Christine Pfeifle

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
11 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Christine Pfeifle is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christine Pfeifle has authored 11 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Genetics and 3 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Christine Pfeifle's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (7 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (3 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (3 papers). Christine Pfeifle is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (7 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (3 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (3 papers). Christine Pfeifle collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Sweden. Christine Pfeifle's co-authors include Diethard Tautz, Stephen M. Cohen, B. A. Cohen, M.Elaine McGuffin, Martin Hülskamp, Herbert Jäckle, Daniel Segal, Juan Botas, Gilles Vachon and Ernst A. Wimmer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Christine Pfeifle

11 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

A non-radioactive in situ hybridization method for the localization of specific RNAs in Drosophila embryos reveals translational control of the segmentation gene hunchback

1989 2.4k citations Diethard Tautz, Christine Pfeifle Chromosoma profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christine Pfeifle Germany	9	3.3k	1.0k	799	584	441	11	3.8k
Fernando Casares Spain	30	2.8k 0.9×	936 0.9×	711 0.9×	652 1.1×	296 0.7×	87	3.4k
Uwe Walldorf Germany	28	2.9k 0.9×	854 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	439 0.8×	370 0.8×	53	3.5k
Daniel Bopp Switzerland	29	3.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.7×	598 0.7×	373 0.6×	546 1.2×	42	4.4k
José F. de Celis Spain	35	3.8k 1.2×	688 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	1.1k 1.9×	376 0.9×	73	4.4k
Mark Van Doren United States	28	2.1k 0.7×	1.0k 1.0×	714 0.9×	398 0.7×	441 1.0×	63	3.0k
Graeme Mardon United States	42	4.8k 1.5×	1.8k 1.8×	1.4k 1.7×	823 1.4×	414 0.9×	90	6.0k
Jordi Casanova Spain	38	2.9k 0.9×	691 0.7×	839 1.1×	932 1.6×	415 0.9×	94	3.8k
Ernesto Sánchez‐Herrero Spain	27	2.2k 0.7×	888 0.9×	479 0.6×	349 0.6×	436 1.0×	53	2.5k
Gerold Schubiger United States	36	2.8k 0.9×	691 0.7×	719 0.9×	1.1k 1.9×	425 1.0×	82	3.5k
Marc A. T. Muskavitch United States	39	4.1k 1.2×	728 0.7×	1.3k 1.6×	1.0k 1.7×	534 1.2×	61	5.2k

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Linnenbrink, Miriam, et al.. (2024). Experimental Evaluation of a Direct Fitness Effect of the De Novo Evolved Mouse Gene Pldi. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(5). 3 indexed citations

Merten, Sophie von, et al.. (2021). A humanized version of Foxp2 affects ultrasonic vocalization in adult female and male mice. Genes Brain & Behavior. 20(7). e12764–e12764. 7 indexed citations

Pfeifle, Christine, et al.. (2016). Communication at the Garden Fence – Context Dependent Vocalization in Female House Mice. PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0152255–e0152255. 25 indexed citations

Merten, Sophie von, et al.. (2014). A Role for Ultrasonic Vocalisation in Social Communication and Divergence of Natural Populations of the House Mouse (Mus musculus domesticus). PLoS ONE. 9(5). e97244–e97244. 57 indexed citations

Wimmer, Ernst A., Herbert Jäckle, Christine Pfeifle, & Stephen M. Cohen. (1993). A Drosophila homologue of human Sp1 is a head-specific segmentation gene. Nature. 366(6456). 690–694. 145 indexed citations

Cohen, B. A., M.Elaine McGuffin, Christine Pfeifle, Daniel Segal, & Stephen M. Cohen. (1992). apterous, a gene required for imaginal disc development in Drosophila encodes a member of the LIM family of developmental regulatory proteins.. Genes & Development. 6(5). 715–729. 314 indexed citations

Vachon, Gilles, B. A. Cohen, Christine Pfeifle, et al.. (1992). Homeotic genes of the bithorax complex repress limb development in the abdomen of the Drosophila embryo through the target gene Distal-less. Cell. 71(3). 437–450. 321 indexed citations

Hülskamp, Martin, Christine Pfeifle, & Diethard Tautz. (1990). A morphogenetic gradient of hunchback protein organizes the expression of the gap genes Krüppel and knirps in the early Drosophila embryo. Nature. 346(6284). 577–580. 218 indexed citations

Hülskamp, Martin, Christian Schröder, Christine Pfeifle, Herbert Jäckle, & Diethard Tautz. (1989). Posterior segmentation of the Drosophila embryo in the absence of a maternal posterior organizer gene. Nature. 338(6217). 629–632. 172 indexed citations

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Treier, Mathias, Christine Pfeifle, & Diethard Tautz. (1989). Comparison of the gap segmentation gene hunchback between Drosophila melanogaster and Drosophila virilis reveals novel modes of evolutionary change.. The EMBO Journal. 8(5). 1517–1525. 105 indexed citations

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Tautz, Diethard & Christine Pfeifle. (1989). A non-radioactive in situ hybridization method for the localization of specific RNAs in Drosophila embryos reveals translational control of the segmentation gene hunchback. Chromosoma. 98(2). 81–85. 2393 indexed citations breakdown →

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