Topic · Tardigrade Biology and Ecology
Most cited papers in Tardigrade Biology and Ecology
What are the most cited papers in Tardigrade Biology and Ecology?
The most cited paper in Tardigrade Biology and Ecology is "Firefly luciferase gene: structure and expression in mammalian cells." (Jeffrey R. de Wet, Keith V. Wood, M. DeLuca et al., 1987), with 3,094 citations. Next come "Organic osmolytes as compatible, metabolic and counteracting cytoprotectants in high osmolarity and other stresses" (1,878) and "Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals" (1,620).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 191 citations is listed.
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Firefly luciferase gene: structure and expression in mammalian cells. Jeffrey R. de Wet, Keith V. Wood, M. DeLuca et al. · Molecular and Cellular Biology | Feb 1987 | 3,094 |
| 2 | Organic osmolytes as compatible, metabolic and counteracting cytoprotectants in high osmolarity and other stresses Paul H. Yancey · Journal of Experimental Biology | 25 Jul 2005 | 1,878 |
| 3 | Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals Anna Marie A. Aguinaldo, James M. Turbeville, Lawrence S. Linford et al. · Nature | May 1997 | 1,620 |
| 4 | Preservation of Membranes in Anhydrobiotic Organisms: The Role of Trehalose John H. Crowe, Lois M. Crowe, Dennis Chapman · Science | 17 Feb 1984 | 1,512 |
| 5 | Mechanisms of plant desiccation tolerance Folkert A. Hoekstra, Elena A. Golovina, Julia Buitink · Trends in Plant Science | Sep 2001 | 1,449 |
| 6 | THE ROLE OF VITRIFICATION IN ANHYDROBIOSIS John H. Crowe, John F. Carpenter, Lois M. Crowe · Annual Review of Physiology | Oct 1998 | 1,367 |
| 7 | Anhydrobiosis J.H. Crowe, Folkert A. Hoekstra, Lois M. Crowe · Annual Review of Physiology | Oct 1992 | 1,269 |
| 8 | Desiccation tolerance of prokaryotes Malcolm Potts · Microbiological Reviews | Dec 1994 | 1,234 |
| 9 | Psychrophilic enzymes: hot topics in cold adaptation Georges Feller, Charles Gerday · Nature Reviews Microbiology | Dec 2003 | 1,169 |
| 10 | Sympatric cryptic species in New Zealand Onychophora Steven A. Trewick · Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | Mar 1998 | 1,107 |
| 11 | Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life Brian M. Wiegmann et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 14 Mar 2011 | 986 |
| 12 | Effect of trehalose on protein structure Nishant Kumar Jain, Ipsita Roy · Protein Science | 4 Dec 2008 | 899 |
| 13 | Psychrophilic microorganisms: challenges for life Salvino D’Amico, Tony Collins, Jean‐Claude Marx et al. · EMBO Reports | Apr 2006 | 855 |
| 14 | First molecular evidence for the existence of a Tardigrada + Arthropoda clade Gonzalo Giribet, Salvador Carranza, Jaume Baguñà et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 1996 | 661 |
| 15 | Function of c-mos proto-oncogene product in meiotic maturation in Xenopus oocytes Noriyuki Sagata, Marianne K. Oskarsson, Terry Copeland et al. · Nature | Oct 1988 | 621 |
| 16 | Multigene Analyses of Bilaterian Animals Corroborate the Monophyly of Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa, and Protostomia Hervé Philippe, Nicolas Lartillot, Henner Brinkmann · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 9 Feb 2005 | 553 |
| 17 | Cryptobiosis — a peculiar state of biological organization James S. Clegg · Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part B Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | Apr 2001 | 443 |
| 18 | Tardigrades Use Intrinsically Disordered Proteins to Survive Desiccation Thomas E. Boothby, Hugo Tapia, Alexandra H. Brozena et al. · Molecular Cell | Mar 2017 | 441 |
| 19 | Trehalose synthesis is induced upon exposure of Escherichia coli to cold and is essential for viability at low temperatures Olga Kandror, Ann DeLeon, Alfred Lewis Goldberg · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 8 Jul 2002 | 435 |
| 20 | Extremotolerant tardigrade genome and improved radiotolerance of human cultured cells by tardigrade-unique protein Takuma Hashimoto et al. · Nature Communications | 20 Sep 2016 | 429 |
| 21 | Tardigrades survive exposure to space in low Earth orbit Kjell Jonsson, Elke Rabbow, Ralph O. Schill et al. · Current Biology | Sep 2008 | 427 |
| 22 | Oxidative stress and its effects during dehydration Mauro Braga França, Anita D. Panek, Elis C. A. Eleuthério · Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 3 Mar 2006 | 427 |
| 23 | Cytochrome P450 diversity in the tree of life David R. Nelson · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics | 11 May 2017 | 387 |
| 24 | Juvenile hormones radiobiosynthesised by corpora allata of adult female locusts G. E. Pratt, Stephen S. Tobe · Life Sciences | Feb 1974 | 387 |
