Andrew J. Alverson

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
71 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Andrew J. Alverson is a scholar working on Biomaterials, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew J. Alverson has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Biomaterials, 43 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Andrew J. Alverson's work include Diatoms and Algae Research (46 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (32 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers). Andrew J. Alverson is often cited by papers focused on Diatoms and Algae Research (46 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (32 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (20 papers). Andrew J. Alverson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Sweden and Belgium. Andrew J. Alverson's co-authors include Jeffrey D. Palmer, Danny W. Rice, Edward C. Theriot, Daniel B. Sloan, Kerrie Barry, Robert K. Jansen, Teofil Nakov, Douglas Taylor, Martin Wu and David E. McCauley and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Andrew J. Alverson

69 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates

2012 505 citations Daniel B. Sloan, Andrew J. Alverson et al. PLoS Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew J. Alverson United States	30	3.2k	1.2k	978	902	877	71	4.4k
Kenneth G. Karol United States	27	1.4k 0.4×	933 0.8×	183 0.2×	506 0.6×	1.2k 1.4×	65	2.6k
Per Winge Norway	37	2.2k 0.7×	1.6k 1.3×	376 0.4×	428 0.5×	160 0.2×	77	3.8k
Linda E. Graham United States	32	1.2k 0.4×	1.6k 1.3×	204 0.2×	849 0.9×	1.2k 1.4×	105	3.7k
Alexandra H. Wortley United Kingdom	20	1.0k 0.3×	664 0.6×	233 0.2×	372 0.4×	870 1.0×	43	1.9k
Thomas Pröschold Germany	29	1.2k 0.4×	325 0.3×	644 0.7×	1.3k 1.5×	636 0.7×	69	2.9k
Akira F. Peters France	36	869 0.3×	565 0.5×	225 0.2×	1.3k 1.4×	480 0.5×	135	3.7k
James R. Manhart United States	25	1.1k 0.3×	812 0.7×	73 0.1×	484 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	46	2.5k
Elizabeth A. Zimmer United States	49	5.2k 1.6×	3.1k 2.6×	118 0.1×	668 0.7×	5.3k 6.0×	105	8.5k
Giuseppe C. Zuccarello New Zealand	34	594 0.2×	390 0.3×	223 0.2×	1.8k 2.0×	512 0.6×	202	4.2k
Susana M. Coelho France	32	897 0.3×	699 0.6×	152 0.2×	612 0.7×	404 0.5×	91	2.6k

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Pinseel, Eveline, Elizabeth C. Ruck, Teofil Nakov, et al.. (2025). Genome‐Wide Adaptation to a Complex Environmental Gradient in a Keystone Phytoplankton Species. Molecular Ecology. 34(13). e17817–e17817. 2 indexed citations

Ashworth, Matt P., et al.. (2024). The Cretaceous Diatom Database: A tool for investigating early diatom evolution. Journal of Phycology. 60(5). 1090–1104. 2 indexed citations

Pinseel, Eveline, Elizabeth C. Ruck, Teofil Nakov, et al.. (2023). Local adaptation of a marine diatom is governed by genome-wide changes in diverse metabolic processes. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

Zheng, Peng, et al.. (2023). Cooperative motility, force generation and mechanosensing in a foraging non-photosynthetic diatom. Open Biology. 13(10). 230148–230148. 4 indexed citations

Pinseel, Eveline, et al.. (2022). The dynamic response to hypo‐osmotic stress reveals distinct stages of freshwater acclimation by a euryhaline diatom. Molecular Ecology. 32(11). 2766–2783. 12 indexed citations

Lambert, Bennett, Ryan D. Groussman, Sacha Coesel, et al.. (2022). The dynamic trophic architecture of open-ocean protist communities revealed through machine-guided metatranscriptomics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(7). 41 indexed citations

Alverson, Andrew J., Peter M. van Bodegom, Adrienne Mertens, et al.. (2022). Phylotranscriptomics reveals the reticulate evolutionary history of a widespread diatom species complex. Journal of Phycology. 58(5). 643–656. 9 indexed citations

Pinseel, Eveline, Teofil Nakov, Koen Van Den Berge, et al.. (2022). Strain-specific transcriptional responses overshadow salinity effects in a marine diatom sampled along the Baltic Sea salinity cline. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations

Pinseel, Eveline, Teofil Nakov, Koen Van den Berge, et al.. (2022). Strain-specific transcriptional responses overshadow salinity effects in a marine diatom sampled along the Baltic Sea salinity cline. The ISME Journal. 16(7). 1776–1787. 22 indexed citations

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Ruck, Elizabeth C., et al.. (2021). The genome of a nonphotosynthetic diatom provides insights into the metabolic shift to heterotrophy and constraints on the loss of photosynthesis. New Phytologist. 232(4). 1750–1764. 10 indexed citations

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Ruck, Elizabeth C., et al.. (2020). Improved Reference Genome for Cyclotella cryptica CCMP332, a Model for Cell Wall Morphogenesis, Salinity Adaptation, and Lipid Production in Diatoms (Bacillariophyta). G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(9). 2965–2974. 13 indexed citations

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Nakov, Teofil, Jeremy M. Beaulieu, & Andrew J. Alverson. (2018). Insights into global planktonic diatom diversity: The importance of comparisons between phylogenetically equivalent units that account for time. The ISME Journal. 12(11). 2807–2810. 25 indexed citations

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Alverson, Andrew J.. (2014). Timing marine–freshwater transitions in the diatom order Thalassiosirales. Paleobiology. 40(1). 91–101. 28 indexed citations

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Tuteja, Reetu, Rachit K. Saxena, Jaime Davila, et al.. (2013). Cytoplasmic Male Sterility-Associated Chimeric Open Reading Frames Identified by Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing of Four Cajanus Genotypes. DNA Research. 20(5). 485–495. 46 indexed citations

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Zheng, Yihong, et al.. (2013). Chloroplast phylogeny of Cucurbita: Evolution of the domesticated and wild species. Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 51(3). 326–334. 22 indexed citations

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Richardson, Aaron O., Danny W. Rice, Gregory J. Young, Andrew J. Alverson, & Jeffrey D. Palmer. (2013). The “fossilized” mitochondrial genome of Liriodendron tulipifera: ancestral gene content and order, ancestral editing sites, and extraordinarily low mutation rate. BMC Biology. 11(1). 29–29. 209 indexed citations

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Sloan, Daniel B., Andrew J. Alverson, Martin Wu, Jeffrey D. Palmer, & Douglas Taylor. (2012). Recent Acceleration of Plastid Sequence and Structural Evolution Coincides with Extreme Mitochondrial Divergence in the Angiosperm Genus Silene. Genome Biology and Evolution. 4(3). 294–306. 103 indexed citations

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Sloan, Daniel B., Andrew J. Alverson, Martin Wu, et al.. (2012). Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates. PLoS Biology. 10(1). e1001241–e1001241. 505 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sloan, Daniel B., Alice MacQueen, Andrew J. Alverson, Jeffrey D. Palmer, & Douglas Taylor. (2010). Extensive Loss of RNA Editing Sites in Rapidly Evolving Silene Mitochondrial Genomes: Selectionvs. Retroprocessing as the Driving Force. Genetics. 185(4). 1369–1380. 93 indexed citations

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Jansen, Robert K., Linda A. Raubeson, Jeffrey L. Boore, et al.. (2005). Methods for Obtaining and Analyzing Whole Chloroplast Genome Sequences. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 395. 348–384. 370 indexed citations

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