Microbial Diversity in Oceanic Systems: rRNA Approaches to the Study of Unculturable Microbes

Primer-Directed Enzymatic Amplification of DNA with a Thermostable DNA Polymerase

1988 • 17,059 citations

Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology

1990 • 15,514 citations

The Nonconcept of Species Diversity: A Critique and Alternative Parameters

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THE POPULATION FREQUENCIES OF SPECIES AND THE ESTIMATION OF POPULATION PARAMETERS

1953 • 3,155 citations

Archaea in coastal marine environments.

1992 • 2,700 citations

Genetic diversity in Sargasso Sea bacterioplankton

1990 • 1,666 citations

Survival strategies of bacteria in the natural environment

1987 • 1,627 citations

The ribosomal database project.

1993 • 1,574 citations

MEASUREMENT OF IN SITU ACTIVITIES OF NONPHOTOSYNTHETIC MICROORGANISMS IN AQUATIC AND TERRESTRIAL HABITATS

1985 • 1,393 citations

How Close Is Close: 16S rRNA Sequence Identity May Not Be Sufficient To Guarantee Species Identity

1992 • 1,305 citations

Phylogenetic Stains: Ribosomal RNA-Based Probes for the Identification of Single Cells

1989 • 1,231 citations

A novel free-living prochlorophyte abundant in the oceanic euphotic zone

1988 • 1,153 citations

Phylogenetic diversity of aggregate‐attached vs. free‐living marine bacterial assemblages

1993 • 1,078 citations

Novel major archaebacterial group from marine plankton

1992 • 883 citations

Widespread occurrence of a unicellular, marine, planktonic, cyanobacterium

1979 • 879 citations

Analysis of a marine picoplankton community by 16S rRNA gene cloning and sequencing

1991 • 862 citations

Use of phylogenetically based hybridization probes for studies of ruminal microbial ecology

1988 • 792 citations

Survival strategies of bacteria in the natural environment.

1987 • 773 citations

Remarkable archaeal diversity detected in aYellowstone National Park hot spring environment.

1994 • 772 citations

Phylogenetic group-specific oligodeoxynucleotide probes for identification of single microbial cells

1988 • 704 citations

Differential amplification of rRNA genes by polymerase chain reaction

1992 • 647 citations

High abundance of Archaea in Antarctic marine picoplankton

1994 • 541 citations

The ribosome: Structure, function and evolution

1991 • 531 citations

The Ribosome : structure, function, and evolution

1990 • 508 citations

Ribosomal RNA Analysis of Microorganisms as They Occur in Nature

1992 • 492 citations

Phylogenetic diversity of subsurface marine microbial communities from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

1993 • 479 citations

Bacterial Populations in Sea Water as Determined by Different Methods of Enumeration1

1959 • 426 citations

Prochlorococcus marinus nov. gen. nov. sp.: an oxyphototrophic marine prokaryote containing divinyl chlorophyll a and b

1992 • 424 citations

Genetic comparisons reveal the same unknown bacterial lineages in Atlantic and Pacific bacterioplankton communities

1995 • 395 citations

Estimating the Growth Rate of Slowly Growing Marine Bacteria from RNA Content

1993 • 343 citations

The division between fast- and slow-growing species corresponds to natural relationships among the mycobacteria

1990 • 272 citations

Phylogenetic analysis of a natural marine bacterioplankton population by rRNA gene cloning and sequencing

1991 • 265 citations

The Survival of Vegetative Microbes.

1977 • 261 citations

Starvation-Survival of Heterotrophs in the Marine Environment

1982 • 248 citations

Tangential flow filtration and preliminary phylogenetic analysis of marine picoplankton

1990 • 240 citations

Comparison of Nucleic Acid Hybridization and Fluorometry for Measurement of the Relationship between RNA/DNA Ratio and Growth Rate in a Marine Bacterium

1993 • 213 citations

Effect of Interfaces on Small, Starved Marine Bacteria

1982 • 202 citations

The study of microorganisms in situ progress and problems

1987 • 189 citations

Possible strategy for the survival of marine bacteria under starvation conditions

1978 • 178 citations

Determination and properties of actively metabolizing heterotrophic bacteria in the sea, investigated by means of micro-autoradiography

1976 • 175 citations

Initial Phases of Starvation and Activity of Bacteria at Surfaces

1983 • 170 citations

Development and application of oligonucleotide probes for identification of Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris

1991 • 166 citations

Use of multiple 16S rRNA-targeted fluorescent probes to increase signal strength and measure cellular RNA from natural planktonic bacteria

1993 • 160 citations

Biological and ecological characterization of the marine unicellular Cyanobacterium Synechococcus

1987 • 149 citations

Diversity Among Fibrobacter Isolates: Towards a Phylogenetic Classification

1992 • 147 citations

Blooms of sequence-specific culturable bacteria in the sea

1993 • 142 citations

Optimization of the polymerase chain reaction with regard to fidelity: modified T7, Taq, and vent DNA polymerases.

1991 • 133 citations

Estimations of Bacterial Growth Rates in Natural Waters

1969 • 128 citations

Starvation-Survival Physiological Studies of a Marine Pseudomonas sp

1983 • 127 citations

DNA hybridization to compare species compositions of natural bacterioplankton assemblages

1990 • 117 citations

Long-Term Starvation Survival of Rod and Spherical Cells of Arthrobacter crystallopoietes

1970 • 109 citations

Hybrid DNA artifact from PCR of closely related target sequences

1989 • 98 citations

Amplification of the rbcL gene from dissolved and particulate DNA from aquatic environments

1990 • 62 citations

Observations on the Distinction Between Oligotrophic and Eutrophic Marine Bacteria

1984 • 59 citations

Simulated in situ growth rates of pelagic marine bacteria

1978 • 52 citations

Detection and characterization of cyanobacterial nifH genes

1994 • 52 citations

Abundant Microorganism in Soil

1965 • 50 citations

ENVIRONMENTAL AND GROWTH CONDITIONS AFFECTING THE ENDOGENOUS METABOLISM OF BACTERIA

1963 • 50 citations

Measurement of rRNA Variations in Natural Communities of Microorganisms on the Southeastern U.S. Continental Shelf

1993 • 50 citations

THE MOST ABUNDANT GROUPS OF BACTERIA IN SOIL

1948 • 41 citations

Abundant Microorganism in Soil1

1965 • 39 citations

Probing Marine Systems with Ribosomal RNAs

1993 • 26 citations

THE MOST ABUNDANT GROUPS OF BACTERIA IN SOIL 1

1948 • 15 citations

Evolution and population genetics of Prochlorococcus marinus

1995 • 3 citations