| 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 | 252 | 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 | 193 | 2013 |
| ‘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 | 164 | 2013 |
| The sponge microbiome project L Moitinho-Silva, S Nielsen, A Amir, A Gonzalez, GL Ackermann, ... Gigascience 6 (10), gix077, 2017 | 146 | 2017 |
| 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 | 86 | 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 | 73 | 2013 |
| Sponge-microbe associations survive high nutrients and temperatures R Simister, MW Taylor, P Tsai, N Webster PLoS One 7 (12), e52220, 2012 | 71 | 2012 |
| 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 | 59 | 2016 |
| 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 | 46 | 2015 |
| 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 | 45 | 2011 |
| 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 | 42 | 2016 |
| 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 | 40 | 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), 1-10, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| 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 | 31 | 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 | 30 | 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 | 30 | 2019 |
| Draft Genome Sequence of the Pelagic Photoferrotroph Chlorobium phaeoferrooxidans SA Crowe, AS Hahn, C Morgan-Lang, KJ Thompson, RL Simister, ... Genome Announcements 5 (13), e01584-16, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| Examining the diversity of microbes in a deep-sea coral community impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill RL Simister, EW Antzis, HK White Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 129, 157-166, 2016 | 25 | 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 | 22 | 2019 |
| Shifting microbial communities sustain multiyear iron reduction and methanogenesis in ferruginous sediment incubations MS Bray, J Wu, BC Reed, CB Kretz, KM Belli, RL Simister, C Henny, ... Geobiology 15 (5), 678-689, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
