Austin Burt

20.7k total citations · 4 hit papers
130 papers, 11.7k citations indexed

About

Austin Burt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Austin Burt has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 11.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Molecular Biology, 47 papers in Genetics and 31 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Austin Burt's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (36 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (31 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (29 papers). Austin Burt is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (36 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (31 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (29 papers). Austin Burt collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Austin Burt's co-authors include Paul‐Michael Agapow, Vassiliki Koufopanou, Robert Trivers, Matthew R. Goddard, John W. Taylor, Andrea Crisanti, Graham Bell, H. Charles J. Godfray, Roberto Galizi and Anne Dérédec and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Austin Burt

124 papers receiving 11.4k 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.

Indices of multilocus linkage disequilibrium

2001 1.0k citations Austin Burt et al. profile →
A CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive system targeting female reproduction in the malaria mosquito vector Anopheles gambiae

2015 774 citations Andrew Hammond, Roberto Galizi et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
A CRISPR–Cas9 gene drive targeting doublesex causes complete population suppression in caged Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

2018 521 citations Kyros Kyrou, Andrew Hammond et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Genes in Conflict

2006 516 citations Austin Burt et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Austin Burt United Kingdom	55	6.0k	3.7k	3.6k	2.8k	1.7k	130	11.7k
Dmitri A. Petrov United States	69	8.2k 1.4×	6.8k 1.8×	4.1k 1.2×	1.1k 0.4×	1.4k 0.8×	193	14.4k
Matthew W. Hahn United States	61	7.4k 1.2×	7.7k 2.1×	3.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.4×	2.6k 1.5×	170	14.7k
Laurence D. Hurst United Kingdom	69	12.5k 2.1×	7.0k 1.9×	3.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.4×	1.9k 1.1×	277	18.5k
François Balloux United Kingdom	60	4.1k 0.7×	7.1k 1.9×	2.3k 0.6×	702 0.3×	2.5k 1.5×	144	17.1k
Alex Cooper United Kingdom	6	6.3k 1.1×	3.2k 0.9×	3.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.5×	3.8k 2.2×	12	15.1k
Christian Schlötterer Austria	65	6.2k 1.0×	9.7k 2.6×	3.9k 1.1×	1.8k 0.6×	3.0k 1.8×	240	16.7k
James J. Bull United States	64	6.0k 1.0×	9.6k 2.6×	4.5k 1.3×	1.6k 0.6×	6.6k 3.8×	203	22.6k
Rob DeSalle United States	74	6.8k 1.1×	5.8k 1.6×	2.1k 0.6×	1.8k 0.6×	3.9k 2.3×	337	17.9k
Richard R. Hudson United States	42	4.7k 0.8×	7.5k 2.0×	2.7k 0.8×	644 0.2×	1.4k 0.8×	62	12.2k
Fumio Tajima Japan	26	7.5k 1.3×	13.7k 3.7×	4.5k 1.3×	1.7k 0.6×	3.4k 2.0×	56	22.4k

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Willis, Katie, Matthew O. Gribble, Barbara Fasulo, et al.. (2025). A male-drive female-sterile system for the self-limited control of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae. Nature Communications. 16(1). 9446–9446.

Willis, Katie, Matthew O. Gribble, Austin Burt, et al.. (2025). A Y chromosome-linked genome editor for efficient population suppression in the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nature Communications. 16(1). 206–206. 7 indexed citations

Hancock, Penelope A., Ace North, Adrian W. Leach, et al.. (2024). The potential of gene drives in malaria vector species to control malaria in African environments. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8976–8976. 7 indexed citations

Kayondo, Jonathan, et al.. (2024). The population genetics of partial diapause, with applications to the aestivating malaria mosquito Anopheles coluzzii. Molecular Ecology Resources. 24(4). e13949–e13949. 2 indexed citations

Khatri, Bhavin S. & Austin Burt. (2022). A theory of resistance to multiplexed gene drive demonstrates the significant role of weakly deleterious natural genetic variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(32). e2200567119–e2200567119. 9 indexed citations

O’Loughlin, Samantha M., Silke Fuchs, Tania Dottorini, et al.. (2021). Ultra-conserved sequences in the genomes of highly diverse Anopheles mosquitoes, with implications for malaria vector control. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(6). 3 indexed citations

Connolly, John B., John Mumford, Silke Fuchs, et al.. (2021). Systematic identification of plausible pathways to potential harm via problem formulation for investigational releases of a population suppression gene drive to control the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae in West Africa. Malaria Journal. 20(1). 170–170. 30 indexed citations

Burt, Austin, et al.. (2021). Contemporary N_e estimation using temporally spaced data with linked loci. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(7). 2221–2230. 3 indexed citations

Fuchs, Silke, William T. Garrood, Andrew Hammond, et al.. (2021). Resistance to a CRISPR-based gene drive at an evolutionarily conserved site is revealed by mimicking genotype fixation. PLoS Genetics. 17(10). e1009740–e1009740. 26 indexed citations

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North, Ace, Austin Burt, & Hubert Charles. (2020). Modelling the suppression of a malaria vector using a CRISPR-Cas9 gene drive to reduce female fertility. BMC Biology. 18(1). 98–98. 60 indexed citations

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Simoni, Alekos, Andrew Hammond, Andrea Beaghton, et al.. (2020). A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nature Biotechnology. 38(9). 1054–1060. 136 indexed citations

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Burt, Austin, et al.. (2020). Estimating linkage disequilibrium from genotypes under Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. BMC Genetics. 21(1). 21–21. 9 indexed citations

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Simoni, Alekos, Andrew Hammond, Andrea Beaghton, et al.. (2020). Author Correction: A male-biased sex-distorter gene drive for the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Nature Biotechnology. 38(9). 1097–1097. 5 indexed citations

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Khatri, Bhavin S. & Austin Burt. (2019). Robust Estimation of Recent Effective Population Size from Number of Independent Origins in Soft Sweeps. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(9). 2040–2052. 10 indexed citations

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North, Ace, Austin Burt, & Hubert Charles. (2019). Modelling the potential of genetic control of malaria mosquitoes at national scale. BMC Biology. 17(1). 26–26. 67 indexed citations

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Beaghton, Andrea, Andrew Hammond, Tony Nolan, Andrea Crisanti, & Austin Burt. (2019). Gene drive for population genetic control: non-functional resistance and parental effects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 286(1914). 20191586–20191586. 35 indexed citations

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Burt, Austin. (2014). Heritable strategies for controlling insect vectors of disease. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 369(1645). 20130432–20130432. 135 indexed citations

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Burt, Austin. (2014). Heritable strategies for controlling insect vectors of disease. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 369(1656). 11 indexed citations

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Burt, Austin. (2000). PERSPECTIVE: SEX, RECOMBINATION, AND THE EFFICACY OF SELECTION?WAS WEISMANN RIGHT?. Evolution. 54(2). 337–351. 270 indexed citations

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Carter, Dee, Austin Burt, John W. Taylor, et al.. (1997). A set of electrophoretic molecular markers for strain typing and population genetic studies of Histoplasma capsulatum. Electrophoresis. 18(7). 1047–1053. 22 indexed citations

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