Thomas J. Sanger

2.2k total citations
41 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Thomas J. Sanger is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas J. Sanger has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 16 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Thomas J. Sanger's work include Amphibian and Reptile Biology (17 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (13 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (9 papers). Thomas J. Sanger is often cited by papers focused on Amphibian and Reptile Biology (17 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (13 papers) and Morphological variations and asymmetry (9 papers). Thomas J. Sanger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Thomas J. Sanger's co-authors include Jonathan B. Losos, Jeremy J. Gibson‐Brown, Arhat Abzhanov, D. Luke Mahler, Emma Sherratt, Martin J. Cohn, Amy R. McCune, Michele A. Johnson, Liam J. Revell and Anthony Herrel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Thomas J. Sanger

39 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Thomas J. Sanger United States 20 355 315 260 245 239 41 1.0k
Rebecca L. Young United States 23 127 0.4× 500 1.6× 254 1.0× 286 1.2× 220 0.9× 41 1.4k
Jeanne M. Serb United States 21 293 0.8× 225 0.7× 209 0.8× 264 1.1× 172 0.7× 47 1.3k
Kathryn D. Kavanagh United States 14 162 0.5× 164 0.5× 301 1.2× 709 2.9× 219 0.9× 17 1.4k
Arhat Abzhanov United States 17 145 0.4× 185 0.6× 403 1.6× 542 2.2× 474 2.0× 22 1.3k
Christopher R. Cooney United Kingdom 18 178 0.5× 437 1.4× 374 1.4× 143 0.6× 330 1.4× 30 1.1k
Kevin J. Parsons United Kingdom 23 242 0.7× 373 1.2× 647 2.5× 186 0.8× 280 1.2× 50 1.8k
Masayoshi Tokita Japan 18 121 0.3× 188 0.6× 232 0.9× 308 1.3× 358 1.5× 48 988
C. Tristan Stayton United States 19 320 0.9× 278 0.9× 178 0.7× 68 0.3× 773 3.2× 30 1.3k
Raúl E. Díaz United States 16 224 0.6× 119 0.4× 200 0.8× 292 1.2× 133 0.6× 36 691
Rita S. Mehta United States 22 390 1.1× 353 1.1× 164 0.6× 77 0.3× 477 2.0× 66 1.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sanger, Thomas J., et al.. (2025). Sonic hedgehog and fibroblast growth factor 8 regulate the evolution of amniote facial proportions. Communications Biology. 8(1). 84–84. 2 indexed citations
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Sherratt, Emma, Christine Böhmer, Cécile Callou, et al.. (2025). From wild to domestic and in between: how domestication and feralization changed the morphology of rabbits. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 292(2050). 20251150–20251150. 1 indexed citations
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Weberling, Antonia, Natalia A. Shylo, Bonnie K. Kircher, et al.. (2025). Pre‐oviposition development of the brown anole ( Anolis sagrei ). Developmental Dynamics. 255(2). 145–167.
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Sherratt, Emma, et al.. (2024). Large morphological transitions underlie exceptional shape diversification in an adaptive radiation. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 31884–31884. 2 indexed citations
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Rochette, Nicolas C., et al.. (2023). On the causes, consequences, and avoidance of PCR duplicates: Towards a theory of library complexity. Molecular Ecology Resources. 23(6). 1299–1318. 20 indexed citations
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Gamble, Tony, et al.. (2021). Convergent developmental patterns underlie the repeated evolution of adhesive toe pads among lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 135(3). 518–532. 9 indexed citations
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Sanger, Thomas J., Juan D. Daza, Stuart V. Nielsen, et al.. (2019). Embryonic development of a parthenogenetic vertebrate, the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris). Developmental Dynamics. 248(11). 1070–1090. 21 indexed citations
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Stewart, Thomas A., Cong Liang, Justin Cotney, et al.. (2019). Evidence against tetrapod-wide digit identities and for a limited frame shift in bird wings. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3244–3244. 17 indexed citations
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Tschopp, Patrick, Emma Sherratt, Thomas J. Sanger, et al.. (2014). A relative shift in cloacal location repositions external genitalia in amniote evolution. Nature. 516(7531). 391–394. 63 indexed citations
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Sanger, Thomas J., et al.. (2014). Development of the Cloaca, Hemipenes, and Hemiclitores in the Green Anole, <b><i>Anolis carolinensis</i></b>. Sexual Development. 9(1). 21–33. 27 indexed citations
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Sanger, Thomas J., et al.. (2013). Sexual dimorphisms in habitat‐specific morphology and behavior in the green anole lizard. Journal of Zoology. 290(2). 135–142. 17 indexed citations
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Sanger, Thomas J., Liam J. Revell, Jeremy J. Gibson‐Brown, & Jonathan B. Losos. (2011). Repeated modification of early limb morphogenesis programmes underlies the convergence of relative limb length in Anolis lizards. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 279(1729). 739–748. 52 indexed citations
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Kusumi, Kenro, Rob J. Kulathinal, Arhat Abzhanov, et al.. (2011). Developing a community-based genetic nomenclature for anole lizards. BMC Genomics. 12(1). 554–554. 17 indexed citations
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Sanger, Thomas J., D. Luke Mahler, Arhat Abzhanov, & Jonathan B. Losos. (2011). ROLES FOR MODULARITY AND CONSTRAINT IN THE EVOLUTION OF CRANIAL DIVERSITY AMONGANOLISLIZARDS. Evolution. 66(5). 1525–1542. 110 indexed citations
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Herrel, Anthony, et al.. (2011). An Ecomorphological Analysis of Native and Introduced Populations of the Endemic Lizard Anolis maynardi of the Cayman Islands. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 522. 1–10. 7 indexed citations
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Sanger, Thomas J., Elizabeth A. Norgard, L. Susan Pletscher, et al.. (2010). Developmental and genetic origins of murine long bone length variation. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B Molecular and Developmental Evolution. 316B(2). 146–161. 37 indexed citations
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Clabaut, Céline, Anthony Herrel, Thomas J. Sanger, Thomas B. Smith, & Arhat Abzhanov. (2009). Development of beak polymorphism in the African seedcracker,Pyrenestes ostrinus. Evolution & Development. 11(6). 636–646. 25 indexed citations
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Sanger, Thomas J.. (2006). Tinkering: a metaphor uniting evolutionary and developmental biology. BioEssays. 28(12). 1221–1223. 2 indexed citations
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Sanger, Thomas J. & Jeremy J. Gibson‐Brown. (2004). THE DEVELOPMENTAL BASES OF LIMB REDUCTION AND BODY ELONGATION IN SQUAMATES. Evolution. 58(9). 2103–2106. 21 indexed citations
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Sanger, Thomas J. & Amy R. McCune. (2002). Comparative osteology of the Danio (Cyprinidae: Ostariophysi) axial skeleton with comments on Danio relationships based on molecules and morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 135(4). 529–546. 37 indexed citations

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