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Alexandra Z. Worden publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandra Z. Worden sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 143 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Alexandra Z. Worden D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexandra Z. Worden sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexandra Z. Worden is affiliated with the Marine Biological Laboratory in the United States. Their research encompasses a range of topics within environmental science, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and earth and planetary sciences.

The scientist's work focuses predominantly on microbial community ecology and physiology, protist diversity and phylogeny, marine and coastal ecosystems, genomics and phylogenetic studies, marine biology and ecology research, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, and methane hydrates and related phenomena.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alexandra Z. Worden include:

  • Camille Poirier
  • Fabian Wittmers
  • Chang Jae Choi
  • Charles Bachy
  • Stephen J. Giovannoni

Notable recent publications include:

  • Small phytoplankton dominate western North Atlantic biomass, 2020, The ISME Journal
  • Single cell genomics reveals plastid-lacking Picozoa are close relatives of red algae, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Seasonality of the Microbial Community Composition in the North Atlantic, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Seasonal and Geographical Transitions in Eukaryotic Phytoplankton Community Structure in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Exploring Vitamin B1 Cycling and Its Connections to the Microbial Community in the North Atlantic Ocean, 2020, Frontiers in Marine Science

Alexandra Z. Worden has published extensively in several scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The ISME Journal
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Environmental Microbiology

Their research integrates multiple subfields, particularly ecology, molecular biology, oceanography, environmental chemistry, and endocrinology. This multidisciplinary approach strengthens the work's relevance across various aspects of marine microbial ecology and molecular biology.

Best Publications

  • The Marine Microbial Eukaryote Transcriptome Sequencing Project (MMETSP): Illuminating the Functional Diversity of Eukaryotic Life in the Oceans through Transcriptome Sequencing

    Patrick J. Keeling;Patrick J. Keeling;Fabien Burki;Heather M. Wilcox;Bassem Allam

  • Genome analysis of the smallest free-living eukaryote Ostreococcus tauri unveils many unique features

    Evelyne Derelle;Conchita Ferraz;Stephane Rombauts;Pierre Rouzé

  • Rethinking the marine carbon cycle: Factoring in the multifarious lifestyles of microbes

    Alexandra Z. Worden;Alexandra Z. Worden;Alexandra Z. Worden;Michael J. Follows;Stephen J. Giovannoni;Susanne Wilken

  • Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

    Alexandra Z. Worden;Jae-Hyeok Lee;Thomas Mock;Pierre Rouzé

  • Assessing the dynamics and ecology of marine picophytoplankton: The importance of the eukaryotic component

    Alexandra Z. Worden;Jessica K. Nolan;B. Palenik

  • Widespread occurrence and genetic diversity of marine parasitoids belonging to Syndiniales (Alveolata)

    Laure Guillou;Manon Viprey;Aurélie Chambouvet;R.M. Welsh

  • Pan genome of the phytoplankton Emiliania underpins its global distribution

    Betsy A. Read;Jessica Kegel;Mary J. Klute;Alan Kuo

  • Metabolic and biogeochemical consequences of viral infection in aquatic ecosystems.

    Amy E. Zimmerman;Cristina Howard-Varona;David M. Needham;Seth G. John

  • Algal genomes reveal evolutionary mosaicism and the fate of nucleomorphs.

    Bruce A. Curtis;Goro Tanifuji;Goro Tanifuji;Fabien Burki;Ansgar Gruber;Ansgar Gruber

  • Evolutionary genomics of the cold-adapted diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus

    Thomas Mock;Robert P Otillar;Jan Strauss;Mark McMullan

  • Targeted metagenomics and ecology of globally important uncultured eukaryotic phytoplankton

    Marie L. Cuvelier;Andrew E. Allen;Adam Monier;John P. McCrow

  • Microbes, Molecules, and Marine Ecosystems

    Farooq Azam;Alexandra Z. Worden

  • Vertical distribution of picoeukaryotic diversity in the Sargasso Sea

    Fabrice Not;Rudolf Gausling;Farooq Azam;John F. Heidelberg

  • Picoeukaryote diversity in coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean

    Alexandra Z. Worden

  • Protists are microbes too: a perspective.

    David A Caron;Alexandra Z Worden;Peter D Countway;Elif Demir

  • Eukaryotic algal phytochromes span the visible spectrum

    Nathan C. Rockwell;Deqiang Duanmu;Shelley S. Martin;Charles Bachy

  • Dynamics of picophytoplankton, ultraphytoplankton and bacteria in the central equatorial Pacific

    Brian J. Binder;Sallie W. Chisholm;Robert J. Olson;Sheila L. Frankel

  • High-resolution SAR11 ecotype dynamics at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study site by phylogenetic placement of pyrosequences

    Kevin L Vergin;Bánk Beszteri;Adam Monier;J Cameron Thrash

  • Application of dilution experiments for measuring growth and mortality rates among Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus populations in oligotrophic environments

    Alexandra Z. Worden;Brian J. Binder

  • Probing the evolution, ecology and physiology of marine protists using transcriptomics

    David A. Caron;Harriet Alexander;Andrew E. Allen;Andrew E. Allen;John M. Archibald;John M. Archibald

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick J. Keeling
Patrick J. Keeling University of British Columbia
Thomas A. Richards
Thomas A. Richards University of Oxford
Andrew E. Allen
Andrew E. Allen J. Craig Venter Institute
Stephen J. Giovannoni
Stephen J. Giovannoni Oregon State University
John M. Archibald
John M. Archibald Dalhousie University
E. Virginia Armbrust
E. Virginia Armbrust University of Washington
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo
Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo Pompeu Fabra University
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences

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