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D-Index
80
Citations
25144
World Ranking
1577
National Ranking
26

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Andreas Wagner is affiliated with the University of Zurich in Switzerland and conducts research primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology, Sociology and Political Science, and Plant Science.

The scientist's research covers several main topics such as Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, Gene Regulatory Network Analysis, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Nature Communications
  • eLife
  • Molecular Ecology

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Selection enhances protein evolvability by increasing mutational robustness and foldability", 2020, Science
  • "A rugged yet easily navigable fitness landscape", 2023, Science
  • "Natural Selection on the Phase-Separation Properties of FUS during 160 My of Mammalian Evolution", 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • "Ecology drives the evolution of diverse social strategies in Pseudomonas aeruginosa", 2021, Molecular Ecology
  • "Diversity begets diversity during community assembly until ecological limits impose a diversity ceiling", 2021, Molecular Ecology

The list of frequent coauthors includes:

  • Pouria Dasmeh
  • Timothy Fuqua
  • Bharat Ravi Iyengar
  • Michael Schmutzer
  • Jia Zheng

Andreas Wagner received the award of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2010.

Best Publications

  • The small world inside large metabolic networks

    Andreas Wagner;David A. Fell

  • Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems

    Andreas Wagner

  • Perspective: Evolution and detection of genetic robustness.

    J. Arjan G. M. de Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Günter P. Wagner;Lauren Ancel Meyers

  • Robustness and evolvability: a paradox resolved.

    Andreas Wagner

  • Growthcurver: an R package for obtaining interpretable metrics from microbial growth curves.

    Kathleen Sprouffske;Kathleen Sprouffske;Andreas Wagner;Andreas Wagner;Andreas Wagner

  • The Yeast Protein Interaction Network Evolves Rapidly and Contains Few Redundant Duplicate Genes

    Andreas Wagner

  • The small world of metabolism.

    David A. Fell;Andreas Wagner

  • Robustness against mutations in genetic networks of yeast.

    Andreas Wagner

  • Energy Constraints on the Evolution of Gene Expression

    Andreas Wagner

  • Does Evolutionary Plasticity Evolve

    Andreas Wagner

  • Innovation and robustness in complex regulatory gene networks

    S. Ciliberti;O. C. Martin;A. Wagner

  • Robustness can evolve gradually in complex regulatory gene networks with varying topology.

    Stefano Ciliberti;Olivier C Martin;Andreas Wagner

  • The Origins of Evolutionary Innovations: A Theory of Transformative Change in Living Systems

    Andreas Wagner

  • Neutralism and selectionism: a network-based reconciliation.

    Andreas Wagner

  • How the global structure of protein interaction networks evolves

    Andreas Wagner

  • Distributed robustness versus redundancy as causes of mutational robustness.

    Andreas Wagner

  • Robustness, evolvability, and neutrality.

    Andreas Wagner

  • Surveys of gene families using polymerase chain reaction: PCR selection and PCR drift

    Andreas Wagner;Neil Blackstone;Paulyn Cartwright;Matthew Dick

  • The causes of evolvability and their evolution.

    Joshua L. Payne;Andreas Wagner

  • EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS

    J. Arjan G. M. De Visser;Joachim Hermisson;Lauren Ancel Meyers;Homayoun Bagheri-Chaichian

Frequent Co-Authors

Florian Altermatt
Florian Altermatt University of Zurich
Emanuel A. Fronhofer
Emanuel A. Fronhofer University of Montpellier
Peter F. Stadler
Peter F. Stadler Leipzig University
James Sharpe
James Sharpe European Bioinformatics Institute
David A. Fell
David A. Fell Oxford Brookes University
Sylvia Knapp
Sylvia Knapp Medical University of Vienna
Hermann Katinger
Hermann Katinger BOKU University
Charles Ofria
Charles Ofria Michigan State University
Robert Boyd
Robert Boyd Arizona State University
Jaume Bertranpetit
Jaume Bertranpetit Pompeu Fabra University

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