D.A. Marvin

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
64 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

D.A. Marvin is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, D.A. Marvin has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Ecology, 45 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in D.A. Marvin's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (53 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (20 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (18 papers). D.A. Marvin is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (53 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (20 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (18 papers). D.A. Marvin collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. D.A. Marvin's co-authors include Barbara Höhn, Ellen Wachtel, M. H. F. Wilkins, Hartmut Hoffmann‐Berling, L. D. Hamilton, R.L. Wiseman, Martyn F. Symmons, Michael D. Spencer, Heinz Schaller and C. Nave and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

D.A. Marvin

64 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Filamentous bacterial viruses 1969 2026 1988 2007 1969 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Filamentous bacterial viruses
    1969 383 citations D.A. Marvin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
D.A. Marvin United States 36 2.9k 2.2k 733 559 447 64 3.7k
H. G. Wittmann Germany 44 5.5k 1.9× 1.3k 0.6× 1.5k 2.1× 318 0.6× 588 1.3× 150 6.5k
Jacob Lebowitz United States 32 2.8k 1.0× 688 0.3× 618 0.8× 240 0.4× 296 0.7× 74 4.3k
A. D. Hershey United States 21 3.9k 1.3× 2.1k 1.0× 1.3k 1.8× 260 0.5× 186 0.4× 31 5.0k
Loren A. Day United States 32 1.7k 0.6× 903 0.4× 308 0.4× 358 0.6× 384 0.9× 48 2.5k
Douglas K. Struck United States 30 2.8k 1.0× 1.4k 0.7× 691 0.9× 211 0.4× 108 0.2× 46 4.0k
Stephen J. Stahl United States 48 4.2k 1.5× 1.3k 0.6× 672 0.9× 445 0.8× 648 1.4× 104 7.2k
Philip Serwer United States 35 2.3k 0.8× 2.3k 1.1× 752 1.0× 338 0.6× 168 0.4× 182 3.7k
Knud H. Nierhaus Germany 57 8.0k 2.8× 854 0.4× 2.2k 3.0× 191 0.3× 534 1.2× 198 9.2k
Alfred Pingoud Germany 44 5.7k 2.0× 778 0.4× 1.7k 2.4× 118 0.2× 500 1.1× 186 6.6k
Peter E. Prevelige United States 45 3.5k 1.2× 3.7k 1.7× 920 1.3× 764 1.4× 800 1.8× 125 6.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D.A. Marvin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Marvin, D.A.. (2017). Fibre diffraction studies of biological macromolecules. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 127. 43–87. 7 indexed citations
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Marvin, D.A., Martyn F. Symmons, & Suzana K. Straus. (2014). Structure and assembly of filamentous bacteriophages. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology. 114(2). 80–122. 94 indexed citations
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Straus, Suzana K., Walter R. P. Scott, Martyn F. Symmons, & D.A. Marvin. (2007). On the structures of filamentous bacteriophage Ff (fd, f1, M13). European Biophysics Journal. 37(4). 521–527. 31 indexed citations
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Welsh, Liam, et al.. (2001). The protein capsid of filamentous bacteriophage PH75 from Thermus thermophilus. Journal of Molecular Biology. 309(2). 401–421. 37 indexed citations
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Welsh, Liam, Martyn F. Symmons, & D.A. Marvin. (2000). The molecular structure and structural transition of the α-helical capsid in filamentous bacteriophage Pf1. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 56(2). 137–150. 35 indexed citations
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Welsh, Liam, D.A. Marvin, & Richard N. Perham. (1998). Analysis of X-ray diffraction from fibres of pf1 Inovirus (filamentous bacteriophage) shows that the DNA in the virion is not highly ordered 1 1Edited by M. F. Moody. Journal of Molecular Biology. 284(5). 1265–1271. 18 indexed citations
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Welsh, Liam, Martyn F. Symmons, Julian M. Sturtevant, D.A. Marvin, & Richard N. Perham. (1998). Structure of the capsid of pf3 filamentous phage determined from X-ray fibre diffraction data at 3.1 Å resolution. Journal of Molecular Biology. 283(1). 155–177. 46 indexed citations
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Malik, Pratap, Tamsin D. Terry, Lalitha R. Gowda, et al.. (1996). Role of Capsid Structure and Membrane Protein Processing in Determining the Size and Copy Number of Peptides Displayed on the Major Coat Protein of Filamentous Bacteriophage. Journal of Molecular Biology. 260(1). 9–21. 114 indexed citations
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Williams, Karen A., Mira Glibowicka, Zuomei Li, et al.. (1995). Packing of Coat Protein Amphipathic and Transmembrane Helices in Filamentous Bacteriophage M13: Role of Small Residues in Protein Oligomeriza tion. Journal of Molecular Biology. 252(1). 6–14. 60 indexed citations
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Marvin, D.A. & W. Folkhard. (1986). Structure of F-Pili: Reassessment of the symmetry. Journal of Molecular Biology. 191(2). 299–300. 29 indexed citations
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Folkhard, W., D.A. Marvin, Tania H. Watts, & W Paranchych. (1981). Structure of polar pili from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains K and O. Journal of Molecular Biology. 149(1). 79–93. 86 indexed citations
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Makowski, Lee, D. L. D. Caspar, & D.A. Marvin. (1980). Filamentous bacteriophage Pf1 structure determined at 7 Å resolution by refinement of models for the α-helical subunit. Journal of Molecular Biology. 140(2). 149–181. 55 indexed citations
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Nave, C., et al.. (1979). Macromolecular structural transitions in Pf1 filamentous bacterial virus. Nature. 281(5728). 232–234. 47 indexed citations
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Folkhard, W., Kevin Leonard, D.A. Marvin, et al.. (1979). X-ray diffraction and electron microscope studies on the structure of bacterial F pili. Journal of Molecular Biology. 130(2). 145–160. 60 indexed citations
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Marvin, D.A.. (1978). Structure of the Filamentous Phage Virion. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 8. 583–603. 9 indexed citations
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Marvin, D.A. & Ellen Wachtel. (1976). Structure and assembly of filamentous bacterial viruses. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 276(943). 81–98. 52 indexed citations
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Marvin, D.A., et al.. (1974). Filamentous bacterial viruses. Journal of Molecular Biology. 88(3). 581–598. 73 indexed citations
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Timmis, K. N. & D.A. Marvin. (1974). Filamentous bacterial viruses. Virology. 59(1). 293–300. 14 indexed citations
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Tseng, Ben & D.A. Marvin. (1972). Filamentous Bacterial Viruses VII. Inhibition of fd Deoxyribonucleic Acid Synthesis After a Temperature Jump into Protein-Synthesis Inhibitors. Journal of Virology. 10(3). 392–398. 5 indexed citations
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Hamilton, L. D., Ralph K. Barclay, M. H. F. Wilkins, et al.. (1959). Similarity of the Structure of DNA from a Variety of Sources. The Journal of Cell Biology. 5(3). 397–404. 52 indexed citations

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