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Frederick R. Cross 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 Frederick R. Cross sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 151 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Frederick R. Cross 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 Frederick R. Cross sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 70 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Frederick R. Cross is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the broad field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a detailed concentration in Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. Additional subfields include Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist has contributed to multiple main topics of research, including:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • ATP Synthase and ATPases Research
  • Protist diversity and phylogeny
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis

Frederick R. Cross has published a number of papers in notable journals. Key recent papers include:

  • Regulation of Multiple Fission and Cell-Cycle-Dependent Gene Expression by CDKA1 and the Rb-E2F Pathway in Chlamydomonas, 2020, Current Biology
  • Systematic identification and characterization of genes in the regulation and biogenesis of photosynthetic machinery, 2023, Cell
  • Cleavage-furrow formation without F-actin in Chlamydomonas, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A Single Light-Responsive Sizer Can Control Multiple-Fission Cycles in Chlamydomonas, 2020, Current Biology
  • Control of pre-replicative complex during the division cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, 2021, PLoS Genetics

Frederick R. Cross frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Kresti Pecani
  • Masayuki Onishi
  • Moshe Kafri
  • Weronika Patena
  • Lance Martin

Their research has been published mainly in journals such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • PLoS Genetics
  • Cell
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

  • Accurate quantitation of protein expression and site-specific phosphorylation

    Y. Oda;K. Huang;F. R. Cross;D. Cowburn

  • Human cyclin E, a new cyclin that interacts with two members of the CDC2 gene family.

    Andrew Koff;Fred Cross;Alfred L Fisher;Jill Schumacher

  • Integrative Analysis of Cell Cycle Control in Budding Yeast

    Katherine C. Chen;Laurence Calzone;Attila Csikasz-Nagy;Frederick R. Cross

  • Multiple levels of cyclin specificity in cell-cycle control.

    Joanna Bloom;Frederick R. Cross

  • An essential G1 function for cyclin-like proteins in yeast

    Helena E. Richardson;Curt Wittenberg;Fred Cross;Steven I. Reed

  • DAF1, a mutant gene affecting size control, pheromone arrest, and cell cycle kinetics of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    F R Cross

  • A short sequence in the p60src N terminus is required for p60src myristylation and membrane association and for cell transformation.

    F R Cross;E A Garber;D Pellman;H Hanafusa

  • The effects of molecular noise and size control on variability in the budding yeast cell cycle

    Stefano Di Talia;Jan M. Skotheim;James M. Bean;James M. Bean;Eric D. Siggia

  • A potential positive feedback loop controlling CLN1 and CLN2 gene expression at the start of the yeast cell cycle

    Frederick R. Cross;Arthur H. Tinkelenberg

  • Positive feedback of G1 cyclins ensures coherent cell cycle entry

    Jan M. Skotheim;Stefano Di Talia;Eric D. Siggia;Frederick R. Cross

  • Testing a Mathematical Model of the Yeast Cell Cycle

    Frederick R. Cross;Vincent Archambault;Mary Miller;Martha Klovstad

  • APC-dependent proteolysis of the mitotic cyclin Clb2 is essential for mitotic exit

    Ralph Wäsch;Frederick R. Cross

  • KNL1/Spc105 recruits PP1 to silence the spindle assembly checkpoint.

    Jessica S. Rosenberg;Frederick R. Cross;Hironori Funabiki

  • Conjugation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

    Fred Cross;Leland H. Hartwell;Catherine Jackson;James B. Konopka

  • SIMPLE AND COMPLEX CELL CYCLES

    Fred Cross;James Roberts;Harold Weintraub

  • An N-terminal peptide from p60src can direct myristylation and plasma membrane localization when fused to heterologous proteins

    David Pellman;David Pellman;Ellen A. Garber;Frederick R. Cross;Hidesaburo Hanafusa

  • Rous sarcoma virus variants that carry the cellular src gene instead of the viral src gene cannot transform chicken embryo fibroblasts

    Hideo Iba;Tatsuo Takeya;Frederick R. Cross;Teruko Hanafusa

  • CLB5-Dependent Activation of Late Replication Origins in S. cerevisiae

    Anne D Donaldson;M.K Raghuraman;Katherine L Friedman;Frederick R Cross

  • The Chlamydomonas cell cycle

    Frederick R. Cross;James G. Umen

  • Low level of cellular protein phosphorylation by nontransforming overproduced p60c-src.

    H Iba;F R Cross;E A Garber;H Hanafusa

Frequent Co-Authors

Hidesaburo Hanafusa
Hidesaburo Hanafusa Osaka Bioscience Institute
James M. Roberts
James M. Roberts Lumen Bioscience
John D. McKinney
John D. McKinney École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Brian T. Chait
Brian T. Chait Rockefeller University
John J. Tyson
John J. Tyson Virginia Tech
David Pellman
David Pellman Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Bela Novak
Bela Novak University of Oxford
John R. Pringle
John R. Pringle Stanford University
Michael P. Rout
Michael P. Rout Rockefeller University
William J. Lennarz
William J. Lennarz Stony Brook University

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