Wayne M. Barnes

5.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Wayne M. Barnes is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wayne M. Barnes has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Genetics and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Wayne M. Barnes's work include Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (15 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (9 papers). Wayne M. Barnes is often cited by papers focused on Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (15 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (14 papers) and DNA Repair Mechanisms (9 papers). Wayne M. Barnes collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Russia. Wayne M. Barnes's co-authors include Michael Bevan, William S. Reznikoff, Russell Higuchi, S Cheng, John Abelson, Robert C. Dickson, Milko Kermekchiev, E. R. Ward, Maurice Hofnung and Christopher F. Higgins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Wayne M. Barnes

44 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

PCR amplification of up to 35-kb DNA with high fidelity and high yield from lambda bacteriophage templates.

1994 871 citations Wayne M. Barnes Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Genetic Regulation: The Lac Control Region

1975 438 citations Wayne M. Barnes, William S. Reznikoff et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wayne M. Barnes United States	30	3.6k	1.3k	869	744	377	44	4.8k
John W. Dubendorff United States	7	4.8k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	579 0.7×	794 1.1×	382 1.0×	8	6.4k
Kin‐ichiro Miura Japan	34	4.2k 1.2×	870 0.7×	798 0.9×	898 1.2×	691 1.8×	147	5.4k
Richard A. Zakour United States	10	4.0k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	572 0.7×	465 0.6×	279 0.7×	11	5.4k
Hildburg Beier Germany	25	3.4k 0.9×	669 0.5×	1.4k 1.6×	394 0.5×	487 1.3×	51	5.4k
B Dobberstein Germany	33	4.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	373 0.4×	419 0.6×	246 0.7×	38	6.4k
Sakol Panyim Thailand	45	4.8k 1.3×	911 0.7×	878 1.0×	642 0.9×	165 0.4×	209	9.1k
Jeff Stock United States	27	5.4k 1.5×	2.2k 1.7×	1.1k 1.2×	748 1.0×	195 0.5×	38	7.5k
Detlef D. Leipe United States	20	3.5k 1.0×	886 0.7×	788 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	95 0.3×	27	4.9k
J. F. Burke United Kingdom	22	2.3k 0.6×	843 0.6×	582 0.7×	443 0.6×	178 0.5×	41	3.5k
Brigitte Wittmann‐Liebold Germany	44	6.3k 1.8×	1.3k 1.0×	425 0.5×	576 0.8×	208 0.6×	171	7.8k

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Wu, Eugene, et al.. (2014). A conservative isoleucine to leucine mutation causes major rearrangements and cold‐sensitivity in KlenTaq1 DNA polymerase (551.1). The FASEB Journal. 28(S1). 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhian, Milko Kermekchiev, & Wayne M. Barnes. (2010). Direct DNA Amplification from Crude Clinical Samples Using a PCR Enhancer Cocktail and Novel Mutants of Taq. Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. 12(2). 152–161. 102 indexed citations

Pergams, Oliver R. W., Wayne M. Barnes, & Dennis Nyberg. (2003). Rapid change in mouse mitochondrial DNA. Nature. 423(6938). 397–397. 33 indexed citations

Barnes, Wayne M., et al.. (2002). Magnesium precipitate hot start method for PCR. Molecular and Cellular Probes. 16(3). 167–171. 15 indexed citations

Korolev, Sergey, et al.. (1995). Crystal structure of the large fragment of Thermus aquaticus DNA polymerase I at 2.5-A resolution: structural basis for thermostability.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 92(20). 9264–9268. 143 indexed citations

Cheng, S, et al.. (1994). Effective amplification of long targets from cloned inserts and human genomic DNA.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 91(12). 5695–5699. 496 indexed citations

Hajela, Ravindra K., et al.. (1993). A Simple Transformation System Using Adventitious Shoot Multiplication of Juneberry. HortScience. 28(4). 330–332. 3 indexed citations

Huang, Yinghua, et al.. (1993). Virulence ofAgrobacteriumonLarix deciduaand Their Cellular Interactions as Depicted by Scanning Electron Microscopy. Journal of Experimental Botany. 44(7). 1191–1201. 7 indexed citations

Barnes, Wayne M.. (1992). The fidelity of Taq polymerase catalyzing PCR is improved by an N-terminal deletion. Gene. 112(1). 29–35. 164 indexed citations

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Barnes, Wayne M.. (1990). Variable patterns of expression of luciferase in transgenic tobacco leaves.. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 87(23). 9183–9187. 46 indexed citations

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Eisenstadt, Eric, et al.. (1989). Influence of uvrB and pKM101 on the spectrum of spontaneous, UV- and γ-ray-induced base substitutions that revert hisG46 in Salmonella typhimurium. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 210(1). 113–125. 25 indexed citations

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Ward, E. R. & Wayne M. Barnes. (1988). VirD2 Protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Very Tightly Linked to the 5' End of T-Strand DNA. Science. 242(4880). 927–930. 101 indexed citations

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Miller, Judith Kelvin & Wayne M. Barnes. (1988). Phenotypic and reversion analysis of a Salmonella typhimurium constructed to have an arginine codon at the hisG46 missense codon. Mutation research. Fundamental and molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis. 201(1). 189–194. 2 indexed citations

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Hartman, Zlata, Philip Hartman, Wayne M. Barnes, & Elodee A. Tuley. (1984). Spontaneous mutation frequencies in Salmonella: Enhancement of G/C to A/T transitions and depression of deletion and frameshift mutation frequencies afforded by anoxic incubation. Environmental Mutagenesis. 6(5). 633–650. 39 indexed citations

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Barnes, Wayne M. & Michael Bevan. (1983). Kilo-sequencing: an ordered strategy for rapid DNA sequence data acquisition. Nucleic Acids Research. 11(2). 349–368. 77 indexed citations

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Yadav, Narendra Singh, Jos Vanderleyden, Donald R. Bennett, Wayne M. Barnes, & Mary-Dell Chilton. (1982). Short direct repeats flank the T-DNA on a nopaline Ti plasmid. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 79(20). 6322–6326. 176 indexed citations

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Higgins, Christopher F., Giovanna Ferro‐Luzzi Ames, Wayne M. Barnes, Jean Clement, & Maurice Hofnung. (1982). A novel intercistronic regulatory element of prokaryotic operons. Nature. 298(5876). 760–762. 234 indexed citations

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Barnes, Wayne M.. (1979). Construction of an M13 histidine-transducing phage: A single-stranded cloning vehicle with one EcoRI site. Gene. 5(2). 127–139. 52 indexed citations

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Barnes, Wayne M.. (1977). Plasmid Detection and Sizing in Single Colony Lysates. Science. 195(4276). 393–394. 171 indexed citations

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Barnes, Wayne M., et al.. (1974). The construction of λ transducing phages containing deletions defining regulatory elements of the lac and trp operons in E. coli. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 129(3). 201–215. 42 indexed citations

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