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Thomas Cavalier‐Smith

Active 1974–2021

111
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24,493
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World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 1,579 citing papers, 23.3% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 651 citing papers, 9.6% of this breakdownCanada: 550 citing papers, 8.1% of this breakdownGermany: 548 citing papers, 8.1% of this breakdownFrance: 442 citing papers, 6.5% of this breakdownChina: 261 citing papers, 3.9% of this breakdownAustralia: 257 citing papers, 3.8% of this breakdownJapan: 230 citing papers, 3.4% of this breakdownSpain: 216 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownCzechia: 156 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 155 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownSweden: 121 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology59.3%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences9.5%
  • Environmental Science9.1%
  • Immunology and Microbiology7.4%
  • Medicine4.8%
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences3.2%
  • Other6.7%

Topics

  • Protist diversity and phylogeny12.5%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies8%
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology7.5%
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms4%
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms2.4%
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations2.2%
  • Other63.4%

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  1. A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms

    Authors: Michael A. Ruggiero, Dennis P.‏ Gordon, Thomas Orrell, Nicolas Bailly, Thierry Bourgoin, Richard C. Brusca, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, Michael D. Guiry, Paul M. Kirk - PLoS ONE 2015 cited by 578

  2. Nuclear volume control by nucleoskeletal DNA, selection for cell volume and cell growth rate, and the solution of the DNA C-value paradox

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Journal of Cell Science 1978 cited by 695

  3. Kingdoms Protozoa and Chromista and the eozoan root of the eukaryotic tree

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Biology Letters 2009 cited by 321

  4. Myosin domain evolution and the primary divergence of eukaryotes

    Authors: Thomas A. Richards, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Nature 2005 cited by 433

  5. Chloroplast Evolution: Secondary Symbiogenesis and Multiple Losses

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Current Biology 2002 cited by 354

  6. Phylogeny and Megasystematics of Phagotrophic Heterokonts (Kingdom Chromista)

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, Ema E. Chao - Journal of Molecular Evolution 2006 cited by 271

  7. Kingdom Chromista and its eight phyla: a new synthesis emphasising periplastid protein targeting, cytoskeletal and periplastid evolution, and ancient divergences

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - PROTOPLASMA 2017 cited by 217

  8. Ciliary transition zone evolution and the root of the eukaryote tree: implications for opisthokont origin and classification of kingdoms Protozoa, Plantae, and Fungi

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - PROTOPLASMA 2021 cited by 34

  9. A revised six-kingdom system of life

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1998 cited by 1,040

  10. The phagotrophic origin of eukaryotes and phylogenetic classification of Protozoa.

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY 2002 cited by 969

  11. Higher classification and phylogeny of Euglenozoa

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - European Journal of Protistology 2016 cited by 96

  12. Kingdom protozoa and its 18 phyla.

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Microbiological Reviews 1993 cited by 858

  13. Economy, Speed and Size Matter: Evolutionary Forces Driving Nuclear Genome Miniaturization and Expansion

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Annals of Botany 2004 cited by 401

  14. Single gene circles in dinoflagellate chloroplast genomes

    Authors: Zhaoduo Zhang, Beverley R. Green, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Nature 1999 cited by 346

  15. Multidomain ribosomal protein trees and the planctobacterial origin of neomura (eukaryotes, archaebacteria)

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, Ema E-Yung Chao - PROTOPLASMA 2020 cited by 71

  16. The origin of nuclei and of eukaryotic cells

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Nature 1975 cited by 278

  17. Multigene Phylogeny of Choanozoa and the Origin of Animals

    Authors: Kamran Shalchian‐Tabrizi, Marianne A. Minge, Mari Espelund, Russell J. S. Orr, Torgeir A. Ruden, Kjetill S. Jakobsen, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - PLoS ONE 2008 cited by 272

  18. Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses.

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Biology Direct 2006 cited by 223

  19. Early evolution of eukaryote feeding modes, cell structural diversity, and classification of the protozoan phyla Loukozoa, Sulcozoa, and Choanozoa

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - European Journal of Protistology 2012 cited by 214

  20. Mitochondrial DNA of the coral sarcophyton glaucum contains a gene for a homologue of bacterial muts: A possible case of gene transfer from the nucleus to the mitochondrion

    Authors: Geneviàve Pont-Kingdon, Norichika A. Okada, Jane L. Macfarlane, C. Timothy Beagley, Cristi D. Watkins-Sims, Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, G. D. Clark‐Walker, David R. Wolstenholme - Journal of Molecular Evolution 1998 cited by 164

  21. Origin of animal multicellularity: precursors, causes, consequences—the choanoflagellate/sponge transition, neurogenesis and the Cambrian explosion

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2016 cited by 151

  22. Helkesimastix marina n. sp. (Cercozoa: Sainouroidea superfam. n.) a Gliding Zooflagellate of Novel Ultrastructure and Unusual Ciliary Behaviour

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, Rhodri Lewis, Ema E. Chao, Brian R. Oates, David Bass - Protist 2009 cited by 98

  23. Membrane heredity and early chloroplast evolution

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith, Thomas Cavalier-Smith - Trends in Plant Science 2000 cited by 482

  24. Eukaryote kingdoms: Seven or nine?

    Authors: Thomas Cavalier‐Smith - Biosystems 1981 cited by 433