| The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems L Pita, L Rix, BM Slaby, A Franke, U Hentschel Microbiome 6 (1), 46, 2018 | 535 | 2018 |
| Metagenomic binning of a marine sponge microbiome reveals unity in defense but metabolic specialization BM Slaby, T Hackl, H Horn, K Bayer, U Hentschel The ISME journal 11 (11), 2465-2478, 2017 | 176 | 2017 |
| Lifestyle evolution in cyanobacterial symbionts of sponges I Burgsdorf, BM Slaby, KM Handley, M Haber, J Blom, CW Marshall, ... MBio 6 (3), 10.1128/mbio. 00391-15, 2015 | 127* | 2015 |
| An enrichment of CRISPR and other defense-related features in marine sponge-associated microbial metagenomes H Horn, BM Slaby, MT Jahn, K Bayer, L Moitinho-Silva, F Förster, ... Frontiers in microbiology 7, 1751, 2016 | 108 | 2016 |
| A genomic view of the microbiome of coral reef demosponges SJ Robbins, W Song, JP Engelberts, B Glasl, BM Slaby, J Boyd, ... The ISME journal 15 (6), 1641-1654, 2021 | 105 | 2021 |
| Marine Sponges as Chloroflexi Hot Spots: Genomic Insights and High-Resolution Visualization of an Abundant and Diverse Symbiotic Clade K Bayer, MT Jahn, BM Slaby, L Moitinho-Silva, U Hentschel MSystems 3 (6), 10.1128/msystems. 00150-18, 2018 | 105* | 2018 |
| Metagenomic binning reveals versatile nutrient cycling and distinct adaptive features in alphaproteobacterial symbionts of marine sponges E Karimi, BM Slaby, AR Soares, J Blom, U Hentschel, R Costa FEMS microbiology ecology 94 (6), fiy074, 2018 | 77 | 2018 |
| Genomic blueprints of sponge-prokaryote symbiosis are shared by low abundant and cultivatable Alphaproteobacteria E Karimi, T Keller-Costa, BM Slaby, CJ Cox, UN da Rocha, U Hentschel, ... Scientific reports 9 (1), 1999, 2019 | 71 | 2019 |
| Biodiversity, environmental drivers, and sustainability of the global deep-sea sponge microbiome K Busch, BM Slaby, W Bach, A Boetius, I Clefsen, A Colaço, M Creemers, ... nature communications 13 (1), 5160, 2022 | 47 | 2022 |
| Giant sponge grounds of Central Arctic seamounts are associated with extinct seep life TM Morganti, BM Slaby, A de Kluijver, K Busch, U Hentschel, ... Nature communications 13 (1), 638, 2022 | 35 | 2022 |
| A microbial nitrogen engine modulated by bacteriosyncytia in hexactinellid sponges: ecological implications for deep-sea communities M Maldonado, M López-Acosta, K Busch, BM Slaby, K Bayer, L Beazley, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 8, 638505, 2021 | 34 | 2021 |
| Microbial Strategies for Survival in the Glass Sponge Vazella pourtalesii K Bayer, K Busch, E Kenchington, L Beazley, S Franzenburg, J Michels, ... mSystems 5 (4), e00473-20, 2020 | 33* | 2020 |
| Phylogeny and genomics of SAUL, an enigmatic bacterial lineage frequently associated with marine sponges C Astudillo‐García, BM Slaby, DW Waite, K Bayer, U Hentschel, ... Environmental microbiology 20 (2), 561-576, 2018 | 30 | 2018 |
| Bacterial precursors and unsaturated long-chain fatty acids are biomarkers of North-Atlantic deep-sea demosponges A de Kluijver, KGJ Nierop, TM Morganti, MC Bart, BM Slaby, U Hanz, ... PLoS One 16 (1), e0241095, 2021 | 29 | 2021 |
| Lineage-specific energy and carbon metabolism of sponge symbionts and contributions to the host carbon pool I Burgsdorf, S Sizikov, V Squatrito, M Britstein, BM Slaby, C Cerrano, ... The ISME Journal 16 (4), 1163-1175, 2022 | 26 | 2022 |
| In situ observation of sponge trails suggests common sponge locomotion in the deep central Arctic TM Morganti, A Purser, HT Rapp, CR German, MV Jakuba, L Hehemann, ... Current Biology 31 (8), R368-R370, 2021 | 24 | 2021 |
| Microbial diversity of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesii in response to anthropogenic activities K Busch, L Beazley, E Kenchington, F Whoriskey, BM Slaby, U Hentschel Conservation Genetics 21, 1001–1010, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| Marine sponge holobionts in health and disease BM Slaby, A Franke, L Rix, L Pita, K Bayer, MT Jahn, U Hentschel Symbiotic microbiomes of coral reefs sponges and corals, 81-104, 2019 | 22 | 2019 |
| The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems. Microbiome. 2018; 6: 46 L Pita, L Rix, BM Slaby, A Franke, U Hentschel | 20 | 2018 |
| Deciphering a Marine Bone-Degrading Microbiome Reveals a Complex Community Effort E Borchert, A García-Moyano, S Sanchez-Carrillo, TG Dahlgren, ... mSystems 6, e01218-20, 2021 | 12 | 2021 |