Jeffrey D. Palmer

43.0k citations

199 papers · 27.1k indexed · 8 hit papers · h-index 95

Molecular Biology top 0.05%
Plant Science top 0.05%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.02%
Genetics top 0.2%
Ecology top 0.5%

Co-authors: Richard G. Olmstead Patrick J. Keeling Robert K. Jansen William F. Thompson Yin‐Long Qiu Keith L. Adams Danny W. Rice Jeffrey P. Mower
Topics: Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (103 papers)Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (84 papers)Plant Diversity and Evolution (43 papers)
Cited by: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Molecular Biology Plant Science
Journals: Nature Science Cell
Partner nations: United States Canada Ireland

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey D. Palmer

198 papers receiving 25.6k 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.

Investigating Deep Phylogenetic Relationships among Cyanobacteria and Plastids by Small Subunit rRNA Sequence Analysis1

1999 1.2k citations Seán Turner, Kathleen M. Pryer et al. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology profile →
Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution

2008 927 citations Jeffrey D. Palmer et al. profile →
COMPARATIVE ORGANIZATION OF CHLOROPLAST GENOMES

1985 775 citations Jeffrey D. Palmer profile →
Phylogenetic Relationships of Dipsacales Based on rbcL Sequences

1992 611 citations Jeffrey D. Palmer et al. profile →
A Plastid of Probable Green Algal Origin in Apicomplexan Parasites

1997 539 citations Jeffrey D. Palmer et al. profile →
Plant mitochondrial DNA evolved rapidly in structure, but slowly in sequence

1988 512 citations Jeffrey D. Palmer et al. profile →
Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates

2012 505 citations Daniel B. Sloan, Andrew J. Alverson et al. profile →
Chloroplast DNA Variation and Plant Phylogeny

