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Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology

Last updated June 1, 2026

Rising Stars

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Rising Stars Researchers

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Rising Stars Papers

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Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Maria Valadez-Ingersoll
Boston University
99
2
Lok Wenn Loo
Sunway University
99
3
Victor Arnold Shivas Jones
Heidelberg University
73
4
Yael Admoni
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
73
5
Yue Zhang
Qingdao University
73
6
Patrick S. Champagne
The University of Queensland
68
7
Sodiq Adeyemi
University of Reading
65
8
Camille Curantz
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
53
9
Maonan Wang
Jilin Province Tumor Hospital
51
10
Skylar E. Settles
University of Georgia
50

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Heating up the Blunts: Prothrombin Activation, with Factor Va as an Obligate Cofactor, Is the Dominant Procoagulant Mechanism of Blunt-Nosed Viper Venoms (Macrovipera Species)
Toxins|2025
6 cit.
2
An unexpected mode of whole-body regeneration from reaggregated cell suspension in <i>Hydractinia</i> (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa)
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2025
3 cit.
3
miRNA-target complementarity in cnidarians resembles its counterpart in plants
EMBO Reports|2025
2 cit.
4
A parenchymal niche regulates pluripotent stem cell function in planarians
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)|2025
1 cit.
5
Compromised Regeneration, Damage to Blood Vessels and the Endomysium Underpin Permanent Muscle Damage Induced by Puff Adder (Bitis arietans) Venom
Toxins|2025
0 cit.
6
Recombinant HALT-1 induces mitochondrial-associated apoptotic mechanism in HeLa cells
Scientific Reports|2025
0 cit.
7
Integrins mediate symbiont-specific uptake in cnidarian larvae
EMBO Reports|2025
0 cit.
8
Ghardaqenoids A–F: Six New Diterpenoids from the South China Sea Soft Coral Heteroxenia ghardaqensis with Lipid-Lowering Activity via the Activation of the AMPK Signaling Pathway
Marine Drugs|2026
0 cit.
9
Symbiotic state affects microbiome recovery in a facultatively symbiotic cnidarian
Scientific Reports|2026
0 cit.
10
Anti‑inflammatory effects of oridonin on an <i>in vitro</i> model using LPS‑treated human intestinal Caco‑2 cells
Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine|2026
0 cit.

All-Time Leaders

The canon

All-Time Leaders Researchers

1
Andrea B. Kohn
University of Florida
97
2
Teresa Adell
Institut de Biomedicina de la Universitat de Barcelona
91
3
Nicole King
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
85
4
Min Zhao
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
82
5
Kerstin Bartscherer
University of Münster
80
6
Phillip A. Newmark
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
79
7
Michael Levin
Tufts University
71
8
J. Grant Burgess
Newcastle University
71
9
Walker Pett
Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
71
10
Thomas W. Holstein
Heidelberg University
68

All-Time Leaders Papers

1
The ctenophore genome and the evolutionary origins of neural systems
Nature|2014
748 cit.
2
Premetazoan genome evolution and the regulation of cell differentiation in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta
Genome biology|2013
314 cit.
3
Genome-Wide Analyses Reveal a Role for Peptide Hormones in Planarian Germline Development
PLoS Biology|2010
309 cit.
4
Animal Mitochondrial DNA as We Do Not Know It: mt-Genome Organization and Evolution in Nonbilaterian Lineages
Genome Biology and Evolution|2016
256 cit.
5
Transmembrane voltage potential controls embryonic eye patterning in <i>Xenopus laevis</i>
Development|2011
193 cit.
6
Bacterial lipids activate, synergize, and inhibit a developmental switch in choanoflagellates
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2016
159 cit.
7
Evolutionary conservation of the antimicrobial function of mucus: a first defence against infection
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes|2018
158 cit.
8
Endogenous Gradients of Resting Potential Instructively Pattern Embryonic Neural Tissue via Notch Signaling and Regulation of Proliferation
Journal of Neuroscience|2015
139 cit.
9
Generic wound signals initiate regeneration in missing-tissue contexts
Nature Communications|2017
131 cit.
10
KCNJ15/Kir4.2 couples with polyamines to sense weak extracellular electric fields in galvanotaxis
Nature Communications|2015
124 cit.

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