Thomas Wicker

36.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
149 papers, 12.1k citations indexed

About

Thomas Wicker is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Wicker has authored 149 papers receiving a total of 12.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 116 papers in Plant Science, 38 papers in Molecular Biology and 34 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Wicker's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (67 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (67 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (51 papers). Thomas Wicker is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (67 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (67 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (51 papers). Thomas Wicker collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Germany. Thomas Wicker's co-authors include Beat Keller, Nils Stein, Etienne Paux, François Sabot, Alan H. Schulman, Philippe Leroy, Boulos Chalhoub, Olivier Panaud, Phillip SanMiguel and Andrew J. Flavell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Wicker

147 papers receiving 11.9k 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.

A unified classification system for eukaryotic transposable elements

2007 2.0k citations Thomas Wicker, Olivier Panaud et al. profile →
Insect Hydrocarbons

2010 599 citations Thomas Wicker et al. profile →
Six-rowed barley originated from a mutation in a homeodomain-leucine zipper I-class homeobox gene

2007 434 citations Takao Komatsuda, Mohammad Pourkheirandish et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Wicker Switzerland	58	9.1k	4.4k	3.0k	1.3k	1.3k	149	12.1k
Evgenia V. Kriventseva Switzerland	22	4.1k 0.4×	6.9k 1.6×	2.7k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	28	12.1k
Panagiotis Ioannidis Greece	23	4.1k 0.5×	5.7k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	1.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	41	10.9k
Felipe A. Simão Switzerland	8	3.8k 0.4×	5.7k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.1×	1.3k 1.0×	10	10.5k
Robert M. Waterhouse Switzerland	28	4.0k 0.4×	6.4k 1.4×	2.8k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	2.0k 1.5×	62	12.1k
Shuji Shigenobu Japan	43	2.1k 0.2×	2.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.9×	2.3k 1.7×	203	6.6k
Stephen L. Dellaporta United States	38	9.2k 1.0×	6.5k 1.5×	1.7k 0.6×	833 0.6×	449 0.3×	68	12.3k
Richard D. Newcomb New Zealand	43	2.1k 0.2×	2.2k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	1.0k 0.7×	2.1k 1.6×	140	6.3k
Pierre Capy France	41	4.6k 0.5×	3.8k 0.9×	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	134	7.2k
James A. Birchler United States	58	11.0k 1.2×	9.1k 2.1×	4.0k 1.3×	673 0.5×	188 0.1×	294	14.6k
Xin Zhou China	45	3.4k 0.4×	4.2k 1.0×	2.1k 0.7×	2.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.0×	177	9.2k

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Fatiukha, Andrii, Hanan Sela, Valentyna Klymiuk, et al.. (2025). Tandem kinase proteins across the plant kingdom. Nature Genetics. 57(1). 254–262. 7 indexed citations

Heuberger, Matthias, Dal‐Hoe Koo, Hanin Ibrahim Ahmed, et al.. (2024). Evolution of Einkorn wheat centromeres is driven by the mutualistic interplay of two LTR retrotransposons. Mobile DNA. 15(1). 16–16. 5 indexed citations

Poidevin, Mickaël, Béatrice Denis, Laura De Luca, et al.. (2024). A fatty acid anabolic pathway in specialized-cells sustains a remote signal that controls egg activation in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics. 20(3). e1011186–e1011186. 1 indexed citations

Baidouri, Moaïne El, Daniel Frei, Giacomo Potente, et al.. (2024). Genome of the early spider-orchid Ophrys sphegodes provides insights into sexual deception and pollinator adaptation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6308–6308. 6 indexed citations

Gupta, Shibu, Aline Herger, Anouck Diet, et al.. (2024). Growth-inhibiting effects of the unconventional plant APYRASE 7 of Arabidopsis thaliana influences the LRX/RALF/FER growth regulatory module. PLoS Genetics. 20(1). e1011087–e1011087. 5 indexed citations

Praz, Coraline R., et al.. (2023). A survey of lineage‐specific genes in Triticeae reveals de novo gene evolution from genomic raw material. Plant Direct. 7(3). e484–e484. 6 indexed citations

Saripalli, Gautam, Laxman Adhikari, Ashraf M. Kibriya, et al.. (2023). Integration of genetic and genomics resources in einkorn wheat enables precision mapping of important traits. Communications Biology. 6(1). 835–835. 8 indexed citations

Müller, Marion C., Lukas Kunz, Seraina Schudel, et al.. (2022). Ancient variation of the AvrPm17 gene in powdery mildew limits the effectiveness of the introgressed rye Pm17 resistance gene in wheat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(30). e2108808119–e2108808119. 27 indexed citations

Kolodziej, Markus C., Jyoti Singla, Javier Sánchez‐Martín, et al.. (2021). A membrane-bound ankyrin repeat protein confers race-specific leaf rust disease resistance in wheat. Nature Communications. 12(1). 956–956. 79 indexed citations

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Oggenfuss, Ursula, Thomas Badet, Thomas Wicker, et al.. (2021). A population-level invasion by transposable elements triggers genome expansion in a fungal pathogen. eLife. 10. 54 indexed citations

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Müller, Marion C., Coraline R. Praz, Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos, et al.. (2018). A chromosome‐scale genome assembly reveals a highly dynamic effector repertoire of wheat powdery mildew. New Phytologist. 221(4). 2176–2189. 70 indexed citations

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Menardo, Fabrizio, Thomas Wicker, & Beat Keller. (2017). Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Powdery Mildew Lineages (Blumeria graminis) at Different Evolutionary Time Scales with NGS Data. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(2). 446–456. 27 indexed citations

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Denis, Béatrice, et al.. (2014). Acp70A regulates Drosophila pheromones through juvenile hormone induction. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 56. 36–49. 19 indexed citations

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Grob, Stefan, Marc W. Schmid, Nathan W. Luedtke, Thomas Wicker, & Ueli Grossniklaus. (2013). Characterization of chromosomal architecture in Arabidopsisby chromosome conformation capture. Genome biology. 14(11). R129–R129. 72 indexed citations

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Parlange, Francis, Simone Oberhaensli, James Breen, et al.. (2011). A major invasion of transposable elements accounts for the large size of the Blumeria graminis f.sp. tritici genome. Functional & Integrative Genomics. 11(4). 671–677. 35 indexed citations

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Mago, Rohit, L. Tabe, R. A. McIntosh, et al.. (2011). A multiple resistance locus on chromosome arm 3BS in wheat confers resistance to stem rust (Sr2), leaf rust (Lr27) and powdery mildew. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 123(4). 615–623. 93 indexed citations

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Breen, James, David S. Dunn, F. Békés, et al.. (2010). Wheat beta-expansin (EXPB11) genes: Identification of the expressed gene on chromosome 3BS carrying a pollen allergen domain. BMC Plant Biology. 10(1). 99–99. 13 indexed citations

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Mayer, Klaus, Stefan Taudien, Mihaela Martis, et al.. (2009). Gene Content and Virtual Gene Order of Barley Chromosome 1H . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 151(2). 496–505. 111 indexed citations

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Komatsuda, Takao, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Congfen He, et al.. (2007). Six-rowed barley originated from a mutation in a homeodomain-leucine zipper I-class homeobox gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(4). 1424–1429. 434 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wicker, Thomas, Jon S. Robertson, Stefan Schulze, et al.. (2004). The repetitive landscape of the chicken genome. Genome Research. 15(1). 126–136. 143 indexed citations

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