Michael J. McEachern

3.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
52 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Michael J. McEachern is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Physiology and Aging. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael J. McEachern has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 34 papers in Physiology and 14 papers in Aging. Recurrent topics in Michael J. McEachern's work include Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (34 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (21 papers) and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (14 papers). Michael J. McEachern is often cited by papers focused on Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence (34 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (21 papers) and Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (14 papers). Michael J. McEachern collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Sweden. Michael J. McEachern's co-authors include Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Anat Krauskopf, James E. Haber, James Hicks, Donald R. Helinski, Marcin Filutowicz, Shilpa Iyer, Chanchal Sadhu, Sarit Smolikov and Martin Kupiec and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Michael J. McEachern

50 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

TELOMERES AND THEIR CONTROL 1995 2026 2005 2015 2000 1995 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. TELOMERES AND THEIR CONTROL
    2000 578 citations Michael J. McEachern, Anat Krauskopf et al. profile →
  2. Runaway telomere elongation caused by telomerase RNA gene mutations
    1995 299 citations Michael J. McEachern, Elizabeth H. Blackburn Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael J. McEachern United States 27 2.5k 1.7k 631 512 472 52 3.2k
Guido Krupp Germany 27 1.5k 0.6× 299 0.2× 399 0.6× 64 0.1× 237 0.5× 62 2.1k
Sabine Strahl‐Bolsinger Germany 14 2.4k 1.0× 212 0.1× 582 0.9× 121 0.2× 179 0.4× 16 2.7k
Verena Pfeiffer Germany 17 1.4k 0.6× 277 0.2× 131 0.2× 40 0.1× 894 1.9× 28 2.0k
Lois M. Banta United States 19 2.1k 0.9× 190 0.1× 602 1.0× 18 0.0× 192 0.4× 22 3.0k
Antony P. Page United Kingdom 26 783 0.3× 84 0.0× 162 0.3× 505 1.0× 77 0.2× 56 1.8k
K Makino Japan 20 2.6k 1.0× 27 0.0× 388 0.6× 139 0.3× 1.1k 2.3× 22 3.0k
William Walter United States 32 3.7k 1.5× 48 0.0× 136 0.2× 50 0.1× 1.5k 3.2× 43 4.2k
Antonia P. Sagona United Kingdom 20 717 0.3× 128 0.1× 100 0.2× 63 0.1× 83 0.2× 36 1.4k
Marianna Feretzaki United States 17 750 0.3× 206 0.1× 424 0.7× 38 0.1× 62 0.1× 24 1.3k
Kris N. Lambert United States 30 878 0.4× 32 0.0× 1.7k 2.7× 64 0.1× 83 0.2× 61 2.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael J. McEachern

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McEachern, Michael J., et al.. (2018). Chromosome ends as adaptive beginnings: the potential role of dysfunctional telomeres in subtelomeric evolvability. Current Genetics. 64(5). 997–1000. 15 indexed citations
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McEachern, Michael J., et al.. (2017). Mild Telomere Dysfunction as a Force for Altering the Adaptive Potential of Subtelomeric Genes. Genetics. 208(2). 537–548. 11 indexed citations
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Xu, Jianing & Michael J. McEachern. (2012). Long Telomeres Produced by Telomerase-Resistant Recombination Are Established from a Single Source and Are Subject to Extreme Sequence Scrambling. PLoS Genetics. 8(11). e1003017–e1003017. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Dong, et al.. (2011). TRFolder: computational prediction of novel telomerase RNA structures in yeast genomes. International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications. 7(1). 63–63. 2 indexed citations
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Basenko, Evelina Y., Anthony J. Cesare, Shilpa Iyer, Jack D. Griffith, & Michael J. McEachern. (2009). Telomeric circles are abundant in the stn1-M1 mutant that maintains its telomeres through recombination. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(1). 182–189. 18 indexed citations
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McEachern, Michael J. & James E. Haber. (2006). 8 Telomerase-independent Telomere Maintenance in Yeast. Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Archive. 45. 199–224. 7 indexed citations
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McEachern, Michael J., et al.. (2006). Screening for telomeric recombination in wild-typeKluyveromyces lactis. FEMS Yeast Research. 6(3). 442–448. 5 indexed citations
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Cesare, Anthony J., et al.. (2005). Recombination at Long Mutant Telomeres Produces Tiny Single- and Double-Stranded Telomeric Circles. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 25(11). 4406–4412. 42 indexed citations
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Askree, S. Hussain, Sarit Smolikov, Raya Gurevich, et al.. (2004). A genome-wide screen for Saccharomyces cerevisiae deletion mutants that affect telomere length. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(23). 8658–8663. 281 indexed citations
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McEachern, Michael J., et al.. (2004). Characterization of Kluyveromyces lactis subtelomeric sequences including a distal element with strong purine/pyrimidine strand bias. Yeast. 21(10). 813–830. 12 indexed citations
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Tomáška, Ľubomír, Michael J. McEachern, & Jozef Nosek. (2004). Alternatives to telomerase: keeping linear chromosomes via telomeric circles. FEBS Letters. 567(1). 142–146. 49 indexed citations
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Zinzen, Robert P., et al.. (2003). Template Requirements for Telomerase Translocation in Kluyveromyces lactis. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 24(2). 912–923. 12 indexed citations
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McEachern, Michael J., et al.. (2002). Recombinational Telomere Elongation Promoted by DNA Circles. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 22(13). 4512–4521. 98 indexed citations
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McEachern, Michael J. & Shilpa Iyer. (2001). Short Telomeres in Yeast Are Highly Recombinogenic. Molecular Cell. 7(4). 695–704. 68 indexed citations
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McEachern, Michael J., et al.. (2001). Totally Mutant Telomeres: Single-Step Mutagenesis of Tandem Repeat DNA Sequences. BioTechniques. 30(5). 934–938. 8 indexed citations
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Blackburn, Elizabeth H., Jen Chang, Tracy B. Fulton, et al.. (2000). Molecular Manifestations and Molecular Determinants of Telomere Capping. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 65(0). 253–264. 56 indexed citations
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Cohn, Marita, Michael J. McEachern, & Elizabeth H. Blackburn. (1998). Telomeric sequence diversity within the genus Saccharomyces. Current Genetics. 33(2). 83–91. 61 indexed citations
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McEachern, Michael J. & Elizabeth H. Blackburn. (1995). Runaway telomere elongation caused by telomerase RNA gene mutations. Nature. 376(6539). 403–409. 299 indexed citations breakdown →

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