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Lakshminarayan M. Iyer 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 Lakshminarayan M. Iyer sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 137 publications — 24th percentile

24% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lakshminarayan M. Iyer 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 Lakshminarayan M. Iyer sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lakshminarayan M. Iyer is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology. Additional subfields of study include Endocrinology, Genetics, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Ecology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, CRISPR and genetic engineering, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Vibrio bacteria research, Escherichia coli research, bacterial genetics and biotechnology, and tuberculosis research and epidemiology.

Their frequent co-authors include L. Aravind, A. Maxwell Burroughs, K. Heran Darwin, Vivek Anantharaman, and Arunkumar Krishnan.

Publication venues where the scientist has repeatedly published include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Viruses, Nucleic Acids Research, eLife, and mBio.

  • Jumbo Phages: A Comparative Genomic Overview of Core Functions and Adaptions for Biological Conflicts (2021, Viruses)
  • Comprehensive classification of ABC ATPases and their functional radiation in nucleoprotein dynamics and biological conflict systems (2020, Nucleic Acids Research)
  • Highly regulated, diversifying NTP-dependent biological conflict systems with implications for the emergence of multicellularity (2020, eLife)
  • Bacterial death and TRADD-N domains help define novel apoptosis and immunity mechanisms shared by prokaryotes and metazoans (2021, eLife)
  • Discovering Biological Conflict Systems Through Genome Analysis: Evolutionary Principles and Biochemical Novelty (2022, Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science)

Best Publications

  • Conversion of 5-Methylcytosine to 5-Hydroxymethylcytosine in Mammalian DNA by MLL Partner TET1

    Mamta V. Tahiliani;Kian Peng Koh;Yinghua Shen;William Abraham Pastor

  • Complete genome sequence of the apicomplexan, Cryptosporidium parvum.

    Mitchell S. Abrahamsen;Thomas J. Templeton;Shinichiro Enomoto;Juan E. Abrahante

  • Evolutionary history and higher order classification of AAA+ ATPases.

    Lakshminarayan M Iyer;Detlef D Leipe;Eugene V Koonin;L Aravind

  • The many faces of the helix-turn-helix domain: Transcription regulation and beyond

    L. Aravind;Vivek Anantharaman;Santhanam Balaji;M. Mohan Babu

  • Evolutionary genomics of Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Large DNA Viruses

    Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;S. Balaji;Eugene V. Koonin;L. Aravind

  • Common Origin of Four Diverse Families of Large Eukaryotic DNA Viruses

    Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;L. Aravind;Eugene V. Koonin

  • Discovery of the principal specific transcription factors of Apicomplexa and their implication for the evolution of the AP2-integrase DNA binding domains

    S. Balaji;M. Madan Babu;Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;L. Aravind

  • Polymorphic toxin systems: comprehensive characterization of trafficking modes, processing, mechanisms of action, immunity and ecology using comparative genomics

    Dapeng Zhang;Robson Francisco de Souza;Robson Francisco de Souza;Vivek Anantharaman;Lakshminarayan M. Iyer

  • Prediction of novel families of enzymes involved in oxidative and other complex modifications of bases in nucleic acids

    Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;Mamta Tahiliani;Anjana Rao;L. Aravind

  • Plasmodium biology: genomic gleanings.

    L Aravind;Lakshminarayan M Iyer;Thomas E Wellems;Louis H Miller

  • Diversity and function of adaptive immune receptors in a jawless vertebrate.

    Matthew N. Alder;Igor B. Rogozin;Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;Galina V. Glazko

  • Evolutionary connection between the catalytic subunits of DNA-dependent RNA polymerases and eukaryotic RNA-dependent RNA polymerases and the origin of RNA polymerases

    Lakshminarayan M Iyer;Eugene V Koonin;L Aravind

  • Comparative genomics of the FtsK–HerA superfamily of pumping ATPases: implications for the origins of chromosome segregation, cell division and viral capsid packaging

    Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;Kira S. Makarova;Eugene V. Koonin;L. Aravind

  • Evolution and Diversification of Lamprey Antigen Receptors: Evidence for Involvement of an AID-APOBEC Family Cytosine Deaminase

    Igor B Rogozin;Lakshminarayan M Iyer;Lizhi Liang;Galina V Glazko

  • Comparative genomics of transcription factors and chromatin proteins in parasitic protists and other eukaryotes

    Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;Vivek Anantharaman;Maxim Y. Wolf;L. Aravind

  • Origin and evolution of the archaeo-eukaryotic primase superfamily and related palm-domain proteins: structural insights and new members

    Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;Eugene V. Koonin;Detlef D. Leipe;L. Aravind

  • Identification of the prokaryotic ligand-gated ion channels and their implications for the mechanisms and origins of animal Cys-loop ion channels.

    Asba Tasneem;Lakshminarayan M Iyer;Eric Jakobsson;L Aravind

  • Comprehensive analysis of combinatorial regulation using the transcriptional regulatory network of yeast.

    S. Balaji;M. Madan Babu;Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;Nicholas M. Luscombe

  • Discovery of Novel DENN Proteins: Implications for the Evolution of Eukaryotic Intracellular Membrane Structures and Human Disease

    Dapeng Zhang;Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;Fang He;L. Aravind

  • Evolution of cell–cell signaling in animals: did late horizontal gene transfer from bacteria have a role?

    Lakshminarayan M. Iyer;L. Aravind;Steven L. Coon;David C. Klein

Frequent Co-Authors

L. Aravind
L. Aravind National Institutes of Health
Vivek Anantharaman
Vivek Anantharaman National Center for Biotechnology Information
Eugene V. Koonin
Eugene V. Koonin National Institutes of Health
M. Madan Babu
M. Madan Babu St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Thomas Boehm
Thomas Boehm Max Planck Society
Roy A. Mariuzza
Roy A. Mariuzza University of Maryland, College Park
Anjana Rao
Anjana Rao La Jolla Institute For Allergy & Immunology
Igor B. Rogozin
Igor B. Rogozin National Institutes of Health
Timothy C. Hall
Timothy C. Hall Texas A&M University
Vinay Tergaonkar
Vinay Tergaonkar Agency for Science, Technology and Research

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