David Lane

31.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
100 papers, 25.4k citations indexed

About

David Lane is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Lane has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 25.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in David Lane's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (13 papers). David Lane is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (21 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (16 papers) and Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (13 papers). David Lane collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Brunei. David Lane's co-authors include Susan M. Barns, W G Weisburg, Dale A. Pelletier, Norman R. Pace, G J Olsen, David A. Stahl, B Pace, Mitchell L. Sogin, Stephen J. Giovannoni and Michaël Chandler and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David Lane

98 papers receiving 24.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study

1991 9.8k citations W G Weisburg, Susan M. Barns et al. Journal of Bacteriology profile →
16S/23S rRNA sequencing

1991 7.6k citations David Lane profile →
Rapid determination of 16S ribosomal RNA sequences for phylogenetic analyses.

1985 2.5k citations David Lane, Norman R. Pace et al. profile →
Microbial Ecology and Evolution: A Ribosomal RNA Approach

1986 704 citations David Lane, Norman R. Pace et al. profile →
Molecular Phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom

1988 576 citations David Lane, Norman R. Pace et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Lane France	38	11.9k	9.5k	5.0k	3.1k	2.1k	100	25.4k
Ramon Rosselló‐Móra Spain	57	15.7k 1.3×	11.6k 1.2×	4.0k 0.8×	2.2k 0.7×	2.3k 1.1×	208	24.2k
George M Garrity United States	34	14.4k 1.2×	10.3k 1.1×	4.3k 0.9×	3.0k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	247	28.8k
James R. Cole United States	46	16.2k 1.4×	13.0k 1.4×	4.7k 0.9×	6.0k 1.9×	2.8k 1.3×	98	35.8k
Pablo Yarza Spain	20	14.0k 1.2×	11.5k 1.2×	4.1k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.3×	22	29.5k
William B. Whitman United States	68	15.5k 1.3×	12.2k 1.3×	3.2k 0.6×	2.2k 0.7×	3.5k 1.7×	285	26.1k
Sarah L. Westcott United States	23	11.8k 1.0×	9.7k 1.0×	3.5k 0.7×	3.1k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	36	26.7k
Peter Kämpfer Germany	66	12.7k 1.1×	7.9k 0.8×	4.3k 0.9×	2.3k 0.7×	737 0.4×	542	21.0k
Robert A. Edwards United States	69	15.7k 1.3×	14.9k 1.6×	4.5k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	219	30.0k
Pelin Yilmaz Germany	22	13.6k 1.1×	11.3k 1.2×	4.0k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	2.7k 1.3×	40	29.0k
Karl‐Heinz Schleifer Germany	66	12.2k 1.0×	12.3k 1.3×	2.2k 0.4×	8.5k 2.8×	2.5k 1.2×	168	28.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Lane

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lane, David, et al.. (2023). Fever-like temperature bursts promote competence development via an HtrA-dependent pathway in Streptococcus pneumoniae. PLoS Genetics. 19(9). e1010946–e1010946. 3 indexed citations

Chua, Marcus A.H., et al.. (2019). Diet and mitochondrial DNA haplotype of a sperm whale ( Physeter macrocephalus ) found dead off Jurong Island, Singapore. PeerJ. 7. e6705–e6705. 6 indexed citations

Kocanova, Silvia, et al.. (2018). Real-time imaging of specific genomic loci in eukaryotic cells using the ANCHOR DNA labelling system. Methods. 142. 16–23. 26 indexed citations

Gallardo, Franck, et al.. (2014). DNA Dynamics during Early Double-Strand Break Processing Revealed by Non-Intrusive Imaging of Living Cells. PLoS Genetics. 10(3). e1004187–e1004187. 102 indexed citations

Rech, Jérôme, et al.. (2013). Defining the Role of ATP Hydrolysis in Mitotic Segregation of Bacterial Plasmids. PLoS Genetics. 9(12). e1003956–e1003956. 42 indexed citations

Freitag, Hendrik, et al.. (2012). Notes on Notonectidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from southeastern Asia, mostly from Brunei and the Philippines. Acta entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 52. 4 indexed citations

Lane, David. (2010). Tropical Islands Biodiversity Crisis : The Indo-West Pacific. Springer eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Ravin, Nikolai V., et al.. (2010). On the role of centromere dispersion in stability of linear bacterial plasmids. Plasmid. 64(1). 51–59. 5 indexed citations

Pasta, Franck, et al.. (2009). Dual Role of DNA in Regulating ATP Hydrolysis by the SopA Partition Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(44). 30067–30075. 59 indexed citations

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Lane, David, et al.. (2009). A new species ofAsterodiscides(Echinodermata, Asteroidea, Asterodiscididae) from the tropical southwest Pacific, and the biogeography of the genus revisited. Zoosystema. 31(3). 419–429. 7 indexed citations

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Bouet, Jean‐Yves & David Lane. (2008). Molecular Basis of the Supercoil Deficit Induced by the Mini-F Plasmid Partition Complex. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(1). 165–173. 17 indexed citations

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Smolina, Irina, Dmitry I. Cherny, Raymond Nietupski, et al.. (2005). High-density fluorescently labeled rolling-circle amplicons for DNA diagnostics. Analytical Biochemistry. 347(1). 152–155. 18 indexed citations

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VandenSpiegel, Didier, et al.. (1998). The asteroid fauna (Echinodermata) of Singapore, with a distribution table and an illustrated identification to the species. The Raffles bulletin of zoology. 46(2). 431–470. 10 indexed citations

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Lane, David, Jérôme Cavaillé, & Michaël Chandler. (1994). Induction of the SOS Response by IS1 Transposase. Journal of Molecular Biology. 242(4). 339–350. 43 indexed citations

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Dorsch, M., David Lane, & Erko Stackebrandt. (1992). Towards a Phylogeny of the Genus Vibrio Based on 16S rRNA Sequences. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 42(1). 58–63. 138 indexed citations

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Bruns, Thomas D., Rytas Vilgalys, Susan M. Barns, et al.. (1992). Evolutionary relationships within the fungi: Analyses of nuclear small subunit rRNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 1(3). 231–241. 246 indexed citations

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Weisburg, W G, Susan M. Barns, Dale A. Pelletier, & David Lane. (1991). 16S ribosomal DNA amplification for phylogenetic study. Journal of Bacteriology. 173(2). 697–703. 9812 indexed citations breakdown →

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Burgin, Alex B., et al.. (1990). The excision of intervening sequences from salmonella 23S ribosomal RNA. Cell. 60(3). 405–414. 149 indexed citations

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Saul, David J., David Lane, & Peter L. Bergquist. (1988). A replication region of the IncHI plasmid, R27, is highly homologous with the RepFIA replicon of F. Molecular Microbiology. 2(2). 219–225. 11 indexed citations

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Kennedy, Martin A., Michaël Chandler, & David Lane. (1988). Mapping and regulation of the pifC promoter of the F plasmid. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression. 950(1). 75–80. 12 indexed citations

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