| Microbial community of the deep‐sea brine Lake Kryos seawater–brine interface is active below the chaotropicity limit of life as revealed by recovery of mRNA MM Yakimov, V La Cono, GL Spada, G Bortoluzzi, E Messina, F Smedile, ... Environmental microbiology 17 (2), 364-382, 2015 | 130* | 2015 |
| Unveiling microbial life in new deep‐sea hypersaline Lake Thetis. Part I: Prokaryotes and environmental settings V La Cono, F Smedile, G Bortoluzzi, E Arcadi, G Maimone, E Messina, ... Environmental Microbiology 13 (8), 2250-2268, 2011 | 98 | 2011 |
| Microbial life in the Lake Medee, the largest deep-sea salt-saturated formation MM Yakimov, V La Cono, VZ Slepak, G La Spada, E Arcadi, E Messina, ... Scientific reports 3 (1), 3554, 2013 | 95 | 2013 |
| The gut microbiota of larvae of Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Oliver (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) M Tagliavia, E Messina, B Manachini, S Cappello, P Quatrini BMC microbiology 14, 1-11, 2014 | 90 | 2014 |
| Discovery of anaerobic lithoheterotrophic haloarchaea, ubiquitous in hypersaline habitats DY Sorokin, E Messina, F Smedile, P Roman, JSS Damsté, S Ciordia, ... The ISME journal 11 (5), 1245-1260, 2017 | 79 | 2017 |
| Elemental sulfur and acetate can support life of a novel strictly anaerobic haloarchaeon DY Sorokin, IV Kublanov, SN Gavrilov, D Rojo, P Roman, PN Golyshin, ... The ISME Journal 10 (1), 240-252, 2016 | 79 | 2016 |
| Metagenomic analysis of hadopelagic microbial assemblages thriving at the deepest part of Mediterranean Sea, Matapan‐Vavilov Deep F Smedile, E Messina, V La Cono, O Tsoy, LS Monticelli, M Borghini, ... Environmental microbiology 15 (1), 167-182, 2013 | 64 | 2013 |
| Symbiosis between nanohaloarchaeon and haloarchaeon is based on utilization of different polysaccharides V La Cono, E Messina, M Rohde, E Arcadi, S Ciordia, F Crisafi, R Denaro, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (33), 20223-20234, 2020 | 54* | 2020 |
| Genome sequence of obligate marine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons-degrading bacterium Cycloclasticus sp. 78-ME, isolated from petroleum deposits of the sunken tanker Amoco … E Messina, R Denaro, F Crisafi, F Smedile, S Cappello, M Genovese, ... Marine Genomics 25, 11-13, 2016 | 35 | 2016 |
| Cultivation of a vampire: ‘Candidatus Absconditicoccus praedator’ MM Yakimov, AY Merkel, VA Gaisin, M Pilhofer, E Messina, JE Hallsworth, ... Environmental microbiology 24 (1), 30-49, 2022 | 34 | 2022 |
| Gene sets for utilization of primary and secondary nutrition supplies in the distal gut of endangered Iberian lynx M Alcaide, E Messina, M Richter, R Bargiela, J Peplies, SA Huws, ... PLoS One 7 (12), e51521, 2012 | 34 | 2012 |
| The discovery of Lake Hephaestus, the youngest athalassohaline deep-sea formation on Earth V La Cono, G Bortoluzzi, E Messina, G La Spada, F Smedile, L Giuliano, ... Scientific reports 9 (1), 1679, 2019 | 33 | 2019 |
| Sulfur respiration in a group of facultatively anaerobic natronoarchaea ubiquitous in hypersaline soda lakes DY Sorokin, E Messina, V La Cono, M Ferrer, S Ciordia, MC Mena, ... Frontiers in microbiology 9, 2359, 2018 | 33 | 2018 |
| Alcanivorax borkumensis produces an extracellular siderophore in iron-limitation condition maintaining the hydrocarbon-degradation efficiency R Denaro, F Crisafi, D Russo, M Genovese, E Messina, L Genovese, ... Marine genomics 17, 43-52, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Natronolimnobius sulfurireducens sp. nov. and Halalkaliarchaeum desulfuricum gen. nov., sp. nov., the first sulfur-respiring alkaliphilic haloarchaea from … DY Sorokin, M Yakimov, E Messina, AY Merkel, NJ Bale, ... International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 69 (9 …, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| A three-component microbial consortium from deep-sea salt-saturated anoxic lake Thetis links anaerobic glycine betaine degradation with methanogenesis V La Cono, E Arcadi, G La Spada, D Barreca, G Laganà, E Bellocco, ... Microorganisms 3 (3), 500-517, 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
| Carbohydrate‐dependent sulfur respiration in halo (alkali) philic archaea DY Sorokin, E Messina, F Smedile, V La Cono, JE Hallsworth, ... Environmental Microbiology 23 (7), 3789-3808, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
| Complete genome sequence of ‘Halanaeroarchaeum sulfurireducens’ M27-SA2, a sulfur-reducing and acetate-oxidizing haloarchaeon from the deep-sea … E Messina, DY Sorokin, IV Kublanov, S Toshchakov, A Lopatina, E Arcadi, ... Standards in genomic sciences 11, 1-15, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Reclassification of the genus Natronolimnobius: proposal of two new genera, Natronolimnohabitans gen. nov. to accommodate Natronolimnobius innermongolicus and … DY Sorokin, AY Merkel, E Messina, MM Yakimov, T Itoh, NM Mesbah, ... International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 70 (5 …, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| Genomic analysis of pure cultures and communities SV Toshchakov, IV Kublanov, E Messina, MM Yakimov, PN Golyshin Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Protocols: Genetic, Genomic and System …, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
