H. Ochman

Most-cited papers

Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective
T. Wirth, D. Falush, R. Lan, F. Colles +7 more
2006Molecular Microbiology2,064 citations Open access
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Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates.
V. Kunin, A. Engelbrektson, H. Ochman, P. Hugenholtz
2009Environmental Microbiology1,289 citations Open access
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Enterotypes in the landscape of gut microbial community composition
P. Costea, F. Hildebrand, M. Arumugam, F. Bäckhed +25 more
2017Nature Microbiology954 citations Open access
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Experimental factors affecting PCR-based estimates of microbial species richness and evenness
A. Engelbrektson, V. Kunin, K. Wrighton, N. Zvenigorodsky +3 more
2010The ISME Journal622 citations Open access
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Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids
Andrew H. Moeller, A. Caro-Quintero, D. Mjungu, A. Georgiev +6 more
2016Science538 citations Open access
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Evolutionary Relationships of Wild Hominids Recapitulated by Gut Microbial Communities
H. Ochman, M. Worobey, Chih-Horng Kuo, Jean-Bosco N. Ndjango +3 more
2010PLoS Biology501 citations Open access
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Illumina-based analysis of microbial community diversity
P. Degnan, H. Ochman
2011The ISME Journal409 citations Open access
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The consequences of genetic drift for bacterial genome complexity.
Chih-Horng Kuo, N. Moran, H. Ochman
2009Genome Research304 citations Open access
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Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution
Andrew H. Moeller, Yingying Li, E. Mpoudi-ngole, S. Ahuka-Mundeke +5 more
2014Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America302 citations Open access
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Social behavior shapes the chimpanzee pan-microbiome
Andrew H. Moeller, Steffen Foerster, M. Wilson, A. Pusey +2 more
2016Science Advances291 citations Open access
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The Nature and Dynamics of Bacterial Genomes
H. Ochman, L. Dávalos
2006Science274 citations
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Stepwise formation of the bacterial flagellar system
Ren-Yi Liu, H. Ochman
2007Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America259 citations Open access
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Comparative Metagenomics and Population Dynamics of the Gut Microbiota in Mother and Infant
P. Vaishampayan, J. Kuehl, J. Froula, Jenna L. Morgan +2 more
2010Genome Biology and Evolution247 citations Open access
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Evolutionary and ecological consequences of gut microbial communities
N. Moran, H. Ochman, T. Hammer
2019Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics232 citations Open access
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Short-Term Signatures of Evolutionary Change in the Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium 14028 Genome
T. Jarvik, C. Smillie, E. Groisman, H. Ochman
2009Journal of Bacteriology232 citations Open access
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Deletional Bias across the Three Domains of Life
Chih-Horng Kuo, H. Ochman
2009Genome Biology and Evolution221 citations Open access
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Rates of Gut Microbiome Divergence in Mammals
Alex H. Nishida, H. Ochman
2018Molecular Ecology211 citations Open access
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Human symbionts inject and neutralize antibacterial toxins to persist in the gut
A. Wexler, Yiqiao Bao, J. C. Whitney, L. Bobay +10 more
2016Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America209 citations Open access
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Factors associated with the diversification of the gut microbial communities within chimpanzees from Gombe National Park
P. Degnan, A. Pusey, E. Lonsdorf, J. Goodall +5 more
2012Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America187 citations Open access
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Sympatric chimpanzees and gorillas harbor convergent gut microbial communities
Andrew H. Moeller, M. Peeters, Jean-Basco Ndjango, Yingying Li +2 more
2013Genome Research183 citations Open access
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The Extinction Dynamics of Bacterial Pseudogenes
Chih-Horng Kuo, H. Ochman
2010PLoS Genetics179 citations Open access
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Genome-wide detection of novel regulatory RNAs in E. coli.
R. Raghavan, E. Groisman, H. Ochman
2011Genome Research145 citations Open access
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Where Next for Microbiome Research?
