E. Boy de la Tour

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

E. Boy de la Tour is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, E. Boy de la Tour has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in E. Boy de la Tour's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). E. Boy de la Tour is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (11 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (4 papers) and Protein Structure and Dynamics (3 papers). E. Boy de la Tour collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland and United States. E. Boy de la Tour's co-authors include E. Kellenberger, Ulrich K. Laemmli, Thierry Laroche, Susan M. Gasser, Jacques Falquet, A. Bolle, Richard H. Epstein, C M Steinberg, R. S. Edgar and Millard Susman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

E. Boy de la Tour

17 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Physiological Studies of Conditional Lethal Mutants of Bacteriophage T4D

1963 674 citations Richard H. Epstein, A. Bolle et al. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
E. Boy de la Tour Switzerland	17	1.7k	951	569	284	164	17	2.1k
J. Weigle United States	22	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 1.3×	922 1.6×	205 0.7×	70 0.4×	25	2.6k
G N Godson United States	20	2.4k 1.4×	926 1.0×	991 1.7×	325 1.1×	62 0.4×	40	3.1k
M. Takanami Japan	30	2.0k 1.2×	791 0.8×	946 1.7×	183 0.6×	52 0.3×	63	2.4k
Rolf Benzinger United States	13	1.4k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	636 1.1×	220 0.8×	39 0.2×	26	2.0k
P F Spahr Switzerland	30	2.2k 1.3×	467 0.5×	586 1.0×	341 1.2×	102 0.6×	54	2.8k
Frederick A. Eiserling United States	28	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.6×	539 0.9×	248 0.9×	93 0.6×	58	2.4k
R.F. Gesteland United States	34	3.6k 2.1×	872 0.9×	1.3k 2.2×	346 1.2×	84 0.5×	55	4.0k
Lee D. Simon United States	20	1.2k 0.7×	697 0.7×	421 0.7×	216 0.8×	90 0.5×	30	1.4k
Gisela Mosig United States	28	2.1k 1.3×	1.6k 1.7×	1.1k 2.0×	321 1.1×	42 0.3×	69	2.6k
Lucia B. Rothman‐Denes United States	28	1.9k 1.1×	1.0k 1.1×	797 1.4×	254 0.9×	61 0.4×	65	2.2k

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17 of 17 papers shown

Tour, E. Boy de la & Ulrich K. Laemmli. (1988). The metaphase scaffold is helically folded: Sister chromatids have predominantly opposite helical handedness. Cell. 55(6). 937–944. 191 indexed citations

Gasser, Susan M., Thierry Laroche, Jacques Falquet, E. Boy de la Tour, & Ulrich K. Laemmli. (1986). Metaphase chromosome structure. Journal of Molecular Biology. 188(4). 613–629. 473 indexed citations

Chandler, Michaël, E. Boy de la Tour, Daniela Willems, & L. Caro. (1979). Some properties of the chloramphenicol resistance transposon Tn9. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 176(2). 221–231. 31 indexed citations

Chandler, Michaël, E. Roulet, Lynn L. Silver, E. Boy de la Tour, & L. Caro. (1979). Tn10 mediated integration of the plasmid R100.1 into the bacterial chromosome: Inverse transposition. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 173(1). 23–30. 30 indexed citations

Chandler, Michaël, et al.. (1977). Involvement of IS1 in the dissociation of the r-determinant and RTF components of the plasmid R100.1. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 153(3). 289–295. 45 indexed citations

Silver, Lynn L., Michaël Chandler, E. Boy de la Tour, & L. Caro. (1977). Origin and direction of replication of the drug resistance plasmid R100.1 and of a resistance transfer factor derivative in synchronized cultures. Journal of Bacteriology. 131(3). 929–942. 45 indexed citations

Kolakofsky, Daniel, et al.. (1974). Self-Annealing of Sendai Virus RNA. Journal of Virology. 14(1). 33–39. 31 indexed citations

Kolakofsky, Daniel, E. Boy de la Tour, & Hajo Delius. (1974). Molecular Weight Determination of Sendai and Newcastle Disease Virus RNA. Journal of Virology. 13(2). 261–268. 77 indexed citations

Yanagida, Mitsuhiro, et al.. (1970). Studies on the morphopoiesis of the head of bacteriophage T-even. Journal of Molecular Biology. 50(1). 35–IN9. 62 indexed citations

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Kellenberger, E., Frederick A. Eiserling, & E. Boy de la Tour. (1967). Studies on the morphopoiesis of the head of phage T-even III. The cores of head-related structures. Journal of Ultrastructure Research. 21(3-4). 335–360. 110 indexed citations

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Favre, R., et al.. (1965). Studies on the morphopoiesis of the head of phage T-even. Journal of Ultrastructure Research. 13(3-4). 318–342. 88 indexed citations

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Tour, E. Boy de la & E. Kellenberger. (1965). Aberrant forms of the T-even phage head. Virology. 27(2). 222–225. 35 indexed citations

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Kellenberger, E. & E. Boy de la Tour. (1965). Studies on the morphopoiesis of the head of phage T-even. Journal of Ultrastructure Research. 13(3-4). 343–358. 32 indexed citations

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Kellenberger, E., A. Bolle, E. Boy de la Tour, et al.. (1965). Functions and properties related to the tail fibers of bacteriophage T4. Virology. 26(3). 419–440. 97 indexed citations

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Kellenberger, E. & E. Boy de la Tour. (1964). On the fine structure of normal and “Polymerized” tail sheath of phage T4. Journal of Ultrastructure Research. 11(5-6). 545–563. 69 indexed citations

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Epstein, Richard H., A. Bolle, C M Steinberg, et al.. (1963). Physiological Studies of Conditional Lethal Mutants of Bacteriophage T4D. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 28(0). 375–394. 674 indexed citations breakdown →

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Epstein, Herman T., et al.. (1960). Fluorescence Studies of Chloroplast Development in Euglena. Nature. 185(4716). 825–826. 25 indexed citations

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