Travis Walton

972 total citations
19 papers, 607 citations indexed

About

Travis Walton is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Travis Walton has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 607 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Travis Walton's work include RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (8 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (6 papers). Travis Walton is often cited by papers focused on RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (10 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (8 papers) and Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (6 papers). Travis Walton collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Netherlands. Travis Walton's co-authors include Jack W. Szostak, Wen Zhang, John I. Murray, Alan Brown, Li Li, Chun Pong Tam, Amanda L. Zacharias, Hao Wu, Elicia Preston and Arjun Raj and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Travis Walton

19 papers receiving 605 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Travis Walton United States 16 485 214 205 103 73 19 607
Seán Ryder United States 17 979 2.0× 8 0.0× 71 0.3× 129 1.3× 20 0.3× 31 1.1k
D. A. M. Mesland Netherlands 14 225 0.5× 39 0.2× 77 0.4× 17 0.2× 134 1.8× 22 493
Duccio Malinverni Switzerland 11 361 0.7× 12 0.1× 42 0.2× 10 0.1× 71 1.0× 16 432
Hanna Berger Germany 11 250 0.5× 25 0.1× 48 0.2× 11 0.1× 16 0.2× 17 453
H. Yagi Japan 12 380 0.8× 85 0.4× 32 0.2× 3 0.0× 14 0.2× 21 634
Martine Ruer Germany 7 751 1.5× 5 0.0× 69 0.3× 65 0.6× 264 3.6× 11 875
Anthony Burnetti United States 8 287 0.6× 4 0.0× 62 0.3× 10 0.1× 54 0.7× 12 397
A. Beck United States 10 333 0.7× 66 0.3× 84 0.4× 2 0.0× 13 0.2× 13 428
Pinar S. Gurel United States 11 344 0.7× 5 0.0× 28 0.1× 12 0.1× 322 4.4× 14 634
Burak Gulen United States 9 370 0.8× 60 0.3× 61 0.3× 2 0.0× 38 0.5× 13 448

Countries citing papers authored by Travis Walton

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Fields of papers citing papers by Travis Walton

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Travis Walton

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Travis Walton. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Travis Walton based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Travis Walton. Travis Walton is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Walton, Travis, et al.. (2024). Structural determination and modeling of ciliary microtubules. Acta Crystallographica Section D Structural Biology. 80(4). 220–231. 2 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis, Miao Gui, Mahmoud R. Fassad, et al.. (2023). Axonemal structures reveal mechanoregulatory and disease mechanisms. Nature. 618(7965). 625–633. 75 indexed citations
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Duzdevich, Daniel, Christopher E. Carr, Dian Ding, et al.. (2021). Competition between bridged dinucleotides and activated mononucleotides determines the error frequency of nonenzymatic RNA primer extension. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(7). 3681–3691. 19 indexed citations
4.
Walton, Travis, Hao Wu, & Alan Brown. (2021). Structure of a microtubule-bound axonemal dynein. Nature Communications. 12(1). 477–477. 52 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis, Saurja DasGupta, Daniel Duzdevich, Seung Soo Oh, & Jack W. Szostak. (2020). In vitro selection of ribozyme ligases that use prebiotically plausible 2-aminoimidazole–activated substrates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(11). 5741–5748. 23 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis, Wen Zhang, Li Li, Chun Pong Tam, & Jack W. Szostak. (2019). The Mechanism of Nonenzymatic Template Copying with Imidazole‐Activated Nucleotides. Angewandte Chemie. 131(32). 10926–10933. 15 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis, Wen Zhang, Li Li, Chun Pong Tam, & Jack W. Szostak. (2019). The Mechanism of Nonenzymatic Template Copying with Imidazole‐Activated Nucleotides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(32). 10812–10819. 64 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wen, Travis Walton, Li Li, & Jack W. Szostak. (2018). Crystallographic observation of nonenzymatic RNA primer extension. eLife. 7. 27 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis, et al.. (2018). Template-Directed Catalysis of a Multistep Reaction Pathway for Nonenzymatic RNA Primer Extension. Biochemistry. 58(6). 755–762. 23 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis & Jack W. Szostak. (2017). A Kinetic Model of Nonenzymatic RNA Polymerization by Cytidine-5′-phosphoro-2-aminoimidazolide. Biochemistry. 56(43). 5739–5747. 42 indexed citations
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Zhang, Wen, Chun Pong Tam, Travis Walton, et al.. (2017). Insight into the mechanism of nonenzymatic RNA primer extension from the structure of an RNA-GpppG complex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(29). 7659–7664. 25 indexed citations
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Tam, Chun Pong, Lijun Zhou, Albert C. Fahrenbach, et al.. (2017). Synthesis of a Nonhydrolyzable Nucleotide Phosphoroimidazolide Analogue That Catalyzes Nonenzymatic RNA Primer Extension. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(2). 783–792. 9 indexed citations
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Burdick, Joshua, Travis Walton, Elicia Preston, et al.. (2016). Overlapping cell population expression profiling and regulatory inference in C. elegans. BMC Genomics. 17(1). 159–159. 5 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis & Jack W. Szostak. (2016). A Highly Reactive Imidazolium-Bridged Dinucleotide Intermediate in Nonenzymatic RNA Primer Extension. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(36). 11996–12002. 80 indexed citations
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Zacharias, Amanda L., Travis Walton, Elicia Preston, & John I. Murray. (2015). Quantitative Differences in Nuclear β-catenin and TCF Pattern Embryonic Cells in C. elegans. PLoS Genetics. 11(10). e1005585–e1005585. 26 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis, Elicia Preston, Gautham Nair, et al.. (2015). The Bicoid Class Homeodomain Factors ceh-36/OTX and unc-30/PITX Cooperate in C. elegans Embryonic Progenitor Cells to Regulate Robust Development. PLoS Genetics. 11(3). e1005003–e1005003. 26 indexed citations
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Nair, Gautham, Travis Walton, John I. Murray, & Arjun Raj. (2013). Gene transcription is coordinated with, but not dependent on, cell divisions during C. elegans embryonic fate specification. Development. 140(16). 3385–3394. 25 indexed citations
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Zacharias, Amanda L., et al.. (2012). A quantitative model of normal Caenorhabditis elegans embryogenesis and its disruption after stress. Developmental Biology. 374(1). 12–23. 42 indexed citations
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Walton, Travis, et al.. (1998). Endothelium-specific expression of an E-selectin promoter recombinant adenoviral vector.. PubMed. 18(3A). 1357–60. 27 indexed citations

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