Kit Tilly

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Kit Tilly is a scholar working on Parasitology, Insect Science and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Kit Tilly has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Parasitology, 26 papers in Insect Science and 23 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Kit Tilly's work include Vector-borne infectious diseases (46 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (24 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (23 papers). Kit Tilly is often cited by papers focused on Vector-borne infectious diseases (46 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (24 papers) and Viral Infections and Vectors (23 papers). Kit Tilly collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Kit Tilly's co-authors include Patricia A. Rosa, Costa Georgopoulos, Philip E. Stewart, Roger W. Hendrix, Carol A. Woolford, Dorothee Grimm, Abdallah F. Elias, Brian Stevenson, R Myers and Tom Maniatis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Kit Tilly

72 papers receiving 6.7k 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.

Homologous plant and bacterial proteins chaperone oligomeric protein assembly

1988 1.1k citations Kit Tilly, Costa Georgopoulos et al. profile →
Fine Structure Genetic Analysis of a β-Globin Promoter

1986 430 citations Kit Tilly et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Virulence of the Lyme disease spirochete before and after the tick bloodmeal: a quantitative assessment 2016 ·Parasites & Vectors ·Irene N Kasumba, Aaron Bestor, Kit Tilly, Patricia A. Rosa	18
2	Use of the Cre- lox Recombination System To Investigate the lp54 Gene Requirement in the Infectious Cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi 2010 ·Infection and Immunity ·Aaron Bestor, Philip E. Stewart, Mollie W. Jewett, Amit Sarkar, Kit Tilly, Patricia A. Rosa	22
3	Biology of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi 2008 ·Infectious Disease Clinics of North America ·Kit Tilly, Patricia A. Rosa, Philip E. Stewart	152
4	Genetic basis for retention of a critical virulence plasmid of Borrelia burgdorferi 2007 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Mollie W. Jewett, Rebecca Byram, Aaron Bestor, Kit Tilly, (unknown), Mary N. Burtnick, Frank C. Gherardini, Patricia A. Rosa	56
5	The critical role of the linear plasmid lp36 in the infectious cycle ofBorrelia burgdorferi 2007 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Mollie W. Jewett, (unknown), Aaron Bestor, Kit Tilly, Dorothee Grimm, Pamela A. Shaw, Mark VanRaden, Frank C. Gherardini, Patricia A. Rosa	101
6	Borrelia burgdorferi OspC Protein Required Exclusively in a Crucial Early Stage of Mammalian Infection 2006 ·Infection and Immunity ·Kit Tilly, Jonathan G. Krum, Aaron Bestor, Mollie W. Jewett, Dorothee Grimm, Dawn M. Bueschel, Rebecca Byram, David W. Dorward, Mark VanRaden, Philip E. Stewart, Patricia A. Rosa	259
7	Delineating the Requirement for the Borrelia burgdorferi Virulence Factor OspC in the Mammalian Host 2006 ·Infection and Immunity ·Philip E. Stewart, Xiaohui Wang, Dawn M. Bueschel, Dawn R. Clifton, Dorothee Grimm, Kit Tilly, James A. Carroll, Janis J. Weis, Patricia A. Rosa	91
8	The burgeoning molecular genetics of the Lyme disease spirochaete 2005 ·Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Patricia A. Rosa, Kit Tilly, Philip E. Stewart	162
9	Defining Plasmids Required byBorrelia burgdorferifor Colonization of Tick VectorIxodes scapularis(Acari: Ixodidae) 2005 ·Journal of Medical Entomology ·Dorothee Grimm, Kit Tilly, Dawn M. Bueschel, Mark Fisher, Paul F. Policastro, Frank C. Gherardini, Tom G. Schwan, Patricia A. Rosa	25
10	Outer-surface protein C of the Lyme disease spirochete: A protein induced in ticks for infection of mammals 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dorothee Grimm, Kit Tilly, Rebecca Byram, Philip E. Stewart, Jonathan G. Krum, Dawn M. Bueschel, Tom G. Schwan, Paul F. Policastro, Abdallah F. Elias, Patricia A. Rosa	346
11	Infectious Cycle Analysis of a Borrelia burgdorferi Mutant Defective in Transport of Chitobiose, a Tick Cuticle Component 2004 ·Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases ·Kit Tilly, Dorothee Grimm, Dawn M. Bueschel, Jonathan G. Krum, Patricia A. Rosa	47
12	The plasmids of Borrelia burgdorferi: essential genetic elements of a pathogen 2004 ·Plasmid ·Philip E. Stewart, Rebecca Byram, Dorothee Grimm, Kit Tilly, Patricia A. Rosa	90
13	Temperature-regulated expression of bacterial virulence genes 2000 ·Microbes and Infection ·Michael E. Konkel, Kit Tilly	200
14	The Borrelia burgdorferi circular plasmid cp26: conservation of plasmid structure and targeted inactivation of the ospC gene 1997 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Kit Tilly, Sherwood Casjens, Brian Stevenson, James L. Bono, D. Scott Samuels, Daniel Hogan, Patricia A. Rosa	82
15	Isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi genes encoding homologues of DNA-binding protein HU and ribosomal protein S20 1996 ·Microbiology ·Kit Tilly, Juliet A. Fuhrman, (unknown), D. Scott Samuels	24
16	Isolation of dnaJ, dnaK, and grpE homologues from Borrelia burgdorferi and complementation of Escherichia coli mutants 1993 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Kit Tilly, (unknown), (unknown), Gerard J. Ostheimer	51
17	Linear plasmids and chromosomes in bacteria 1993 ·Molecular Microbiology ·J Hinnebusch, Kit Tilly	121
18	A Borrelia burgdorferi homolog of theEscherichia coli rhogene 1993 ·Nucleic Acids Research ·Kit Tilly, (unknown)	9
19	Lambdoid Phage Head Assembly 1983 ·Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive ·Costa Georgopoulos, Kit Tilly, Sherwood Casjens	54
20	Identification of a second Escherichia coli groE gene whose product is necessary for bacteriophage morphogenesis. 1981 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kit Tilly, Helios Murialdo, Costa Georgopoulos	144

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