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2695
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192

David B. Sattelle 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 David B. Sattelle sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 371 publications — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

David B. Sattelle 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 David B. Sattelle sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 88 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

David B. Sattelle is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a range of topics primarily focused on insect science, parasitology, and molecular biology within the broader fields of agricultural and biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics, and medicine.

The scientist's recent publications highlight their active involvement in studying insecticides, parasite-host interactions, and receptor biology. Selected recent papers include:

  • Neonicotinoid Insecticides: Molecular Targets, Resistance, and Toxicity (2020), published in The Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
  • Whipworm and roundworm infections (2020), published in Nature Reviews Disease Primers
  • Cofactor-enabled functional expression of fruit fly, honeybee, and bumblebee nicotinic receptors reveals picomolar neonicotinoid actions (2020), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Anthelmintic drug discovery: target identification, screening methods and the role of open science (2020), published in Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Functional impact of subunit composition and compensation on Drosophila melanogaster nicotinic receptors-targets of neonicotinoids (2023), published in PLoS Genetics

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Frederick A. Partridge (12 collaborations)
  • Kazuhiko Matsuda (9 collaborations)
  • Makoto Ihara (9 collaborations)
  • Gareth Lycett (8 collaborations)
  • Kathryn J. Else (7 collaborations)

Publication venues where David B. Sattelle frequently contributes are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (6 publications)
  • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases (3 publications)
  • Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology (3 publications)
  • Frontiers in Tropical Diseases (2 publications)
  • Open Biology (2 publications)

The scientist's main areas of study are detailed as:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences (22 publications)
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (16 publications)
  • Medicine (16 publications)

Within those, key subfields of research encompass:

  • Insect Science (17 publications)
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health (12 publications)
  • Molecular Biology (11 publications)
  • Parasitology (9 publications)
  • Small Animals (9 publications)

Their main research topics are:

  • Insect and Pesticide Research (20 publications)
  • Parasites and Host Interactions (18 publications)
  • Helminth infection and control (18 publications)
  • Insect Resistance and Genetics (16 publications)
  • Mosquito-borne diseases and control (14 publications)
  • Parasite Biology and Host Interactions (10 publications)
  • Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (8 publications)

David B. Sattelle was recognized as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2013.

Best Publications

  • Genome Sequence of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;Nicole M. Gerardo;Nancy Moran

  • Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera

    George M. Weinstock;Gene E. Robinson;Richard A. Gibbs;Kim C. Worley

  • The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum.

    Stephen Richards;Richard A. Gibbs;George M. Weinstock;Susan J. Brown

  • Neonicotinoids: insecticides acting on insect nicotinic acetylcholine receptors

    Kazuhiko Matsuda;Steven D. Buckingham;Daniel Kleier;James J. Rauh

  • Functional and evolutionary insights from the genomes of three parasitoid Nasonia species.

    John H. Werren;Stephen Richards;Christopher A. Desjardins;Oliver Niehuis

  • Improved reference genome of Aedes aegypti informs arbovirus vector control

    Benjamin J. Matthews;Benjamin J. Matthews;Olga Dudchenko;Olga Dudchenko;Sarah B. Kingan;Sergey Koren

  • Genomic insights into the Ixodes scapularis tick vector of Lyme disease

    Monika Gulia-Nuss;Monika Gulia-Nuss;Andrew B. Nuss;Andrew B. Nuss;Jason M. Meyer;Jason M. Meyer;Daniel E. Sonenshine

  • Thymol, a constituent of thyme essential oil, is a positive allosteric modulator of human GABAA receptors and a homo-oligomeric GABA receptor from Drosophila melanogaster

    Caroline M Priestley;Elizabeth M Williamson;Keith A Wafford;David B Sattelle

  • Actions of imidacloprid and a related nitromethylene on cholinergic receptors of an identified insect motor neurone

    Donglin Bai;Sarah C. R. Lummis;Wolfgang Leicht;Heinz Breer

  • Insect ryanodine receptors: molecular targets for novel pest control chemicals

    David B. Sattelle;Daniel Cordova;Timothy R. Cheek

  • Caenorhabditis elegans levamisole resistance genes lev-1, unc-29, and unc-38 encode functional nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunits.

    John T. Fleming;John T. Fleming;Michael D. Squire;Michael D. Squire;Thomas M. Barnes;Camilla Tornoe

  • A role for Caenorhabditis elegans in understanding the function and interactions of human disease genes

    Emmanuel Culetto;David B. Sattelle

  • Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor signalling: roles in Alzheimer's disease and amyloid neuroprotection.

    Steven D. Buckingham;Andrew K. Jones;Laurence A. Brown;David B. Sattelle

  • Genome of the house fly, Musca domestica L., a global vector of diseases with adaptations to a septic environment

    Jeffrey G Scott;Wesley C Warren;Leo W Beukeboom;Daniel Bopp

  • Ion channels: molecular targets of neuroactive insecticides.

    Valérie Raymond-Delpech;Valérie Raymond-Delpech;Kazuhiko Matsuda;Benedict M. Sattelle;James J. Rauh

  • Insect GABA receptors: splicing, editing, and targeting by antiparasitics and insecticides.

    Steven David Buckingham;Philip Charles Biggin;Benedict Mark Sattelle;Laurence Andrew Brown

  • Neuromuscular defects in a Drosophila survival motor neuron gene mutant

    Yick Bun Chan;Irene Miguel-Aliaga;Chris Franks;Natasha Thomas

  • Neonicotinoids Show Selective and Diverse Actions on Their Nicotinic Receptor Targets: Electrophysiology, Molecular Biology, and Receptor Modeling Studies

    Kazuhiko Matsuda;Masaru Shimomura;Makoto Ihara;Miki Akamatsu

  • Molecular properties and functions of insect acetylcholine receptors

    Heinz Breer;David B. Sattelle

  • Molecular biology of insect neuronal GABA receptors

    Alastair Hosie;David Sattelle;Kate Aronstein;Richard ffrench-Constant

Frequent Co-Authors

Sarah C. R. Lummis
Sarah C. R. Lummis University of Cambridge
Kay E. Davies
Kay E. Davies University of Oxford
Neil S. Millar
Neil S. Millar University College London
Mark S.P. Sansom
Mark S.P. Sansom University of Oxford
Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen
Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen University of Copenhagen
Adrian J. Wolstenholme
Adrian J. Wolstenholme University of Georgia
Frank Hauser
Frank Hauser University of Copenhagen
Evgeny M. Zdobnov
Evgeny M. Zdobnov Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
Hugh M. Robertson
Hugh M. Robertson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David A. Lomas
David A. Lomas University College London

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