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Overview

Steven L. Kelly is affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology and Plant Science.

The scientist has contributed significantly to several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, and Biochemistry. Their main research topics encompass a range of areas: Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Protist diversity and phylogeny, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism.

Steven L. Kelly has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • David Emms (19 joint publications)
  • Jane A. Langdale (9 joint publications)
  • Jacques W. Bouvier (8 joint publications)
  • Julian M. Hibberd (6 joint publications)
  • Elizabeth H J Robbins (5 joint publications)

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on plant biology and gene function with notable publications such as:

  • "Installation of C4 photosynthetic pathway enzymes in rice using a single construct," 2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • "SHOOT: phylogenetic gene search and ortholog inference," 2022, Genome Biology
  • "The Quest for Orthologs benchmark service and consensus calls in 2020," 2020, Nucleic Acids Research
  • "Multiple Metabolic Innovations and Losses Are Associated with Major Transitions in Land Plant Evolution," 2020, Current Biology
  • "Rubisco Adaptation Is More Limited by Phylogenetic Constraint Than by Catalytic Trade-off," 2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution

Steven L. Kelly has been published extensively in high-impact venues including bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 17 publications, Biology Open with 4 publications, Plant Biotechnology Journal with 3 publications, Current Biology with 3 publications, and Scientific Reports with 3 publications.

Best Publications

  • Functional profiling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome.

    Guri Giaever;Angela M. Chu;Li Ni;Carla Connelly

  • OrthoFinder: phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics

    David M. Emms;Steven Kelly

  • OrthoFinder: solving fundamental biases in whole genome comparisons dramatically improves orthogroup inference accuracy

    David M. Emms;Steven Kelly

  • TransRate: reference-free quality assessment of de novo transcriptome assemblies

    Richard Smith-Unna;Chris Boursnell;Rob Patro;Julian M. Hibberd

  • Itraconazole resistance in Aspergillus fumigatus.

    David W. Denning;K. Venkateswarlu;Karen L. Oakley;M. J. Anderson

  • Molecular basis of resistance to azole antifungals

    Antonella Lupetti;Romano Danesi;Mario Campa;Mario Del Tacca

  • Resistance to fluconazole and cross-resistance to amphotericin B in Candida albicans from AIDS patients caused by defective sterol Δ5,6-desaturation

    S.L Kelly;D.C Lamb;D.E Kelly;N.J Manning

  • Multiple Molecular Mechanisms Contribute to a Stepwise Development of Fluconazole Resistance in Clinical Candida albicans Strains

    Renate Franz;Steven L. Kelly;David C. Lamb;Diane E. Kelly

  • Mode of action and resistance to azole antifungals associated with the formation of 14 alpha-methylergosta-8,24(28)-dien-3 beta,6 alpha-diol.

    S.L. Kelly;D.C. Lamb;A.J. Corran;B.C. Baldwin

  • Exon Skipping Is Correlated with Exon Circularization.

    Steven Kelly;Christopher Greenman;Peter R. Cook;Argyris Papantonis;Argyris Papantonis

  • Azole fungicides - understanding resistance mechanisms in agricultural fungal pathogens.

    Claire L Price;Josie E Parker;Andrew G S Warrilow;Diane E Kelly

  • The Mutation T315A in Candida albicans Sterol 14α-Demethylase Causes Reduced Enzyme Activity and Fluconazole Resistance through Reduced Affinity

    David C. Lamb;Diane E. Kelly;Wolf-Hagen Schunck;Akbar Z. Shyadehi

  • STAG: Species Tree Inference from All Genes

    Emms D;Kelly S

  • STRIDE: Species Tree Root Inference from Gene Duplication Events.

    David M Emms;Steven Kelly

  • Microbial cytochromes P450: biodiversity and biotechnology. Where do cytochromes P450 come from, what do they do and what can they do for us?

    Steven L. Kelly;Diane E. Kelly

  • Functional genomics in Trypanosoma brucei: a collection of vectors for the expression of tagged proteins from endogenous and ectopic gene loci.

    Steven Kelly;Jenny Reed;Susanne Kramer;Louise Ellis

  • Defective sterol C5-6 desaturation and azole resistance: a new hypothesis for the mode of action of azole antifungals.

    P.F. Watson;M.E. Rose;S.W. Ellis;H. England

  • The First Virally Encoded Cytochrome P450

    David C. Lamb;Li Lei;Andrew G. S. Warrilow;Galina I. Lepesheva

  • Molecular analysis of cyp51 from fluconazole-resistant Candida albicans strains

    Jürgen Löffler;Steven L Kelly;Holger Hebart;Ulrike Schumacher

  • The Mechanism of the Acyl-Carbon Bond Cleavage Reaction Catalyzed by Recombinant Sterol 14α-Demethylase of Candida albicans (Other Names Are: Lanosterol 14α-Demethylase, P-45014DM, and CYP51)

    Akbar Z. Shyadehi;David C. Lamb;Steven L. Kelly;Diane E. Kelly

Frequent Co-Authors

Diane E. Kelly
Diane E. Kelly Swansea University
Mark C. Field
Mark C. Field University of Dundee
Bart A. Fraaije
Bart A. Fraaije Wageningen University & Research
Jane A. Langdale
Jane A. Langdale University of Oxford
Keith Gull
Keith Gull University of Oxford
Julius Lukeš
Julius Lukeš Czech Academy of Sciences
W. David Nes
W. David Nes Texas Tech University
Julian M. Hibberd
Julian M. Hibberd University of Cambridge
Liam Dolan
Liam Dolan Austrian Academy of Sciences
Michael R. Waterman
Michael R. Waterman Vanderbilt University

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