Morgan N. Price

33.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
96 papers, 22.0k citations indexed

About

Morgan N. Price is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Morgan N. Price has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 22.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Molecular Biology, 23 papers in Genetics and 22 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Morgan N. Price's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (38 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (20 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers). Morgan N. Price is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (38 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (20 papers) and Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (16 papers). Morgan N. Price collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Russia. Morgan N. Price's co-authors include Adam P. Arkin, Paramvir Dehal, Gary L. Andersen, Philip Hugenholtz, Julia K. Goodrich, Alexander J. Probst, Eric P. Nawrocki, Rob Knight, Daniel McDonald and Todd Z. DeSantis and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Morgan N. Price

90 papers receiving 21.7k 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.

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

2010 10.0k citations Morgan N. Price, Paramvir Dehal et al. PLoS ONE profile →
An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

2011 4.0k citations Morgan N. Price et al. The ISME Journal profile →
FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

2009 3.9k citations Morgan N. Price, Paramvir Dehal et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Morgan N. Price United States	39	11.7k	6.0k	3.3k	2.3k	1.9k	96	22.0k
Weizhong Li United States	45	16.8k 1.4×	5.6k 0.9×	3.6k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	1.4k 0.7×	130	25.7k
Paramvir Dehal United States	17	9.1k 0.8×	4.4k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	25	16.3k
Max A. Alekseyev United States	14	10.6k 0.9×	5.7k 0.9×	4.1k 1.2×	1.9k 0.8×	2.3k 1.2×	35	19.9k
Son Pham United States	10	9.8k 0.8×	5.3k 0.9×	3.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.1×	15	18.5k
Alexander Sirotkin Russia	8	10.0k 0.8×	5.5k 0.9×	3.8k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	2.3k 1.2×	22	19.1k
Sergey Nurk United States	11	12.2k 1.0×	6.9k 1.1×	4.6k 1.4×	2.0k 0.9×	2.6k 1.3×	13	22.6k
James Ostell United States	28	11.1k 0.9×	4.0k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	36	19.9k
Jason W. Sahl United States	32	8.5k 0.7×	7.5k 1.2×	2.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.7k 0.9×	122	20.1k
Ian T. Paulsen Australia	82	11.5k 1.0×	4.6k 0.8×	2.8k 0.9×	3.7k 1.6×	2.0k 1.0×	312	22.7k
Søren J. Sørensen Denmark	77	11.2k 1.0×	5.9k 1.0×	3.1k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	1.5k 0.8×	370	23.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Price, Morgan N., et al.. (2025). Mer overexpression in Methanosarcina acetivorans affects growth and methanogenesis during substrate adaptation. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 91(5). e0067525–e0067525.

Torres, Marta, Morgan N. Price, Albina Khasanova, et al.. (2025). Bacterial fitness for plant colonization is influenced by plant growth substrate. New Phytologist. 248(6). 3168–3190.

Biggs, Bradley W., Morgan N. Price, J A Escobedo, et al.. (2024). High-throughput protein characterization by complementation using DNA barcoded fragment libraries. Molecular Systems Biology. 20(11). 1207–1229.

Carlson, Hans K., et al.. (2024). High-throughput genetics enables identification of nutrient utilization and accessory energy metabolism genes in a model methanogen. mBio. 15(9). e0078124–e0078124. 3 indexed citations

Price, Morgan N., et al.. (2023). Primary and Community Care Mapping: Helping Communities Collaboratively Plan Health Services in a Patient-Centred Manner. Healthcare Quarterly. 25(4). 41–48. 1 indexed citations

Carim, Sean, Alexey E. Kazakov, Morgan N. Price, et al.. (2021). Systematic discovery of pseudomonad genetic factors involved in sensitivity to tailocins. The ISME Journal. 15(8). 2289–2305. 34 indexed citations

Carlson, Hans K., Lauren Michelle Lui, Morgan N. Price, et al.. (2020). Selective carbon sources influence the end products of microbial nitrate respiration. The ISME Journal. 14(8). 2034–2045. 84 indexed citations

Carlson, Hans K., Morgan N. Price, Romy Chakraborty, et al.. (2018). The selective pressures on the microbial community in a metal-contaminated aquifer. The ISME Journal. 13(4). 937–949. 65 indexed citations

Rajeev, Lara, Megan E. Garber, Grant M. Zane, et al.. (2018). A new family of transcriptional regulators of tungstoenzymes and molybdate/tungstate transport. Environmental Microbiology. 21(2). 784–799. 7 indexed citations

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Price, Morgan N. & Adam P. Arkin. (2017). PaperBLAST: Text Mining Papers for Information about Homologs. mSystems. 2(4). 86 indexed citations

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Christensen, Geoff A., Morgan N. Price, Jennifer V. Kuehl, et al.. (2014). Genetic basis for nitrate resistance in Desulfovibrio strains. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5. 153–153. 78 indexed citations

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Kuehl, Jennifer V., Morgan N. Price, Jayashree Ray, et al.. (2014). Functional Genomics with a Comprehensive Library of Transposon Mutants for the Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio alaskensis G20. mBio. 5(3). e01041–14. 44 indexed citations

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Rajeev, Lara, Eric G. Luning, Paramvir Dehal, et al.. (2011). Systematic mapping of two component response regulators to gene targets in a model sulfate reducing bacterium. Genome biology. 12(10). R99–R99. 44 indexed citations

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Price, Morgan N., Paramvir Dehal, & Adam P. Arkin. (2010). FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments. PLoS ONE. 5(3). e9490–e9490. 9981 indexed citations breakdown →

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Price, Morgan N., Paramvir Dehal, & Adam P. Arkin. (2009). FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26(7). 1641–1650. 3885 indexed citations breakdown →

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Price, Morgan N., Paramvir Dehal, & Adam P. Arkin. (2008). Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of transcriptional regulation in Escherichia coli. Genome biology. 9(1). R4–R4. 1 indexed citations

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Price, Morgan N.. (2008). Horizontal gene transfer and the evolution of transcriptional regulation in Escherichia \ncoli. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 104 indexed citations

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Price, Morgan N., Adam P. Arkin, & Eric J. Alm. (2006). The Life-Cycle of Operons. PLoS Genetics. 2(6). e96–e96. 140 indexed citations

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Alm, Eric J., Katherine Huang, Morgan N. Price, et al.. (2005). The MicrobesOnline Web site for comparative genomics. Genome Research. 15(7). 1015–1022. 169 indexed citations

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Price, Morgan N., Adam P. Arkin, & Eric J. Alm. (2005). OpWise: Operons aid the identification of differentially expressed genes in bacterial \nmicroarray experiments. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 22 indexed citations

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