Joan E. Strassmann

15.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
211 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Joan E. Strassmann is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joan E. Strassmann has authored 211 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Genetics, 133 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 78 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Joan E. Strassmann's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (122 papers), Plant and animal studies (110 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (55 papers). Joan E. Strassmann is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (122 papers), Plant and animal studies (110 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (55 papers). Joan E. Strassmann collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Joan E. Strassmann's co-authors include David C. Queller, Colin Hughes, Yong Zhu, Carlos R. Solís, Kevin R. Foster, Debra A. Brock, Gad Shaulsky, Stefano Turillazzi, Owen M. Gilbert and Rita Cervo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Joan E. Strassmann

211 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Microsatellites and kinship

1993 630 citations David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann et al. profile →
Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?

2014 502 citations Gregory A. Wray, Hopi E. Hoekstra et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Joan E. Strassmann United States	54	6.9k	5.7k	2.6k	2.3k	1.8k	211	10.2k
David C. Queller United States	59	9.7k 1.4×	8.3k 1.4×	2.7k 1.0×	3.6k 1.6×	2.3k 1.3×	217	15.5k
Laurent Keller Switzerland	77	15.0k 2.2×	14.7k 2.6×	6.4k 2.5×	2.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	351	20.5k
Steven A. Frank United States	53	6.0k 0.9×	3.9k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	3.5k 1.5×	1.5k 0.8×	177	10.8k
Andy Gardner United Kingdom	51	5.5k 0.8×	3.4k 0.6×	718 0.3×	5.4k 2.4×	1.9k 1.1×	167	10.8k
Ashleigh S. Griffin United Kingdom	42	5.2k 0.8×	4.1k 0.7×	544 0.2×	4.6k 2.0×	2.4k 1.3×	86	10.7k
Sarah P. Otto Canada	70	9.8k 1.4×	5.9k 1.0×	855 0.3×	1.9k 0.8×	5.9k 3.3×	222	17.9k
David Houle United States	50	6.1k 0.9×	4.7k 0.8×	939 0.4×	489 0.2×	1.7k 1.0×	100	11.2k
H. Allen Orr United States	52	8.8k 1.3×	4.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.6×	2.9k 1.6×	85	12.1k
Jacobus J. Boomsma Denmark	66	12.5k 1.8×	11.3k 2.0×	8.3k 3.2×	664 0.3×	657 0.4×	299	15.1k
Michael C. Whitlock Canada	58	11.3k 1.6×	4.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	3.3k 1.9×	123	16.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Brock, Debra A., et al.. (2023). Symbiotic bacteria, immune-like sentinel cells, and the response to pathogens in a social amoeba. Royal Society Open Science. 10(8). 230727–230727. 4 indexed citations

Brock, Debra A., et al.. (2023). Paraburkholderia symbionts isolated from Dictyostelium discoideum induce bacterial carriage in other Dictyostelium species. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2003). 20230977–20230977. 3 indexed citations

Shu, Longfei, et al.. (2020). Loss and resiliency of social amoeba symbiosis under simulated warming. Ecology and Evolution. 10(23). 13182–13189. 16 indexed citations

Shu, Longfei, Bojie Zhang, David C. Queller, & Joan E. Strassmann. (2018). Burkholderia bacteria use chemotaxis to find social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum hosts. The ISME Journal. 12(8). 1977–1993. 41 indexed citations

Shu, Longfei, Debra A. Brock, Katherine S. Geist, et al.. (2018). Symbiont location, host fitness, and possible coadaptation in a symbiosis between social amoebae and bacteria. eLife. 7. 50 indexed citations

Brock, Debra A., Tamara S. Haselkorn, Justine R. Garcia, et al.. (2018). Diversity of Free-Living Environmental Bacteria and Their Interactions With a Bactivorous Amoeba. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 8. 411–411. 33 indexed citations

Queller, David C., et al.. (2015). Is there specificity in a defensive mutualism against soil versus laboratory nematodes, Dictyostelium discoideum farmers and their bacteria?. Evolutionary ecology research. 16(4). 351–361. 2 indexed citations

Wray, Gregory A., Hopi E. Hoekstra, Douglas J. Futuyma, et al.. (2014). Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? - COUNTERPOINT No, all is well. Nature. 514(7521). 37 indexed citations

Stallforth, Pierre, Debra A. Brock, Alexandra M. Cantley, et al.. (2013). A bacterial symbiont is converted from an inedible producer of beneficial molecules into food by a single mutation in the gacA gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(36). 14528–14533. 46 indexed citations

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Strassmann, Joan E. & Colin Hughes. (2013). LATITUDINAL VARIATION IN PROTANDRY AND PROTOGYNY IN POLISTINE WASPS. Monitore Zoologico Italiano-Italian Journal of Zoology. 20(1). 87–100. 1 indexed citations

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Khare, Anupama, Lorenzo A. Santorelli, Joan E. Strassmann, et al.. (2009). Cheater-resistance is not futile. Nature. 461(7266). 980–982. 52 indexed citations

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Jack, Chandra N., et al.. (2008). Segregate or cooperate- a study of the interaction between two species of Dictyostelium. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8(1). 293–293. 20 indexed citations

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Foster, Kevin R., et al.. (2007). Exploiting new terrain: an advantage to sociality in the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Behavioral Ecology. 18(2). 433–437. 36 indexed citations

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Strassmann, Joan E. & David C. Queller. (2007). Altruism among Amoebas: A person who dies so that others can escape starvation is a hero. But how can evolution explain the same behavior in an nonhuman organism whose genes are "selfish"?.. Natural history. 116(7). 24–29. 3 indexed citations

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Foster, Kevin R., et al.. (2005). A cost to chimerism in Dictyostelium discoideum on natural substrates. Evolutionary ecology research. 7(2). 263–271. 25 indexed citations

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Queller, David C., Eleonora Ponte, Salvatore Bozzaro, & Joan E. Strassmann. (2003). Single-Gene Greenbeard Effects in the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. Science. 299(5603). 105–106. 216 indexed citations

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Zhu, Yong, David C. Queller, & Joan E. Strassmann. (2000). A Phylogenetic Perspective on Sequence Evolution in Microsatellite Loci. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 50(4). 324–338. 95 indexed citations

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Strassmann, Joan E., et al.. (1997). Trinucleotide Microsatellite Loci and Increased Heterozygosity in Cross-Species Applications in the Social Wasp, Polistes. Biochemical Genetics. 35(7-8). 273–279. 5 indexed citations

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Queller, David C., Joan E. Strassmann, & Colin Hughes. (1992). Genetic Relatedness and Population Structure in Primitively Eusocial Wasps in the Genus Mischocyttarus lHymenopterac Vespidaer David C Quellerc Joan E Strassmannc and Colin R Hughes. Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 1. 81–89. 15 indexed citations

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Strassmann, Joan E., et al.. (1984). Nest Defense By The Social Wasps, Polistes exclamans And Polistes instabilis (Hymenoptera, Vespidae) Against The Parasitoid, Elasmus polistis (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Eulophidae). Entomological News. 95(2). 47–50. 7 indexed citations

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