John H. Postlethwait

41.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
315 papers, 25.0k citations indexed

About

John H. Postlethwait is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John H. Postlethwait has authored 315 papers receiving a total of 25.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 187 papers in Molecular Biology, 125 papers in Genetics and 51 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in John H. Postlethwait's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (58 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (57 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (41 papers). John H. Postlethwait is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (58 papers), Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (57 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (41 papers). John H. Postlethwait collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. John H. Postlethwait's co-authors include Angel Amores, Yi‐Lin Yan, Allan Force, Yi‐Lin Yan, Julian Catchen, William A. Cresko, Michael Lynch, F. Bryan Pickett, Christine Thisse and Bernard Thisse and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

John H. Postlethwait

313 papers receiving 24.6k 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.

Preservation of Duplicate Genes by Complementary, Degenerative Mutations

1999 2.8k citations Angel Amores, John H. Postlethwait et al. Genetics profile →
Stacks: Building and Genotyping Loci De Novo From Short-Read Sequences

2011 1.5k citations Julian Catchen, Angel Amores et al. profile →
Zebrafish hox Clusters and Vertebrate Genome Evolution

1998 1.4k citations Angel Amores, John H. Postlethwait et al. profile →
Structure of the zebrafish snail1 gene and its expression in wild-type, spadetail and no tail mutant embryos

1993 815 citations John H. Postlethwait et al. Development profile →
Zebrafish Comparative Genomics and the Origins of Vertebrate Chromosomes

2000 541 citations John H. Postlethwait et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
John H. Postlethwait	14.9k	9.0k	4.7k	3.3k	2.5k	315	25.0k
Manfred Schartl	8.7k 0.6×	10.4k 1.2×	2.2k 0.5×	3.9k 1.2×	1.0k 0.4×	450	19.1k
Christiane Nüsslein‐Volhard	27.0k 1.8×	6.9k 0.8×	10.6k 2.3×	2.6k 0.8×	4.4k 1.8×	184	35.0k
Alexander F. Schier	26.7k 1.8×	4.9k 0.6×	8.6k 1.9×	1.3k 0.4×	3.3k 1.3×	203	35.4k
Monte Westerfield	13.1k 0.9×	3.5k 0.4×	6.8k 1.5×	636 0.2×	2.9k 1.1×	148	20.1k
Charles B. Kimmel	19.4k 1.3×	5.1k 0.6×	10.7k 2.3×	609 0.2×	3.0k 1.2×	157	28.0k
Koichi Kawakami	9.8k 0.7×	3.6k 0.4×	5.5k 1.2×	992 0.3×	2.4k 1.0×	262	15.8k
Igor B. Dawid	18.8k 1.3×	4.0k 0.4×	3.0k 0.6×	2.4k 0.7×	1.4k 0.6×	263	22.5k
Angel Amores	7.5k 0.5×	6.4k 0.7×	1.7k 0.4×	3.0k 0.9×	553 0.2×	54	13.5k
Wolfgang Driever	13.9k 0.9×	4.2k 0.5×	7.1k 1.5×	845 0.3×	2.1k 0.8×	165	18.5k
Shuichi Asakawa	6.7k 0.5×	4.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.3×	1.1k 0.3×	3.2k 1.3×	227	15.5k

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Desvignes, Thomas, A. Valdivieso, Camilla Sguotti, et al.. (2025). Different populations of the Antarctic notothen fish Trematomus scotti differ in key life history traits. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. 323. 109425–109425. 1 indexed citations

Uğur, Berrak, Florian Schueder, Jimann Shin, et al.. (2024). VPS13B is localized at the interface between Golgi cisternae and is a functional partner of FAM177A1. The Journal of Cell Biology. 223(12). 6 indexed citations

Desvignes, Thomas, et al.. (2024). Hybridization barriers between the congeneric antarctic notothenioid fish Notothenia coriiceps and Notothenia rossii. Polar Biology. 47(2). 163–171.

