Readers' Choice: The best of The ISME Journal 2018

See what scientists world-wide have been citing and sharing.

In this Web Focus we highlight a selection of articles from 2018 which top the list of the journal’s most cited and most shared (including press coverage, blogs, Twitter, Facebook and Weibo). They showcase the breadth of scope and coverage that the journal consistently delivers to its readers.

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Deposition rates of viruses and bacteria above the atmospheric boundary layer
Isabel Reche et al.
Article
29 Jan 2018
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Marine probiotics: increasing coral resistance to bleaching through microbiome manipulation
Phillipe M. Rosado et al.
Article
Open Access
5 Dec 2018
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Decision-making of the benthic diatom Seminavis robusta searching for inorganic nutrients and pheromones
Karen Grace V. Bondoc et al.
Article
Open Access
9 Oct 2018
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Discovery of several novel, widespread, and ecologically distinct marine Thaumarchaeota viruses that encode amoC nitrification genes
Nathan A. Ahlgren et al.
Article
12 Oct 2018
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Multiple mechanisms drive phage infection efficiency in nearly identical hosts
Cristina Howard-Varona et al.
Article
22 Mar 2018
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Expanded diversity of microbial groups that shape the dissimilatory sulfur cycle
Karthik Anantharaman et al.
Article
Open Access
21 Feb 2018
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Cooperation, competition and antibiotic resistance in bacterial colonies
Isabel Frost et al.
Article
21 Mar 2018
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Predicting the structure of soil communities from plant community taxonomy, phylogeny, and traits
Jonathan W. Leff et al.
Article
9 Mar 2018
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Drinking water microbiome assembly induced by water stagnation
Fangqiong Ling et al.
Article
Open Access
27 Mar 2018
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Disease-induced assemblage of a plant-beneficial bacterial consortium
Roeland L. Berendsen et al.
Article
Open Access
8 Mar 2018
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Microdiversification in genome-streamlined ubiquitous freshwater Actinobacteria
Stefan M Neuenschwander et al.
Original Article
13 Oct 2017
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A population genomics approach shows widespread geographical distribution of cryptic genomic forms of the symbiotic fungus Rhizophagus irregularis
Romain Savary et al.
Original Article
Open Access
13 Oct 2017
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A dynamic microbial community with high functional redundancy inhabits the cold, oxic subseafloor aquifer
Benjamin J Tully et al.
Original Article
Open Access
3 Nov 2017
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Soil pH mediates the balance between stochastic and deterministic assembly of bacteria
Binu M. Tripathi et al.
Article
Open Access
7 Mar 2018
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Geometagenomics illuminates the impact of agriculture on the distribution and prevalence of plant viruses at the ecosystem scale
Pauline Bernardo et al.
Original Article
Open Access
20 Oct 2017
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Electrically conductive pili from pilin genes of phylogenetically diverse microorganisms
David JF Walker et al.
Original Article
5 Sep 2017
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DNA-SIP based genome-centric metagenomics identifies key long-chain fatty acid-degrading populations in anaerobic digesters with different feeding frequencies
Ryan M Ziels et al.
Original Article
Open Access
12 Sep 2017
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Climate change promotes parasitism in a coral symbiosis
David M. Baker et al.
Article
Open Access
29 Jan 2018
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