John H. McCusker

8.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
67 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

John H. McCusker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John H. McCusker has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Plant Science and 16 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in John H. McCusker's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (47 papers), Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (16 papers) and Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (11 papers). John H. McCusker is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (47 papers), Fermentation and Sensory Analysis (16 papers) and Antifungal resistance and susceptibility (11 papers). John H. McCusker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Belgium. John H. McCusker's co-authors include Alan L. Goldstein, Ronald W. Davis, James E. Haber, David A. Stevens, Karl V. Clemons, Joanne M. Kingsbury, Himanshu Sinha, Lars M. Steinmetz, Daniel R. Richards and Michael McCullough and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

John H. McCusker

67 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

Three new dominant drug resistance cassettes for gene disruption inSaccharomyces cerevisiae

1999 1.5k citations Alan L. Goldstein, John H. McCusker Yeast profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John H. McCusker United States	37	4.7k	1.3k	999	871	693	67	5.8k
Cora A. Styles United States	22	5.2k 1.1×	2.0k 1.5×	614 0.6×	498 0.6×	867 1.3×	22	6.0k
Jeffrey N. Strathern United States	44	8.0k 1.7×	1.4k 1.1×	407 0.4×	1.1k 1.2×	950 1.4×	113	8.9k
Yoshikazu Ohya Japan	49	5.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.1×	525 0.5×	573 0.7×	1.9k 2.7×	181	7.2k
Jure Piškur Sweden	40	3.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	1.9k 1.9×	456 0.5×	251 0.4×	146	5.7k
Stewart Scherer United States	20	3.0k 0.6×	878 0.7×	416 0.4×	617 0.7×	362 0.5×	23	4.4k
Warren W. Wakarchuk Canada	53	5.2k 1.1×	436 0.3×	779 0.8×	655 0.8×	310 0.4×	156	7.7k
Robin A. Woods Canada	20	6.9k 1.5×	1.9k 1.4×	426 0.4×	542 0.6×	1.1k 1.6×	31	8.5k
Charles S. Hoffman United States	32	4.4k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	333 0.3×	357 0.4×	610 0.9×	78	5.1k
Javier Arroyo Spain	37	2.9k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	381 0.4×	233 0.3×	535 0.8×	91	4.4k
Marı́a Molina Spain	31	2.6k 0.6×	956 0.7×	360 0.4×	249 0.3×	618 0.9×	97	3.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

McCusker, John H.. (2017). MX Cassettes for Knocking Out Genes in Yeast. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2017(4). pdb.top080689–pdb.top080689. 3 indexed citations

Strope, Pooja K, Daniel A. Skelly, Stanislav G. Kozmin, et al.. (2015). The 100-genomes strains, an S. cerevisiae resource that illuminates its natural phenotypic and genotypic variation and emergence as an opportunistic pathogen. Genome Research. 25(5). 762–774. 260 indexed citations

Muller, Ludo A. H., Joseph E. Lucas, D. Ryan Georgianna, & John H. McCusker. (2011). Genome-wide association analysis of clinical vs. nonclinical origin provides insights into Saccharomyces cerevisiae pathogenesis. Molecular Ecology. 20(19). 4085–4097. 40 indexed citations

Muller, Ludo A. H. & John H. McCusker. (2008). A multispecies-based taxonomic microarray reveals interspecies hybridization and introgression inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. FEMS Yeast Research. 9(1). 143–152. 50 indexed citations

Kingsbury, Joanne M. & John H. McCusker. (2008). Threonine biosynthetic genes are essential in Cryptococcus neoformans. Microbiology. 154(9). 2767–2775. 28 indexed citations

Sinha, Himanshu, Bradly P. Nicholson, Lars M. Steinmetz, & John H. McCusker. (2006). Complex Genetic Interactions in a Quantitative Trait Locus. PLoS Genetics. 2(2). e13–e13. 101 indexed citations

McCusker, John H., et al.. (2004). DsdA (D‐serine deaminase): a new heterologous MX cassette for gene disruption and selection in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast. 21(2). 163–171. 23 indexed citations

Ito‐Harashima, Sayoko & John H. McCusker. (2003). Positive and negative selection LYS5MX gene replacement cassettes for use in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast. 21(1). 53–61. 19 indexed citations

Yang, Zhonghui, Renata Castiglioni Pascon, J. Andrew Alspaugh, Gary M. Cox, & John H. McCusker. (2002). Molecular and genetic analysis of the Cryptococcus neoformans MET3 gene and a met3 mutant a aThe GenBank accession numbers for the sequences reported in this paper are AY035556 and AF489498.. Microbiology. 148(8). 2617–2625. 49 indexed citations

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Ito‐Harashima, Sayoko, et al.. (2002). The tRNA-Tyr Gene Family of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Agents of Phenotypic Variation and Position Effects on Mutation Frequency. Genetics. 161(4). 1395–1410. 14 indexed citations

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Steinmetz, Lars M., Himanshu Sinha, Daniel R. Richards, et al.. (2002). Dissecting the architecture of a quantitative trait locus in yeast. Nature. 416(6878). 326–330. 418 indexed citations

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Cruz, Maria Cristina, Alan L. Goldstein, Jill R. Blankenship, et al.. (2001). Rapamycin and Less Immunosuppressive Analogs Are Toxic to Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans via FKBP12-Dependent Inhibition of TOR. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy. 45(11). 3162–3170. 114 indexed citations

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Goldstein, Alan L. & John H. McCusker. (1999). Three new dominant drug resistance cassettes for gene disruption inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast. 15(14). 1541–1553. 1515 indexed citations breakdown →

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Goldstein, Alan L., Xuewen Pan, & John H. McCusker. (1999). Heterologous URA3MX cassettes for gene replacement inSaccharomyces cerevisiae. Yeast. 15(6). 507–511. 114 indexed citations

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McCullough, Michael, Karl V. Clemons, John H. McCusker, & David A. Stevens. (1998). Intergenic Transcribed Spacer PCR Ribotyping for Differentiation of Saccharomyces Species and Interspecific Hybrids. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 36(4). 1035–1038. 57 indexed citations

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Na, Songqing, Marina Hincapie, John H. McCusker, & James E. Haber. (1995). MOP2 (SLA2) Affects the Abundance of the Plasma Membrane H+-ATPase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 270(12). 6815–6823. 49 indexed citations

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McCusker, John H., Karl V. Clemons, David A. Stevens, & Ronald W. Davis. (1994). Saccharomyces cerevisiae virulence phenotype as determined with CD-1 mice is associated with the ability to grow at 42 degrees C and form pseudohyphae. Infection and Immunity. 62(12). 5447–5455. 103 indexed citations

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McCusker, John H., Karl V. Clemons, David A. Stevens, & Ronald W. Davis. (1994). Genetic characterization of pathogenic Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolates.. Genetics. 136(4). 1261–1269. 143 indexed citations

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Haber, James E., Barbara Weiffenbach, David T. Rogers, John H. McCusker, & Lucy B. Rowe. (1981). Chromosomal Rearrangements Accompanying Yeast Mating-type Switching: Evidence for a Gene-conversion Model. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 45(0). 991–1002. 15 indexed citations

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McCusker, John H. & James E. Haber. (1977). Efficient sporulation of yeast in media buffered near pH6. Journal of Bacteriology. 132(1). 180–185. 37 indexed citations

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