Patrick H. Degnan

7.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
45 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Patrick H. Degnan is a scholar working on Insect Science, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick H. Degnan has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Insect Science, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Patrick H. Degnan's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (21 papers), Gut microbiota and health (13 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (10 papers). Patrick H. Degnan is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (21 papers), Gut microbiota and health (13 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (10 papers). Patrick H. Degnan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Saudi Arabia. Patrick H. Degnan's co-authors include Nancy A. Moran, Andrew L. Goodman, Kerry M. Oliver, Howard Ochman, Gaelen R. Burke, Michiko E. Taga, Natasha A. Barry, Jennifer J. Wernegreen, Thomas W. Cullen and Martha S. Hunter and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Patrick H. Degnan

43 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

Immunoglobulin A Coating Identifies Colitogenic Bacteria in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

2014 917 citations Noah W. Palm, Marcel R. de Zoete et al. Cell profile →
Facultative Symbionts in Aphids and the Horizontal Transfer of Ecologically Important Traits

2009 708 citations Patrick H. Degnan, Nancy A. Moran et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick H. Degnan United States	29	2.3k	2.2k	917	703	697	45	5.4k
Jon G. Sanders United States	33	2.7k 1.2×	926 0.4×	787 0.9×	575 0.8×	298 0.4×	63	4.9k
Alistair C. Darby United Kingdom	41	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 1.0×	676 0.7×	756 1.1×	796 1.1×	151	5.3k
John F. Baines Germany	44	3.2k 1.4×	633 0.3×	1.2k 1.3×	671 1.0×	386 0.6×	104	6.2k
Etsuko N. Moriyama United States	36	3.5k 1.5×	542 0.3×	1.3k 1.4×	527 0.7×	1.0k 1.5×	95	5.6k
Robert M. Brucker United States	24	1.1k 0.5×	896 0.4×	480 0.5×	294 0.4×	370 0.5×	31	3.4k
Garret Suen United States	40	2.1k 0.9×	831 0.4×	956 1.0×	411 0.6×	557 0.8×	138	4.8k
A. Comeau Canada	40	2.2k 1.0×	1.1k 0.5×	703 0.8×	285 0.4×	1.7k 2.4×	141	6.0k
Amparo Latorre Spain	58	4.3k 1.9×	5.3k 2.5×	2.2k 2.4×	1.1k 1.6×	2.0k 2.9×	214	11.1k
Robert Schmieder United States	22	3.2k 1.4×	399 0.2×	657 0.7×	668 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	28	6.5k
Makedonka Mitreva United States	48	4.0k 1.8×	870 0.4×	617 0.7×	1.7k 2.4×	1.7k 2.4×	222	9.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick H. Degnan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick H. Degnan

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Degnan, Patrick H., Diana M. Percy, & Allison K. Hansen. (2025). Coupled evolutionary rates shape a Hawaiian insect-symbiont system. BMC Genomics. 26(1). 336–336.

Hansen, Allison K., et al.. (2024). Rapid Loss of Nutritional Symbionts in an Endemic Hawaiian Herbivore Radiation Is Associated with Plant Galling Habit. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(9). 3 indexed citations

Degnan, Patrick H., et al.. (2024). Determinants of raffinose family oligosaccharide use in Bacteroides species. Journal of Bacteriology. 206(10). e0023524–e0023524. 1 indexed citations

Currás‐Collazo, Margarita, et al.. (2024). Gut Microbiome Response to the Reduction of Diet Induced Obesity by Vitamin B₁ Supplementation. Physiology. 39(S1).

Chen, Jiandong, Rui Liu, Qinqin Pu, et al.. (2022). A commensal-encoded genotoxin drives restriction of Vibrio cholerae colonization and host gut microbiome remodeling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(11). e2121180119–e2121180119. 28 indexed citations

Azam, Muhammad S., et al.. (2021). A Novel Family of RNA-Binding Proteins Regulate Polysaccharide Metabolism in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron. Journal of Bacteriology. 203(21). e0021721–e0021721. 11 indexed citations

Hsiao, Ansel, et al.. (2021). Mobilization of vitamin B12 transporters alters competitive dynamics in a human gut microbe. Cell Reports. 37(13). 110164–110164. 11 indexed citations

Ly, Lindsey K., et al.. (2020). Infection with Bacteroides Phage BV01 Alters the Host Transcriptome and Bile Acid Metabolism in a Common Human Gut Microbe. Cell Reports. 32(11). 108142–108142. 47 indexed citations

Vanderpool, Carin K., et al.. (2019). sRNA Target Prediction Organizing Tool (SPOT) Integrates Computational and Experimental Data To Facilitate Functional Characterization of Bacterial Small RNAs. mSphere. 4(1). 19 indexed citations

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Wexler, Aaron G., Whitman B. Schofield, Patrick H. Degnan, et al.. (2018). Human gut Bacteroides capture vitamin B12 via cell surface-exposed lipoproteins. eLife. 7. 60 indexed citations

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Uprety, Sital, Pei‐Ying Hong, Bipin Dangol, et al.. (2017). The Effect of the 2015 Earthquake on the Bacterial Community Compositions in Water in Nepal. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 2380–2380. 26 indexed citations

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Cullen, Thomas W., Whitman B. Schofield, Natasha A. Barry, et al.. (2015). Antimicrobial peptide resistance mediates resilience of prominent gut commensals during inflammation. Science. 347(6218). 170–175. 303 indexed citations

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Degnan, Patrick H., Natasha A. Barry, Kenny C. Mok, Michiko E. Taga, & Andrew L. Goodman. (2014). Human Gut Microbes Use Multiple Transporters to Distinguish Vitamin B12 Analogs and Compete in the Gut. Cell Host & Microbe. 15(1). 47–57. 212 indexed citations

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Palm, Noah W., Marcel R. de Zoete, Thomas W. Cullen, et al.. (2014). Immunoglobulin A Coating Identifies Colitogenic Bacteria in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Cell. 158(5). 1000–1010. 917 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wernegreen, Jennifer J., et al.. (2009). Slip into Something More Functional: Selection Maintains Ancient Frameshifts in Homopolymeric Sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(4). 833–839. 34 indexed citations

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Degnan, Patrick H. & Nancy A. Moran. (2007). Evolutionary genetics of a defensive facultative symbiont of insects: exchange of toxin‐encoding bacteriophage. Molecular Ecology. 17(3). 916–929. 109 indexed citations

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Degnan, Patrick H., et al.. (2007). Conservation and diversity in the immunity regions of wild phages with the immunity specificity of phage λ. Molecular Microbiology. 64(1). 232–244. 14 indexed citations

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Moran, Nancy A., Patrick H. Degnan, Scott R. Santos, Helen E. Dunbar, & Howard Ochman. (2005). The players in a mutualistic symbiosis: Insects, bacteria, viruses, and virulence genes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(47). 16919–16926. 241 indexed citations

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Degnan, Patrick H., et al.. (2005). Genome sequence of Blochmannia pennsylvanicus indicates parallel evolutionary trends among bacterial mutualists of insects. Genome Research. 15(8). 1023–1033. 150 indexed citations

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Herbeck, Joshua T., Patrick H. Degnan, & Jennifer J. Wernegreen. (2004). Nonhomogeneous Model of Sequence Evolution Indicates Independent Origins of Primary Endosymbionts Within the Enterobacteriales (γ-Proteobacteria). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(3). 520–532. 50 indexed citations

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