Michael A. Quail

103.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
128 papers, 15.2k citations indexed

About

Michael A. Quail is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael A. Quail has authored 128 papers receiving a total of 15.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Molecular Biology, 26 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Michael A. Quail's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (33 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (16 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (10 papers). Michael A. Quail is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (33 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (16 papers) and Trace Elements in Health (10 papers). Michael A. Quail collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. Michael A. Quail's co-authors include Julian Parkhill, Harold Swerdlow, Simon R. Harris, Stephen D. Bentley, Thomas D. Otto, Matthew T. G. Holden, Yong Gu, Paul Coupland, Miriam Smith and Daniel J. Turner and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael A. Quail

125 papers receiving 14.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

A tale of three next generation sequencing platforms: comparison of Ion torrent, pacific biosciences and illumina MiSeq sequencers

2012 1.3k citations Michael A. Quail, Miriam Smith et al. BMC Genomics profile →
Evolution of MRSA During Hospital Transmission and Intercontinental Spread

2010 818 citations Simon R. Harris, Edward J. Feil et al. Science profile →
Genetic Analysis of the Capsular Biosynthetic Locus from All 90 Pneumococcal Serotypes

2006 567 citations Stephen D. Bentley, Lee Murphy et al. profile →
A large genome center's improvements to the Illumina sequencing system

2008 559 citations Michael A. Quail, Frances J.D. Smith et al. Nature Methods profile →
G&T-seq: parallel sequencing of single-cell genomes and transcriptomes

2015 529 citations Iain C. Macaulay, Wilfried Haerty et al. Nature Methods profile →
Whole-genome sequencing for analysis of an outbreak of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a descriptive study

2012 409 citations Simon R. Harris, Matthew T. G. Holden et al. profile →
Leukemia-Associated Somatic Mutations Drive Distinct Patterns of Age-Related Clonal Hemopoiesis

2015 357 citations Carolyn Grove, Hannes Ponstingl et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael A. Quail United Kingdom	65	7.4k	2.7k	2.6k	2.4k	2.1k	128	15.2k
Simon R. Harris United Kingdom	58	6.2k 0.8×	4.6k 1.7×	1.6k 0.6×	4.2k 1.8×	2.1k 1.0×	152	15.7k
Hervé Tettelin United States	45	6.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.5×	1.4k 0.5×	2.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.6×	121	11.7k
Edward J. Feil United Kingdom	61	7.6k 1.0×	6.4k 2.3×	2.4k 0.9×	3.9k 1.7×	2.5k 1.2×	175	19.9k
Fiona S. L. Brinkman Canada	52	8.1k 1.1×	1.4k 0.5×	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 0.6×	2.6k 1.2×	111	13.2k
Andrew Camilli United States	72	7.4k 1.0×	1.7k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	2.5k 1.0×	2.7k 1.3×	182	16.0k
Gary M. Dunny United States	60	6.8k 0.9×	4.7k 1.7×	3.2k 1.3×	1.6k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	211	11.6k
Scott A. Beatson Australia	48	5.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	3.3k 1.6×	156	13.8k
Huanchun Chen China	61	4.7k 0.6×	6.0k 2.2×	2.7k 1.0×	3.6k 1.5×	1.6k 0.8×	779	18.4k
Gilles Vergnaud France	55	6.9k 0.9×	1.3k 0.5×	2.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	2.6k 1.3×	193	12.6k
Mark J. Pallen United Kingdom	62	5.2k 0.7×	2.5k 0.9×	2.3k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.9k 0.9×	192	11.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael A. Quail

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Howard, Caroline, Amy Denton, Benjamin Jackson, et al.. (2025). On the path to reference genomes for all biodiversity: laboratory protocols and lessons learned from processing over 2,000 species in the Sanger Tree of Life. GigaScience. 14.

Francis, B. Magnus, Landen Gozashti, Takaoki Kasahara, et al.. (2025). Complete genome assemblies of two mouse subspecies reveal structural diversity of telomeres and centromeres. Nature Genetics. 57(11). 2852–2862.

