Terrance Shea

17.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
29 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Terrance Shea is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Epidemiology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Terrance Shea has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Epidemiology and 12 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Terrance Shea's work include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Fungal Infections and Studies (8 papers). Terrance Shea is often cited by papers focused on Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (10 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Fungal Infections and Studies (8 papers). Terrance Shea collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Terrance Shea's co-authors include Bruce J. Walker, Sarah Young, Christina A. Cuomo, Ashlee M. Earl, Thomas Abeel, Qiandong Zeng, Jennifer R. Wortman, Margaret Priest, Sharadha Sakthikumar and Chad Nusbaum and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Terrance Shea

29 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement

2014 5.8k citations Bruce J. Walker, Thomas Abeel et al. PLoS ONE profile →
High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data

2010 1.0k citations Sante Gnerre, Iain MacCallum et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Terrance Shea United States	17	4.7k	2.6k	1.6k	1.1k	759	29	7.9k
Sharadha Sakthikumar United States	10	3.6k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	825 0.7×	750 1.0×	13	6.3k
Qiandong Zeng United States	27	5.0k 1.1×	2.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	1.3k 1.7×	42	9.0k
Daniel R. Zerbino United Kingdom	19	6.5k 1.4×	2.7k 1.0×	1.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.4×	665 0.9×	29	10.2k
Nicholas H. Bergman United States	28	6.0k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	726 1.0×	36	9.6k
Alexandre Lomsadze United States	18	6.5k 1.4×	3.2k 1.2×	2.8k 1.7×	1.2k 1.1×	528 0.7×	27	10.8k
Margaret Priest United States	5	3.5k 0.7×	1.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.8×	803 0.7×	451 0.6×	6	5.9k
Vladislav Saveliev Russia	6	4.3k 0.9×	1.9k 0.7×	2.2k 1.4×	676 0.6×	709 0.9×	6	7.9k
Jochen Blom Germany	49	3.9k 0.8×	2.9k 1.1×	1.7k 1.0×	491 0.4×	764 1.0×	271	9.0k
Kim Rutherford United Kingdom	25	3.4k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	944 0.9×	567 0.7×	46	6.2k
Brian P. Walenz United States	21	5.8k 1.3×	3.2k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.5×	340 0.4×	30	8.9k

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Liao, Yun, Iris H. Gao, Takato Kusakabe, et al.. (2024). Fungal symbiont transmitted by free-living mice promotes type 2 immunity. Nature. 636(8043). 697–704. 16 indexed citations

Coelho, Marco A., Terrance Shea, Arman W. Mohammad, et al.. (2024). Comparative genomics of the closely related fungal genera Cryptococcus and Kwoniella reveals karyotype dynamics and suggests evolutionary mechanisms of pathogenesis. PLoS Biology. 22(6). e3002682–e3002682. 4 indexed citations

Shea, Terrance, et al.. (2024). Improved genome assembly of Candida auris strain B8441 and annotation of B11205. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 13(10). e0051224–e0051224. 1 indexed citations

Shea, Terrance, Christina A. Cuomo, Bruce J. Walker, et al.. (2023). Comparison of long- and short-read metagenomic assembly for low-abundance species and resistance genes. Briefings in Bioinformatics. 24(2). 10 indexed citations

Voorhies, Mark, Terrance Shea, Semar Petrus, et al.. (2022). Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of a Human Fungal Pathogen Reveals Synteny among Geographically Distinct Species. mBio. 13(1). e0257421–e0257421. 15 indexed citations

Clancey, Shelly Applen, Terrance Shea, Anna Floyd Averette, et al.. (2022). Obligate sexual reproduction of a homothallic fungus closely related to the Cryptococcus pathogenic species complex. eLife. 11. 6 indexed citations

Shea, Terrance & Christina A. Cuomo. (2022). Generating Complete Genome Assemblies of Candida auris. Methods in molecular biology. 2517. 205–214. 1 indexed citations

Muñoz, José F., Rory M. Welsh, Terrance Shea, et al.. (2021). Clade-specific chromosomal rearrangements and loss of subtelomeric adhesins in Candida auris. Genetics. 218(1). 69 indexed citations

Cuomo, Christina A., Terrance Shea, Thu Nguyen, et al.. (2020). Complete Genome Sequences for Two Talaromyces marneffei Clinical Isolates from Northern and Southern Vietnam. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 9(2). 5 indexed citations

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Catania, Sandra, Phillip A. Dumesic, Harold Pimentel, et al.. (2020). Evolutionary Persistence of DNA Methylation for Millions of Years after Ancient Loss of a De Novo Methyltransferase. Cell. 180(2). 263–277.e20. 82 indexed citations

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Farrer, Rhys A., Michael J. Davis, Lucy van Dorp, et al.. (2019). A New Lineage of Cryptococcus gattii (VGV) Discovered in the Central Zambezian Miombo Woodlands. mBio. 10(6). 66 indexed citations

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Persinoti, Gabriela Félix, Diego Martinez, Wen‐Jun Li, et al.. (2018). Whole-Genome Analysis Illustrates Global Clonal Population Structure of the Ubiquitous Dermatophyte Pathogen Trichophyton rubrum. Genetics. 208(4). 1657–1669. 43 indexed citations

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Yadav, Vikas, Sheng Sun, R. Blake Billmyre, et al.. (2018). RNAi is a critical determinant of centromere evolution in closely related fungi. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(12). 3108–3113. 79 indexed citations

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Russ, Carsten, B. Franz Lang, Zehua Chen, et al.. (2016). Genome Sequence ofSpizellomyces punctatus. Genome Announcements. 4(4). 15 indexed citations

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Desjardins, Christopher A., Keira A. Cohen, Vanisha Munsamy, et al.. (2016). Genomic and functional analyses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains implicate ald in D-cycloserine resistance. Nature Genetics. 48(5). 544–551. 111 indexed citations

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Winglee, Kathryn, Abigail L. Manson, Mamoudou Maïga, et al.. (2016). Whole Genome Sequencing of Mycobacterium africanum Strains from Mali Provides Insights into the Mechanisms of Geographic Restriction. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 10(1). e0004332–e0004332. 26 indexed citations

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Cleary, Brian, Ilana Brito, Katherine Huang, et al.. (2015). Detection of low-abundance bacterial strains in metagenomic datasets by eigengenome partitioning. Nature Biotechnology. 33(10). 1053–1060. 91 indexed citations

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Velayati, Ali Akbar, Thomas Abeel, Terrance Shea, et al.. (2015). Populations of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis lack a cell wall: Isolation, visualization, and whole-genome characterization. International Journal of Mycobacteriology. 5(1). 66–73. 25 indexed citations

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Walker, Bruce J., Thomas Abeel, Terrance Shea, et al.. (2014). Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement. PLoS ONE. 9(11). e112963–e112963. 5761 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gnerre, Sante, Iain MacCallum, Dariusz Przybylski, et al.. (2010). High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(4). 1513–1518. 1037 indexed citations breakdown →

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