What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Genetics, Gene, Genome, Gene duplication and Chloroplast DNA.
His study in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Paleopolyploidy, Phylogenetic tree, Gene family and Molecular evolution falls within the category of Genetics.
His Molecular evolution research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Nonsynonymous substitution and Mutation rate.
His research on Genome often connects related topics like Gene rearrangement.
He has included themes like Evolutionary biology, Genome evolution, 2R hypothesis and Polyploid in his Gene duplication study.
Kenneth H. Wolfe has researched Chloroplast DNA in several fields, including Inverted repeat and Nuclear gene.
His most cited work include:
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome. (18816 citations)
- Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs. (1678 citations)
- Molecular evidence for an ancient duplication of the entire yeast genome (1526 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Kenneth H. Wolfe mainly focuses on Genetics, Gene, Genome, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Gene duplication.
His Genetics study frequently intersects with other fields, such as Evolutionary biology.
Much of his study explores Gene relationship to DNA.
His work in Genome tackles topics such as Phylogenetics which are related to areas like Phylogenetic tree.
His work deals with themes such as 2R hypothesis, Subfunctionalization and Paleopolyploidy, which intersect with Gene duplication.
His studies deal with areas such as Ploidy and Computational biology as well as Yeast.
He most often published in these fields:
- Genetics (80.68%)
- Gene (60.39%)
- Genome (45.89%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?
- Genetics (80.68%)
- Yeast (13.53%)
- Gene (60.39%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Kenneth H. Wolfe mostly deals with Genetics, Yeast, Gene, Genome and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
His study involves Centromere, Clade and Nucleic acid sequence, a branch of Genetics.
His Yeast study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Botany, Strain, Mutant, Whole genome sequencing and Ploidy.
His research in Gene intersects with topics in Metabolite, Xenobiotic and Drug metabolism.
His research integrates issues of Species complex, Locus, Ribosomal DNA, Computational biology and DNA sequencing in his study of Genome.
His study on Mating of yeast and Saccharomyces is often connected to Retrotransposon as part of broader study in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- Population genomics shows no distinction between pathogenic Candida krusei and environmental Pichia kudriavzevii : One species, four names (49 citations)
- Evolutionary instability of CUG-Leu in the genetic code of budding yeasts. (32 citations)
- Ploidy Variation in Kluyveromyces marxianus Separates Dairy and Non-dairy Isolates (26 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
His primary areas of investigation include Genetics, Gene, Yeast, Locus and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Kenneth H. Wolfe regularly links together related areas like Population genetics in his Genetics studies.
Gene is closely attributed to Natural selection in his research.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Nucleic acid sequence, Biosynthesis, Candida albicans, Phylogenetics and DNA sequencing.
His work in Locus addresses subjects such as Ploidy, which are connected to disciplines such as Heterothallic, Mating type, Homothallism, Evolutionary biology and Hybrid.
His Genome research integrates issues from Metschnikowia, Subclade and Mitochondrial DNA.
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