Ross F. Waller

10.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
94 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Ross F. Waller is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Parasitology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ross F. Waller has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 64 papers in Molecular Biology, 42 papers in Ecology and 22 papers in Parasitology. Recurrent topics in Ross F. Waller's work include Protist diversity and phylogeny (40 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (36 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (24 papers). Ross F. Waller is often cited by papers focused on Protist diversity and phylogeny (40 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (36 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (24 papers). Ross F. Waller collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Canada. Ross F. Waller's co-authors include Geoffrey I. McFadden, Patrick J. Keeling, Sven B. Gould, Nicola J. Patron, Alan F. Cowman, David S. Roos, Trevor Lithgow, Sebastian G. Gornik, Giel G. van Dooren and Malcolm J. McConville and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ross F. Waller

93 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Nuclear-encoded proteins target to the plastid inToxoplasma gondiiandPlasmodium falciparum

1998 563 citations Ross F. Waller, Boris Striepen et al. profile →
A Comprehensive Subcellular Atlas of the Toxoplasma Proteome via hyperLOPIT Provides Spatial Context for Protein Functions

2020 205 citations Konstantin Barylyuk, Luděk Kořený et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ross F. Waller Australia	42	3.9k	1.6k	1.5k	1.4k	971	94	6.4k
Aloysius G. M. Tielens Netherlands	44	2.7k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	2.0k 1.4×	1.2k 1.2×	130	6.2k
Jaap J. van Hellemond Netherlands	39	2.2k 0.6×	916 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 1.3×	124	4.8k
Paul R. Gilson Australia	49	2.9k 0.7×	871 0.6×	3.8k 2.5×	1.1k 0.8×	775 0.8×	134	6.8k
Geoffrey I. McFadden Australia	61	6.7k 1.7×	2.2k 1.4×	4.6k 3.0×	2.4k 1.7×	1.6k 1.6×	183	11.9k
Miroslav Obornı́k Czechia	33	2.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.9×	579 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	511 0.5×	102	4.2k
Andrew Tait United Kingdom	39	1.1k 0.3×	472 0.3×	1.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	1.7k 1.7×	108	4.0k
Vivek Anantharaman United States	44	4.9k 1.2×	1.1k 0.7×	515 0.3×	852 0.6×	480 0.5×	75	7.2k
Giel G. van Dooren Australia	35	1.9k 0.5×	446 0.3×	1.5k 1.0×	1.9k 1.4×	1.1k 1.2×	61	4.5k
Robert P. Hirt United Kingdom	43	3.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.7×	160 0.1×	1.7k 1.2×	299 0.3×	88	5.3k
Raymond J. Pierce France	44	2.1k 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	979 0.7×	3.1k 2.2×	477 0.5×	161	6.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ross F. Waller

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Kemp, Alison, Scott A. Chisholm, Vikash Pandey, et al.. (2025). Characterisation of Two Plasmodium Virulence Factors Important for Lipid Metabolism and Disease Progression In Vivo. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Waller, Ross F. & Vern B. Carruthers. (2024). Adaptations and metabolic evolution of myzozoan protists across diverse lifestyles and environments. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 88(4). e0019722–e0019722. 2 indexed citations

Maclean, Andrew E., William H. Lewis, Jana Ovciarikova, et al.. (2024). The Toxoplasma gondii mitochondrial transporter ABCB7L is essential for the biogenesis of cytosolic and nuclear iron-sulfur cluster proteins and cytosolic translation. mBio. 15(10). e0087224–e0087224. 1 indexed citations

Lewis, William H., Girish Beedessee, Luděk Kořený, et al.. (2024). Plastid translocon recycling in dinoflagellates demonstrates the portability of complex plastids between hosts. Current Biology. 34(23). 5494–5506.e3. 2 indexed citations

Barylyuk, Konstantin, Eelco C. Tromer, Oliver M. Crook, et al.. (2023). Mapping diversity in African trypanosomes using high resolution spatial proteomics. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4401–4401. 13 indexed citations

