Robert Levis

7.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
39 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Robert Levis is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Levis has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Molecular Biology, 24 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Robert Levis's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (22 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). Robert Levis is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (22 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (16 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (13 papers). Robert Levis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Robert Levis's co-authors include Gerald M. Rubin, Tulle Hazelrigg, Allan C. Spradling, Roger A. Hoskins, Hugo J. Bellen, Karen L. Schulze, Yuchun He, Martha Evans-Holm, Kevin O’Hare and Fang-miin Sheen and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Robert Levis

39 papers receiving 5.3k 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.

The BDGP Gene Disruption Project

2004 698 citations Hugo J. Bellen, Robert Levis et al. Genetics profile →
MiMIC: a highly versatile transposon insertion resource for engineering Drosophila melanogaster genes

2011 472 citations Koen J. T. Venken, Karen L. Schulze et al. Nature Methods profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Levis United States	31	4.2k	2.0k	1.1k	973	599	39	5.5k
Welcome Bender United States	39	5.4k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	452 0.8×	56	7.3k
Kent G. Golic United States	27	4.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	782 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	645 1.1×	49	5.4k
Harald Biessmann United States	37	2.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.8×	649 0.6×	602 0.6×	471 0.8×	80	3.8k
Roger A. Hoskins United States	24	3.8k 0.9×	1.1k 0.5×	1.5k 1.4×	964 1.0×	1.1k 1.8×	35	5.3k
Renato Paro Germany	57	10.3k 2.4×	2.3k 1.1×	582 0.5×	1.9k 1.9×	596 1.0×	119	11.6k
François Karch Switzerland	39	5.3k 1.3×	1.7k 0.8×	761 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	471 0.8×	65	6.2k
William R. Engels United States	41	4.9k 1.2×	3.1k 1.5×	513 0.5×	1.6k 1.7×	395 0.7×	58	6.3k
Masamitsu Yamaguchi Japan	42	4.6k 1.1×	624 0.3×	658 0.6×	766 0.8×	780 1.3×	260	6.0k
Paul Lasko Canada	51	7.2k 1.7×	1.1k 0.5×	664 0.6×	1.9k 1.9×	584 1.0×	125	8.8k
Joseph W. Carlson United States	18	2.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.2×	825 0.8×	433 0.7×	25	4.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Levis

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Kanca, Oguz, Jonathan Zirin, Yanhui Hu, et al.. (2022). An expanded toolkit for Drosophila gene tagging using synthesized homology donor constructs for CRISPR-mediated homologous recombination. eLife. 11. 36 indexed citations

Venken, Koen J. T., Karen L. Schulze, Nele A Haelterman, et al.. (2011). MiMIC: a highly versatile transposon insertion resource for engineering Drosophila melanogaster genes. Nature Methods. 8(9). 737–743. 472 indexed citations breakdown →

Bellen, Hugo J., Robert Levis, Yuchun He, et al.. (2011). The Drosophila Gene Disruption Project: Progress Using Transposons With Distinctive Site Specificities. Genetics. 188(3). 731–743. 261 indexed citations

Maxwell, Patrick H., John M. Belote, & Robert Levis. (2008). Developmental and tissue-specific accumulation pattern for the Drosophila melanogaster TART ORF1 protein. Gene. 415(1-2). 32–39. 1 indexed citations

Buszczak, Michael, Julia L. Bachman, Jamie L. Planck, et al.. (2006). The Carnegie Protein Trap Library: A Versatile Tool for Drosophila Developmental Studies. Genetics. 175(3). 1505–1531. 453 indexed citations

Maxwell, Patrick H., John M. Belote, & Robert Levis. (2006). Identification of multiple transcription initiation, polyadenylation, and splice sites in the Drosophila melanogaster TART family of telomeric retrotransposons. Nucleic Acids Research. 34(19). 5498–5507. 35 indexed citations

Levis, Robert, et al.. (1993). Transposons in place of telomeric repeats at a Drosophila telomere. Cell. 75(6). 1083–1093. 348 indexed citations

Levis, Robert. (1993). Drosophila melanogaster does not share the telomeric repeat sequence of another invertebrate, Ascaris lumbricoides. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 236-236(2-3). 440–442. 18 indexed citations

Biessmann, Harald, et al.. (1992). HeT-A, a Transposable Element Specifically Involved in “Healing” Broken Chromosome Ends in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 12(9). 3910–3918. 43 indexed citations

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Levis, Robert. (1989). Viable deletions of a telomere from a Drosophila chromosome. Cell. 58(4). 791–801. 134 indexed citations

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Levis, Robert, Tulle Hazelrigg, & Gerald M. Rubin. (1985). Effects of Genomic Position on the Expression of Transduced Copies of the white Gene of Drosophila. Science. 229(4713). 558–561. 214 indexed citations

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Rubin, Gerald M., Tulle Hazelrigg, Roger E. Karess, et al.. (1985). Germ Line Specificity of P-element Transposition and Some Novel Patterns of Expression of Transduced Copies of the white Gene. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 50(0). 329–335. 9 indexed citations

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Levis, Robert, Tulle Hazelrigg, & Gerald M. Rubin. (1985). Separable cis-acting control elements for expression of the white gene of Drosophila.. The EMBO Journal. 4(13A). 3489–3499. 116 indexed citations

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O’Hare, Kevin, Christine Murphy, Robert Levis, & Gerald M. Rubin. (1984). DNA sequence of the white locus of Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Biology. 180(3). 437–455. 231 indexed citations

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O’Hare, Kevin, Robert Levis, & Gerald M. Rubin. (1983). Transcription of the white locus in Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 80(22). 6917–6921. 99 indexed citations

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Levis, Robert, Mary Collins, & Gerald M. Rubin. (1982). FB elements are the common basis for the instability of the wDZL and wc Drosophila mutations. Cell. 30(2). 551–565. 67 indexed citations

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Flavell, Andrew J., Robert Levis, Meredith A. Simon, & Gerald M. Rubin. (1981). The 5′ termini of RNAs encoded by the transposable element copia. Nucleic Acids Research. 9(23). 6279–6291. 56 indexed citations

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Levis, Robert & Sheldon Penman. (1978). 5′-Terminal structures of poly(A)+ cytoplasmic messenger RNA and of poly(A)+ and poly(A)− heterogeneous nuclear RNA of cells of the dipteran Drosophila melanogaster. Journal of Molecular Biology. 120(4). 487–515. 72 indexed citations

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Levis, Robert, Larry McReynolds, & Sheldon Penman. (1977). Coordinate regulation of protein synthesis and messenger RNA content during growth arrest of suspension Chinese hamster ovary cells. Journal of Cellular Physiology. 90(3). 485–502. 23 indexed citations

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Levis, Robert & Sheldon Penman. (1977). The metabolism of poly(A)+ and poly(A)− hnRNA in cultured drosophila cells studied with a rapid uridine pulse-chase. Cell. 11(1). 105–113. 99 indexed citations

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