Aimée Zúñiga

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Aimée Zúñiga is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Developmental Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aimée Zúñiga has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Developmental Biology and 10 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Aimée Zúñiga's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (27 papers), Congenital limb and hand anomalies (11 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers). Aimée Zúñiga is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (27 papers), Congenital limb and hand anomalies (11 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (10 papers). Aimée Zúñiga collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Aimée Zúñiga's co-authors include Rolf Zeller, Peter Mündel, Javier López-Rı́os, Gary Davidson, Jochen Reiser, Hermann Pavenstädt, Wilhelm Kriz, Anna-Pavlina G. Haramis, Andrew McMahon and Lia Panman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Aimée Zúñiga

44 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Rearrangements of the Cytoskeleton and Cell Contacts Induce Process Formation during Differentiation of Conditionally Immortalized Mouse Podocyte Cell Lines

1997 790 citations Peter Mündel, Aimée Zúñiga et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aimée Zúñiga Switzerland	25	2.9k	833	677	525	389	45	3.9k
Bernd Wollnik Germany	36	2.8k 1.0×	1.6k 1.9×	95 0.1×	120 0.2×	304 0.8×	138	4.3k
Gabriele Gillessen‐Kaesbach Germany	38	2.8k 1.0×	2.8k 3.4×	181 0.3×	155 0.3×	155 0.4×	133	4.7k
Nurten Akarsu Türkiye	27	1.4k 0.5×	817 1.0×	67 0.1×	388 0.7×	184 0.5×	67	2.8k
Dmitry A. Ovchinnikov Australia	23	1.9k 0.7×	542 0.7×	110 0.2×	90 0.2×	184 0.5×	67	2.9k
Joaquín Rodríguez‐León Spain	26	2.4k 0.8×	533 0.6×	39 0.1×	187 0.4×	385 1.0×	44	3.0k
Sigmar Stricker Germany	36	2.6k 0.9×	825 1.0×	34 0.1×	292 0.6×	286 0.7×	74	3.5k
Corrinne G. Lobe Canada	31	3.4k 1.2×	871 1.0×	98 0.1×	74 0.1×	418 1.1×	48	5.3k
Benoit St‐Jacques United States	16	4.8k 1.7×	1.5k 1.8×	38 0.1×	286 0.5×	554 1.4×	18	5.6k
Hiroki Kokubo Japan	26	1.7k 0.6×	397 0.5×	91 0.1×	50 0.1×	147 0.4×	46	2.2k
Douglas P. Mortlock United States	29	2.0k 0.7×	740 0.9×	37 0.1×	223 0.4×	114 0.3×	52	3.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Aimée Zúñiga

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He, Zhisong, et al.. (2025). Single-cell profiling of penta- and tetradactyl mouse limb buds identifies mesenchymal progenitors controlling digit numbers and identities. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1226–1226. 1 indexed citations

Lopez‐Delisle, Lucille, Alexandre Mayran, Aimée Zúñiga, et al.. (2025). WNT signaling coordinately controls mouse limb bud outgrowth and establishment of the digit-interdigit pattern. Development. 152(11).

Jhanwar, Shalu, et al.. (2024). TBX3 is essential for establishment of the posterior boundary of anterior genes and upregulation of posterior genes together with HAND2 during the onset of limb bud development. Development. 151(11). 1 indexed citations

Barozzi, Iros, Marco Osterwalder, Jianjian Zhu, et al.. (2023). A spatio-temporally constrained gene regulatory network directed by PBX1/2 acquires limb patterning specificity via HAND2. Nature Communications. 14(1). 3993–3993. 10 indexed citations

Barozzi, Iros, Robert Reinhardt, Thomas Oberholzer, et al.. (2021). SMAD4 target genes are part of a transcriptional network that integrates the response to BMP and SHH signaling during early limb bud patterning. Development. 148(23). 11 indexed citations

Jhanwar, Shalu, Bonnie K. Kircher, Rushikesh Sheth, et al.. (2021). Spatial regulation by multiple Gremlin1 enhancers provides digit development with cis-regulatory robustness and evolutionary plasticity. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5557–5557. 20 indexed citations

Jhanwar, Shalu, et al.. (2021). Conserved and species-specific chromatin remodeling and regulatory dynamics during mouse and chicken limb bud development. Nature Communications. 12(1). 5685–5685. 12 indexed citations

Chen, Xiaoting, Joseph Salomone, Praneet Chaturvedi, et al.. (2020). Gli3 utilizes Hand2 to synergistically regulate tissue-specific transcriptional networks. eLife. 9. 17 indexed citations

Mateo, Juan L., Eleni Roussa, Aimée Zúñiga, et al.. (2018). TGFβ-facilitated optic fissure fusion and the role of bone morphogenetic protein antagonism. Open Biology. 8(3). 24 indexed citations

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Barozzi, Iros, Marco Osterwalder, Jennifer A. Akiyama, et al.. (2017). HAND2 Target Gene Regulatory Networks Control Atrioventricular Canal and Cardiac Valve Development. Cell Reports. 19(8). 1602–1613. 45 indexed citations

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Probst, Simone, Zhongzhou Yang, Michael Stadler, et al.. (2015). NDR Kinases Are Essential for Somitogenesis and Cardiac Looping during Mouse Embryonic Development. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0136566–e0136566. 23 indexed citations

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Bénazet, Jean-Denis, Mirko Bischofberger, Eva Tiecke, et al.. (2009). A Self-Regulatory System of Interlinked Signaling Feedback Loops Controls Mouse Limb Patterning. Science. 323(5917). 1050–1053. 156 indexed citations

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Zeller, Rolf & Aimée Zúñiga. (2007). Shh and Gremlin1 chromosomal landscapes in development and disease. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 17(5). 428–434. 11 indexed citations

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Panman, Lia, et al.. (2005). Genetic interaction of Gli3 and Alx4 during limb development. The International Journal of Developmental Biology. 49(4). 443–448. 28 indexed citations

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Michos, Odyssé, Lia Panman, Kristina Vintersten, et al.. (2004). Gremlin -mediated BMP antagonism induces the epithelial-mesenchymal feedback signaling controlling metanephric kidney and limb organogenesis. Development. 131(14). 3401–3410. 291 indexed citations

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Zúñiga, Aimée, Odyssé Michos, François Spitz, et al.. (2004). Mouse limb deformity mutations disrupt a global control region within the large regulatory landscape required for Gremlin expression.. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 9 indexed citations

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Deller, Thomas, Martin Körte, Sophie Chabanis, et al.. (2003). Synaptopodin-deficient mice lack a spine apparatus and show deficits in synaptic plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(18). 10494–10499. 226 indexed citations

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Zúñiga, Aimée, et al.. (2002). Progression of Vertebrate Limb Development Through SHH-Mediated Counteraction of GLI3. Science. 298(5594). 827–830. 310 indexed citations

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Monaghan, A. Paula, Wei Wu, Aimée Zúñiga, et al.. (1999). Dickkopf genes are co-ordinately expressed in mesodermal lineages. Mechanisms of Development. 87(1-2). 45–56. 171 indexed citations

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Zeller, Rolf, Anna-Pavlina G. Haramis, Aimée Zúñiga, et al.. (1999). Formin defines a large family of morphoregulatory genes and functions in establishment of the polarising region. Cell and Tissue Research. 296(1). 85–93. 54 indexed citations

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