2026 Gustavo Caetano-Anollés: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	61	3038	2877	1326	1245	243	18100

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés 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 Gustavo Caetano-Anollés sits on this spectrum.

45 publications 703+

This scientist: 243 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés 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 Gustavo Caetano-Anollés sits on this spectrum.

40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with 61 publications in these domains. Their work spans several subfields, including molecular biology, infectious diseases, ecology, plant science, and genetics.

The scientist's research topics cover a diverse range of areas including genomics and phylogenetic studies, protein structure and dynamics, SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, plant virus research, and evolution and genetic dynamics.

Recent significant publications by Gustavo Caetano-Anollés include the following:

New Pathways of Mutational Change in SARS-CoV-2 Proteomes Involve Regions of Intrinsic Disorder Important for Virus Replication and Release (2020), published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Temperature and Latitude Correlate with SARS-CoV-2 Epidemiological Variables but not with Genomic Change Worldwide (2021), published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics
Evolution of networks of protein domain organization (2021), published in Scientific Reports
The origin and evolution of viruses inferred from fold family structure (2020), published in Archives of Virology
Tracing protein and proteome history with chronologies and networks: folding recapitulates evolution (2021), published in Expert Review of Proteomics

Their frequent coauthors include:

Fizza Mughal
M. Fayez Aziz
Kelsey Caetano-Anollés
Arshan Nasir
Tre Tomaszewski

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés has published regularly in journals such as Life, BioEssays, Preprints.org, Evolutionary Bioinformatics, and Frontiers in Microbiology, contributing multiple articles to each venue.

Best Publications

Fast and sensitive silver staining of DNA in polyacrylamide gels

Brant J. Bassam;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Peter M. Gresshoff

4271
Citations
DNA amplification fingerprinting using very short arbitrary oligonucleotide primers.

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Brant J. Bassam;Peter M. Gresshoff

1277
Citations
Plant Genetic Control of Nodulation

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Peter M. Gresshoff

627
Citations
DNA markers : protocols, applications, and overviews

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Peter M. Gresshoff

397
Citations
Amplifying DNA with arbitrary oligonucleotide primers.

Gustavo Caetano-Anolles

382
Citations
History of biological metal utilization inferred through phylogenomic analysis of protein structures.

Christopher L. Dupont;Andrew Butcher;Ruben E. Valas;Philip E. Bourne

334
Citations
Chemotaxis of Rhizobium meliloti to the plant flavone luteolin requires functional nodulation genes.

G Caetano-Anollés;D K Crist-Estes;W D Bauer

289
Citations
The origin, evolution and structure of the protein world

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Minglei Wang;Derek Caetano-Anollés;Jay E. Mittenthal

240
Citations
DNA amplification fingerprinting: A strategy for genome analysis

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Brant J. Bassam;Peter M. Gresshoff

229
Citations
Silver staining of DNA in polyacrylamide gels

Brant J. Bassam;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

228
Citations
A phylogenomic data-driven exploration of viral origins and evolution

Arshan Nasir;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

218
Citations
Primer-template interactions during DNA amplification fingerprinting with single arbitrary oligonucleotides.

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Brant J. Bassam;Peter M. Gresshoff

211
Citations
An Evolutionarily Structured Universe of Protein Architecture

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Derek Caetano-Anollés

199
Citations
The origin of modern metabolic networks inferred from phylogenomic analysis of protein architecture

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Hee Shin Kim;Jay E. Mittenthal

197
Citations
DNA amplification fingerprinting of bacteria.

Brant J. Bassam;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Peter M. Gresshoff

179
Citations
The evolutionary mechanics of domain organization in proteomes and the rise of modularity in the protein world.

Minglei Wang;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

173
Citations
Reductive evolution of architectural repertoires in proteomes and the birth of the tripartite world

Minglei Wang;Liudmila S. Yafremava;Derek Caetano-Anollés;Jay E. Mittenthal

172
Citations
Ribosomal History Reveals Origins of Modern Protein Synthesis

Ajith Harish;Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

171
Citations
The origin and evolution of modern metabolism.

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés;Liudmila S. Yafremava;Hannah Gee;Derek Caetano-Anollés

171
Citations
Tracing the evolution of RNA structure in ribosomes

Gustavo Caetano-Anollés

162
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Gresshoff University of Queensland

Pierre Pontarotti Aix-Marseille University

Didier Raoult Aix-Marseille University

Jean-Marc Rolain Aix-Marseille University

Bernard La Scola Aix-Marseille University

Philippe Colson Aix-Marseille University

Charles G. Kurland Lund University

Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti Universidade Federal de Viçosa

Patrick Forterre University of Paris-Saclay

Sandra L. Rodriguez-Zas University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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