Guérin, Amandine, Konstantin Barylyuk, Laurence Berry, et al.. (2023). Cryptosporidium uses multiple distinct secretory organelles to interact with and modify its host cell. Cell Host & Microbe. 31(4). 650–664.e6. 46 indexed citations

Gornik, Sebastian G., Víctor Flores, Franziska Reinhardt, et al.. (2022). Mitochondrial Genomes in Perkinsus Decode Conserved Frameshifts in All Genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(10). 6 indexed citations

Waller, Ross F., Catharina Alves‐de‐Souza, Phillip A. Cleves, et al.. (2022). Comparative biology and ecology of apicomplexans and dinoflagellates: a unique meeting of minds and biology. Trends in Parasitology. 38(12). 1012–1019. 1 indexed citations

Meerstein‐Kessel, Lisette, Konstantin Barylyuk, Jordy P. M. Coolen, et al.. (2021). A Prioritized and Validated Resource of Mitochondrial Proteins in Plasmodium Identifies Unique Biology. mSphere. 6(5). e0061421–e0061421. 15 indexed citations

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Kořený, Luděk, Mohammad Zeeshan, Konstantin Barylyuk, et al.. (2021). Molecular characterization of the conoid complex in Toxoplasma reveals its conservation in all apicomplexans, including Plasmodium species. PLoS Biology. 19(3). e3001081–e3001081. 51 indexed citations

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Tromer, Eelco C., et al.. (2021). Repurposing of synaptonemal complex proteins for kinetochores in Kinetoplastida. Open Biology. 11(5). 210049–210049. 27 indexed citations

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Zeeshan, Mohammad, Rajan Pandey, David Ferguson, et al.. (2020). Real-time dynamics of Plasmodium NDC80 reveals unusual modes of chromosome segregation during parasite proliferation. Journal of Cell Science. 134(5). 31 indexed citations

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Lassadi, Imen, et al.. (2019). An essential pentatricopeptide repeat protein in the apicomplexan remnant chloroplast. Cellular Microbiology. 21(12). e13108–e13108. 4 indexed citations

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Wall, Richard J., Mohammad Zeeshan, Nichollas E. Scott, et al.. (2019). Systematic analysis of Plasmodium myosins reveals differential expression, localisation, and function in invasive and proliferative parasite stages. Cellular Microbiology. 21(10). e13082–e13082. 26 indexed citations

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Scott, Nichollas E., Huiling Ke, Geoffrey I. McFadden, Giel G. van Dooren, & Ross F. Waller. (2019). Calcium negatively regulates secretion from dense granules in Toxoplasma gondii . Cellular Microbiology. 21(6). e13011–e13011. 14 indexed citations

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Barbrook, Adrian C., Imen Lassadi, Jit Ern Chen, et al.. (2019). Genetic transformation of the dinoflagellate chloroplast. eLife. 8. 23 indexed citations

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Gornik, Sebastian G., et al.. (2019). The Biochemistry and Evolution of the Dinoflagellate Nucleus. Microorganisms. 7(8). 245–245. 29 indexed citations

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Bouchut, Anne, Jack Major, Tracy Saveria, et al.. (2018). Two essential Thioredoxins mediate apicoplast biogenesis, protein import, and gene expression in Toxoplasma gondii. PLoS Pathogens. 14(2). e1006836–e1006836. 34 indexed citations

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Gentle, Ian E., Kipros Gabriel, Peter L. Beech, Ross F. Waller, & Trevor Lithgow. (2003). The Omp85 family of proteins is essential for outer membrane biogenesis in mitochondria and bacteria. The Journal of Cell Biology. 164(1). 19–24. 306 indexed citations

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Huston, K, Robert Chase, & Ross F. Waller. (1974). Identifying genes with visible effects in cattle: full, three-quarter, and half-sib; other methods.. 1. 39–46. 3 indexed citations

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