Jason P. Affourtit

20.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Jason P. Affourtit is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Jason P. Affourtit has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Genetics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Jason P. Affourtit's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (3 papers). Jason P. Affourtit is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (4 papers) and Marine and coastal ecosystems (3 papers). Jason P. Affourtit collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Jason P. Affourtit's co-authors include Michael D. Miller, Tanya Yatsunenko, Rob Knight, Peter J. Turnbaugh, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Bernard Henrissat, Micah Hamady, Ruth E. Ley, William J. Jones and Bruce A. Roe and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jason P. Affourtit

21 papers receiving 8.1k citations

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A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

2008 5.9k citations Peter J. Turnbaugh, Micah Hamady et al. Nature profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Insights into the evolution of Darwin’s finches from comparative analysis of the Geospiza magnirostris genome sequence 2013 ·BMC Genomics ·Chris M. Rands, Aaron E. Darling, Matthew K. Fujita, Lesheng Kong, Matthew T. Webster, Céline Clabaut, Richard D. Emes, Andreas Heger, Stephen Meader, M. Brent Hawkins, Michael B. Eisen, Clotilde Teiling, Jason P. Affourtit, (unknown), Peter R. Grant, B. Rosemary Grant, Jonathan A. Eisen, Arhat Abzhanov, Chris P. Ponting	35
2	Comparative and Functional Genomics of Rhodococcus opacus PD630 for Biofuels Development 2011 ·PLoS Genetics ·Jason W. Holder, (unknown), (unknown), Paul A. Godfrey, Christopher A. Desjardins, Jeremy Zucker, Qiandong Zeng, (unknown), Ion Ghiviriga, (unknown), Thomas Abeel, Dirk Gevers, Chinnappa D. Kodira, Brian Desany, Jason P. Affourtit, Bruce W. Birren, Anthony J. Sinskey	101
3	Whole-Genome Comparison Reveals Novel Genetic Elements That Characterize the Genome of Industrial Strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2011 ·PLoS Genetics ·Anthony R. Borneman, Brian Desany, David W. H. Riches, Jason P. Affourtit, Angus H. Forgan, Isak S. Pretorius, Michael D. Miller, Paul J. Chambers	226
4	The genome sequence of the wine yeast VIN7 reveals an allotriploid hybrid genome with Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces kudriavzevii origins 2011 ·FEMS Yeast Research ·Anthony R. Borneman, Brian Desany, David W. H. Riches, Jason P. Affourtit, Angus H. Forgan, Isak S. Pretorius, Michael D. Miller, Paul J. Chambers	84
5	Organismal, genetic, and transcriptional variation in the deeply sequenced gut microbiomes of identical twins 2010 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Peter J. Turnbaugh, Christopher Quince, Jeremiah J. Faith, Alice C. McHardy, Tanya Yatsunenko, Faheem Niazi, Jason P. Affourtit, Michael D. Miller, Bernard Henrissat, Rob Knight, Jeffrey I. Gordon	365
6	Metabolic streamlining in an open-ocean nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium 2010 ·Nature ·H. James Tripp, Shellie R. Bench, Kendra A. Turk, Rachel A. Foster, Brian Desany, Faheem Niazi, Jason P. Affourtit, Jonathan P. Zehr	244
7	Mutation discovery in the mouse using genetically guided array capture and resequencing 2009 ·Mammalian Genome ·Mark D’Ascenzo, (unknown), Jacob O. Kitzman, Christina M. Middle, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Todd Richmond, Thomas J. Albert, Anne Czechanski, Leah Rae Donahue, Jason P. Affourtit, Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh, Laura G. Reinholdt	27