1988 465 citations Jeffrey D. Palmer, Robert K. Jansen et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Characterization of two co-regulated response regulators in Clostridioides difficile 2025 ·Journal of Bacteriology ·(unknown),(unknown),Emily B. Harrison,Charles Thomas,Jeffrey D. Palmer,(unknown),Elizabeth M. Garrett,Rita Tamayo	1
2	A record-setting mitogenome in the holoparasitic plant Balanophora yakushimensis accompanied by exceptional loss of organellar DNA repair and recombination genes 2025 ·BMC Biology ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Elizabeth Skippington,Danny W. Rice,H. J. Su,Todd J. Barkman,(unknown),Ying Liu,Dongming Fang,Xiaoli Chen,(unknown),Jeffrey P. Mower,M. Virginia Sanchez‐Puerta,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Renchao Zhou	0
3	Novel genetic code and record-setting AT-richness in the highly reduced plastid genome of the holoparasitic plant Balanophora 2018 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·H. J. Su,Todd J. Barkman,Weilong Hao,(unknown),Julia Naumann,Elizabeth Skippington,Eric Wafula,Jer‐Ming Hu,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Claude W. dePamphilis	66
4	Comparative mitogenomics indicates respiratory competence in parasitic Viscum despite loss of complex I and extreme sequence divergence, and reveals horizontal gene transfer and remarkable variation in genome size 2017 ·BMC Plant Biology ·Elizabeth Skippington,Todd J. Barkman,Danny W. Rice,Jeffrey D. Palmer	55
5	Chloroplast phylogeny of Cucurbita: Evolution of the domesticated and wild species 2013 ·Journal of Systematics and Evolution ·Yihong Zheng,Andrew J. Alverson,(unknown),Jeffrey D. Palmer	22
6	The “fossilized” mitochondrial genome of Liriodendron tulipifera: ancestral gene content and order, ancestral editing sites, and extraordinarily low mutation rate 2013 ·BMC Biology ·Aaron O. Richardson,Danny W. Rice,Gregory J. Young,Andrew J. Alverson,Jeffrey D. Palmer	209
7	Recent Acceleration of Plastid Sequence and Structural Evolution Coincides with Extreme Mitochondrial Divergence in the Angiosperm Genus Silene 2012 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·Daniel B. Sloan,Andrew J. Alverson,Martin Wu,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Douglas Taylor	103
8	Localized hypermutation and associated gene losses in legume chloroplast genomes 2010 ·Genome Research ·Alan M. Magee,Sue Aspinall,Danny W. Rice,Brian Cusack,Marie Sémon,Antoinette S. Perry,Saša Stefanović,Dan Milbourne,Susanne Barth,Jeffrey D. Palmer,John C. Gray,Tony A. Kavanagh,Kenneth H. Wolfe	197
9	Massive horizontal transfer of mitochondrial genes from diverse land plant donors to the basal angiosperm Amborella 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ulfar Bergthorsson,Aaron O. Richardson,Gregory J. Young,Leslie R. Goertzen,Jeffrey D. Palmer	177
10	Long branch attraction, taxon sampling, and the earliest angiosperms: Amborella or monocots? 2004 ·BMC Evolutionary Biology ·Saša Stefanović,Danny W. Rice,Jeffrey D. Palmer	121
11	Gene transfer from parasitic to host plants 2004 ·Nature ·Jeffrey P. Mower,Saša Stefanović,Gregory J. Young,Jeffrey D. Palmer	166
12	Genome-scale data, angiosperm relationships, and ‘ending incongruence’: a cautionary tale in phylogenetics 2004 ·Trends in Plant Science ·Pamela S. Soltis,Victor A. Albert,Vincent Savolainen,Khidir W. Hilu,Yin‐Long Qiu,Mark W. Chase,James S. Farris,Saša Stefanović,Danny W. Rice,Jeffrey D. Palmer	167
13	Widespread horizontal transfer of mitochondrial genes in flowering plants 2003 ·Nature ·Ulfar Bergthorsson,Keith L. Adams,Brendan Thomason,Jeffrey D. Palmer	371
14	Punctuated evolution of mitochondrial gene content: High and variable rates of mitochondrial gene loss and transfer to the nucleus during angiosperm evolution 2002 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Keith L. Adams,Yin‐Long Qiu,(unknown),Jeffrey D. Palmer	363
15	Investigating Deep Phylogenetic Relationships among Cyanobacteria and Plastids by Small Subunit rRNA Sequence Analysis1breakdown → 1999 ·Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology ·Seán Turner,Kathleen M. Pryer,Vivian Miao,Jeffrey D. Palmer	1232
16	The highly rearranged chloroplast genome of Trachelium caeruleum (Campanulaceae): multiple inversions, inverted repeat expansion and contraction, transposition, insertions/deletions, and several repeat families 1997 ·Current Genetics ·Mary E. Cosner,Robert K. Jansen,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Stephen R. Downie	119
17	3 Chloroplast and Mitochondrial DNAs of Arabidopsis thaliana: Conventional Genomes in an Unconventional Plant 1994 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Jeffrey D. Palmer,Stephen R. Downie,Jacqueline M. Nugent,Petra Brandt,Michael Unseld,Mathieu Klein,Axel Brennicke,Wolfgang Schuster,Thomas Börner	11
18	1 Systematic Relationships of Arabidopsis: A Molecular and Morphological Perspective 1994 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Robert A. Price,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Ihsan A. Al‐Shehbaz	112
19	Ins and outs of plastid genome evolution 1991 ·Current Opinion in Genetics & Development ·Kenneth H. Wolfe,(unknown),Jeffrey D. Palmer	18
20	Phytochrome control of RNA levels in developing pea and mung-bean leaves 1983 ·Planta ·William F. Thompson,(unknown),Neil O. Polans,Richard A. Jorgensen,Jeffrey D. Palmer	206

About Jeffrey D. Palmer

Jeffrey D. Palmer is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science, having authored 199 papers that have together received 27.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (103 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (84 papers) and Plant Diversity and Evolution (43 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (8.9k citations), Molecular Biology (20.1k citations) and Plant Science (10.3k citations). Jeffrey D. Palmer has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Richard G. Olmstead, Patrick J. Keeling, Robert K. Jansen, William F. Thompson, Yin‐Long Qiu, Keith L. Adams, Danny W. Rice, Jeffrey P. Mower, Laura A. Herbon and Kathleen M. Pryer. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

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