Christian Rinke

@uibk.ac.at

Department of Microbiology
University of Innsbruck

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Computer Science Applications, Polymers and Plastics
22343

Scholar Citations

38

Scholar h-index

50

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Patescibacteriota in soil and rhizosphere
    F Qasemnejad, M Probst, C Rinke
    European Journal of Soil Biology 129, 103831 , 2026
    2026
  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Satyavativiridae 2026
    A Prabhu, C Rinke
    Journal of General Virology 107 (4), 002249 , 2026
    2026
  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Krittikaviridae 2026
    A Prabhu, C Rinke
    Journal of General Virology 107 (4), 002239 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Apasviridae 2026
    A Prabhu, C Rinke
    Journal of General Virology 107 (3), 002230 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • GTDB release 10: a complete and systematic taxonomy for 715 230 bacterial and 17 245 archaeal genomes
    DH Parks, PA Chaumeil, AJ Mussig, C Rinke, M Chuvochina, ...
    Nucleic Acids Research 54 (D1), D743-D754 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 53
  • Thermoaminiphila catenidiffluenda gen. nov., sp. nov.: A novel thermophilic, strictly anaerobic bacterium representing Thermoaminiphilia class nov., a newly described class …
    EM Prem, M Wunderer, A Mullaymeri, J Zoehrer, A Singh, M Abdelhamid, ...
    bioRxiv, 2026.04. 13.718153 , 2026
    2026
  • A Hitchhikers Guide to Microbial Single-Cell Omics
    C Rinke
    Single-Cell Omics in Microbiome Research: Exploring Microbial Diversity … , 2025
    2025
  • Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia
    WC Huang, M Probst, ZS Hua, LL Szánthó, GJ Szöllősi, TJG Ettema, ...
    Molecular Biology and Evolution 42 (9), msaf201 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 12
  • Summary of taxonomy changes ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) from the Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee, 2025
    M Krupovic, DP Baquero, EA Bignon, A Bize, G Borrel, M Cai, L Chen, ...
    Journal of General Virology 106 (7), 002117 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Metagenomic insights into taxonomic and functional patterns in shallow coastal and deep subseafloor sediments in the Western Pacific
    J Sun, M Hirai, Y Takaki, PN Evans, T Nunoura, C Rinke
    Microbial genomics 11 (3), 001351 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Single-Cell Omics in Microbiome Research
    C Rinke, M Džunková
    2025
  • Insights into phylogeny, diversity and functional potential of Poseidoniales viruses
    A Prabhu, J Zaugg, CX Chan, SJ McIlroy, C Rinke
    Environmental Microbiology 27 (1), e70017 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 7
  • Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. nov.
    Z Dutkiewicz, CM Singleton, M Sereika, JC Villada, AJ Mussig, ...
    ISME communications 5 (1), ycae147 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 13
  • Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous ultrasmall bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. nov.
    Z Dutkiewicz, CM Singleton, M Sereika, JC Villada, AJ Mussig, ...
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Establishing a Framework for Quantifying the Impacts of Environmental Stress on Marine Microbial Communities
    M Thomas, H Luter, G Waugh, IIV Vanwonterghem, R Fisher, N Webster, ...
    SETAC North America 45th Annual Meeting , 2024
    2024
  • Description of Asgardarchaeum abyssi gen. nov. spec. nov., a novel species within the class Asgardarchaeia and phylum Asgardarchaeota in accordance with the SeqCode
    D Tamarit, S Köstlbacher, KE Appler, K Panagiotou, V De Anda, C Rinke, ...
    Systematic and Applied Microbiology 47 (4), 126525 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 22
  • Putative genome contamination has minimal impact on the GTDB taxonomy
    AJ Mussig, PA Chaumeil, M Chuvochina, C Rinke, DH Parks, ...
    Microbial Genomics 10 (5), 001256 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 7
  • Rendering the metabolic wiring powering wetland soil methane production
    AM Oliverio, AB Narrowe, JA Villa, C Rinke, DW Hoyt, P Liu, BB McGivern, ...
    bioRxiv , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 8
  • Gene inversion led to the emergence of brackish archaeal heterotrophs in the aftermath of the Cryogenian Snowball Earth
    L Fan, B Xu, S Chen, Y Liu, F Li, W Xie, A Prabhu, D Zou, R Wan, H Li, ...
    PNAS nexus 3 (2), pgae057 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 10
  • Machine learning and metagenomics identifies uncharacterized taxa inferred to drive biogeochemical cycles in a subtropical hypereutrophic estuary
    A Prabhu, S Tule, M Chuvochina, M Bodén, SJ McIlroy, J Zaugg, C Rinke
    ISME communications 4 (1), ycae067 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 7

