Christian Kost

6.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
53 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Christian Kost is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Christian Kost has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Genetics, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Christian Kost's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (17 papers), Plant and animal studies (16 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers). Christian Kost is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (17 papers), Plant and animal studies (16 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (12 papers). Christian Kost collaborates with scholars based in Germany, New Zealand and United States. Christian Kost's co-authors include Martin Heil, Samay Pande, Wilhelm Boland, Glen G D’Souza, Martin Kaltenpoth, Gen‐ichiro Arimura, Silvio Waschina, Sailendharan Sudakaran, Shraddha Shitut and Christoph Kaleta and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Christian Kost

52 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.

Experimental evolution of bet hedging

2009 439 citations Hubertus J. E. Beaumont, Jenna Gallie et al. profile →
Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria

2018 336 citations Glen G D’Souza, Shraddha Shitut et al. Natural Product Reports profile →
Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities

2023 114 citations Christian Kost, Kiran Raosaheb Patil et al. Nature Microbiology profile →
Disentangling microbial interaction networks

2025 20 citations Leonardo Oña, Christian Kost et al. Trends in Microbiology profile →

Peers

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Yuichi Hongoh Japan

William R. Harcombe United States

Jeffrey L. Blanchard United States

Michael Poulsen Denmark

Rolf Kümmerli Switzerland

Frederick M. Cohan United States

Michiel Vos United Kingdom

Alex Wong Canada

Hirokazu Toju Japan

Eric V. Stabb United States

Yuichi Hongoh Japan

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869 ×0.5

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1.8k ×1.4

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1.9k ×1.6

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Citations per year, relative to Christian Kost Christian Kost (= 1×) peers Yuichi Hongoh

Countries citing papers authored by Christian Kost

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Fields of papers citing papers by Christian Kost

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Christian Kost

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Kost, Christian, et al.. (2025). Defining Organismality. Biological Theory. 20(1). 54–70.

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Oña, Leonardo, et al.. (2025). Disentangling microbial interaction networks. Trends in Microbiology. 33(6). 619–634. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kost, Christian, Kiran Raosaheb Patil, Jonathan Friedman, Sarahi L. Garcia, & Markus Ralser. (2023). Metabolic exchanges are ubiquitous in natural microbial communities. Nature Microbiology. 8(12). 2244–2252. 114 indexed citations breakdown →

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Banitz, Thomas, et al.. (2022). McComedy: A user-friendly tool for next-generation individual-based modeling of microbial consumer-resource systems. PLoS Computational Biology. 18(1). e1009777–e1009777. 5 indexed citations

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Giri, Samir, et al.. (2020). Reciprocal Fitness Feedbacks Promote the Evolution of Mutualistic Cooperation. Current Biology. 30(18). 3580–3590.e7. 57 indexed citations

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Giri, Samir, Shraddha Shitut, & Christian Kost. (2020). Harnessing ecological and evolutionary principles to guide the design of microbial production consortia. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 62. 228–238. 47 indexed citations

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Giri, Samir, Silvio Waschina, Christoph Kaleta, & Christian Kost. (2019). Defining Division of Labor in Microbial Communities. Journal of Molecular Biology. 431(23). 4712–4731. 57 indexed citations

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D’Souza, Glen G, et al.. (2018). Ecology and evolution of metabolic cross-feeding interactions in bacteria. Natural Product Reports. 35(5). 455–488. 336 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pande, Samay & Christian Kost. (2017). Bacterial Unculturability and the Formation of Intercellular Metabolic Networks. Trends in Microbiology. 25(5). 349–361. 152 indexed citations

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Sudakaran, Sailendharan, Christian Kost, & Martin Kaltenpoth. (2017). Symbiont Acquisition and Replacement as a Source of Ecological Innovation. Trends in Microbiology. 25(5). 375–390. 225 indexed citations

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D’Souza, Glen G & Christian Kost. (2016). Experimental Evolution of Metabolic Dependency in Bacteria. PLoS Genetics. 12(11). e1006364–e1006364. 100 indexed citations

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Pande, Samay, et al.. (2015). Privatization of cooperative benefits stabilizes mutualistic cross-feeding interactions in spatially structured environments. The ISME Journal. 10(6). 1413–1423. 149 indexed citations

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Kost, Christian, et al.. (2014). Foraging Leaf-Cutting Ants Learn to Reject Vitis vinifera ssp. vinifera Plants that Emit Herbivore-Induced Volatiles. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 40(6). 617–620. 16 indexed citations

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Pande, Samay, Katrin Bohl, Michael Reichelt, et al.. (2013). Fitness and stability of obligate cross-feeding interactions that emerge upon gene loss in bacteria. The ISME Journal. 8(5). 953–962. 239 indexed citations

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Venkatesan, Radhika, Christian Kost, Gustavo Bonaventure, Anja David, & Wilhelm Boland. (2012). Volatile Emission in Bracken Fern Is Induced by Jasmonates but Not by Spodoptera littoralis or Strongylogaster multifasciata Herbivory. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e48050–e48050. 24 indexed citations

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Rainey, Paul B., Hubertus J. E. Beaumont, Gayle C. Ferguson, et al.. (2011). The evolutionary emergence of stochastic phenotype switching in bacteria. Microbial Cell Factories. 10(Suppl 1). S14–S14. 106 indexed citations

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Bohl, Katrin, Luís F. de Figueiredo, Oliver Hädicke, et al.. (2010). CASOP GS : Computing intervention strategies targeted at production improvement in genome-scale metabolic networks. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. 71–80. 15 indexed citations

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Venkatesan, Radhika, Christian Kost, Wilhelm Boland, & Martin Heil. (2010). The Role of Jasmonates in Floral Nectar Secretion. PLoS ONE. 5(2). e9265–e9265. 64 indexed citations

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Kost, Christian & Martin Heil. (2007). The Defensive Role of Volatile Emission and Extrafloral Nectar Secretion for Lima Bean in Nature. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 34(1). 2–13. 74 indexed citations

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Arimura, Gen‐ichiro, Christian Kost, & Wilhelm Boland. (2005). Herbivore-induced, indirect plant defences. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids. 1734(2). 91–111. 380 indexed citations

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