Vera Tai

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Vera Tai is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Vera Tai has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 14 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Vera Tai's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (8 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (7 papers). Vera Tai is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (11 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (8 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (7 papers). Vera Tai collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Vera Tai's co-authors include David Calderwood, Mark H. Ginsberg, Brian Palenik, Koji Eto, Sanford J. Shattil, Robert Liddington, José M. de Pereda, Seiji Tadokoro, Ian T. Paulsen and Patrick J. Keeling and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Biological Chemistry and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Vera Tai

31 papers receiving 2.0k 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.

Talin Binding to Integrin ß Tails: A Final Common Step in Integrin Activation

2003 981 citations Seiji Tadokoro, Sanford J. Shattil et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Vera Tai Canada	15	808	705	530	502	292	32	2.0k
Noriko Funayama Japan	22	240 0.3×	1.7k 2.4×	525 1.0×	247 0.5×	47 0.2×	31	2.8k
Suat Özbek Germany	32	179 0.2×	1.6k 2.3×	676 1.3×	217 0.4×	85 0.3×	68	3.6k
Simone Seiter Germany	24	344 0.4×	1.3k 1.8×	557 1.1×	164 0.3×	28 0.1×	36	2.7k
Ľubomír Kováč Slovakia	20	336 0.4×	320 0.5×	178 0.3×	230 0.5×	72 0.2×	84	1.4k
Stephen A. Nesbitt United States	23	354 0.4×	863 1.2×	165 0.3×	437 0.9×	19 0.1×	75	2.2k
John Harper Australia	27	419 0.5×	949 1.3×	784 1.5×	98 0.2×	28 0.1×	184	3.2k
Joann J. Otto United States	22	181 0.2×	735 1.0×	945 1.8×	76 0.2×	116 0.4×	34	1.7k
Mark J. Osborn United States	32	93 0.1×	2.6k 3.7×	640 1.2×	405 0.8×	27 0.1×	72	4.2k
Isabelle Zanella‐Cléon France	27	33 0.0×	709 1.0×	118 0.2×	315 0.6×	173 0.6×	53	2.2k
Roberta Bordoni Italy	22	103 0.1×	1.1k 1.6×	75 0.1×	196 0.4×	29 0.1×	48	2.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Vera Tai

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vera Tai

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vera Tai. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vera Tai 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 Vera Tai. Vera Tai is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Gajer, Pawel, Philip Haywood, Vera Tai, et al.. (2025). The neovaginal microbiota, symptoms, and local immune correlates in transfeminine individuals with penile inversion vaginoplasty. Cell Reports. 44(12). 116546–116546.

Subirats, Jéssica, et al.. (2023). Metagenome meta-analysis reveals an increase in the abundance of some multidrug efflux pumps and mobile genetic elements in chemically polluted environments. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 89(10). e0104723–e0104723. 8 indexed citations

Kellogg, Colleen T. E., et al.. (2023). Symbiont diversity in the eukaryotic microbiomes of marine crustacean zooplankton. Journal of Plankton Research. 45(2). 338–359. 7 indexed citations

Chmiel, John A., Ryan M. Chanyi, Kait F. Al, et al.. (2022). New perspectives on an old grouping: The genomic and phenotypic variability of Oxalobacter formigenes and the implications for calcium oxalate stone prevention. Frontiers in Microbiology. 13. 1011102–1011102. 9 indexed citations

Murray, Roger, Andrew Scott, Yuan-Ching Tien, et al.. (2022). Responses of the Soil Bacterial Community, Resistome, and Mobilome to a Decade of Annual Exposure to Macrolide Antibiotics. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 88(8). e0031622–e0031622. 14 indexed citations

Creed, Irena F., et al.. (2021). Performance and competitiveness of red vs. green phenotypes of a cyanobacterium grown under artificial lake browning. ALGAE. 36(3). 195–206. 8 indexed citations

Olmstead, Andrea D., Vincent Montoya, Celia Chui, et al.. (2019). A systematic, deep sequencing-based methodology for identification of mixed-genotype hepatitis C virus infections. Infection Genetics and Evolution. 69. 76–84. 6 indexed citations

Ysseldyk, Renate, Katharine H. Greenaway, Elena Hassinger, et al.. (2019). A Leak in the Academic Pipeline: Identity and Health Among Postdoctoral Women. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 1297–1297. 88 indexed citations

Strassert, Jürgen F. H., Denis V. Tikhonenkov, Jean‐François Pombert, et al.. (2016). Moramonas marocensis gen. nov., sp. nov.: a jakobid flagellate isolated from desert soil with a bacteria-like, but bloated mitochondrial genome. Open Biology. 6(2). 150239–150239. 8 indexed citations

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Tai, Vera, E. James, Steve J. Perlman, & Patrick J. Keeling. (2013). Single-Cell DNA Barcoding Using Sequences from the Small Subunit rRNA and Internal Transcribed Spacer Region Identifies New Species of Trichonympha and Trichomitopsis from the Hindgut of the Termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e58728–e58728. 20 indexed citations

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James, E., Vera Tai, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, & Patrick J. Keeling. (2013). Trichonympha burlesquei n. sp. from Reticulitermes virginicus and evidence against a cosmopolitan distribution of Trichonympha agilis in many termite hosts. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 63(Pt_10). 3873–3876. 15 indexed citations

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Tai, Vera, Art F. Y. Poon, Ian T. Paulsen, & Brian Palenik. (2011). Selection in Coastal Synechococcus (Cyanobacteria) Populations Evaluated from Environmental Metagenomes. PLoS ONE. 6(9). e24249–e24249. 14 indexed citations

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Tetu, Sasha G., Bianca Brahamsha, Daniel Johnson, et al.. (2009). Microarray analysis of phosphate regulation in the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH8102. The ISME Journal. 3(7). 835–849. 113 indexed citations

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Tai, Vera, Ian T. Paulsen, Katherine Phillippy, Daniel Johnson, & Brian Palenik. (2009). Whole‐genome microarray analyses of Synechococcus – Vibrio interactions. Environmental Microbiology. 11(10). 2698–2709. 35 indexed citations

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Palenik, Brian, Q. Ren, Vera Tai, & Ian T. Paulsen. (2008). Coastal Synechococcus metagenome reveals major roles for horizontal gene transfer and plasmids in population diversity. Environmental Microbiology. 11(2). 349–359. 65 indexed citations

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Cawood, A, Geoffrey S. Cook, Peter C. Davison, et al.. (2008). Marine Metapopulations. Marine Ecology. 29(2). 319–320. 9 indexed citations

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Calderwood, David, Vera Tai, Gilbert Di Paolo, Pietro De Camilli, & Mark H. Ginsberg. (2004). Competition for Talin Results in Trans-dominant Inhibition of Integrin Activation. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 279(28). 28889–28895. 90 indexed citations

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Tadokoro, Seiji, Sanford J. Shattil, Koji Eto, et al.. (2003). Talin Binding to Integrin ß Tails: A Final Common Step in Integrin Activation. Science. 302(5642). 103–106. 981 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tai, Vera. (2001). Substrate specificity of N-acetylglucosaminyl(diphosphodolichol) N-acetylglucosaminyl transferase, a key enzyme in the dolichol pathway. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 9(5). 1133–1140. 9 indexed citations

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Tai, Vera, Sandra C. Lindstrom, & Gary W. Saunders. (2001). PHYLOGENY OF THE DUMONTIACEAE (GIGARTINALES, RHODOPHYTA) AND ASSOCIATED FAMILIES BASED ON SSU rDNA AND INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER SEQUENCE DATA. Journal of Phycology. 37(1). 184–196. 65 indexed citations

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