David S. Thaler

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

David S. Thaler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, David S. Thaler has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Genetics and 16 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in David S. Thaler's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (10 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (9 papers). David S. Thaler is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (10 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (9 papers). David S. Thaler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and South Africa. David S. Thaler's co-authors include C Rayssiguier, Miroslav Radman, Franklin W. Stahl, Mary M. Stahl, Chris B. Russell, Frederick W. Dahlquist, Mark Y. Stoeckle, Laurent Abel, Lluís Quintana‐Murci and Erwin Schurr and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

David S. Thaler

48 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

The barrier to recombination between Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium is disrupted in mismatch-repair mutants

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Daniel E. Deatherage United States

Nathalie Mathy France

Hanni Willenbrock Denmark

Elena Soria Spain

Samantha Flood United States

Matthew Boitano United States

Brendan Loftus Ireland

Cathy L. Miller United States

Mark G. Herrmann United States

Caryn Hale United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David S. Thaler

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Maffei, Enea, Fabienne Estermann, Valentin Druelle, et al.. (2021). Systematic exploration of Escherichia coli phage–host interactions with the BASEL phage collection. PLoS Biology. 19(11). e3001424–e3001424. 151 indexed citations

Thaler, David S., et al.. (2019). Precision public health to inhibit the contagion of disease and move toward a future in which microbes spread health. BMC Infectious Diseases. 19(1). 120–120. 9 indexed citations

Thaler, David S., et al.. (2019). Microwave detection and quantification of water hidden in and on building materials: implications for healthy buildings and microbiome studies. BMC Infectious Diseases. 19(1). 67–67. 10 indexed citations

Thaler, David S.. (2016). Toward a microbial Neolithic revolution in buildings. Microbiome. 4(1). 14–14. 8 indexed citations

Jain, Paras, Tsungda Hsu, Masayoshi Arai, et al.. (2014). Specialized Transduction Designed for Precise High-Throughput Unmarked Deletions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. mBio. 5(3). e01245–14. 123 indexed citations

Jain, Paras, David S. Thaler, Mamoudou Maïga, et al.. (2011). Reporter Phage and Breath Tests: Emerging Phenotypic Assays for Diagnosing Active Tuberculosis, Antibiotic Resistance, and Treatment Efficacy. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 204(suppl_4). S1142–S1150. 24 indexed citations

Chen, Bing, Torin R. Weisbrod, Tsungda Hsu, et al.. (2011). Einstein Contained Aerosol Pulmonizer (ECAP): Improved Biosafety for Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) and Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis Aerosol Infection Studies. Applied Biosafety. 16(3). 134–138. 4 indexed citations

Alcaïs, Alexandre, Lluís Quintana‐Murci, David S. Thaler, et al.. (2010). Life‐threatening infectious diseases of childhood: single‐gene inborn errors of immunity?. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1214(1). 18–33. 118 indexed citations

Spangler, Rudolph, Noël L. Goddard, & David S. Thaler. (2009). Optimizing Taq Polymerase Concentration for Improved Signal-to-Noise in the Broad Range Detection of Low Abundance Bacteria. PLoS ONE. 4(9). e7010–e7010. 40 indexed citations

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Messmer, Bradley T. & David S. Thaler. (2000). C1q-binding peptides share sequence similarity with C4 and induce complement activation. Molecular Immunology. 37(7). 343–350. 4 indexed citations

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Vergin, Kevin L., et al.. (1999). Interspecies Recombination Between Enterococci: Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity of Vancomycin-Resistant Transconjugants. Microbial Drug Resistance. 5(2). 101–112. 12 indexed citations

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Thaler, David S.. (1999). Hereditary stability and variation in evolution and development. Evolution & Development. 1(2). 113–122. 8 indexed citations

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Field, Dawn, Marcelo O. Magnasco, E. Richard Moxon, et al.. (1999). Contingency Loci, Mutator Alleles, and Their Interactions: Synergistic Strategies for Microbial Evolution and Adaptation in Pathogenesis^a. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 870(1). 378–381. 20 indexed citations

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Kaplan, Peter D., Qi Ouyang, David S. Thaler, & Albert Libchaber. (1997). Parallel Overlap Assembly for the Construction of Computational DNA Libraries. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 188(3). 333–341. 20 indexed citations

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Thomason, Lynn C., David S. Thaler, Mary M. Stahl, & Franklin W. Stahl. (1997). In Vivo packaging of bacteriophage λ monomeric chromosomes. Journal of Molecular Biology. 267(1). 75–87. 12 indexed citations

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Thaler, David S., Gregory Tombline, & Kenneth Zahn. (1995). Short-patch reverse transcription in Escherichia coli.. Genetics. 140(3). 909–915. 4 indexed citations

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Thaler, David S.. (1994). Sex is for sisters: intragenomic recombination and homology-dependent mutation as sources of evolutionary variation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 9(3). 108–110. 10 indexed citations

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Thaler, David S., et al.. (1992). The spo0A gene is implicated in the maintenance of non‐complementing diploids in Bacillus subtilis. Molecular Microbiology. 6(11). 1495–1505. 4 indexed citations

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Thaler, David S. & Michiel Noordewier. (1992). MEPS parameters and graph analysis for the use of recombination to construct ordered sets of overlapping clones. Genomics. 13(4). 1065–1074. 3 indexed citations

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Thaler, David S., Imran Siddiqi, Susan M. Rosenberg, et al.. (1989). Recombination of bacteriophage λ in recD mutants of Escherichia coli. Genome. 31(1). 53–67. 86 indexed citations

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