Manuel Aranda

10.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
107 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Manuel Aranda is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Manuel Aranda has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Ecology, 41 papers in Oceanography and 28 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Manuel Aranda's work include Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (80 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (24 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (20 papers). Manuel Aranda is often cited by papers focused on Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (80 papers), Marine and coastal plant biology (24 papers) and Marine Sponges and Natural Products (20 papers). Manuel Aranda collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, Germany and United States. Manuel Aranda's co-authors include Christian R. Voolstra, Yi Jin Liew, Till Bayer, Sebastian Baumgarten, Didier Zoccola, Sebastian Schmidt‐Roach, Yong Li, Sylvie Tambutté, Diethard Tautz and Maha J. Cziesielski and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Manuel Aranda

101 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

The genome of Aiptasia , a sea anemone model for coral symbiosis

2015 289 citations Sebastian Baumgarten, Yi Jin Liew et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Manuel Aranda	3.3k	1.6k	1.3k	821	791	107	4.6k
Virginia M. Weis	5.5k 1.7×	2.9k 1.8×	862 0.7×	1.1k 1.3×	1.5k 1.8×	114	6.6k
Simon K. Davy	5.0k 1.5×	2.7k 1.7×	508 0.4×	1.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.7×	162	5.6k
Chuya Shinzato	1.7k 0.5×	731 0.4×	626 0.5×	536 0.7×	570 0.7×	99	2.6k
Eli Meyer	1.8k 0.6×	909 0.6×	727 0.6×	839 1.0×	368 0.5×	39	3.4k
Erwan Corre	1.6k 0.5×	1.1k 0.7×	1.6k 1.2×	353 0.4×	235 0.3×	139	3.9k
Line K. Bay	4.0k 1.2×	2.3k 1.4×	478 0.4×	1.8k 2.2×	475 0.6×	105	4.7k
Eiichi Shoguchi	1.0k 0.3×	510 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	772 0.9×	380 0.5×	67	2.7k
Ruth D. Gates	7.0k 2.1×	5.0k 3.0×	636 0.5×	2.5k 3.1×	921 1.2×	127	8.1k
John C. Bythell	4.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	329 0.2×	1.1k 1.4×	796 1.0×	74	4.7k
Michael Stat	4.6k 1.4×	2.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.4×	999 1.2×	251 0.3×	73	5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Manuel Aranda

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Manuel Aranda

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

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Han, Wenkai, David Gómez-Cabrero, Jesper Tegnér, et al.. (2025). Benchmarking cross-species single-cell RNA-seq data integration methods: towards a cell type tree of life. Nucleic Acids Research. 53(1). 3 indexed citations

Howells, Emily J., David Abrego, Sebastian Schmidt‐Roach, et al.. (2025). Marine heatwaves select for thermal tolerance in a reef-building coral. Nature Climate Change. 15(8). 829–832. 1 indexed citations

Chen, Ke, Vanessa Melino, Muppala P. Reddy, et al.. (2024). SOS1 tonoplast neo-localization and the RGG protein SALTY are important in the extreme salinity tolerance of Salicornia bigelovii. Nature Communications. 15(1). 4279–4279. 23 indexed citations

Kim, Min‐Sub, Young Hwan Lee, Yoseop Lee, et al.. (2023). Transgenerational adaptation to ocean acidification determines the susceptibility of filter-feeding rotifers to nanoplastics. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 461. 132593–132593. 10 indexed citations

Smith, Edward G., Khaled M. Hazzouri, Jae Young Choi, et al.. (2022). Signatures of selection underpinning rapid coral adaptation to the world’s warmest reefs. Science Advances. 8(2). eabl7287–eabl7287. 33 indexed citations

Prasanna, Arun N., Guoxin Cui, Line K. Bay, et al.. (2022). The coral Acropora loripes genome reveals an alternative pathway for cysteine biosynthesis in animals. Science Advances. 8(38). eabq0304–eabq0304. 13 indexed citations

Barno, Adam R., Helena Villela, Manuel Aranda, Torsten Thomas, & Raquel S. Peixoto. (2021). Host under epigenetic control: A novel perspective on the interaction between microorganisms and corals. BioEssays. 43(10). e2100068–e2100068. 15 indexed citations

Alwazani, Hibatallah, Sebastian Schmidt‐Roach, Panayiotis Bilalis, et al.. (2021). Sustainable and Eco-Friendly Coral Restoration through 3D Printing and Fabrication. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 9(37). 12634–12645. 46 indexed citations

Michell, Craig, et al.. (2021). Genomes of the willow-galling sawflies Euura lappo and Eupontania aestiva (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae): a resource for research on ecological speciation, adaptation, and gall induction. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(5). 5 indexed citations

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Roy, Nathalie Le, Philippe Ganot, Manuel Aranda, Denis Allemand, & Sylvie Tambutté. (2021). The skeletome of the red coral Corallium rubrum indicates an independent evolution of biomineralization process in octocorals. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(1). 1–1. 70 indexed citations

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Ziegler, Maren, Andrea Antón, Shannon G. Klein, et al.. (2021). Integrating environmental variability to broaden the research on coral responses to future ocean conditions. Global Change Biology. 27(21). 5532–5546. 20 indexed citations

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Wang, Xin, Didier Zoccola, Yi Jin Liew, et al.. (2021). The Evolution of Calcification in Reef-Building Corals. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(9). 3543–3555. 15 indexed citations

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Liew, Yi Jin, Emily J. Howells, Xin Wang, et al.. (2020). Intergenerational epigenetic inheritance in reef-building corals. Nature Climate Change. 10(3). 254–259. 99 indexed citations

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Herrera, Marcela, et al.. (2020). Temperature transcends partner specificity in the symbiosis establishment of a cnidarian. The ISME Journal. 15(1). 141–153. 21 indexed citations

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Engelberts, J Pamela, Steven J. Robbins, Jasper M. de Goeij, et al.. (2020). Characterization of a sponge microbiome using an integrative genome-centric approach. The ISME Journal. 14(5). 1100–1110. 102 indexed citations

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Cui, Guoxin, Yi Jin Liew, Yong Li, et al.. (2019). Host-dependent nitrogen recycling as a mechanism of symbiont control in Aiptasia. PLoS Genetics. 15(6). e1008189–e1008189. 74 indexed citations

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Cziesielski, Maha J., Yi Jin Liew, Guoxin Cui, et al.. (2018). Multi-omics analysis of thermal stress response in a zooxanthellate cnidarian reveals the importance of associating with thermotolerant symbionts. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1877). 20172654–20172654. 61 indexed citations

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Voolstra, Christian R., Yong Li, Yi Jin Liew, et al.. (2017). Comparative analysis of the genomes of Stylophora pistillata and Acropora digitifera provides evidence for extensive differences between species of corals. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 17583–17583. 106 indexed citations

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Chen, Jit Ern, Guoxin Cui, Xin Wang, Yi Jin Liew, & Manuel Aranda. (2017). Recent expansion of heat-activated retrotransposons in the coral symbiont Symbiodinium microadriaticum. The ISME Journal. 12(2). 639–643. 19 indexed citations

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Marques‐Souza, Henrique, Manuel Aranda, & Diethard Tautz. (2008). Delimiting the conserved features of hunchback function for the trunk organization of insects. Development. 135(5). 881–888. 49 indexed citations

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