Tanja Woyke

50.8k total citations · 15 hit papers
384 papers, 21.3k citations indexed

About

Tanja Woyke is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tanja Woyke has authored 384 papers receiving a total of 21.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 292 papers in Molecular Biology, 249 papers in Ecology and 99 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Tanja Woyke's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (251 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (213 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (60 papers). Tanja Woyke is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (251 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (213 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (60 papers). Tanja Woyke collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Tanja Woyke's co-authors include Nikos C. Kyrpides, Natalia Ivanova, Ramūnas Stepanauskas, Susannah G. Tringe, Frederik Schulz, Christian Rinke, Alexander Sczyrba, Steven Hallam, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh and Simon Roux and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Tanja Woyke

376 papers receiving 21.1k 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.

Assembling Single-Cell Genomes and Mini-Metagenomes From Chimeric MDA Products

2013 1.1k citations Ramūnas Stepanauskas, Tanja Woyke et al. profile →
Metagenomic Discovery of Biomass-Degrading Genes and Genomes from Cow Rumen

2011 950 citations Alexander Sczyrba, Susannah G. Tringe et al. profile →
IMG/M v.5.0: an integrated data management and comparative analysis system for microbial genomes and microbiomes

2018 583 citations Manoj Pillay, Marcel Huntemann et al. profile →
Plant compartment and biogeography affect microbiome composition in cultivated and native Agave species

2015 547 citations Tanja Woyke, Susannah G. Tringe et al. profile →
Genome-Based Taxonomic Classification of the Phylum Actinobacteria

2018 510 citations Tanja Woyke, Nikos C. Kyrpides et al. profile →
Functional Characteristics of an Endophyte Community Colonizing Rice Roots as Revealed by Metagenomic Analysis

2011 460 citations Tanja Woyke et al. profile →
Complete genome sequence of DSM 30083T, the type strain (U5/41T) of Escherichia coli, and a proposal for delineating subspecies in microbial taxonomy

2014 460 citations Lynne Goodwin, T. B. K. Reddy et al. Standards in Genomic Sciences profile →
IMG 4 version of the integrated microbial genomes comparative analysis system

2013 431 citations Victor Markowitz, Manoj Pillay et al. profile →
Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing

2015 387 citations Tanja Woyke, Janey Lee et al. profile →
Viral dark matter and virus–host interactions resolved from publicly available microbial genomes

2015 340 citations Simon Roux, Steven Hallam et al. profile →
Analysis of 1,000+ Type-Strain Genomes Substantially Improves Taxonomic Classification of Alphaproteobacteria

2020 332 citations Nikos C. Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke et al. profile →
Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)

2017 310 citations Christian Rinke, Tanja Woyke et al. profile →
The IMG/M data management and analysis system v.6.0: new tools and advanced capabilities

2020 287 citations Marcel Huntemann, Neha Varghese et al. profile →
IMG/VR v3: an integrated ecological and evolutionary framework for interrogating genomes of uncultivated viruses

2020 221 citations Simon Roux, David Páez-Espino et al. profile →
IMG/VR v4: an expanded database of uncultivated virus genomes within a framework of extensive functional, taxonomic, and ecological metadata

