Lex Flagel

6.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
42 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Lex Flagel is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lex Flagel has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Plant Science, 23 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Lex Flagel's work include Research in Cotton Cultivation (14 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (13 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (10 papers). Lex Flagel is often cited by papers focused on Research in Cotton Cultivation (14 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (13 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (10 papers). Lex Flagel collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Lex Flagel's co-authors include Jonathan F. Wendel, Joshua A. Udall, Ryan A. Rapp, Andrew H. Paterson, Pamela S. Soltis, Jeff J. Doyle, Ran Hovav, Bhupendra Chaudhary, Yaniv Brandvain and David A. Somers and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Lex Flagel

42 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Gene duplication and evolutionary novelty in plants

2009 682 citations Lex Flagel, Jonathan F. Wendel New Phytologist profile →
Evolutionary Genetics of Genome Merger and Doubling in Plants

2008 512 citations Lex Flagel, Ryan A. Rapp et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lex Flagel United States	30	3.3k	2.4k	805	419	278	42	4.2k
Aureliano Bombarely United States	31	2.9k 0.9×	2.2k 0.9×	495 0.6×	312 0.7×	122 0.4×	86	4.0k
Foo Cheung United States	25	2.9k 0.9×	2.3k 1.0×	579 0.7×	289 0.7×	241 0.9×	33	4.5k
Axel Himmelbach Germany	39	4.0k 1.2×	2.2k 0.9×	709 0.9×	230 0.5×	140 0.5×	107	4.7k
José Blanca Spain	37	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	183 0.4×	334 1.2×	62	3.6k
Kentaro Yoshida Japan	32	5.9k 1.8×	2.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	228 0.5×	185 0.7×	90	6.8k
Maria Lúcia Carneiro Vieira Brazil	32	2.6k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	693 0.9×	490 1.2×	134 0.5×	134	3.6k
Abdelali Barakat United States	26	2.7k 0.8×	2.2k 0.9×	388 0.5×	303 0.7×	77 0.3×	41	3.5k
Ross Crowhurst New Zealand	31	2.7k 0.8×	1.9k 0.8×	386 0.5×	299 0.7×	283 1.0×	72	3.7k
Kevin L. Childs United States	37	4.0k 1.2×	3.1k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	418 1.0×	241 0.9×	85	5.8k
Norman Warthmann Germany	24	4.6k 1.4×	3.6k 1.5×	1.3k 1.7×	435 1.0×	97 0.3×	33	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Lex Flagel

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lex Flagel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lex Flagel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lex Flagel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lex Flagel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lex Flagel. Lex Flagel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ray, Dylan D., Lex Flagel, & Daniel R. Schrider. (2024). IntroUNET: Identifying introgressed alleles via semantic segmentation. PLoS Genetics. 20(2). e1010657–e1010657. 5 indexed citations

Runquist, Ryan D. Briscoe, et al.. (2023). Chronosequence of invasion reveals minimal losses of population genomic diversity, niche expansion, and trait divergence in the polyploid, leafy spurge. Evolutionary Applications. 16(10). 1680–1696. 2 indexed citations

Flagel, Lex, et al.. (2023). Variance component estimates, phenotypic characterization, and genetic evaluation of bovine congestive heart failure in commercial feeder cattle. Frontiers in Genetics. 14. 1148301–1148301. 3 indexed citations

Swarup, Shilpa, Edward J. Cargill, Kate Crosby, et al.. (2020). Genetic diversity is indispensable for plant breeding to improve crops. Crop Science. 61(2). 839–852. 199 indexed citations

Tucker, Sarah, Frank G. Dohleman, Dmitry Grapov, et al.. (2019). Evaluating maize phenotypic variance, heritability, and yield relationships at multiple biological scales across agronomically relevant environments. Plant Cell & Environment. 43(4). 880–902. 28 indexed citations

Boaventura, Debora, Julia Ulrich, Bettina Lueke, et al.. (2019). Molecular characterization of Cry1F resistance in fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda from Brazil. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 116. 103280–103280. 75 indexed citations

Li, Lin, Roman Briskine, Robert Schaefer, et al.. (2016). Co-expression network analysis of duplicate genes in maize (Zea mays L.) reveals no subgenome bias. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 875–875. 32 indexed citations

Flagel, Lex, Raman Bansal, Randall A. Kerstetter, et al.. (2014). Western corn rootworm (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera) transcriptome assembly and genomic analysis of population structure. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 195–195. 25 indexed citations

Brandvain, Yaniv, Amanda M. Kenney, Lex Flagel, Graham Coop, & Andrea L. Sweigart. (2014). Speciation and Introgression between Mimulus nasutus and Mimulus guttatus. PLoS Genetics. 10(6). e1004410–e1004410. 180 indexed citations

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Flagel, Lex, John H. Willis, & Todd Vision. (2013). The Standing Pool of Genomic Structural Variation in a Natural Population of Mimulus guttatus. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(1). 53–64. 32 indexed citations

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Flagel, Lex, Jonathan F. Wendel, & Joshua A. Udall. (2012). Duplicate gene evolution, homoeologous recombination, and transcriptome characterization in allopolyploid cotton. BMC Genomics. 13(1). 302–302. 76 indexed citations

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Rapp, Ryan A., Candace H. Haigler, Lex Flagel, et al.. (2010). Gene expression in developing fibres of Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) was massively altered by domestication. BMC Biology. 8(1). 139–139. 78 indexed citations

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Chaudhary, Bhupendra, Lex Flagel, Robert M. Stupar, et al.. (2009). Reciprocal Silencing, Transcriptional Bias and Functional Divergence of Homeologs in Polyploid Cotton (Gossypium). Genetics. 182(2). 503–517. 181 indexed citations

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Chaudhary, Bhupendra, Ran Hovav, Lex Flagel, Ron Mittler, & Jonathan F. Wendel. (2009). Parallel expression evolution of oxidative stress-related genes in fiber from wild and domesticated diploid and polyploid cotton (Gossypium). BMC Genomics. 10(1). 378–378. 55 indexed citations

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Flagel, Lex & Jonathan F. Wendel. (2009). Evolutionary rate variation, genomic dominance and duplicate gene expression evolution during allotetraploid cotton speciation. New Phytologist. 186(1). 184–193. 196 indexed citations

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Salmon, Armel, Lex Flagel, Ying Bao, Joshua A. Udall, & Jonathan F. Wendel. (2009). Homoeologous nonreciprocal recombination in polyploid cotton. New Phytologist. 186(1). 123–134. 114 indexed citations

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Flagel, Lex & Jonathan F. Wendel. (2009). Gene duplication and evolutionary novelty in plants. New Phytologist. 183(3). 557–564. 682 indexed citations breakdown →

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Flagel, Lex, Joshua A. Udall, Dan Nettleton, & Jonathan F. Wendel. (2008). Duplicate gene expression in allopolyploid Gossypiumreveals two temporally distinct phases of expression evolution. BMC Biology. 6(1). 16–16. 204 indexed citations

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Udall, Joshua A., Lex Flagel, Foo Cheung, et al.. (2007). Spotted cotton oligonucleotide microarrays for gene expression analysis. BMC Genomics. 8(1). 81–81. 38 indexed citations

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Olhoft, Paula M., Lex Flagel, & David A. Somers. (2004). T‐DNA locus structure in a large population of soybean plants transformed using the Agrobacterium‐mediated cotyledonary‐node method. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2(4). 289–300. 45 indexed citations

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