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Wolfgang Wüster

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
59
Citations
12201
World Ranking
12560
National Ranking
975

Wolfgang Wüster 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 Wolfgang Wüster sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 142 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Wolfgang Wüster 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 Wolfgang Wüster sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 59 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Wolfgang Wüster is affiliated with Bangor University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in environmental science, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research spans several subfields, including genetics, global and planetary change, ecology, virology, and the combined field of ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

The scientist has focused on topics such as venomous animal envenomation and studies, amphibian and reptile biology, rabies epidemiology and control, wildlife ecology and conservation, species distribution and climate change, marine invertebrate physiology and ecology, and genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Wolfgang Wüster's recent papers include:

  • Convergent evolution of pain-inducing defensive venom components in spitting cobras, 2021, Science
  • Evaluating taxonomic inflation: towards evidence-based species delimitation in Eurasian vipers (Serpentes: Viperinae), 2020, Amphibia-Reptilia
  • The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • Confronting taxonomic vandalism in biology: conscientious community self-organization can preserve nomenclatural stability, 2021, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Convergent evolution of toxin resistance in animals, 2022, Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Frequent co-authors of Wolfgang Wüster include Axel Barlow, Nicholas R. Casewell, John Benjamin Owens, Benjamin Michael Marshall, and Ignazio Avella.

Wolfgang Wüster has published frequently in several journals and venues, notably:

  • Zootaxa
  • Toxins
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Toxicon
  • Toxicon X

Best Publications

  • Complex cocktails: the evolutionary novelty of venoms.

    Nicholas R. Casewell;Wolfgang Wüster;Freek J. Vonk;Robert A. Harrison

  • Diet and snake venom evolution

    Jennifer C. Daltry;Wolfgang Wüster;Roger S. Thorpe

  • The king cobra genome reveals dynamic gene evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system

    Freek J. Vonk;Freek J. Vonk;Freek J. Vonk;Nicholas R. Casewell;Nicholas R. Casewell;Christiaan V. Henkel;Alysha M. Heimberg

  • Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny of Elapid Snake Venom Three-Finger Toxins

    Bryan Grieg Fry;W. Wüster;R. M. Kini;V. Brusic

  • Coevolution of diet and prey-specific venom activity supports the role of selection in snake venom evolution

    Axel Barlow;Catharine E. Pook;Robert A. Harrison;Wolfgang Wüster

  • Medically important differences in snake venom composition are dictated by distinct postgenomic mechanisms

    Nicholas R. Casewell;Simon C. Wagstaff;Wolfgang Wüster;Darren A. N. Cook

  • Assembling an Arsenal: Origin and Evolution of the Snake Venom Proteome Inferred from Phylogenetic Analysis of Toxin Sequences

    B. G. Fry;W. Wüster

  • A nesting of vipers: Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the Viperidae (Squamata: Serpentes).

    Wolfgang Wüster;Lindsay Peppin;Catharine E. Pook;Daniel E. Walker

  • Tracing an invasion: landbridges, refugia, and the phylogeography of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus)

    Wolfgang Wüster;Julia E. Ferguson;J. Adrian Quijada-Mascareñas;Catharine E. Pook

  • Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

    Scott A. Thomson;Richard L. Pyle;Shane T Ahyong;Shane T Ahyong;Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga

  • Ending the drought: New strategies for improving the flow of affordable, effective antivenoms in Asia and Africa

    David J. Williams;José-María Gutiérrez;Juan J. Calvete;Wolfgang Wüster

  • Domain Loss Facilitates Accelerated Evolution and Neofunctionalization of Duplicate Snake Venom Metalloproteinase Toxin Genes

    Nicholas R. Casewell;Nicholas R. Casewell;Simon C. Wagstaff;Robert A. Harrison;Camila Renjifo

  • Molecular Studies and Phylogeography of Amazonian Tetrapods and their Relation to Geological and Climatic Models

    Alexandre Antonelli;Adrián Quijada‐Mascareñas;Andrew J. Crawford;John M. Bates

  • Best practices: in the 21st Century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review

    Hinrich Kaiser;Brian I. Crother;Christopher M.R Kelly;Luca Luiselli

  • Do aposematism and Batesian mimicry require bright colours? A test, using European viper markings

    Wolfgang Wüster;Christopher S. E. Allum;I. Birta Bjargardóttir;Kimberley L. Bailey

  • Isolation of a Neurotoxin (α-colubritoxin) from a Nonvenomous Colubrid: Evidence for Early Origin of Venom in Snakes

    Bryan G. Fry;Natalie G. Lumsden;Wolfgang Wüster;Janith C. Wickramaratna

  • Analysis of Colubroidea snake venoms by liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry: evolutionary and toxinological implications

    Bryan G. Fry;Bryan G. Fry;Wolfgang Wüster;Sheik Fadil Ryan Ramjan;Timothy Jackson

  • Comparative venom gland transcriptome surveys of the saw-scaled vipers (Viperidae: Echis ) reveal substantial intra-family gene diversity and novel venom transcripts

    Nicholas R Casewell;Robert A Harrison;Wolfgang Wüster;Simon C Wagstaff

  • The structural and functional diversification of the Toxicofera reptile venom system

    Bryan G. Fry;Nicholas R. Casewell;Wolfgang Wüster;Nicolas Vidal

  • When continents collide: phylogeny, historical biogeography and systematics of the medically important viper genus Echis (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae).

    Catharine E. Pook;Ulrich Joger;Nikolaus Stümpel;Wolfgang Wüster

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger S. Thorpe
Roger S. Thorpe Bangor University
Bryan G. Fry
Bryan G. Fry University of Queensland
Juan J. Calvete
Juan J. Calvete Spanish National Research Council
David A. Warrell
David A. Warrell University of Oxford
Anita Malhotra
Anita Malhotra Bangor University
Matt W. Hayward
Matt W. Hayward University of Newcastle Australia
Peter J. S. Fleming
Peter J. S. Fleming University of Southern Queensland
Daniel Petras
Daniel Petras University of California, Riverside
Harry W. Greene
Harry W. Greene Cornell University
Sarah Legge
Sarah Legge Australian National University

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Stephen P. Mackessy

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R. Manjunatha Kini

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Roger S. Thorpe

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Publications: 40

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David A. Warrell

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Publications: 33

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Todd A. Castoe

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Anita Malhotra

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Richard Shine

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H. Lisle Gibbs

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Geoffrey K. Isbister

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