Daniel J. Richter

16.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
34 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Daniel J. Richter is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel J. Richter has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Ecology and 9 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Daniel J. Richter's work include Protist diversity and phylogeny (13 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers). Daniel J. Richter is often cited by papers focused on Protist diversity and phylogeny (13 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (12 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (8 papers). Daniel J. Richter collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Spain. Daniel J. Richter's co-authors include David Reich, Eric S. Lander, Ryk Ward, Pardis C. Sabeti, Nicole King, Nick Patterson, David Altshuler, Stacey Bolk, James Ireland and Shelli Farhadian and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Daniel J. Richter

34 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

Detecting recent positive selection in the human genome from haplotype structure

2002 1.4k citations Pardis C. Sabeti, David Reich et al. Nature profile →
Linkage disequilibrium in the human genome

2001 1.3k citations David Reich, Pardis C. Sabeti et al. Nature profile →
A Large and Consistent Phylogenomic Dataset Supports Sponges as the Sister Group to All Other Animals

2017 335 citations Paul Simion, Hervé Philippe et al. Current Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel J. Richter United States	22	2.7k	2.6k	612	551	535	34	5.7k
Daniel Chourrout France	34	1.7k 0.6×	3.1k 1.2×	606 1.0×	370 0.7×	377 0.7×	77	5.6k
Shigehiro Kuraku Japan	38	1.2k 0.4×	2.9k 1.1×	766 1.3×	314 0.6×	550 1.0×	143	5.0k
Stephen J. O’Brien United States	40	2.5k 0.9×	2.9k 1.1×	1.0k 1.7×	421 0.8×	1.2k 2.3×	101	6.6k
Wesley C. Warren United States	41	3.0k 1.1×	2.9k 1.1×	1.5k 2.4×	430 0.8×	761 1.4×	155	6.5k
Andreas D. Baxevanis United States	39	1.3k 0.5×	3.7k 1.4×	386 0.6×	221 0.4×	268 0.5×	111	5.9k
Richard R. Copley United Kingdom	35	1.1k 0.4×	3.1k 1.2×	334 0.5×	792 1.4×	293 0.5×	72	5.1k
Carmela Gissi Italy	30	1.3k 0.5×	3.5k 1.3×	474 0.8×	215 0.4×	1.1k 2.1×	66	5.2k
Kazuho Ikeo Japan	45	1.1k 0.4×	4.5k 1.7×	1.2k 2.0×	648 1.2×	573 1.1×	171	7.2k
David M. Irwin Canada	41	3.3k 1.2×	3.8k 1.5×	417 0.7×	770 1.4×	1.6k 3.0×	249	8.6k
Nori Satoh Japan	45	1.1k 0.4×	3.9k 1.5×	377 0.6×	432 0.8×	1.1k 2.1×	149	6.6k

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Guéguen, Laurent, et al.. (2024). Dollo Parsimony Overestimates Ancestral Gene Content Reconstructions. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(4). 2 indexed citations

Richter, Daniel J., et al.. (2023). Taxonomic composition, community structure and molecular novelty of microeukaryotes in a temperate oligomesotrophic lake as revealed by metabarcoding. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 3119–3119. 3 indexed citations

Richter, Daniel J. & Tera C. Levin. (2019). The origin and evolution of cell-intrinsic antibacterial defenses in eukaryotes. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 58-59. 111–122. 15 indexed citations

Richter, Daniel J., Parinaz Fozouni, Michael B. Eisen, & Nicole King. (2018). Gene family innovation, conservation and loss on the animal stem lineage. eLife. 7. 131 indexed citations

Dorrell, Richard G., Gillian H. Gile, Giselle McCallum, et al.. (2017). Chimeric origins of ochrophytes and haptophytes revealed through an ancient plastid proteome. eLife. 6. 100 indexed citations

Ereskovsky, Alexander, Daniel J. Richter, Dennis V. Lavrov, Klaske J. Schippers, & Scott Nichols. (2017). Transcriptome sequencing and delimitation of sympatric Oscarella species (O. carmela and O. pearsei sp. nov) from California, USA. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0183002–e0183002. 19 indexed citations

Simion, Paul, Hervé Philippe, Denis Baurain, et al.. (2017). A Large and Consistent Phylogenomic Dataset Supports Sponges as the Sister Group to All Other Animals. Current Biology. 27(7). 958–967. 335 indexed citations breakdown →

Marron, Alan O., Sarah J. Ratcliffe, Glen L. Wheeler, et al.. (2016). The Evolution of Silicon Transport in Eukaryotes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33(12). 3226–3248. 85 indexed citations

Alié, Alexandre, et al.. (2016). Conserved expression of vertebrate microvillar gene homologs in choanocytes of freshwater sponges. EvoDevo. 7(1). 13–13. 34 indexed citations

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Carr, Martin, Daniel J. Richter, Parinaz Fozouni, et al.. (2016). A six-gene phylogeny provides new insights into choanoflagellate evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107. 166–178. 47 indexed citations

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Thomsen, Helge Abildhauge, Frank Nitsche, & Daniel J. Richter. (2016). Seasonal Occurrence of Loricate Choanoflagellates in Danish Inner Waters. Protist. 167(6). 622–638. 15 indexed citations

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Romac, Sarah, Nicolas Henry, Sébastien Colin, et al.. (2015). The symbiotic life of Symbiodinium in the open ocean within a new species of calcifying ciliate ( Tiarina sp.). The ISME Journal. 10(6). 1424–1436. 27 indexed citations

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Nichols, Scott, Brock Roberts, Daniel J. Richter, Stephen R. Fairclough, & Nicole King. (2012). Origin of metazoan cadherin diversity and the antiquity of the classical cadherin/β-catenin complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(32). 13046–13051. 139 indexed citations

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Liu, Man, Jamie L. Duke, Daniel J. Richter, et al.. (2008). Two levels of protection for the B cell genome during somatic hypermutation. Nature. 451(7180). 841–845. 440 indexed citations

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Patterson, Nick, Daniel J. Richter, Sante Gnerre, Eric S. Lander, & David Reich. (2008). Patterson et al. reply. Nature. 452(7184). E4–E4. 8 indexed citations

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Dennis, Jonathan H., Sheila M. Reynolds, Guo‐Cheng Yuan, et al.. (2007). Independent and complementary methods for large-scale structural analysis of mammalian chromatin. Genome Research. 17(6). 928–939. 33 indexed citations

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Patterson, Nick, Daniel J. Richter, Sante Gnerre, Eric S. Lander, & David Reich. (2006). Genetic evidence for complex speciation of humans and chimpanzees. Nature. 441(7097). 1103–1108. 367 indexed citations

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Winckler, Wendy, Simon Myers, Daniel J. Richter, et al.. (2005). Comparison of Fine-Scale Recombination Rates in Humans and Chimpanzees. Science. 308(5718). 107–111. 280 indexed citations

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Reich, David, S. F. Schaffner, Mark J. Daly, et al.. (2002). Human genome sequence variation and the influence of gene history, mutation and recombination. Nature Genetics. 32(1). 135–142. 226 indexed citations

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Sabeti, Pardis C., David Reich, John M. Higgins, et al.. (2002). Detecting recent positive selection in the human genome from haplotype structure. Nature. 419(6909). 832–837. 1449 indexed citations breakdown →

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