Anja Spang

9.8k citations

53 papers · 5.8k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Ecology top 0.5%
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Environmental Chemistry top 0.5%
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena

Papers in

Ecology 42
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology 37
- Bacteriophages and microbial interactions 6
Environmental Chemistry 10
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena 10

Co-authors: Christa Schleper Thijs J. G. Ettema Pierre Offre Eva Caceres Jimmy H. Saw Laura Eme Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedźwiedzka Michael Wagner
Journals: Nature Communications (8 papers)The ISME Journal (3 papers)Nature (3 papers)Science (3 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (3 papers)
Partner nations: Netherlands Sweden United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Anja Spang

50 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

7 papers align trajectories log scale

The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system 2024 · 74 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Nature Ecology & Evolution
2017 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2017 Nature
2015 Nature
2013 Annual Review of Microbiology
2013 Nature Communications
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network

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All Works

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1	Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Wen-Cong Huang, Maraike Probst, Zheng‐Shuang Hua, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Thijs J. G. Ettema, Christian Rinke, Tom A. Williams, Anja Spang	2025	3
2	A geological timescale for bacterial evolution and oxygen adaptation Science ·Adrián Davín, Ben J. Woodcroft, Rochelle M. Soo, Benoît Morel, Ranjani Murali, Dominik Schrempf, James Clark, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Bastien Boussau, Edmund R. R. Moody, Lénárd L. Szánthó, V V. Sonani, Davide Pisani, James Hemp, Woodward W. Fischer, Philip C. J. Donoghue, Anja Spang, Philip Hugenholtz, Tom A. Williams, Gergely J. Szöllősi	2025	7
3	Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of eukaryotes Nature ·Chris Kay, Anja Spang, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Davide Pisani, Tom A. Williams, Philip C. J. Donoghue	2025	0
4	Chimeric origins and dynamic evolution of central carbon metabolism in eukaryotes Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Carlos Santana‐Molina, Tom A. Williams, ‎Berend Snel, Anja Spang	2025	7
5	The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Edmund R. R. Moody, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Tara Mahendrarajah, James Clark, 黄祥辉, Nina Dombrowski, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Richard A. Boyle, Stuart J. Daines, Xi Chen, Nick Lane, Ziheng Yang, Graham Shields, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Anja Spang, Davide Pisani, Tom A. Williams, Timothy M. Lenton, Philip C. J. Donoghue Hit paper breakdown →	2024	74
6	Selective lipid recruitment by an archaeal DPANN symbiont from its host Nature Communications ·Su Ding, Jamica A. Baratas, Nicole J. Bale, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Anja Spang	2024	6
7	The parasitic lifestyle of an archaeal symbiont Nature Communications ·Jamica A. Baratas, Howard Smolar, Andriko von Kügelgen, Nina Dombrowski, 義春手島, Harumi Asawo, 余之一, Renée Whan, Matthew A. B. Baker, Buzz Baum, Tanmay A. M. Bharat, Iain G. Duggin, Anja Spang, Ricardo Cavicchioli	2024	4
8	Defining eukaryotes to dissect eukaryogenesis Current Biology ·Philip C. J. Donoghue, Chris Kay, Anja Spang, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Anna Nenarokova, Edmund R. R. Moody, Davide Pisani, Tom A. Williams	2023	15
9	A rooted phylogeny resolves early bacterial evolution Science ·Henri Robillot, Adrián Davín, Tara Mahendrarajah, Lénárd L. Szánthó, Anja Spang, Philip Hugenholtz, Gergely J. Szöllősi, Tom A. Williams	2021	153
10	Chlamydial contribution to anaerobic metabolism during eukaryotic evolution Science Advances ·Courtney W. Stairs, Jennah E. Dharamshi, Daniel Tamarit, Laura Eme, Steffen L. Jørgensen, Anja Spang, Thijs J. G. Ettema	2020	21
11	Complex subsurface hydrothermal fluid mixing at a submarine arc volcano supports distinct and highly diverse microbial communities Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Anna‐Louise Reysenbach, Emily St. John, Héctor Rivera Sylva, Gilberto E. Flores, Mircea Podar, Nina Dombrowski, Anja Spang, Stéphane L’Haridon, Susan E. Humphris, Cornel E.J. de Ronde, Fabio Caratori Tontini, Maurice A. Tivey, Valerie K. Stucker, Lucy C. Stewart, Alexander Diehl, Wolfgang Bach	2020	42
12	Undinarchaeota illuminate DPANN phylogeny and the impact of gene transfer on archaeal evolution Nature Communications ·Nina Dombrowski, Tom A. Williams, Jiarui Sun, Ben J. Woodcroft, Jun-Hoe Lee, Bùi Quang Minh, Christian Rinke, Anja Spang	2020	76
13	An archaeal symbiont-host association from the deep terrestrial subsurface The ISME Journal ·C. J. Penther, Till L. V. Bornemann, Nina Dombrowski, Anja Spang, Jillian F. Banfield, Alexander J. Probst	2019	29
14	Genomic exploration of the diversity, ecology, and evolution of the archaeal domain of life Science ·Anja Spang, Eva Caceres, Thijs J. G. Ettema	2017	210
15	Archaea and the origin of eukaryotes Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Laura Eme, Anja Spang, Jonathan Lombard, Courtney W. Stairs, Thijs J. G. Ettema Hit paper breakdown →	2017	331
16	Tracing the Archaeal Origins of Eukaryotic Membrane-Trafficking System Building Blocks Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Christen M. Klinger, Anja Spang, Joel B. Dacks, Thijs J. G. Ettema	2016	66
17	Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen Nature Communications ·Morten Poulsen, Clarissa Schwab, Bent Borg Jensen, Ricarda M. Engberg, Anja Spang, Nuria Canibe, Ole Højberg, Gabriel Milinovich, Lena Fragner, Christa Schleper, Wolfram Weckwerth, Peter Lund, Andreas Schramm, Tim Urich Hit paper breakdown →	2013	270
18	Close Encounters of the Third Domain: The Emerging Genomic View of Archaeal Diversity and Evolution Archaea ·Anja Spang, Joran Martijn, Jimmy H. Saw, Anders E. Lind, Lionel Guy, Thijs J. G. Ettema	2013	19
19	Metagenomic Analysis of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea Affiliated with the Soil Group Frontiers in Microbiology ·张晓卫, Anja Spang, Gerhard Weidler, Anders Lanzén, Christa Schleper	2012	39
20	Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota Trends in Microbiology ·Anja Spang, Roland Hatzenpichler, Céline Brochier‐Armanet, Thomas Rattei, Patrick Tischler, Eva Spieck, Wolfgang R. Streit, David A. Stahl, Michael Wagner, Christa Schleper	2010	375

About Anja Spang

Anja Spang is a scholar working on Ecology, Environmental Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Paleontology, having authored 53 papers that have together received 5.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (38 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (37 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (20 papers), Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (10 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (6 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (4 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (3 papers) and Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology (3.4k citations), Environmental Chemistry (1.1k citations), Pollution (846 citations), Molecular Biology (3.6k citations) and Soil Science (253 citations). Anja Spang has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, Sweden and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Christa Schleper, Thijs J. G. Ettema, Pierre Offre, Eva Caceres, Jimmy H. Saw, Laura Eme, Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedźwiedzka, Michael Wagner, Courtney W. Stairs and Jonathan Lombard. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, The ISME Journal, Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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