John C. Blazier

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

John C. Blazier is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Blazier has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in John C. Blazier's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (7 papers) and Plant Diversity and Evolution (6 papers). John C. Blazier is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (7 papers) and Plant Diversity and Evolution (6 papers). John C. Blazier collaborates with scholars based in United States, Saudi Arabia and China. John C. Blazier's co-authors include Robert K. Jansen, Mao-Lun Weng, Mary M. Guisinger, Tracey A. Ruhlman, Jin Zhang, Jamal S. M. Sabir, Peter Andolfatto, Molly Przeworski, Arun Durvasula and Chenling Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Plant Cell and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

John C. Blazier

21 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes

2018 256 citations Molly Schumer, Chenling Xu et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John C. Blazier United States	13	1.0k	620	377	349	100	23	1.3k
Chung‐Shien Wu Taiwan	17	955 0.9×	613 1.0×	299 0.8×	268 0.8×	102 1.0×	30	1.3k
Leslie R. Goertzen United States	17	665 0.7×	411 0.7×	634 1.7×	166 0.5×	92 0.9×	40	1.1k
H. Matthew Fourcade United States	10	1.4k 1.4×	654 1.1×	438 1.2×	307 0.9×	168 1.7×	10	1.7k
Quanjun Hu China	18	784 0.8×	401 0.6×	446 1.2×	519 1.5×	90 0.9×	54	1.2k
Myounghai Kwak South Korea	19	553 0.5×	297 0.5×	827 2.2×	268 0.8×	109 1.1×	68	1.4k
Francisco Balao Spain	18	371 0.4×	448 0.7×	569 1.5×	264 0.8×	74 0.7×	46	947
Felix Grewe United States	23	1.1k 1.1×	791 1.3×	661 1.8×	141 0.4×	131 1.3×	55	1.7k
А. В. Родионов Russia	17	455 0.4×	223 0.4×	587 1.6×	314 0.9×	49 0.5×	124	896
Susann Wicke Germany	21	1.9k 1.8×	1.3k 2.1×	1.0k 2.8×	314 0.9×	125 1.3×	45	2.4k
Jane L. Doyle United States	19	837 0.8×	691 1.1×	992 2.6×	291 0.8×	84 0.8×	23	1.6k

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Hu, Jialin, et al.. (2025). How sequencing technology shapes our understanding of river water microbiomes and resistomes: a comparative study. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(10). e0172325–e0172325. 1 indexed citations

Li, Kai, Melissa Smith, John C. Blazier, et al.. (2024). Construction and evaluation of a new rat reference genome assembly, GRCr8, from long reads and long-range scaffolding. Genome Research. 34(11). 2081–2093. 1 indexed citations

Chung, Jooho, et al.. (2023). Draft genome of methanol-oxidizing Methylobacterium fujisawaense strain LAC1. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 12(10). e0033123–e0033123.

Klemashevich, Cory, et al.. (2022). Differential effects of the soluble fiber inulin in reducing adiposity and altering gut microbiome in aging mice. The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 105. 108999–108999. 22 indexed citations

Rogovskyy, Artem S., et al.. (2022). The Brief Case: Corynebacterium amycolatum in a Relapsing Urinary Tract Infection of a Feline Patient. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 60(2). e0045321–e0045321. 2 indexed citations

Blazier, John C., et al.. (2021). Extensive sex-specific and regional variations observed in the microbiome of Dermacentor reticulatus. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 12(5). 101767–101767. 3 indexed citations

Blazier, John C., et al.. (2021). The Microbiota of Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus Ticks Collected from a Highly Populated City of Eastern Europe. Microbial Ecology. 84(4). 1072–1086.

Fariq, Anila, et al.. (2021). Identification of bacterial communities in extreme sites of Pakistan using high throughput barcoded amplicon sequencing. ZooKeys. 9. e68929–e68929. 3 indexed citations

Blazier, John C., et al.. (2021). Metagenomic analysis of individually analyzed ticks from Eastern Europe demonstrates regional and sex-dependent differences in the microbiota of Ixodes ricinus. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 12(5). 101768–101768. 18 indexed citations

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Fariq, Anila, John C. Blazier, Azra Yasmin, Terry J. Gentry, & Youjun Deng. (2019). Whole genome sequence analysis reveals high genetic variation of newly isolated Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans IO-2C. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 13049–13049. 13 indexed citations

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Schumer, Molly, Chenling Xu, Daniel L. Powell, et al.. (2018). Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes. Science. 360(6389). 656–660. 256 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ruhlman, Tracey A., Jin Zhang, John C. Blazier, Jamal S. M. Sabir, & Robert K. Jansen. (2017). Recombination‐dependent replication and gene conversion homogenize repeat sequences and diversify plastid genome structure. American Journal of Botany. 104(4). 559–572. 82 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jin, Tracey A. Ruhlman, Jamal S. M. Sabir, et al.. (2016). Coevolution between Nuclear-Encoded DNA Replication, Recombination, and Repair Genes and Plastid Genome Complexity. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(3). 622–634. 48 indexed citations

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Blazier, John C., Robert K. Jansen, Jeffrey P. Mower, et al.. (2016). Variable presence of the inverted repeat and plastome stability inErodium. Annals of Botany. 117(7). 1209–1220. 83 indexed citations

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Blazier, John C., Tracey A. Ruhlman, Mao-Lun Weng, et al.. (2016). Divergence of RNA polymerase α subunits in angiosperm plastid genomes is mediated by genomic rearrangement. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 24595–24595. 42 indexed citations

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Ruhlman, Tracey A., Jeremy J.W. Chen, Yao‐Ting Huang, et al.. (2015). NDH expression marks major transitions in plant evolution and reveals coordinate intracellular gene loss. BMC Plant Biology. 15(1). 100–100. 80 indexed citations

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Weng, Mao-Lun, et al.. (2013). Reconstruction of the Ancestral Plastid Genome in Geraniaceae Reveals a Correlation between Genome Rearrangements, Repeats, and Nucleotide Substitution Rates. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(3). 645–659. 279 indexed citations

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Blazier, John C., Mary M. Guisinger, & Robert K. Jansen. (2011). Recent loss of plastid-encoded ndh genes within Erodium (Geraniaceae). Plant Molecular Biology. 76(3-5). 263–272. 139 indexed citations

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Xu, Cheng‐Yuan, et al.. (2009). The growth response of Alternanthera philoxeroides in a simulated post-combustion emission with ultrahigh [CO2] and acidic pollutants. Environmental Pollution. 157(7). 2118–2125. 7 indexed citations

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Cai, Zhengqiu, Mary M. Guisinger, Elizabeth C. Ruck, et al.. (2008). Extensive Reorganization of the Plastid Genome of Trifolium subterraneum (Fabaceae) Is Associated with Numerous Repeated Sequences and Novel DNA Insertions. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 67(6). 696–704. 179 indexed citations

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