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Christa Schleper

Christa Schleper

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
84
Citations
30705
World Ranking
3269
National Ranking
22

Research.com Recognitions

  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Christa Schleper is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Within these broader areas, they focus on subfields including Molecular Biology, Ecology, Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, and Plant Science.

The scientist's work addresses several main research topics, such as:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
  • RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Recent publications by Christa Schleper include:

  • "Actin cytoskeleton and complex cell architecture in an Asgard archaeon" (2022), published in Nature
  • "A phylogenetic and proteomic reconstruction of eukaryotic chromatin evolution" (2022), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Genomes of Thaumarchaeota from deep sea sediments reveal specific adaptations of three independently evolved lineages" (2021), published in The ISME Journal
  • "Ancestral Reconstructions Decipher Major Adaptations of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea upon Radiation into Moderate Terrestrial and Marine Environments" (2020), published in mBio
  • "Geochemical transition zone powering microbial growth in subsurface sediments" (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Schleper include:

  • Melina Kerou
  • Logan H. Hodgskiss
  • Rafael I. Ponce-Toledo
  • Thomas Pribasnig
  • Alexandre Bagnoud

Their publications have appeared regularly in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Peer Community In Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • mSystems

Among professional recognitions, Christa Schleper is a Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Archaea predominate among ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes in soils

    S. Leininger;T. Urich;M. Schloter;L. Schwark

  • The influence of soil pH on the diversity, abundance and transcriptional activity of ammonia oxidizing archaea and bacteria

    Graeme W. Nicol;Sven Leininger;Christa Schleper;Christa Schleper;James I. Prosser

  • Complex archaea that bridge the gap between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

    Anja Spang;Jimmy H. Saw;Steffen L. Jørgensen;Katarzyna Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka

  • Novel genes for nitrite reductase and Amo-related proteins indicate a role of uncultivated mesophilic crenarchaeota in nitrogen cycling.

    Alexander H Treusch;Sven Leininger;Arnulf Kletzin;Stephan C Schuster

  • Nitrososphaera viennensis, an ammonia oxidizing archaeon from soil

    Maria Tourna;Michaela Stieglmeier;Anja Spang;Martin Könneke

  • Simultaneous Assessment of Soil Microbial Community Structure and Function through Analysis of the Meta-Transcriptome

    Tim Urich;Anders Lanzén;Ji Qi;Daniel H. Huson

  • Genomic studies of uncultivated archaea

    Christa Schleper;German Jurgens;Melanie Jonuscheit

  • Pathways of carbon assimilation and ammonia oxidation suggested by environmental genomic analyses of marine Crenarchaeota.

    Steven J. Hallam;Tracy J. Mincer;Christa Maria Schleper;Christina M. Preston

  • The Thaumarchaeota: an emerging view of their phylogeny and ecophysiology

    Michael Pester;Christa Schleper;Michael Wagner

  • Distinct gene set in two different lineages of ammonia-oxidizing archaea supports the phylum Thaumarchaeota.

    Anja Spang;Roland Hatzenpichler;Céline Brochier-Armanet;Thomas Rattei;Thomas Rattei

  • Diversity and abundance of Crenarchaeota in terrestrial habitats studied by 16S RNA surveys and real time PCR

    Torsten Ochsenreiter;Drazenka Selezi;Achim Quaiser;Liza Bonch-Osmolovskaya

  • Genomic analysis of the uncultivated marine crenarchaeote Cenarchaeum symbiosum.

    Steven J. Hallam;Konstantinos T. Konstantinidis;Nik Putnam;Christa Schleper

  • Archaea in Biogeochemical Cycles

    Pierre Offre;Anja Spang;Christa Schleper

  • Ammonia-oxidising Crenarchaeota: important players in the nitrogen cycle?

    Graeme W. Nicol;Christa Schleper

  • Methylotrophic methanogenic Thermoplasmata implicated in reduced methane emissions from bovine rumen

    Morten Poulsen;Clarissa Schwab;Bent Borg Jensen;Ricarda M. Engberg

  • Picrophilus gen. nov., fam. nov.: a novel aerobic, heterotrophic, thermoacidophilic genus and family comprising archaea capable of growth around pH 0.

    C Schleper;G Puehler;I Holz;A Gambacorta

  • Complex nitrogen cycling in the sponge Geodia barretti

    Friederike Hoffmann;Regina Radax;Dagmar Woebken;Moritz Holtappels

  • Ammonia-oxidising archaea--physiology, ecology and evolution.

    Christa Schleper;Graeme W. Nicol

  • Pathways and key intermediates required for obligate aerobic ammonia-dependent chemolithotrophy in bacteria and Thaumarchaeota.

    Jessica A Kozlowski;Michaela Stieglmeier;Michaela Stieglmeier;Christa Schleper;Martin G Klotz

  • Acidobacteria form a coherent but highly diverse group within the bacterial domain: evidence from environmental genomics.

    Achim Quaiser;Torsten Ochsenreiter;Christa Lanz;Stephan C Schuster

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Urich
Tim Urich University of Greifswald
Birgit Wild
Birgit Wild Stockholm University
Wolfram Zillig
Wolfram Zillig Max Planck Society
Clarissa Schwab
Clarissa Schwab Aarhus University
Hans-Peter Klenk
Hans-Peter Klenk Newcastle University
Robert Mikutta
Robert Mikutta Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Michael Wagner
Michael Wagner University of Vienna
Georg Guggenberger
Georg Guggenberger University of Hannover
Jörn Peckmann
Jörn Peckmann Universität Hamburg
Sonja-Verena Albers
Sonja-Verena Albers University of Freiburg

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