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A standardized bacterial taxonomy based on genome phylogeny substantially revises the tree of life
    DH Parks, M Chuvochina, DW Waite, C Rinke, A Skarshewski, ...
    Nature biotechnology 36 (10), 996-1004 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 3770
  • Insights into the phylogeny and coding potential of microbial dark matter
    C Rinke, P Schwientek, A Sczyrba, NN Ivanova, IJ Anderson, JF Cheng, ...
    Nature 499 (7459), 431-437 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 2808
  • Minimum information about a single amplified genome (MISAG) and a metagenome-assembled genome (MIMAG) of bacteria and archaea
    RM Bowers, NC Kyrpides, R Stepanauskas, M Harmon-Smith, D Doud, ...
    Nature biotechnology 35 (8), 725-731 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 2612
  • GTDB: an ongoing census of bacterial and archaeal diversity through a phylogenetically consistent, rank normalized and complete genome-based taxonomy
    DH Parks, M Chuvochina, C Rinke, AJ Mussig, PA Chaumeil, ...
    Nucleic acids research 50 (D1), D785-D794 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 2530
  • Recovery of nearly 8,000 metagenome-assembled genomes substantially expands the tree of life
    DH Parks, C Rinke, M Chuvochina, PA Chaumeil, BJ Woodcroft, ...
    Nature microbiology 2 (11), 1533-1542 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 2065
  • A complete domain-to-species taxonomy for Bacteria and Archaea
    DH Parks, M Chuvochina, PA Chaumeil, C Rinke, AJ Mussig, ...
    Nature biotechnology 38 (9), 1079-1086 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 1642
  • A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes
    S Nayfach, S Roux, R Seshadri, D Udwary, N Varghese, F Schulz, D Wu, ...
    Nature biotechnology 39 (4), 499-509 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 1004
  • An environmental bacterial taxon with a large and distinct metabolic repertoire
    MC Wilson, T Mori, C Rückert, AR Uria, MJ Helf, K Takada, C Gernert, ...
    Nature 506 (7486), 58-62 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 708
  • A standardized archaeal taxonomy for the Genome Taxonomy Database
    C Rinke, M Chuvochina, AJ Mussig, PA Chaumeil, AA Davín, DW Waite, ...
    Nature microbiology 6 (7), 946-959 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 519
  • Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Class Epsilonproteobacteria and Proposed Reclassification to Epsilonbacteraeota (phyl. nov.)
    DW Waite, I Vanwonterghem, C Rinke, DH Parks, Y Zhang, K Takai, ...
    Frontiers in microbiology 8, 682 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 489
  • Microbial dark matter ecogenomics reveals complex synergistic networks in a methanogenic bioreactor
    MK Nobu, T Narihiro, C Rinke, Y Kamagata, SG Tringe, T Woyke, WT Liu
    The ISME journal 9 (8), 1710-1722 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 457
  • Obtaining genomes from uncultivated environmental microorganisms using FACS–based single-cell genomics
    C Rinke, J Lee, N Nath, D Goudeau, B Thompson, N Poulton, E Dmitrieff, ...
    Nature protocols 9 (5), 1038-1048 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 360
  • A phylogenomic and ecological analysis of the globally abundant Marine Group II archaea ( Ca . Poseidoniales ord. nov.)
    C Rinke, F Rubino, LF Messer, N Youssef, DH Parks, M Chuvochina, ...
    The ISME journal 13 (3), 663-675 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 202
  • Decontamination of MDA reagents for single cell whole genome amplification
    T Woyke, A Sczyrba, J Lee, C Rinke, D Tighe, S Clingenpeel, ...
    PloS one 6 (10), e26161 , 2011
    2011
    Citations: 201
  • Phylogeny and physiology of candidate phylum ‘Atribacteria’(OP9/JS1) inferred from cultivation-independent genomics
    MK Nobu, JA Dodsworth, SK Murugapiran, C Rinke, EA Gies, G Webster, ...
    The ISME journal 10 (2), 273-286 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 200
  • Stop codon reassignments in the wild
    NN Ivanova, P Schwientek, HJ Tripp, C Rinke, A Pati, M Huntemann, ...
    Science 344 (6186), 909-913 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 173
  • Impact of single-cell genomics and metagenomics on the emerging view of extremophile “microbial dark matter”
    BP Hedlund, JA Dodsworth, SK Murugapiran, C Rinke, T Woyke
    Extremophiles 18 (5), 865-875 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 168
  • Single-cell genomics reveals complex carbohydrate degradation patterns in poribacterial symbionts of marine sponges
    J Kamke, A Sczyrba, N Ivanova, P Schwientek, C Rinke, K Mavromatis, ...
    The ISME journal 7 (12), 2287-2300 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 163
  • Diverse Marinimicrobia bacteria may mediate coupled biogeochemical cycles along eco-thermodynamic gradients
    AK Hawley, MK Nobu, JJ Wright, WE Durno, C Morgan-Lang, B Sage, ...
    Nature Communications 8 (1), 1507 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 158
  • Defining the human gut host–phage network through single-cell viral tagging
    M Džunková, SJ Low, JN Daly, L Deng, C Rinke, P Hugenholtz
    Nature Microbiology 4 (12), 2192-2203 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 145