Michael Levine

49.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
355 papers, 36.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Levine is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Levine has authored 355 papers receiving a total of 36.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 288 papers in Molecular Biology, 80 papers in Genetics and 51 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Michael Levine's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (194 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (115 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (65 papers). Michael Levine is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (194 papers), Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (115 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (65 papers). Michael Levine collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Japan. Michael Levine's co-authors include Timothy Hoey, Robert Tjian, Joseph C. Glorioso, James L. Manley, Stephen Small, Joseph C. Corbo, Ernst Hafen, Y. Tony Ip, Eric H. Davidson and Angelike Stathopoulos and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Michael Levine

349 papers receiving 35.5k 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.

Conservation of the sequence and temporal expression of let-7 heterochronic regulatory RNA

2000 1.9k citations Michael Levine et al. Nature profile →
Transcription regulation and animal diversity

2003 943 citations Michael Levine, Robert Tjian Nature profile →
A conserved DNA sequence in homoeotic genes of the Drosophila Antennapedia and bithorax complexes

1984 842 citations Michael Levine et al. Nature profile →
RNA polymerase stalling at developmental control genes in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo

2007 592 citations Julia Zeitlinger, Alexander Stark et al. profile →
Immunological method for mapping genes on Drosophila polytene chromosomes.

1982 590 citations Michael Levine et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Gene regulatory networks for development

2005 547 citations Michael Levine et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Enhancer Control of Transcriptional Bursting

2016 473 citations Michael Levine et al. Cell profile →
Developmental enhancers and chromosome topology

2018 392 citations Michael Levine et al. Science profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Levine

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Levine. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Levine based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Levine. Michael Levine is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	3D chromatin structures precede genome activation in Drosophila embryogenesis 2025 ·Cell Genomics ·(unknown), Evan M. Cofer, Xinyang Bing, (unknown), (unknown), Chandra L. Theesfeld, Olga G. Troyanskaya, Michael Levine, Yuri Pritykin	0
2	Sensitive and Accurate Proteome Profiling of Embryogenesis Using Real-Time Search and TMTproC Quantification 2024 ·Molecular & Cellular Proteomics ·(unknown), Jingjing Huang, A. Marishta, (unknown), (unknown), William D. Barshop, Jesse D. Canterbury, Rafael D. Melani, (unknown), Vlad Zabrouskov, Michael Levine, Eric Wieschaus, Graeme C. McAlister, Martin Wühr	2
3	Chromosome structure in Drosophila is determined by boundary pairing not loop extrusion 2024 ·eLife ·Xinyang Bing, (unknown), Miki Fujioka, (unknown), (unknown), Michael Levine, Paul Schedl, James B. Jaynes	11
4	Genome organization controls transcriptional dynamics during development 2022 ·Science ·Philippe Batut, Xinyang Bing, (unknown), João Raimundo, Michal Levo, Michael Levine	127
5	ERK signaling dissolves ERF repression condensates in living embryos 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), (unknown), Stanislav Y. Shvartsman, Michael Levine, Nicholas Treen	8
6	Transcriptional coupling of distant regulatory genes in living embryos 2022 ·Nature ·Michal Levo, João Raimundo, Xinyang Bing, (unknown), Philippe Batut, Sergey Ryabichko, Thomas Gregor, Michael Levine	98
7	Nodal and FGF coordinate ascidian neural tube morphogenesis 2016 ·Development ·Ignacio Navarrete, Michael Levine	22
8	Looping Back to Leap Forward: Transcription Enters a New Era 2014 ·Cell ·Michael Levine, Claudia Cattoglio, Robert Tjian	343
9	Neural-specific elongation of 3′ UTRs during Drosophila development 2011 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Valérie Hilgers, Michael Perry, David A. Hendrix, Alexander Stark, Michael Levine, Benjamin Haley	120
10	Early Chordate Origins of the Vertebrate Second Heart Field 2010 ·Science ·Alberto Stolfi, T. Blair Gainous, John J. Young, Alessandro Mori, Michael Levine, Lionel Christiaen	136
11	Synchronous and Stochastic Patterns of Gene Activation in the Drosophila Embryo 2009 ·Science ·Alistair N. Boettiger, Michael Levine	202
12	The Transcription/Migration Interface in Heart Precursors of Ciona intestinalis 2008 ·Science ·Lionel Christiaen, Brad Davidson, Takeshi Kawashima, Weston T. Powell, Hector Nolla, Karen Vranizan, Michael Levine	106
13	DEAF-1 regulates immunity gene expression in Drosophila 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Xinhua Huang, James A. Wohlschlegel, Michael Levine, Kate Senger	38
14	Promoter elements associated with RNA Pol II stalling in the Drosophila embryo 2008 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David A. Hendrix, Joung‐Woo Hong, Julia Zeitlinger, Daniel S. Rokhsar, Michael Levine	133
15	Evolution of the dorsal-ventral patterning network in the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae 2007 ·Development ·Yury Goltsev, Naoyuki Fuse, Manfred Frasch, Robert P. Zinzen, Gregory C. Lanzaro, Michael Levine	66
16	Conservation patterns in different functional sequence categories of divergent Drosophila \nspecies 2005 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Dmitri Papatsenko, Andrey Kislyuk, Michael Levine, Inna Dubchak	19
17	Coordinate enhancers share common organizational features in the Drosophila genome 2004 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Albert Erives, Michael Levine	98
18	Exploiting transcription factor binding site clustering to identify cis-regulatory modules involved in pattern formation in the Drosophila genome 2002 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Benjamin P. Berman, Yutaka Nibu, Barret D. Pfeiffer, Pavel Tomančák, S Celniker, Michael Levine, Gerald M. Rubin, Michael B. Eisen	483
19	Genome-wide analysis of clustered Dorsal binding sites identifies putative target genes in the Drosophila embryo 2001 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Michele Markstein, Peter Markstein, (unknown), Michael Levine	290
20	Physicians practicing in Texas' freestanding emergency centers. 1986 ·PubMed ·(unknown), Michael Levine, Ayesha Sajid	1

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