Henrik Kaessmann

16.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
67 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Henrik Kaessmann is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Henrik Kaessmann has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Molecular Biology, 29 papers in Genetics and 23 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Henrik Kaessmann's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (23 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (18 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers). Henrik Kaessmann is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (23 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (18 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (16 papers). Henrik Kaessmann collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Henrik Kaessmann's co-authors include Svante Pääbo, Nicolas Vinckenbosch, Anamaria Necşulea, Max Ingman, Ulf Gyllensten, Angélica Liechti, David Brawand, Magali Soumillon, Frank Grützner and Maria Warnefors and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Henrik Kaessmann

64 papers receiving 9.3k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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 genome variation and the origin of modern humans

2000 996 citations Henrik Kaessmann et al. Nature profile →
The evolution of gene expression levels in mammalian organs

2011 844 citations David Brawand, Magali Soumillon et al. Nature profile →
The evolution of lncRNA repertoires and expression patterns in tetrapods

2014 749 citations Anamaria Necşulea, Magali Soumillon et al. Nature profile →
Origins, evolution, and phenotypic impact of new genes

2010 570 citations Henrik Kaessmann Genome Research profile →
Ancient Protostome Origin of Chemosensory Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors and the Evolution of Insect Taste and Olfaction

2010 545 citations David Brawand, Henrik Kaessmann et al. profile →
Cellular Source and Mechanisms of High Transcriptome Complexity in the Mammalian Testis

2013 419 citations Magali Soumillon, Anamaria Necşulea et al. Cell Reports profile →
Origins and functional evolution of Y chromosomes across mammals

2014 365 citations Diego Cortez, Ray M. Marín et al. Nature profile →

Peers

Henrik Kaessmann

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Jonathan Hodgkin United Kingdom

Alain Vignal France

Yuji Kohara Japan

Judith Kimble United States

Alec J. Jeffreys United Kingdom

Haifan Lin United States

Yoichi Matsuda Japan

Kerstin Lindblad‐Toh United States

Stephan Wolf Germany

Ruth Lehmann United States

Jonathan Hodgkin United Kingdom

Henrik Kaessmann

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3.8k ×1.0

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936 ×0.5

2.3k ×1.3

426 ×0.6

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Countries citing papers authored by Henrik Kaessmann

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Henrik Kaessmann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Henrik Kaessmann

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Henrik Kaessmann. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Henrik Kaessmann based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Henrik Kaessmann. Henrik Kaessmann is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Salisbury, Sarah J., Paula R. Villamayor, Francesco Lamanna, et al.. (2025). A single-nucleus RNA sequencing atlas of the postnatal retina of the shark Scyliorhinus canicula. Scientific Data. 12(1). 228–228.

Oomen, Marlies E., Diego Rodriguez‐Terrones, Mayuko Kurome, et al.. (2025). An atlas of transcription initiation reveals regulatory principles of gene and transposable element expression in early mammalian development. Cell. 188(4). 1156–1174.e20. 16 indexed citations

Ovchinnikova, Svetlana, et al.. (2023). Sex-biased gene expression across mammalian organ development and evolution. Science. 382(6670). eadf1046–eadf1046. 39 indexed citations

Mazin, Pavel, Philipp Khaitovich, Margarida Cardoso-Moreira, & Henrik Kaessmann. (2021). Alternative splicing during mammalian organ development. Nature Genetics. 53(6). 925–934. 95 indexed citations

Gruhl, Franziska, Peggy Janich, Henrik Kaessmann, & David Gatfield. (2021). Circular RNA repertoires are associated with evolutionarily young transposable elements. eLife. 10. 23 indexed citations

Sarropoulos, Ioannis, Mari Sepp, Kevin Leiss, et al.. (2021). Developmental and evolutionary dynamics of cis-regulatory elements in mouse cerebellar cells. Science. 373(6558). 43 indexed citations

Bengtson, C. Peter, Ursula Weiß, Andrea Hellwig, et al.. (2021). N-methyl-d-aspartate Receptor-mediated Preconditioning Mitigates Excitotoxicity in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Brain Organoids. Neuroscience. 484. 83–97. 10 indexed citations

Ullate‐Agote, Asier, Ingrid Burgelin, Jean Daraspe, et al.. (2020). Genome mapping of a LYST mutation in corn snakes indicates that vertebrate chromatophore vesicles are lysosome-related organelles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(42). 26307–26317. 33 indexed citations

Wang, Zhongyi, Evgeny Leushkin, Angélica Liechti, et al.. (2020). Transcriptome and translatome co-evolution in mammals. Nature. 588(7839). 642–647. 109 indexed citations

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Marín, Ray M., Diego Cortez, Francesco Lamanna, et al.. (2017). Convergent origination of aDrosophila-like dosage compensation mechanism in a reptile lineage. Genome Research. 27(12). 1974–1987. 65 indexed citations

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Hayakawa, Takashi, et al.. (2016). The life history of retrocopies illuminates the evolution of new mammalian genes. Genome Research. 26(3). 301–314. 85 indexed citations

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Necşulea, Anamaria & Henrik Kaessmann. (2014). Evolutionary dynamics of coding and non-coding transcriptomes. Nature Reviews Genetics. 15(11). 734–748. 161 indexed citations

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Soumillon, Magali, Anamaria Necşulea, Manuela Weier, et al.. (2013). Cellular Source and Mechanisms of High Transcriptome Complexity in the Mammalian Testis. Cell Reports. 3(6). 2179–2190. 419 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meunier, Julien, Frédéric Lemoine, Magali Soumillon, et al.. (2012). Birth and expression evolution of mammalian microRNA genes. Genome Research. 23(1). 34–45. 223 indexed citations

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Julien, P., David Brawand, Magali Soumillon, et al.. (2012). Mechanisms and Evolutionary Patterns of Mammalian and Avian Dosage Compensation. PLoS Biology. 10(5). e1001328–e1001328. 156 indexed citations

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Romero, Yannick, Oliver Meikar, Marilena D. Papaioannou, et al.. (2011). Dicer1 Depletion in Male Germ Cells Leads to Infertility Due to Cumulative Meiotic and Spermiogenic Defects. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e25241–e25241. 125 indexed citations

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Kaessmann, Henrik. (2010). Origins, evolution, and phenotypic impact of new genes. Genome Research. 20(10). 1313–1326. 570 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vinckenbosch, Nicolas, Isabelle Dupanloup, & Henrik Kaessmann. (2006). Evolutionary fate of retroposed gene copies in the human genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(9). 3220–3225. 286 indexed citations

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Ortiz, Millán, Gabriela Bleiber, Raquel Martínez, Henrik Kaessmann, & Amalio Telenti. (2006). Patterns of evolution of host proteins involved in retroviral pathogenesis. Retrovirology. 3(1). 11–11. 40 indexed citations

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Kaessmann, Henrik, Sebastian Zöllner, Anton Nekrutenko, & Wen‐Hsiung Li. (2002). Signatures of Domain Shuffling in the Human Genome. Genome Research. 12(11). 1642–1650. 76 indexed citations

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