Mark L. Wheelis

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
37 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Mark L. Wheelis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark L. Wheelis has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Mark L. Wheelis's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (5 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Mark L. Wheelis is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (5 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (5 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (4 papers). Mark L. Wheelis collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Mark L. Wheelis's co-authors include O. Kandler, C R Woese, Roger Y. Stanier, L. V. Madden, Norberto J. Palleroni, L. Nicholas Ornston, Carl R. Woese, José Luis Cánovas, J.R. Thayer and Rocco Casagrande and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Mark L. Wheelis

37 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.

Towards a natural system of organisms: proposal for the domains Archaea, Bacteria, and Eucarya.

1990 4.0k citations O. Kandler, Mark L. Wheelis et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark L. Wheelis United States	19	3.5k	1.5k	772	667	445	37	5.0k
Ken F. Jarrell Canada	47	4.2k 1.2×	1.5k 1.0×	1.5k 1.9×	362 0.5×	588 1.3×	121	5.6k
Helmut Blöcker Germany	39	5.5k 1.6×	1.5k 1.0×	1.4k 1.8×	1.0k 1.5×	355 0.8×	119	9.0k
Arthur L. Koch United States	45	3.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	1.9k 2.5×	409 0.6×	426 1.0×	154	6.1k
László N. Csonka United States	35	3.1k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	1.5k 2.0×	1.3k 1.9×	576 1.3×	59	5.7k
Frank T. Robb United States	44	3.6k 1.0×	1.2k 0.8×	562 0.7×	445 0.7×	1.3k 2.9×	161	5.4k
Linda J. Magrum United States	16	3.8k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	477 0.6×	346 0.5×	374 0.8×	23	6.0k
Peter Palm Germany	35	3.0k 0.9×	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.3×	426 0.6×	472 1.1×	71	3.9k
Martin Dworkin United States	45	3.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	1.3k 1.7×	1.1k 1.7×	163 0.4×	126	6.5k
Robert A. Feldman United States	27	5.0k 1.4×	1.9k 1.3×	1.1k 1.5×	319 0.5×	180 0.4×	72	7.8k
J. Weckesser Germany	36	2.4k 0.7×	883 0.6×	637 0.8×	305 0.5×	206 0.5×	141	4.7k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Wheelis, Mark L.. (2008). Principles of modern microbiology. Andalas University Repository (Andalas University). 23 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L. & Malcolm Dando. (2005). Neurobiology: A case study of the imminent militarization of biology. International Review of the Red Cross. 87(859). 553–571. 12 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L. & Malcolm Dando. (2003). Back to bioweapons?. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 59(1). 41–46. 1 indexed citations

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Madden, L. V. & Mark L. Wheelis. (2003). T HE T HREAT OF P LANT P ATHOGENS AS W EAPONS A GAINST U.S. C ROPS. Annual Review of Phytopathology. 41(1). 155–176. 69 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L.. (2002). Biotechnology and biochemical weapons. The Nonproliferation Review. 9(1). 48–53. 19 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L.. (2002). Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa. Emerging infectious diseases. 8(9). 971–975. 130 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L.. (2000). Investigating Disease Outbreaks under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. Emerging infectious diseases. 6(6). 595–600. 10 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L., O. Kandler, & Carl R. Woese. (1992). On the nature of global classification. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 89(7). 2930–2934. 73 indexed citations

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Stanier, Roger Y., John L. Ingraham, Mark L. Wheelis, & Page R. Painter. (1986). General Microbiology. 8 indexed citations

10.

Stanier, Roger Y., John L. Ingraham, Mark L. Wheelis, & Page R. Painter. (1986). General Microbiology. 7 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L.. (1984). Energy conservation and pyridine nucleotide reduction in chemoautotrophic bacteria: a thermodynamic analysis. Archives of Microbiology. 138(2). 166–169. 5 indexed citations

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Cangelosi, Gerard A. & Mark L. Wheelis. (1984). Regulation by molecular oxygen and organic substrates of hydrogenase synthesis in Alcaligenes eutrophus. Journal of Bacteriology. 159(1). 138–144. 18 indexed citations

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Thayer, J.R. & Mark L. Wheelis. (1982). Active Transport of Benzoate in Pseudomonas putida. Microbiology. 128(8). 1749–1753. 29 indexed citations

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Mrsny, Randall J., et al.. (1978). Use of an internal standard in monitoring the bacterial degradation of crude oil. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 36(5). 776–779. 2 indexed citations

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Torrontegui, Gertrudis de, Ramón Díaz, Mark L. Wheelis, & José Luis Cánovas. (1976). Supra-operonic clustering of genes specifying glucose dissimilation in Pseudomonas putida. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 144(3). 307–311. 11 indexed citations

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Thayer, J.R. & Mark L. Wheelis. (1976). Characterization of a benzoate permease mutant of Pseudomonas putida. Archives of Microbiology. 110(1). 37–42. 12 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L.. (1975). THE GENETICS OF DISSIMILARITY PATHWAYS IN PSEUDOMONAS. Annual Review of Microbiology. 29(1). 505–524. 46 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L., et al.. (1973). The clustering on thePseudomonas putida chromosome of genes specifying dissimilatory functions. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 2(4). 235–242. 31 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L. & L. Nicholas Ornston. (1972). Genetic Control of Enzyme Induction in the β-Ketoadipate Pathway ofPseudomonas putida:Deletion Mapping ofcatMutations. Journal of Bacteriology. 109(2). 790–795. 66 indexed citations

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Wheelis, Mark L.. (1972). Regulation of the synthesis of enzymes of tryptophan dissimilation in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus. Archives of Microbiology. 87(1). 1–9. 5 indexed citations

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