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D-Index
105
Citations
46081
World Ranking
1185
National Ranking
705

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1989 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1988 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1977 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

George N. Somero is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with notable subfields in ecology, molecular biology, global and planetary change, oceanography, and ocean engineering.

Their work covers a variety of main topics, including physiological and biochemical adaptations, marine bivalve and aquaculture studies, ocean acidification effects and responses, RNA research and splicing, marine biology and environmental chemistry, RNA modifications and cancer, and aquatic invertebrate ecology and behavior.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with George N. Somero include Nicole E. Moyen, Mark W. Denny, Yun-Wei Dong, Ming-Ling Liao, and Paul Bump.

The most common venues for their publications include the Journal of Experimental Biology, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, and Marine Life Science & Technology.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by George N. Somero are:

  • The cellular stress response and temperature: Function, regulation, and evolution (2020, Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology)
  • Solutions: how adaptive changes in cellular fluids enable marine life to cope with abiotic stressors (2022, Marine Life Science & Technology)

Additional related publications where George N. Somero appears as an author or collaborator include:

  • An integrated, multi-level analysis of thermal effects on intertidal molluscs for understanding species distribution patterns (2021, Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society)
  • A single heat-stress bout induces rapid and prolonged heat acclimation in the California mussel, Mytilus californianus (2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • Mussels' acclimatization to high, variable temperatures is lost slowly upon transfer to benign conditions (2020, Journal of Experimental Biology)

George N. Somero has received several distinctions, including being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1989, election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, and Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1977.

Best Publications

  • Biochemical Adaptation: Mechanism and Process in Physiological Evolution

    Peter W. Hochachka;George N. Somero

  • Living with water stress: evolution of osmolyte systems

    PH Yancey;ME Clark;SC Hand;RD Bowlus

  • The physiology of climate change: how potentials for acclimatization and genetic adaptation will determine 'winners' and 'losers'.

    G. N. Somero

  • Strategies of biochemical adaptation

    Peter W. Hochachka;George N. Somero

  • Thermal Physiology and Vertical Zonation of Intertidal Animals: Optima, Limits, and Costs of Living

    George N. Somero

  • Proteins and Temperature

    George N. Somero

  • Hypoxia-induced gene expression profiling in the euryoxic fish Gillichthys mirabilis.

    Andrew Y. Gracey;Joshua V. Troll;George N. Somero

  • Evolutionary and acclimation-induced variation in the heat-shock responses of congeneric marine snails (genus Tegula) from different thermal habitats: implications for limits of thermotolerance and biogeography

    Lars Tomanek;George N. Somero

  • Linking biogeography to physiology: Evolutionary and acclimatory adjustments of thermal limits

    George N Somero

  • A comparative analysis of the upper thermal tolerance limits of eastern Pacific porcelain crabs, genus Petrolisthes: influences of latitude, vertical zonation, acclimation, and phylogeny.

    Jonathon H. Stillman;George N. Somero

  • Evidence for protein damage at environmental temperatures: seasonal changes in levels of ubiquitin conjugates and hsp70 in the intertidal mussel Mytilus trossulus

    Gretchen E. Hofmann;George N. Somero

  • Protons, osmolytes, and fitness of internal milieu for protein function.

    G. N. Somero

  • Hot spots in cold adaptation: Localized increases in conformational flexibility in lactate dehydrogenase A4 orthologs of Antarctic notothenioid fishes

    Peter A. Fields;George N. Somero

  • The Physiology of Global Change: Linking Patterns to Mechanisms

    George N. Somero

  • Changes in gene expression associated with acclimation to constant temperatures and fluctuating daily temperatures in an annual killifish Austrofundulus limnaeus.

    Jason E. Podrabsky;George N. Somero

  • Counteraction of urea destabilization of protein structure by methylamine osmoregulatory compounds of elasmobranch fishes.

    Paul H. Yancey;George N. Somero

  • Calvin-Benson cycle and sulphide oxidation enzymes in animals from sulphide-rich habitats

    Horst Felbeck;James J. Childress;George N. Somero

  • Temperature Tolerance of Some Antarctic Fishes

    George N. Somero;Arthur L. DeVries

  • Adaptation of enzymes to temperature: searching for basic "strategies".

    George N. Somero

  • Adaptations to high hydrostatic pressure.

    George N. Somero

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip S. Low
Philip S. Low Purdue University West Lafayette
James J. Childress
James J. Childress University of California, Santa Barbara
Yunwei Dong
Yunwei Dong Ocean University of China
Gretchen E. Hofmann
Gretchen E. Hofmann University of California, Santa Barbara
Horst Felbeck
Horst Felbeck University of California, San Diego
Mark W. Denny
Mark W. Denny Stanford University
Peter W. Hochachka
Peter W. Hochachka University of British Columbia
Allen G. Gibbs
Allen G. Gibbs University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Dietmar Kültz
Dietmar Kültz University of California, Davis
Stephen A. Macko
Stephen A. Macko University of Virginia

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