Nace Kranjc

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 906 citations indexed

About

Nace Kranjc is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Insect Science and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nace Kranjc has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 906 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Insect Science and 5 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Nace Kranjc's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (10 papers) and Insect Resistance and Genetics (9 papers). Nace Kranjc is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers), Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (10 papers) and Insect Resistance and Genetics (9 papers). Nace Kranjc collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Nace Kranjc's co-authors include Andrea Crisanti, Tony Nolan, Roberto Galizi, Andrew Hammond, Kyros Kyrou, Austin Burt, Andrea Beaghton, Francesco M. Carpi, Marco Bruttini and Romina D’Aurizio and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Nace Kranjc

13 papers receiving 895 citations

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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.

A CRISPR–Cas9 gene drive targeting doublesex causes complete population suppression in caged Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes

2018 521 citations Kyros Kyrou, Andrew Hammond et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nace Kranjc United Kingdom	9	729	544	281	189	122	15	906
Andrea Beaghton United Kingdom	9	773 1.1×	580 1.1×	308 1.1×	250 1.3×	127 1.0×	10	973
Dimitris Katsanos United Kingdom	7	628 0.9×	408 0.8×	250 0.9×	162 0.9×	108 0.9×	9	844
Héctor M. Sánchez C. United States	15	611 0.8×	526 1.0×	292 1.0×	160 0.8×	103 0.8×	22	837
Philippos Aris Papathanos United Kingdom	18	917 1.3×	866 1.6×	386 1.4×	274 1.4×	110 0.9×	28	1.3k
Anne Dérédec France	8	460 0.6×	438 0.8×	256 0.9×	223 1.2×	86 0.7×	13	787
Stephanie Gamez United States	11	289 0.4×	329 0.6×	310 1.1×	64 0.3×	86 0.7×	14	546
Federica Bernardini United Kingdom	9	383 0.5×	357 0.7×	159 0.6×	107 0.6×	43 0.4×	18	508
Duverney Chaverra‐Rodriguez United States	10	314 0.4×	338 0.6×	117 0.4×	75 0.4×	107 0.9×	15	568
Nina Alphey United Kingdom	14	305 0.4×	438 0.8×	247 0.9×	61 0.3×	95 0.8×	17	595
Kathryn E. Kistler United States	7	302 0.4×	178 0.3×	125 0.4×	91 0.5×	46 0.4×	8	535

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15 of 15 papers shown

Kranjc, Nace, et al.. (2024). Y chromosome shredding in Anopheles gambiae: Insight into the cellular dynamics of a novel synthetic sex ratio distorter. PLoS Genetics. 20(6). e1011303–e1011303.

Morianou, Ioanna, Nace Kranjc, O Zongo, et al.. (2024). Genomic analyses revealed low genetic variation in the intron-exon boundary of the doublesex gene within the natural populations of An. gambiae s.l. in Burkina Faso. BMC Genomics. 25(1). 1207–1207.

Kranjc, Nace, Matic Kisovec, Apolonija Bedina Zavec, et al.. (2024). In vitro evolution driven by epistasis reveals alternative cholesterol-specific binding motifs of perfringolysin O. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 300(9). 107664–107664. 1 indexed citations

Leo, Chiara, et al.. (2022). Comprehensive characterization of a transgene insertion in a highly repetitive, centromeric region of Anopheles mosquitoes. Pathogens and Global Health. 117(3). 273–283. 3 indexed citations

Kranjc, Nace, Dieudonné Diloma Soma, Ioanna Morianou, et al.. (2022). Analysis of the Genetic Variation of the Fruitless Gene within the Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae) Complex Populations in Africa. Insects. 13(11). 1048–1048. 2 indexed citations

Garrood, William T., Nace Kranjc, Karl Petri, et al.. (2021). Analysis of off-target effects in CRISPR-based gene drives in the human malaria mosquito. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(22). 23 indexed citations

Fuchs, Silke, William T. Garrood, Andrew Hammond, et al.. (2021). Resistance to a CRISPR-based gene drive at an evolutionarily conserved site is revealed by mimicking genotype fixation. PLoS Genetics. 17(10). e1009740–e1009740. 26 indexed citations

Hammond, Andrew, Ioanna Morianou, Kyros Kyrou, et al.. (2021). Regulating the expression of gene drives is key to increasing their invasive potential and the mitigation of resistance. PLoS Genetics. 17(1). e1009321–e1009321. 73 indexed citations

Kranjc, Nace, Andrea Crisanti, Tony Nolan, & Federica Bernardini. (2021). Anopheles gambiae Genome Conservation as a Resource for Rational Gene Drive Target Site Selection. Insects. 12(2). 97–97. 8 indexed citations

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Sharma, Atashi, et al.. (2020). Cellular mechanisms regulating synthetic sex ratio distortion in the Anopheles gambiae germline. Pathogens and Global Health. 114(7). 370–378. 11 indexed citations

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Kranjc, Nace, et al.. (2020). More than one way to bind to cholesterol: atypical variants of membrane-binding domain of perfringolysin O selected by ribosome display. RSC Advances. 10(63). 38678–38682. 2 indexed citations

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Taxiarchi, Chrysanthi, Nace Kranjc, Kyros Kyrou, et al.. (2019). High-resolution transcriptional profiling of Anopheles gambiae spermatogenesis reveals mechanisms of sex chromosome regulation. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14841–14841. 22 indexed citations

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Kyrou, Kyros, Andrew Hammond, Roberto Galizi, et al.. (2018). A CRISPR–Cas9 gene drive targeting doublesex causes complete population suppression in caged Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes. Nature Biotechnology. 36(11). 1062–1066. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bernardini, Federica, Roberto Galizi, Chrysanthi Taxiarchi, et al.. (2017). Cross-Species Y Chromosome Function Between Malaria Vectors of the Anopheles gambiae Species Complex. Genetics. 207(2). 729–740. 13 indexed citations

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Hammond, Andrew, Kyros Kyrou, Marco Bruttini, et al.. (2017). The creation and selection of mutations resistant to a gene drive over multiple generations in the malaria mosquito. PLoS Genetics. 13(10). e1007039–e1007039. 201 indexed citations

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