M. Waldor, G. Tyson, Elhanan Borenstein, H. Ochman +7 more
2015PLoS Biology144 citations Open access
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Antisense Transcription Is Pervasive but Rarely Conserved in Enteric Bacteria
R. Raghavan, Daniel B. Sloan, H. Ochman
2012mBio144 citations Open access
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The Evolution of Bacterial Genome Architecture
L. Bobay, H. Ochman
2017Frontiers in Genetics140 citations Open access
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Chimpanzees and Humans Harbor Compositionally Similar Gut Enterotypes
Andrew H. Moeller, P. Degnan, A. Pusey, M. Wilson +2 more
2012Nature Communications138 citations Open access
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Inferring clocks when lacking rocks: the variable rates of molecular evolution in bacteria
Chih-Horng Kuo, H. Ochman
2009Biology Direct138 citations Open access
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Factors driving effective population size and pan-genome evolution in bacteria
L. Bobay, H. Ochman
2018BMC Evolutionary Biology134 citations Open access
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A selective force favoring increased G+C content in bacterial genes
R. Raghavan, Y. Kelkar, H. Ochman
2012Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America128 citations Open access
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Biological Species Are Universal across Life’s Domains
L. Bobay, H. Ochman
2017Genome Biology and Evolution116 citations Open access
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Of what use is sex to bacteria?
H. Narra, H. Ochman
2006Current Biology114 citations Open access
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Pea Aphid as both Host and Vector for the Phytopathogenic Bacterium Pseudomonas syringae
J. Stavrinides, Jodi K. McCloskey, H. Ochman
2009Applied and Environmental Microbiology104 citations Open access
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SIV-INDUCED INSTABILITY OF THE CHIMPANZEE GUT MICROBIOME
Andrew H. Moeller, M. Shilts, Yingying Li, Rebecca S. Rudicell +5 more
2013Cell Host and Microbe92 citations Open access
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Unexplored Archaeal Diversity in the Great Ape Gut Microbiome
K. Raymann, Andrew H. Moeller, A. Goodman, H. Ochman
2017Msphere88 citations Open access
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Origins of Flagellar Gene Operons and Secondary Flagellar Systems
Ren-Yi Liu, H. Ochman
2007Journal of Bacteriology87 citations Open access
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The fate of new bacterial genes.
Chih-Horng Kuo, H. Ochman
2009FEMS Microbiology Reviews85 citations Open access
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The Emergence and Fate of Horizontally Acquired Genes in Escherichia coli
M. V. van Passel, P. Marri, H. Ochman
2008PLoS Comput. Biol.85 citations Open access
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Causes and Consequences of Genome Expansion in Fungi
Y. Kelkar, H. Ochman
2011Genome Biology and Evolution74 citations Open access
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Biological species in the viral world
L. Bobay, H. Ochman
2018Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America69 citations Open access
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Conserved rates and patterns of transcription errors across bacterial growth states and lifestyles
Charles C. Traverse, H. Ochman
2016Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America65 citations Open access
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A great-ape view of the gut microbiome
Alex H. Nishida, H. Ochman
2019Nature reviews genetics60 citations
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Recombination events are concentrated in the spike protein region of Betacoronaviruses
L. Bobay, Angela C. O’Donnell, H. Ochman
2020PLoS Genetics58 citations Open access
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The Ingenuity of Bacterial Genomes.
P. Kirchberger, Mariane Schmidt, H. Ochman
2020Annual Review of Microbiology57 citations
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Genome Reduction Promotes Increase in Protein Functional Complexity in Bacteria
Y. Kelkar, H. Ochman
2013Genetics54 citations Open access
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Impact of Recombination on the Base Composition of Bacteriaand Archaea
L. Bobay, H. Ochman
2017Molecular biology and evolution52 citations Open access
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Sequence Conservation and Functional Constraint on Intergenic Spacers in Reduced Genomes of the Obligate Symbiont Buchnera
P. Degnan, H. Ochman, N. Moran
2011PLoS Genetics51 citations Open access
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Captivity and the co-diversification of great ape microbiomes
Alex H. Nishida, H. Ochman
2021Nature Communications48 citations Open access
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Assessing the Unseen Bacterial Diversity in Microbial Communities
A. Caro-Quintero, H. Ochman
2015Genome Biology and Evolution45 citations Open access
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A single genetic locus in the phytopathogen Pantoea stewartii enables gut colonization and pathogenicity in an insect host.
J. Stavrinides, Alexander No, H. Ochman
2010Environmental Microbiology45 citations
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Impermanence of bacterial clones
L. Bobay, Charles C. Traverse, H. Ochman
2015Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America43 citations Open access
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