Christa Schleper

26.9k total citations · 9 hit papers
155 papers, 19.1k citations indexed

About

Christa Schleper is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Christa Schleper has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 19.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Ecology, 102 papers in Molecular Biology and 42 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Christa Schleper's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (78 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (69 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (40 papers). Christa Schleper is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (78 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (69 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (40 papers). Christa Schleper collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Norway. Christa Schleper's co-authors include Tim Urich, Sven Leininger, Graeme W. Nicol, James I. Prosser, Stephan C. Schuster, Anja Spang, Michael Wagner, Michael Schloter, Michaela Stieglmeier and Hans‐Peter Klenk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Christa Schleper

150 papers receiving 18.8k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils

2006 1.9k citations Tim Urich, Christa Schleper et al. profile →
The influence of soil pH on the diversity, abundance and transcriptional activity of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria

2008 1.1k citations Christa Schleper et al. profile →
Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

2015 772 citations Anja Spang, Steffen L. Jørgensen et al. profile →
Nitrososphaera viennensis , an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil

2011 765 citations Anja Spang, Tim Urich et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Novel genes for nitrite reductase and Amo‐related proteins indicate a role of uncultivated mesophilic crenarchaeota in nitrogen cycling

2005 689 citations Christa Schleper et al. profile →
Simultaneous Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function through Analysis of the Meta-Transcriptome

2008 538 citations Tim Urich, Christa Schleper et al. profile →
The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology

2011 439 citations Christa Schleper, Michael Wagner et al. profile →
Archaea in Biogeochemical Cycles

2013 341 citations Pierre Offre, Anja Spang et al. profile →
Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen

2013 270 citations Morten Poulsen, Clarissa Schwab et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christa Schleper

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Microtubules in Asgard archaea 2025 ·Cell ·Florian Wollweber, Jingwei Xu, Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo, (unknown), Thiago Rodrigues-Oliveira, (unknown), Zhen‐Hao Luo, (unknown), (unknown), Michał W. Wieczorek, Christa Schleper, Martin Pilhofer	6
2	Unexpected complexity of the ammonia monooxygenase in archaea 2023 ·The ISME Journal ·(unknown), Michael Melcher, Melina Kerou, Wei‐Qiang Chen, Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo, Savvas N. Savvides, Stefanie Wienkoop, Markus Hartl, Christa Schleper	23
3	Isolation and Characterization of Cell Envelope Fragments Comprising Archaeal S-Layer Proteins 2022 ·Nanomaterials ·(unknown), Eva-Kathrin Ehmoser, Simon K.‐M. R. Rittmann, Christa Schleper, Dietmar Pum, Uwe B. Sleytr, Bernhard Schuster	2
4	Genomes of Thaumarchaeota from deep sea sediments reveal specific adaptations of three independently evolved lineages 2021 ·The ISME Journal ·Melina Kerou, Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo, Rui Zhao, Sophie S. Abby, Miho Hirai, Hidetaka Nomaki, Yoshihiro Takaki, Takuro Nunoura, Steffen L. Jørgensen, Christa Schleper	34
5	Geochemical transition zone powering microbial growth in subsurface sediments 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Rui Zhao, José M. Mogollón, Sophie S. Abby, Christa Schleper, Jennifer F. Biddle, Desiree L. Roerdink, Ingunn H. Thorseth, Steffen L. Jørgensen	37
6	Ancestral Reconstructions Decipher Major Adaptations of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea upon Radiation into Moderate Terrestrial and Marine Environments 2020 ·mBio ·Sophie S. Abby, Melina Kerou, Christa Schleper	27
7	Comparative CRISPR type III-based knockdown of essential genes in hyperthermophilic Sulfolobales and the evasion of lethal gene silencing 2020 ·RNA Biology ·(unknown), Thomas Fouqueau, Gabriel Tarrason Risa, Finn Werner, Buzz Baum, Udo Bläsi, Christa Schleper	11
8	Genome wide transcriptomic analysis of the soil ammonia oxidizing archaeon Nitrososphaera viennensis upon exposure to copper limitation 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·Carolina Reyes, (unknown), Melina Kerou, (unknown), Sophie S. Abby, Barbara Bayer, Stephan M. Kraemer, Christa Schleper	30
9	Exploring the microbial biotransformation of extraterrestrial material on nanometer scale 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·Tetyana Milojević, (unknown), L. Ferrière, Mihaela Albu, Adrienne Kish, R. L. Flemming, Christian Koeberl, Amir Blazevic, Žiga Zebec, Simon K.‐M. R. Rittmann, Christa Schleper, Marc Pignitter, Veronika Somoza, (unknown), (unknown)	15
10	Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Ricardo Eloy Alves, Bùi Quang Minh, Tim Urich, Arndt von Haeseler, Christa Schleper	240
11	Modeling low-temperature serpentinization reactions to estimate molecular hydrogen production with implications for potential microbial life on Saturn's moon Enceladus. 2017 ·EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts ·Jennifer Zwicker, Daniel Smrzka, Ruth-Sophie Taubner, Wolfgang Bach, Simon K.‐M. R. Rittmann, Christa Schleper, Jörn Peckmann	1
12	Physiological and genomic characterization of two novel marine thaumarchaeal strains indicates niche differentiation 2015 ·The ISME Journal ·Barbara Bayer, Jana Vojvoda, Pierre Offre, Ricardo Eloy Alves, Nathalie H. Elisabeth, Juan A. L. Garcia, Jean‐Marie Volland, Abhishek Srivastava, Christa Schleper, Gerhard J. Herndl	126
13	Longitudinal study of murine microbiota activity and interactions with the host during acute inflammation and recovery 2014 ·The ISME Journal ·Clarissa Schwab, David Berry, Isabella Rauch, (unknown), (unknown), Eva Hainzl, Susanne Heider, Thomas Decker, Lukas Kenner, Mathias Müller, Birgit Strobl, Michael Wagner, Christa Schleper, Alexander Loy, Tim Urich	156
14	Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen breakdown → 2013 ·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	270
15	Quantitative and phylogenetic study of the Deep Sea Archaeal Group in sediments of the Arctic mid-ocean spreading ridge 2013 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Steffen L. Jørgensen, Ingunn H. Thorseth, Rolf B. Pedersen, Tamara Baumberger, Christa Schleper	43
16	Sulfur-Oxidizing Chemolithotrophic Proteobacteria Dominate the Microbiota in High Arctic Thermal Springs on Svalbard 2011 ·Astrobiology ·Laila J. Reigstad, Steffen L. Jørgensen, Stein‐Erik Lauritzen, Christa Schleper, Tim Urich	27
17	Response of the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus to UV Damage 2007 ·Journal of Bacteriology ·Sabrina Fröls, Paul M. K. Gordon, (unknown), Iain G. Duggin, Stephen D. Bell, Christoph W. Sensen, Christa Schleper	107
18	Genomic analysis of the uncultivated marine crenarchaeote Cenarchaeum symbiosum 2006 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Steven Hallam, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Nicholas H. Putnam, Christa Schleper, Yoh‐ichi Watanabe, Junichi Sugahara, Christina M. Preston, José R. de la Torre, Paul M. Richardson, Edward F. DeLong	348
19	Genome sequence of Picrophilus torridus and its implications for life around pH 0 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Angel Angelov, Heiko Liesegang, G. Gottschalk, Christa Schleper, (unknown), (unknown), Garabed Antranikian, Wolfgang Liebl	175
20	Transformation of the extremely thermoacidophilic archaeonSulfolobus solfataricusvia a self-spreading vector 1996 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Marieke G. L. Elferink, Christa Schleper, Wolfram Zillig	31

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