Thomas Flatt

9.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Thomas Flatt is a scholar working on Aging, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Flatt has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Aging, 32 papers in Genetics and 27 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Flatt's work include Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (35 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (20 papers). Thomas Flatt is often cited by papers focused on Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms (35 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (22 papers) and Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research (20 papers). Thomas Flatt collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Austria. Thomas Flatt's co-authors include Marc Tatar, Martin Kapun, Andreas Heyland, Meng‐Ping Tu, Christian Schlötterer, Paul Schmidt, Daniel K. Fabian, Hugo Aguilaniu, Malene Hansen and Linda Partridge and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Flatt

85 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species’ responses to climate change

2020 198 citations Barbara Feldmeyer, Thomas Flatt et al. Evolution Letters profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Thomas Flatt	2.2k	1.7k	1.4k	1.2k	1.1k	86	5.7k
Lawrence G. Harshman	2.2k 1.0×	2.7k 1.6×	2.1k 1.5×	1.7k 1.4×	1.7k 1.5×	95	7.4k
Bas J. Zwaan	2.6k 1.2×	3.0k 1.8×	1.7k 1.2×	1.8k 1.5×	929 0.8×	171	8.0k
Daniel Promislow	2.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.3×	920 0.7×	1.9k 1.6×	2.2k 2.0×	185	9.0k
Adam K. Chippindale	2.6k 1.2×	2.7k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	836 0.7×	49	4.9k
Kimberly A. Hughes	2.7k 1.2×	2.6k 1.6×	999 0.7×	1.1k 0.9×	651 0.6×	80	5.1k
Trudy F. C. Mackay	4.6k 2.1×	1.4k 0.8×	849 0.6×	822 0.7×	752 0.7×	103	7.6k
Trudy F. C. Mackay	5.6k 2.6×	1.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.0k 0.9×	170	9.4k
Paul Schmidt	1.9k 0.9×	1.2k 0.7×	705 0.5×	1.6k 1.3×	499 0.4×	79	4.0k
Allen G. Gibbs	2.9k 1.3×	2.3k 1.3×	2.3k 1.7×	2.2k 1.8×	337 0.3×	82	5.6k
Martin E. Feder	1.7k 0.8×	1.7k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	4.7k 3.9×	882 0.8×	110	9.2k

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Paris, Margot, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Envel Kerdaffrec, et al.. (2025). Multiple forms of balancing selection maintain inversion polymorphism. Heredity. 135(3). 138–151.

Hoedjes, Katja M., Sonja Grath, Nico Posnien, et al.. (2024). From whole bodies to single cells: A guide to transcriptomic approaches for ecology and evolutionary biology. Molecular Ecology. 34(15). e17382–e17382. 6 indexed citations

Hoedjes, Katja M., et al.. (2023). A Single Nucleotide Variant in the PPARγ-homolog Eip75B Affects Fecundity in Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(2). 5 indexed citations

Kapun, Martin, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Tadeusz J. Kawecki, Paul Schmidt, & Thomas Flatt. (2023). An Ancestral Balanced Inversion Polymorphism Confers Global Adaptation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(6). 16 indexed citations

Matos, Margarida, et al.. (2023). Microbes are potential key players in the evolution of life histories and aging in Caenorhabditis elegans. Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). e10537–e10537. 1 indexed citations

Berdan, Emma L., Nick Barton, Roger K. Butlin, et al.. (2023). How chromosomal inversions reorient the evolutionary process. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(12). 1761–1782. 42 indexed citations

Flatt, Thomas, et al.. (2023). The remoulding of dietary effects on the fecundity / longevity trade-off in a social insect. BMC Genomics. 24(1). 244–244. 8 indexed citations

Rodrigues, Marisa A, Chantal Dauphin‐Villemant, Margot Paris, et al.. (2023). Germline proliferation trades off with lipid metabolism in Drosophila. Evolution Letters. 8(2). 295–310. 5 indexed citations

Hoedjes, Katja M., et al.. (2022). Natural alleles at the Doa locus underpin evolutionary changes in Drosophila lifespan and fecundity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1986). 20221989–20221989. 2 indexed citations

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Rajpurohit, Subhash, Esra Durmaz Mitchell, Daniel K. Fabian, et al.. (2021). Allelic polymorphism at foxo contributes to local adaptation in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology. 30(12). 2817–2830. 7 indexed citations

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Charlesworth, Brian & Thomas Flatt. (2021). On the fixation or nonfixation of inversions under epistatic selection. Molecular Ecology. 30(16). 3896–3897. 7 indexed citations

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Harrison, Mark C., et al.. (2021). Gene Coexpression Network Reveals Highly Conserved, Well-Regulated Anti-Ageing Mechanisms in Old Ant Queens. Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(6). 6 indexed citations

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Korb, Judith, Karen Meusemann, Abel Bernadou, et al.. (2021). Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1823). 20190728–20190728. 43 indexed citations

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Heuvel, Joost van den, et al.. (2019). Adaptation to developmental diet influences the response to selection on age at reproduction in the fruit fly. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 32(5). 425–437. 14 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Esra Durmaz, Subhash Rajpurohit, Daniel K. Fabian, et al.. (2019). A clinal polymorphism in the insulin signaling transcription factor foxo contributes to life‐history adaptation in Drosophila *. Evolution. 73(9). 1774–1792. 16 indexed citations

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Hoedjes, Katja M., Joost van den Heuvel, Martin Kapun, et al.. (2019). Distinct genomic signals of lifespan and life history evolution in response to postponed reproduction and larval diet inDrosophila. Evolution Letters. 3(6). 598–609. 15 indexed citations

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Hansen, Malene, Thomas Flatt, & Hugo Aguilaniu. (2014). Reproduction, Fat Metabolism, and Life Span: What Is the Connection?. Cell Metabolism. 19(6). 1066–1066. 8 indexed citations

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Flatt, Thomas. (2014). Plasticity of lifespan: a reaction norm perspective. Proceedings of The Nutrition Society. 73(4). 532–542. 14 indexed citations

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Min, Kyung Wan, Thomas Flatt, Indrek Külaots, & Marc Tatar. (2006). Counting calories in Drosophila diet restriction. Experimental Gerontology. 42(3). 247–251. 76 indexed citations

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Flatt, Thomas & Tadeusz J. Kawecki. (2004). Pleiotropic Effects of methoprene-tolerant(Met), a Gene Involved in Juvenile Hormone Metabolism, on Life History Traits in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetica. 122(2). 141–160. 26 indexed citations

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