Jon G. Sanders

18.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
63 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Jon G. Sanders is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jon G. Sanders has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Molecular Biology, 20 papers in Insect Science and 16 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Jon G. Sanders's work include Gut microbiota and health (30 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (17 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (15 papers). Jon G. Sanders is often cited by papers focused on Gut microbiota and health (30 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (17 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (15 papers). Jon G. Sanders collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Finland. Jon G. Sanders's co-authors include Rob Knight, George N. Somero, Naomi E. Pierce, Se Jin Song, Andrew H. Moeller, Brent L. Lockwood, Tobin J. Hammer, Noah Fierer, Jacob A. Russell and Katherine R. Amato and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jon G. Sanders

62 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Precise phylogenetic analysis of microbial isolates and genomes from metagenomes using PhyloPhlAn 3.0

2020 472 citations Francesco Asnicar, Andrew Maltez Thomas et al. Nature Communications profile →
Gut microbiota utilize immunoglobulin A for mucosal colonization

2018 452 citations Gregory P. Donaldson, Mark S. Ladinsky et al. Science profile →
Not all animals need a microbiome

2019 201 citations Jon G. Sanders et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jon G. Sanders United States	33	2.7k	1.2k	926	787	575	63	4.9k
John F. Baines Germany	44	3.2k 1.2×	672 0.5×	633 0.7×	1.2k 1.5×	671 1.2×	104	6.2k
Ben Nichols United Kingdom	12	3.6k 1.3×	3.0k 2.4×	628 0.7×	497 0.6×	378 0.7×	40	7.8k
Robert Schmieder United States	22	3.2k 1.2×	2.0k 1.6×	399 0.4×	657 0.8×	668 1.2×	28	6.5k
Gavin Huttley Australia	28	3.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	463 0.5×	1.3k 1.7×	1.4k 2.4×	65	9.8k
Kazunori Yamada Japan	23	3.5k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	574 0.6×	920 1.2×	740 1.3×	76	7.8k
Jai Ram Rideout United States	15	3.1k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	457 0.5×	303 0.4×	545 0.9×	19	6.1k
Chao Xie Singapore	15	5.4k 2.0×	3.1k 2.5×	499 0.5×	1.1k 1.4×	765 1.3×	18	10.3k
Sven Künzel Germany	33	1.7k 0.7×	872 0.7×	341 0.4×	563 0.7×	341 0.6×	113	3.7k
Ulaş Karaöz United States	29	4.7k 1.8×	2.2k 1.8×	548 0.6×	654 0.8×	1.1k 2.0×	54	9.8k
Nielson T. Baxter United States	16	4.5k 1.7×	1.7k 1.4×	372 0.4×	531 0.7×	875 1.5×	21	7.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jon G. Sanders

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bhute, Shrikant S., Jon G. Sanders, Se Jin Song, et al.. (2025). ChIP provides 10-fold microbial DNA enrichment from tissue while minimizing bias. Molecular Biology Reports. 52(1). 258–258. 1 indexed citations

Sprockett, Daniel D., et al.. (2025). Recent genetic drift in the co-diversified gut bacterial symbionts of laboratory mice. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2218–2218. 2 indexed citations

Goldman, Samantha L., et al.. (2024). Hackflex library preparation enables low-cost metagenomic profiling. ISME Communications. 4(1). ycae075–ycae075.

Palmu, Joonatan, Christin S. Börschel, Alfredo Ortega‐Alonso, et al.. (2023). Gut microbiome and atrial fibrillation—results from a large population-based study. EBioMedicine. 91. 104583–104583. 37 indexed citations

Beinart, Roxanne A., Jennifer Delaney, Jon G. Sanders, et al.. (2021). Cooccurring Activities of Two Autotrophic Pathways in Symbionts of the Hydrothermal Vent Tubeworm Riftia pachyptila. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 87(17). e0079421–e0079421. 3 indexed citations

Palmu, Joonatan, Aaro Salosensaari, Aki S. Havulinna, et al.. (2020). Association Between the Gut Microbiota and Blood Pressure in a Population Cohort of 6953 Individuals. Journal of the American Heart Association. 9(15). e016641–e016641. 81 indexed citations

Asnicar, Francesco, Andrew Maltez Thomas, Francesco Beghini, et al.. (2020). Precise phylogenetic analysis of microbial isolates and genomes from metagenomes using PhyloPhlAn 3.0. Nature Communications. 11(1). 2500–2500. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

Rubin, Benjamin E. R., Jon G. Sanders, Kyle M. Turner, Naomi E. Pierce, & Sarah D. Kocher. (2018). Social behaviour in bees influences the abundance of Sodalis (Enterobacteriaceae) symbionts. Royal Society Open Science. 5(7). 180369–180369. 26 indexed citations

Washburne, Alex D., James T. Morton, Jon G. Sanders, et al.. (2018). Methods for phylogenetic analysis of microbiome data. Nature Microbiology. 3(6). 652–661. 60 indexed citations

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Donaldson, Gregory P., Mark S. Ladinsky, Kristie B. Yu, et al.. (2018). Gut microbiota utilize immunoglobulin A for mucosal colonization. Science. 360(6390). 795–800. 452 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hu, Yi, Jon G. Sanders, Piotr Łukasik, et al.. (2018). Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome. Nature Communications. 9(1). 964–964. 126 indexed citations

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Marotz, Clarisse, Jon G. Sanders, Cristal Zúñiga, et al.. (2018). Improving saliva shotgun metagenomics by chemical host DNA depletion. Microbiome. 6(1). 42–42. 223 indexed citations

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Łukasik, Piotr, Jon G. Sanders, Yi Hu, et al.. (2017). The structured diversity of specialized gut symbionts of the New World army ants. Molecular Ecology. 26(14). 3808–3825. 63 indexed citations

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Groussin, Mathieu, Florent Mazel, Jon G. Sanders, et al.. (2017). Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian gut microbiomes over evolutionary time. Nature. 3 indexed citations

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Thompson, Luke, Jon G. Sanders, Daniel McDonald, et al.. (2017). A Communal Catalogue Reveals Earth'S Multiscale Microbial Diversity. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Groussin, Mathieu, Florent Mazel, Jon G. Sanders, et al.. (2017). Unraveling the processes shaping mammalian gut microbiomes over evolutionary time. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14319–14319. 313 indexed citations

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Russell, Jacob A., Jon G. Sanders, & Corrie S. Moreau. (2017). Hotspots for symbiosis: function, evolution, and specificity of ant-microbe associations from trunk to tips of the ant phylogeny (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF). 24. 43–69. 40 indexed citations

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Salzman, Shayla, et al.. (2016). Microbial Communities of Lycaenid Butterflies Do Not Correlate with Larval Diet. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1920–1920. 58 indexed citations

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Rubin, Benjamin E., Jon G. Sanders, Jarrad Hampton‐Marcell, et al.. (2014). DNA extraction protocols cause differences in 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing efficiency but not in community profile composition or structure. MicrobiologyOpen. 3(6). 910–921. 80 indexed citations

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Sanders, Jon G., et al.. (2007). The tip of the tail: molecular identification of seahorses for sale in apothecary shops and curio stores in California. Conservation Genetics. 9(1). 65–71. 34 indexed citations

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