2022 199 citations Stephen Nayfach, T. B. K. Reddy et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Host species and geographic location shape microbial diversity and functional potential in the conifer needle microbiome 2025 ·Microbiome ·Robert M. Bowers, (unknown), Robert Riley, (unknown), (unknown), Tanja Woyke, A. Carolin Frank	0
2	Comparative genomics reveals electron transfer and syntrophic mechanisms differentiating methanotrophic and methanogenic archaea 2022 ·PLoS Biology ·Grayson L. Chadwick, Connor T. Skennerton, Rafael Laso-Pérez, Andy O Leu, Daan R. Speth, Hang Yu, Connor Morgan‐Lang, Roland Hatzenpichler, Danielle Goudeau, Rex R. Malmstrom, William J. Brazelton, Tanja Woyke, Steven Hallam, Gene W. Tyson, Gunter Wegener, Antje Boëtius, Victoria J. Orphan	87
3	Recoding of stop codons expands the metabolic potential of two novel Asgardarchaeota lineages 2021 ·ISME Communications ·Jiarui Sun, Paul N. Evans, Emma J. Gagen, Ben J. Woodcroft, Brian P. Hedlund, Tanja Woyke, Philip Hugenholtz, Christian Rinke	31
4	Dissecting the dominant hot spring microbial populations based on community-wide sampling at single-cell genomic resolution 2021 ·The ISME Journal ·Robert M. Bowers, Stephen Nayfach, Frederik Schulz, Sean P. Jungbluth, (unknown), (unknown), Janey Lee, Danielle Goudeau, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Ramūnas Stepanauskas, Rex R. Malmstrom, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Peter F. Dunfield, Tanja Woyke	23
5	Insights into the dynamics between viruses and their hosts in a hot spring microbial mat 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·(unknown), Mária Džunková, Frederik Schulz, Simon Roux, David Páez-Espino, Emiley A. Eloe‐Fadrosh, Sean P. Jungbluth, Natalia Ivanova, John R. Spear, Stephanie Carr, (unknown), Frank A. Corsetti, Hope A. Johnson, Eric D. Becraft, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Ramūnas Stepanauskas, Tanja Woyke	47
6	Niche differentiation is spatially and temporally regulated in the rhizosphere 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·Erin Nuccio, Evan Starr, Ulaş Karaöz, Eoin Brodie, Jizhong Zhou, Susannah G. Tringe, Rex R. Malmstrom, Tanja Woyke, Jillian F. Banfield, Mary K. Firestone, Jennifer Pett‐Ridge	138
7	Lipid analysis of CO2-rich subsurface aquifers suggests an autotrophy-based deep biosphere with lysolipids enriched in CPR bacteria 2020 ·The ISME Journal ·Alexander J. Probst, Felix J. Elling, Cindy J. Castelle, Qingzeng Zhu, Marcus Elvert, Giovanni Birarda, Hoi‐Ying N. Holman, Katherine R. Lane, Bethany Ladd, M. Cathryn Ryan, Tanja Woyke, Kai‐Uwe Hinrichs, Jillian F. Banfield	29
8	Hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis in archaeal phylum Verstraetearchaeota reveals the shared ancestry of all methanogens 2019 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Bojk A. Berghuis, Feiqiao Brian Yu, Frederik Schulz, Paul C. Blainey, Tanja Woyke, Stephen R. Quake	145
9	Hydrogen-based metabolism as an ancestral trait in lineages sibling to the Cyanobacteria 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Paula B. Matheus Carnevali, Frederik Schulz, Cindy J. Castelle, Rose S. Kantor, Patrick M. Shih, Itai Sharon, Joanne M. Santini, Matthew R. Olm, Yuki Amano, Brian C. Thomas, Karthik Anantharaman, David Burstein, Eric D. Becraft, Ramūnas Stepanauskas, Tanja Woyke, Jillian F. Banfield	52
10	Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Frederik Schulz, Lauren V. Alteio, Danielle Goudeau, Elizabeth M. Ryan, Feiqiao Brian Yu, Rex R. Malmstrom, Jeffrey L. Blanchard, Tanja Woyke	103
11	Single cell genomic and transcriptomic evidence for the use of alternative nitrogen substrates by anammox bacteria 2018 ·The ISME Journal ·Sangita Ganesh, Anthony D. Bertagnolli, Laura A. Bristow, Cory C. Padilla, (unknown), Montserrat Aldunate, Annie Bourbonnais, Mark A. Altabet, Rex R. Malmstrom, Tanja Woyke, Osvaldo Ulloa, Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis, Bo Thamdrup, Frank J. Stewart	42
