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

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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.

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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Michael Levine	30.3k	7.8k	5.0k	3.3k	3.1k	355	36.4k
Douglas A. Melton	40.1k 1.3×	13.2k 1.7×	1.6k 0.3×	2.8k 0.9×	2.1k 0.7×	211	54.6k
Christiane Nüsslein‐Volhard	27.0k 0.9×	6.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.5×	4.4k 1.3×	3.3k 1.1×	184	35.0k
John H. Postlethwait	14.9k 0.5×	9.0k 1.1×	3.3k 0.7×	2.5k 0.8×	2.4k 0.8×	315	25.0k
Peter Gruß	26.2k 0.9×	8.8k 1.1×	1.0k 0.2×	3.3k 1.0×	2.0k 0.7×	219	33.4k
Alexander F. Schier	26.7k 0.9×	4.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.3×	3.3k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	203	35.4k
Allan C. Spradling	23.7k 0.8×	6.7k 0.9×	5.7k 1.1×	6.0k 1.8×	4.9k 1.6×	183	32.3k
Eric Banks	18.6k 0.6×	18.3k 2.3×	7.9k 1.6×	605 0.2×	1.8k 0.6×	28	40.4k
Stephen M. Cohen	21.4k 0.7×	3.2k 0.4×	2.2k 0.5×	3.8k 1.1×	2.2k 0.7×	213	27.1k
Chris P. Ponting	29.7k 1.0×	5.4k 0.7×	4.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.5×	2.9k 0.9×	304	38.6k
Norbert Perrimon	44.0k 1.5×	7.5k 1.0×	4.6k 0.9×	13.3k 4.0×	10.2k 3.3×	556	62.9k

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Cofer, Evan M., Xinyang Bing, Chandra L. Theesfeld, et al.. (2025). 3D chromatin structures precede genome activation in Drosophila embryogenesis. Cell Genomics. 5(11). 101002–101002.

Huang, Jingjing, A. Marishta, William D. Barshop, et al.. (2024). Sensitive and Accurate Proteome Profiling of Embryogenesis Using Real-Time Search and TMTproC Quantification. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 24(2). 100899–100899. 2 indexed citations

Bing, Xinyang, et al.. (2024). Chromosome structure in Drosophila is determined by boundary pairing not loop extrusion. eLife. 13. 11 indexed citations

Batut, Philippe, et al.. (2022). Genome organization controls transcriptional dynamics during development. Science. 375(6580). 566–570. 127 indexed citations

Shvartsman, Stanislav Y., et al.. (2022). ERK signaling dissolves ERF repression condensates in living embryos. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(9). 8 indexed citations

Levo, Michal, João Raimundo, Xinyang Bing, et al.. (2022). Transcriptional coupling of distant regulatory genes in living embryos. Nature. 605(7911). 754–760. 98 indexed citations

Navarrete, Ignacio & Michael Levine. (2016). Nodal and FGF coordinate ascidian neural tube morphogenesis. Development. 143(24). 4665–4675. 22 indexed citations

Levine, Michael, Claudia Cattoglio, & Robert Tjian. (2014). Looping Back to Leap Forward: Transcription Enters a New Era. Cell. 157(1). 13–25. 343 indexed citations

Hilgers, Valérie, Michael Perry, David A. Hendrix, et al.. (2011). Neural-specific elongation of 3′ UTRs during Drosophila development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(38). 15864–15869. 120 indexed citations

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Stolfi, Alberto, T. Blair Gainous, John J. Young, et al.. (2010). Early Chordate Origins of the Vertebrate Second Heart Field. Science. 329(5991). 565–568. 136 indexed citations

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Boettiger, Alistair N. & Michael Levine. (2009). Synchronous and Stochastic Patterns of Gene Activation in the Drosophila Embryo. Science. 325(5939). 471–473. 202 indexed citations

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Hendrix, David A., Joung‐Woo Hong, Julia Zeitlinger, Daniel S. Rokhsar, & Michael Levine. (2008). Promoter elements associated with RNA Pol II stalling in the Drosophila embryo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(22). 7762–7767. 133 indexed citations

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Christiaen, Lionel, Brad Davidson, Takeshi Kawashima, et al.. (2008). The Transcription/Migration Interface in Heart Precursors of Ciona intestinalis. Science. 320(5881). 1349–1352. 106 indexed citations

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Huang, Xinhua, et al.. (2008). DEAF-1 regulates immunity gene expression in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(24). 8351–8356. 38 indexed citations

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Goltsev, Yury, Naoyuki Fuse, Manfred Frasch, et al.. (2007). Evolution of the dorsal-ventral patterning network in the mosquito, Anopheles gambiae. Development. 134(13). 2415–2424. 66 indexed citations

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Papatsenko, Dmitri, Andrey Kislyuk, Michael Levine, & Inna Dubchak. (2005). Conservation patterns in different functional sequence categories of divergent Drosophila \nspecies. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 19 indexed citations

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Erives, Albert & Michael Levine. (2004). Coordinate enhancers share common organizational features in the Drosophila genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101(11). 3851–3856. 98 indexed citations

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Berman, Benjamin P., Yutaka Nibu, Barret D. Pfeiffer, et al.. (2002). Exploiting transcription factor binding site clustering to identify cis-regulatory modules involved in pattern formation in the Drosophila genome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(2). 757–762. 483 indexed citations

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Markstein, Michele, et al.. (2001). Genome-wide analysis of clustered Dorsal binding sites identifies putative target genes in the Drosophila embryo. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(2). 763–768. 290 indexed citations

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Levine, Michael, et al.. (1986). Physicians practicing in Texas' freestanding emergency centers.. PubMed. 82(9). 22–5. 1 indexed citations

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