Edward J. Louis

18.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
116 papers, 11.0k citations indexed

About

Edward J. Louis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Food Science and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward J. Louis has authored 116 papers receiving a total of 11.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Molecular Biology, 38 papers in Food Science and 33 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Edward J. Louis's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (55 papers), Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (38 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (19 papers). Edward J. Louis is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (55 papers), Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (38 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (19 papers). Edward J. Louis collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Edward J. Louis's co-authors include Rhona H. Borts, Gianni Liti, Stephen G. Oliver, James E. Haber, Bernard Dujon, Ian D. Hickson, B. G. Barrell, Hervé Tettelin, Horst Feldmann and Yasufumi Murakami and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Edward J. Louis

115 papers receiving 10.7k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Edward J. Louis United Kingdom	48	8.8k	3.3k	2.6k	1.7k	952	116	11.0k
Bernard Dujon France	58	13.7k 1.6×	3.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.5×	2.0k 1.2×	210 0.2×	174	15.5k
James R. Broach United States	70	16.0k 1.8×	2.7k 0.8×	687 0.3×	1.7k 1.0×	395 0.4×	224	18.2k
Howard Bussey Canada	60	12.3k 1.4×	4.0k 1.2×	1.2k 0.5×	1.0k 0.6×	229 0.2×	141	14.8k
R. Daniel Gietz Canada	29	12.3k 1.4×	2.9k 0.9×	724 0.3×	979 0.6×	272 0.3×	44	14.5k
Jasper Rine United States	68	14.1k 1.6×	2.5k 0.8×	419 0.2×	2.0k 1.2×	599 0.6×	203	16.8k
Peter Philippsen Switzerland	51	17.4k 2.0×	3.7k 1.1×	1.0k 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	420 0.4×	102	19.0k
Jürg Bähler United Kingdom	59	14.2k 1.6×	2.7k 0.8×	359 0.1×	1.2k 0.7×	365 0.4×	194	16.3k
Aron Marchler‐Bauer United States	29	8.6k 1.0×	3.5k 1.1×	451 0.2×	1.4k 0.8×	169 0.2×	50	12.9k
‎Berend Snel Netherlands	51	9.9k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	686 0.3×	1.6k 1.0×	198 0.2×	116	12.2k
Rodney Rothstein United States	64	21.6k 2.4×	3.5k 1.1×	388 0.1×	2.7k 1.6×	609 0.6×	158	22.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Hu, Yue, et al.. (2024). Impact of inter-species hybridisation on antifungal drug response in the Saccharomyces genus. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 1165–1165. 1 indexed citations

Louis, Edward J., et al.. (2023). CRISPR-Cas9 engineering in the hybrid yeast Zygosaccharomyces parabailii can lead to loss of heterozygosity in target chromosomes. FEMS Yeast Research. 23. 2 indexed citations

Branduardi, Paola, et al.. (2022). Molecular Tools for Leveraging the Potential of the Acid-Tolerant Yeast Zygosaccharomyces bailii as Cell Factory. Methods in molecular biology. 2513. 179–204. 2 indexed citations

Boekhout, Teun, M. Catherine Aime, Dominik Begerow, et al.. (2021). The evolving species concepts used for yeasts: from phenotypes and genomes to speciation networks. Fungal Diversity. 109(1). 27–55. 39 indexed citations

Naseeb, Samina, Yue Hu, Thomas Walsh, et al.. (2021). Restoring fertility in yeast hybrids: Breeding and quantitative genetics of beneficial traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 26 indexed citations

Barton, David B. H., et al.. (2018). PHENOS: a high-throughput and flexible tool for microorganism growth phenotyping on solid media. BMC Microbiology. 18(1). 9–9. 12 indexed citations

Zaky, Abdelrahman Saleh, Darren Greetham, Edward J. Louis, Gregory A. Tucker, & Chenyu Du. (2016). A New Isolation and Evaluation Method for Marine-Derived Yeast spp. with Potential Applications in Industrial Biotechnology. Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology. 26(11). 1891–1907. 33 indexed citations

Salinas, F., Francisco A. Cubillos, Verónica García, et al.. (2012). The Genetic Basis of Natural Variation in Oenological Traits in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49640–e49640. 66 indexed citations

Louis, Edward J.. (2011). Population genomics and speciation in yeasts. Fungal Biology Reviews. 25(3). 136–142. 20 indexed citations

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Reed, Simon H., et al.. (2010). Silenced yeast chromatin is maintained by Sir2 in preference to permitting histone acetylations for efficient NER. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(14). 4675–4686. 11 indexed citations

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Dunham, Maitreya J. & Edward J. Louis. (2010). Yeast evolution and ecology meet genomics. EMBO Reports. 12(1). 8–10. 3 indexed citations

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Inglis, Peter W., Sarah Sharp, Fiona Pryde, et al.. (2009). Repressive and non-repressive chromatin at native telomeres in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Epigenetics & Chromatin. 2(1). 18–18. 25 indexed citations

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Marvin, Marcus E., et al.. (2009). InSaccharomyces cerevisiae, yKu and Subtelomeric Core X Sequences Repress Homologous Recombination Near Telomeres as Part of the Same Pathway. Genetics. 183(2). 441–451. 18 indexed citations

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Louis, Edward J. & Rhona H. Borts. (2003). Meiotic Recombination: Too Much of a Good Thing?. Current Biology. 13(24). R953–R955. 11 indexed citations

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Delneri, Daniela, Isabelle Colson, Sofia Grammenoudi, et al.. (2003). Engineering evolution to study speciation in yeasts. Nature. 422(6927). 68–72. 189 indexed citations

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Greig, Duncan, Edward J. Louis, Rhona H. Borts, & Michael Travisano. (2002). Hybrid Speciation in Experimental Populations of Yeast. Science. 298(5599). 1773–1775. 132 indexed citations

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Huang, Pei‐Hsiu, et al.. (2001). SGS1 is required for telomere elongation in the absence of telomerase. Current Biology. 11(2). 125–129. 157 indexed citations

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Wang, Xinwang, Paul M. Watt, Rhona H. Borts, Edward J. Louis, & Ian D. Hickson. (1999). The topoisomerase II-associated protein, Pat1p, is required for maintenance of rDNA locus stability in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 261(4-5). 831–840. 14 indexed citations

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Louis, Edward J.. (1995). The chromosome ends of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast. 11(16). 1553–1573. 182 indexed citations

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Наумова, Е. С., et al.. (1992). Genetic homology between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and its sibling species S. paradoxus and S. bayanus: Electrophoretic karyotypes. Yeast. 8(8). 599–612. 152 indexed citations

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