W J Gehring

6.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
38 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

W J Gehring is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, W J Gehring has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Molecular Biology, 13 papers in Genetics and 7 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in W J Gehring's work include Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (9 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (8 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). W J Gehring is often cited by papers focused on Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation (9 papers), Animal Genetics and Reproduction (8 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (7 papers). W J Gehring collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. W J Gehring's co-authors include Cahir J. O’Kane, Ueli Grossniklaus, Randall K. Pearson, Martin Müller, Atsushi Kuroiwa, Hugo J. Bellen, Clive Wilson, Gottfried Otting, Kurt Wüthrich and Markus Affolter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

W J Gehring

38 papers receiving 5.1k citations

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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.

Detection in situ of genomic regulatory elements in Drosophila.

1987 639 citations Cahir J. O’Kane, W J Gehring Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
P-element-mediated enhancer detection: a versatile method to study development in Drosophila.

1989 583 citations Hugo J. Bellen, Cahir J. O’Kane et al. Genes & Development profile →
The structure of the Antennapedia homeodomain determined by NMR spectroscopy in solution: Comparison with prokaryotic repressors

1989 404 citations Yan Qian, Martin Billeter et al. Cell profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Artificial Neural Networks Applied to Bandsawing Process Control 2014 ·Applied Mechanics and Materials ·W J Gehring, Fábio Henrique Antunes Vieira, Carlos de Oliveira Affonso, (unknown), (unknown)	1
2	New Perspectives on Eye Development and the Evolution of Eyes and Photoreceptors 2005 ·Journal of Heredity ·W J Gehring	153
3	Functional redundancy: the respective roles of the two sloppy paired genes in Drosophila segmentation. 1994 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ken M. Cadigan, Ueli Grossniklaus, W J Gehring	73
4	Developmentally regulated Drosophila gene family encoding the fork head domain. 1992 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Udo Häcker, Ueli Grossniklaus, W J Gehring, Herbert Jäckle	111
5	Are cross-regulatory interactions between homoeotic genes functionally significant? 1990 ·Nature ·Acaimo González‐Reyes, (unknown), W J Gehring, Gary Struhl, Ginés Morata	142
6	The structure of the Antennapedia homeodomain determined by NMR spectroscopy in solution: Comparison with prokaryotic repressors breakdown → 1989 ·Cell ·Yan Qian, Martin Billeter, Gottfried Otting, Martin Müller, W J Gehring, Kurt Wüthrich	404
7	P-element-mediated enhancer detection: an efficient method for isolating and characterizing developmentally regulated genes in Drosophila. 1989 ·Genes & Development ·Clive Wilson, Randall K. Pearson, Hugo J. Bellen, Cahir J. O’Kane, Ueli Grossniklaus, W J Gehring	347
8	Stage-specific phosphorylation of the fushi tarazu protein during Drosophila development. 1989 ·The EMBO Journal ·Henry M. Krause, W J Gehring	20
9	Secondary structure determination for the Antennapedia homeodomain by nuclear magnetic resonance and evidence for a helix-turn-helix motif. 1988 ·The EMBO Journal ·Gottfried Otting, Yan Qian, Martin Müller, Markus Affolter, W J Gehring, Kurt Wüthrich	133
10	Isolation and sequence-specific DNA binding of the Antennapedia homeodomain. 1988 ·The EMBO Journal ·Martin Müller, Markus Affolter, Werner Leupin, Gottfried Otting, Kurt Wüthrich, W J Gehring	210
11	Sequence requirement for expression of the Drosophila melanogaster heat shock protein hsp22 gene during heat shock and normal development. 1986 ·Molecular and Cellular Biology ·R Klemenz, W J Gehring	50
12	Structural organization and sequence of the homeotic gene Antennapedia of Drosophila melanogaster. 1986 ·The EMBO Journal ·Stephan Schneuwly, Atsushi Kuroiwa, Paul Baumgartner, W J Gehring	210
13	In situ hybridization at the electron microscope level: localization of transcripts on ultrathin sections of Lowicryl K4M-embedded tissue using biotinylated probes and protein A-gold complexes. 1986 ·The Journal of Cell Biology ·M. Binder, Sylvette Tourmente, J Roth, Michel Renaud, W J Gehring	127
14	Molecular cloning of lethal(2)giant larvae, a recessive oncogene of Drosophila melanogaster. 1985 ·The EMBO Journal ·Bernard M. Mechler, William McGinnis, W J Gehring	203
15	Developmental expression of the white locus of Drosophila melanogaster 1984 ·The EMBO Journal ·Anders Fjose, Lino C. Polito, Ursula Weber, W J Gehring	39
16	Genomic and cDNA clones of the homeotic locus Antennapedia in Drosophila. 1983 ·The EMBO Journal ·Richard L. Garber, Atsushi Kuroiwa, W J Gehring	241
17	Auto- und allotypische DifFerenzierungen aus Blastemen der Halterenscheihe von Drosophila melanogaster nach Kultur in vivo 1968 ·Development ·W J Gehring, (unknown), Ernst Hadorn	20
18	Die Imaginalzellen des Clypeo-Labrums und die Bildung des Rüssels von Drosophila melanogaster 1967 ·Revue suisse de zoologie ·W J Gehring, (unknown)	26
19	Extensives Grössenwachstum larvaler Speicheldrüsenchromosomen vonDrosophila melanogaster im Adultmilieu 1963 ·Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences ·Ernst Hadorn, W J Gehring, (unknown)	27
20	Über die Reaktionsfolge der Leukozyten bei einigen Tierarten während des Sexualzyklus und nach Verabreichung von Oestrogenen 1954 ·Zentralblatt für Veterinärmedizin ·(unknown), W J Gehring	2

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