12	Contrasting patterns of genome-level diversity across distinct co-occurring bacterial populations 2017 ·The ISME Journal ·Sarahi L. Garcia, Sarah Stevens, (unknown), Manuel Martínez‐García, Ramūnas Stepanauskas, Tanja Woyke, Susannah G. Tringe, Siv G. E. Andersson, Stefan Bertilsson, Rex R. Malmstrom, Katherine D. McMahon	49
13	High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of the Bradyrhizobium elkanii type strain USDA 76T, isolated from Glycine max (L.) Merr 2017 ·Standards in Genomic Sciences ·Wayne Reeve, Peter van Berkum, Julie Ardley, Rui Tian, (unknown), Дора Маринова, (unknown), T. B. K. Reddy, Manoj Pillay, Neha Varghese, R. Seshadri, Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke, (unknown), Nabih A. Baeshen, Nikos C. Kyrpides	10
14	High-quality draft genome sequence of Ensifer meliloti Mlalz-1, a microsymbiont of Medicago laciniata (L.) miller collected in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain 2017 ·Standards in Genomic Sciences ·(unknown), Peter van Berkum, Milagros León‐Barrios, Encarna Velázquez, (unknown), Rui Tian, Julie Ardley, (unknown), R. Seshadri, T. B. K. Reddy, Natalia Ivanova, Tanja Woyke, Amrita Pati, Victor Markowitz, (unknown), (unknown), Nikos C. Kyrpides, Wayne Reeve	1
15	High-quality draft genome sequence of Rhizobium mesoamericanum strain STM6155, a Mimosa pudica microsymbiont from New Caledonia 2017 ·Standards in Genomic Sciences ·Agnieszka Klonowska, Aline López-López, Lionel Moulin, Julie Ardley, (unknown), Дора Маринова, Rui Tian, Marcel Huntemann, T. B. K. Reddy, Neha Varghese, Tanja Woyke, Victor Markowitz, Natalia Ivanova, R. Seshadri, (unknown), Nabih A. Baeshen, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Wayne Reeve	2
16	Genomic composition and dynamics among Methanomicrobiales predict adaptation to contrasting environments 2016 ·The ISME Journal ·Patrick Denis Browne, Hideyuki Tamaki, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke, Lynne Goodwin, Hiroyuki Imachi, Suzanna L. Bräuer, Joseph B. Yavitt, Wen‐Tso Liu, Stephen H. Zinder, Hinsby Cadillo‐Quiroz	35
17	Tuning fresh: radiation through rewiring of central metabolism in streamlined bacteria 2016 ·The ISME Journal ·Alexander Eiler, Rhiannon Mondav, Lucas Sinclair, (unknown), Douglas G. Scofield, Patrick Schwientek, Manuel Martínez‐García, David Torrents, Katherine D. McMahon, Siv G. E. Andersson, Ramūnas Stepanauskas, Tanja Woyke, Stefan Bertilsson	37
18	High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of Ensifer medicae strain WSM244, a microsymbiont isolated from Medicago polymorpha growing in alkaline soil 2015 ·Standards in Genomic Sciences ·Julie Ardley, Rui Tian, Graham O’Hara, R. Seshadri, T. B. K. Reddy, Amrita Pati, Tanja Woyke, Victor Markowitz, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos C. Kyrpides, John Howieson, Wayne Reeve	1
19	High level of intergenera gene exchange shapes the evolution of haloarchaea in an isolated Antarctic lake 2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Matthew Z. DeMaere, Timothy J. Williams, Michelle A. Allen, Mark V. Brown, John A. E. Gibson, (unknown), Federico M. Lauro, Michael L. Dyall‐Smith, Karen W. Davenport, Tanja Woyke, Nikos C. Kyrpides, Susannah G. Tringe, Ricardo Cavicchioli	80
20	UGA is an additional glycine codon in uncultured SR1 bacteria from the human microbiota 2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·James H. Campbell, Patrick O’Donoghue, Alisha G. Campbell, Patrick Schwientek, Alexander Sczyrba, Tanja Woyke, Dieter Söll, Mircea Podar	214

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