Sarah R. Bordenstein

2.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
17 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Sarah R. Bordenstein is a scholar working on Insect Science, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah R. Bordenstein has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Insect Science, 4 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sarah R. Bordenstein's work include Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (17 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (4 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (4 papers). Sarah R. Bordenstein is often cited by papers focused on Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (17 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (4 papers) and Mosquito-borne diseases and control (4 papers). Sarah R. Bordenstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Sarah R. Bordenstein's co-authors include Seth R. Bordenstein, J. Dylan Shropshire, Jason A. Metcalf, Jessamyn I. Perlmutter, D. Lepage, Brittany A. Leigh, Lisa J. Funkhouser-Jones, John F. Beckmann, Andrew Brooks and Rupinder Kaur and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sarah R. Bordenstein

16 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Prophage WO genes recapitulate and enhance Wolbachia-indu... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2021 100 200 300
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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.

  1. Prophage WO genes recapitulate and enhance Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility
    2017 314 citations D. Lepage, Jason A. Metcalf et al. Nature profile →
  2. Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: A centennial review
    2021 197 citations Rupinder Kaur, J. Dylan Shropshire et al. Cell Host & Microbe profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sarah R. Bordenstein United States 11 978 204 163 143 97 17 1.1k
J. Dylan Shropshire United States 12 985 1.0× 186 0.9× 135 0.8× 163 1.1× 76 0.8× 20 1.1k
Julien Martinez United Kingdom 21 1.1k 1.1× 409 2.0× 138 0.8× 150 1.0× 63 0.6× 29 1.3k
Jeremy K. Herren Kenya 16 707 0.7× 282 1.4× 192 1.2× 151 1.1× 62 0.6× 39 1.0k
Roman Zug Germany 6 1.1k 1.1× 277 1.4× 115 0.7× 138 1.0× 31 0.3× 10 1.1k
John F. Beckmann United States 12 920 0.9× 221 1.1× 118 0.7× 139 1.0× 36 0.4× 21 1.1k
Bodil N. Cass United States 10 1.2k 1.2× 546 2.7× 145 0.9× 137 1.0× 54 0.6× 20 1.4k
Mathieu Sicard France 23 1.2k 1.2× 283 1.4× 352 2.2× 212 1.5× 90 0.9× 54 1.4k
Arndt Telschow Germany 15 1.6k 1.6× 316 1.5× 143 0.9× 289 2.0× 73 0.8× 27 1.7k
Álvaro Ferreira Brazil 9 1.1k 1.1× 443 2.2× 124 0.8× 159 1.1× 25 0.3× 20 1.3k
Aurélien Vigneron United States 17 803 0.8× 159 0.8× 135 0.8× 156 1.1× 54 0.6× 29 1.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Lefoulon, Emilie, Sarah R. Bordenstein, Anastasiya A. Yakhnina, et al.. (2025). Evolutionary Diversification and Functions of the Candidate Male Killing Gene wmk. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(10).
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Bordenstein, Sarah R., et al.. (2022). Widespread phages of endosymbionts: Phage WO genomics and the proposed taxonomic classification of Symbioviridae. PLoS Genetics. 18(6). e1010227–e1010227. 19 indexed citations
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Yared, Solomon, Dejene Getachew, Dereje Dengela, et al.. (2022). Wolbachia 16S rRNA haplotypes detected in wild Anopheles stephensi in eastern Ethiopia. Parasites & Vectors. 15(1). 178–178. 6 indexed citations
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Kaur, Rupinder, J. Dylan Shropshire, Karissa L. Cross, et al.. (2021). Living in the Endosymbiotic World of <em>Wolbachia</em>: A Centennial Review. Preprints.org. 3 indexed citations
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Dutra, Heverton Leandro Carneiro, Suzanne A. Ford, Scott L. Allen, et al.. (2021). The impact of artificial selection for Wolbachia-mediated dengue virus blocking on phage WO. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 15(7). e0009637–e0009637. 5 indexed citations
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Kaur, Rupinder, J. Dylan Shropshire, Karissa L. Cross, et al.. (2021). Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: A centennial review. Cell Host & Microbe. 29(6). 879–893. 197 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bordenstein, Sarah R., et al.. (2020). Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project: Citizen Science and Student-Based Discoveries for 15 Years and Counting. Genetics. 216(2). 263–268. 5 indexed citations
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Perlmutter, Jessamyn I., Sarah R. Bordenstein, Sarah R. Bordenstein, et al.. (2019). The phage gene wmk is a candidate for male killing by a bacterial endosymbiont. PLoS Pathogens. 15(9). e1007936–e1007936. 59 indexed citations
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Réveillaud, Julie, Sarah R. Bordenstein, Corinne Cruaud, et al.. (2019). The Wolbachia mobilome in Culex pipiens includes a putative plasmid. Nature Communications. 10(1). 1051–1051. 36 indexed citations
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Lindsey, Amelia R. I., Danny W. Rice, Sarah R. Bordenstein, et al.. (2018). Evolutionary Genetics of Cytoplasmic Incompatibility Genes cifA and cifB in Prophage WO of Wolbachia. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(2). 434–451. 115 indexed citations
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Leigh, Brittany A., Sarah R. Bordenstein, Andrew Brooks, Aram Mikaelyan, & Seth R. Bordenstein. (2018). Finer-Scale Phylosymbiosis: Insights from Insect Viromes. mSystems. 3(6). 32 indexed citations
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Lepage, D., Jason A. Metcalf, Sarah R. Bordenstein, et al.. (2017). Prophage WO genes recapitulate and enhance Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility. Nature. 543(7644). 243–247. 314 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bordenstein, Sarah R. & Seth R. Bordenstein. (2016). Eukaryotic association module in phage WO genomes from Wolbachia. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13155–13155. 111 indexed citations
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Bordenstein, Sarah R., et al.. (2011). Temperature Affects the Tripartite Interactions between Bacteriophage WO, Wolbachia, and Cytoplasmic Incompatibility. PLoS ONE. 6(12). e29106–e29106. 90 indexed citations
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Chafee, Meghan, Victor T. Schmidt, John H. Chen, et al.. (2010). Decoupling of Host–Symbiont–Phage Coadaptations Following Transfer Between Insect Species. Genetics. 187(1). 203–215. 40 indexed citations
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Bordenstein, Seth R., Michele Bahr, Robert L. Minckley, et al.. (2010). Using the Wolbachia Bacterial Symbiont to Teach Inquiry-Based Science: A High School Laboratory Series. The American Biology Teacher. 72(8). 478–483. 9 indexed citations

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