Joanna Masel

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Joanna Masel is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joanna Masel has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Genetics, 46 papers in Molecular Biology and 14 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Joanna Masel's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (40 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (14 papers). Joanna Masel is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (40 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (14 papers). Joanna Masel collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Joanna Masel's co-authors include Mark L. Siegal, Vincent A. A. Jansen, Meredith V. Trotter, Heather Maughan, Benjamin A. Wilson, Oliver D. King, Martin A. Nowak, Paul Nelson, Michael Ma and Guohua Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Journal of Molecular Biology.

In The Last Decade

Joanna Masel

80 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity

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Wolfgang Enard Germany

Philipp Khaitovich Germany

Alexei A. Sharov United States

Janet Kelso Germany

Ronald L. Johnson United States

Andrew C. Oates Germany

Michael Hiller Germany

Junhyong Kim United States

Yitzhak Pilpel Israel

Kay Prüfer Germany

Wolfgang Enard Germany

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joanna Masel

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Morel, Benoît, et al.. (2024). Order of amino acid recruitment into the genetic code resolved by last universal common ancestor’s protein domains. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(52). e2410311121–e2410311121. 8 indexed citations

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Masel, Joanna, et al.. (2023). Combatting SARS-CoV-2 With Digital Contact Tracing and Notification: Navigating Six Points of Failure. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 9. e49560–e49560. 4 indexed citations

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Dang, Cuong Cao, Bùi Quang Minh, Joanna Masel, et al.. (2022). nQMaker: Estimating Time Nonreversible Amino Acid Substitution Models. Systematic Biology. 71(5). 1110–1123. 19 indexed citations

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Masel, Joanna, et al.. (2022). Random Peptides Rich in Small and Disorder-Promoting Amino Acids Are Less Likely to Be Harmful. Genome Biology and Evolution. 14(6). 9 indexed citations

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Xiong, Kun, Mark Gerstein, & Joanna Masel. (2021). Differences in evolutionary accessibility determine which equally effective regulatory motif evolves to generate pulses. Genetics. 219(3). 5 indexed citations

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Wilson, Amanda M., et al.. (2021). Quantifying SARS‐CoV‐2 Infection Risk Within the Google/Apple Exposure Notification Framework to Inform Quarantine Recommendations. Risk Analysis. 42(1). 162–176. 14 indexed citations

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Masel, Joanna, et al.. (2020). Readthrough Errors Purge Deleterious Cryptic Sequences, Facilitating the Birth of Coding Sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(6). 1761–1774. 11 indexed citations

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Bertram, Jason, et al.. (2020). Mutation bias can shape adaptation in large asexual populations experiencing clonal interference. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1937). 20201503–20201503. 20 indexed citations

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Bertram, Jason & Joanna Masel. (2020). Evolution Rapidly Optimizes Stability and Aggregation in Lattice Proteins Despite Pervasive Landscape Valleys and Mazes. Genetics. 214(4). 1047–1057. 5 indexed citations

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Dessimoz, Christophe, et al.. (2020). Only a Single Taxonomically Restricted Gene Family in the Drosophila melanogaster Subgroup Can Be Identified with High Confidence. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(8). 1355–1366. 10 indexed citations

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Foy, Scott G., Benjamin A. Wilson, Jason Bertram, Matthew Cordes, & Joanna Masel. (2019). A Shift in Aggregation Avoidance Strategy Marks a Long-Term Direction to Protein Evolution. Genetics. 211(4). 1345–1355. 16 indexed citations

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Nelson, Paul, Daniel Promislow, & Joanna Masel. (2019). Biomarkers for Aging Identified in Cross-sectional Studies Tend to Be Non-causative. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 75(3). 466–472. 40 indexed citations

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Nelson, Paul, et al.. (2019). High Transcriptional Error Rates Vary as a Function of Gene Expression Level. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(1). 3754–3761. 11 indexed citations

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Bertram, Jason & Joanna Masel. (2019). Density-dependent selection and the limits of relative fitness. Theoretical Population Biology. 129. 81–92. 14 indexed citations

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Bertram, Jason, et al.. (2018). Directional Selection Rather Than Functional Constraints Can Shape the G Matrix in Rapidly Adapting Asexuals. Genetics. 211(2). 715–729. 7 indexed citations

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Nelson, Paul & Joanna Masel. (2018). Evolutionary Capacitance Emerges Spontaneously during Adaptation to Environmental Changes. Cell Reports. 25(1). 249–258. 6 indexed citations

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Nelson, Paul & Joanna Masel. (2017). Intercellular competition and the inevitability of multicellular aging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(49). 12982–12987. 44 indexed citations

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Xiong, Kun, et al.. (2016). Drift Barriers to Quality Control When Genes Are Expressed at Different Levels. Genetics. 205(1). 397–407. 13 indexed citations

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Masel, Joanna. (2005). Evolutionary Capacitance May Be Favored by Natural Selection. Genetics. 170(3). 1359–1371. 52 indexed citations

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Kelly, Stephen, Tonya Bliss, Guohua Sun, et al.. (2004). Transplanted human fetal neural stem cells survive, migrate, and differentiate in ischemic rat cerebral cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(32). 11839–11844. 488 indexed citations

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