Chris Todd Hittinger

11.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
111 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Chris Todd Hittinger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Todd Hittinger has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Molecular Biology, 51 papers in Food Science and 37 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Chris Todd Hittinger's work include Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (51 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (46 papers) and Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (33 papers). Chris Todd Hittinger is often cited by papers focused on Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (51 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (46 papers) and Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (33 papers). Chris Todd Hittinger collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Portugal. Chris Todd Hittinger's co-authors include Antonis Rokas, Sean B. Carroll, Xing‐Xing Shen, Diego Libkind, José Paulo Sampaio, Mark Johnston, Paula Gonçalves, David Peris, Dana A. Opulente and Xiaofan Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Chris Todd Hittinger

105 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Microbe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast

2011 473 citations Diego Libkind, Chris Todd Hittinger et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Contentious relationships in phylogenomic studies can be driven by a handful of genes

2017 328 citations Xing‐Xing Shen, Chris Todd Hittinger et al. profile →
A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi

2021 180 citations Yuanning Li, Jacob L. Steenwyk et al. Current Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Todd Hittinger United States	42	4.2k	2.4k	2.3k	1.0k	658	111	6.0k
Gianni Liti France	39	3.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 1.1×	182 0.3×	104	4.6k
Dario Cantù United States	44	2.6k 0.6×	5.3k 2.3×	1.1k 0.5×	732 0.7×	1.3k 2.0×	109	6.5k
Marc‐André Lachance Canada	37	3.1k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	234 0.2×	1.5k 2.3×	205	4.9k
Stephen J. Powers United Kingdom	46	2.5k 0.6×	5.5k 2.4×	919 0.4×	373 0.4×	311 0.5×	138	7.1k
Vidya S. Gupta India	44	3.4k 0.8×	4.6k 2.0×	352 0.2×	1.3k 1.2×	359 0.5×	218	6.9k
Antoni Rafalski United States	33	3.3k 0.8×	7.3k 3.1×	632 0.3×	3.7k 3.7×	647 1.0×	48	9.7k
Meredith Blackwell United States	43	2.4k 0.6×	3.1k 1.3×	610 0.3×	539 0.5×	2.1k 3.1×	162	6.2k
Matthew R. Goddard New Zealand	29	1.2k 0.3×	1.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	459 0.5×	267 0.4×	56	3.2k
Sebastien Pesseat United Kingdom	4	3.4k 0.8×	2.1k 0.9×	244 0.1×	819 0.8×	442 0.7×	4	6.0k

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Santos, Ana Raquel O., Paula B. Morais, José Paulo Sampaio, et al.. (2025). Taxogenomic analysis of Pichia senei sp. nov. and new insights into hybridization events in the Pichia cactophila species complex. FEMS Yeast Research. 25.

Gonçalves, Carla, Jacob L. Steenwyk, David C. Rinker, et al.. (2025). Stable Hypermutators Revealed by the Genomic Landscape of Genes Involved in Genome Stability Among Yeast Species. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(11).

Hose, James, et al.. (2024). Comparative modeling reveals the molecular determinants of aneuploidy fitness cost in a wild yeast model. Cell Genomics. 4(10). 100656–100656. 4 indexed citations

Opulente, Dana A., Quinn K. Langdon, Kelly V. Buh, et al.. (2023). Taxogenomic analysis of a novel yeast species isolated from soil, Pichia galeolata sp. nov.. Yeast. 40(12). 608–615. 2 indexed citations

Krause, David & Chris Todd Hittinger. (2022). Functional Divergence in a Multi-gene Family Is a Key Evolutionary Innovation for Anaerobic Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(10). 5 indexed citations

Li, Yuanning, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Ying Chang, et al.. (2021). A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi. Current Biology. 31(8). 1653–1665.e5. 180 indexed citations breakdown →

LaBella, Abigail L., Dana A. Opulente, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Chris Todd Hittinger, & Antonis Rokas. (2021). Signatures of optimal codon usage in metabolic genes inform budding yeast ecology. PLoS Biology. 19(4). e3001185–e3001185. 16 indexed citations

Wrobel, Russell L., Michael Place, Michael E. Graham, et al.. (2020). CRISpy-Pop: A Web Tool for Designing CRISPR/Cas9-Driven Genetic Modifications in Diverse Populations. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(11). 4287–4294. 8 indexed citations

Haase, Max A. B., Jacek Kominek, Dana A. Opulente, et al.. (2020). Repeated horizontal gene transfer of GAL actose metabolism genes violates Dollo’s law of irreversible loss. Genetics. 217(2). 14 indexed citations

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Shen, Xing‐Xing, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Abigail L. LaBella, et al.. (2020). Genome-scale phylogeny and contrasting modes of genome evolution in the fungal phylum Ascomycota. Science Advances. 6(45). 86 indexed citations

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Peris, David, William G. Alexander, Kaitlin J. Fisher, et al.. (2020). Synthetic hybrids of six yeast species. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2085–2085. 36 indexed citations

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Opulente, Dana A., Quinn K. Langdon, Kelly V. Buh, et al.. (2019). Pathogenic budding yeasts isolated outside of clinical settings. FEMS Yeast Research. 19(3). 58 indexed citations

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LaBella, Abigail L., Dana A. Opulente, Jacob L. Steenwyk, Chris Todd Hittinger, & Antonis Rokas. (2019). Variation and selection on codon usage bias across an entire subphylum. PLoS Genetics. 15(7). e1008304–e1008304. 64 indexed citations

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Steenwyk, Jacob L., Dana A. Opulente, Jacek Kominek, et al.. (2019). Extensive loss of cell-cycle and DNA repair genes in an ancient lineage of bipolar budding yeasts. PLoS Biology. 17(5). e3000255–e3000255. 95 indexed citations

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Peris, David, Roberto Pérez‐Torrado, Chris Todd Hittinger, Eladio Barrio, & Amparo Querol. (2017). On the origins and industrial applications of Saccharomyces cerevisiae × Saccharomyces kudriavzevii hybrids. Yeast. 35(1). 51–69. 64 indexed citations

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Shen, Xing‐Xing, Xiaofan Zhou, Jacek Kominek, et al.. (2016). Reconstructing the Backbone of the Saccharomycotina Yeast Phylogeny Using Genome-Scale Data. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 6(12). 3927–3939. 149 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xiaofan, David Peris, Jacek Kominek, et al.. (2016). In Silico Whole Genome Sequencer and Analyzer (iWGS): a Computational Pipeline to Guide the Design and Analysis of de novo Genome Sequencing Studies. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 6(11). 3655–3662. 25 indexed citations

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Libkind, Diego, Chris Todd Hittinger, Elisabete Valério, et al.. (2011). Microbe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(35). 14539–14544. 473 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scannell, Devin R., Oliver A. Zill, Antonis Rokas, et al.. (2011). The Awesome Power of Yeast Evolutionary Genetics: New Genome Sequences and Strain Resources for theSaccharomyces sensu strictoGenus. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 1(1). 11–25. 237 indexed citations

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Hittinger, Chris Todd, David L. Stern, & Sean B. Carroll. (2005). Pleiotropic functions of a conserved insect-specific Hox peptide motif. Development. 132(23). 5261–5270. 32 indexed citations

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