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Barton E. Slatko publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barton E. Slatko sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 122 publications — 23rd percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Barton E. Slatko D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barton E. Slatko sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Barton E. Slatko is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics related to insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, parasitic diseases research and treatment, parasitic infections and diagnostics, nematode management and characterization studies, parasite biology and host interactions, insect and pesticide research, and parasites and host interactions.

Their research spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Medicine. Within these broader fields, their work touches on subfields including insect science, infectious diseases, parasitology, plant science, and ecology.

Frequent co-authors who collaborate with Barton E. Slatko include Emilie Lefoulon, Travis Clark, Fanni Borvető, Marco Perriat-Sanguinet, and Catherine Moulia.

Their publications are often featured in venues such as Parasites & Vectors, Research Square, bioRxiv, BMC Microbiology, and Microbial Genomics. Notable recent papers by Barton E. Slatko include:

  • "Pseudoscorpion Wolbachia symbionts: diversity and evidence for a new supergroup S", 2020, BMC Microbiology
  • "Impact of intestinal parasites on microbiota and cobalamin gene sequences: a pilot study", 2020, Parasites & Vectors
  • "Diminutive, degraded but dissimilar: Wolbachia genomes from filarial nematodes do not conform to a single paradigm", 2020, Microbial Genomics
  • "The endosymbiont Wolbachia rebounds following antibiotic treatment", 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • "The shutting down of the insulin pathway: a developmental window for Wolbachia load and feminization", 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Widespread Lateral Gene Transfer from Intracellular Bacteria to Multicellular Eukaryotes

    Julie C. Dunning Hotopp;Michael E. Clark;Deodoro C. S. G. Oliveira;Jeremy M. Foster

  • Overview of Next-Generation Sequencing Technologies.

    Barton E. Slatko;Andrew F. Gardner;Frederick M. Ausubel

  • The Wolbachia genome of Brugia malayi: Endosymbiont evolution within a human pathogenic nematode

    Jeremy Foster;Mehul Ganatra;Ibrahim Kamal;Jennifer Ware

  • Draft Genome of the Filarial Nematode Parasite Brugia malayi

    Elodie Ghedin;Elodie Ghedin;Shiliang Wang;David Spiro;Elisabet Caler

  • An Escherichia coli vector to express and purify foreign proteins by fusion to and separation from maltose-binding protein.

    C V Maina;P D Riggs;A G Grandea rd;B E Slatko

  • Intervening sequences in an Archaea DNA polymerase gene.

    F B Perler;D G Comb;W E Jack;L S Moran

  • Cloning the TaqI restriction and modification genes

    Geoffrey G. Wilson

  • Characterization and expression of the Escherichia coli Mrr restriction system.

    P A Waite-Rees;C J Keating;L S Moran;B E Slatko

  • Endosymbiont DNA in endobacteria-free filarial nematodes indicates ancient horizontal genetic transfer.

    Samantha N. McNulty;Jeremy M. Foster;Makedonka Mitreva;Julie C. Dunning Hotopp

  • The heme biosynthetic pathway of the obligate Wolbachia endosymbiont of Brugia malayi as a potential anti-filarial drug target.

    Bo Wu;Jacopo Novelli;Jeremy Foster;Romualdas Vaisvila

  • First sequenced genome of a parasitic nematode.

    Elodie Ghedin;Shiliang Wang;Jeremy M. Foster;Barton E. Slatko

  • Genes expressed in Brugia malayi infective third stage larvae

    Mark L. Blaxter;Nithyakalyani Raghavan;Inca Ghosh;David Guiliano

  • Overview of DNA sequencing strategies.

    Jay A. Shendure;Gregory J. Porreca;George M. Church;Andrew F. Gardner

  • The Complete Genome of Teredinibacter turnerae T7901: An Intracellular Endosymbiont of Marine Wood-Boring Bivalves (Shipworms)

    Joyce C. Yang;Ramana Madupu;A. Scott Durkin;Nathan A Ekborg

  • The filarial genome project: Analysis of the nuclear, mitochondrial and endosymbiont genomes of Brugia malayi

    S.A. Williams;M.R. Lizotte-Waniewski;M.R. Lizotte-Waniewski;J. Foster;D. Guiliano

  • Asymmetric Wolbachia Segregation during Early Brugia malayi Embryogenesis Determines Its Distribution in Adult Host Tissues

    Frédéric Landmann;Jeremy M. Foster;Barton Slatko;William Sullivan

  • Cloning, sequencing and expression of the Taq I restriction-modification system

    Barton E. Slatko;Jack S. Benner;Tineka Jager-Quinton;Laurie S. Moran

  • Industrial scale high-throughput screening delivers multiple fast acting macrofilaricides

    Rachel H Clare;Catherine Bardelle;Paul Harper;W David Hong

  • Genetic and sequence organization of the mcrBC locus of Escherichia coli K-12.

    D Dila;E Sutherland;L Moran;B Slatko

  • Characterization andExpression oftheEscherichia coli MrrRestriction System

    Phyllis A. Waite-Rees;J. Keating;Laurie S. Moran;Barton E. Slatko

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey G. Wilson
Geoffrey G. Wilson New England Biolabs
Mark J. Taylor
Mark J. Taylor Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Mark Blaxter
Mark Blaxter Wellcome Sanger Institute
Elodie Ghedin
Elodie Ghedin National Institutes of Health
Steven A. Williams
Steven A. Williams Smith College
William J. Sullivan
William J. Sullivan Indiana University
Claudio Bandi
Claudio Bandi University of Milan
Makedonka Mitreva
Makedonka Mitreva Washington University in St. Louis
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Joseph D. Turner
Joseph D. Turner Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

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