Walker Pett

1.6k total citations
18 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Walker Pett is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Paleontology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Walker Pett has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Molecular Biology, 8 papers in Paleontology and 6 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Walker Pett's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (6 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (5 papers). Walker Pett is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (12 papers), Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology (6 papers) and Protist diversity and phylogeny (5 papers). Walker Pett collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Walker Pett's co-authors include Dennis V. Lavrov, Gert Wörheide, Davide Pisani, Martin Dohrmann, Omar Rota‐Stabelli, Roberto Feuda, Nicolas Lartillot, Hervé Philippe, Hervé Philippe and Karri M. Haen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Current Biology and PLoS Biology.

In The Last Decade

Walker Pett

18 papers receiving 998 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Walker Pett United States 15 593 346 254 221 172 18 1.0k
Fabian Schreiber Germany 9 488 0.8× 385 1.1× 176 0.7× 182 0.8× 173 1.0× 12 866
Roberto Feuda United Kingdom 13 353 0.6× 282 0.8× 145 0.6× 172 0.8× 115 0.7× 18 858
Paul Simion France 11 366 0.6× 241 0.7× 154 0.6× 182 0.8× 110 0.6× 12 738
Ehsan Kayal United States 14 486 0.8× 459 1.3× 471 1.9× 174 0.8× 238 1.4× 28 1.1k
Stefan Siebert United States 17 548 0.9× 522 1.5× 186 0.7× 137 0.6× 76 0.4× 23 1.1k
Muriel Jager France 16 766 1.3× 617 1.8× 180 0.7× 203 0.9× 193 1.1× 21 1.5k
Romain Derelle United Kingdom 18 1.2k 2.0× 552 1.6× 378 1.5× 231 1.0× 227 1.3× 28 1.8k
Nathan J. Kenny United Kingdom 21 450 0.8× 119 0.3× 286 1.1× 241 1.1× 148 0.9× 51 1.1k
Béatrice Roure Canada 8 1.1k 1.9× 448 1.3× 559 2.2× 427 1.9× 147 0.9× 8 1.7k
Nathan V. Whelan United States 17 326 0.5× 358 1.0× 593 2.3× 195 0.9× 95 0.6× 50 1.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Walker Pett

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Fields of papers citing papers by Walker Pett

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walker Pett

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Ksepka, Daniel T., Daniel J. Field, Tracy A. Heath, et al.. (2023). Largest-known fossil penguin provides insight into the early evolution of sphenisciform body size and flipper anatomy. Journal of Paleontology. 97(2). 434–453. 7 indexed citations
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Barido‐Sottani, Joëlle, Rui Borges, Jeremy M. Brown, et al.. (2022). Lessons learned from organizing and teaching virtual phylogenetics workshops. 1(2). 1 indexed citations
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Sellis, Diamantis, Frédéric Guèrin, Olivier Arnaiz, et al.. (2021). Massive colonization of protein-coding exons by selfish genetic elements in Paramecium germline genomes. PLoS Biology. 19(7). e3001309–e3001309. 28 indexed citations
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Thomas, Daniel B., Alan J. D. Tennyson, R. Paul Scofield, et al.. (2020). Ancient crested penguin constrains timing of recruitment into seabird hotspot. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1932). 20201497–20201497. 19 indexed citations
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Pett, Walker, Marcin Adamski, Maja Adamska, et al.. (2019). The Role of Homology and Orthology in the Phylogenomic Analysis of Metazoan Gene Content. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36(4). 643–649. 38 indexed citations
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Barido‐Sottani, Joëlle, Walker Pett, Joseph O’Reilly, & Rachel C. M. Warnock. (2019). FossilSim: An r package for simulating fossil occurrence data under mechanistic models of preservation and recovery. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(6). 835–840. 25 indexed citations
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Tarver, James E., Richard S. Taylor, Mark N. Puttick, et al.. (2018). Well-Annotated microRNAomes Do Not Evidence Pervasive miRNA Loss. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(6). 1457–1470. 30 indexed citations
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Feuda, Roberto, Martin Dohrmann, Walker Pett, et al.. (2017). Improved Modeling of Compositional Heterogeneity Supports Sponges as Sister to All Other Animals. Current Biology. 27(24). 3864–3870.e4. 201 indexed citations
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Lavrov, Dennis V. & Walker Pett. (2016). Animal Mitochondrial DNA as We Do Not Know It: mt-Genome Organization and Evolution in Nonbilaterian Lineages. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8(9). 2896–2913. 142 indexed citations
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Pisani, Davide, Walker Pett, Martin Dohrmann, et al.. (2015). Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(50). 15402–15407. 219 indexed citations
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Pett, Walker & Dennis V. Lavrov. (2015). Cytonuclear Interactions in the Evolution of Animal Mitochondrial tRNA Metabolism. Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(8). 2089–2101. 35 indexed citations
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Pett, Walker & Dennis V. Lavrov. (2013). The Twin-Arginine Subunit C in Oscarella : Origin, Evolution, and Potential Functional Significance. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 53(3). 495–502. 14 indexed citations
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Haen, Karri M., Walker Pett, & Dennis V. Lavrov. (2013). Eight new mtDNA sequences of glass sponges reveal an extensive usage of + 1 frameshifting in mitochondrial translation. Gene. 535(2). 336–344. 21 indexed citations
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Lavrov, Dennis V., Walker Pett, Oliver Voigt, et al.. (2012). Mitochondrial DNA of Clathrina clathrus (Calcarea, Calcinea): Six Linear Chromosomes, Fragmented rRNAs, tRNA Editing, and a Novel Genetic Code. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(4). 865–880. 71 indexed citations
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Lavrov, Dennis V., et al.. (2012). Small inverted repeats drive mitochondrial genome evolution in Lake Baikal sponges. Gene. 505(1). 91–99. 25 indexed citations
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Pett, Walker, et al.. (2011). Extensive and Evolutionarily Persistent Mitochondrial tRNA Editing in Velvet Worms (Phylum Onychophora). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(10). 2873–2881. 34 indexed citations
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Pett, Walker, Joseph F. Ryan, Kevin Pang, et al.. (2011). Extreme mitochondrial evolution in the ctenophoreMnemiopsis leidyi: Insight from mtDNA and the nuclear genome. Mitochondrial DNA. 22(4). 130–142. 66 indexed citations
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Haen, Karri M., Walker Pett, & Dennis V. Lavrov. (2010). Parallel Loss of Nuclear-Encoded Mitochondrial Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases and mtDNA-Encoded tRNAs in Cnidaria. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(10). 2216–2219. 28 indexed citations

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