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Overview

Jörg Schultz is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Genetics.

Their scholarly output includes work across several specialized topics, including:

  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Photoreceptor and optogenetics research
  • Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation

Notable recent publications by Schultz include:

  • "Genomes of the Venus Flytrap and Close Relatives Unveil the Roots of Plant Carnivory," 2020, published in Current Biology
  • "The Venus flytrap trigger hair-specific potassium channel KDM1 can reestablish the K+ gradient required for hapto-electric signaling," 2020, published in PLoS Biology
  • "How to Grow a Tree: Plant Voltage-Dependent Cation Channels in the Spotlight of Evolution," 2020, published in Trends in Plant Science
  • "DYSCALCULIA, a Venus flytrap mutant without the ability to count action potentials," 2023, published in Current Biology
  • "Gaining or cutting SLAC: the evolution of plant guard cell signalling pathways," 2024, published in New Phytologist

Schultz frequently collaborates with a range of coauthors, including:

  • Dirk Becker
  • Rainer Hedrich
  • Ines Kreuzer
  • Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid
  • Anda Iosip

Their research appears multiple times in prominent publication venues such as Current Biology and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), alongside contributions in PLoS Biology, Trends in Plant Science, and New Phytologist.

Best Publications

  • Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome.

    Eric S. Lander;Lauren M. Linton;Bruce Birren;Chad Nusbaum

  • Initial sequencing and comparative analysis of the mouse genome.

    Robert H. Waterston;Kerstin Lindblad-Toh;Ewan Birney;Jane Rogers

  • Functional organization of the yeast proteome by systematic analysis of protein complexes

    Anne-Claude Gavin;Markus Bösche;Roland Krause;Paola Grandi

  • SMART, a simple modular architecture research tool: Identification of signaling domains

    Jörg Schultz;Frank Milpetz;Peer Bork;Chris P. Ponting

  • SMART: a web-based tool for the study of genetically mobile domains

    Jörg Schultz;Richard R. Copley;Tobias Doerks;Chris P. Ponting

  • SMART 4.0: towards genomic data integration

    Ivica Letunic;Richard R. Copley;Steffen Schmidt;Francesca D. Ciccarelli

  • SMART 5: domains in the context of genomes and networks.

    Ivica Letunic;Richard R. Copley;Birgit Pils;Stefan Pinkert

  • Recent improvements to the SMART domain-based sequence annotation resource

    Ivica Letunic;Leo Goodstadt;Nicholas J. Dickens;Tobias Doerks

  • Systematic identification of novel protein domain families associated with nuclear functions.

    Tobias Doerks;Richard R. Copley;Jörg Schultz;Chris P. Ponting

  • 5.8S-28S rRNA interaction and HMM-based ITS2 annotation

    Alexander Keller;Tina Schleicher;Jörg Schultz;Tobias Müller

  • Analysis of the human protein interactome and comparison with yeast, worm and fly interaction datasets

    T K B Gandhi;Jun Zhong;Suresh Mathivanan;L Karthick

  • proovread : large-scale high-accuracy PacBio correction through iterative short read consensus

    Thomas Hackl;Rainer Hedrich;Jörg Schultz;Frank Förster

  • Genome expression analysis of Anopheles gambiae: Responses to injury, bacterial challenge, and malaria infection

    George Dimopoulos;George K. Christophides;Stephan Meister;Jörg Schultz

  • Eukaryotic signalling domain homologues in archaea and bacteria. Ancient ancestry and horizontal gene transfer.

    C.P. Ponting;L. Aravind;J. Schultz;P. Bork

  • SMART: identification and annotation of domains from signalling and extracellular protein sequences

    Chris P. Ponting;Jörg Schultz;Frank Milpetz;Peer Bork

  • 4SALE--a tool for synchronous RNA sequence and secondary structure alignment and editing.

    Philipp N Seibel;Tobias Müller;Thomas Dandekar;Jörg Schultz

  • A common core of secondary structure of the internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) throughout the Eukaryota.

    Jörg Schultz;Stefanie Maisel;Daniel Gerlach;Tobias Müller

  • SAM as a protein interaction domain involved in developmental regulation

    J Schultz;Chris Ponting;K Hofmann;P Bork;P Bork

  • The ITS2 Database III--sequences and structures for phylogeny

    Christian Koetschan;Frank Förster;Alexander Keller;Tina Schleicher

  • SPRY domains in ryanodine receptors (Ca2+ release channels)

    Chris Ponting;Jörg Schultz;Peer Bork

Frequent Co-Authors

Peer Bork
Peer Bork European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Chris P. Ponting
Chris P. Ponting University of Edinburgh
Thomas Dandekar
Thomas Dandekar University of Würzburg
Richard R. Copley
Richard R. Copley Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics
Rainer Hedrich
Rainer Hedrich University of Würzburg
Dirk Becker
Dirk Becker University of Würzburg
Anne-Claude Gavin
Anne-Claude Gavin University of Geneva
L. Aravind
L. Aravind National Institutes of Health
Ivica Letunic
Ivica Letunic European Bioinformatics Institute
Utz Fischer
Utz Fischer University of Würzburg

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