Marvin Whiteley

10.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
74 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Marvin Whiteley is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marvin Whiteley has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Marvin Whiteley's work include Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (45 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (19 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (13 papers). Marvin Whiteley is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (45 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (19 papers) and Gut microbiota and health (13 papers). Marvin Whiteley collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Denmark. Marvin Whiteley's co-authors include Stephen P. Diggle, E. Peter Greenberg, Lauren Mashburn‐Warren, Jodi L. Connell, Kelli L. Palmer, Jason B. Shear, Matthew Ramsey, Dianne K. Newman, Lars E. P. Dietrich and Alexa Price‐Whelan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marvin Whiteley

71 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

Progress in and promise of bacterial quorum sensing research

2017 885 citations Marvin Whiteley et al. profile →
Membrane vesicles traffic signals and facilitate group activities in a prokaryote

2005 637 citations Marvin Whiteley et al. profile →
The phenazine pyocyanin is a terminal signalling factor in the quorum sensing network of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

2006 564 citations Lars E. P. Dietrich, Alexa Price‐Whelan et al. Molecular Microbiology profile →
Microbe Profile: Pseudomonas aeruginosa: opportunistic pathogen and lab rat

2019 274 citations Marvin Whiteley et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marvin Whiteley

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Experimental evolution of gene essentiality in bacteria 2025 ·mBio ·Liang Bao, (unknown), Ahmed Ismail, Bin Zhu, (unknown), Marvin Whiteley, Todd Kitten, Ping Xu	0
2	Characterization of a new Pseudomonas aeruginosa Queuovirinae bacteriophage 2024 ·Microbiology Spectrum ·(unknown), Marvin Whiteley	1
3	Metabolic diversity of human macrophages: potential influence on Staphylococcus aureus intracellular survival 2024 ·Infection and Immunity ·(unknown), Dhananjay Shinde, Vinai C. Thomas, Marvin Whiteley, Carolyn B. Ibberson, Tammy Kielian	5
4	Microbial interactions impact stress tolerance in a model oral community 2024 ·Microbiology Spectrum ·Gina R. Lewin, Emma Evans, Marvin Whiteley	1
5	Pseudomonas aeruginosa Production of Hydrogen Cyanide Leads to Airborne Control of Staphylococcus aureus Growth in Biofilm and In Vivo Lung Environments 2022 ·mBio ·Sylvie Létoffé, Yongzheng Wu, Sophie E. Darch, Christophe Beloin, Marvin Whiteley, Lhousseine Touqui, Jean‐Marc Ghigo	26
6	Spatial mapping of polymicrobial communities reveals a precise biogeography associated with human dental caries 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Dongyeop Kim, (unknown), Rodrigo Alex Arthur, Anderson T. Hara, Karl J. Lewis, Yuan Liu, (unknown), Evlambia Hajishengallis, Marvin Whiteley, Hyun Koo	151
7	The social life of microbes in chronic infection 2020 ·Current Opinion in Microbiology ·Carolyn B. Ibberson, Marvin Whiteley	50
8	Unravelling interspecies interactions across heterogeneities in complex biofilm communities 2019 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Henriette Lyng Røder, Nanna Mee Coops Olsen, Marvin Whiteley, Mette Burmølle	68
9	The Inoculation Method Could Impact the Outcome of Microbiological Experiments 2017 ·Applied and Environmental Microbiology ·Kasper Nørskov Kragh, Morten Alhede, Morten Rybtke, (unknown), Peter Østrup Jensen, Tim Tolker‐Nielsen, Marvin Whiteley, Thomas Bjarnsholt	71
10	Microbial Community Composition Impacts Pathogen Iron Availability during Polymicrobial Infection 2016 ·PLoS Pathogens ·Apollo Stacy, (unknown), Peter Jorth, Marvin Whiteley	25
11	Bacterial tweets and podcasts #signaling#eavesdropping#microbialfightclub 2016 ·Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology ·(unknown), Daniel M. Cornforth, Marvin Whiteley	12
12	3D printing of microscopic bacterial communities 2013 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jodi L. Connell, Eric T. Ritschdorff, Marvin Whiteley, Jason B. Shear	241
13	Oxygen levels rapidly modulate Pseudomonas aeruginosa social behaviours via substrate limitation of PqsH 2010 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Jeffrey W. Schertzer, Stacie A. Brown, Marvin Whiteley	120
14	Pseudomonas aeruginosa Enhances Production of an Antimicrobial in Response to N -Acetylglucosamine and Peptidoglycan 2010 ·Journal of Bacteriology ·Aishwarya Korgaonkar, Marvin Whiteley	94
15	Probing Prokaryotic Social Behaviors with Bacterial “Lobster Traps” 2010 ·mBio ·Jodi L. Connell, Aimee K. Wessel, Matthew R. Parsek, Andrew D. Ellington, Marvin Whiteley, Jason B. Shear	118
16	Polymicrobial interactions stimulate resistance to host innate immunity through metabolite perception 2009 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Matthew Ramsey, Marvin Whiteley	133
17	More than a signal: non-signaling properties of quorum sensing molecules 2009 ·Trends in Microbiology ·Jeffrey W. Schertzer, (unknown), Marvin Whiteley	104
18	Interaction of quorum signals with outer membrane lipids: insights into prokaryotic membrane vesicle formation 2008 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Lauren Mashburn‐Warren, Jörg Howe, Patrick Garidel, Walter Richter, Frank Steiniger, Manfred Roessle, Klaus Brandenburg, Marvin Whiteley	195
19	Evidence of autoinducer activity in naturally occurring biofilms 2006 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Robert McLean, Marvin Whiteley, D.J. Stickler, W. Claiborne Fuqua	114
20	The phenazine pyocyanin is a terminal signalling factor in the quorum sensing network of Pseudomonas aeruginosa breakdown → 2006 ·Molecular Microbiology ·Lars E. P. Dietrich, Alexa Price‐Whelan, Ashley Petersen, Marvin Whiteley, Dianne K. Newman	564

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