Miler T. Lee

3.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
22 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Miler T. Lee is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Miler T. Lee has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Cancer Research and 2 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Miler T. Lee's work include RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Miler T. Lee is often cited by papers focused on RNA Research and Splicing (12 papers), RNA modifications and cancer (5 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (5 papers). Miler T. Lee collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Germany. Miler T. Lee's co-authors include Antonio J. Giráldez, Ariel Bazzini, Ashley R. Bonneau, Elizabeth Fleming, Carter M. Takacs, Charles E. Vejnar, Romain Christiano, Tobias C. Walther, Nikolaus Rajewsky and Sebastian D. Mackowiak and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Miler T. Lee

22 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Ribosome Profiling Shows That miR-430 Reduces Translation Before Causing mRNA Decay in Zebrafish

2012 560 citations Ariel Bazzini, Miler T. Lee et al. Science profile →
Identification of small ORFs in vertebrates using ribosome footprinting and evolutionary conservation

2014 493 citations Ariel Bazzini, Timothy G. Johnstone et al. The EMBO Journal profile →
Zygotic Genome Activation During the Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition

2014 443 citations Miler T. Lee, Ashley R. Bonneau et al. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Miler T. Lee United States	13	2.0k	688	232	172	160	22	2.3k
Ariel Paulson United States	19	1.1k 0.6×	278 0.4×	196 0.8×	90 0.5×	121 0.8×	28	1.5k
Laurence Ettwiller United States	22	2.0k 1.0×	274 0.4×	479 2.1×	121 0.7×	297 1.9×	49	2.5k
Oliver H. Tam United States	13	2.4k 1.2×	895 1.3×	270 1.2×	115 0.7×	740 4.6×	20	2.7k
Manuela Weier Switzerland	8	1.3k 0.6×	443 0.6×	535 2.3×	113 0.7×	298 1.9×	9	1.8k
Yavuz Ariyürek Netherlands	25	1.8k 0.9×	346 0.5×	530 2.3×	51 0.3×	380 2.4×	40	2.5k
Craig A. Smibert Canada	32	2.5k 1.2×	228 0.3×	470 2.0×	127 0.7×	210 1.3×	45	3.1k
Kazuhiro R. Nitta Japan	13	2.8k 1.4×	226 0.3×	504 2.2×	36 0.2×	302 1.9×	30	3.1k
Alexander Mazo United States	33	3.2k 1.6×	278 0.4×	488 2.1×	94 0.5×	560 3.5×	62	3.6k
Naoya Kenmochi Japan	23	1.8k 0.9×	220 0.3×	224 1.0×	31 0.2×	159 1.0×	55	2.2k
Robert Hock Germany	23	2.0k 1.0×	209 0.3×	315 1.4×	65 0.4×	254 1.6×	31	2.4k

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Miller, Jennifer, et al.. (2025). H3K4me2 distinguishes a distinct class of enhancers during the maternal-to-zygotic transition. PLoS Biology. 23(7). e3003239–e3003239. 1 indexed citations

Nicotra, Matthew L., et al.. (2023). Parallels and contrasts between the cnidarian and bilaterian maternal-to-zygotic transition are revealed in Hydractinia embryos. PLoS Genetics. 19(7). e1010845–e1010845. 1 indexed citations

Carlson, Anne E., et al.. (2023). Hybridization led to a rewired pluripotency network in the allotetraploid Xenopus laevis. eLife. 12. 5 indexed citations

Lee, Miler T., et al.. (2021). RNA degradation is required for the germ-cell to maternal transition in Drosophila. Current Biology. 31(14). 2984–2994.e7. 18 indexed citations

Carlson, Anne E., et al.. (2020). Optimized design of antisense oligomers for targeted rRNA depletion. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(1). e5–e5. 11 indexed citations

Sanders, Steven M., Katherine M. Buckley, Daniel J. Bain, et al.. (2020). Zinc protection of fertilized eggs is an ancient feature of sexual reproduction in animals. PLoS Biology. 18(7). e3000811–e3000811. 11 indexed citations

Lederer, Alex R., Marcie H. Warner, Travis N. Mavrich, et al.. (2019). The Paf1 Complex Broadly Impacts the Transcriptome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Genetics. 212(3). 711–728. 12 indexed citations

Vejnar, Charles E., Carter M. Takacs, Valeria Yartseva, et al.. (2019). Genome wide analysis of 3′ UTR sequence elements and proteins regulating mRNA stability during maternal-to-zygotic transition in zebrafish. Genome Research. 29(7). 1100–1114. 48 indexed citations

Lee, Miler T., et al.. (2018). The TMEM16A channel mediates the fast polyspermy block in Xenopus laevis. The Journal of General Physiology. 150(9). 1249–1259. 26 indexed citations

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Lee, Miler T., et al.. (2018). PLC and IP3-evoked Ca2+ release initiate the fast block to polyspermy inXenopus laeviseggs. The Journal of General Physiology. 150(9). 1239–1248. 9 indexed citations

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Yartseva, Valeria, Carter M. Takacs, Charles E. Vejnar, Miler T. Lee, & Antonio J. Giráldez. (2016). RESA identifies mRNA-regulatory sequences at high resolution. Nature Methods. 14(2). 201–207. 29 indexed citations

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Lee, Miler T., Ashley R. Bonneau, & Antonio J. Giráldez. (2014). Zygotic Genome Activation During the Maternal-to-Zygotic Transition. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 30(1). 581–613. 443 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bazzini, Ariel, Timothy G. Johnstone, Romain Christiano, et al.. (2014). Identification of small ORFs in vertebrates using ribosome footprinting and evolutionary conservation. The EMBO Journal. 33(9). 981–993. 493 indexed citations breakdown →

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Francis, Chantal, Miler T. Lee, Mugdha Khaladkar, et al.. (2014). Divergence of RNA localization between rat and mouse neurons reveals the potential for rapid brain evolution. BMC Genomics. 15(1). 883–883. 20 indexed citations

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Lee, Miler T., Ashley R. Bonneau, Carter M. Takacs, et al.. (2013). Nanog, Pou5f1 and SoxB1 activate zygotic gene expression during the maternal-to-zygotic transition. Nature. 503(7476). 360–364. 362 indexed citations

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Khaladkar, Mugdha, Peter T. Buckley, Miler T. Lee, et al.. (2013). Subcellular RNA Sequencing Reveals Broad Presence of Cytoplasmic Intron-Sequence Retaining Transcripts in Mouse and Rat Neurons. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e76194–e76194. 31 indexed citations

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Bazzini, Ariel, Miler T. Lee, & Antonio J. Giráldez. (2012). Ribosome Profiling Shows That miR-430 Reduces Translation Before Causing mRNA Decay in Zebrafish. Science. 336(6078). 233–237. 560 indexed citations breakdown →

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Buckley, Peter T., Miler T. Lee, Jai‐Yoon Sul, et al.. (2011). Cytoplasmic Intron Sequence-Retaining Transcripts Can Be Dendritically Targeted via ID Element Retrotransposons. Neuron. 69(5). 877–884. 113 indexed citations

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Lee, Miler T. & Junhyong Kim. (2008). Self Containment, a Property of Modular RNA Structures, Distinguishes microRNAs. PLoS Computational Biology. 4(8). e1000150–e1000150. 12 indexed citations

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Lee, Miler T., et al.. (2008). Computational Sensing and in vitro Classification of GMOs and Biomolecular Events. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2 indexed citations

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