| Rapid method for coextraction of DNA and RNA from natural environments for analysis of ribosomal DNA-and rRNA-based microbial community composition RI Griffiths, AS Whiteley, AG O'Donnell, MJ Bailey Applied and environmental microbiology 66 (12), 5488-5491, 2000 | 1880 | 2000 |
| Soil bacterial networks are less stable under drought than fungal networks FT de Vries, RI Griffiths, M Bailey, H Craig, M Girlanda, HS Gweon, ... Nature communications 9 (1), 3033, 2018 | 1109 | 2018 |
| The bacterial biogeography of British soils RI Griffiths, BC Thomson, P James, T Bell, M Bailey, AS Whiteley Environmental microbiology 13 (6), 1642-1654, 2011 | 910 | 2011 |
| Studying plasmid horizontal transfer in situ: a critical review SJ Sørensen, M Bailey, LH Hansen, N Kroer, S Wuertz Nature Reviews Microbiology 3 (9), 700-710, 2005 | 845 | 2005 |
| RNA stable isotope probing, a novel means of linking microbial community function to phylogeny M Manefield, AS Whiteley, RI Griffiths, MJ Bailey Applied and environmental microbiology 68 (11), 5367-5373, 2002 | 734 | 2002 |
| Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications P Yilmaz, R Kottmann, D Field, R Knight, JR Cole, L Amaral-Zettler, ... Nature biotechnology 29 (5), 415-420, 2011 | 710 | 2011 |
| Soil networks become more connected and take up more carbon as nature restoration progresses E Morriën, SE Hannula, LB Snoek, NR Helmsing, H Zweers, ... Nature communications 8 (1), 14349, 2017 | 609 | 2017 |
| Raman microscopic analysis of single microbial cells WE Huang, RI Griffiths, IP Thompson, MJ Bailey, AS Whiteley Analytical chemistry 76 (15), 4452-4458, 2004 | 470 | 2004 |
| Unlocking the potential of metagenomics through replicated experimental design R Knight, J Jansson, D Field, N Fierer, N Desai, JA Fuhrman, ... Nature biotechnology 30 (6), 513-520, 2012 | 328 | 2012 |
| Influence of plant developmental stage on microbial community structure and activity in the rhizosphere of three field crops A Houlden, TM Timms-Wilson, MJ Day, MJ Bailey FEMS microbiology ecology 65 (2), 193-201, 2008 | 325 | 2008 |
| Bacterial community structure and physiological state within an industrial phenol bioremediation system AS Whiteley, MJ Bailey Applied and environmental microbiology 66 (6), 2400-2407, 2000 | 298 | 2000 |
| Forty years of reform and opening up: China’s progress toward a sustainable path Y Lu, Y Zhang, X Cao, C Wang, Y Wang, M Zhang, RC Ferrier, A Jenkins, ... Science advances 5 (8), eaau9413, 2019 | 292 | 2019 |
| TerraGenome: a consortium for the sequencing of a soil metagenome TM Vogel, P Simonet, JK Jansson, PR Hirsch, JM Tiedje, JD Van Elsas, ... Nature Reviews Microbiology 7 (4), 252-252, 2009 | 288 | 2009 |
| The ecology of transfer of mobile genetic elements JD Van Elsas, MJ Bailey FEMS microbiology ecology 42 (2), 187-197, 2002 | 272 | 2002 |
| Quantitative and qualitative seasonal changes in the microbial community from the phyllosphere of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) IP Thompson, MJ Bailey, JS Fenlon, TR Fermor, AK Lilley, JM Lynch, ... Plant and Soil 150, 177-191, 1993 | 255 | 1993 |
| Physical and genetic map of the Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 chromosome PB Rainey, MJ Bailey Molecular microbiology 19 (3), 521-533, 1996 | 244 | 1996 |
| Physiological and community responses of established grassland bacterial populations to water stress RI Griffiths, AS Whiteley, AG O'Donnell, MJ Bailey Applied and environmental microbiology 69 (12), 6961-6968, 2003 | 242 | 2003 |
| Influence of depth and sampling time on bacterial community structure in an upland grassland soil RI Griffiths, AS Whiteley, AG O'Donnell, MJ Bailey FEMS microbiology ecology 43 (1), 35-43, 2003 | 238 | 2003 |
| Comparison of long-read sequencing technologies in the hybrid assembly of complex bacterial genomes N De Maio, LP Shaw, A Hubbard, S George, ND Sanderson, J Swann, ... Microbial genomics 5 (9), e000294, 2019 | 226 | 2019 |
| Addressing China’s grand challenge of achieving food security while ensuring environmental sustainability Y Lu, A Jenkins, RC Ferrier, M Bailey, IJ Gordon, S Song, J Huang, S Jia, ... Science advances 1 (1), e1400039, 2015 | 224 | 2015 |
