Meghan Lybecker

1.4k total citations
26 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Meghan Lybecker is a scholar working on Parasitology, Insect Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Meghan Lybecker has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Parasitology, 11 papers in Insect Science and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Meghan Lybecker's work include Vector-borne infectious diseases (18 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (11 papers) and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (7 papers). Meghan Lybecker is often cited by papers focused on Vector-borne infectious diseases (18 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (11 papers) and Vector-Borne Animal Diseases (7 papers). Meghan Lybecker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Austria and United Kingdom. Meghan Lybecker's co-authors include D. Scott Samuels, Ivana Bilusic, Renée Schroeder, Niko Popitsch, Philipp Rescheneder, Dan Drecktrah, Bob Zimmermann, Andrew L. Feig, Rahul Raghavan and Charles D. Sohaskey and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Molecular Cell.

In The Last Decade

Meghan Lybecker

26 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Meghan Lybecker United States 16 613 366 351 346 215 26 1.0k
Jeremy Peterson United States 4 573 0.9× 259 0.7× 391 1.1× 231 0.7× 111 0.5× 7 887
Michelle Gwinn United States 6 560 0.9× 244 0.7× 393 1.1× 224 0.6× 166 0.8× 6 1.1k
Tiziana Beninati Italy 16 578 0.9× 702 1.9× 336 1.0× 148 0.4× 135 0.6× 20 1.1k
Erin K. Hickey United States 3 566 0.9× 243 0.7× 383 1.1× 111 0.3× 78 0.4× 4 726
Zdeněk Franta Czechia 18 766 1.2× 524 1.4× 254 0.7× 261 0.8× 60 0.3× 23 1.1k
Shane M. Ceraul United States 19 937 1.5× 543 1.5× 382 1.1× 172 0.5× 136 0.6× 27 1.2k
Rika Umemiya‐Shirafuji Japan 19 843 1.4× 450 1.2× 441 1.3× 206 0.6× 80 0.4× 83 1.2k
Kylie G. Bendele United States 13 541 0.9× 309 0.8× 292 0.8× 127 0.4× 54 0.3× 30 756
Fredrik Granberg Sweden 19 152 0.2× 161 0.4× 225 0.6× 255 0.7× 296 1.4× 29 821
Catherine A. Hill United States 18 502 0.8× 479 1.3× 300 0.9× 267 0.8× 103 0.5× 30 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Meghan Lybecker

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Fields of papers citing papers by Meghan Lybecker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meghan Lybecker

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lybecker, Meghan, et al.. (2024). A Fur family protein BosR is a novel RNA-binding protein that controls rpoS RNA stability in the Lyme disease pathogen. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(9). 5320–5335. 6 indexed citations
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Bowler, Bruce E., Christopher Davies, Dan Drecktrah, et al.. (2023). c‐di‐GMP regulates activity of the PlzA RNA chaperone from the Lyme disease spirochete. Molecular Microbiology. 119(6). 711–727. 4 indexed citations
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Drecktrah, Dan, Benjamin Schwarz, Eric Bohrnsen, et al.. (2022). The glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenases GpsA and GlpD constitute the oxidoreductive metabolic linchpin for Lyme disease spirochete host infectivity and persistence in the tick. PLoS Pathogens. 18(3). e1010385–e1010385. 17 indexed citations
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Chávez, Adela S. Oliva, et al.. (2021). The Borrelia burgdorferi Adenylate Cyclase, CyaB, Is Important for Virulence Factor Production and Mammalian Infection. Frontiers in Microbiology. 12. 676192–676192. 3 indexed citations
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Troy, Erin B., Steven J. Norris, Tao Lin, et al.. (2020). The intergenic small non-coding RNA ittA is required for optimal infectivity and tissue tropism in Borrelia burgdorferi. PLoS Pathogens. 16(5). e1008423–e1008423. 13 indexed citations
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Samuels, D. Scott, Meghan Lybecker, Xiuli Yang, et al.. (2020). Gene Regulation and Transcriptomics. Current Issues in Molecular Biology. 42. 223–266. 37 indexed citations
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Drecktrah, Dan, et al.. (2018). The Stringent Response-Regulated sRNA Transcriptome of Borrelia burgdorferi. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 8. 231–231. 18 indexed citations
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Olesnicky, Eugenia C., et al.. (2018). Shep interacts with posttranscriptional regulators to control dendrite morphogenesis in sensory neurons. Developmental Biology. 444(2). 116–128. 8 indexed citations
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Popitsch, Niko, Ivana Bilusic, Philipp Rescheneder, Renée Schroeder, & Meghan Lybecker. (2017). Temperature-dependent sRNA transcriptome of the Lyme disease spirochete. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 28–28. 35 indexed citations
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Lybecker, Meghan, et al.. (2017). Borrelia burgdorferi Transcriptome Analysis by RNA-Sequencing. Methods in molecular biology. 1690. 127–136. 1 indexed citations
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Olesnicky, Eugenia C., et al.. (2017). The RNA‐binding protein caper is required for sensory neuron development in Drosophila melanogaster. Developmental Dynamics. 246(8). 610–624. 13 indexed citations
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Adams, Philip P., Niko Popitsch, Ivana Bilusic, et al.. (2016). In vivoexpression technology and 5′ end mapping of theBorrelia burgdorferitranscriptome identify novel RNAs expressed during mammalian infection. Nucleic Acids Research. 45(2). 775–792. 57 indexed citations
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Drecktrah, Dan, et al.. (2015). The Borrelia burgdorferi RelA/SpoT Homolog and Stringent Response Regulate Survival in the Tick Vector and Global Gene Expression during Starvation. PLoS Pathogens. 11(9). e1005160–e1005160. 78 indexed citations
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Lybecker, Meghan, Ivana Bilusic, & Rahul Raghavan. (2014). Pervasive transcription: detecting functional RNAs in bacteria. Transcription. 5(4). e944039–e944039. 55 indexed citations
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Bilusic, Ivana, Niko Popitsch, Philipp Rescheneder, Renée Schroeder, & Meghan Lybecker. (2014). Revisiting the coding potential of theE. coligenome through Hfq co-immunoprecipitation. RNA Biology. 11(5). 641–654. 59 indexed citations
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Hoon‐Hanks, Laura L., Elizabeth A. Morton, Meghan Lybecker, et al.. (2012). Borrelia burgdorferi malQmutants utilize disaccharides and traverse the enzootic cycle. FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology. 66(2). 157–165. 26 indexed citations
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Stampfl, Sabine, Boris Fürtig, Mads Beich-Frandsen, et al.. (2012). Study of E. coli Hfq’s RNA annealing acceleration and duplex destabilization activities using substrates with different GC-contents. Nucleic Acids Research. 41(1). 487–497. 12 indexed citations
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Lybecker, Meghan, et al.. (2010). Identification and function of the RNA chaperone Hfq in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi. Molecular Microbiology. 78(3). 622–635. 70 indexed citations
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Lybecker, Meghan & D. Scott Samuels. (2007). Temperature‐induced regulation of RpoS by a small RNA in Borrelia burgdorferi. Molecular Microbiology. 64(4). 1075–1089. 139 indexed citations
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Sohaskey, Charles D., et al.. (2003). Transcriptional regulation of the ospAB and ospC promoters from Borrelia burgdorferi. Molecular Microbiology. 48(6). 1665–1677. 76 indexed citations

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