8	Cdcs1 a major colitis susceptibility locus in mice; Subcongenic analysis reveals genetic complexity 2009 ·Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ·André Bleich, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jason P. Affourtit, Benjamin L. King, Daniel J. Shaffer, Derry C. Roopenian, Hans J. Hedrich, John P. Sundberg, Edward H. Leiter	25
9	Globally Distributed Uncultivated Oceanic N ₂ -Fixing Cyanobacteria Lack Oxygenic Photosystem II 2008 ·Science ·Jonathan P. Zehr, Shellie R. Bench, Brandon J. Carter, Ian Hewson, Faheem Niazi, Tuo Shi, H. James Tripp, Jason P. Affourtit	250
10	Analysis of copy number variants and segmental duplications in the human genome: Evidence for a change in the process of formation in recent evolutionary history 2008 ·Genome Research ·Philip M. Kim, Hugo Y. K. Lam, Alexander E. Urban, Jan O. Korbel, Jason P. Affourtit, Fabian Grubert, Xueying Chen, Sherman M. Weissman, M Snyder, Mark Gerstein	105
11	A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins breakdown → 2008 ·Nature ·Peter J. Turnbaugh, Micah Hamady, Tanya Yatsunenko, Brandi L. Cantarel, Alexis E. Duncan, Ruth E. Ley, Mitchell L. Sogin, William J. Jones, Bruce A. Roe, Jason P. Affourtit, Michael D. Miller, Bernard Henrissat, Andrew C. Heath, Rob Knight, Jeffrey I. Gordon	5912
12	Applying Gene Expression, Proteomics and Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Analysis for Complex Trait Gene Identification 2008 ·Genetics ·Ioannis M. Stylianou, Jason P. Affourtit, Keith R. Shockley, Robert Y Wilpan, Fadi Abdi, Sanjeev K. Bhardwaj, Jarod Rollins, Gary A. Churchill, Beverly Paigen	32
13	Oocyte regulation of metabolic cooperativity between mouse cumulus cells and oocytes: BMP15 and GDF9 control cholesterol biosynthesis in cumulus cells 2007 ·Development ·You‐Qiang Su, Koji Sugiura, Karen Wigglesworth, Marilyn J. O’Brien, Jason P. Affourtit, Stephanie A. Pangas, Martin M. Matzuk, John J. Eppig	306
14	The nonhomologous end joining factor Artemis suppresses multi-tissue tumor formation and prevents loss of heterozygosity 2007 ·Oncogene ·Yong Woo, Sarah Wright, Sarah A. Maas, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Jason P. Affourtit, Oded Foreman, Ellen C. Akeson, Daniel J. Shaffer, Roderick T. Bronson, Herbert C. Morse, Derry C. Roopenian, Kevin D. Mills	18
15	A mouse model of conditional lipodystrophy 2007 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Suyeon Kim, (unknown), Kathy J. Snow, Vitaly Ablamunits, Muneer G. Hasham, (unknown), (unknown), Joel E. Richardson, Jason P. Affourtit, Tali Shalom‐Barak, Carol J. Bult, Yaacov Barak	30
16	Inheritance Patterns of Transcript Levels in F1 Hybrid Mice 2006 ·Genetics ·Xiangqin Cui, Jason P. Affourtit, Keith R. Shockley, Yong Woo, Gary A. Churchill	31
17	Transcriptional profile of mouse pre-granulosa and Sertoli cells isolated from early-differentiated fetal gonads 2006 ·Gene Expression Patterns ·Gerrit J. Bouma, Jason P. Affourtit, Carol J. Bult, Eva M. Eicher	51
18	Selective degradation of transcripts during meiotic maturation of mouse oocytes 2006 ·Developmental Biology ·You‐Qiang Su, Koji Sugiura, Yong Woo, Karen Wigglesworth, Sonya Kamdar, Jason P. Affourtit, John J. Eppig	269
19	A comparison of cDNA, oligonucleotide, and Affymetrix GeneChip gene expression microarray platforms. 2004 ·PubMed ·Yong Woo, Jason P. Affourtit, (unknown), Agnès Viale, Kevin A. Johnson, Jürgen Κ. Naggert, Gary A. Churchill	83
20	Distribution of nitrogen-fixing microorganisms along the Neuse River Estuary, North Carolina 2001 ·Microbial Ecology ·Jason P. Affourtit, Jonathan P. Zehr, Hans W. Paerl	62

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