Meredith Protas

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Meredith Protas is a scholar working on Paleontology, Global and Planetary Change and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Meredith Protas has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Paleontology, 14 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Meredith Protas's work include Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (14 papers), Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (9 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (5 papers). Meredith Protas is often cited by papers focused on Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (14 papers), Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (9 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (5 papers). Meredith Protas collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovenia and Spain. Meredith Protas's co-authors include Clifford J. Tabin, Nipam H. Patel, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant, Arhat Abzhanov, Richard Borowsky, William R. Jeffery, Joshua B. Gross, Melissa D. Conrad and Horst Wilkens and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Meredith Protas

21 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Bmp4 and Morphological Variation of Beaks in Darwin's Finches

2004 561 citations Arhat Abzhanov, Meredith Protas et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Meredith Protas United States	16	745	716	715	555	419	22	2.2k
Arhat Abzhanov United States	26	576 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	907 1.3×	274 0.5×	295 0.7×	43	2.5k
Nicolas Rohner United States	23	824 1.1×	524 0.7×	385 0.5×	576 1.0×	570 1.4×	61	1.9k
Jean M.P. Joss Australia	28	241 0.3×	607 0.8×	667 0.9×	262 0.5×	489 1.2×	102	2.4k
Richard Borowsky United States	29	1.5k 2.0×	683 1.0×	945 1.3×	1.3k 2.3×	1.2k 2.8×	80	3.4k
Oleg Simakov Austria	26	601 0.8×	1.7k 2.3×	440 0.6×	656 1.2×	111 0.3×	62	3.3k
William E. Browne United States	20	895 1.2×	1.4k 1.9×	531 0.7×	548 1.0×	66 0.2×	35	2.6k
Janette A. Norman Australia	29	860 1.2×	1.2k 1.6×	2.1k 2.9×	572 1.0×	627 1.5×	62	3.4k
R. Craig Albertson United States	33	717 1.0×	1.3k 1.8×	1.5k 2.0×	294 0.5×	1.4k 3.3×	98	4.0k
Joshua B. Gross United States	24	1.1k 1.4×	562 0.8×	460 0.6×	776 1.4×	721 1.7×	70	1.9k
Dorothée Huchon Israel	30	1.1k 1.5×	1.2k 1.7×	931 1.3×	544 1.0×	128 0.3×	69	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Meredith Protas

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fišer, Žiga, et al.. (2024). Genetic bias in repeated evolution of pigment loss in cave populations of the Asellus aquaticus species complex. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 342(6). 425–436.

Sarbu, Serban M., et al.. (2023). Standing genetic variation as a potential mechanism of novel cave phenotype evolution in the freshwater isopod, Asellus aquaticus. Evolution & Development. 25(2). 137–152. 2 indexed citations

Protas, Meredith, et al.. (2023). Transcriptomic analysis of cave, surface, and hybrid samples of the isopod Asellus aquaticus and identification of chromosomal location of candidate genes for cave phenotype evolution. EvoDevo. 14(1). 9–9. 1 indexed citations

Gross, Joshua B., et al.. (2019). Developmental Transcriptomic Analysis of the Cave-Dwelling Crustacean, Asellus aquaticus. Genes. 11(1). 42–42. 8 indexed citations

Erickson, Priscilla A., et al.. (2018). Embryonic origin and genetic basis of cave associated phenotypes in the isopod crustacean Asellus aquaticus. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 16589–16589. 14 indexed citations

Protas, Meredith, Eric Weh, Tim Footz, et al.. (2017). Mutations of conserved non-coding elements of PITX2 in patients with ocular dysgenesis and developmental glaucoma. Human Molecular Genetics. 26(18). 3630–3638. 27 indexed citations

Battelle, Barbara‐Anne, Joseph F. Ryan, Wesley C. Warren, et al.. (2016). Opsin Repertoire and Expression Patterns in Horseshoe Crabs: Evidence from the Genome ofLimulus polyphemus(Arthropoda: Chelicerata). Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(5). 1571–1589. 42 indexed citations

Stahl, Bethany A., Joshua B. Gross, Daniel I. Speiser, et al.. (2015). A Transcriptomic Analysis of Cave, Surface, and Hybrid Isopod Crustaceans of the Species Asellus aquaticus. PLoS ONE. 10(10). e0140484–e0140484. 26 indexed citations

Speiser, Daniel I., M. Sabrina Pankey, Heather D. Bracken‐Grissom, et al.. (2014). Using phylogenetically-informed annotation (PIA) to search for light-interacting genes in transcriptomes from non-model organisms. BMC Bioinformatics. 15(1). 350–350. 61 indexed citations

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Kronforst, Marcus R., Gregory S. Barsh, Artyom Kopp, et al.. (2012). Unraveling the thread of nature’s tapestry: the genetics of diversity and convergence in animal pigmentation. Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research. 25(4). 411–433. 94 indexed citations

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Protas, Meredith & William R. Jeffery. (2012). Evolution and development in cave animals: from fish to crustaceans. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Developmental Biology. 1(6). 823–845. 112 indexed citations

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Protas, Meredith, Peter Trontelj, & Nipam H. Patel. (2011). Genetic basis of eye and pigment loss in the cave crustacean, Asellus aquaticus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(14). 5702–5707. 85 indexed citations

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Serano, Julia M., Anastasios Pavlopoulos, Zacharias Kontarakis, et al.. (2009). Knockdown of Parhyale Ultrabithorax recapitulates evolutionary changes in crustacean appendage morphology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(33). 13892–13896. 79 indexed citations

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Protas, Meredith, Inna Tabansky, Melissa D. Conrad, et al.. (2008). Multi‐trait evolution in a cave fish,Astyanax mexicanus. Evolution & Development. 10(2). 196–209. 136 indexed citations

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Protas, Meredith & Nipam H. Patel. (2008). Evolution of Coloration Patterns. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 24(1). 425–446. 177 indexed citations

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Protas, Meredith, Melissa D. Conrad, Joshua B. Gross, Clifford J. Tabin, & Richard Borowsky. (2007). Regressive Evolution in the Mexican Cave Tetra, Astyanax mexicanus. Current Biology. 17(5). 452–454. 185 indexed citations

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Protas, Meredith, Candace Hersey, Yi Zhou, et al.. (2005). Genetic analysis of cavefish reveals molecular convergence in the evolution of albinism. Nature Genetics. 38(1). 107–111. 408 indexed citations

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Abzhanov, Arhat, Meredith Protas, B. Rosemary Grant, Peter R. Grant, & Clifford J. Tabin. (2004). Bmp4 and Morphological Variation of Beaks in Darwin's Finches. Science. 305(5689). 1462–1465. 561 indexed citations breakdown →

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Protas, Meredith & Clifford J. Tabin. (2004). Reduce Your Pelvis in 10,000 Years or Less. Developmental Cell. 6(5). 613–614. 1 indexed citations

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Pearson, Alan, Mika Rämet, Meredith Protas, et al.. (2003). Identification of cytoskeletal regulatory proteins required for efficient phagocytosis in Drosophila. Microbes and Infection. 5(10). 815–824. 100 indexed citations

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