M. Wayne Davis

6.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
32 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

M. Wayne Davis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Aging and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Wayne Davis has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Molecular Biology, 17 papers in Aging and 8 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in M. Wayne Davis's work include Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (17 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (6 papers). M. Wayne Davis is often cited by papers focused on Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (17 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (14 papers) and Cellular transport and secretion (6 papers). M. Wayne Davis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Germany. M. Wayne Davis's co-authors include Erik M. Jørgensen, Shigeki Watanabe, Leon Avery, Christian Frøkjær‐Jensen, Blake Newman, Søren‐Peter Olesen, Christopher E. Hopkins, Morten Grunnet, Joseph A. Dent and Berit Söhl-Kielczynski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

M. Wayne Davis

30 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Single-copy insertion of transgenes in Caenorhabditis elegans

2008 858 citations Christian Frøkjær‐Jensen, M. Wayne Davis et al. profile →
Protein localization in electron micrographs using fluorescence nanoscopy

2010 287 citations Shigeki Watanabe, M. Wayne Davis et al. Nature Methods profile →
ApE, A Plasmid Editor: A Freely Available DNA Manipulation and Visualization Program

2022 129 citations M. Wayne Davis, Erik M. Jørgensen SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. Wayne Davis United States	24	2.7k	1.8k	988	904	505	32	4.2k
Jean‐Louis Bessereau France	34	2.8k 1.0×	2.5k 1.4×	854 0.9×	997 1.1×	850 1.7×	72	4.7k
Miriam B. Goodman United States	47	2.4k 0.9×	2.8k 1.6×	989 1.0×	1.6k 1.8×	1.8k 3.5×	119	6.4k
Yishi Jin United States	53	5.3k 1.9×	3.6k 2.0×	2.4k 2.5×	3.6k 4.0×	1.2k 2.4×	163	9.9k
Yuan Tu United States	13	4.3k 1.6×	589 0.3×	591 0.6×	860 1.0×	204 0.4×	20	6.1k
Sreekanth H. Chalasani United States	23	1.1k 0.4×	1.3k 0.7×	293 0.3×	1.9k 2.1×	1.0k 2.0×	45	4.2k
Daniel A. Colón‐Ramos United States	32	1.3k 0.5×	971 0.5×	498 0.5×	845 0.9×	492 1.0×	65	3.2k
Su Guo United States	47	4.6k 1.7×	1.1k 0.6×	3.1k 3.2×	1.1k 1.3×	319 0.6×	134	8.0k
Zhirong Bao United States	29	2.4k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	330 0.3×	149 0.2×	292 0.6×	67	4.4k
Ken C. Q. Nguyen United States	28	2.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	641 0.6×	439 0.5×	393 0.8×	54	3.4k
Piali Sengupta United States	50	3.1k 1.1×	3.5k 2.0×	740 0.7×	1.7k 1.9×	2.5k 4.9×	127	7.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Davis, M. Wayne & Erik M. Jørgensen. (2024). Using ApE for In Silico Golden Gate Cloning. Methods in molecular biology. 2850. 79–87.

Davis, M. Wayne & Erik M. Jørgensen. (2022). ApE, A Plasmid Editor: A Freely Available DNA Manipulation and Visualization Program. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. 818619–818619. 129 indexed citations breakdown →

Guo, Ruipeng, et al.. (2021). Scan-less machine-learning-enabled incoherent microscopy for minimally-invasive deep-brain imaging. Optics Express. 30(2). 1546–1546. 7 indexed citations

Schwartz, Matthew L., et al.. (2021). High-efficiency CRISPR gene editing in C. elegans using Cas9 integrated into the genome. PLoS Genetics. 17(11). e1009755–e1009755. 26 indexed citations

Kusick, Grant F., Sumana Raychaudhuri, Kristina Lippmann, et al.. (2020). Synaptic vesicles transiently dock to refill release sites. Nature Neuroscience. 23(11). 1329–1338. 77 indexed citations

Watanabe, Shigeki, M. Wayne Davis, Grant F. Kusick, Janet Iwasa, & Erik M. Jørgensen. (2020). SynapsEM: Computer-Assisted Synapse Morphometry. Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience. 12. 584549–584549. 17 indexed citations

Frøkjær‐Jensen, Christian, Nimit Jain, Loren Hansen, et al.. (2016). An Abundant Class of Non-coding DNA Can Prevent Stochastic Gene Silencing in the C. elegans Germline. Cell. 166(2). 343–357. 69 indexed citations

Mansouri, Maysam, Aurélien Rizk, Chiara Cosentino, et al.. (2016). Highly efficient baculovirus-mediated multigene delivery in primary cells. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11529–11529. 86 indexed citations

Watanabe, Shigeki, Thorsten Trimbuch, Marcial Camacho, et al.. (2014). Clathrin regenerates synaptic vesicles from endosomes. Nature. 515(7526). 228–233. 221 indexed citations

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Frøkjær‐Jensen, Christian, M. Wayne Davis, Mihail Sarov, et al.. (2014). Random and targeted transgene insertion in Caenorhabditis elegans using a modified Mos1 transposon. Nature Methods. 11(5). 529–534. 251 indexed citations

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Watanabe, Shigeki, Benjamin R. Rost, Marcial Camacho, et al.. (2013). Ultrafast endocytosis at mouse hippocampal synapses. Nature. 504(7479). 242–247. 408 indexed citations

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Zhang, Houbin, Ryan Constantine, S.M. Vorobiev, et al.. (2011). UNC119 is required for G protein trafficking in sensory neurons. Nature Neuroscience. 14(7). 874–880. 132 indexed citations

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Beg, Asim A., Glen G. Ernstrom, Paola Nix, M. Wayne Davis, & Erik M. Jørgensen. (2008). Protons Act as a Transmitter for Muscle Contraction in C. elegans. Cell. 132(1). 149–160. 105 indexed citations

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Davis, M. Wayne, J. Jason Morton, Dana Carroll, & Erik M. Jørgensen. (2008). Gene Activation Using FLP Recombinase in C. elegans. PLoS Genetics. 4(3). e1000028–e1000028. 102 indexed citations

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Morton, J. Jason, M. Wayne Davis, Erik M. Jørgensen, & Dana Carroll. (2006). Induction and repair of zinc-finger nuclease-targeted double-strand breaks in Caenorhabditis elegans somatic cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(44). 16370–16375. 144 indexed citations

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Davis, M. Wayne & Marc Hammarlund. (2006). Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Mapping. Humana Press eBooks. 351. 75–92. 13 indexed citations

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Davis, M. Wayne, et al.. (2005). Rapid single nucleotide polymorphism mapping in C. elegans. BMC Genomics. 6(1). 118–118. 256 indexed citations

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Hammarlund, Marc, et al.. (2005). Heterozygous Insertions Alter Crossover Distribution but Allow Crossover Interference in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 171(3). 1047–1056. 32 indexed citations

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Bono, Mario de, David M. Tobin, M. Wayne Davis, Leon Avery, & Cornelia I. Bargmann. (2002). Social feeding in Caenorhabditis elegans is induced by neurons that detect aversive stimuli. Nature. 419(6910). 899–903. 205 indexed citations

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Dent, Joseph A., M. Wayne Davis, & Leon Avery. (1997). avr-15 encodes a chloride channel subunit that mediates inhibitory glutamatergic neurotransmission and ivermectin sensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans. The EMBO Journal. 16(19). 5867–5879. 285 indexed citations

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