| Timing of morphological and ecological innovations in the cyanobacteria–a key to understanding the rise in atmospheric oxygen CE Blank, P Sanchez‐Baracaldo Geobiology 8 (1), 1-23, 2010 | 287 | 2010 |
| Microbial composition of near-boiling silica-depositing thermal springs throughout Yellowstone National Park CE Blank, SL Cady, NR Pace Applied and Environmental Microbiology 68 (10), 5123-5135, 2002 | 224 | 2002 |
| Morphological and habitat evolution in the Cyanobacteria using a compartmentalization approach P Sanchez‐Baracaldo, PK Hayes, CE BLANK Geobiology 3 (3), 145-165, 2005 | 177 | 2005 |
| Transcriptional regulation in Archaea: In vivo demonstration of a repressor binding site in a methanogen R Cohen-Kupiec, C Blank, JA Leigh Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 94 (4), 1316-1320, 1997 | 131 | 1997 |
| Origin and early evolution of photosynthetic eukaryotes in freshwater environments: reinterpreting proterozoic paleobiology and biogeochemical processes in light of trait evolution CE Blank Journal of Phycology 49 (6), 1040-1055, 2013 | 91 | 2013 |
| The nif Gene Operon of the Methanogenic Archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis PS Kessler, C Blank, JA Leigh Journal of Bacteriology 180 (6), 1504-1511, 1998 | 89 | 1998 |
| A comprehensive study of cyanobacterial morphological and ecological evolutionary dynamics through deep geologic time JC Uyeda, LJ Harmon, CE Blank PloS one 11 (9), e0162539, 2016 | 80 | 2016 |
| Evolutionary timing of the origins of mesophilic sulphate reduction and oxygenic photosynthesis: a phylogenomic dating approach CE Blank Geobiology 2 (1), 1-20, 2004 | 73 | 2004 |
| Genetics in methanogens: transposon insertion mutagenesis of a Methanococcus maripaludis nifH gene CE Blank, PS Kessler, JA Leigh Journal of bacteriology 177 (20), 5773-5777, 1995 | 73 | 1995 |
| Not so old Archaea–the antiquity of biogeochemical processes in the archaeal domain of life CE Blank Geobiology 7 (5), 495-514, 2009 | 60 | 2009 |
| Next-generation phenomics for the Tree of Life JG Burleigh, K Alphonse, AJ Alverson, HM Bik, C Blank, AL Cirranello, ... PLoS Currents 5, 2013 | 50 | 2013 |
| Phylogenomic dating—the relative antiquity of archaeal metabolic and physiological traits CE Blank Astrobiology 9 (2), 193-219, 2009 | 35 | 2009 |
| Geochemistry, water balance, and stable isotopes of a “clean” pit lake at an abandoned tungsten mine, Montana, USA CH Gammons, BL Pape, SR Parker, SR Poulson, CE Blank Applied Geochemistry 36, 57-69, 2013 | 29 | 2013 |
| Chitin: a potential new alternative nitrogen source for the tertiary, algal-based treatment of pulp and paper mill wastewater CE Blank, RW Parks, NW Hinman Journal of applied phycology 28, 2753-2766, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
| Phylogenetic distribution of compatible solute synthesis genes support a freshwater origin for cyanobacteria CE Blank Journal of Phycology 49 (5), 880-895, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| Phylogenomic dating—a method of constraining the age of microbial taxa that lack a conventional fossil record CE Blank Astrobiology 9 (2), 173-191, 2009 | 25 | 2009 |
| MicrO: an ontology of phenotypic and metabolic characters, assays, and culture media found in prokaryotic taxonomic descriptions CE Blank, H Cui, LR Moore, RL Walls Journal of biomedical semantics 7, 1-10, 2016 | 16 | 2016 |
| Microbial phenomics information extractor (MicroPIE): a natural language processing tool for the automated acquisition of prokaryotic phenotypic characters from text sources J Mao, LR Moore, CE Blank, EHH Wu, M Ackerman, S Ranade, H Cui BMC bioinformatics 17, 1-16, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Cyanobacterial and algal growth on chitin as a source of nitrogen; ecological, evolutionary, and biotechnological implications CE Blank, NW Hinman Algal research 15, 152-163, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Low rates of lateral gene transfer among metabolic genes define the evolving biogeochemical niches of archaea through deep time CE Blank Archaea 2012 (1), 843539, 2012 | 14 | 2012 |
