Malte Petersen

6.6k total citations
31 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Malte Petersen is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Malte Petersen has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 13 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Malte Petersen's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (10 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (7 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Malte Petersen is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (10 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (7 papers) and Plant and animal studies (6 papers). Malte Petersen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Malte Petersen's co-authors include Bernhard Misof, Oliver Niehuis, Alexander Donath, Ralph S. Peters, Karen Meusemann, Shanlin Liu, Xin Zhou, Lars Podsiadłowski, Christoph Mayer and Lars Hering and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Malte Petersen

28 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Malte Petersen Germany 16 612 511 479 406 336 31 1.4k
Alexander Hayward United Kingdom 29 720 1.2× 528 1.0× 564 1.2× 462 1.1× 456 1.4× 65 1.9k
Emiliano Mancini Italy 17 470 0.8× 220 0.4× 310 0.6× 401 1.0× 316 0.9× 74 1.4k
Robert DeSalle United States 16 387 0.6× 566 1.1× 560 1.2× 177 0.4× 213 0.6× 27 1.4k
Richard Challis United Kingdom 15 494 0.8× 419 0.8× 429 0.9× 217 0.5× 349 1.0× 17 1.3k
Arong Luo China 13 359 0.6× 489 1.0× 408 0.9× 232 0.6× 105 0.3× 46 1.1k
Ryan C. Garrick United States 20 498 0.8× 769 1.5× 309 0.6× 177 0.4× 169 0.5× 60 1.4k
Susannah Elwyn United States 14 1.1k 1.7× 1.4k 2.8× 673 1.4× 383 0.9× 328 1.0× 18 2.5k
Ralph S. Peters Germany 25 1.4k 2.2× 938 1.8× 452 0.9× 688 1.7× 282 0.8× 63 2.1k
Patrick Kück Germany 14 817 1.3× 631 1.2× 799 1.7× 346 0.9× 311 0.9× 19 2.0k
Federico Abascal Spain 3 253 0.4× 284 0.6× 787 1.6× 210 0.5× 278 0.8× 3 1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Malte Petersen

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All Works

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Libourel, Cyril, Pavel Škaloud, Sacha Grisel, et al.. (2024). Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary origins of lichenization in chlorophyte algae. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4452–4452. 11 indexed citations
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Pauls, Steffen U., Wolfram Graf, Alan R. Lemmon, et al.. (2023). Gill Structure Linked to Ecological and Species Diversification in a Clade of Caddisflies. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny. 81. 917–929. 2 indexed citations
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Podsiadłowski, Lars, Alexander Donath, Malte Petersen, et al.. (2023). Intrasexual cuticular hydrocarbon dimorphism in a wasp sheds light on hydrocarbon biosynthesis genes in Hymenoptera. Communications Biology. 6(1). 147–147. 6 indexed citations
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Iwanami, Norimasa, Malte Petersen, Dagmar Diekhoff, & Thomas Boehm. (2022). Clonal dynamics underlying the skewed CD4/CD8 ratio of mouse thymocytes revealed by TCR-independent barcoding. Communications Biology. 5(1). 911–911. 1 indexed citations
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Bayless, Keith M., Michelle Trautwein, Karen Meusemann, et al.. (2021). Beyond Drosophila: resolving the rapid radiation of schizophoran flies with phylotranscriptomics. BMC Biology. 19(1). 23–23. 33 indexed citations
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Petersen, Malte, David Armisén, Richard A. Gibbs, et al.. (2021). Correction to: Diversity and evolution of the transposable element repertoire in arthropods with particular reference to insects. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(1). 146–146. 2 indexed citations
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Grande, Francesco Dal, Véronique Jamilloux, Nathalie Choisne, et al.. (2021). Transposable Elements in the Genome of the Lichen-Forming Fungus Umbilicaria pustulata and Their Distribution in Different Climate Zones along Elevation. Biology. 11(1). 24–24. 7 indexed citations
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Swann, Jeremy B., Stephen J. Holland, Malte Petersen, Theodore W. Pietsch, & Thomas Boehm. (2020). The immunogenetics of sexual parasitism. Science. 369(6511). 1608–1615. 51 indexed citations
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Prost, Stefan, Malte Petersen, Deepak Gupta, et al.. (2020). Improving the Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Siamese Fighting Fish ( Betta splendens ) in a University Master’s Course. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(7). 2179–2183. 11 indexed citations
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Petersen, Malte, David Armisén, Richard A. Gibbs, et al.. (2019). Diversity and evolution of the transposable element repertoire in arthropods with particular reference to insects. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 19(1). 11–11. 121 indexed citations
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Paraskevopoulou, Sofia, Florian Zirkel, Nicolas Wieseke, et al.. (2019). Re-assessing the diversity of negative strand RNA viruses in insects. PLoS Pathogens. 15(12). e1008224–e1008224. 100 indexed citations
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Petersen, Malte, Karen Meusemann, Alexander Donath, et al.. (2017). Orthograph: a versatile tool for mapping coding nucleotide sequences to clusters of orthologous genes. BMC Bioinformatics. 18(1). 111–111. 118 indexed citations
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Dowling, Daniel, Malte Petersen, Karen Meusemann, et al.. (2016). Transcriptomic data from panarthropods shed new light on the evolution of insulator binding proteins in insects. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 861–861. 13 indexed citations
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Dowling, Daniel, Alexander Donath, Karen Meusemann, et al.. (2016). Phylogenetic Origin and Diversification of RNAi Pathway Genes in Insects. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(12). evw281–evw281. 79 indexed citations
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Kraaijeveld, Ken, J. Howard Frank, Jens Bast, et al.. (2016). Decay of sexual trait genes in an asexual parasitoid wasp. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(12). evw273–evw273. 25 indexed citations
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Struck, Torsten H., Anja Golombek, Lars Hering, et al.. (2014). Platyzoan Paraphyly Based on Phylogenomic Data Supports a Noncoelomate Ancestry of Spiralia. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(7). 1833–1849. 134 indexed citations
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Peters, Ralph S., Karen Meusemann, Malte Petersen, et al.. (2014). The evolutionary history of holometabolous insects inferred from transcriptome-based phylogeny and comprehensive morphological data. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 14(1). 52–52. 139 indexed citations
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Niehuis, Oliver, Sonja Grath, Hans Pohl, et al.. (2013). Genomic and Morphological Evidence Converge to Resolve the Enigma of Strepsiptera. Current Biology. 23(14). 1388–1388. 7 indexed citations
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Niehuis, Oliver, Sonja Grath, Hans Pohl, et al.. (2012). Genomic and Morphological Evidence Converge to Resolve the Enigma of Strepsiptera. Current Biology. 22(14). 1309–1313. 123 indexed citations

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