis Esp inhibits Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation and nasal colonization

2010 • 872 citations

Aphid Protected from Pathogen by Endosymbiont

2005 • 721 citations

The Coral Probiotic Hypothesis

2006 • 651 citations

Metagenomic analysis of stressed coral holobionts

2009 • 605 citations

Variation in resistance to parasitism in aphids is due to symbionts not host genotype

2005 • 570 citations

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

2010 • 505 citations

Changes in coral-associated microbial communities during a bleaching event

2007 • 500 citations

Microbial Ecology of Four Coral Atolls in the Northern Line Islands

2008 • 469 citations

Partitioning of Bacterial Communities between Seawater and Healthy, Black Band Diseased, and Dead Coral Surfaces

2002 • 463 citations

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

2009 • 441 citations

Parasites and the Hygiene Hypothesis: Regulating the Immune System?

2004 • 425 citations

Microbial disease and the coral holobiont

2009 • 419 citations

Symbiotic Marine Bacteria Chemically Defend Crustacean Embryos from a Pathogenic Fungus

1989 • 405 citations

Bacterial infection and coral bleaching

1996 • 380 citations

Care for the community

2007 • 341 citations

Ageing of the human metaorganism: the microbial counterpart

2011 • 337 citations

The players in a mutualistic symbiosis: Insects, bacteria, viruses, and virulence genes

2005 • 319 citations

Why bacteria matter in animal development and evolution

2010 • 291 citations

Unseen Forces: The Influence of Bacteria on Animal Development

2002 • 288 citations

Bacteria Associated with Mucus and Tissues of the Coral Oculina patagonica in Summer and Winter

2006 • 269 citations

A new vision of immunity: homeostasis of the superorganism

2010 • 208 citations

An ancient and variable mannose-binding lectin from the coral Acropora millepora binds both pathogens and symbionts

2008 • 207 citations

The hologenome theory of evolution contains Lamarckian aspects within a Darwinian framework

2009 • 189 citations

Bacterial Genes in the Aphid Genome: Absence of Functional Gene Transfer from Buchnera to Its Host

2010 • 188 citations

Transcriptional patterns in both host and bacterium underlie a daily rhythm of anatomical and metabolic change in a beneficial symbiosis

2010 • 160 citations

Bacterial Communities of Two Ubiquitous Great Barrier Reef Corals Reveals Both Site- and Species-Specificity of Common Bacterial Associates

2010 • 134 citations

How Microbial Community Composition Regulates Coral Disease Development

2010 • 128 citations

Bacterial Acquisition in Juveniles of Several Broadcast Spawning Coral Species

2010 • 93 citations

Are biologists in 'future shock'? Symbiosis integrates biology across domains

2008 • 89 citations

Bacteria are not the primary cause of bleaching in the Mediterranean coral Oculina patagonica

2007 • 89 citations

Die Auster und die Austernwirthschaft

1877 • 61 citations

Genomic evidence for complementary purine metabolism in the pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, and its symbiotic bacterium Buchnera aphidicola

2010 • 50 citations

Systemic analysis of the symbiotic function of Buchnera aphidicola, the primary endosymbiont of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

2009 • 47 citations

Integrated Metabonomic−Proteomic Analysis of an Insect−Bacterial Symbiotic System

2009 • 37 citations

Animal Behaviour: Feeding the Superorganism

2009 • 30 citations

Model Metaorganism

1998 • 7 citations