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Peter L. Bergquist

Peter L. Bergquist

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
56
Citations
9337
World Ranking
3522
National Ranking
4

Molecular Biology

D-Index
56
Citations
9337
World Ranking
2222
National Ranking
1

Peter L. Bergquist publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter L. Bergquist sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 219 publications — 64th percentile

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

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Peter L. Bergquist D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Peter L. Bergquist sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 56 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1974 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Peter L. Bergquist was affiliated with the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Their research focused primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

The scientist contributed to several subfields of study, including Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology, Infectious Diseases, and Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their work covered a range of related topics such as enzyme production and characterization, biofuel production and bioconversion, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, microbial metabolic engineering and bioproduction, biochemical and molecular research, biosensors and analytical detection, as well as advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques.

Their recent publications included:

  • Cell-Free Biocatalysis for the Production of Platform Chemicals, 2020, Frontiers in Energy Research
  • Smartphone technology facilitates point-of-care nucleic acid diagnosis: a beginner's guide, 2020, Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences
  • Targeting mixtures of jarosite and clay minerals for Mars exploration, 2020, American Mineralogist
  • Enzymology of Alternative Carbohydrate Catabolic Pathways, 2020, Catalysts
  • Universal Enzyme-Based Field Workflow for Rapid and Sensitive Quantification of Water Pathogens, 2021, Microorganisms

The scientist frequently published in venues such as Frontiers in Energy Research, Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, American Mineralogist, Catalysts, and Microorganisms.

Coauthors who collaborated regularly with them included:

  • Anwar Sunna
  • Sana Siddiqui
  • Vinoth Kumar Rajendran
  • Padmavathy Bakthavathsalam
  • Nancy W. Hinman

In recognition of their contributions, Peter L. Bergquist was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1974.

Best Publications

  • Identification and classification of bacterial plasmids.

    Martine Couturier;Françoise Bex;Peter P.L. Bergquist;Werner W.K. Maas

  • Extraction of nucleic acids from agarose gels

    J. Langridge;P. Langridge;P.L. Bergquist

  • Heterologous protein expression in filamentous fungi

    K.M. Helena Nevalainen;Valentino S.J. Te'o;Peter L. Bergquist;Peter L. Bergquist

  • Comparative morphology and molecular phylogenetic analysis of three new species of the genus karenia (Dinophyceae) from New Zealand

    Allison J. Haywood;Karen A. Steidinger;Earnest W. Truby;Patricia R. Bergquist

  • Description of Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus gen. nov., sp. nov: an obligately anaerobic, extremely thermophilic, cellulolytic bacterium

    F.A. Rainey;F.A. Rainey;A.M. Donnison;P.H. Janssen;David Saul

  • Codon optimization of xylanase gene xynB from the thermophilic bacterium Dictyoglomus thermophilum for expression in the filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei

    Valentino S.J. Te'o;Angela E. Cziferszky;Peter L. Bergquist;Peter L. Bergquist;K.M.Helena Nevalainen

  • Solid-binding peptides: smart tools for nanobiotechnology.

    Andrew Care;Peter L. Bergquist;Peter L. Bergquist;Anwar Sunna

  • Prospecting for novel lipase genes using PCR

    Philip J. L. Bell;Anwar Sunna;Moreland D. Gibbs;Natalie C. Curach

  • Occurrence and distribution of methylated purines in the ribonucleic acids of subcellular fractions.

    P. L. Bergquist;R. E. F. Matthews

  • Cloning, sequence analysis, and expression of genes encoding xylan-degrading enzymes from the thermophile "Caldocellum saccharolyticum".

    E Luthi;Donald Love;J McAnulty;C Wallace

  • A randomisation test of the null hypothesis that two cladograms are sample estimates of a parametric phylogenetic tree

    Allen G. Rodrigo;Michelle Kelly-Borges;Patricia R. Bergquist;Peter L. Bergquist

  • Cloning of the xynB Gene From Dictyoglomus Thermophilum Rt46B.1 and Action of the Gene Product on Kraft Pulp

    Daniel D. Morris;Daniel D. Morris;Moreland D. Gibbs;Charles W. J. Chin;Mei-Hsien Koh

  • celB, a gene coding for a bifunctional cellulase from the extreme thermophile "Caldocellum saccharolyticum".

    DJ Saul;Liam Williams;RA Grayling;Lawrence Chamley

  • Degenerate oligonucleotide gene shuffling (DOGS): a method for enhancing the frequency of recombination with family shuffling.

    Moreland D. Gibbs;K.M.Helena Nevalainen;Peter L. Bergquist;Peter L. Bergquist

  • Molecular diversity of thermophilic cellulolytic and hemicellulolytic bacteria

    Peter L Bergquist;Peter L Bergquist;Moreland D Gibbs;Daniel D Morris;V.S.Junior Te'o

  • Xylanase from the extremely thermophilic bacterium "Caldocellum saccharolyticum": overexpression of the gene in Escherichia coli and characterization of the gene product.

    E. Lüthi;Nila Bhana Jasmat;P. L. Bergquist

  • Degenerate oligonucleotide gene shuffling (DOGS) and random drift mutagenesis (RNDM): two complementary techniques for enzyme evolution.

    Peter L. Bergquist;Rosalind A. Reeves;Moreland D. Gibbs

  • A gene encoding a novel extremely thermostable 1,4-β-xylanase isolated directly from an environmental DNA sample

    Anwar Sunna;Peter L. Bergquist

  • Cloning, sequence analysis, and expression in Escherichia coli of a gene coding for a beta-mannanase from the extremely thermophilic bacterium "Caldocellum saccharolyticum".

    E. Luthi;Nila Bhana Jasmat;R. A. Grayling;D. R. Love

  • Proteins associated with the cell envelope of Trichoderma reesei: a proteomic approach.

    Dongbin Lim;Peter Hains;Bradley J Walsh;Peter L Bergquist;Peter L Bergquist

Frequent Co-Authors

Malcolm R. Walter
Malcolm R. Walter University of New South Wales
Hugh W. Morgan
Hugh W. Morgan University of Waikato
Donald R. Love
Donald R. Love Auckland City Hospital
Roy M. Daniel
Roy M. Daniel University of Waikato
Bruce C. Baguley
Bruce C. Baguley University of Auckland
Patrick M. Finnegan
Patrick M. Finnegan University of Western Australia
Mark S. Baker
Mark S. Baker Macquarie University
Ian T. Paulsen
Ian T. Paulsen Macquarie University
Peter D. Nichols
Peter D. Nichols Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Brett A. Neilan
Brett A. Neilan University of Newcastle Australia

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