Christopher J. Marx

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
85 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Christopher J. Marx is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Christopher J. Marx has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Christopher J. Marx's work include Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (36 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (26 papers) and Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (19 papers). Christopher J. Marx is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (36 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (26 papers) and Microbial metabolism and enzyme function (19 papers). Christopher J. Marx collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Christopher J. Marx's co-authors include Mary E. Lidstrom, Hsin-Hung Chou, Nigel F. Delaney, Ming‐Chun Lee, Daniel Segrè, Nicholas Leiby, William R. Harcombe, Hsuan-Chao Chiu, Julia A. Vorholt and Sean M. Carroll and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Christopher J. Marx

83 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Metabolic Resource Allocation in Individual Microbes Determines Ecosystem Interactions and Spatial Dynamics

2014 372 citations William R. Harcombe, Nicholas Leiby et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christopher J. Marx United States	37	3.2k	1.6k	677	567	482	85	4.6k
Thomas Ferenci Australia	50	4.4k 1.4×	3.3k 2.2×	1.0k 1.5×	372 0.7×	377 0.8×	133	6.4k
Lawrence J. Shimkets United States	40	3.2k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.5k 2.2×	491 0.9×	118 0.2×	89	4.6k
Haeyoung Jeong South Korea	29	2.2k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	600 0.9×	414 0.7×	208 0.4×	111	3.5k
Stéphane Cruveiller France	33	2.5k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	888 1.3×	226 0.4×	200 0.4×	71	4.4k
Ákos T. Kovács Denmark	39	2.9k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.4k 2.0×	365 0.6×	192 0.4×	161	5.0k
Jihyun F. Kim South Korea	42	3.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	884 1.3×	331 0.6×	219 0.5×	102	6.3k
Jared R. Leadbetter United States	31	2.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	966 1.4×	817 1.4×	83 0.2×	61	4.9k
Yuki Takai Japan	12	5.0k 1.6×	3.1k 2.0×	930 1.4×	487 0.9×	53 0.1×	50	6.7k
Esteban Martínez‐García Spain	29	2.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	749 1.1×	520 0.9×	81 0.2×	64	3.7k
Tomoya Baba Japan	24	6.6k 2.1×	4.3k 2.8×	1.2k 1.8×	688 1.2×	64 0.1×	43	9.3k

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Marx, Christopher J., et al.. (2025). Engineered Methylobacterium extorquens grows well on methoxylated aromatics due to its formaldehyde metabolism and stress response. mSphere. 10(8). e0017125–e0017125.

Stolyar, Sergey, et al.. (2025). Led astray by 16S rRNA: phylogenomics reaffirms the monophyly of Methylobacterium and lack of support for Methylorubrum as a genus. The ISME Journal. 19(1). 4 indexed citations

Leducq, Jean‐Baptiste, Geneviève Bourret, N. Cecilia Martínez-Gómez, et al.. (2022). Comprehensive Phylogenomics of Methylobacterium Reveals Four Evolutionary Distinct Groups and Underappreciated Phyllosphere Diversity. Genome Biology and Evolution. 14(8). 17 indexed citations

Le, Thomas K., et al.. (2022). Methylothon: a Versatile Course-Based High School Research Experience in Microbiology and Bioinformatics with Pink Bacteria. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. 23(2). 2 indexed citations

Leducq, Jean‐Baptiste, Geneviève Bourret, James A. Foster, et al.. (2022). Fine-Scale Adaptations to Environmental Variation and Growth Strategies Drive Phyllosphere Methylobacterium Diversity. mBio. 13(1). e0317521–e0317521. 9 indexed citations

Nayak, Dipti D., M.G. Davlieva, Jessica A. Lee, et al.. (2021). EfgA is a conserved formaldehyde sensor that leads to bacterial growth arrest in response to elevated formaldehyde. PLoS Biology. 19(5). e3001208–e3001208. 20 indexed citations

