Nathan A. Ahlgren

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
28 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Nathan A. Ahlgren is a scholar working on Ecology, Molecular Biology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan A. Ahlgren has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Ecology, 16 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Nathan A. Ahlgren's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (18 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers). Nathan A. Ahlgren is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (18 papers), Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (14 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers). Nathan A. Ahlgren collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and France. Nathan A. Ahlgren's co-authors include Jed A. Fuhrman, Gabrielle Rocap, Fengzhu Sun, Jie Ren, Yang Young Lu, Sallie W. Chisholm, Elizabeth L. Mann, James W. Moffett, Kai Song and Xiaohui Xie and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Nathan A. Ahlgren

25 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

VirFinder: a novel k-mer based tool for identifying viral sequences from assembled metagenomic data

2017 400 citations Jie Ren, Nathan A. Ahlgren et al. Microbiome profile →
Identifying viruses from metagenomic data using deep learning

2020 361 citations Jie Ren, Nathan A. Ahlgren et al. profile →

Peers

Nathan A. Ahlgren

ECOLO

OCEAN

Manuel Kleiner United States

Beltrán Rodriguez-Brito United States

Felipe H. Coutinho Spain

Hisashi Endo Japan

Matthew Z. DeMaere Australia

Ana-Belén Martín-Cuadrado Spain

Amy M. Chan Canada

Victor Seguritan United States

Sen‐Lin Tang Taiwan

Mario López‐Pérez Spain

Manuel Kleiner United States

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1.3k ×0.8

ECOLO

1.3k ×1.1

440 ×0.9

OCEAN

285 ×0.7

171 ×0.9

Citations per year, relative to Nathan A. Ahlgren Nathan A. Ahlgren (= 1×) peers Manuel Kleiner

Countries citing papers authored by Nathan A. Ahlgren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Weissman, JL, Shengwei Hou, Yi‐Chun Yeh, et al.. (2025). Phylogenetic proximity is a key driver of temporal succession of marine giant viruses in a five-year metagenomic time-series. ISME Communications. 5(1). ycaf217–ycaf217.

Fuhrman, Jed A., et al.. (2023). Diverse Marine T4-like Cyanophage Communities Are Primarily Comprised of Low-Abundance Species Including Species with Distinct Seasonal, Persistent, Occasional, or Sporadic Dynamics. Viruses. 15(2). 581–581. 12 indexed citations

Ahlgren, Nathan A., et al.. (2023). New tRNA-targeting transposons that hijack phage and vesicles. Trends in Genetics. 39(6). 433–435.

Stone, Rosalie A. Torres, Nathan A. Ahlgren, & Philip J. Bergmann. (2022). Multiple measures of structural racism as predictors of U.S. county-level COVID-19 cases and deaths. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 46(5). 832–853.

Bergmann, Philip J., Nathan A. Ahlgren, & Rosalie A. Torres Stone. (2022). County-level societal predictors of COVID-19 cases and deaths changed through time in the United States: A longitudinal ecological study. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(11). e0001282–e0001282. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Weili, Jie Ren, Kujin Tang, et al.. (2020). A network-based integrated framework for predicting virus–prokaryote interactions. NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics. 2(2). lqaa044–lqaa044. 84 indexed citations

Belisle, B. Shafer, et al.. (2020). Genome Sequences of Synechococcus sp. Strain MIT S9220 and Cocultured Cyanophage SynMITS9220M01. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9(30). 2 indexed citations

Roux, Simon, Gareth Trubl, Danielle Goudeau, et al.. (2019). Optimizing de novo genome assembly from PCR-amplified metagenomes. PeerJ. 7. e6902–e6902. 26 indexed citations

Ignacio‐Espinoza, J. Cesar, Nathan A. Ahlgren, & Jed A. Fuhrman. (2019). Long-term stability and Red Queen-like strain dynamics in marine viruses. Nature Microbiology. 5(2). 265–271. 68 indexed citations

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Lee, Michael, Nathan A. Ahlgren, Nathan G. Walworth, et al.. (2019). Marine Synechococcus isolates representing globally abundant genomic lineages demonstrate a unique evolutionary path of genome reduction without a decrease in GC content. Environmental Microbiology. 21(5). 1677–1686. 25 indexed citations

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Ahlgren, Nathan A., Jessica N. Perelman, Yi‐Chun Yeh, & Jed A. Fuhrman. (2019). Multi‐year dynamics of fine‐scale marine cyanobacterial populations are more strongly explained by phage interactions than abiotic, bottom‐up factors. Environmental Microbiology. 21(8). 2948–2963. 41 indexed citations

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Ahlgren, Nathan A., Clara A. Fuchsman, Gabrielle Rocap, & Jed A. Fuhrman. (2018). Discovery of several novel, widespread, and ecologically distinct marine Thaumarchaeota viruses that encode amoC nitrification genes. The ISME Journal. 13(3). 618–631. 99 indexed citations

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Yang, Lianping, et al.. (2017). Prediction of virus-host infectious association by supervised learning methods. BMC Bioinformatics. 18(S3). 60–60. 33 indexed citations

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Ren, Jie, Nathan A. Ahlgren, Yang Young Lu, Jed A. Fuhrman, & Fengzhu Sun. (2017). VirFinder: a novel k-mer based tool for identifying viral sequences from assembled metagenomic data. Microbiome. 5(1). 69–69. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahlgren, Nathan A., Yangyang Chen, David M. Needham, et al.. (2017). Genome and epigenome of a novel marine Thaumarchaeota strain suggest viral infection, phosphorothioation DNA modification and multiple restriction systems. Environmental Microbiology. 19(6). 2434–2452. 54 indexed citations

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Ahlgren, Nathan A., Abigail E. Noble, Allison P. Patton, et al.. (2014). The unique trace metal and mixed layer conditions of the Costa Rica upwelling dome support a distinct and dense community of Synechococcus. Limnology and Oceanography. 59(6). 2166–2184. 47 indexed citations

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Ahlgren, Nathan A. & Gabrielle Rocap. (2012). Diversity and Distribution of Marine Synechococcus: Multiple Gene Phylogenies for Consensus Classification and Development of qPCR Assays for Sensitive Measurement of Clades in the Ocean. Frontiers in Microbiology. 3. 213–213. 116 indexed citations

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Ahlgren, Nathan A., Caroline S. Harwood, Amy L. Schaefer, Éric Giraud, & E. Peter Greenberg. (2011). Aryl-homoserine lactone quorum sensing in stem-nodulating photosynthetic bradyrhizobia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(17). 7183–7188. 79 indexed citations

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Ahlgren, Nathan A., Gabrielle Rocap, & Sallie W. Chisholm. (2005). Measurement of Prochlorococcus ecotypes using real‐time polymerase chain reaction reveals different abundances of genotypes with similar light physiologies. Environmental Microbiology. 8(3). 441–454. 94 indexed citations

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Lessard, Philip A., et al.. (1999). Characterization of IS 1676 from Rhodococcus erythropolis SQ1. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 52(6). 811–819. 12 indexed citations

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