Eric Wafula

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

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Eric Wafula is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Wafula has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Plant Science, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Eric Wafula's work include Plant Parasitism and Resistance (19 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (11 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (6 papers). Eric Wafula is often cited by papers focused on Plant Parasitism and Resistance (19 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (11 papers) and Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (6 papers). Eric Wafula collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Mexico. Eric Wafula's co-authors include Claude W. dePamphilis, James H. Westwood, Gunjune Kim, Loren Honaas, Michael P. Timko, Joshua P. Der, John I. Yoder, Paula E. Ralph, Norman J. Wickett and Michael J. Axtell and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Eric Wafula

31 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs

2018 279 citations Saima Shahid, Gunjune Kim et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Wafula United States	20	1.3k	813	543	101	98	33	1.8k
Loren Honaas United States	17	816 0.6×	510 0.6×	285 0.5×	56 0.6×	59 0.6×	35	1.1k
Andrew Severin United States	22	952 0.7×	755 0.9×	114 0.2×	47 0.5×	315 3.2×	53	1.8k
Aaron O. Richardson United States	12	892 0.7×	1.1k 1.4×	315 0.6×	16 0.2×	200 2.0×	13	1.6k
Marie Mirouze France	22	2.5k 1.9×	1.7k 2.1×	123 0.2×	44 0.4×	330 3.4×	33	3.1k
Elizabeth Dickson United States	23	924 0.7×	888 1.1×	442 0.8×	39 0.4×	235 2.4×	36	1.7k
Urs Lahrmann Germany	10	943 0.7×	627 0.8×	128 0.2×	13 0.1×	96 1.0×	11	1.6k
Simone Scalabrin Italy	22	1.1k 0.8×	830 1.0×	100 0.2×	46 0.5×	256 2.6×	40	1.7k
Alexander Belyayev New Zealand	23	1.7k 1.2×	621 0.8×	337 0.6×	28 0.3×	337 3.4×	83	1.9k
Kar‐Chun Tan Australia	30	1.9k 1.4×	608 0.7×	107 0.2×	42 0.4×	157 1.6×	61	2.3k

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Takasaki, Kaoru, Eric Wafula, Jianguo Fan, et al.. (2025). Single-cell transcriptomics reveal individual and cooperative effects of trisomy 21 and GATA1s on hematopoiesis. Stem Cell Reports. 20(8). 102577–102577. 1 indexed citations

Wafula, Eric, Tuomas Hämälä, Prakash Raj Timilsena, et al.. (2024). A combination of conserved and diverged responses underlies Theobroma cacao’s defense response to Phytophthora palmivora. BMC Biology. 22(1). 38–38. 2 indexed citations

Thomas, Patrick, Akiva Shalit-Kaneh, Eric Wafula, et al.. (2024). The cacao gene atlas: a transcriptome developmental atlas reveals highly tissue-specific and dynamically-regulated gene networks in Theobroma cacao L. BMC Plant Biology. 24(1). 601–601. 3 indexed citations

Timilsena, Prakash Raj, Craig F. Barrett, Alma Piñeyro‐Nelson, et al.. (2022). Phylotranscriptomic Analyses of Mycoheterotrophic Monocots Show a Continuum of Convergent Evolutionary Changes in Expressed Nuclear Genes From Three Independent Nonphotosynthetic Lineages. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(1). 13 indexed citations

Hämälä, Tuomas, Eric Wafula, Mark J. Guiltinan, et al.. (2021). Genomic structural variants constrain and facilitate adaptation in natural populations of Theobroma cacao , the chocolate tree. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(35). 54 indexed citations

Honaas, Loren, Stephen Ficklin, Sara Serra, et al.. (2021). Transcriptomics of Differential Ripening in ‘d’Anjou’ Pear (Pyrus communis L.). Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 609684–609684. 9 indexed citations

López, Lúa, Emily S. Bellis, Eric Wafula, et al.. (2019). Transcriptomics of host-specific interactions in natural populations of the parasitic plant purple witchweed (Striga hermonthica). Weed Science. 67(4). 397–411. 12 indexed citations

Yang, Zhenzhen, Eric Wafula, Gunjune Kim, et al.. (2019). Convergent horizontal gene transfer and cross-talk of mobile nucleic acids in parasitic plants. Nature Plants. 5(9). 991–1001. 72 indexed citations

Misra, Vikram, Eric Wafula, Yu Wang, Claude W. dePamphilis, & Michael P. Timko. (2019). Genome-wide identification of MST, SUT and SWEET family sugar transporters in root parasitic angiosperms and analysis of their expression during host parasitism. BMC Plant Biology. 19(1). 196–196. 30 indexed citations

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Su, H. J., Todd J. Barkman, Weilong Hao, et al.. (2018). Novel genetic code and record-setting AT-richness in the highly reduced plastid genome of the holoparasitic plant Balanophora. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(3). 934–943. 66 indexed citations

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Shahid, Saima, Gunjune Kim, Nathan Johnson, et al.. (2018). MicroRNAs from the parasitic plant Cuscuta campestris target host messenger RNAs. Nature. 553(7686). 82–85. 279 indexed citations breakdown →

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Clawson, Gary A., Gail L. Matters, Ping Xin, et al.. (2017). "Stealth dissemination" of macrophage-tumor cell fusions cultured from blood of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. PLoS ONE. 12(9). e0184451–e0184451. 53 indexed citations

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Naumann, Julia, Joshua P. Der, Eric Wafula, et al.. (2016). Detecting and Characterizing the Highly Divergent Plastid Genome of the Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic PlantHydnora visseri(Hydnoraceae). Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(2). 345–363. 81 indexed citations

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Honaas, Loren, Eric Wafula, Norman J. Wickett, et al.. (2016). Selecting Superior De Novo Transcriptome Assemblies: Lessons Learned by Leveraging the Best Plant Genome. PLoS ONE. 11(1). e0146062–e0146062. 83 indexed citations

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Das, Malay, Mónica Fernández‐Aparicio, Zhenzhen Yang, et al.. (2015). Parasitic Plants <i>Striga</i> and <i>Phelipanche</i> Dependent upon Exogenous Strigolactones for Germination Have Retained Genes for Strigolactone Biosynthesis. American Journal of Plant Sciences. 6(8). 1151–1166. 12 indexed citations

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Kim, Gunjune, et al.. (2014). Genomic-scale exchange of mRNA between a parasitic plant and its hosts. Science. 345(6198). 808–811. 217 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yeting, Mónica Fernández‐Aparicio, Eric Wafula, et al.. (2013). Evolution of a horizontally acquired legume gene, albumin 1, in the parasitic plant Phelipanche aegyptiaca and related species. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13(1). 48–48. 39 indexed citations

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Honaas, Loren, Eric Wafula, Zhenzhen Yang, et al.. (2013). Functional genomics of a generalist parasitic plant: Laser microdissection of host-parasite interface reveals host-specific patterns of parasite gene expression. BMC Plant Biology. 13(1). 9–9. 60 indexed citations

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Naumann, Julia, Karsten Salomo, Joshua P. Der, et al.. (2013). Single-Copy Nuclear Genes Place Haustorial Hydnoraceae within Piperales and Reveal a Cretaceous Origin of Multiple Parasitic Angiosperm Lineages. PLoS ONE. 8(11). e79204–e79204. 88 indexed citations

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Wickett, Norman J., Loren Honaas, Eric Wafula, et al.. (2011). Transcriptomes of the Parasitic Plant Family Orobanchaceae Reveal Surprising Conservation of Chlorophyll Synthesis. Current Biology. 21(24). 2098–2104. 67 indexed citations

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