William R. Engels

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

William R. Engels is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, William R. Engels has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Molecular Biology, 32 papers in Plant Science and 23 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in William R. Engels's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (31 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (13 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers). William R. Engels is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (31 papers), DNA Repair Mechanisms (13 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (11 papers). William R. Engels collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Canada. William R. Engels's co-authors include Christine R Preston, Dena M. Johnson-Schlitz, Hugh M. Robertson, R W Phillis, Wendy Benz, Gregory B. Gloor, J A Sved, William B. Eggleston, Najah T. Nassif and Carlos C. Flores and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

William R. Engels

58 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

A stable genomic source of P element transposase in Droso... 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. A stable genomic source of P element transposase in Drosophila melanogaster.
    1988 1.3k citations Hugh M. Robertson, Christine R Preston et al. Genetics profile →

Peers

William R. Engels
François Karch Switzerland
Allan Force United States
Robert Levis United States
Kent G. Golic United States
George L. Gabor Miklos Australia
Christine R Preston United States
Harald Biessmann United States
И. Ф. Жимулев Russia
E. H. Grell United States
Dan L. Lindsley United States
François Karch Switzerland
William R. Engels
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Engels, William R., Dena M. Johnson-Schlitz, Carlos C. Flores, Lisa D. White, & Christine R Preston. (2007). A Third Link connecting Aging with Double Strand Break Repair. Cell Cycle. 6(2). 131–135. 23 indexed citations
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Johnson-Schlitz, Dena M. & William R. Engels. (2006). Template disruptions and failure of double Holliday junction dissolution during double-strand break repair in Drosophila BLM mutants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(45). 16840–16845. 27 indexed citations
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Preston, Christine R, Carlos C. Flores, & William R. Engels. (2006). Age-Dependent Usage of Double-Strand-Break Repair Pathways. Current Biology. 16(20). 2009–2015. 39 indexed citations
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Johnson-Schlitz, Dena M. & William R. Engels. (2006). The Effect of Gap Length on Double-Strand Break Repair in Drosophila. Genetics. 173(4). 2033–2038. 8 indexed citations
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Ciapponi, Laura, Giovanni Cenci, Carlos C. Flores, et al.. (2004). The Drosophila Mre11/Rad50 Complex Is Required to Prevent Both Telomeric Fusion and Chromosome Breakage. Current Biology. 14(15). 1360–1366. 93 indexed citations
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Sved, J A, et al.. (1998). Structure and associated mutational effects of the cysteine proteinase (CP1) gene of Drosophila melanogaster. Insect Molecular Biology. 7(3). 291–293. 18 indexed citations
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Lankenau, Dirk‐Henner, Victor G. Corces, & William R. Engels. (1996). Comparison of Targeted-Gene Replacement Frequencies in Drosophila melanogaster at the forked and white Loci. Molecular and Cellular Biology. 16(7). 3535–3544. 16 indexed citations
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Engels, William R.. (1996). P Elements in Drosophila. Current topics in microbiology and immunology. 204. 103–123. 123 indexed citations
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Preston, Christine R & William R. Engels. (1996). P-Element-Induced Male Recombination and Gene Conversion in Drosophila. Genetics. 144(4). 1611–1622. 84 indexed citations
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Gloor, Gregory B., Christine R Preston, Dena M. Johnson-Schlitz, et al.. (1993). Type I repressors of P element mobility.. Genetics. 135(1). 81–95. 357 indexed citations
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Engels, William R.. (1993). Contributing software to the internet: the amplify program. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. 18(11). 448–450. 156 indexed citations
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Engels, William R.. (1992). The origin of P elements in Drosophila melanogaster. BioEssays. 14(10). 681–686. 48 indexed citations
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Sved, J A, Leila M. Blackman, A. S. Gilchrist, & William R. Engels. (1991). High levels of recombination induced by homologous P elements in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 225(3). 443–447. 24 indexed citations
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Sved, J A, William B. Eggleston, & William R. Engels. (1990). Germ-line and somatic recombination induced by in vitro modified P elements in Drosophila melanogaster.. Genetics. 124(2). 331–337. 29 indexed citations
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Engels, William R., Dena M. Johnson-Schlitz, William B. Eggleston, & J A Sved. (1990). High-frequency P element loss in Drosophila is homolog dependent. Cell. 62(3). 515–525. 370 indexed citations
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Robertson, Hugh M. & William R. Engels. (1989). Modified P elements that mimic the P cytotype in Drosophila melanogaster.. Genetics. 123(4). 815–824. 128 indexed citations
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Robertson, Hugh M., Christine R Preston, R W Phillis, et al.. (1988). A stable genomic source of P element transposase in Drosophila melanogaster.. Genetics. 118(3). 461–470. 1256 indexed citations breakdown →
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Engels, William R., Wendy Benz, Christine R Preston, et al.. (1987). Somatic Effects of P Element Activity in Drosophila melanogaster: Pupal Lethality. Genetics. 117(4). 745–757. 72 indexed citations
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Engels, William R.. (1986). On the evolution and population genetics of hybrid-dysgenesis-causing transposable elements in Drosophila. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. 312(1154). 205–215. 14 indexed citations
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Engels, William R.. (1983). THE P FAMILY OF TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS IN DROSOPHILA. Annual Review of Genetics. 17(1). 315–344. 265 indexed citations

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