Zachary D. Blount

3.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
14 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Zachary D. Blount is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Zachary D. Blount has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Genetics, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Zachary D. Blount's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (11 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (5 papers). Zachary D. Blount is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (11 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (6 papers) and Gene Regulatory Network Analysis (5 papers). Zachary D. Blount collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ecuador and Canada. Zachary D. Blount's co-authors include Richard E. Lenski, Christina Z. Borland, Jonathan B. Losos, Jeffrey E. Barrick, Carla Davidson, Dennis W. Grogan, Andrew D. Ellington, Erik M. Quandt, Jimmy Gollihar and George Georgiou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Zachary D. Blount

14 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli

2008 564 citations Zachary D. Blount, Christina Z. Borland et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Contingency and determinism in evolution: Replaying life’s tape

2018 346 citations Zachary D. Blount, Richard E. Lenski et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zachary D. Blount United States	10	1.0k	892	377	286	186	14	1.8k
Ryszard Korona Poland	22	864 0.8×	708 0.8×	241 0.6×	232 0.8×	198 1.1×	49	1.3k
Alejandra Rodríguez‐Verdugo United States	15	744 0.7×	608 0.7×	187 0.5×	278 1.0×	87 0.5×	21	1.2k
Tim F. Cooper United States	27	1.9k 1.8×	1.4k 1.6×	668 1.8×	315 1.1×	228 1.2×	50	2.6k
Eric D. Kelsic United States	9	598 0.6×	650 0.7×	181 0.5×	197 0.7×	113 0.6×	12	1.3k
Daniel J. Kiviet Netherlands	12	828 0.8×	917 1.0×	234 0.6×	190 0.7×	77 0.4×	14	1.4k
William C. Ratcliff United States	25	916 0.9×	755 0.8×	812 2.2×	267 0.9×	261 1.4×	67	2.1k
Jenna Gallie Germany	10	521 0.5×	484 0.5×	173 0.5×	189 0.7×	101 0.5×	17	959
Lilach Hadany Israel	25	679 0.6×	545 0.6×	204 0.5×	166 0.6×	386 2.1×	57	1.6k
Margaret A. Riley United States	11	1.2k 1.2×	809 0.9×	946 2.5×	427 1.5×	342 1.8×	13	2.3k
Arlin Stoltzfus United States	23	884 0.8×	1.5k 1.7×	143 0.4×	204 0.7×	94 0.5×	47	2.2k

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Graham, Jay P., et al.. (2025). A plasmid with the bla CTX-M gene enhances the fitness of Escherichia coli strains under laboratory conditions. Microbiology. 171(1). 1 indexed citations

Turner, Caroline B., et al.. (2023). Evolution of a cross-feeding interaction following a key innovation in a long-term evolution experiment with Escherichia coli. Microbiology. 169(8). 2 indexed citations

Barrick, Jeffrey E., et al.. (2023). Daily Transfers, Archiving Populations, and Measuring Fitness in the Long-Term Evolution Experiment with <em>Escherichia coli</em>. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 6 indexed citations

Blount, Zachary D., Rohan Maddamsetti, Nkrumah A. Grant, et al.. (2020). Genomic and phenotypic evolution of Escherichia coli in a novel citrate-only resource environment. eLife. 9. 24 indexed citations

Bajić, Djordje, Jean C. C. Vila, Zachary D. Blount, & Álvaro Sánchez. (2018). On the deformability of an empirical fitness landscape by microbial evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(44). 11286–11291. 40 indexed citations

Blount, Zachary D., Richard E. Lenski, & Jonathan B. Losos. (2018). Contingency and determinism in evolution: Replaying life’s tape. Science. 362(6415). 346 indexed citations breakdown →

Blount, Zachary D.. (2017). Replaying Evolution. American Scientist. 105(3). 156–156. 2 indexed citations

Blount, Zachary D.. (2016). A case study in evolutionary contingency. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 58. 82–92. 13 indexed citations

Blount, Zachary D.. (2015). The unexhausted potential of E. coli. eLife. 4. 248 indexed citations

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Quandt, Erik M., Jimmy Gollihar, Zachary D. Blount, et al.. (2015). Fine-tuning citrate synthase flux potentiates and refines metabolic innovation in the Lenski evolution experiment. eLife. 4. 64 indexed citations

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Turner, Caroline B., Zachary D. Blount, & Richard E. Lenski. (2015). Replaying Evolution to Test the Cause of Extinction of One Ecotype in an Experimentally Evolved Population. PLoS ONE. 10(11). e0142050–e0142050. 21 indexed citations

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Blount, Zachary D., Jeffrey E. Barrick, Carla Davidson, & Richard E. Lenski. (2012). Genomic analysis of a key innovation in an experimental Escherichia coli population. Nature. 489(7417). 513–518. 400 indexed citations

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Blount, Zachary D., Christina Z. Borland, & Richard E. Lenski. (2008). Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(23). 7899–7906. 564 indexed citations breakdown →

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Blount, Zachary D. & Dennis W. Grogan. (2004). New insertion sequences of Sulfolobus: functional properties and implications for genome evolution in hyperthermophilic archaea. Molecular Microbiology. 55(1). 312–325. 30 indexed citations

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