| Highly specialized microbial diversity in hyper-arid polar desert SB Pointing, Y Chan, DC Lacap, MCY Lau, JA Jurgens, RL Farrell Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (47), 19964-19969, 2009 | 461 | 2009 |
| Stochastic and deterministic processes interact in the assembly of desert microbial communities on a global scale T Caruso, Y Chan, DC Lacap, MCY Lau, CP McKay, SB Pointing The ISME journal 5 (9), 1406-1413, 2011 | 374 | 2011 |
| Ancient origins determine global biogeography of hot and cold desert cyanobacteria J Bahl, MCY Lau, GJD Smith, D Vijaykrishna, SC Cary, DC Lacap, CK Lee, ... Nature communications 2 (1), 163, 2011 | 240 | 2011 |
| An oligotrophic deep-subsurface community dependent on syntrophy is dominated by sulfur-driven autotrophic denitrifiers MCY Lau, TL Kieft, O Kuloyo, B Linage-Alvarez, E Van Heerden, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (49), E7927-E7936, 2016 | 221 | 2016 |
| Hypolithic microbial communities: between a rock and a hard place Y Chan, DC Lacap, MCY Lau, KY Ha, KA Warren‐Rhodes, CS Cockell, ... Environmental microbiology 14 (9), 2272-2282, 2012 | 165 | 2012 |
| Bacterial community composition in thermophilic microbial mats from five hot springs in central Tibet MCY Lau, JC Aitchison, SB Pointing Extremophiles 13, 139-149, 2009 | 164 | 2009 |
| A metagenomic window into carbon metabolism at 3 km depth in Precambrian continental crust C Magnabosco, K Ryan, MCY Lau, O Kuloyo, B Sherwood Lollar, TL Kieft, ... The ISME journal 10 (3), 730-741, 2016 | 136 | 2016 |
| Commercial DNA extraction kits impact observed microbial community composition in permafrost samples TA Vishnivetskaya, AC Layton, MCY Lau, A Chauhan, KR Cheng, ... FEMS microbiology ecology 87 (1), 217-230, 2014 | 131 | 2014 |
| Rokubacteria: genomic giants among the uncultured bacterial phyla ED Becraft, T Woyke, J Jarett, N Ivanova, F Godoy-Vitorino, N Poulton, ... Frontiers in microbiology 8, 2264, 2017 | 129 | 2017 |
| The effects of temperature, pH and sulphide on the community structure of hyperthermophilic streamers in hot springs of northern Thailand D Purcell, U Sompong, LC Yim, TG Barraclough, Y Peerapornpisal, ... FEMS microbiology ecology 60 (3), 456-466, 2007 | 126 | 2007 |
| Temporal variation in airborne microbial populations and microbially-derived allergens in a tropical urban landscape AC Woo, MS Brar, Y Chan, MCY Lau, FCC Leung, JA Scott, LLP Vrijmoed, ... Atmospheric Environment 74, 291-300, 2013 | 124 | 2013 |
| An active atmospheric methane sink in high Arctic mineral cryosols MCY Lau, BT Stackhouse, AC Layton, A Chauhan, TA Vishnivetskaya, ... The ISME journal 9 (8), 1880-1891, 2015 | 117 | 2015 |
| Reduced net methane emissions due to microbial methane oxidation in a warmer Arctic Y Oh, Q Zhuang, L Liu, LR Welp, MCY Lau, TC Onstott, D Medvigy, ... Nature Climate Change 10 (4), 317-321, 2020 | 108 | 2020 |
| Hypolithic microbial community of quartz pavement in the high-altitude tundra of central Tibet FKY Wong, DC Lacap, MCY Lau, JC Aitchison, DA Cowan, SB Pointing Microbial ecology 60, 730-739, 2010 | 102 | 2010 |
| Variations in microbial carbon sources and cycling in the deep continental subsurface DN Simkus, GF Slater, BS Lollar, K Wilkie, TL Kieft, C Magnabosco, ... Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 173, 264-283, 2016 | 93 | 2016 |
| Uncultured Nitrospina-like species are major nitrite oxidizing bacteria in oxygen minimum zones X Sun, LFM Kop, MCY Lau, J Frank, A Jayakumar, S Lücker, BB Ward The ISME Journal 13 (10), 2391-2402, 2019 | 83 | 2019 |
| Taxonomic and functional diversity of soil and hypolithic microbial communities in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica STS Wei, DC Lacap-Bugler, MCY Lau, T Caruso, S Rao, AN De Los Rios, ... Frontiers in microbiology 7, 1642, 2016 | 83 | 2016 |
| Phylogeny and phylogeography of functional genes shared among seven terrestrial subsurface metagenomes reveal N-cycling and microbial evolutionary relationships MCY Lau, C Cameron, C Magnabosco, CT Brown, F Schilkey, S Grim, ... Frontiers in microbiology 5, 531, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
| Global diversity of desert hypolithic cyanobacteria DC Lacap-Bugler, KK Lee, S Archer, LN Gillman, MCY Lau, S Leuzinger, ... Frontiers in Microbiology 8, 867, 2017 | 79 | 2017 |
| Single cell genomics indicates horizontal gene transfer and viral infections in a deep subsurface Firmicutes population JM Labonté, EK Field, M Lau, D Chivian, E Van Heerden, KE Wommack, ... Frontiers in microbiology 6, 349, 2015 | 75 | 2015 |