Hippel, Frank A. von, Catherine Wilson, Danielle Dillon, et al.. (2023). Differential gene expression and developmental pathologies associated with persistent organic pollutants in sentinel fish in Troutman Lake, Sivuqaq, Alaska. Environmental Pollution. 340(Pt 2). 122765–122765. 3 indexed citations

Brombin, Alessandro, et al.. (2022). Aldh2 is a lineage-specific metabolic gatekeeper in melanocyte stem cells. Development. 149(10). 8 indexed citations

Desvignes, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Coordinated patterning of zebrafish caudal fin symmetry by a central and two peripheral organizers. Developmental Dynamics. 251(8). 1306–1321. 6 indexed citations

Pascual‐Anaya, Juan, David Osca, Ingo Braasch, et al.. (2022). Evolution of the nitric oxide synthase family in vertebrates and novel insights in gill development. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1980). 20220667–20220667. 5 indexed citations

Small, Clayton M., Yi‐Lin Yan, Catherine Wilson, et al.. (2022). Evolution and developmental expression of the sodium–iodide symporter (NIS, slc5a5) gene family: Implications for perchlorate toxicology. Evolutionary Applications. 15(7). 1079–1098. 8 indexed citations

Nakamoto, Masatoshi, Eriko Koshimizu, Ryusuke Sudo, et al.. (2021). A Y-linked anti-Müllerian hormone type-II receptor is the sex-determining gene in ayu, Plecoglossus altivelis. PLoS Genetics. 17(8). e1009705–e1009705. 32 indexed citations

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Kimmel, Charles B., Charline Walker, John Dowd, et al.. (2020). Transgene‐mediated skeletal phenotypic variation in zebrafish. Journal of Fish Biology. 98(4). 956–970. 6 indexed citations

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Schartl, Manfred, Susanne Kneitz, Cornelia Schmidt, et al.. (2020). The Developmental and Genetic Architecture of the Sexually Selected Male Ornament of Swordtails. Current Biology. 31(5). 911–922.e4. 19 indexed citations

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Postlethwait, John H., Joaquín Navajas Acedo, & Tatjana Piotrowski. (2019). Evolutionary Origin and Nomenclature of Vertebrate Wnt11 -Family Genes. Zebrafish. 16(5). 469–476. 7 indexed citations

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Kossack, Michelle E., et al.. (2018). Female Sex Development and Reproductive Duct Formation Depend on Wnt4a in Zebrafish. Genetics. 211(1). 219–233. 43 indexed citations

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Hippel, Frank A. von, Pamela Miller, David O. Carpenter, et al.. (2017). Endocrine disruption and differential gene expression in sentinel fish on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska: Health implications for indigenous residents. Environmental Pollution. 234. 279–287. 19 indexed citations

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Gehrke, Andrew R., Igor Schneider, Elisa de la Calle‐Mustienes, et al.. (2014). Deep conservation of wrist and digit enhancers in fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(3). 803–808. 102 indexed citations

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Amores, Angel, Julian Catchen, Allyse Ferrara, Quenton Fontenot, & John H. Postlethwait. (2011). Genome Evolution and Meiotic Maps by Massively Parallel DNA Sequencing: Spotted Gar, an Outgroup for the Teleost Genome Duplication. Genetics. 188(4). 799–808. 286 indexed citations

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He, Xinjun, Yi‐Lin Yan, April DeLaurier, & John H. Postlethwait. (2011). Observation of miRNA Gene Expression in Zebrafish Embryos by In Situ Hybridization to MicroRNA Primary Transcripts. Zebrafish. 8(1). 1–8. 40 indexed citations

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Bassham, Susan & John H. Postlethwait. (2005). The evolutionary history of placodes: a molecular genetic investigation of the larvacean urochordate Oikopleura dioica. Development. 132(19). 4259–4272. 75 indexed citations

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Postlethwait, John H.. (2004). An Interview with John Postlethwait, Ph.D.. Zebrafish. 1(1). 3–8. 2 indexed citations

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Dodou, Evdokia, Kate F. Barald, & John H. Postlethwait. (2004). Ventralized Zebrafish Embryo Rescue by Overexpression of Zic2a. Zebrafish. 1(3). 239–256. 3 indexed citations

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