2026 Donald L. Court: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	75	1872	1780	857	806	194	30886

Research.com Recognitions

2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Donald L. Court is a researcher affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Ecology as subfields.

The main topics of their research include:

Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry
Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Escherichia coli research studies

Their recent published papers include:

Recombineering: Genetic Engineering in Escherichia coli Using Homologous Recombination, 2023, Current Protocols
λ Recombineering Used to Engineer the Genome of Phage T7, 2020, Antibiotics
Recombineering in Non-Model Bacteria, 2022, Current Protocols
Bacteriophage λ RexA and RexB functions assist the transition from lysogeny to lytic growth, 2021, Molecular Microbiology
Homologs of the Escherichia coli F Element Protein TraR, Including Phage Lambda Orf73, Directly Reprogram Host Transcription, 2022, mBio

Frequent coauthors working alongside Donald L. Court have included:

Lynn C. Thomason
Nina Costantino
Xintian Li
Myfanwy C. Adams
Carl J. Schiltz

Their publications have often appeared in venues such as:

Current Protocols
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
mBio
Antibiotics
Nucleic Acids Research

Donald L. Court was recognized with the distinction of Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

Regulatory Sequences Involved in the Promotion and Termination of RNA Transcription

Martin Rosenberg;Donald Court

3711
Citations
Ingestion of bacterially expressed dsRNAs can produce specific and potent genetic interference in Caenorhabditis elegans

Lisa Timmons;Donald L. Court;Andrew Fire

2694
Citations
An efficient recombination system for chromosome engineering in Escherichia coli

Daiguan Yu;Hilary M. Ellis;E-Chiang Lee;Nancy A. Jenkins

2141
Citations
Simple and highly efficient BAC recombineering using galK selection

Søren Warming;Nina Costantino;Donald L. Court;Nancy A. Jenkins

1879
Citations
A highly efficient Escherichia coli-based chromosome engineering system adapted for recombinogenic targeting and subcloning of BAC DNA.

E-Chiang Lee;Daiguan Yu;J. Martinez de Velasco;Lino Tessarollo

1872
Citations
Recombineering: a powerful new tool for mouse functional genomics

Neal G. Copeland;Nancy A. Jenkins;Donald L. Court

1100
Citations
Recombineering: a homologous recombination-based method of genetic engineering

Shyam K Sharan;Lynn C Thomason;Sergey G Kuznetsov;Donald L Court

972
Citations
High efficiency mutagenesis, repair, and engineering of chromosomal DNA using single-stranded oligonucleotides

Hilary M. Ellis;Daiguan Yu;Tina DiTizio;Donald L. Court

839
Citations
E. coli genome manipulation by P1 transduction.

Lynn C. Thomason;Nina Costantino;Donald L. Court

760
Citations
Genetic engineering using homologous recombination.

Donald L. Court;James A. Sawitzke;Lynn C. Thomason

692
Citations
A set of recombineering plasmids for gram-negative bacteria

Simanti Datta;Nina Costantino;Donald L. Court

616
Citations
Switches in bacteriophage lambda development.

Amos B. Oppenheim;Oren Kobiler;Joel Stavans;Donald L. Court

607
Citations
Enhanced levels of λ Red-mediated recombinants in mismatch repair mutants

Nina Costantino;Donald L. Court

444
Citations
Recombineering: Genetic Engineering in Bacteria Using Homologous Recombination

Lynn Thomason;Donald L. Court;Mikail Bubunenko;Nina Costantino

398
Citations
Novel proteins of the phosphotransferase system encoded within the rpoN operon of Escherichia coli: Enzyme IIANtr affects growth on organic nitrogen and the conditional lethality of an erats mutant

Bradford S. Powell;Donald L. Court;Toshifumi Inada;Yoshikazu Nakamura

311
Citations
Isolation and characterization of conditional lethal mutants of Escherichia coli defective in transcription termination factor rho.

A Das;D Court;S Adhya

296
Citations
Autoregulation of RNase III operon by mRNA processing.

J. C. A. Bardwell;P. Regnier;Su-Min Chen;Y. Nakamura

269
Citations
Recombineering: in vivo genetic engineering in E. coli, S. enterica, and beyond

James A Sawitzke;Lynn C Thomason;Nina Costantino;Mikhail Bubunenko

268
Citations
Transcription antitermination: the λ paradigm updated

David I. Friedman;Donald L. Court

236
Citations
High efficiency mutagenesis, repair, and engineering of chromosomal DNA using single-stranded

M. Ellis;Daiguan Yu;Tina DiTizio;Donald L. Court

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Amos B. Oppenheim Hebrew University of Jerusalem

David I. Friedman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Xinhua Ji National Institutes of Health

Max E. Gottesman Columbia University Medical Center

Sankar Adhya National Institutes of Health

Nancy A. Jenkins The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Neal G. Copeland The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Mikhail Kashlev National Institutes of Health

Yoshikazu Nakamura University of Tokyo

David S. Waugh National Institutes of Health

External Links

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