Melissa A. Cregger

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
54 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Melissa A. Cregger is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa A. Cregger has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Plant Science, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Melissa A. Cregger's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (10 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers). Melissa A. Cregger is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (10 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (8 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (8 papers). Melissa A. Cregger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Sweden. Melissa A. Cregger's co-authors include Aimée T. Classen, David L. Rimm, Christopher W. Schadt, Aaron J. Berger, Allison M. Veach, Zamin K. Yang, Paul Kardol, Courtney Campany, Jessica A. M. Moore and Nate G. McDowell and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

Melissa A. Cregger

52 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial‐plant interactions: What lies ahead?

2015 427 citations Aimée T. Classen, Jessica A. M. Moore et al. profile →
The Populus holobiont: dissecting the effects of plant niches and genotype on the microbiome

2018 312 citations Melissa A. Cregger, Allison M. Veach et al. Microbiome profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Melissa A. Cregger United States	29	1.0k	848	725	567	384	54	3.1k
Christel Baum Germany	40	1.6k 1.6×	1.6k 1.9×	501 0.7×	794 1.4×	495 1.3×	147	5.4k
Annemieke van der Wal Netherlands	31	988 1.0×	787 0.9×	722 1.0×	777 1.4×	103 0.3×	46	3.0k
Ryan C. Lynch United States	25	714 0.7×	1.6k 1.8×	1.6k 2.2×	254 0.4×	527 1.4×	104	3.9k
Čestmı́r Vlček Czechia	36	895 0.9×	2.4k 2.9×	1.2k 1.6×	228 0.4×	232 0.6×	78	4.6k
John R. Stevens United States	27	672 0.6×	912 1.1×	477 0.7×	206 0.4×	124 0.3×	78	3.0k
Andrew R. Smith United Kingdom	28	513 0.5×	1.3k 1.6×	719 1.0×	646 1.1×	64 0.2×	119	3.3k
J. Wilson United Kingdom	33	761 0.7×	2.6k 3.1×	141 0.2×	159 0.3×	331 0.9×	61	4.1k
Qinghua Liu China	29	288 0.3×	619 0.7×	327 0.5×	247 0.4×	167 0.4×	157	2.6k
Mark Harris United Kingdom	48	229 0.2×	1.9k 2.2×	437 0.6×	118 0.2×	402 1.0×	182	7.3k
Fei Yao China	20	336 0.3×	1.3k 1.5×	523 0.7×	570 1.0×	230 0.6×	62	2.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa A. Cregger

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Looney, Brian P., et al.. (2025). Dual-mycorrhizal colonization is determined by plant age and host identity in two species of Populus. Mycorrhiza. 35(3). 42–42. 1 indexed citations

Schadt, Christopher W., et al.. (2025). Time-series RNA metabarcoding of the active Populus tremuloides root microbiome reveals hidden temporal dynamics and dormant core members. mSystems. 10(12). e0028525–e0028525.

Cregger, Melissa A., et al.. (2024). Ant handling changes myrmecochore seed coat microbiomes and alters diversity of seed‐borne plant pathogenic fungi. Functional Ecology. 38(4). 861–874. 2 indexed citations

Christel, Stephan, Alyssa A. Carrell, Paul E. Abraham, et al.. (2024). Catabolic pathway acquisition by rhizosphere bacteria readily enables growth with a root exudate component but does not affect root colonization. mBio. 16(1). e0301624–e0301624.

Argiroff, William A., Alyssa A. Carrell, Dawn M. Klingeman, et al.. (2024). Seasonality and longer-term development generate temporal dynamics in the Populus microbiome. mSystems. 9(3). e0088623–e0088623. 8 indexed citations

Carrell, Alyssa A., et al.. (2023). Nitrogen addition alters soil fungal communities, but root fungal communities are resistant to change. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 1033631–1033631. 5 indexed citations

Kapoor, B. G., William E. Klingeman, Jennifer M. DeBruyn, et al.. (2023). Signatures of prescribed fire in the microbial communities of Cornus florida are largely undetectable five months post-fire. PeerJ. 11. e15822–e15822. 1 indexed citations

Moore, Jessica A. M., Paul E. Abraham, Joshua K. Michener, Wellington Muchero, & Melissa A. Cregger. (2022). Ecosystem consequences of introducing plant growth promoting rhizobacteria to managed systems and potential legacy effects. New Phytologist. 234(6). 1914–1918. 55 indexed citations

Dove, Nicholas C., Alyssa A. Carrell, Nancy L. Engle, et al.. (2022). Relationships between Sphaerulina musiva Infection and the Populus Microbiome and Metabolome. mSystems. 7(4). e0012022–e0012022. 5 indexed citations

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Carrell, Alyssa A., Eric R. Johnston, Jonathan Cumming, et al.. (2022). Chronic Drought Differentially Alters the Belowground Microbiome of Drought-Tolerant and Drought-Susceptible Genotypes of Populus trichocarpa. Phytobiomes Journal. 6(4). 317–330. 14 indexed citations

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Dove, Nicholas C., Dawn M. Klingeman, Alyssa A. Carrell, Melissa A. Cregger, & Christopher W. Schadt. (2021). Fire alters plant microbiome assembly patterns: integrating the plant and soil microbial response to disturbance. New Phytologist. 230(6). 2433–2446. 36 indexed citations

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Dove, Nicholas C., Allison M. Veach, Wellington Muchero, et al.. (2021). Assembly of the Populus Microbiome Is Temporally Dynamic and Determined by Selective and Stochastic Factors. mSphere. 6(3). e0131620–e0131620. 34 indexed citations

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Carper, Dana L., David J. Weston, Collin M. Timm, et al.. (2021). Cultivating the Bacterial Microbiota of Populus Roots. mSystems. 6(3). e0130620–e0130620. 21 indexed citations

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Veach, Allison M., Zamin K. Yang, Nancy L. Engle, et al.. (2021). Correction to: Rhizosphere microbiomes diverge among Populus trichocarpa plant-host genotypes and chemotypes, but it depends on soil origin. Microbiome. 9(1). 21–21. 5 indexed citations

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Chapman, Colin A., Geoffrey Weny, Alex Tumukunde, et al.. (2013). Fecal microbiomes of non‐human primates in Western Uganda reveal species‐specific communities largely resistant to habitat perturbation. American Journal of Primatology. 76(4). 347–354. 68 indexed citations

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Classen, Aimée T. & Melissa A. Cregger. (2012). Soil microbial community response to precipitation change. AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. 2012. 1 indexed citations

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Gustavson, Mark, Melissa A. Cregger, Jane Mayotte, et al.. (2009). Standardization of HER2 immunohistochemistry in breast cancer by automated quantitative analysis.. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 133(9). 1413–1419. 46 indexed citations

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Gustavson, Mark, et al.. (2009). Development of an Unsupervised Pixel-based Clustering Algorithm for Compartmentalization of Immunohistochemical Expression Using Automated QUantitative Analysis. Applied immunohistochemistry & molecular morphology. 17(4). 329–337. 32 indexed citations

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Shields, Janiel M., Nancy E. Thomas, Melissa A. Cregger, et al.. (2007). Lack of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling Shows a New Type of Melanoma. Cancer Research. 67(4). 1502–1512. 66 indexed citations

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Dolled‐Filhart, Marisa, Lisa Rydén, Melissa A. Cregger, et al.. (2006). Classification of Breast Cancer Using Genetic Algorithms and Tissue Microarrays. Clinical Cancer Research. 12(21). 6459–6468. 90 indexed citations

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