| 25 | Life and death of dried prokaryotes Daniela Billi, Malcolm Potts · Research in Microbiology | 2002 | 360 |
| 26 | Firefly luminescence in the study of energy transfer mechanisms. I. Substrate and enzyme determination Bernard L. Strehler, John R. Totter · Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics | Sep 1952 | 351 |
| 27 | Constraints of tolerance: why are desiccation-tolerant organisms so small or rare? Peter Alpert · Journal of Experimental Biology | 18 Apr 2006 | 346 |
| 28 | A Phylogenomic Approach to Resolve the Arthropod Tree of Life Karen Meusemann, Björn M. von Reumont, Sabrina Simon et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 9 Jun 2010 | 338 |
| 29 | Diversity and distribution of Victoria Land biota Byron J. Adams, Richard D. Bardgett, Edward Ayres et al. · Soil Biology and Biochemistry | 17 May 2006 | 337 |
| 30 | Lessons from nature: the role of sugars in anhydrobiosis Lois M. Crowe · Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology | Mar 2002 | 327 |
| 31 | Hydrophilic protein associated with desiccation tolerance exhibits broad protein stabilization function Sohini Chakrabortee, Chiara Boschetti, Laura J. Walton et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 Nov 2007 | 324 |
| 32 | Universal behavior of the osmotically compressed cell and its analogy to the colloidal glass transition Enhua H. Zhou, Xavier Trepat, C. Y. Park et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 11 Jun 2009 | 322 |
| 33 | Stabilization against Thermal Inactivation Promoted by Sugars on Enzyme Structure and Function: Why Is Trehalose More Effective Than Other Sugars? Mauro Sola‐Penna, J.R. Meyer-Fernandes · Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics | Dec 1998 | 320 |
| 34 | Trehalose As a “Chemical Chaperone” John H. Crowe · Advances in experimental medicine and biology | 8 Aug 2007 | 313 |
| 35 | The crystal structure of the photoprotein aequorin at 2.3 Å resolution J. W. Head, S Inouye, Katsunori Teranishi et al. · Nature | May 2000 | 304 |
| 36 | Phylogenetic relationships among sloths (Mammalia, Xenarthra, Tardigrada): the craniodental evidence Timothy J. Gaudin · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | Feb 2004 | 302 |
| 37 | Tardigrade taxonomy: an updated check list of the taxa and a list of characters for their identification Roberto Guidetti, Roberto Bertolani · Zootaxa | Feb 2005 | 297 |
| 38 | Trehalose production: exploiting novel approaches Chiara Schiraldi, Isabella Di Lernia, Mario De Rosa · Trends in biotechnology | Oct 2002 | 296 |
| 39 | Dehydration in dormant insects H. V. Danks · Journal of Insect Physiology | Jun 2000 | 295 |
| 40 | The Developmental, Molecular, and Transport Biology of Malpighian Tubules Klaus W. Beyenbach, Helen Skaer, Julian A. T. Dow · Annual Review of Entomology | 5 Dec 2009 | 294 |
| 41 | Plant desiccation gene found in a nematode John Arthur Browne, Alan Tunnacliffe, Ann M. Burnell · Nature | 7 Mar 2002 | 285 |
| 42 | Trehalose transporter 1, a facilitated and high-capacity trehalose transporter, allows exogenous trehalose uptake into cells Takahiro Kikawada, Ayako Saito, Yasushi Kanamori et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 2 Jul 2007 | 283 |
| 43 | Molecular adaptations to psychrophily: the impact of ‘omic’ technologies Ana Casanueva, Marla I. Tuffin, Stephen Craig Cary et al. · Trends in Microbiology | 21 Jun 2010 | 279 |
| 44 | Zoogeographic distribution of terrestrial/freshwater tardigrades from current literature Sandra J. McInnes · Journal of Natural History | Apr 1994 | 274 |
| 45 | A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata Omar Rota‐Stabelli, Lahcen I. Campbell, Henner Brinkmann et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 11 Aug 2010 | 273 |
| 46 | Extreme resistance of bdelloid rotifers to ionizing radiation Eugene A. Gladyshev, Matthew S. Meselson · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 24 Mar 2008 | 268 |
| 47 | Antennal Evolution In The Brachycera (Diptera), With A Reassessment Of Terminology Relating To The Flagellum Brian R. Stuckenberg · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 9 Aug 1999 | 265 |
| 48 | Survival in extreme environments – on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigrades Nadja Møbjerg, Kenneth A. Halberg, Aslak Jørgensen et al. · Acta Physiologica | 19 Jan 2011 | 264 |
| 49 | Fog-basking behaviour and water collection efficiency in Namib Desert Darkling beetles Thomas Nørgaard, Marie Dacke · Frontiers in Zoology | 2010 | 262 |
| 50 | Directed panspermia Francis Harry Compton Crick, L.E. Orgel · Icarus | Jul 1973 | 260 |
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