Ferruccio Ritossa

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Ferruccio Ritossa is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ferruccio Ritossa has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Ferruccio Ritossa's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Ferruccio Ritossa is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (12 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Ferruccio Ritossa collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Ferruccio Ritossa's co-authors include S. Spiegelman, K.C. Atwood, Ruggiero Caizzi, Corrado Caggese, A. Henderson, Franco Graziani, Edoardo Boncinelli, C. Malva, Lino C. Polito and Maria Pia Bozzetti and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Ferruccio Ritossa

31 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

A new puffing pattern induced by temperature shock and DN... 1962 2026 1983 2004 1962 1965 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. A new puffing pattern induced by temperature shock and DNP in drosophila
    1962 1.5k citations Ferruccio Ritossa profile →
  2. LOCALIZATION OF DNA COMPLEMENTARY TO RIBOSOMAL RNA IN THE NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER
    1965 450 citations Ferruccio Ritossa, S. Spiegelman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers

Ferruccio Ritossa
Dawn A. Parsell United States
Richard L. Hallberg United States
E. Peter M. Candido Canada
L A Weber United States
Rusty J. Mans United States
Jason C. Young Canada
J. Ananthan United States
Charles M. Nicolet United States
Hidetoshi Iida Japan
Ursula Bond Ireland
Dawn A. Parsell United States
Ferruccio Ritossa
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ritossa, Ferruccio. (1996). Discovery of the heat shock response. Cell Stress and Chaperones. 1(2). 97–97. 258 indexed citations
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Caizzi, Ruggiero, Maria Pia Bozzetti, Corrado Caggese, & Ferruccio Ritossa. (1990). Homologous nuclear genes encode cytoplasmic and mitochondrial glutamine synthetase in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Biology. 212(1). 17–26. 51 indexed citations
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Caggese, Corrado, Ruggiero Caizzi, Maria Pia Bozzetti, Paolo Barsanti, & Ferruccio Ritossa. (1988). Genetic determinants of glutamine synthetase inDrosophila melanogaster: A gene for glutamine synthetase I resides in the 21B3-6 region. Biochemical Genetics. 26(9-10). 571–584. 14 indexed citations
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Pinto, Vito De, Corrado Caggese, G. Prezioso, & Ferruccio Ritossa. (1987). Purification of the glutamine synthetase II isozyme of Drosophila melanogaster and structural and functional comparison of glutamine synthetases I and II. Biochemical Genetics. 25(11-12). 821–836. 18 indexed citations
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Caizzi, Ruggiero, Ferruccio Ritossa, Rolf-Peter Ryseck, Sabine Richter, & Bernd Hovemann. (1987). Characterization of the ebony locus in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 206(1). 66–70. 19 indexed citations
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Caggese, Corrado, Ruggiero Caizzi, Francesco Grieco, Maria Pia Bozzetti, & Ferruccio Ritossa. (1986). Genetic determinants of glutamine synthetase in Drosophila melanogaster: role of the 10B8-11 region. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 204(2). 208–213. 10 indexed citations
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Caggese, Corrado, et al.. (1979). Mutation generating a fragment of the major heat shock-inducible polypeptide in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 76(5). 2385–2389. 13 indexed citations
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Ritossa, Ferruccio. (1973). Crossing-Over Between X and Y Chromosomes During Ribosomal DNA Magnification in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 70(7). 1950–1954. 24 indexed citations
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Malva, C., Franco Graziani, Edoardo Boncinelli, Lino C. Polito, & Ferruccio Ritossa. (1972). Check of Gene Number during the Process of rDNA Magnification. Nature New Biology. 239(92). 135–137. 13 indexed citations
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Boncinelli, Edoardo, Franco Graziani, Lino C. Polito, C. Malva, & Ferruccio Ritossa. (1972). rDNA magnification at the bobbed locus of the Y chromosome in Drosophila melanogaster. Cell Differentiation. 1(2). 133–142. 37 indexed citations
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Polito, Lino C., Franco Graziani, Edoardo Boncinelli, C. Malva, & Ferruccio Ritossa. (1971). DNA Circularization: a Molecular Approach for the Detection and Isolation of Tandemly Duplicated Genes. Nature New Biology. 229(3). 84–86. 2 indexed citations
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Ritossa, Ferruccio, C. Malva, Edoardo Boncinelli, Franco Graziani, & Lino C. Polito. (1971). The First Steps of Magnification of DNA Complementary to Ribosomal RNA in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 68(7). 1580–1584. 44 indexed citations
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Ritossa, Ferruccio, et al.. (1970). Regulation of ribosomal RNA synthesis and its bearing on the bobbed phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster. Developmental Biology. 22(3). 495–512. 77 indexed citations
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Henderson, A. & Ferruccio Ritossa. (1970). ON THE INHERITANCE OF rDNA OF MAGNIFIED BOBBED LOCI IN D. MELANOGASTER. Genetics. 66(3). 463–473. 40 indexed citations
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Ritossa, Ferruccio, et al.. (1968). On the arrangement of genes for 28 s and 18 s ribosomal RNA's in Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Biology. 36(1). 57–69. 43 indexed citations
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Ritossa, Ferruccio. (1968). Unstable redundancy of genes for ribosomal RNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 60(2). 509–516. 159 indexed citations
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Ritossa, Ferruccio, K.C. Atwood, & S. Spiegelman. (1966). ON THE REDUNDANCY OF DNA COMPLEMENTARY TO AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA AND ITS ABSENCE FROM THE NUCLEOLAR ORGANIZER REGION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. Genetics. 54(2). 663–676. 119 indexed citations
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Ritossa, Ferruccio & K.C. Atwood. (1966). Unequal proportions of DNA complementary to ribosomal RNA in males and females of Drosophila simulans.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 56(2). 496–499. 20 indexed citations
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Ritossa, Ferruccio & S. Spiegelman. (1965). LOCALIZATION OF DNA COMPLEMENTARY TO RIBOSOMAL RNA IN THE NUCLEOLUS ORGANIZER REGION OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 53(4). 737–745. 450 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ritossa, Ferruccio. (1964). Behaviour of RNA and DNA synthesis at the puff level in salivary gland chromosomes of Drosophila. Experimental Cell Research. 36(3). 515–523. 42 indexed citations

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