Luke Alphey

13.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
168 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Luke Alphey is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Luke Alphey has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Molecular Biology, 102 papers in Insect Science and 62 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Luke Alphey's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (79 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (64 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (62 papers). Luke Alphey is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (79 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (64 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (62 papers). Luke Alphey collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. Luke Alphey's co-authors include Christl A. Donnelly, Derric Nimmo, Helen White‐Cooper, Guoliang Fu, Andrew R. McKemey, Nina Alphey, Sarah Scaife, David M. Glover, Roger J. Wood and Tim Harvey‐Samuel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Luke Alphey

166 papers receiving 7.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Sterile-Insect Methods for Control of Mosquito-Borne Diseases: An Analysis

2009 382 citations Luke Alphey et al. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases profile →
Suppression of a Field Population of Aedes aegypti in Brazil by Sustained Release of Transgenic Male Mosquitoes

2015 378 citations Andrew R. McKemey, Renaud Lacroix et al. PLoS neglected tropical diseases profile →

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Luke Alphey

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Timothy L. Karr United States

Anthony A. James United States

Austin Burt United Kingdom

Sassan Asgari Australia

Christos Louis Greece

William Sullivan United States

Éric Marois France

Alexander S. Raikhel United States

Flaminia Catteruccia United States

Susanta K. Behura United States

Timothy L. Karr United States

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Countries citing papers authored by Luke Alphey

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luke Alphey

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luke Alphey

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Luke Alphey. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Luke Alphey 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 Luke Alphey. Luke Alphey is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Ant, Thomas H., Tim Harvey‐Samuel, Helen White‐Cooper, et al.. (2024). Transgenic expression of cif genes from Wolbachia strain wAlbB recapitulates cytoplasmic incompatibility in Aedes aegypti. Nature Communications. 15(1). 869–869. 9 indexed citations

Leftwich, Philip T., Jessica Purcell, Michelle A. E. Anderson, et al.. (2024). A Synthetic Biology Approach to Transgene Expression in Insects. ACS Synthetic Biology. 13(9). 3041–3045.

Anderson, Michelle A. E., Estela González, Joshua X. D. Ang, et al.. (2023). Closing the gap to effective gene drive in Aedes aegypti by exploiting germline regulatory elements. Nature Communications. 14(1). 338–338. 27 indexed citations

Harvey‐Samuel, Tim, et al.. (2023). CRISPR-based gene drives generate super-Mendelian inheritance in the disease vector Culex quinquefasciatus. Nature Communications. 14(1). 7561–7561. 7 indexed citations

Harvey‐Samuel, Tim, Xuejiao Xu, Michelle A. E. Anderson, et al.. (2022). Silencing RNAs expressed from W-linked PxyMasc “retrocopies” target that gene during female sex determination in Plutella xylostella. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(46). e2206025119–e2206025119. 11 indexed citations

Sanz‐Bernardo, Beatriz, Ismar R. Haga, S Basu, et al.. (2022). The Acquisition and Retention of Lumpy Skin Disease Virus by Blood-Feeding Insects Is Influenced by the Source of Virus, the Insect Body Part, and the Time since Feeding. Journal of Virology. 96(15). e0075122–e0075122. 16 indexed citations

Xu, Xuejiao, Tim Harvey‐Samuel, Hamid Anees Siddiqui, et al.. (2022). Toward a CRISPR-Cas9-Based Gene Drive in the Diamondback Moth Plutella xylostella. The CRISPR Journal. 5(2). 224–236. 36 indexed citations

Sanz‐Bernardo, Beatriz, Ismar R. Haga, S Basu, et al.. (2021). Quantifying and Modeling the Acquisition and Retention of Lumpy Skin Disease Virus by Hematophagus Insects Reveals Clinically but Not Subclinically Affected Cattle Are Promoters of Viral Transmission and Key Targets for Control of Disease Outbreaks. Journal of Virology. 95(9). 45 indexed citations

Rostant, Wayne G., et al.. (2020). Satyrization in Drosophila fruitflies. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(2). 319–330. 3 indexed citations

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Alphey, Luke, et al.. (2020). Standardizing the definition of gene drive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(49). 30864–30867. 75 indexed citations

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Flis, Ilona, Michelle A. E. Anderson, Philippa C. Hawes, et al.. (2020). Targeting female flight for genetic control of mosquitoes. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 14(12). e0008876–e0008876. 16 indexed citations

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Lello, Laura Sandra, Age Utt, Koen Bartholomeeusen, et al.. (2020). Cross-utilisation of template RNAs by alphavirus replicases. PLoS Pathogens. 16(9). e1008825–e1008825. 22 indexed citations

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Winskill, Peter, Renaud Lacroix, Sarah Scaife, et al.. (2013). Oral Ingestion of Transgenic RIDL Ae. aegypti Larvae Has No Negative Effect on Two Predator Toxorhynchites Species. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e58805–e58805. 12 indexed citations

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Bargielowski, Irka, Christian Kaufmann, Luke Alphey, Paul L. Reiter, & Jacob C. Koella. (2012). Flight Performance and Teneral Energy Reserves of Two Genetically-Modified and One Wild-Type Strain of the Yellow Fever Mosquito Aedes aegypti. Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases. 12(12). 1053–1058. 28 indexed citations

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Morrison, Neil I., et al.. (2012). Field Longevity of a Fluorescent Protein Marker in an Engineered Strain of the Pink Bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders). PLoS ONE. 7(6). e38547–e38547. 8 indexed citations

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Alphey, Nina, Luke Alphey, & Michael B. Bonsall. (2011). A Model Framework to Estimate Impact and Cost of Genetics-Based Sterile Insect Methods for Dengue Vector Control. PLoS ONE. 6(10). e25384–e25384. 62 indexed citations

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Fu, Guoliang, Rosemary Susan Lees, Derric Nimmo, et al.. (2010). Female-specific flightless phenotype for mosquito control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(10). 4550–4554. 245 indexed citations

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Alphey, Nina, et al.. (2010). GENETIC VECTOR CONTROL STRATEGIES TO REDUCE THE BURDEN OF MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 83. 54–54. 1 indexed citations

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Raghavan, S., Dean Thomas, Balázs Szöőr, et al.. (2000). Protein phosphatase 1β is required for the maintenance of muscle attachments. Current Biology. 10(5). 269–272. 39 indexed citations

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Orgad, Sara, Neil Brewis, Luke Alphey, et al.. (1990). The structure of protein phosphatase 2A is as highly conserved as that of protein phosphatase I. FEBS Letters. 275(1-2). 44–48. 64 indexed citations

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