| Diversity, abundance and natural products of marine sponge-associated actinomycetes UR Abdelmohsen, K Bayer, U Hentschel Natural product reports 31 (3), 381-399, 2014 | 290 | 2014 |
| Physiology, phylogeny and in situ evidence for bacterial and archaeal nitrifiers in the marine sponge Aplysina aerophoba K Bayer, S Schmitt, U Hentschel Environmental microbiology 10 (11), 2942-2955, 2008 | 201 | 2008 |
| Metagenomic binning of a marine sponge microbiome reveals unity in defense but metabolic specialization BM Slaby, T Hackl, H Horn, K Bayer, U Hentschel The ISME journal 11 (11), 2465-2478, 2017 | 161 | 2017 |
| Specificity and transcriptional activity of microbiota associated with low and high microbial abundance sponges from the Red Sea L Moitinho‐Silva, K Bayer, CV Cannistraci, EC Giles, T Ryu, L Seridi, ... Molecular ecology 23 (6), 1348-1363, 2014 | 147 | 2014 |
| An enrichment of CRISPR and other defense-related features in marine sponge-associated microbial metagenomes H Horn, BM Slaby, MT Jahn, K Bayer, L Moitinho-Silva, F Förster, ... Frontiers in microbiology 7, 222478, 2016 | 100 | 2016 |
| Oxygen dynamics and transport in the Mediterranean sponge Aplysina aerophoba F Hoffmann, H Røy, K Bayer, U Hentschel, M Pfannkuchen, F Brümmer, ... Marine Biology 153, 1257-1264, 2008 | 99 | 2008 |
| Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and cell sorting of living bacteria G Batani, K Bayer, J Böge, U Hentschel, T Thomas Scientific reports 9 (1), 18618, 2019 | 93 | 2019 |
| Marine Sponges as Chloroflexi Hot Spots: Genomic Insights and High-Resolution Visualization of an Abundant and Diverse Symbiotic Clade K Bayer, MT Jahn, BM Slaby, L Moitinho-Silva, U Hentschel mSystems, 10.1128/mSystems.00150-18, 2018 | 84 | 2018 |
| Quantification of bacterial and archaeal symbionts in high and low microbial abundance sponges using real-time PCR K Bayer, J Kamke, U Hentschel FEMS Microbiology Ecology 89 (3), 679-690, 2014 | 75 | 2014 |
| Genomic Mining for Novel FADH2-Dependent Halogenases in Marine Sponge-Associated Microbial Consortia K Bayer, M Scheuermayer, L Fieseler, U Hentschel Marine biotechnology 15, 63-72, 2013 | 72 | 2013 |
| GeoChip-based insights into the microbial functional gene repertoire of marine sponges (high microbial abundance, low microbial abundance) and seawater K Bayer, L Moitinho-Silva, F Brümmer, CV Cannistraci, T Ravasi, ... FEMS microbiology ecology 90 (3), 832-843, 2014 | 70 | 2014 |
| Compositional and quantitative insights into bacterial and archaeal communities of South Pacific deep-sea sponges (Demospongiae and Hexactinellida) G Steinert, K Busch, K Bayer, S Kodami, PM Arbizu, M Kelly, S Mills, ... Frontiers in microbiology 11, 506992, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Microbial nitrification in Mediterranean sponges: possible involvement of ammonium-oxidizing Betaproteobacteria K Bayer, S Schmitt, U Hentschel Museu Nacional, 2008 | 36 | 2008 |
| In situ pumping activity of the sponge Aplysina aerophoba, Nardo 1886 M Pfannkuchen, GB Fritz, S Schlesinger, K Bayer, F Brümmer Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 369 (1), 65-71, 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| Review article Marine sponges as models for commensal microbe-host interactions S Schmitt, M Wehrl, A Siegl, U Hentschel Symbiosis, 2007 | 31 | 2007 |
| Phylogeny and genomics of SAUL, an enigmatic bacterial lineage frequently associated with marine sponges C Astudillo‐García, BM Slaby, DW Waite, K Bayer, U Hentschel, ... Environmental microbiology 20 (2), 561-576, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| Exploring symbioses by single-cell genomics J Kamke, K Bayer, T Woyke, U Hentschel The Biological Bulletin 223 (1), 30-43, 2012 | 28 | 2012 |
| Microbial strategies for survival in the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesii K Bayer, K Busch, E Kenchington, L Beazley, S Franzenburg, J Michels, ... mSystems, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| A microbial nitrogen engine modulated by bacteriosyncytia in hexactinellid sponges: ecological implications for deep-sea communities M Maldonado, M López-Acosta, K Busch, BM Slaby, K Bayer, L Beazley, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 8, 638505, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
| Chloroflexi Dominate the Deep-Sea Golf Ball Sponges Craniella zetlandica and Craniella infrequens Throughout Different Life Stages K Busch, E Wurz, HT Rapp, K Bayer, A Franke, U Hentschel Frontiers in Marine Science 7, 674, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
