Richard Benton

14.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
119 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Richard Benton is a scholar working on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard Benton has authored 119 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 76 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, 46 papers in Genetics and 26 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Richard Benton's work include Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (73 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (42 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (19 papers). Richard Benton is often cited by papers focused on Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (73 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (42 papers) and Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (19 papers). Richard Benton collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Richard Benton's co-authors include Leslie B. Vosshall, Daniel St Johnston, Kirsten Vannice, Carolina Gomez‐Diaz, Raphael Rytz, Vincent Croset, Liliane Abuin, Scott R. Whittemore, Silke Sachse and Stephen W. Michnick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Richard Benton

118 papers receiving 9.8k 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.

Variant Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors as Chemosensory Receptors in Drosophila

2009 975 citations Richard Benton, Kirsten Vannice et al. Cell profile →
Atypical Membrane Topology and Heteromeric Function of Drosophila Odorant Receptors In Vivo

2006 752 citations Richard Benton, Silke Sachse et al. profile →
Ancient Protostome Origin of Chemosensory Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors and the Evolution of Insect Taste and Olfaction

2010 545 citations Raphael Rytz, Richard Benton et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Olfactory sensory neuron population expansions influence projection neuron adaptation and enhance odour tracking 2024 ·Nature Communications ·S. Takagi, (unknown), Liliane Abuin, (unknown), J. Roman Arguello, Lucia L. Prieto-Godino, David L. Stern, Steeve Cruchet, (unknown), Carl F. R. Wienecke, Floris van Breugel, James M. Jeanne, Thomas O. Auer, Richard Benton	11
2	Circadian plasticity evolves through regulatory changes in a neuropeptide gene 2024 ·Nature ·(unknown), Liliane Abuin, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Emi Nagoshi, Richard Benton	10
3	Remote homolog detection places insect chemoreceptors in a cryptic protein superfamily spanning the tree of life 2023 ·Current Biology ·Nathaniel J. Himmel, David Moi, Richard Benton	10
4	Chemosensory Coding inDrosophilaSingle Sensilla 2022 ·Cold Spring Harbor Protocols ·Richard Benton, Anupama Dahanukar	4
5	Molecular reconstruction of recurrent evolutionary switching in olfactory receptor specificity 2021 ·eLife ·Lucia L. Prieto-Godino, Hayden R. Schmidt, Richard Benton	18
6	Olfactory receptor–dependent receptor repression in Drosophila 2021 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), Steeve Cruchet, (unknown), Lucia L. Prieto-Godino, Thomas O. Auer, Sylvain Pradervand, Richard Benton	18
7	Molecular mechanisms of olfactory detection in insects: beyond receptors 2020 ·Open Biology ·Hayden R. Schmidt, Richard Benton	71
8	A putative origin of the insect chemosensory receptor superfamily in the last common eukaryotic ancestor 2020 ·eLife ·Richard Benton, Christophe Dessimoz, David Moi	16
9	Functional integration of “undead” neurons in the olfactory system 2020 ·Science Advances ·Lucia L. Prieto-Godino, Ana F. Silbering, Mohammed A. Khallaf, Steeve Cruchet, Karolina Bojkowska, Sylvain Pradervand, Bill S. Hansson, Markus Knaden, Richard Benton	29
10	Mate discrimination among subspecies through a conserved olfactory pathway 2020 ·Science Advances ·Mohammed A. Khallaf, Thomas O. Auer, Veit Grabe, Ana Depetris-Chauvin, (unknown), Dandan Zhang, Sofía Lavista-Llanos, Filip Kaftan, Jerrit Weißflog, Luciano M. Matzkin, Stephanie M. Rollmann, Christer Löfstedt, Aleš Svatoš, Hany K. M. Dweck, Silke Sachse, Richard Benton, Bill S. Hansson, Markus Knaden	37
11	Molecular evolution of juvenile hormone esterase-like proteins in a socially exchanged fluid 2018 ·Scientific Reports ·Adria C. LeBoeuf, (unknown), (unknown), Colin S. Brent, Patrice Waridel, Eyal Privman, Laurent Keller, Richard Benton	21
12	Second-Generation Drosophila Chemical Tags: Sensitivity, Versatility, and Speed 2017 ·Genetics ·Ben Sutcliffe, J. Ng, Thomas O. Auer, Mathias Pasche, Richard Benton, Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis, Sebastian Cachero	21
13	Multimodal stimulus coding by a gustatory sensory neuron in Drosophila larvae 2016 ·Nature Communications ·Lena van Giesen, Luis Hernandez-Nunez, (unknown), Martino Colombo, Philippe Renaud, Rémy Bruggmann, Richard Benton, Aravinthan D. T. Samuel, Simon G. Sprecher	30
14	Multigene Family Evolution: Perspectives from Insect Chemoreceptors 2015 ·Trends in Ecology & Evolution ·Richard Benton	101
15	Amino acid coevolution reveals three-dimensional structure and functional domains of insect odorant receptors 2015 ·Nature Communications ·Thomas A. Hopf, (unknown), Sayoko Ihara, Kazushige Touhara, Debora S. Marks, Richard Benton	96
16	Complementary Function and Integrated Wiring of the Evolutionarily DistinctDrosophilaOlfactory Subsystems 2011 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Ana F. Silbering, Raphael Rytz, Yaël Grosjean, Liliane Abuin, Pavan P Ramdya, Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis, Richard Benton	357
17	Chemosensory coding in single sensilla 2010 ·IRIS ·Richard Benton, Anupama Dahanukar	1
18	Rescuing vasculature with intravenous angiopoietin-1 and v 3 integrin peptide is protective after spinal cord injury 2010 ·Brain ·Shu Han, (unknown), Srinivas D Sithu, Edward T. Mahoney, (unknown), Phuong Bich Tran, Richard Benton, Melissa A. Maddie, (unknown), Scott R. Whittemore, Theo Hagg	93
19	Variant Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors as Chemosensory Receptors in Drosophila breakdown → 2009 ·Cell ·Richard Benton, Kirsten Vannice, Carolina Gomez‐Diaz, Leslie B. Vosshall	975
20	ADAM8 is selectively up‐regulated in endothelial cells and is associated with angiogenesis after spinal cord injury in adult mice 2008 ·The Journal of Comparative Neurology ·Edward T. Mahoney, Richard Benton, Melissa A. Maddie, Scott R. Whittemore, Theo Hagg	42

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