Alexander Brandt

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 977 citations indexed

About

Alexander Brandt is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Brandt has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 977 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Genetics, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Alexander Brandt's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (5 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (5 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (3 papers). Alexander Brandt is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (5 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (5 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (3 papers). Alexander Brandt collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Alexander Brandt's co-authors include Daniel S. Rokhsar, Michael Levine, Wei Zhang, K.M. Olson, Emma K. Farley, Maria Guida Boavida, Hans Gerd Nothwang, Jamel Chelly, D. David and Claude Moraine and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Brandt

13 papers receiving 966 citations

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Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution

2020 231 citations Oleg Simakov, Ferdinand Marlétaz et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Elena Silva Casey United States

Sergej Nowoshilow Austria

Derek Lemons United States

Thorsten Henrich Germany

Michael Lang France

Joost M. Woltering Germany

Joseph C. Pearson United States

Michael Stauber Germany

Patrick Tschopp Switzerland

Satoshi Ansai Japan

Elena Silva Casey United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Brandt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alexander Brandt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alexander Brandt 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 Alexander Brandt. Alexander Brandt is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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13 of 13 papers shown

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Gao, Shan, Nadège Guiglielmoni, Alexander Brandt, et al.. (2025). Chromosome-scale genome dynamics reveal signatures of independent haplotype evolution in the ancient asexual mite Platynothrus peltifer. Science Advances. 11(4). eadn0817–eadn0817. 1 indexed citations

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Lavanchy, Guillaume, Alexander Brandt, Zoé Dumas, et al.. (2024). Evolution of alternative reproductive systems in Bacillus stick insects. Evolution. 78(6). 1109–1120. 1 indexed citations

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Brandt, Alexander, et al.. (2022). Rapid diversification of the Australian Amitermes group during late Cenozoic climate change. Ecography. 2022(9). 7 indexed citations

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Brandt, Alexander, Patrick Tran Van, Zoé Dumas, et al.. (2021). Haplotype divergence supports long-term asexuality in the oribatid mite Oppiella nova. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 26 indexed citations

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Simakov, Oleg, Ferdinand Marlétaz, Jia‐Xing Yue, et al.. (2020). Deeply conserved synteny resolves early events in vertebrate evolution. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 4(6). 820–830. 231 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gehrke, Andrew R., Yi‐Jyun Luo, Alexander Brandt, et al.. (2019). Acoel genome reveals the regulatory landscape of whole-body regeneration. Science. 363(6432). 104 indexed citations

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Brandt, Alexander, Jens Bast, Stefan Scheu, et al.. (2019). No signal of deleterious mutation accumulation in conserved gene sequences of extant asexual hexapods. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 5338–5338. 4 indexed citations

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Simeonov, Dimitre R., Alexander Brandt, Alice Chan, et al.. (2019). A large CRISPR-induced bystander mutation causes immune dysregulation. Communications Biology. 2(1). 70–70. 16 indexed citations

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Bast, Jens, Darren J. Parker, Zoé Dumas, et al.. (2018). Consequences of Asexuality in Natural Populations: Insights from Stick Insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(7). 1668–1677. 43 indexed citations

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Brandt, Alexander, Ina Schaefer, Tanja Schwander, et al.. (2017). Effective purifying selection in ancient asexual oribatid mites. Nature Communications. 8(1). 873–873. 38 indexed citations

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Farley, Emma K., K.M. Olson, Wei Zhang, et al.. (2015). Suboptimization of developmental enhancers. Science. 350(6258). 325–328. 209 indexed citations

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Hultgren, Kristin M. & Alexander Brandt. (2015). Taxonomy and phylogenetics of the Synalpheus paraneptunus-species-complex (Decapoda: Alpheidae), with a description of two new species. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 35(4). 547–558. 8 indexed citations

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Kutsche, Kerstin, Helger G. Yntema, Alexander Brandt, et al.. (2000). Mutations in ARHGEF6, encoding a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rho GTPases, in patients with X-linked mental retardation. Nature Genetics. 26(2). 247–250. 289 indexed citations

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