James A. Lake

12.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
134 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

James A. Lake is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, James A. Lake has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Molecular Biology, 28 papers in Ecology and 14 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in James A. Lake's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (57 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (40 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (29 papers). James A. Lake is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (57 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (40 papers) and RNA modifications and cancer (29 papers). James A. Lake collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. James A. Lake's co-authors include Maria C. Rivera, Ravi Jain, Anna Marie A. Aguinaldo, James M. Turbeville, James R. Garey, Rudolf A. Raff, Jonathan E. Moore, Lawrence Kahan, Eric Henderson and Megan Clark and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

James A. Lake

130 papers receiving 8.2k 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.

Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals

1997 1.2k citations Anna Marie A. Aguinaldo, James M. Turbeville et al. Nature profile →
Horizontal gene transfer among genomes: The complexity hypothesis

1999 868 citations Maria C. Rivera, James A. Lake et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
An iterative method of slit-correcting small angle X-ray data

1967 391 citations James A. Lake profile →

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Dan Graur Israel

Robin R. Gutell United States

Andrew J. Roger Canada

Manolo Gouy France

B. Franz Lang Canada

Ellen M. Prager United States

Michael W. Gray Canada

Gertraud Burger Canada

Mark A. Ragan Australia

Wayne Pfeiffer United States

Dan Graur Israel

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Rivera, Maria C., Bruce A. Maguire, & James A. Lake. (2015). Purification of Polysomes. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2015(3). pdb.prot081364–pdb.prot081364. 7 indexed citations

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Rivera, Maria C., Bruce A. Maguire, & James A. Lake. (2015). Purification of 70S Ribosomes. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2015(3). pdb.prot081356–pdb.prot081356. 8 indexed citations

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Lake, James A. & Janet S. Sinsheimer. (2013). The Deep Roots of the Rings of Life. Genome Biology and Evolution. 5(12). 2440–2448. 11 indexed citations

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Skophammer, Ryan G., Jacqueline A. Servin, Craig W. Herbold, & James A. Lake. (2007). Evidence for a Gram-positive, Eubacterial Root of the Tree of Life. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(8). 1761–1768. 36 indexed citations

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Rivera, Maria C. & James A. Lake. (2004). The ring of life provides evidence for a genome fusion origin of eukaryotes. Nature. 431(7005). 152–155. 328 indexed citations

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Lake, James A., et al.. (2002). The transorientation hypothesis for codon recognition during protein synthesis. Nature. 416(6878). 281–285. 15 indexed citations

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Cascio, Duilio, et al.. (2001). An ancestral nuclear protein assembly: Crystal structure of the Methanopyrus kandleri histone. Protein Science. 10(10). 2002–2007. 39 indexed citations

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Aguinaldo, Anna Marie A., James M. Turbeville, Maria C. Rivera, et al.. (1997). Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals. Nature. 387(6632). 489–493. 1232 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lake, James A.. (1997). Phylogenetic inference: how much evolutionary history is knowable?. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14(3). 213–219. 14 indexed citations

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Slesarev, Alexeï, Karl O. Stetter, James A. Lake, et al.. (1993). DNA topoisomerase V is a relative of eukaryotic topoisomerase I from a hyperthermophilic prokaryote. Nature. 364(6439). 735–737. 82 indexed citations

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Lake, James A.. (1991). Tracing origins with molecular sequences: metazoan and eukaryotic beginnings. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 16(2). 46–50. 48 indexed citations

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Lake, James A., et al.. (1991). The ribosome: Structure, function and evolution. Trends in Cell Biology. 1(2-3). 75–75. 8 indexed citations

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Lake, James A.. (1989). Origin of the eukaryotic nucleus: eukaryotes and eocytes are genotypically related. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 35(1). 109–118. 19 indexed citations

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Parsons, Donald, et al.. (1988). Neutronics design of a medical therapy reactor. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 11(1). 69–75. 2 indexed citations

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Lake, James A.. (1987). A rate-independent technique for analysis of nucleic acid sequences: evolutionary parsimony.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 4(2). 167–91. 293 indexed citations

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Lake, James A.. (1987). Prokaryotes and Archaebacteria Are Not Monophyletic: Rate Invariant Analysis of rRNA Genes Indicates That Eukaryotes and Eocytes Form a Monophyletic Taxon. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 839–846. 20 indexed citations

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Rivera, Maria C., et al.. (1987). Evolving Ribosome Structure and Function: rRNA and the Translation Mechanism. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 52(0). 675–685. 3 indexed citations

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Lake, James A., et al.. (1984). Inherent safety for a liquid-metal reactor. Transactions of the American Nuclear Society. 47.

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Lake, James A.. (1979). Ribosome Structure and tRNA Binding Sites. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 393–411. 4 indexed citations

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Lake, James A., Maryanne Pendergast, Lawrence Kahan, & Michio Nomura. (1974). Localization of Escherichia coli Ribosomal Proteins S4 and S14 by Electron Microscopy of Antibody-Labeled Subunits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 71(12). 4688–4692. 57 indexed citations

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