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Donald L. Nuss publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald L. Nuss sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 105 publications — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Donald L. Nuss D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Donald L. Nuss sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Donald L. Nuss is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within medicine, with a particular focus on surgery, alongside interests in plant science, general health professions, endocrinology, and ophthalmology.

Their primary research topics include:

  • Pectus Deformity Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Traumatic Ocular and Foreign Body Injuries
  • Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity
  • Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues

Donald L. Nuss has contributed to various scholarly publications in notable venues such as:

  • Phytopathology
  • Annals of Surgery
  • PubMed
  • Journal of Chest Surgery
  • African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine

Frequent collaborators with whom Donald L. Nuss has co-authored include:

  • Robert J. Obermeyer
  • Michael J. Goretsky
  • Frazier W. Frantz
  • Duane S. Duke
  • Antarius Daniel

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Donald L. Nuss highlight their research interests and include the following:

  • Genome Sequence of the Chestnut Blight Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica EP155: A Fundamental Resource for an Archetypical Invasive Plant Pathogen (2020), Phytopathology
  • Recent Modifications of the Nuss Procedure (2020), Annals of Surgery
  • Recent Modifications of the Nuss Procedure: The Pursuit of Safety During the Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum. (2022), PubMed
  • Commentary: Technical Advancement of Pectus Bar Stabilization in Chest Wall Deformity Surgery: A 10-Year Trend and Appraisal with 1,500 Patients (2023), Journal of Chest Surgery
  • Challenging beliefs: A review of the paradigm shift in the treatment of pectus excavatum from radical resection to minimally invasive bracing and non-surgical vacuum bell suction (2020), African Journal of Thoracic and Critical Care Medicine

Best Publications

  • Hypovirulence: Mycoviruses at the fungal–plant interface

    Donald L. Nuss

  • Evidence that RNA silencing functions as an antiviral defense mechanism in fungi

    Gert C. Segers;Xuemin Zhang;Fuyou Deng;Qihong Sun

  • Biological control of chestnut blight: an example of virus-mediated attenuation of fungal pathogenesis.

    D L Nuss

  • Hypoviruses and Chestnut Blight: Exploiting Viruses to Understand and Modulate Fungal Pathogenesis

    Angus L. Dawe;Donald L. Nuss

  • Distinct roles for two G protein α subunits in fungal virulence, morphology, and reproduction revealed by targeted gene disruption

    Shaojian Gao;Donald L. Nuss

  • Evidence for common ancestry of a chestnut blight hypovirulence-associated double-stranded RNA and a group of positive-strand RNA plant viruses.

    Eugene V. Koonin;Gil H. Choi;Donald L. Nuss;Roni Shapira

  • Initial assessment of gene diversity for the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans based on expressed sequences.

    Sophien Kamoun;Peter Hraber;Bruno Sobral;Donald Nuss

  • Segment-specific inverted repeats found adjacent to conserved terminal sequences in wound tumor virus genome and defective interfering RNAs.

    John V. Anzola;Zhengkai Xu;Tetsuya Asamizu;Donald L. Nuss

  • Virus-mediated or transgenic suppression of a G-protein alpha subunit and attenuation of fungal virulence.

    Gil H. Choi;Baoshan Chen;Donald L. Nuss

  • Attenuation of fungal virulence by synthetic infectious mycovirus transcripts

    Baoshan Chen;Gil Ho Choi;Donald Lee Nuss

  • A single Argonaute gene is required for induction of RNA silencing antiviral defense and promotes viral RNA recombination

    Qihong Sun;Gil H. Choi;Donald L. Nuss

  • Hypovirulence-associated suppression of host functions in Cryphonectria parasitica can be partially relieved by high light intensity.

    B. I. Hillman;R. Shapira;D. L. Nuss

  • Infectious cDNA Clone of Hypovirus CHV1-Euro7: a Comparative Virology Approach To Investigate Virus-Mediated Hypovirulence of the Chestnut Blight Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica

    Baoshan Chen;Donald L. Nuss

  • Targeted Disruption of a Fungal G-Protein β Subunit Gene Results in Increased Vegetative Growth but Reduced Virulence

    Shin Kasahara;Donald L. Nuss

  • Mycoviruses, RNA Silencing, and Viral RNA Recombination

    Donald L. Nuss

  • Hypovirus papain-like protease p29 suppresses RNA silencing in the natural fungal host and in a heterologous plant system.

    Gerrit C. Segers;Rene van Wezel;Xuemei Zhang;Yiguo Hong

  • Molecular Characterization of Vegetative Incompatibility Genes that Restrict Hypovirus Transmission in the Chestnut Blight Fungus Cryphonectria parasitica

    Gil H. Choi;Angus L. Dawe;Alexander Churbanov;Myron L. Smith

  • Extensive alteration of fungal gene transcript accumulation and elevation of G-protein-regulated cAMP levels by a virulence-attenuating hypovirus

    Baoshan Chen;Shaojian Gao;Gil H. Choi;Donald L. Nuss

  • Use of cDNA microarrays to monitor transcriptional responses of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica to infection by virulence-attenuating hypoviruses.

    Todd D. Allen;Angus L. Dawe;Donald L. Nuss

  • Characterization of hypovirus-derived small RNAs generated in the chestnut blight fungus by an inducible DCL-2-dependent pathway.

    Xuemin Zhang;Gert C. Segers;Qihong Sun;Fuyou Deng

Frequent Co-Authors

Nobuhiro Suzuki
Nobuhiro Suzuki Okayama University
Bradley I. Hillman
Bradley I. Hillman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michael G. Milgroom
Michael G. Milgroom Cornell University
Francine Govers
Francine Govers Wageningen University & Research
Kerrie Barry
Kerrie Barry United States Department of Energy
Jane Grimwood
Jane Grimwood HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
James C. Carrington
James C. Carrington Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun University of East Anglia

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