Quail, Michael A., Craig Corton, James Uphill, Jacqueline A. Keane, & Yong Gu. (2024). Identifying the best PCR enzyme for library amplification in NGS. Microbial Genomics. 10(4). 1 indexed citations

McCarthy, Shane, Ian A. Warren, Jonathan Wood, et al.. (2021). A high-quality, chromosome-level genome assembly of the Black Soldier Fly ( Hermetia illucens L.). G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(5). 57 indexed citations

Halliwell, Jason A., Duncan Baker, Kim Judge, et al.. (2021). Nanopore Sequencing Indicates That Tandem Amplification of Chromosome 20q11.21 in Human Pluripotent Stem Cells Is Driven by Break-Induced Replication. Stem Cells and Development. 30(11). 578–586. 6 indexed citations

Riva, Laura, Arun R. Pandiri, Alastair Droop, et al.. (2020). The mutational signature profile of known and suspected human carcinogens in mice. Nature Genetics. 52(11). 1189–1197. 84 indexed citations

Friedrich, Mathias, Lena Rad, Iraad F. Bronner, et al.. (2017). Genome-wide transposon screening and quantitative insertion site sequencing for cancer gene discovery in mice. Nature Protocols. 12(2). 289–309. 26 indexed citations

Page, Andrew J., Nishadi De Silva, Martin Hunt, et al.. (2016). Robust high-throughput prokaryote de novo assembly and improvement pipeline for Illumina data. Microbial Genomics. 2(8). e000083–e000083. 165 indexed citations

Judge, Kim, Martin Hunt, Sandra Reuter, et al.. (2016). Comparison of bacterial genome assembly software for MinION data and their applicability to medical microbiology. Microbial Genomics. 2(9). e000085–e000085. 28 indexed citations

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Macaulay, Iain C., Wilfried Haerty, Parveen Kumar, et al.. (2015). G&T-seq: parallel sequencing of single-cell genomes and transcriptomes. Nature Methods. 12(6). 519–522. 529 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smith, Steven W., Jacob Berger, Shanavaz Nasarabadi, et al.. (2012). Universal NGS Library Preparation on the Apollo 324 TM System: Automated Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine Library Preparation. Journal of Biomolecular Techniques JBT. 23. 1 indexed citations

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Harris, Simon R., Edward J. Feil, Matthew T. G. Holden, et al.. (2010). Evolution of MRSA During Hospital Transmission and Intercontinental Spread. Science. 327(5964). 469–474. 818 indexed citations breakdown →

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Nandal, Anjali, Mark Woodhall, Francisco Rodríguez‐Quiñones, et al.. (2009). Induction of the ferritin gene ( ftnA ) of Escherichia coli by Fe ²⁺ –Fur is mediated by reversal of H‐NS silencing and is RyhB independent. Molecular Microbiology. 75(3). 637–657. 72 indexed citations

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Wilkinson, Paul A., Nicholas R. Waterfield, Lisa Crossman, et al.. (2009). Comparative genomics of the emerging human pathogen Photorhabdus asymbiotica with the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens. BMC Genomics. 10(1). 302–302. 84 indexed citations

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Brosch, Roland, Stephen V. Gordon, Thierry Garnier, et al.. (2007). Genome plasticity of BCG and impact on vaccine efficacy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(13). 5596–5601. 419 indexed citations

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Bentley, Stephen D., Matthias Maiwald, Lee Murphy, et al.. (2003). Sequencing and analysis of the genome of the Whipple's disease bacterium Tropheryma whipplei. The Lancet. 361(9358). 637–644. 161 indexed citations

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Quail, Michael A. & Steven L. Kelly. (2003). The Extraction and Analysis of Sterols from Yeast. Humana Press eBooks. 53. 123–132. 34 indexed citations

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Harrison, Pauline M., et al.. (1995). Tyrosyl radical formation during the oxidative deposition of iron in human apoferritin. Biochemistry. 34(24). 7847–7853. 31 indexed citations

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Treffry, Amyra, Zhongwei Zhao, Michael A. Quail, J. R. Guest, & P. M. Harrison. (1995). Iron(II) Oxidation by H Chain Ferritin: Evidence from Site-Directed Mutagenesis That a Transient Blue Species Is Formed at the Dinuclear Iron Center. Biochemistry. 34(46). 15204–15213. 66 indexed citations

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Quail, Michael A., Clare Dempsey, & John R. Guest. (1994). Identification of a fatty acyl responsive regulator (FarR) in Escherichia coli. FEBS Letters. 356(2-3). 183–187. 40 indexed citations

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