Alyson E. Santoro

9.4k citations

79 papers · 6.4k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 35

Pollution top 0.2%
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal 15
Ecology top 0.2%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 61
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology 9
Oceanography top 0.5%
- Marine and coastal ecosystems 34
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research 18
Environmental Chemistry top 0.5%
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena 9
Geochemistry and Petrology top 2%
Molecular Biology
- Protist diversity and phylogeny 19
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies 17

Co-authors: Christopher Francis J. Michael Beman K. Roberts Brian B. Oakley Karen L. Casciotti Alexandria B. Boehm Carolyn Buchwald Matthew R. McIlvin
Cited by: Pollution Ecology Oceanography
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Canada

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Alyson E. Santoro

76 papers receiving 6.3k citations

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2020 Diversity, ecology and evolution of Archaea
2005 Ubiquity and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in water columns and sediments of the ocean

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1	Minor contribution of ammonia oxidizers to inorganic carbon fixation in the ocean Barbara Bayer,Katharina Kitzinger,Nicola Paul,Justine Albers,Mak A. Saito,Michael Wagner,Craig A. Carlson,Alyson E. Santoro	2025	0
2	Sinking particles exporting diatoms and Hacrobia predict the magnitude of oceanic POC flux Sasha J. Kramer,Erin L. Jones,Margaret Estapa,Nicola Paul,Tatiana A. Rynearson,Alyson E. Santoro,Sebastian Sudek,Colleen A. Durkin	2025	1
3	Metabolite release by nitrifiers facilitates metabolic interactions in the ocean Barbara Bayer,Shuting Liu,Katherine Louie,Trent R. Northen,Michael Wagner,Holger Daims,Craig A. Carlson,Alyson E. Santoro	2024	3
4	Direct observations of microbial community succession on sinking marine particles Brandon M. Stephens,Colleen A. Durkin,Garrett Sharpe,Trang T.H. Nguyen,Justine Albers,Margaret Estapa,Deborah K. Steinberg,Naomi M. Levine,Scott Gifford,Craig A. Carlson,Philip W. Boyd,Alyson E. Santoro	2024	13
5	Distinct phytoplankton assemblages underlie hotspots of primary production in the eastern North Pacific Ocean Valeria Jiménez,Sebastian Sudek,Charlotte Eckmann,Charles Bachy,Camille Poirier,Fabian Wittmers,Alyson E. Santoro,Michael J. Follows,Francisco P. Chávez,Irina N. Shilova,Alexandra Z. Worden	2024	1
6	Database of nitrification and nitrifiers in the global ocean Weiyi Tang,Bess B. Ward,Michael Beman,Laura A. Bristow,Darren R. Clark,Sarah E. Fawcett,Claudia Frey,François Fripiat,Gerhard J. Herndl,Mhlangabezi Mdutyana,Fabien Paulot,Xuefeng Peng,Alyson E. Santoro,Takuhei Shiozaki,Eva Sintes,Charles A. Stock,Xin Sun,Xianhui Wan,Min Xu,Yao Zhang	2023	14
7	Synechococcus nitrogen gene loss in iron-limited ocean regions Garrett Sharpe,Liang Zhao,Meredith G. Meyer,Weida Gong,Shannon Burns,Alessandro Tagliabue,Kristen N. Buck,Alyson E. Santoro,Jason R. Graff,Adrian Marchetti,Scott Gifford	2023	3
8	Systematic comparison of unilamellar vesicles reveals that archaeal core lipid membranes are more permeable than bacterial membranes Urszula Łapińska,Georgina Glover,Zehra Kahveci,Nicholas A. T. Irwin,David S. Milner,Maxime Tourte,Sonja‐Verena Albers,Alyson E. Santoro,Thomas A. Richards,Stefano Pagliara	2023	14
9	The microbiome of a bacterivorous marine choanoflagellate contains a resource-demanding obligate bacterial associate David M. Needham,Camille Poirier,Charles Bachy,Emma E. George,Susanne Wilken,Charmaine C. M. Yung,Alexander J. Limardo,Michael Morando,Lisa Sudek,Rex R. Malmstrom,Patrick J. Keeling,Alyson E. Santoro,Alexandra Z. Worden	2022	14
