Kai Müller

9.3k citations

56 papers · 6.8k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.1%
- Plant Diversity and Evolution
- Plant and animal studies
Plant Science top 0.5%
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Papers in

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 31
- Plant Diversity and Evolution 24
- Plant and animal studies 7
Plant Science 27
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance 13
- Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies 9

Co-authors: Ben C Stöver Claude W. dePamphilis Dietmar Quandt Susann Wicke Gerald M. Schneeweiss Thomas Borsch Wilhelm Barthlott Jim Leebens‐Mack
Journals: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (8 papers)Plant Biology (5 papers)BMC Evolutionary Biology (3 papers)American Journal of Botany (3 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United States Austria

In The Last Decade

Kai Müller

55 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

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The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function 2011 · 1.1k citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2011 Plant Molecular Biology
2010 BMC Bioinformatics
2007 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Kai Müller, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	NewickTreeModifier: A simple web tool to prune and modify Newick trees Journal of Heredity ·Chen Yajie, Ailín Goyeneche, Norbert Grundmann, Ben C Stöver, Kai Müller, Jürgen Schmitz	2024	0
2	Morphology, geographic distribution, and host preferences are poor predictors of phylogenetic relatedness in the mistletoe genus Viscum L. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·S.V. Dunaev, Michael Krug, Daniel L. Nickrent, Kai Müller, Dietmar Quandt, Susann Wicke	2018	26
3	Demo: Real-time Ethernet in-car backbones: First insights into an automotive prototype Till Steinbach, Kai Müller, Franz Korf, E Várallyai	2014	15
4	Evolution of genome size and chromosome number in the carnivorous plant genus Genlisea (Lentibulariaceae), with a new estimate of the minimum genome size in angiosperms Annals of Botany ·Andreas Fleischmann, Todd P. Michael, Fernando Rivadavia, Aretuza Sousa, Wenqin Wang, Eva M. Temsch, Johann Greilhuber, Kai Müller, Günther Heubl	2014	109
5	Chasing the hare - Evaluating the phylogenetic utility of a nuclear single copy gene region at and below species level within the species rich group Peperomia (Piperaceae) BMC Evolutionary Biology ·Julia Naumann, 松葉龍一, Marie‐Stéphanie Samain, Kai Müller, Christoph Neinhuis, Claude W. dePamphilis, Stefan Wanke	2011	26
6	What does it take to resolve relationships and to identify species with molecular markers? An example from the epiphytic Rhipsalideae (Cactaceae) American Journal of Botany ·Nadja Korotkova, Thomas Borsch, Dietmar Quandt, Nigel P. Taylor, Kai Müller, Wilhelm Barthlott	2011	51
7	The evolution of the plastid chromosome in land plants: gene content, gene order, gene function Plant Molecular Biology ·Susann Wicke, Gerald M. Schneeweiss, Claude W. dePamphilis, Kai Müller, Dietmar Quandt Hit paper breakdown →	2011	1082
8	TreeGraph 2: Combining and visualizing evidence from different phylogenetic analyses BMC Bioinformatics ·Ben C Stöver, Kai Müller Hit paper breakdown →	2010	1289
9	Phylogenetics and character evolution in the carnivorous plant genus Genlisea A. St.-Hil. (Lentibulariaceae) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Andreas Fleischmann, Bastian Schäferhoff, Günther Heubl, Fernando Rivadavia, Wilhelm Barthlott, Kai Müller	2010	23
10	Alignment of, and phylogenetic inference from, random sequences: The susceptibility of alternative alignment methods to creating artifactual resolution and support Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Mark P. Simmons, Kai Müller, Andrew P. Norton	2010	15
11	Evolutionary Rates in Veronica L. (Plantaginaceae): Disentangling the Influence of Life History and Breeding System Journal of Molecular Evolution ·Kai Müller, Dirk C. Albach	2009	30
12	Haemosporidian Blood Parasites in European Birds of Prey and Owls Journal of Parasitology ·Oliver Krone, Jonas Waldenström, Gediminas Valkiūnas, Qi Shiyong, Kai Müller, Tatjana A. Iezhova, Joerns Fickel, Staffan Bensch	2008	82
13	The relative performance of indel-coding methods in simulations Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Mark P. Simmons, Kai Müller, Andrew P. Norton	2007	88
14	PlantTribes: a gene and gene family resource for comparative genomics in plants Nucleic Acids Research ·P. Kerr Wall, Jim Leebens‐Mack, Kai Müller, Dawn Field, Naomi Altman, Claude W. dePamphilis	2007	78
15	A penalty of using anonymous dominant markers (AFLPs, ISSRs, and RAPDs) for phylogenetic inference Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Mark P. Simmons, Li‐Bing Zhang, Colleen T. Webb, Kai Müller	2006	49
16	Smallest Angiosperm Genomes Found in Lentibulariaceae, with Chromosomes of Bacterial Size Plant Biology ·J. Greilhuber, Thomas Borsch, Kai Müller, Alfonso Lazo, Stefan Porembski, Wilhelm Barthlott	2006	167
17	Phylogenetic utility of rapidly evolving DNA at high taxonomical levels: Contrasting matK, trnT-F, and rbcL in basal angiosperms Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Kai Müller, Thomas Borsch, Khidir W. Hilu	2006	105
18	Phylogenetic analysis of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae): chloroplast DNA sequences and morphology support several geographically distinct radiations American Journal of Botany ·Thomas Cieslak, Jai S. Polepalli, Archil Zarnadze, Kai Müller, Thomas Borsch, Wilhelm Barthlott, Juerg Steiger, Adam Marchant, Laurent Legendre	2005	46
19	Incorporating information from length-mutational events into phylogenetic analysis Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Kai Müller	2005	217
20	Angiosperm phylogeny based on <011>matK sequence information American Journal of Botany ·Khidir W. Hilu, Thomas Borsch, Kai Müller, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Vincent Savolainen, Mark W. Chase, Martyn P. Powell, Lawrence A. Alice, Rodger C. Evans, Hervé Sauquet, Christoph Neinhuis, Tracey A. Bodo Slotta, Jens G. Rohwer, Christopher S. Campbell, Lars W. Chatrou	2003	423

About Kai Müller

Kai Müller is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, Paleontology and Molecular Biology, having authored 56 papers that have together received 6.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Diversity and Evolution (24 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (13 papers), Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions (13 papers), Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (9 papers), Plant and animal studies (7 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (6 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (3.4k citations), Plant Science (2.9k citations), Molecular Biology (4.0k citations), Genetics (943 citations) and Parasitology (219 citations). Kai Müller has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Austria. Frequent co-authors include Ben C Stöver, Claude W. dePamphilis, Dietmar Quandt, Susann Wicke, Gerald M. Schneeweiss, Thomas Borsch, Wilhelm Barthlott, Jim Leebens‐Mack, Bastian Schäferhoff and Khidir W. Hilu. Their work appears in journals such as Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Plant Biology, BMC Evolutionary Biology, American Journal of Botany and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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