Karl G. Lark

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
135 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

Karl G. Lark is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Karl G. Lark has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Molecular Biology, 56 papers in Genetics and 45 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Karl G. Lark's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (33 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (33 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (31 papers). Karl G. Lark is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (33 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (33 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (31 papers). Karl G. Lark collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Denmark. Karl G. Lark's co-authors include Kevin Chase, Perry B. Cregan, J. H. Orf, L. M. Mansur, Cynthia Lark, T. Jarvik, Randy C. Shoemaker, James E. Specht, R. H. Pritchard and Qijian Song and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Karl G. Lark

135 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

2 papers align trajectories

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.

A new integrated genetic linkage map of the soybean

2004 755 citations Karl G. Lark et al. profile →
An Integrated Genetic Linkage Map of the Soybean Genome

1999 660 citations Karl G. Lark et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Karl G. Lark United States	45	4.2k	3.6k	3.0k	665	316	135	8.5k
James E. Womack United States	48	1.8k 0.4×	3.2k 0.9×	5.2k 1.7×	332 0.5×	833 2.6×	325	8.6k
Barbara A. Moffatt Canada	39	3.7k 0.9×	6.8k 1.9×	2.4k 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	98 0.3×	70	10.3k
Ray Wü United States	45	3.8k 0.9×	5.2k 1.5×	958 0.3×	724 1.1×	95 0.3×	122	7.5k
G. F. Sprague United States	53	4.2k 1.0×	7.1k 2.0×	1.5k 0.5×	442 0.7×	771 2.4×	148	11.4k
Andrew J. Flavell United Kingdom	48	6.8k 1.6×	3.5k 1.0×	1.5k 0.5×	318 0.5×	263 0.8×	102	8.1k
Uffe Hellsten United States	11	3.1k 0.7×	3.1k 0.9×	658 0.2×	379 0.6×	187 0.6×	18	5.5k
John W. Brown United States	44	3.0k 0.7×	3.7k 1.0×	1.1k 0.4×	337 0.5×	92 0.3×	261	7.1k
Robert J. Schmitz United States	61	9.5k 2.3×	7.9k 2.2×	1.8k 0.6×	429 0.6×	215 0.7×	173	13.2k
Christian Gautier France	31	1.4k 0.3×	5.7k 1.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.0k 1.6×	59 0.2×	77	7.7k
Daniel Gallie United States	51	5.7k 1.3×	5.6k 1.6×	499 0.2×	502 0.8×	121 0.4×	136	9.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karl G. Lark

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20 of 20 papers shown

Valenzuela, Luciano O., et al.. (2013). “Alas poor Yorick”: What retrospective analysis of canine skulls can tell us about the impact of environmental factors on health. Open Journal of Animal Sciences. 3(3). 12–18. 1 indexed citations

Parker, Heidi G., Kevin Chase, Édouard Cadieu, Karl G. Lark, & Elaine A. Ostrander. (2010). An Insertion in the RSPO2 Gene Correlates with Improper Coat in the Portuguese Water Dog. Journal of Heredity. 101(5). 612–617. 18 indexed citations

Cadieu, Édouard, Mark W. Neff, Pascale Quignon, et al.. (2009). Coat Variation in the Domestic Dog Is Governed by Variants in Three Genes. Science. 326(5949). 150–153. 244 indexed citations

Quignon, Pascale, Jeffrey J. Schoenebeck, Kevin Chase, et al.. (2009). Fine Mapping a Locus Controlling Leg Morphology in the Domestic Dog. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 74(0). 327–333. 11 indexed citations

Lark, Karl G., Kevin Chase, David R. Carrier, & Fred Adler. (2006). 5 Genetic Analysis of the Canid Skeleton: Morphological Loci in the Portuguese Water Dog Population. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 44. 67–80. 5 indexed citations

Trut, Lyudmila N., et al.. (2006). 6 Morphology and Behavior: Are They Coupled at the Genome Level?. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 44. 81–93. 15 indexed citations

Kukekova, Anna V., Gregory M. Acland, I. N. Oskina, et al.. (2006). 26 The Genetics of Domesticated Behavior in Canids: What Can Dogs and Silver Foxes Tell Us about Each Other?. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 44. 515–537. 12 indexed citations

Lark, Karl G., Kevin Chase, & Nathan B. Sutter. (2006). Genetic architecture of the dog: sexual size dimorphism and functional morphology. Trends in Genetics. 22(10). 537–544. 25 indexed citations

Chase, Kevin, David R. Carrier, Frederick R. Adler, Elaine A. Ostrander, & Karl G. Lark. (2005). Interaction between the X chromosome and an autosome regulates size sexual dimorphism in Portuguese Water Dogs. Genome Research. 15(12). 1820–1824. 34 indexed citations

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Kadouri, A., et al.. (1978). Evidence for dominant mutations reducing HGPRT activity. Nature. 274(5668). 256–259. 11 indexed citations

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Bird, Robert E. & Karl G. Lark. (1970). Chromosome replication in Escherichia coli 15T− at different growth rates: Rate of replication of the chromosome and the rate of formation of small pieces. Journal of Molecular Biology. 49(2). 343–366. 40 indexed citations

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Lark, Karl G., et al.. (1970). Effect of Actinomycin D on the Transfer of Ribonucleic Acid from Nucleus to Cytoplasm in Lactobacillus acidophilus. Journal of Bacteriology. 101(3). 1005–1013. 1 indexed citations

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Lark, Karl G.. (1967). Nonrandom segregation of sister chromatids in Vicia faba and Triticum boeoticum.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 58(1). 352–359. 37 indexed citations

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Lark, Karl G., Richard A. Consigli, & H.C. Minocha. (1966). Segregation of Sister Chromatids in Mammalian Cells. Science. 154(3753). 1202–1205. 100 indexed citations

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Lark, Cynthia & Karl G. Lark. (1964). Evidence for two distinct aspects of the mechanism regulating chromosome replication in Escherichia coli. Journal of Molecular Biology. 10(1). 120–136. 114 indexed citations

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Lark, Karl G., et al.. (1963). The effect of amino acid deprivation on subsequent deoxyribonucleic acid replication. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Specialized Section on Nucleic Acids and Related Subjects. 76. 9–24. 316 indexed citations

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Mitchison, J. M. & Karl G. Lark. (1962). Incorporation of 3H-adenine into RNA during the cell cycle of Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Experimental Cell Research. 28(2). 452–455. 34 indexed citations

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Lark, Karl G., et al.. (1961). Periodic synthesis of bacterial nucleic acids in the absence of protein synthesis. Experimental Cell Research. 25(1). 161–169. 14 indexed citations

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Lark, Karl G.. (1958). VARIATION DURING THE CELL-DIVISION CYCLE IN THE PENICILLIN INDUCTION OF PROTOPLAST-LIKE FORMS OF ALCALIGENES FECALIS. Canadian Journal of Microbiology. 4(2). 179–189. 12 indexed citations

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Lark, Karl G., et al.. (1955). Turbidimetric Measurement on Synchronized Salmonella typhimurium Cultures. Nature. 176(4481). 563–564. 11 indexed citations

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