Michael Pester

6.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
50 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Pester is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Environmental Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Pester has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Ecology, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Environmental Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Michael Pester's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (38 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (17 papers). Michael Pester is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (38 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (21 papers) and Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena (17 papers). Michael Pester collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Michael Pester's co-authors include Alexander Loy, Michael Wagner, Thomas Rattei, Christa Schleper, Andreas Brune, Bela Hausmann, Andreas Richter, Bernhard Schink, Pinsurang Deevong and Albert Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael Pester

48 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

amoA ‐based consensus phylogeny of ammonia‐oxidizing archaea and deep sequencing of amoA genes from soils of four different geographic regions

2011 449 citations Michael Pester, Thomas Rattei et al. Environmental Microbiology profile →
The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology

2011 439 citations Michael Pester, Christa Schleper et al. Current Opinion in Microbiology profile →
Expanded diversity of microbial groups that shape the dissimilatory sulfur cycle

2018 295 citations Karthik Anantharaman, Bela Hausmann et al. The ISME Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael Pester Germany	29	2.4k	1.3k	1.3k	1.1k	348	50	4.0k
Manabu Fukui Japan	35	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	361 1.0×	172	4.2k
Marc G. Dumont United Kingdom	34	2.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	947 0.9×	456 1.3×	66	4.0k
Gavin Lear New Zealand	41	2.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	515 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	430 1.2×	115	4.8k
Andrew Ogram United States	30	1.7k 0.7×	914 0.7×	764 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	511 1.5×	77	3.5k
Mary Ann Bruns United States	25	2.0k 0.8×	1.3k 1.0×	830 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	487 1.4×	60	4.6k
Marja Tiirola Finland	38	2.2k 0.9×	955 0.7×	746 0.6×	836 0.8×	412 1.2×	115	4.1k
Levente Bodrossy Australia	43	2.7k 1.1×	2.4k 1.8×	1.6k 1.3×	897 0.8×	836 2.4×	117	5.5k
Hidetoshi Urakawa United States	29	2.7k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	785 0.6×	1.6k 1.4×	153 0.4×	77	4.0k
Willm Martens‐Habbena United States	24	2.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	886 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	227 0.7×	46	3.9k
Fengping Wang China	39	2.8k 1.1×	2.2k 1.6×	1.8k 1.4×	562 0.5×	289 0.8×	191	5.0k

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Pradel, Nathalie, Michel Koenen, Nicole J. Bale, et al.. (2024). Description and genome analysis of a novel archaeon isolated from a syntrophic pyrite-forming enrichment culture and reclassification of Methanospirillum hungatei strains GP1 and SK as Methanospirillum purgamenti sp. nov.. PLoS ONE. 19(8). e0308405–e0308405. 2 indexed citations

Pester, Michael, et al.. (2024). Growth of sulfate-reducing Desulfobacterota and Bacillota at periodic oxygen stress of 50% air-O2 saturation. Microbiome. 12(1). 191–191. 11 indexed citations

Kreyling, Jüergen, John Couwenberg, Michael Pester, et al.. (2024). Plant roots but not hydrology control microbiome composition and methane flux in temperate fen mesocosms. The Science of The Total Environment. 940. 173480–173480. 2 indexed citations

Diao, Muhe, et al.. (2023). Global diversity and inferred ecophysiology of microorganisms with the potential for dissimilatory sulfate/sulfite reduction. FEMS Microbiology Reviews. 47(5). 36 indexed citations

Pester, Michael, et al.. (2023). Oxygen respiration and polysaccharide degradation by a sulfate-reducing acidobacterium. Nature Communications. 14(1). 6337–6337. 32 indexed citations

Pradel, Nathalie, Marie‐Laure Fardeau, Boyke Bunk, et al.. (2023). Aminithiophilus ramosus gen. nov., sp. nov., a sulphur-reducing bacterium isolated from a pyrite-forming enrichment culture, and taxonomic revision of the family Synergistaceae. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 73(2). 10 indexed citations

Klotz, Franziska, Katharina Kitzinger, David Kamanda Ngugi, et al.. (2022). Quantification of archaea-driven freshwater nitrification from single cell to ecosystem levels. The ISME Journal. 16(6). 1647–1656. 15 indexed citations

Spring, Stefan, Brian J. Tindall, Cathrin Spröer, et al.. (2020). Desulfolutivibrio sulfoxidireducens gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from a pyrite-forming enrichment culture and reclassification of Desulfovibrio sulfodismutans as Desulfolutivibrio sulfodismutans comb. nov. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 43(5). 126105–126105. 12 indexed citations

Brunel, Caroline, et al.. (2020). Towards Unraveling Macroecological Patterns in Rhizosphere Microbiomes. Trends in Plant Science. 25(10). 1017–1029. 50 indexed citations

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Byrne, James M., et al.. (2019). Pyrite formation from FeS and H ₂ S is mediated through microbial redox activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(14). 6897–6902. 133 indexed citations

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Anantharaman, Karthik, Bela Hausmann, Sean P. Jungbluth, et al.. (2018). Expanded diversity of microbial groups that shape the dissimilatory sulfur cycle. The ISME Journal. 12(7). 1715–1728. 295 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hausmann, Bela, Claus Pelikan, Craig W. Herbold, et al.. (2018). Peatland Acidobacteria with a dissimilatory sulfur metabolism. The ISME Journal. 12(7). 1729–1742. 110 indexed citations

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Zecchin, Sarah, Ralf Mueller, Jana Seifert, et al.. (2017). Rice Paddy Nitrospirae Carry and Express Genes Related to Sulfate Respiration: Proposal of the New Genus “Candidatus Sulfobium”. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 84(5). 64 indexed citations

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Bussmann, Ingeborg, et al.. (2016). Methane release from sediment seeps to the atmosphere is counteracted by highly active Methylococcaceae in the water column of deep oligotrophic Lake Constance. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 92(8). fiw123–fiw123. 14 indexed citations

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Müller, Nicolai, et al.. (2015). Bacillus stamsii sp. nov., a facultatively anaerobic sugar degrader that is numerically dominant in freshwater lake sediment. Systematic and Applied Microbiology. 38(6). 379–389. 12 indexed citations

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Gruber-Dorninger, Christiane, Michael Pester, Katharina Kitzinger, et al.. (2014). Functionally relevant diversity of closely related Nitrospira in activated sludge. The ISME Journal. 9(3). 643–655. 151 indexed citations

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Pester, Michael. (2012). Sulfate-reducing microorganisms in wetlands – fameless actors in carbon cycling and climate change. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3. 72–72. 275 indexed citations

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Pester, Michael, Thomas Rattei, Alexander Gröngröft, et al.. (2011). amoA ‐based consensus phylogeny of ammonia‐oxidizing archaea and deep sequencing of amoA genes from soils of four different geographic regions. Environmental Microbiology. 14(2). 525–539. 449 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pester, Michael, Christa Schleper, & Michael Wagner. (2011). The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 14(3). 300–306. 439 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bussmann, Ingeborg, Michael Pester, Andreas Brune, & Bernhard Schink. (2003). Preferential cultivation of type II methanotrophic bacteria from littoral sediments (Lake Constance). FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 47(2). 179–189. 54 indexed citations

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