| Molecular diversity and ecology of microbial plankton SJ Giovannoni, U Stingl Nature 437 (7057), 343-348, 2005 | 538 | 2005 |
| Proteorhodopsins: an array of physiological roles? JA Fuhrman, MS Schwalbach, U Stingl Nature Reviews Microbiology 6 (6), 488-494, 2008 | 277 | 2008 |
| The importance of culturing bacterioplankton in the'omics' age S Giovannoni, U Stingl Nature reviews microbiology 5 (10), 820-826, 2007 | 230 | 2007 |
| Genomic encyclopedia of bacteria and archaea: sequencing a myriad of type strains NC Kyrpides, P Hugenholtz, JA Eisen, T Woyke, M Göker, CT Parker, ... PLoS biology 12 (8), e1001920, 2014 | 225 | 2014 |
| Diet strongly influences the gut microbiota of surgeonfishes S Miyake, DK Ngugi, U Stingl Molecular ecology 24 (3), 656-672, 2015 | 213 | 2015 |
| Microbiology of the Red Sea (and other) deep‐sea anoxic brine lakes A Antunes, DK Ngugi, U Stingl Environmental microbiology reports 3 (4), 416-433, 2011 | 212 | 2011 |
| The small genome of an abundant coastal ocean methylotroph SJ Giovannoni, DH Hayakawa, HJ Tripp, U Stingl, SA Givan, JC Cho, ... Environmental Microbiology 10 (7), 1771-1782, 2008 | 211 | 2008 |
| Physicochemical Conditions and Microbial Activities in the Highly Alkaline Gut of the Humus-Feeding Larva of Pachnoda ephippiata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) T Lemke, U Stingl, M Egert, MW Friedrich, A Brune Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69 (11), 6650-6658, 2003 | 195 | 2003 |
| Improvements of high-throughput culturing yielded novel SAR11 strains and other abundant marine bacteria from the Oregon coast and the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series study site U Stingl, HJ Tripp, SJ Giovannoni The ISME journal 1 (4), 361-371, 2007 | 192 | 2007 |
| Niche heterogeneity determines bacterial community structure in the termite gut (Reticulitermes santonensis) H Yang, D Schmitt‐Wagner, U Stingl, A Brune Environmental Microbiology 7 (7), 916-932, 2005 | 168 | 2005 |
| The SAR92 clade: an abundant coastal clade of culturable marine bacteria possessing proteorhodopsin U Stingl, RA Desiderio, JC Cho, KL Vergin, SJ Giovannoni Applied and environmental microbiology 73 (7), 2290-2296, 2007 | 159 | 2007 |
| “Endomicrobia”: Cytoplasmic Symbionts of Termite Gut Protozoa Form a Separate Phylum of Prokaryotes U Stingl, R Radek, H Yang, A Brune Applied and Environmental Microbiology 71 (3), 1473-1479, 2005 | 157 | 2005 |
| Structure and Topology of Microbial Communities in the Major Gut Compartments of Melolontha melolontha Larvae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) M Egert, U Stingl, L Dyhrberg Bruun, B Pommerenke, A Brune, ... Applied and environmental microbiology 71 (8), 4556-4566, 2005 | 144 | 2005 |
| Biogeography of pelagic bacterioplankton across an antagonistic temperature–salinity gradient in the Red Sea DK Ngugi, A Antunes, A Brune, U Stingl Molecular ecology 21 (2), 388-405, 2012 | 129 | 2012 |
| Peatland Acidobacteria with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism B Hausmann, C Pelikan, CW Herbold, S Köstlbacher, M Albertsen, ... The ISME journal 12 (7), 1729-1742, 2018 | 123 | 2018 |
| The seagrass holobiont and its microbiome K Ugarelli, S Chakrabarti, P Laas, U Stingl Microorganisms 5 (4), 81, 2017 | 121 | 2017 |
| Diversification and niche adaptations of Nitrospina-like bacteria in the polyextreme interfaces of Red Sea brines DK Ngugi, J Blom, R Stepanauskas, U Stingl The ISME journal 10 (6), 1383-1399, 2016 | 102 | 2016 |
| INDIGO–INtegrated data warehouse of MIcrobial GenOmes with examples from the red sea extremophiles I Alam, A Antunes, AA Kamau, W Ba Alawi, M Kalkatawi, U Stingl, ... PloS one 8 (12), e82210, 2013 | 94 | 2013 |
| Novel lineages of Planctomycetes densely colonize the alkaline gut of soil‐feeding termites (Cubitermes spp.) T Köhler, U Stingl, K Meuser, A Brune Environmental microbiology 10 (5), 1260-1270, 2008 | 91 | 2008 |
| Phylogenetic diversity of ‘Endomicrobia’and their specific affiliation with termite gut flagellates W Ikeda-Ohtsubo, M Desai, U Stingl, A Brune Microbiology 153 (10), 3458-3465, 2007 | 91 | 2007 |
