| Prokaryotes: the unseen majority WB Whitman, DC Coleman, WJ Wiebe Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (12), 6578-6583, 1998 | 5052 | 1998 |
| Precise measurement of the G+ C content of deoxyribonucleic acid by high-performance liquid chromatography M MESBAH, U PREMACHANDRAN, WB WHITMAN International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 39 (2 …, 1989 | 4728 | 1989 |
| Systematic bacteriology GM Garrity The Proteobacteria, Part C: The Alpha-, Beta-, Delta-, and …, 2005 | 4541* | 2005 |
| Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology. E Stackebrandt, W Frederiksen, GM Garrity, PAD Grimont, P Kämpfer, ... International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 52 (3 …, 2002 | 1799 | 2002 |
| Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology: Volume 3: The Firmicutes P Vos, G Garrity, D Jones, NR Krieg, W Ludwig, FA Rainey, KH Schleifer, ... Springer Science & Business Media, 2011 | 1508* | 2011 |
| Uniting the classification of cultured and uncultured bacteria and archaea using 16S rRNA gene sequences P Yarza, P Yilmaz, E Pruesse, FO Glöckner, W Ludwig, KH Schleifer, ... Nature Reviews Microbiology 12 (9), 635-645, 2014 | 1271 | 2014 |
| Metabolic, phylogenetic, and ecological diversity of the methanogenic archaea Y Liu, WB Whitman Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1125 (1), 171-189, 2008 | 1052 | 2008 |
| Quantitative comparisons of 16S rRNA gene sequence libraries from environmental samples DR Singleton, MA Furlong, SL Rathbun, WB Whitman Applied and environmental microbiology 67 (9), 4374-4376, 2001 | 708 | 2001 |
| Overview: a phylogenetic backbone and taxonomic framework for procaryotic systematics W Ludwig, HP Klenk Bergey’s manual® of systematic bacteriology, 49-66, 2005 | 642* | 2005 |
| The methanogenic bacteria WB Whitman, TL Bowen, DR Boone Prokaryotes 3 (Chapter 9), 165-207, 2006 | 629* | 2006 |
| Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology: Volume 5: The Actinobacteria WB Whitman, M Goodfellow, P Kämpfer Springer New York, 2012 | 626* | 2012 |
| Similarity analysis of DNAs JL Johnson, WB Whitman Methods for General and Molecular Microbiology, Third Edition, 624-652, 2007 | 548 | 2007 |
| Methanogens and the diversity of archaebacteria. WJ Jones, DP Nagle Jr, WB Whitman Microbiological Reviews 51 (1), 135, 1987 | 512 | 1987 |
| The ecological coherence of high bacterial taxonomic ranks L Philippot, SGE Andersson, TJ Battin, JI Prosser, JP Schimel, ... Nature Reviews Microbiology 8 (7), 523-529, 2010 | 467 | 2010 |
| Relative impacts of land-use, management intensity and fertilization upon soil microbial community structure in agricultural systems K Jangid, MA Williams, AJ Franzluebbers, JS Sanderlin, JH Reeves, ... Soil Biology and Biochemistry 40 (11), 2843-2853, 2008 | 458 | 2008 |
| Genome sequence of Silicibacter pomeroyi reveals adaptations to the marine environment MA Moran, A Buchan, JM González, JF Heidelberg, WB Whitman, ... Nature 432 (7019), 910-913, 2004 | 438 | 2004 |
| Diversity and taxonomy of methanogens DR Boone, WB Whitman, P Rouvière Methanogenesis, 35-80, 1993 | 418 | 1993 |
| Diversity and origin of Desulfovibrio species: phylogenetic definition of a family. R Devereux, SH He, CL Doyle, S Orkland, DA Stahl, J LeGall, ... Journal of Bacteriology 172 (7), 3609-3619, 1990 | 371 | 1990 |
| Revised road map to the phylum Firmicutes W Ludwig, KH Schleifer, WB Whitman Bergey’s Manual® of Systematic Bacteriology, 1-13, 2009 | 341* | 2009 |
| Measurement of deoxyguanosine/thymidine ratios in complex mixtures by high-performance liquid chromatography for determination of the mole percentage guanine+ cytosine of DNA M Mesbah, WB Whitman Journal of Chromatography A 479, 297-306, 1989 | 328 | 1989 |
