Mark Sistrom

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 952 citations indexed

About

Mark Sistrom is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Sistrom has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 952 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Mark Sistrom's work include Trypanosoma species research and implications (8 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (6 papers). Mark Sistrom is often cited by papers focused on Trypanosoma species research and implications (8 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (6 papers). Mark Sistrom collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Mark Sistrom's co-authors include Benjamin K. Chan, Paul E. Turner, Kaitlyn E. Kortright, Deepak Narayan, John E. Wertz, Stephen C. Donnellan, Mark N. Hutchinson, Serap Aksoy, Adalgisa Caccone and Stephen J. Richards and has published in prestigious journals such as Bioinformatics, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Mark Sistrom

30 papers receiving 941 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.

Phage selection restores antibiotic sensitivity in MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa

2016 512 citations Benjamin K. Chan, Mark Sistrom et al. Scientific Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Sistrom United States	15	500	229	192	181	178	31	952
Trevor C. Bruen New Zealand	3	148 0.3×	380 1.7×	265 1.4×	56 0.3×	55 0.3×	3	1.1k
Marco V. Bernasconi Switzerland	19	215 0.4×	113 0.5×	154 0.8×	19 0.1×	55 0.3×	42	1.1k
F. Vercammen Belgium	21	232 0.5×	71 0.3×	54 0.3×	19 0.1×	82 0.5×	57	1.3k
Crystal M. Hepp United States	16	110 0.2×	370 1.6×	138 0.7×	42 0.2×	36 0.2×	47	927
Danielle Walker United Kingdom	8	473 0.9×	312 1.4×	240 1.3×	89 0.5×	91 0.5×	8	1.1k
Francisco Petrucci‐Fonseca Portugal	17	529 1.1×	79 0.3×	392 2.0×	59 0.3×	22 0.1×	41	828
Amber Gillett Australia	21	242 0.5×	189 0.8×	316 1.6×	6 0.0×	210 1.2×	66	1.2k
Audrey Arnal France	18	102 0.2×	134 0.6×	113 0.6×	144 0.8×	43 0.2×	31	792
Sharon K. Taylor United States	15	184 0.4×	57 0.2×	49 0.3×	21 0.1×	159 0.9×	28	742
John J. Dennehy United States	21	445 0.9×	298 1.3×	350 1.8×	7 0.0×	77 0.4×	51	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Sistrom

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

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Becker, Joy A., Ruth N. Zadoks, Carola Venturini, et al.. (2025). Vibrio harveyi plasmids as drivers of virulence in barramundi (Lates calcarifer). PLoS ONE. 20(5). e0319450–e0319450.

Sistrom, Mark, et al.. (2024). Comparative genomics of Japanese encephalitis virus shows low rates of recombination and a small subset of codon positions under episodic diversifying selection. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 18(1). e0011459–e0011459. 1 indexed citations

Sistrom, Mark, et al.. (2021). Antimicrobial resistance in Bacillus-based biopesticide products. Microbiology. 167(8). 8 indexed citations

Nkwengulila, Gamba, Johnson O. Ouma, Furaha Mramba, et al.. (2017). Genetic diversity of Glossina fuscipes fuscipes along the shores of Lake Victoria in Tanzania and Kenya: implications for management. Parasites & Vectors. 10(1). 268–268. 4 indexed citations

Richardson, Joshua B., Kuang‐Yao Lee, Paul O. Mireji, et al.. (2017). Genomic analyses of African Trypanozoon strains to assess evolutionary relationships and identify markers for strain identification. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 11(9). e0005949–e0005949. 10 indexed citations

Chan, Benjamin K., Mark Sistrom, John E. Wertz, et al.. (2016). Phage selection restores antibiotic sensitivity in MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 26717–26717. 512 indexed citations breakdown →

Sistrom, Mark, Benjamin Evans, Joshua B. Benoit, et al.. (2016). De Novo Genome Assembly Shows Genome Wide Similarity between Trypanosoma brucei brucei and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. PLoS ONE. 11(2). e0147660–e0147660. 17 indexed citations

Morley, Valerie J., Mark Sistrom, José A. Usme-Ciro, Susanna K. Remold, & Paul E. Turner. (2016). Evolution in spatially mixed host environments increases divergence for evolved fitness and intrapopulation genetic diversity in RNA viruses. Virus Evolution. 2(1). vev022–vev022. 11 indexed citations

Echodu, Richard, Mark Sistrom, Rosemary Bateta, et al.. (2015). Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Trypanosoma brucei in Uganda: Implications for the Epidemiology of Sleeping Sickness and Nagana. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 9(2). e0003353–e0003353. 23 indexed citations

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Sistrom, Mark, Heath O’Brien, Zheng Wang, et al.. (2015). Genomic and Gene-Expression Comparisons among Phage-Resistant Type-IV Pilus Mutants of Pseudomonas syringae pathovar phaseolicola. PLoS ONE. 10(12). e0144514–e0144514. 11 indexed citations

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Hutchinson, Mark N., et al.. (2014). Taxonomic revision of the Australian arid zone lizards Gehyra variegata and G. montium (Squamata, Gekkonidae) with description of three new species. Zootaxa. 3814(2). 221–41. 14 indexed citations

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Sistrom, Mark, Mark N. Hutchinson, Terry Bertozzi, & Stephen C. Donnellan. (2014). Evaluating evolutionary history in the face of high gene tree discordance in Australian Gehyra (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). Heredity. 113(1). 52–63. 8 indexed citations

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Sistrom, Mark, Benjamin Evans, Robert Bjornson, et al.. (2014). Comparative Genomics Reveals Multiple Genetic Backgrounds of Human Pathogenicity in the Trypanosoma brucei Complex. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(10). 2811–2819. 28 indexed citations

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Sistrom, Mark, Richard Echodu, Chaz Hyseni, et al.. (2013). Taking advantage of genomic data to develop reliable microsatellite loci in Trypanosoma brucei. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 46(7). 2964–70. 2 indexed citations

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Sistrom, Mark, Stephen C. Donnellan, & Mark N. Hutchinson. (2013). Delimiting species in recent radiations with low levels of morphological divergence: A case study in Australian Gehyra geckos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 68(1). 135–143. 35 indexed citations

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Echodu, Richard, Mark Sistrom, Chaz Hyseni, et al.. (2013). Genetically DistinctGlossina fuscipes fuscipesPopulations in the Lake Kyoga Region of Uganda and Its Relevance for Human African Trypanosomiasis. BioMed Research International. 2013. 1–12. 17 indexed citations

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Sistrom, Mark, Danielle L. Edwards, Stephen C. Donnellan, & Mark N. Hutchinson. (2012). Morphological differentiation correlates with ecological but not with genetic divergence in aGehyragecko. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 25(4). 647–660. 24 indexed citations

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Symula, Rebecca E., Jon S. Beadell, Mark Sistrom, et al.. (2012). Trypanosoma brucei gambiense Group 1 Is Distinguished by a Unique Amino Acid Substitution in the HpHb Receptor Implicated in Human Serum Resistance. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 6(7). e1728–e1728. 30 indexed citations

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Bertozzi, Terry, Kate L. Sanders, Mark Sistrom, & M. Gardner. (2012). Anonymous nuclear loci in non-model organisms: making the most of high-throughput genome surveys. Bioinformatics. 28(14). 1807–1810. 20 indexed citations

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Sistrom, Mark, et al.. (2009). Molecular phylogeny of Australian Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and taxonomic revision of Gehyra variegata in south-eastern Australia. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations

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