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98
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1662
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Medicine

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William J. Murphy publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William J. Murphy sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 334 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

William J. Murphy D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where William J. Murphy sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 98 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Overview

William J. Murphy is affiliated with Texas A&M University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a specific emphasis on genetics and molecular biology as subfields.

The scientist's recent work covers a range of topics, including genomics and phylogenetic studies, genetic diversity and population structure, and chromosomal and genetic variations. Additional areas of interest include wildlife ecology and conservation, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, and genomics and chromatin dynamics.

William J. Murphy has contributed to several publications in prominent scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Heredity

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals," 2023, Science
  • "A new domestic cat genome assembly based on long sequence reads empowers feline genomic medicine and identifies a novel gene for dwarfism," 2020, PLoS Genetics
  • "Integrating gene annotation with orthology inference at scale," 2023, Science
  • "A genomic timescale for placental mammal evolution," 2023, Science
  • "Insights into mammalian TE diversity through the curation of 248 genome assemblies," 2023, Science

William J. Murphy frequently collaborates with several co-authors, notably:

  • Nicole M. Foley
  • Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
  • Kevin R. Bredemeyer
  • Elinor K. Karlsson
  • Andrew J. Harris

Best Publications

  • Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics

    William J. Murphy;Eduardo Eizirik;Eduardo Eizirik;Stephen J. O'Brien;Ole Madsen

  • Molecular phylogenetics and the origins of placental mammals

    William J. Murphy;Eduardo Eizirik;Eduardo Eizirik;Warren E. Johnson;Ya Ping Zhang

  • Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

    Robert W. Meredith;Jan E. Janečka;John Gatesy;Oliver A. Ryder

  • A molecular phylogeny for bats illuminates biogeography and the fossil record.

    Emma C. Teeling;Emma C. Teeling;Mark S. Springer;Ole Madsen;Paul Bates

  • Placental mammal diversification and the Cretaceous–Tertiary boundary

    Mark S. Springer;William J. Murphy;Eduardo Eizirik;Stephen J. O'Brien

  • The late Miocene radiation of modern Felidae: a genetic assessment.

    Warren E. Johnson;Eduardo Eizirik;Eduardo Eizirik;Eduardo Eizirik;Jill Pecon-Slattery;Jill Pecon-Slattery;Jill Pecon-Slattery;William J. Murphy;William J. Murphy;William J. Murphy

  • Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Basic Fibroblast Growth Factor Induce Expression of CXCR4 on Human Endothelial Cells: In Vivo Neovascularization Induced by Stromal-Derived Factor-1α

    Rosalba Salcedo;Ken Wasserman;Howard A. Young;Michael C. Grimm

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution inferred from multispecies comparative maps

    William J. Murphy;Denis M. Larkin;Annelie Everts-Van Der Wind;Guillaume Bourque

  • The Promise of Comparative Genomics in Mammals

    Stephen J. O'Brien;Marilyn Menotti-Raymond;William J. Murphy;William G. Nash

  • Structure of the 5' ends of immunoglobulin genes: a novel conserved sequence

    Tristram G. Parslow;Debra L. Blair;William J. Murphy;Daryl K. Granner

  • Using genomic data to unravel the root of the placental mammal phylogeny

    William J. Murphy;Thomas H. Pringle;Tess A. Crider;Mark S. Springer

  • Macroevolutionary dynamics and historical biogeography of primate diversification inferred from a species supermatrix

    Mark S. Springer;Robert W Meredith;Robert W Meredith;John Gatesy;Christopher A Emerling

  • Initial sequence and comparative analysis of the cat genome

    Joan U. Pontius;James C. Mullikin;Douglas R. Smith;Agencourt Sequencing Team

  • Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome reveals genetic signatures underlying feline biology and domestication

    Michael J. Montague;Gang Li;Barbara Gandolfi;Razib Khan

  • Molecular and Genomic Data Identify the Closest Living Relative of Primates

    Jan E. Janečka;Webb Miller;Thomas H. Pringle;Frank Wiens

  • Mammalian phylogenomics comes of age

    William J. Murphy;Pavel A. Pevzner;Stephen J. O'Brien

  • Genomics and conservation genetics

    Michael H. Kohn;William J. Murphy;Elaine A. Ostrander;Robert K. Wayne

  • 28-Way vertebrate alignment and conservation track in the UCSC Genome Browser

    Webb Miller;Kate Rosenbloom;Ross C. Hardison;Minmei Hou

  • Dynamics of Mammalian ChromosomeEvolutionInferredfrom Multispecies Comparative Maps

    William J. Murphy;Denis M. Larkin;Annelie Everts-van der Wind;Guillaume Bourque

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruce R. Blazar
Bruce R. Blazar University of Minnesota
Dan L. Longo
Dan L. Longo Harvard University
Stephen J. O'Brien
Stephen J. O'Brien Nova Southeastern University
Dennis D. Taub
Dennis D. Taub George Washington University
Robert H. Wiltrout
Robert H. Wiltrout National Institutes of Health
Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari
Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari University of Minnesota
Jonathan S. Serody
Jonathan S. Serody University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Mark S. Springer
Mark S. Springer University of California, Riverside
Thomas J. Sayers
Thomas J. Sayers Leidos (United States)
Eduardo Eizirik
Eduardo Eizirik Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul

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