Wanlu Liu

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
44 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Wanlu Liu is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Rheumatology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wanlu Liu has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Molecular Biology, 19 papers in Plant Science and 4 papers in Rheumatology. Recurrent topics in Wanlu Liu's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (13 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (9 papers). Wanlu Liu is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (13 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (10 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (9 papers). Wanlu Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Wanlu Liu's co-authors include Steven E. Jacobsen, Javier Gallego‐Bartolomé, Ashot Papikian, Amander T. Clark, Di Chen, Rachel Kim, William A. Pastor, Suhua Feng, Jason Gardiner and Basudev Ghoshal and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wanlu Liu

42 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

  1. Site-specific manipulation of Arabidopsis loci using CRISPR-Cas9 SunTag systems
    2019 263 citations Wanlu Liu, Javier Gallego‐Bartolomé et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Wanlu Liu
Oliver Frank Germany
Yixuan Wang China
Junho K. Hur South Korea
Hesam Dehghani Iran
Diana F. Colgan United States
Stefan Moisyadi United States
Huimin Chen China
Su Wen Qian United States
Jumin Zhou United States
Henk P. Roest Netherlands
Oliver Frank Germany
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Countries citing papers authored by Wanlu Liu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wanlu Liu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wanlu Liu

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

All Works

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Xiang, Xinyu, Dominik Handler, Francisco José Calazans Falcón, et al.. (2025). A mammalian-like piRNA pathway in Axolotl reveals the origins of piRNA-directed DNA methylation. The EMBO Journal. 45(6). 1933–1956.
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Tian, Ruonan, Yicheng Qi, Jianliang Zhang, et al.. (2025). Integrating cross-sample and cross-modal data for spatial transcriptomics and metabolomics with SpatialMETA. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8855–8855. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Zhaojie, Changhong Huo, Wanlu Liu, et al.. (2025). Mannoprotein, a novel food ingredient from biosynthesis, preparation and nutritional aspects. Trends in Food Science & Technology. 161. 105084–105084. 1 indexed citations
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Tian, Ruonan, Bing He, Yu Zhao, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of T Cell Receptor Construction Methods from scRNA-Seq Data. Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics. 22(6). 1 indexed citations
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Tian, Ruonan, Bing Gao, Yu Zhao, et al.. (2024). Integrative mapping of human CD8+ T cells in inflammation and cancer. Nature Methods. 22(2). 435–445. 6 indexed citations
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Tian, Ruonan, Dengfeng Ruan, Pengwei Chen, et al.. (2023). MSdb: An integrated expression atlas of human musculoskeletal system. iScience. 26(6). 106933–106933. 2 indexed citations
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Zhong, Zhenhui, Yafei Wang, Ming Wang, et al.. (2022). Histone chaperone ASF1 mediates H3.3-H4 deposition in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 6970–6970. 23 indexed citations
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Lin, Junxin, Yuwei Yang, Wenyan Zhou, et al.. (2022). Single cell analysis reveals inhibition of angiogenesis attenuates the progression of heterotopic ossification in Mkx−/− mice. Bone Research. 10(1). 4–4. 16 indexed citations
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Guo, Yixin, et al.. (2021). RAD: a web application to identify region associated differentially expressed genes. Bioinformatics. 37(17). 2741–2743. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Wanlu, Javier Gallego‐Bartolomé, Yuxing Zhou, et al.. (2021). Ectopic targeting of CG DNA methylation in Arabidopsis with the bacterial SssI methyltransferase. Nature Communications. 12(1). 3130–3130. 33 indexed citations
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Zhong, Zhenhui, Suhua Feng, Sascha H. Duttke, et al.. (2021). DNA methylation-linked chromatin accessibility affects genomic architecture in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(5). 72 indexed citations
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Guo, Yixin, Wenqiang Cao, Wanlu Liu, et al.. (2019). Epigenetic initiation of the T H 17 differentiation program is promoted by Cxxc finger protein 1. Science Advances. 5(10). eaax1608–eaax1608. 21 indexed citations
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Potok, Magdalena E., Yafei Wang, Linhao Xu, et al.. (2019). Arabidopsis SWR1-associated protein methyl-CpG-binding domain 9 is required for histone H2A.Z deposition. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3352–3352. 64 indexed citations
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Wongpalee, Somsakul Pop, Shiheng Liu, Javier Gallego‐Bartolomé, et al.. (2019). CryoEM structures of Arabidopsis DDR complexes involved in RNA-directed DNA methylation. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3916–3916. 26 indexed citations
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Nohales, María A., Wanlu Liu, Tomás Duffy, et al.. (2019). Multi-level Modulation of Light Signaling by GIGANTEA Regulates Both the Output and Pace of the Circadian Clock. Developmental Cell. 49(6). 840–851.e8. 62 indexed citations
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Pastor, William A., Wanlu Liu, Di Chen, et al.. (2018). TFAP2C regulates transcription in human naive pluripotency by opening enhancers. Nature Cell Biology. 20(5). 553–564. 115 indexed citations
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Liu, Wanlu, Sascha H. Duttke, Jonathan Hetzel, et al.. (2018). RNA-directed DNA methylation involves co-transcriptional small-RNA-guided slicing of polymerase V transcripts in Arabidopsis. Nature Plants. 4(3). 181–188. 99 indexed citations
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Pastor, William A., Di Chen, Wanlu Liu, et al.. (2016). Naive Human Pluripotent Cells Feature a Methylation Landscape Devoid of Blastocyst or Germline Memory. Cell stem cell. 18(3). 323–329. 211 indexed citations
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Liu, Wanlu. (2012). Study on invulnerability measure based on community structure of complex networks. Computer Engineering and Applications Journal. 1 indexed citations

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