| The natural history of nitrogen fixation J Raymond, JL Siefert, CR Staples, RE Blankenship Molecular biology and evolution 21 (3), 541-554, 2004 | 1069 | 2004 |
| Life and the evolution of Earth's atmosphere JF Kasting, JL Siefert Science 296 (5570), 1066-1068, 2002 | 599 | 2002 |
| A coupled atmosphere–ecosystem model of the early Archean Earth P Kharecha, J Kasting, J Siefert Geobiology 3 (2), 53-76, 2005 | 343 | 2005 |
| Spectral signatures of photosynthesis. I. Review of Earth organisms NY Kiang, J Siefert, Govindjee, RE Blankenship Astrobiology 7 (1), 222-251, 2007 | 342 | 2007 |
| Biodiversity and biogeography of phages in modern stromatolites and thrombolites C Desnues, B Rodriguez-Brito, S Rayhawk, S Kelley, T Tran, M Haynes, ... Nature 452 (7185), 340-343, 2008 | 298 | 2008 |
| Metagenomic and stable isotopic analyses of modern freshwater microbialites in Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico M Breitbart, A Hoare, A Nitti, J Siefert, M Haynes, E Dinsdale, R Edwards, ... Environmental Microbiology 11 (1), 16-34, 2009 | 254 | 2009 |
| Spectral signatures of photosynthesis. II. Coevolution with other stars and the atmosphere on extrasolar worlds NY Kiang, A Segura, G Tinetti, Govindjee, RE Blankenship, M Cohen, ... Astrobiology 7 (1), 252-274, 2007 | 245 | 2007 |
| Defining the mobilome JL Siefert Horizontal gene transfer: Genomes in flux, 13-27, 2009 | 158 | 2009 |
| The genome of Bacillus coahuilensis reveals adaptations essential for survival in the relic of an ancient marine environment LD Alcaraz, G Olmedo, G Bonilla, R Cerritos, G Hernández, A Cruz, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (15), 5803-5808, 2008 | 133 | 2008 |
| A coupled ecosystem-climate model for predicting the methane concentration in the Archean atmosphere JF Kasting, AA Pavlov, JL Siefert Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 31, 271-285, 2001 | 125 | 2001 |
| Phylogenetic Position of the Genus Hydrogenobacter C Pitulle, Y Yang, M Marchiani, ERB Moore, JL Siefert, M Aragno, ... International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 44 (4 …, 1994 | 122 | 1994 |
| Phylogenetic mapping of bacterial morphology JL Siefert't, GE Fox Microbiology 144 (10), 2803-2808, 1998 | 116 | 1998 |
| Microbial endemism: does phosphorus limitation enhance speciation? V Souza, LE Eguiarte, J Siefert, JJ Elser Nature Reviews Microbiology 6 (7), 559-564, 2008 | 111 | 2008 |
| The cuatro ciénegas basin in Coahuila, Mexico: an astrobiological precambrian park V Souza, JL Siefert, AE Escalante, JJ Elser, LE Eguiarte Astrobiology 12 (7), 641-647, 2012 | 109 | 2012 |
| Phylogeny of Marine Bacillus Isolates from the Gulf of Mexico JL Siefert, M Larios-Sanz, LK Nakamura, RA Slepecky, JH Paul, ... Current Microbiology 41, 84-88, 2000 | 109 | 2000 |
| The nitrogen fix JF Kasting, JL Siefert Nature 412 (6842), 26-27, 2001 | 85 | 2001 |
| Conserved gene clusters in bacterial genomes provide further support for the primacy of RNA JL Siefert, KA Martin, F Abdi, WR Widger, GE Fox Journal of molecular evolution 45, 467-472, 1997 | 83 | 1997 |
| Diversity of culturable thermo-resistant aquatic bacteria along an environmental gradient in Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, México R Cerritos, LE Eguiarte, M Avitia, J Siefert, M Travisano, ... Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 99, 303-318, 2011 | 72 | 2011 |
| Bacillus coahuilensis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic species from a desiccation lagoon in the Cuatro Ciénegas Valley in Coahuila, Mexico R Cerritos, P Vinuesa, LE Eguiarte, L Herrera-Estrella, LD Alcaraz-Peraza, ... International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 58 (4 …, 2008 | 65 | 2008 |
| Nutrient stoichiometry shapes microbial community structure in an evaporitic shallow pond ZMP Lee, AT Poret-Peterson, JL Siefert, D Kaul, A Moustafa, AE Allen, ... Frontiers in microbiology 8, 949, 2017 | 58 | 2017 |
