Colin D. Meiklejohn

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Colin D. Meiklejohn is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Colin D. Meiklejohn has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Genetics, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Colin D. Meiklejohn's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (9 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (8 papers). Colin D. Meiklejohn is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (9 papers) and Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (8 papers). Colin D. Meiklejohn collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Colin D. Meiklejohn's co-authors include Daniel L. Hartl, José M. Ranz, Kristi L. Montooth, David M. Rand, Cristian I. Castillo-Davis, John Parsch, Daven C. Presgraves, Bernardo Lemos, Yun Tao and Mario Cáceres and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Colin D. Meiklejohn

26 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Sex-Dependent Gene Expression and Evolution of the Drosophila Transcriptome

2003 520 citations José M. Ranz, Colin D. Meiklejohn et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Colin D. Meiklejohn United States	23	1.6k	1.2k	559	422	314	26	2.5k
John E. Pool United States	27	1.6k 1.0×	776 0.6×	621 1.1×	401 1.0×	438 1.4×	48	2.4k
Marta L. Wayne United States	20	1.1k 0.7×	748 0.6×	477 0.9×	308 0.7×	314 1.0×	58	2.0k
José M. Ranz United States	18	1.4k 0.9×	1.2k 1.0×	450 0.8×	732 1.7×	301 1.0×	42	2.2k
John Parsch Germany	30	2.2k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	964 1.7×	427 1.0×	496 1.6×	59	3.3k
James R. Walters United States	25	1.3k 0.8×	608 0.5×	613 1.1×	377 0.9×	510 1.6×	44	1.9k
Richard M. Kliman United States	19	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	432 0.8×	430 1.0×	312 1.0×	29	2.1k
Rama S. Singh Canada	35	2.1k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	1.2k 2.2×	506 1.2×	752 2.4×	112	3.4k
Chau‐Ti Ting Taiwan	17	1.4k 0.9×	703 0.6×	700 1.3×	411 1.0×	289 0.9×	30	2.0k
Raymond Tobler Australia	19	1.1k 0.7×	512 0.4×	337 0.6×	276 0.7×	200 0.6×	32	1.8k
Walter F. Eanes United States	34	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 0.9×	854 1.5×	531 1.3×	477 1.5×	71	3.1k

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Vedanayagam, Jeffrey, Ching‐Jung Lin, Caitlin E. McDonough-Goldstein, et al.. (2023). Essential and recurrent roles for hairpin RNAs in silencing de novo sex chromosome conflict in Drosophila simulans. PLoS Biology. 21(6). e3002136–e3002136. 11 indexed citations

Presgraves, Daven C. & Colin D. Meiklejohn. (2021). Hybrid Sterility, Genetic Conflict and Complex Speciation: Lessons From the Drosophila simulans Clade Species. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 669045–669045. 34 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Mahul, Ching-Ho Chang, Danielle E. Khost, et al.. (2021). Evolution of genome structure in the Drosophila simulans species complex. Genome Research. 31(3). 380–396. 57 indexed citations

Navarro‐Costa, Paulo, et al.. (2020). Sex and suicide: The curious case of Toll-like receptors. PLoS Biology. 18(3). e3000663–e3000663. 10 indexed citations

Landeen, Emily L., Christina A. Muirhead, Lori Wright, Colin D. Meiklejohn, & Daven C. Presgraves. (2016). Sex Chromosome-wide Transcriptional Suppression and Compensatory Cis-Regulatory Evolution Mediate Gene Expression in the Drosophila Male Germline. PLoS Biology. 14(7). e1002499–e1002499. 32 indexed citations

Meiklejohn, Colin D., et al.. (2013). An Incompatibility between a Mitochondrial tRNA and Its Nuclear-Encoded tRNA Synthetase Compromises Development and Fitness in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics. 9(1). e1003238–e1003238. 204 indexed citations

Meiklejohn, Colin D., Joseph D. Coolon, Daniel L. Hartl, & Patricia J. Wittkopp. (2013). The roles ofcis- andtrans-regulation in the evolution of regulatory incompatibilities and sexually dimorphic gene expression. Genome Research. 24(1). 84–95. 62 indexed citations

Lemos, Bernardo, et al.. (2013). Genome-Wide Gene Expression Effects of Sex Chromosome Imprinting inDrosophila. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 4(1). 1–10. 24 indexed citations

Meiklejohn, Colin D. & Daven C. Presgraves. (2012). Little Evidence for Demasculinization of the Drosophila X Chromosome among Genes Expressed in the Male Germline. Genome Biology and Evolution. 4(10). 1007–1016. 55 indexed citations

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Meiklejohn, Colin D., et al.. (2011). Sex Chromosome-Specific Regulation in the Drosophila Male Germline But Little Evidence for Chromosomal Dosage Compensation or Meiotic Inactivation. PLoS Biology. 9(8). e1001126–e1001126. 108 indexed citations

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Montooth, Kristi L., et al.. (2010). MITOCHONDRIAL-NUCLEAR EPISTASIS AFFECTS FITNESS WITHIN SPECIES BUT DOES NOT CONTRIBUTE TO FIXED INCOMPATIBILITIES BETWEEN SPECIES OF DROSOPHILA. Evolution. 64(12). 3364–3379. 88 indexed citations

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Meiklejohn, Colin D. & Yun Tao. (2009). Genetic conflict and sex chromosome evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 25(4). 215–223. 104 indexed citations

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Meiklejohn, Colin D., Kristi L. Montooth, & David M. Rand. (2007). Positive and negative selection on the mitochondrial genome. Trends in Genetics. 23(6). 259–263. 272 indexed citations

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Meiklejohn, Colin D. & Jeffrey P. Townsend. (2005). A Bayesian method for analysing spotted microarray data. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 6(4). 318–330. 19 indexed citations

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Lemos, Bernardo, Colin D. Meiklejohn, Mario Cáceres, & Daniel L. Hartl. (2005). RATES OF DIVERGENCE IN GENE EXPRESSION PROFILES OF PRIMATES, MICE, AND FLIES: STABILIZING SELECTION AND VARIABILITY AMONG FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. Evolution. 59(1). 126–126. 27 indexed citations

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Lemos, Bernardo, Colin D. Meiklejohn, & Daniel L. Hartl. (2004). Regulatory evolution across the protein interaction network. Nature Genetics. 36(10). 1059–1060. 54 indexed citations

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Meiklejohn, Colin D., Yuseob Kim, Daniel L. Hartl, & John Parsch. (2004). Identification of a Locus Under Complex Positive Selection in Drosophila simulans by Haplotype Mapping and Composite-Likelihood Estimation. Genetics. 168(1). 265–279. 36 indexed citations

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Meiklejohn, Colin D., John Parsch, José M. Ranz, & Daniel L. Hartl. (2003). Rapid evolution of male-biased gene expression in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(17). 9894–9899. 249 indexed citations

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Meiklejohn, Colin D. & Daniel L. Hartl. (2002). A single mode of canalization. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 17(10). 468–473. 204 indexed citations

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Parsch, John, et al.. (2001). Molecular Evolution of the ocnus and janus Genes in the Drosophila melanogaster Species Subgroup. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18(5). 801–811. 42 indexed citations

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