Danielle Vermaak

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Danielle Vermaak is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Danielle Vermaak has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Plant Science and 5 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Danielle Vermaak's work include Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (14 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (11 papers) and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research (5 papers). Danielle Vermaak is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (14 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (11 papers) and Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors Research (5 papers). Danielle Vermaak collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hungary and Cameroon. Danielle Vermaak's co-authors include Alan P. Wolffe, Paul A. Wade, Gert Jan C. Veenstra, John Strouboulis, Peter Lloyd Jones, Stefan U. Kass, Nicoletta Landsberger, Harmit S. Malik, Steven Henikoff and Peter L. Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Danielle Vermaak

22 papers receiving 3.7k 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.

Methylated DNA and MeCP2 recruit histone deacetylase to repress transcription

1998 2.1k citations Peter Lloyd Jones, Gert Jan C. Veenstra et al. Nature Genetics profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Danielle Vermaak United States	18	3.3k	1.1k	789	273	227	22	3.7k
Alastair Kerr United Kingdom	32	4.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.0×	442 0.6×	357 1.3×	231 1.0×	59	4.7k
Barbara R. DuPont United States	25	1.9k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	513 0.7×	286 1.0×	199 0.9×	91	3.3k
Sally H. Cross United Kingdom	26	2.3k 0.7×	844 0.8×	451 0.6×	203 0.7×	67 0.3×	49	3.0k
Gert Jan C. Veenstra Netherlands	32	4.7k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	375 0.5×	181 0.7×	234 1.0×	70	5.4k
Giuliano Della Valle Italy	37	2.3k 0.7×	865 0.8×	689 0.9×	316 1.2×	84 0.4×	67	3.2k
Heather E. McDermid Canada	29	2.1k 0.6×	2.0k 1.8×	712 0.9×	119 0.4×	333 1.5×	64	3.3k
Nathalie Drouot France	18	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 1.3×	286 0.4×	246 0.9×	92 0.4×	36	3.5k
Jeffrey W. Innis United States	30	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	174 0.2×	132 0.5×	173 0.8×	90	3.5k
Robert S. Illingworth United Kingdom	22	3.8k 1.2×	1.2k 1.1×	380 0.5×	64 0.2×	203 0.9×	29	4.2k
Peter J. Skene United States	14	2.7k 0.8×	757 0.7×	284 0.4×	95 0.3×	179 0.8×	22	3.1k

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Ross, Benjamin D., Leah F. Rosin, Andreas W. Thomae, et al.. (2013). Stepwise Evolution of Essential Centromere Function in a Drosophila Neogene. Science. 340(6137). 1211–1214. 70 indexed citations

Levine, Mia T, Connor O. McCoy, Danielle Vermaak, et al.. (2012). Phylogenomic Analysis Reveals Dynamic Evolutionary History of the Drosophila Heterochromatin Protein 1 (HP1) Gene Family. PLoS Genetics. 8(6). e1002729–e1002729. 41 indexed citations

Vermaak, Danielle, Joshua J. Bayes, & Harmit S. Malik. (2009). A Surrogate Approach to Study the Evolution of Noncoding DNA Elements That Organize Eukaryotic Genomes. Journal of Heredity. 100(5). 624–636. 5 indexed citations

Vermaak, Danielle & Harmit S. Malik. (2009). Multiple Roles for Heterochromatin Protein 1 Genes inDrosophila. Annual Review of Genetics. 43(1). 467–492. 115 indexed citations

Vermaak, Danielle, et al.. (2007). Species-specific positive selection of the male-specific lethal complex that participates in dosage compensation in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(39). 15412–15417. 49 indexed citations

Dalal, Yamini, Takehito Furuyama, Danielle Vermaak, & Steven Henikoff. (2007). Structure, dynamics, and evolution of centromeric nucleosomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(41). 15974–15981. 107 indexed citations

Vermaak, Danielle, Steven Henikoff, & Harmit S. Malik. (2005). Positive Selection Drives the Evolution of rhino, a Member of the Heterochromatin Protein 1 Family in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics. 1(1). e9–e9. 109 indexed citations

Cervantes, Marcella D., Xiaohui Xi, Danielle Vermaak, Meng-Chao Yao, & Harmit S. Malik. (2005). The CNA1 Histone of the CiliateTetrahymena thermophilaIs Essential for Chromosome Segregation in the Germline Micronucleus. Molecular Biology of the Cell. 17(1). 485–497. 49 indexed citations

Vermaak, Danielle, et al.. (2003). The budding yeast Ipl1/Aurora protein kinase regulates mitotic spindle disassembly. The Journal of Cell Biology. 160(3). 329–339. 129 indexed citations

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Vermaak, Danielle. (2003). Maintenance of chromatin states: an open-and-shut case. Current Opinion in Cell Biology. 15(3). 266–274. 110 indexed citations

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Malik, Harmit S., Danielle Vermaak, & Steven Henikoff. (2002). Recurrent evolution of DNA-binding motifs in the Drosophila centromeric histone. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(3). 1449–1454. 97 indexed citations

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Henikoff, Steven & Danielle Vermaak. (2000). Bugs on Drugs Go GAGAA. Cell. 103(5). 695–698. 16 indexed citations

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Strouboulis, John, Sashko Damjanovski, Danielle Vermaak, Funda Meric, & Alan P. Wolffe. (1999). Transcriptional Repression by XPc1, a New Polycomb Homolog in Xenopus laevis Embryos, Is Independent of Histone Deacetylase. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 19(6). 3958–3968. 25 indexed citations

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Wade, Paul A., Peter L. Jones, Danielle Vermaak, & Alan P. Wolffe. (1999). Purification of a histone deacetylase complex from Xenopus laevis: Preparation of substrates and assay procedures. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 304. 715–725. 14 indexed citations

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Wade, Paul A., Peter L. Jones, Danielle Vermaak, & Alan P. Wolffe. (1998). A multiple subunit Mi-2 histone deacetylase from Xenopus laevis cofractionates with an associated Snf2 superfamily ATPase. Current Biology. 8(14). 843–848. 356 indexed citations

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Jones, Peter Lloyd, Gert Jan C. Veenstra, Paul A. Wade, et al.. (1998). Methylated DNA and MeCP2 recruit histone deacetylase to repress transcription. Nature Genetics. 19(2). 187–191. 2139 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vermaak, Danielle & Alan P. Wolffe. (1998). Chromatin and chromosomal controls in development. Developmental Genetics. 22(1). 1–6. 38 indexed citations

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Wade, Paul A., Peter Lloyd Jones, Danielle Vermaak, et al.. (1998). Histone Deacetylase Directs the Dominant Silencing of Transcription in Chromatin: Association with MeCP2 and the Mi-2 Chromodomain SWI/SNF ATPase. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 63(0). 435–446. 54 indexed citations

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Vermaak, Danielle, Oliver C Steinbach, Stéfan Dimitrov, Ralph A.W. Rupp, & Alan P. Wolffe. (1998). The globular domain of histone H1 is sufficient to direct specific gene repression in early Xenopus embryos. Current Biology. 8(9). 533–S2. 48 indexed citations

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Vermaak, Danielle & Alan P. Wolffe. (1998). Chromatin and chromosomal controls in development. Developmental Genetics. 22(1). 1–6. 1 indexed citations

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