10	Heterotrophic Thaumarchaea with Small Genomes Are Widespread in the Dark Ocean Frank O. Aylward,Alyson E. Santoro	2020	47
11	Nitrification and nitrous oxide dynamics in the Southern California Bight Sarah M. Laperriere,Michael Morando,Douglas G. Capone,Troy Gunderson,Jason M. Smith,Alyson E. Santoro	2020	13
12	Global reconstruction reduces the uncertainty of oceanic nitrous oxide emissions and reveals a vigorous seasonal cycle Simon Yang,Bonnie X. Chang,Mark J. Warner,Thomas Weber,Annie Bourbonnais,Alyson E. Santoro,Annette Kock,Rolf E. Sonnerup,John L. Bullister,Samuel T. Wilson,Daniele Bianchi	2020	74
13	Nitrification and Nitrous Oxide Production in the Offshore Waters of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific Alyson E. Santoro,Carolyn Buchwald,Angela N. Knapp,William M. Berelson,Douglas G. Capone,Karen L. Casciotti	2020	40
14	Phylogeny, Evidence for a Cryptic Plastid, and Distribution of Chytriodinium Parasites (Dinophyceae) Infecting Copepods Jürgen F. H. Strassert,Elisabeth Hehenberger,Javier del Campo,Noriko Okamoto,Martin Kolísko,Thomas A. Richards,Alexandra Z. Worden,Alyson E. Santoro,Patrick J. Keeling	2018	1
15	Single cell genomics of uncultured marine alveolates shows paraphyly of basal dinoflagellates Jürgen F. H. Strassert,Anna Karnkowska,Elisabeth Hehenberger,Javier del Campo,Martin Kolísko,Noriko Okamoto,Fabien Burki,Jan Janouškovec,Camille Poirier,Guy Leonard,Steven Hallam,Thomas A. Richards,Alexandra Z. Worden,Alyson E. Santoro,Patrick J. Keeling	2017	28
16	Distinguishing between Microbial Habitats Unravels Ecological Complexity in Coral Microbiomes Amy Apprill,Laura Weber,Alyson E. Santoro	2016	85
17	Diverse, uncultivated bacteria and archaea underlying the cycling of dissolved protein in the ocean William D. Orsi,Jason M. Smith,Shuting Liu,Zhanfei Liu,Carole M. Sakamoto,Susanne Wilken,Camille Poirier,Thomas A. Richards,Patrick J. Keeling,Alexandra Z. Worden,Alyson E. Santoro	2016	138
18	Ecophysiology of uncultivated marine euryarchaea is linked to particulate organic matter William D. Orsi,Jason M. Smith,Heather M. Wilcox,Jarred E. Swalwell,Paul Carini,Alexandra Z. Worden,Alyson E. Santoro	2015	94
19	Enrichment and characterization of ammonia-oxidizing archaea from the open ocean: phylogeny, physiology and stable isotope fractionation Alyson E. Santoro,Karen L. Casciotti	2011	157
20	Ubiquity and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in water columns and sediments of the oceanbreakdown → Christopher Francis,K. Roberts,J. Michael Beman,Alyson E. Santoro,Brian B. Oakley	2005	1977

About Alyson E. Santoro

Alyson E. Santoro is a scholar working on Oceanography, Ecology and Pollution, having authored 79 papers that have together received 6.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (61 papers), Marine and coastal ecosystems (34 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (19 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (18 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (17 papers), Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal (15 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (9 papers) and Isotope Analysis in Ecology (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Pollution (2.2k citations), Ecology (4.7k citations) and Oceanography (2.0k citations). Alyson E. Santoro has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include Christopher Francis, J. Michael Beman, K. Roberts, Brian B. Oakley, Karen L. Casciotti, Alexandria B. Boehm, Carolyn Buchwald, Matthew R. McIlvin, Christopher L. Dupont and Nicholas R. de Sieyes.

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