Sean Benler

2.3k total citations
15 papers, 559 citations indexed

About

Sean Benler is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean Benler has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 559 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sean Benler's work include Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Sean Benler is often cited by papers focused on Bacteriophages and microbial interactions (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (5 papers) and CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (4 papers). Sean Benler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Russia and Australia. Sean Benler's co-authors include Eugene V. Koonin, Ayal B. Gussow, Yuri I. Wolf, Mikhail Rayko, Dmitry Antipov, Pavel A. Pevzner, Natalya Yutin, Forest Rohwer, Noam Auslander and Sergey Shmakov and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nucleic Acids Research and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sean Benler

15 papers receiving 553 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean Benler United States	12	415	320	106	71	55	15	559
Sajia Akhter United States	7	332 0.8×	440 1.4×	144 1.4×	51 0.7×	48 0.9×	9	712
Vera V. Morozova Russia	13	319 0.8×	229 0.7×	74 0.7×	74 1.0×	42 0.8×	63	552
Welkin H. Pope United States	13	558 1.3×	357 1.1×	130 1.2×	47 0.7×	98 1.8×	27	619
Eyal Weinstock Israel	3	374 0.9×	289 0.9×	85 0.8×	28 0.4×	35 0.6×	4	499
Daniel W. Bryan United States	10	378 0.9×	170 0.5×	87 0.8×	72 1.0×	24 0.4×	20	475
Yang Young Lu United States	10	583 1.4×	664 2.1×	205 1.9×	93 1.3×	57 1.0×	22	953
Bahador Nosrat United States	8	566 1.4×	657 2.1×	170 1.6×	90 1.3×	152 2.8×	8	1.1k
Timofey Skvortsov United Kingdom	14	188 0.5×	288 0.9×	40 0.4×	116 1.6×	120 2.2×	43	565
Mihail Halachev United Kingdom	9	137 0.3×	386 1.2×	71 0.7×	65 0.9×	84 1.5×	15	638
Heather Hendrickson United States	13	244 0.6×	454 1.4×	102 1.0×	43 0.6×	52 0.9×	25	698

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15 of 15 papers shown

Faure, Guilhem, Makoto Saito, Sean Benler, et al.. (2023). Modularity and diversity of target selectors in Tn7 transposons. Molecular Cell. 83(12). 2122–2136.e10. 21 indexed citations

Cheong, Kang Hao, Tao Wen, Sean Benler, Jin Ming Koh, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2022). Alternating lysis and lysogeny is a winning strategy in bacteriophages due to Parrondo's paradox. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(13). e2115145119–e2115145119. 31 indexed citations

Benler, Sean & Eugene V. Koonin. (2022). Recruitment of Mobile Genetic Elements for Diverse Cellular Functions in Prokaryotes. Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences. 9. 821197–821197. 15 indexed citations

Yutin, Natalya, Sean Benler, Yuri I. Wolf, et al.. (2021). Analysis of metagenome-assembled viral genomes from the human gut reveals diverse putative CrAss-like phages with unique genomic features. Nature Communications. 12(1). 91 indexed citations

Benler, Sean, Natalya Yutin, Dmitry Antipov, et al.. (2021). Thousands of previously unknown phages discovered in whole-community human gut metagenomes. Microbiome. 9(1). 78–78. 118 indexed citations

Benler, Sean & Eugene V. Koonin. (2021). Fishing for phages in metagenomes: what do we catch, what do we miss?. Current Opinion in Virology. 49. 142–150. 11 indexed citations

Rojas, María Isabel, Giselle S. Cavalcanti, Katelyn McNair, et al.. (2020). A Distinct Contractile Injection System Gene Cluster Found in a Majority of Healthy Adult Human Microbiomes. mSystems. 5(4). 9 indexed citations

Auslander, Noam, Ayal B. Gussow, Sean Benler, Yuri I. Wolf, & Eugene V. Koonin. (2020). Seeker: alignment-free identification of bacteriophage genomes by deep learning. Nucleic Acids Research. 48(21). e121–e121. 75 indexed citations

Benler, Sean, et al.. (2020). Gp4 is a nuclease required for morphogenesis of T4-like bacteriophages. Virology. 543. 7–12. 2 indexed citations

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Silveira, Cynthia B., Felipe H. Coutinho, Giselle S. Cavalcanti, et al.. (2020). Genomic and ecological attributes of marine bacteriophages encoding bacterial virulence genes. BMC Genomics. 21(1). 126–126. 32 indexed citations

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Luque, Antoni, et al.. (2020). The Missing Tailed Phages: Prediction of Small Capsid Candidates. Microorganisms. 8(12). 1944–1944. 14 indexed citations

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Benler, Sean & Eugene V. Koonin. (2020). Phage lysis‐lysogeny switches and programmed cell death: Danse macabre. BioEssays. 42(12). e2000114–e2000114. 22 indexed citations

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Güemes, Ana Georgina Cobián, Yan Wei Lim, Robert A. Quinn, et al.. (2019). Cystic Fibrosis Rapid Response: Translating Multi-omics Data into Clinically Relevant Information. mBio. 10(2). 20 indexed citations

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Benler, Sean, Ana G. Cobián-Güemes, Katelyn McNair, et al.. (2018). A diversity-generating retroelement encoded by a globally ubiquitous Bacteroides phage. Microbiome. 6(1). 191–191. 45 indexed citations

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Quinn, Robert A., Mark J. A. Vermeij, Aaron C. Hartmann, et al.. (2016). Metabolomics of reef benthic interactions reveals a bioactive lipid involved in coral defence. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 283(1829). 20160469–20160469. 53 indexed citations

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