Michael Eitel

2.1k total citations
36 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Eitel is a scholar working on Paleontology, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Eitel has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Paleontology, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Michael Eitel's work include Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (18 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (8 papers) and Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (6 papers). Michael Eitel is often cited by papers focused on Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (18 papers), Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (8 papers) and Marine Ecology and Invasive Species (6 papers). Michael Eitel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Michael Eitel's co-authors include Bernd Schierwater, Hans‐Jürgen Osigus, Rob DeSalle, Gert Wörheide, Heike Hadrys, Wolfgang Jakob, Sergios‐Orestis Kolokotronis, Frédérique Varoqueaux, Stephen L. Dellaporta and Dirk Fasshauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Michael Eitel

35 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Eitel Germany 18 641 604 327 244 211 36 1.3k
Warren R. Francis United States 17 646 1.0× 511 0.8× 261 0.8× 205 0.8× 186 0.9× 30 1.3k
Kevin Pang Norway 12 733 1.1× 673 1.1× 146 0.4× 280 1.1× 203 1.0× 14 1.3k
Muriel Jager France 16 766 1.2× 617 1.0× 180 0.6× 380 1.6× 203 1.0× 21 1.5k
Romain Derelle United Kingdom 18 1.2k 1.9× 552 0.9× 378 1.2× 339 1.4× 231 1.1× 28 1.8k
Walker Pett United States 15 593 0.9× 346 0.6× 254 0.8× 157 0.6× 221 1.0× 18 1.0k
Éric Quéinnec France 16 850 1.3× 963 1.6× 281 0.9× 522 2.1× 321 1.5× 37 1.7k
Marcin Adamski Australia 20 887 1.4× 574 1.0× 234 0.7× 449 1.8× 237 1.1× 34 1.7k
Nathan V. Whelan United States 17 326 0.5× 358 0.6× 593 1.8× 159 0.7× 195 0.9× 50 1.2k
Christine E. Schnitzler United States 24 1.1k 1.8× 788 1.3× 487 1.5× 411 1.7× 218 1.0× 45 2.4k
David C. Plachetzki United States 17 485 0.8× 314 0.5× 241 0.7× 183 0.8× 219 1.0× 31 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Eitel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Eitel

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All Works

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Dingwell, Donald B., et al.. (2025). Viscosity and glass formation behavior of lunar regolith simulants. Chemical Geology. 696. 123082–123082.
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Hess, Kai‐Uwe, Michael Eitel, Markus Döblinger, et al.. (2024). Oxide nanolitisation-induced melt iron extraction causes viscosity jumps and enhanced explosivity in silicic magma. Nature Communications. 15(1). 604–604. 13 indexed citations
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Romanova, Daria Y., Frédérique Varoqueaux, Michael Eitel, et al.. (2024). Long-Term Culturing of Placozoans (Trichoplax and Hoilungia). Methods in molecular biology. 2757. 509–529. 1 indexed citations
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Francis, Warren R., Michael Eitel, Sergio Vargas, et al.. (2023). The genome of the reef-building glass sponge Aphrocallistes vastus provides insights into silica biomineralization. Royal Society Open Science. 10(6). 230423–230423. 8 indexed citations
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Vargas, Sergio, Michael Eitel, Sven Rohde, et al.. (2023). Body-Plan Reorganization in a Sponge Correlates with Microbiome Change. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(6). 2 indexed citations
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Rivera‐Vicéns, Ramón E., et al.. (2022). TransPi—a comprehensive TRanscriptome ANalysiS PIpeline for de novo transcriptome assembly. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(5). 2070–2086. 22 indexed citations
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Faßbinder, Jörg W. E., et al.. (2021). Highlighting the Potential of 3D ERT by Comparing its Results with GPR and the Excavation Map of a Roman Building. ArchéoSciences. 45-1. 183–186. 2 indexed citations
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Orsi, William D., Raphaël Morard, Aurèle Vuillemin, et al.. (2020). Anaerobic metabolism of Foraminifera thriving below the seafloor. The ISME Journal. 14(10). 2580–2594. 42 indexed citations
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Hehenberger, Elisabeth, Michael Eitel, Sofia Fortunato, et al.. (2020). Early eukaryotic origins and metazoan elaboration of MAPR family proteins. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 148. 106814–106814. 14 indexed citations
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Pett, Walker, Marcin Adamski, Maja Adamska, et al.. (2019). The Role of Homology and Orthology in the Phylogenomic Analysis of Metazoan Gene Content. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(4). 643–649. 38 indexed citations
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Klinges, J. Grace, Stephanie Rosales, Ryan McMinds, et al.. (2019). Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri, gen. nov., sp. nov. The ISME Journal. 13(12). 2938–2953. 61 indexed citations
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Eitel, Michael, Warren R. Francis, Frédérique Varoqueaux, et al.. (2018). Comparative genomics and the nature of placozoan species. PLoS Biology. 16(7). e2005359–e2005359. 63 indexed citations
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Osigus, Hans‐Jürgen, Michael Eitel, & Bernd Schierwater. (2017). Deep RNA sequencing reveals the smallest known mitochondrial micro exon in animals: The placozoan cox1 single base pair exon. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0177959–e0177959. 13 indexed citations
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Smith, Carolyn L., Frédérique Varoqueaux, Maike Kittelmann, et al.. (2014). Novel Cell Types, Neurosecretory Cells, and Body Plan of the Early-Diverging Metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens. Current Biology. 24(14). 1565–1572. 167 indexed citations
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Ringrose, Jeffrey H., Henk W. P. van den Toorn, Michael Eitel, et al.. (2013). Deep proteome profiling of Trichoplax adhaerens reveals remarkable features at the origin of metazoan multicellularity. Nature Communications. 4(1). 1408–1408. 47 indexed citations
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Eitel, Michael, Hans‐Jürgen Osigus, Rob DeSalle, & Bernd Schierwater. (2013). Global Diversity of the Placozoa. PLoS ONE. 8(4). e57131–e57131. 61 indexed citations
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Vij, Shubha, et al.. (2012). Evolutionarily Ancient Association of the FoxJ1 Transcription Factor with the Motile Ciliogenic Program. PLoS Genetics. 8(11). e1003019–e1003019. 47 indexed citations
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Guidi, Loretta, Michael Eitel, Erica Cesarini, Bernd Schierwater, & Maria Balsamo. (2011). Ultrastructural analyses support different morphological lineages in the phylum placozoa Grell, 1971. Journal of Morphology. 272(3). 371–378. 32 indexed citations
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Jong, Daniëlle de, Michael Eitel, Wolfgang Jakob, et al.. (2009). Multiple Dicer Genes in the Early-Diverging Metazoa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26(6). 1333–1340. 47 indexed citations
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Schierwater, Bernd, Michael Eitel, Wolfgang Jakob, et al.. (2009). Concatenated Analysis Sheds Light on Early Metazoan Evolution and Fuels a Modern “Urmetazoon” Hypothesis. PLoS Biology. 7(1). e1000020–e1000020. 199 indexed citations

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