Philipp W. Messer

10.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
69 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Philipp W. Messer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Philipp W. Messer has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Molecular Biology, 39 papers in Genetics and 18 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Philipp W. Messer's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (30 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (21 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (21 papers). Philipp W. Messer is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (30 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (21 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (21 papers). Philipp W. Messer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Philipp W. Messer's co-authors include Dmitri A. Petrov, Benjamin C. Haller, Andrew G. Clark, Jackson Champer, Talia L. Karasov, Peter F. Arndt, Nandita R. Garud, Robert L. Unckless, Erkan O. Buzbas and Jingxian Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Philipp W. Messer

67 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.

SLiM 3: Forward Genetic Simulations Beyond the Wright–Fisher Model

2018 509 citations Benjamin C. Haller, Philipp W. Messer Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →
Plumage Genes and Little Else Distinguish the Genomes of Hybridizing Warblers

2016 273 citations Philipp W. Messer et al. profile →
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling

2022 129 citations Benjamin C. Haller, Philipp W. Messer profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philipp W. Messer United States	37	3.1k	2.6k	945	816	609	69	5.3k
Peter Andolfatto United States	49	5.4k 1.7×	3.2k 1.3×	992 1.0×	1.8k 2.2×	861 1.4×	91	7.9k
Robert Kofler Austria	28	2.4k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	462 0.5×	1.4k 1.7×	770 1.3×	63	4.4k
David J Begun United States	39	4.0k 1.3×	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	1.3k 1.6×	534 0.9×	83	6.4k
Yun Fu China	13	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	299 0.3×	909 1.1×	620 1.0×	29	3.9k
Guillaume Achaz France	25	1.7k 0.5×	1.8k 0.7×	564 0.6×	565 0.7×	1.7k 2.8×	55	5.3k
Jeffrey D. Jensen United States	45	3.8k 1.2×	1.9k 0.7×	152 0.2×	679 0.8×	599 1.0×	128	5.9k
Viola Nolte Austria	29	1.9k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	536 0.6×	681 0.8×	1.0k 1.7×	66	3.6k
Renaud Vitalis France	31	2.1k 0.7×	666 0.3×	457 0.5×	657 0.8×	696 1.1×	60	3.4k
Michael P. Cummings United States	43	2.2k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	650 0.7×	1.4k 1.7×	933 1.5×	92	5.8k
R R Hudson United States	16	6.3k 2.0×	2.9k 1.1×	693 0.7×	1.7k 2.1×	1.6k 2.6×	21	9.0k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Haller, Benjamin C., Chase W. Nelson, Murillo F. Rodrigues, & Philipp W. Messer. (2025). SimHumanity: Using SLiM 5.0 to run whole-genome simulations of human evolution. 1 indexed citations

Esvelt, Kevin M., Ludovic Dutoit, Jackson Champer, et al.. (2023). A framework for identifying fertility gene targets for mammalian pest control. Molecular Ecology Resources. 24(2). e13901–e13901. 3 indexed citations

Mazo‐Vargas, Anyi, Karin R. L. van der Burg, James J. Lewis, et al.. (2022). Deep cis-regulatory homology of the butterfly wing pattern ground plan. Science. 378(6617). 304–308. 25 indexed citations

Messer, Philipp W., et al.. (2022). Predicting the genomic resolution of bulk segregant analysis. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(3). 5 indexed citations

Champer, Jackson, et al.. (2021). Suppression gene drive in continuous space can result in unstable persistence of both drive and wild‐type alleles. Molecular Ecology. 30(4). 1086–1101. 53 indexed citations

Champer, Jackson, Emily Yang, Esther Lee, et al.. (2020). A CRISPR homing gene drive targeting a haplolethal gene removes resistance alleles and successfully spreads through a cage population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(39). 24377–24383. 72 indexed citations

Champer, Jackson, et al.. (2020). Design and analysis of CRISPR‐based underdominance toxin‐antidote gene drives. Evolutionary Applications. 14(4). 1052–1069. 32 indexed citations

Champer, Samuel E., Chen Liu, Cindy Wen, et al.. (2020). Computational and experimental performance of CRISPR homing gene drive strategies with multiplexed gRNAs. Science Advances. 6(10). eaaz0525–eaaz0525. 75 indexed citations

Lou, Runyang Nicolas, Nina Overgaard Therkildsen, & Philipp W. Messer. (2020). The Effects of Quantitative Trait Architecture on Detection Power in Short-Term Artificial Selection Experiments. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(9). 3213–3227. 7 indexed citations

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Champer, Jackson, Cindy Wen, Anisha Luthra, et al.. (2019). CRISPR Gene Drive Efficiency and Resistance Rate Is Highly Heritable with No Common Genetic Loci of Large Effect. Genetics. 212(1). 333–341. 27 indexed citations

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Liu, Jingxian, Jackson Champer, Chen Liu, et al.. (2019). Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Fitness Components in Experimental Evolution. Genetics. 211(3). 1005–1017. 25 indexed citations

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Duneau, David, et al.. (2018). Signatures of Insecticide Selection in the Genome of Drosophila melanogaster. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(11). 3469–3480. 23 indexed citations

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Champer, Jackson, Jingxian Liu, Riona Reeves, et al.. (2018). Reducing resistance allele formation in CRISPR gene drive. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(21). 5522–5527. 167 indexed citations

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Haller, Benjamin C., Jared Galloway, Jerome Kelleher, Philipp W. Messer, & Peter L. Ralph. (2018). Tree‐sequence recording in SLiM opens new horizons for forward‐time simulation of whole genomes. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(2). 552–566. 115 indexed citations

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Haller, Benjamin C. & Philipp W. Messer. (2018). SLiM 3: Forward Genetic Simulations Beyond the Wright–Fisher Model. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(3). 632–637. 509 indexed citations breakdown →

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Haller, Benjamin C. & Philipp W. Messer. (2017). asymptoticMK: A Web-Based Tool for the Asymptotic McDonald–Kreitman Test. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 7(5). 1569–1575. 28 indexed citations

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Unckless, Robert L., Andrew G. Clark, & Philipp W. Messer. (2016). Evolution of Resistance Against CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Drive. Genetics. 205(2). 827–841. 184 indexed citations

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Unckless, Robert L., Philipp W. Messer, Tim Connallon, & Andrew G. Clark. (2015). Modeling the Manipulation of Natural Populations by the Mutagenic Chain Reaction. Genetics. 201(2). 425–431. 73 indexed citations

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Schlamp, Florencia, et al.. (2015). Evaluating the performance of selection scans to detect selective sweeps in domestic dogs. Molecular Ecology. 25(1). 342–356. 52 indexed citations

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Lawrie, David S., Dmitri A. Petrov, & Philipp W. Messer. (2011). Faster than Neutral Evolution of Constrained Sequences: The Complex Interplay of Mutational Biases and Weak Selection. Genome Biology and Evolution. 3. 383–395. 24 indexed citations

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