Gregory I. Lang

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Gregory I. Lang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory I. Lang has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Gregory I. Lang's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (17 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (13 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (5 papers). Gregory I. Lang is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (17 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (13 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (5 papers). Gregory I. Lang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and South Korea. Gregory I. Lang's co-authors include Andrew W. Murray, David Botstein, Michael M. Desai, Daniel P. Rice, Erica Sodergren, George M. Weinstock, Mark J. Hickman, Sean W. Buskirk, Kaitlin J. Fisher and Lance Parsons and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gregory I. Lang

23 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Pervasive genetic hitchhiking and clonal interference in forty evolving yeast populations

2013 389 citations Gregory I. Lang, Daniel P. Rice et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregory I. Lang United States	14	1.0k	895	224	219	110	24	1.5k
Daniel P. Rice United States	11	690 0.7×	898 1.0×	139 0.6×	246 1.1×	33 0.3×	17	1.2k
Daniel J. Kvitek United States	9	543 0.5×	375 0.4×	181 0.8×	94 0.4×	13 0.1×	10	770
Laurence Loewe United Kingdom	15	452 0.4×	650 0.7×	144 0.6×	90 0.4×	19 0.2×	27	995
Naomi Ziv United States	11	492 0.5×	191 0.2×	100 0.4×	29 0.1×	15 0.1×	16	789
Richard Sucgang United States	12	434 0.4×	165 0.2×	62 0.3×	107 0.5×	18 0.2×	22	828
Hattie Chung United States	6	624 0.6×	224 0.3×	72 0.3×	25 0.1×	26 0.2×	7	867
Cécile Fairhead France	27	1.5k 1.5×	256 0.3×	509 2.3×	14 0.1×	24 0.2×	46	2.0k
David Alvarez‐Ponce United States	17	601 0.6×	226 0.3×	99 0.4×	15 0.1×	21 0.2×	46	860
Louise J. Johnson United Kingdom	12	300 0.3×	151 0.2×	189 0.8×	26 0.1×	17 0.2×	23	520
Béatrice Chane-Woon-Ming France	15	641 0.6×	286 0.3×	181 0.8×	67 0.3×	266 2.4×	20	1000

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lang, Gregory I., et al.. (2023). Identifying Targets of Selection in Laboratory Evolution Experiments. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 91(3). 345–355. 4 indexed citations

Aggeli, Dimitra, et al.. (2022). Overdominant and partially dominant mutations drive clonal adaptation in diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 221(2). 9 indexed citations

Allocca, Mariateresa, Maria Monticelli, Joy Norris, et al.. (2022). Evolutionary rescue of phosphomannomutase deficiency in yeast models of human disease. eLife. 11. 12 indexed citations

Buskirk, Sean W., et al.. (2022). Long-Term Adaptation to Galactose as a Sole Carbon Source Selects for Mutations Outside the Canonical GAL Pathway. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 91(1). 46–59. 6 indexed citations

Buskirk, Sean W., et al.. (2021). Exploring a Local Genetic Interaction Network Using Evolutionary Replay Experiments. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(8). 3144–3152. 6 indexed citations

Fisher, Kaitlin J., et al.. (2021). Overdominant Mutations Restrict Adaptive Loss of Heterozygosity at Linked Loci. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(8). 6 indexed citations

McCandlish, David M. & Gregory I. Lang. (2020). Evolution of Epistasis: Small Populations Go Their Separate Ways. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 88(5). 418–420.

Song, Giltae, Seokwoo Kang, Ho-Yong Lee, et al.. (2019). Integrative Meta-Assembly Pipeline (IMAP): Chromosome-level genome assembler combining multiple de novo assemblies. PLoS ONE. 14(8). e0221858–e0221858. 6 indexed citations

Buskirk, Sean W., et al.. (2018). Altered access to beneficial mutations slows adaptation and biases fixed mutations in diploids. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(5). 882–889. 38 indexed citations

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Fisher, Kaitlin J., et al.. (2018). Adaptive genome duplication affects patterns of molecular evolution in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. PLoS Genetics. 14(5). e1007396–e1007396. 56 indexed citations

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Buskirk, Sean W., et al.. (2017). Hitchhiking and epistasis give rise to cohort dynamics in adapting populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(31). 8330–8335. 34 indexed citations

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Lang, Gregory I.. (2017). Measuring Mutation Rates Using the Luria-Delbrück Fluctuation Assay. Methods in molecular biology. 1672. 21–31. 22 indexed citations

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Fisher, Kaitlin J. & Gregory I. Lang. (2016). Experimental evolution in fungi: An untapped resource. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 94. 88–94. 21 indexed citations

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Lang, Gregory I. & Michael M. Desai. (2014). The spectrum of adaptive mutations in experimental evolution. Genomics. 104(6). 412–416. 57 indexed citations

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Lang, Gregory I., Daniel P. Rice, Mark J. Hickman, et al.. (2013). Pervasive genetic hitchhiking and clonal interference in forty evolving yeast populations. Nature. 500(7464). 571–574. 389 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lang, Gregory I., Lance Parsons, & Alison E. Gammie. (2013). Mutation Rates, Spectra, and Genome-Wide Distribution of Spontaneous Mutations in Mismatch Repair Deficient Yeast. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 3(9). 1453–1465. 78 indexed citations

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Lang, Gregory I. & Andrew W. Murray. (2011). Mutation Rates across Budding Yeast Chromosome VI Are Correlated with Replication Timing. Genome Biology and Evolution. 3. 799–811. 121 indexed citations

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Lang, Gregory I. & David Botstein. (2011). A Test of the Coordinated Expression Hypothesis for the Origin and Maintenance of the GAL Cluster in Yeast. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e25290–e25290. 29 indexed citations

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Lang, Gregory I., Andrew W. Murray, & David Botstein. (2009). The cost of gene expression underlies a fitness trade-off in yeast. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(14). 5755–5760. 119 indexed citations

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Roff, Alanna, et al.. (2005). DEG1, encoding the tRNA:pseudouridine synthase Pus3p, impacts HOT1-stimulated recombination in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 274(5). 528–538. 3 indexed citations

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