Hardy, Ronald W., et al.. (2018). Partial replacement of soybean meal with Methylobacterium extorquens single-cell protein in feeds for rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum). Aquaculture Research. 49(6). 2218–2224. 58 indexed citations

Dalia, Ankur B., Chelsea Hayes, Sergey Stolyar, Christopher J. Marx, & James B. McKinlay. (2017). Multiplex Genome Editing by Natural Transformation (MuGENT) for Synthetic Biology in Vibrio natriegens. ACS Synthetic Biology. 6(9). 1650–1655. 108 indexed citations

Michener, Joshua K., Stéphane Vuilleumier, Françoise Bringel, & Christopher J. Marx. (2016). Transfer of a Catabolic Pathway for Chloromethane in Methylobacterium Strains Highlights Different Limitations for Growth with Chloromethane or with Dichloromethane. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1116–1116. 10 indexed citations

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Nayak, Dipti D., Deepa Agashe, Ming‐Chun Lee, & Christopher J. Marx. (2016). Selection Maintains Apparently Degenerate Metabolic Pathways due to Tradeoffs in Using Methylamine for Carbon versus Nitrogen. Current Biology. 26(11). 1416–1426. 15 indexed citations

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Savir, Yonatan, Sean M. Carroll, John Ingraham, et al.. (2015). Galactose metabolic genes in yeast respond to a ratio of galactose and glucose. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(5). 1636–1641. 92 indexed citations

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Plucain, Jessica, Thomas Hindré, Mickaël Le Gac, et al.. (2014). Epistasis and Allele Specificity in the Emergence of a Stable Polymorphism in Escherichia coli. Science. 343(6177). 1366–1369. 88 indexed citations

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Nayak, Dipti D. & Christopher J. Marx. (2014). Genetic and Phenotypic Comparison of Facultative Methylotrophy between Methylobacterium extorquens Strains PA1 and AM1. PLoS ONE. 9(9). e107887–e107887. 29 indexed citations

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Michener, Joshua K., Stéphane Vuilleumier, Françoise Bringel, & Christopher J. Marx. (2014). Phylogeny Poorly Predicts the Utility of a Challenging Horizontally Transferred Gene in Methylobacterium Strains. Journal of Bacteriology. 196(11). 2101–2107. 21 indexed citations

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Lee, Ming‐Chun & Christopher J. Marx. (2013). Synchronous Waves of Failed Soft Sweeps in the Laboratory: Remarkably Rampant Clonal Interference of Alleles at a Single Locus. Genetics. 193(3). 943–952. 36 indexed citations

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Delaney, Nigel F., Susan L. Balenger, Camille Bonneaud, et al.. (2012). Correction: Ultrafast Evolution and Loss of CRISPRs Following a Host Shift in a Novel Wildlife Pathogen, Mycoplasma gallisepticum. PLoS Genetics. 8(3). 28 indexed citations

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Agashe, Deepa, N. Cecilia Martínez-Gómez, D. Allan Drummond, & Christopher J. Marx. (2012). Good Codons, Bad Transcript: Large Reductions in Gene Expression and Fitness Arising from Synonymous Mutations in a Key Enzyme. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(3). 549–560. 106 indexed citations

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Marx, Christopher J.. (2012). Recovering from a bad start: rapid adaptation and tradeoffs to growth below a threshold density. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12(1). 109–109. 11 indexed citations

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Gudelj, Ivana, Joshua S. Weitz, M. Claire Horner‐Devine, et al.. (2010). An integrative approach to understanding microbial diversity: from intracellular mechanisms to community structure. Ecology Letters. 13(9). 1073–1084. 71 indexed citations

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Chou, Hsin-Hung, Julia Hicks‐Berthet, & Christopher J. Marx. (2009). Fast Growth Increases the Selective Advantage of a Mutation Arising Recurrently during Evolution under Metal Limitation. PLoS Genetics. 5(9). e1000652–e1000652. 74 indexed citations

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