Margit Foss

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Margit Foss is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Margit Foss has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Molecular Biology, 5 papers in Cell Biology and 4 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Margit Foss's work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (5 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (5 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (4 papers). Margit Foss is often cited by papers focused on Fungal and yeast genetics research (5 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (5 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (4 papers). Margit Foss collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Margit Foss's co-authors include Barbara J. Taylor, Jeffrey C. Hall, Jasper Rine, P Laurenson, Francis J. McNally, Bruce S. Baker, Adriana Villella, Devanand S. Manoli, Stephen F. Goodwin and Gyunghee Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Neuron.

In The Last Decade

Margit Foss

14 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Male-specific fruitless specifies the neural substrates of Drosophila courtship behaviour

2005 304 citations Devanand S. Manoli, Margit Foss et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Margit Foss United States	11	575	557	435	369	133	14	1.2k
Andrew J. Andres United States	14	637 1.1×	537 1.0×	219 0.5×	219 0.6×	207 1.6×	19	1.0k
Kazuko Fujitani Japan	13	376 0.7×	373 0.7×	268 0.6×	167 0.5×	120 0.9×	23	836
Craig T. Woodard United States	14	712 1.2×	400 0.7×	281 0.6×	210 0.6×	219 1.6×	21	1.0k
Maria Luísa Vasconcelos Portugal	11	959 1.7×	335 0.6×	482 1.1×	389 1.1×	151 1.1×	15	1.3k
Fengqiu Diao United States	16	706 1.2×	359 0.6×	246 0.6×	190 0.5×	178 1.3×	24	972
Audra L. Scully United States	12	864 1.5×	831 1.5×	256 0.6×	143 0.4×	180 1.4×	13	1.5k
John B. Connolly United Kingdom	10	533 0.9×	426 0.8×	243 0.6×	102 0.3×	118 0.9×	22	884
Shay Rotkopf Israel	6	470 0.8×	262 0.5×	264 0.6×	234 0.6×	85 0.6×	7	718
Shu‐Dan Yeh United States	11	224 0.4×	453 0.8×	341 0.8×	225 0.6×	77 0.6×	21	905
Pei-Tseng Lee United States	14	584 1.0×	466 0.8×	174 0.4×	137 0.4×	128 1.0×	16	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Margit Foss

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14 of 14 papers shown

Tseng, Kuo‐Fu, Margit Foss, & Dahong Zhang. (2012). Astral microtubules physically redistribute cortical actin filaments to the incipient contractile ring. Cytoskeleton. 69(11). 983–991. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Wei, et al.. (2009). Redistribution of Actin during Assembly and Reassembly of the Contractile Ring in Grasshopper Spermatocytes. PLoS ONE. 4(3). e4892–e4892. 6 indexed citations

Foss, Margit, et al.. (2008). Taxol Crystals Can Masquerade as Stabilized Microtubules. PLoS ONE. 3(1). e1476–e1476. 22 indexed citations

Chen, Wei, Margit Foss, Kuo‐Fu Tseng, & Dahong Zhang. (2008). Redundant Mechanisms Recruit Actin into the Contractile Ring in Silkworm Spermatocytes. PLoS Biology. 6(9). e209–e209. 36 indexed citations

Manoli, Devanand S., Margit Foss, Adriana Villella, et al.. (2005). Male-specific fruitless specifies the neural substrates of Drosophila courtship behaviour. Nature. 436(7049). 395–400. 304 indexed citations breakdown →

Lee, Gyunghee, Margit Foss, Stephen F. Goodwin, et al.. (2000). Spatial, temporal, and sexually dimorphic expression patterns of thefruitless gene in theDrosophila central nervous system. Journal of Neurobiology. 43(4). 404–426. 189 indexed citations

Goodwin, Stephen F., Barbara J. Taylor, Adriana Villella, et al.. (2000). Aberrant Splicing and Altered Spatial Expression Patterns in fruitless Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 154(2). 725–745. 102 indexed citations

Finley, Kim D., Philip T. Edeen, Margit Foss, et al.. (1998). dissatisfaction Encodes a Tailless-like Nuclear Receptor Expressed in a Subset of CNS Neurons Controlling Drosophila Sexual Behavior. Neuron. 21(6). 1363–1374. 77 indexed citations

Foss, Margit, et al.. (1996). DSK1, a novel kinesin-related protein from the diatom Cylindrotheca fusiformis that is involved in anaphase spindle elongation.. The Journal of Cell Biology. 133(3). 595–604. 21 indexed citations

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Loo, Stephen, P Laurenson, Margit Foss, Andrew Dillin, & Jasper Rine. (1995). Roles of ABF1, NPL3, and YCL54 in silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.. Genetics. 141(3). 889–902. 54 indexed citations

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Foss, Margit, Francis J. McNally, P Laurenson, & Jasper Rine. (1994). Origin recognition complex (ORC) in transcriptional silencing and DNA replication in S. cerevisiae. Trends in Genetics. 10(3). 78–78. 9 indexed citations

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Fox, Catherine A., et al.. (1993). A Transcriptional Silencer as a Specialized Origin of Replication That Establishes Functional Domains of Chromatin. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 58(0). 443–455. 18 indexed citations

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Foss, Margit, Francis J. McNally, P Laurenson, & Jasper Rine. (1993). Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) in Transcriptional Silencing and DNA Replication in S. cerevisiae. Science. 262(5141). 1838–1844. 279 indexed citations

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Schnell, R., et al.. (1989). Genetic and molecular characterization of suppressors of SIR4 mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.. Genetics. 122(1). 29–46. 33 indexed citations

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