Brittany A. Leigh

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 712 citations indexed

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Brittany A. Leigh is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brittany A. Leigh has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 712 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Insect Science and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Brittany A. Leigh's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers). Brittany A. Leigh is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (10 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (4 papers). Brittany A. Leigh collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Australia. Brittany A. Leigh's co-authors include Seth R. Bordenstein, J. Dylan Shropshire, Larry J. Dishaw, Rupinder Kaur, Sarah R. Bordenstein, Karissa L. Cross, Mya Breitbart, Rosaria De Santis, Gary W. Litman and Maria Rosaria Pinto and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Brittany A. Leigh

22 papers receiving 709 citations

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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.

Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: A centennial review

2021 197 citations Rupinder Kaur, J. Dylan Shropshire et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brittany A. Leigh United States	14	369	200	162	90	86	23	712
Jessica Dittmer France	13	355 1.0×	131 0.7×	107 0.7×	110 1.2×	97 1.1×	28	553
Emre Aksoy United States	14	586 1.6×	63 0.3×	191 1.2×	84 0.9×	105 1.2×	20	839
Thomas L. Schmidt Australia	17	337 0.9×	139 0.7×	183 1.1×	86 1.0×	185 2.2×	37	827
Jérôme Lesobre France	13	300 0.8×	81 0.4×	98 0.6×	128 1.4×	60 0.7×	16	491
Randall J. DeJong United States	16	275 0.7×	552 2.8×	151 0.9×	80 0.9×	64 0.7×	27	1.1k
Rebecca P. Duncan United States	14	526 1.4×	104 0.5×	321 2.0×	176 2.0×	269 3.1×	19	914
Tatiana Teixeira Torres Brazil	18	322 0.9×	195 1.0×	471 2.9×	171 1.9×	224 2.6×	40	1.1k
Renata Schama Brazil	11	287 0.8×	57 0.3×	217 1.3×	147 1.6×	70 0.8×	14	590
Michael Gerth Germany	16	602 1.6×	106 0.5×	173 1.1×	127 1.4×	177 2.1×	29	860
Christine Braquart‐Varnier France	16	469 1.3×	94 0.5×	114 0.7×	53 0.6×	100 1.2×	32	700

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Lim, Shen Jean, et al.. (2025). Prophage regulation of Shewanella fidelis 3313 motility and biofilm formation with implications for gut colonization dynamics in Ciona robusta. eLife. 14.

Kaur, Rupinder, et al.. (2024). Prophage proteins alter long noncoding RNA and DNA of developing sperm to induce a paternal-effect lethality. Science. 383(6687). 1111–1117. 9 indexed citations

Li, Junhui, Andrew Brooks, Elizabeth K. Mallott, et al.. (2022). Individuality and ethnicity eclipse a short-term dietary intervention in shaping microbiomes and viromes. PLoS Biology. 20(8). e3001758–e3001758. 17 indexed citations

Leigh, Brittany A., et al.. (2022). Transgenic cytoplasmic incompatibility persists across age and temperature variation in Drosophila melanogaster. iScience. 25(11). 105327–105327. 3 indexed citations

Kaur, Rupinder, et al.. (2022). The Cif proteins from Wolbachia prophage WO modify sperm genome integrity to establish cytoplasmic incompatibility. PLoS Biology. 20(5). e3001584–e3001584. 30 indexed citations

Cross, Karissa L., et al.. (2021). Genomes of Gut Bacteria from Nasonia Wasps Shed Light on Phylosymbiosis and Microbe-Assisted Hybrid Breakdown. mSystems. 6(2). 11 indexed citations

Kaur, Rupinder, J. Dylan Shropshire, Karissa L. Cross, et al.. (2021). Living in the Endosymbiotic World of <em>Wolbachia</em>: A Centennial Review. Preprints.org. 3 indexed citations

Leigh, Brittany A., Dione J. Deaker, Gregory A. Wray, et al.. (2021). Microbiome reduction and endosymbiont gain from a switch in sea urchin life history. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(16). 24 indexed citations

Cross, Karissa L., et al.. (2021). The microbiome impacts host hybridization and speciation. PLoS Biology. 19(10). e3001417–e3001417. 20 indexed citations

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Leigh, Brittany A., et al.. (2021). A Role for Secreted Immune Effectors in Microbial Biofilm Formation Revealed by Simple In Vitro Assays. Methods in molecular biology. 2421. 127–140. 3 indexed citations

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Kaur, Rupinder, J. Dylan Shropshire, Karissa L. Cross, et al.. (2021). Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: A centennial review. Cell Host & Microbe. 29(6). 879–893. 197 indexed citations breakdown →

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Shropshire, J. Dylan, Brittany A. Leigh, & Seth R. Bordenstein. (2020). Symbiont-mediated cytoplasmic incompatibility: What have we learned in 50 years?. eLife. 9. 100 indexed citations

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Leigh, Brittany A., Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, et al.. (2020). Draft Genome Sequence of Yokenella regensburgei Strain WCD67, Isolated from the Boxelder Bug. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9(15). 2 indexed citations

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Leigh, Brittany A., Sarah R. Bordenstein, Andrew Brooks, Aram Mikaelyan, & Seth R. Bordenstein. (2018). Finer-Scale Phylosymbiosis: Insights from Insect Viromes. mSystems. 3(6). 32 indexed citations

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Rosario, Karyna, et al.. (2018). Unprecedented Diversity of ssDNA Phages from the Family Microviridae Detected within the Gut of a Protochordate Model Organism (Ciona robusta). Viruses. 10(8). 404–404. 44 indexed citations

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Leigh, Brittany A., Anni Djurhuus, Mya Breitbart, & Larry J. Dishaw. (2017). The gut virome of the protochordate model organism, Ciona intestinalis subtype A. Virus Research. 244. 137–146. 16 indexed citations

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Leigh, Brittany A., et al.. (2016). Generation of Germ-Free Ciona intestinalis for Studies of Gut-Microbe Interactions. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 2092–2092. 21 indexed citations

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Dishaw, Larry J., Brittany A. Leigh, John P. Cannon, et al.. (2016). Gut immunity in a protochordate involves a secreted immunoglobulin-type mediator binding host chitin and bacteria. Nature Communications. 7(1). 10617–10617. 36 indexed citations

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Leigh, Brittany A., Rosaria De Santis, Maria Rosaria Pinto, et al.. (2015). An Immune Effector System in the Protochordate Gut Sheds Light on Fundamental Aspects of Vertebrate Immunity. Results and problems in cell differentiation. 57. 159–173. 16 indexed citations

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Dishaw, Larry J., Simon Lax, Brittany A. Leigh, et al.. (2014). The Gut of Geographically Disparate Ciona intestinalis Harbors a Core Microbiota. PLoS ONE. 9(4). e93386–e93386. 97 indexed citations

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