Alejandro Burga

1.0k total citations
12 papers, 535 citations indexed

About

Alejandro Burga is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Aging. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Burga has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 535 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Genetics, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Aging. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Burga's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (6 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (5 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers). Alejandro Burga is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (6 papers), Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (5 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (3 papers). Alejandro Burga collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and Spain. Alejandro Burga's co-authors include Ben Lehner, Olivia Casanueva, Eyal Ben‐David, Leonid Kruglyak, Tzitziki Lemus, Pinelopi Pliota, Claudio Verdugo, Weiguang Wang, Patricia G. Parker and Paul C. Wolf and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Burga

11 papers receiving 528 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alejandro Burga United States 10 329 233 131 82 42 12 535
Sevinç Ercan United States 15 594 1.8× 319 1.4× 170 1.3× 237 2.9× 15 0.4× 25 793
Marie E. Sutherlin United States 11 421 1.3× 152 0.7× 211 1.6× 112 1.4× 68 1.6× 12 759
Jason N. Pitt United States 13 737 2.2× 152 0.7× 326 2.5× 70 0.9× 27 0.6× 17 915
Gregory Minevich United States 10 410 1.2× 146 0.6× 258 2.0× 128 1.6× 23 0.5× 14 868
Justin Hackett United States 10 137 0.4× 273 1.2× 126 1.0× 78 1.0× 103 2.5× 14 556
Te‐Wen Lo United States 9 745 2.3× 199 0.9× 245 1.9× 115 1.4× 27 0.6× 13 874
Faye Lawrence United States 5 208 0.6× 432 1.9× 56 0.4× 74 0.9× 79 1.9× 5 657
David M. Rivers United States 12 366 1.1× 52 0.2× 65 0.5× 43 0.5× 51 1.2× 12 518
Rumi Kondo Japan 12 179 0.5× 195 0.8× 25 0.2× 28 0.3× 41 1.0× 14 428
Pauline Cottee Australia 12 368 1.1× 35 0.2× 108 0.8× 88 1.1× 86 2.0× 15 636

Countries citing papers authored by Alejandro Burga

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alejandro Burga

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Burga

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alejandro Burga. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alejandro Burga based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alejandro Burga. Alejandro Burga is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

12 of 12 papers shown
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Pliota, Pinelopi, et al.. (2025). Recurrent evolution of selfishness from an essential tRNA synthetase in Caenorhabditis tropicalis. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(12). 2374–2390.
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Pliota, Pinelopi, Yotam Kaufman, Dominik Handler, et al.. (2024). Selfish conflict underlies RNA-mediated parent-of-origin effects. Nature. 628(8006). 122–129. 6 indexed citations
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Pliota, Pinelopi, et al.. (2023). Virus-like transposons cross the species barrier and drive the evolution of genetic incompatibilities. Science. 380(6652). eade0705–eade0705. 36 indexed citations
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Ben‐David, Eyal, Pinelopi Pliota, Tzitziki Lemus, et al.. (2021). Ubiquitous Selfish Toxin-Antidote Elements in Caenorhabditis Species. Current Biology. 31(5). 990–1001.e5. 25 indexed citations
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Burga, Alejandro, Eyal Ben‐David, & Leonid Kruglyak. (2020). Toxin-Antidote Elements Across the Tree of Life. Annual Review of Genetics. 54(1). 387–415. 26 indexed citations
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Burga, Alejandro, Eyal Ben‐David, Tzitziki Lemus, James Boocock, & Leonid Kruglyak. (2019). Fast genetic mapping of complex traits in C. elegans using millions of individuals in bulk. Nature Communications. 10(1). 2680–2680. 31 indexed citations
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Ben‐David, Eyal, Alejandro Burga, & Leonid Kruglyak. (2017). A maternal-effect selfish genetic element in Caenorhabditis elegans. Science. 356(6342). 1051–1055. 57 indexed citations
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Burga, Alejandro, Weiguang Wang, Eyal Ben‐David, et al.. (2017). A genetic signature of the evolution of loss of flight in the Galapagos cormorant. Science. 356(6341). 53 indexed citations
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Burga, Alejandro & Ben Lehner. (2013). Predicting phenotypic variation from genotypes, phenotypes and a combination of the two. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 24(4). 803–809. 18 indexed citations
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Casanueva, Olivia, Alejandro Burga, & Ben Lehner. (2011). Fitness Trade-Offs and Environmentally Induced Mutation Buffering in Isogenic C. elegans. Science. 335(6064). 82–85. 113 indexed citations
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Burga, Alejandro, Olivia Casanueva, & Ben Lehner. (2011). Predicting mutation outcome from early stochastic variation in genetic interaction partners. Nature. 480(7376). 250–253. 135 indexed citations

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