Gertraud Burger

14.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
128 papers, 9.7k citations indexed

About

Gertraud Burger is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gertraud Burger has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 9.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Ecology and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Gertraud Burger's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (77 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (57 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers). Gertraud Burger is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (77 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (57 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (34 papers). Gertraud Burger collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Germany and United States. Gertraud Burger's co-authors include B. Franz Lang, Michael W. Gray, Andrew J. Roger, Charles J. O’Kelly, Lise Forget, Marie-Josée Laforest, Claude Lemieux, Naiara Rodríguez‐Ezpeleta, William Marande and Henner Brinkmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gertraud Burger

126 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Mitochondrial Evolution

1999 1.3k citations Michael W. Gray, Gertraud Burger et al. profile →
Mitochondrial Genome Evolution and the Origin of Eukaryotes

1999 506 citations B. Franz Lang, Michael W. Gray et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gertraud Burger Canada	47	8.0k	2.7k	1.6k	855	693	128	9.7k
B. Franz Lang Canada	59	10.7k 1.3×	3.2k 1.2×	2.6k 1.6×	1.5k 1.7×	648 0.9×	164	13.1k
Michael W. Gray Canada	67	14.3k 1.8×	3.4k 1.3×	2.5k 1.6×	1.4k 1.6×	572 0.8×	211	16.6k
Jörg Schultz Germany	34	5.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	910 1.1×	373 0.5×	77	8.3k
Mark A. Ragan Australia	55	5.2k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.7×	1.6k 2.3×	222	11.0k
Stéphane Audic France	48	7.4k 0.9×	4.3k 1.6×	3.7k 2.3×	1.4k 1.6×	975 1.4×	69	14.3k
Tobias Müller Germany	41	3.5k 0.4×	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.7×	719 0.8×	527 0.8×	111	6.2k
Thomas A. Richards United Kingdom	41	4.1k 0.5×	3.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	355 0.4×	668 1.0×	111	6.6k
Amaia Sangrador‐Vegas Ireland	13	6.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	3.3k 2.1×	1.4k 1.6×	218 0.3×	15	10.4k
Sandra L. Baldauf Sweden	33	4.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	2.1k 1.3×	497 0.6×	372 0.5×	69	6.4k
Robin R. Gutell United States	60	10.2k 1.3×	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	2.0k 2.3×	682 1.0×	124	13.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Gertraud Burger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gertraud Burger

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Forget, Lise, et al.. (2024). A biofertilizing fungal endophyte of cranberry plants suppresses the plant pathogen Diaporthe. Frontiers in Microbiology. 15. 1327392–1327392. 2 indexed citations

Lang, B. Franz, et al.. (2023). Mitochondrial genome annotation with MFannot: a critical analysis of gene identification and gene model prediction. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1222186–1222186. 55 indexed citations

Muñoz-Gómez, Sergio A., Sebastian Hess, Gertraud Burger, et al.. (2019). An updated phylogeny of the Alphaproteobacteria reveals that the parasitic Rickettsiales and Holosporales have independent origins. eLife. 8. 78 indexed citations

Záhonová, Kristína, Romana Petrželková, Matus Valach, et al.. (2018). Extensive molecular tinkering in the evolution of the membrane attachment mode of the Rheb GTPase. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 5239–5239. 5 indexed citations

Valach, Matus, et al.. (2018). Respiratory chain Complex I of unparalleled divergence in diplonemids. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 293(41). 16043–16056. 14 indexed citations

Burger, Gertraud, et al.. (2010). TESTLoc: protein subcellular localization prediction from EST data. BMC Bioinformatics. 11(1). 563–563. 9 indexed citations

Ruiz‐Trillo, Iñaki, Andrew J. Roger, Gertraud Burger, Michael W. Gray, & B. Franz Lang. (2008). A Phylogenomic Investigation into the Origin of Metazoa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25(4). 664–672. 184 indexed citations

Kannan, Sivakumar, et al.. (2008). Function Prediction of Hypothetical Proteins Without Sequence Similarity to Proteins of Known Function (SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS). Protein and Peptide Letters. 15(10). 1107–1116. 22 indexed citations

Rodríguez‐Ezpeleta, Naiara, Henner Brinkmann, Gertraud Burger, et al.. (2007). Toward Resolving the Eukaryotic Tree: The Phylogenetic Positions of Jakobids and Cercozoans. Current Biology. 17(16). 1420–1425. 143 indexed citations

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Lang, B. Franz & Gertraud Burger. (2007). Purification of mitochondrial and plastid DNA. Nature Protocols. 2(3). 652–660. 46 indexed citations

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Ruiz‐Trillo, Iñaki, Gertraud Burger, Peter W. H. Holland, et al.. (2007). The origins of multicellularity: a multi-taxon genome initiative. Trends in Genetics. 23(3). 113–118. 140 indexed citations

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Marande, William, Julius Lukeš, & Gertraud Burger. (2005). Unique Mitochondrial Genome Structure in Diplonemids, the Sister Group of Kinetoplastids. Eukaryotic Cell. 4(6). 1137–1146. 79 indexed citations

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Keeling, Patrick J., Gertraud Burger, Dion G. Durnford, et al.. (2005). The tree of eukaryotes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 20(12). 670–676. 408 indexed citations

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Burger, Gertraud & B. Franz Lang. (2003). Parallels in Genome Evolution in Mitochondria and Bacterial Symbionts. IUBMB Life. 55(4-5). 205–212. 38 indexed citations

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Burger, Gertraud, Yun Zhu, Tim Littlejohn, et al.. (2000). Complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Tetrahymena pyriformis and comparison with Paramecium aurelia mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 297(2). 365–380. 91 indexed citations

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Nedelcu, Aurora M., W. Robert Lee, Claude Lemieux, Michael W. Gray, & Gertraud Burger. (2000). The Complete Mitochondrial DNA Sequence of Scenedesmus obliquus Reflects an Intermediate Stage in the Evolution of the Green Algal Mitochondrial Genome. Genome Research. 10(6). 819–831. 82 indexed citations

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Lang, B. Franz, Charles J. O’Kelly, & Gertraud Burger. (1998). Mitochondrial Genomics in Protists, an Approach to Probing Eukaryotic Evolution. Protist. 149(4). 313–322. 14 indexed citations

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Burger, Gertraud, Isabelle Plante, Kim M. Lonergan, & Michael W. Gray. (1995). The Mitochondrial DNA of the Amoeboid Protozoon,Acanthamoeba castellanii: Complete Sequence, Gene Content and Genome Organization. Journal of Molecular Biology. 245(5). 522–537. 124 indexed citations

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Burger, Gertraud, Joseph Strauss, Claudio Scazzocchio, & B. Franz Lang. (1991). nirA , the Pathway-Specific Regulatory Gene of Nitrate Assimilation in Aspergillus nidulans, Encodes a Putative GAL4-Type Zinc Finger Protein and Contains Four Introns in Highly Conserved Regions. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 11(11). 5746–5755. 33 indexed citations

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Daboussi, Marie‐Josée, et al.. (1991). Heterologous expression of the Aspergillus nidulans regulatory gene nirA in Fusarium oxysporum. Gene. 109(1). 155–160. 11 indexed citations

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