John Tower

8.2k total citations
105 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

John Tower is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Aging and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, John Tower has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Molecular Biology, 60 papers in Aging and 25 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in John Tower's work include Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (60 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (25 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (15 papers). John Tower is often cited by papers focused on Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (60 papers), Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (25 papers) and Invertebrate Immune Response Mechanisms (15 papers). John Tower collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. John Tower's co-authors include Gary N. Landis, Barbara Sollner-Webb, Jing‐Tao Sun, Kelvin J.A. Davies, Jie Shen, Simon Tavaré, Steven E. Finkel, J. C. Wheeler, Timothy J. Bradley and Donna G. Folk and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

John Tower

103 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
John Tower	3.7k	2.1k	994	788	772	105	6.4k
Stephen L. Helfand	4.2k 1.1×	2.7k 1.3×	1.6k 1.6×	2.1k 2.6×	771 1.0×	84	8.8k
David W. Walker	2.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.8×	641 0.6×	1.1k 1.5×	377 0.5×	77	5.5k
Scott D. Pletcher	2.0k 0.5×	3.2k 1.5×	1.7k 1.7×	1.5k 1.9×	1.1k 1.5×	92	7.0k
Lea Sistonen	9.5k 2.6×	1.3k 0.6×	511 0.5×	1.2k 1.5×	665 0.9×	137	11.8k
Adam Antebi	3.4k 0.9×	4.0k 1.9×	534 0.5×	1.3k 1.6×	581 0.8×	106	7.7k
William B. Mair	3.9k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	544 0.5×	2.1k 2.7×	326 0.4×	51	7.8k
Mingyao Yang	2.5k 0.7×	476 0.2×	1.1k 1.1×	457 0.6×	577 0.7×	110	4.4k
David Hirsh	5.8k 1.6×	5.1k 2.4×	403 0.4×	1.0k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	85	9.8k
Howard T. Jacobs	9.5k 2.6×	890 0.4×	831 0.8×	1.4k 1.7×	795 1.0×	200	12.2k
Blanka Rogina	1.6k 0.4×	2.1k 1.0×	565 0.6×	1.5k 1.9×	262 0.3×	60	4.6k

Countries citing papers authored by John Tower

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Nagrath, Sunitha, et al.. (2025). Machine Learning Scoring Reveals Increased Frequency of Falls Proximal to Death in Drosophila melanogaster. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 80(6).

Tower, John. (2023). Markers and mechanisms of death in Drosophila. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4. 1292040–1292040. 4 indexed citations

Tower, John, et al.. (2019). Behavioral and molecular markers of death in Drosophila melanogaster. Experimental Gerontology. 126. 110707–110707. 9 indexed citations

Pomatto, Laura C.D., Sarah Wong, John Tower, & Kelvin J.A. Davies. (2018). Sex-specific adaptive homeostasis in D. melanogaster depends on increased proteolysis by the 20S Proteasome: Data-in-Brief. Data in Brief. 17. 653–661. 6 indexed citations

Pomatto, Laura C.D., Sarah Wong, John Tower, & Kelvin J.A. Davies. (2017). Sexual dimorphism in oxidant-induced adaptive homeostasis in multiple wild-type D. melanogaster strains. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 636. 57–70. 12 indexed citations

Kurmangaliyev, Yerbol Z., Alexander V. Favorov, Kjong-Van Lehmann, et al.. (2015). Natural variation of gene models in Drosophila melanogaster. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 198–198. 5 indexed citations

Tower, John. (2014). Mitochondrial maintenance failure in aging and role of sexual dimorphism. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 576. 17–31. 59 indexed citations

Tower, John, et al.. (2013). Variegated Expression of Hsp22 Transgenic Reporters Indicates Cell-specific Patterns of Aging in Drosophila Oenocytes. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 69A(3). 253–259. 16 indexed citations

Pickering, Andrew M., et al.. (2012). A conserved role for the 20S proteasome and Nrf2 transcription factor in oxidative-stress adaptation in mammals, C. elegans and D. melanogaster. Journal of Experimental Biology. 216(Pt 4). 543–53. 83 indexed citations

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Tower, John. (2010). Heat shock proteins and Drosophila aging. Experimental Gerontology. 46(5). 355–362. 131 indexed citations

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Tower, John & Michelle N Arbeitman. (2009). The genetics of gender and life span. Journal of Biology. 8(4). 38–38. 59 indexed citations

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Partridge, Linda & John Tower. (2008). 11 Yeast, a Feast: The Fruit Fly Drosophila as a Model Organism for Research into Aging. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 51. 267–308. 13 indexed citations

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Li, Yishi & John Tower. (2008). Adult-specific over-expression of the Drosophila genes magu and hebe increases life span and modulates late-age female fecundity. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 281(2). 147–162. 18 indexed citations

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Curtis, Christina, Gary N. Landis, Donna G. Folk, et al.. (2007). Transcriptional profiling of MnSOD-mediated lifespan extension in Drosophilareveals a species-general network of aging and metabolic genes. Genome biology. 8(12). 93–93. 111 indexed citations

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Webster, Paul, et al.. (2007). Increased Internal and External Bacterial Load during Drosophila Aging without Life-Span Trade-Off. Cell Metabolism. 6(2). 144–152. 270 indexed citations

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Allikian, Michael J., et al.. (2002). Doxycycline-induced expression of sense and inverted-repeat constructs modulates phosphogluconate mutase (Pgm) gene expression in adult Drosophila melanogaster. Genome biology. 3(5). research0021–research0021. 16 indexed citations

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Tower, John, et al.. (1999). Aging-Specific Expression ofDrosophila hsp22. Developmental Biology. 207(1). 107–118. 97 indexed citations

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Lu, Lucy & John Tower. (1997). A Transcriptional Insulator Element, the su(Hw) Binding Site, Protects a Chromosomal DNA Replication Origin from Position Effects. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 17(4). 2202–2206. 45 indexed citations

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Tower, John, et al.. (1994). Preferential transposition of aDrosophila P element to the corresponding region of the homologous chromosome. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 244(5). 484–490. 13 indexed citations

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Tower, John & Barbara Sollner-Webb. (1988). Polymerase III Transcription Factor B Activity is Reduced in Extracts of Growth-Restricted Cells. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 8(2). 1001–1005. 2 indexed citations

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