| Sponge‐specific clusters revisited: a comprehensive phylogeny of sponge‐associated microorganisms RL Simister, P Deines, ES Botté, NS Webster, MW Taylor Environmental Microbiology 14 (2), 517-524, 2012 | 300 | 2012 |
| Marine microbial symbiosis heats up: the phylogenetic and functional response of a sponge holobiont to thermal stress L Fan, M Liu, R Simister, NS Webster, T Thomas The ISME journal 7 (5), 991-1002, 2013 | 254 | 2013 |
| The sponge microbiome project L Moitinho-Silva, S Nielsen, A Amir, A Gonzalez, GL Ackermann, ... Gigascience 6 (10), gix077, 2017 | 216 | 2017 |
| ‘Sponge-specific’bacteria are widespread (but rare) in diverse marine environments MW Taylor, P Tsai, RL Simister, P Deines, E Botte, G Ericson, S Schmitt, ... The ISME Journal 7 (2), 438-443, 2013 | 186 | 2013 |
| Thermal stress responses in the bacterial biosphere of the Great Barrier Reef sponge, Rhopaloeides odorabile R Simister, MW Taylor, P Tsai, L Fan, TJ Bruxner, ML Crowe, N Webster Environmental microbiology 14 (12), 3232-3246, 2012 | 104 | 2012 |
| Sponge-microbe associations survive high nutrients and temperatures R Simister, MW Taylor, P Tsai, N Webster PLoS One 7 (12), e52220, 2012 | 92 | 2012 |
| Same, same but different: symbiotic bacterial associations in GBR sponges NS Webster, HM Luter, RM Soo, ES Botté, RL Simister, D Abdo, S Whalan Frontiers in microbiology 3, 444, 2013 | 83 | 2013 |
| Anoxygenic photosynthesis and the delayed oxygenation of Earth’s atmosphere K Ozaki, KJ Thompson, RL Simister, SA Crowe, CT Reinhard Nature communications 10 (1), 3026, 2019 | 75 | 2019 |
| In four shallow and mesophotic tropical reef sponges from Guam the microbial community largely depends on host identity G Steinert, MW Taylor, P Deines, RL Simister, NJ De Voogd, M Hoggard, ... PeerJ 4, e1936, 2016 | 73 | 2016 |
| Photoferrotrophy, deposition of banded iron formations, and methane production in Archean oceans KJ Thompson, PA Kenward, KW Bauer, T Warchola, T Gauger, R Martinez, ... Science advances 5 (11), eaav2869, 2019 | 70 | 2019 |
| Formation of diagenetic siderite in modern ferruginous sediments A Vuillemin, R Wirth, H Kemnitz, AM Schleicher, A Friese, KW Bauer, ... Geology 47 (6), 540-544, 2019 | 64 | 2019 |
| Degradation of oil by fungi isolated from Gulf of Mexico beaches RL Simister, CM Poutasse, AM Thurston, JL Reeve, MC Baker, HK White Marine pollution bulletin 100 (1), 327-333, 2015 | 61 | 2015 |
| Long-term weathering and continued oxidation of oil residues from the Deepwater Horizon spill HK White, CH Wang, PL Williams, DM Findley, AM Thurston, RL Simister, ... Marine pollution bulletin 113 (1-2), 380-386, 2016 | 57 | 2016 |
| Evaluating methods for the preservation and extraction of DNA and RNA for analysis of microbial communities in marine sponges RL Simister, S Schmitt, MW Taylor Journal of experimental marine biology and ecology 397 (1), 38-43, 2011 | 52 | 2011 |
| Temporal molecular and isotopic analysis of active bacterial communities in two New Zealand sponges R Simister, MW Taylor, KM Rogers, PJ Schupp, P Deines FEMS microbiology ecology 85 (1), 195-205, 2013 | 47 | 2013 |
| Organic matter mineralization in modern and ancient ferruginous sediments A Friese, K Bauer, C Glombitza, L Ordoñez, D Ariztegui, VB Heuer, ... Nature communications 12 (1), 2216, 2021 | 46 | 2021 |
| Thousands of small, novel genes predicted in global phage genomes BJ Fremin, AS Bhatt, NC Kyrpides, A Sengupta, A Sczyrba, AM da Silva, ... Cell Reports 39 (12), 2022 | 43 | 2022 |
| The Towuti Drilling Project: paleoenvironments, biological evolution, and geomicrobiology of a tropical Pacific lake JM Russell, S Bijaksana, H Vogel, M Melles, J Kallmeyer, D Ariztegui, ... Scientific Drilling 21, 29-40, 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
| Hydro-biogeochemical impacts of fugitive methane on a shallow unconfined aquifer ON Forde, AG Cahill, KU Mayer, B Mayer, RL Simister, N Finke, SA Crowe, ... Science of the Total Environment 690, 1342-1354, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
| Vivianite formation in ferruginous sediments from Lake Towuti, Indonesia A Vuillemin, A Friese, R Wirth, JA Schuessler, AM Schleicher, H Kemnitz, ... Biogeosciences 17 (7), 1955-1973, 2020 | 36 | 2020 |