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Karl J. Kramer

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Kansas State University

Neurobiology and Insect Physiology ResearchInsect Resistance and GeneticsStudies on Chitinases and ChitosanasesInsect Pest Control Strategiesmelanin and skin pigmentation

Karl J. Kramer works in Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Insect Resistance and Genetics, Studies on Chitinases and Chitosanases, Insect Pest Control Strategies, melanin and skin pigmentation. Recorded institutional associations include Kansas State University.

284Publications
18,672Citations
79H-index

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Selected research works

Up to 100 highly cited works; DOI links open the original research. Counts reflect the collected record, not real-time citation totals.

  1. The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum

    2008 · 1,374 citations

  2. A Model of the Kinetics of Insulin in Man

    1974 · 460 citations

  3. Insect Cuticle Sclerotization

    1992 · 458 citations

  4. Insect Chitinases: Molecular Biology and Potential Use as Biopesticides

    1997 · 433 citations

  5. Laccase 2 is the phenoloxidase gene required for beetle cuticle tanning

    2005 · 399 citations

  6. The Tribolium chitin synthase genes TcCHS1 and TcCHS2 are specialized for synthesis of epidermal cuticle and midgut peritrophic matrix

    2005 · 332 citations

  7. Proteinase-mediated Insect Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxins

    1997 · 304 citations

  8. Functional specialization among insect chitinase family genes revealed by RNA interference

    2008 · 273 citations

  9. Insect chitin

    1986 · 271 citations

  10. Chitin Metabolism in Insects

    2011 · 244 citations

  11. Oxidative conjugation of catechols with proteins in insect skeletal systems

    2001 · 229 citations

  12. Aromatic Cross-Links in Insect Cuticle: Detection by Solid-State 13 C and 15 N NMR

    1987 · 223 citations

  13. Molecular and Functional Analyses of Amino Acid Decarboxylases Involved in Cuticle Tanning in Tribolium castaneum

    2009 · 214 citations

  14. Sequence of a cDNA and expression of the gene encoding epidermal and gut chitinases of Manduca sexta

    1993 · 213 citations

  15. Characterization of cDNAs encoding putative laccase-like multicopper oxidases and developmental expression in the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta, and the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae

    2003 · 210 citations

  16. Functional analysis of four neuropeptides, EH, ETH, CCAP and bursicon, and their receptors in adult ecdysis behavior of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

    2008 · 200 citations

  17. Cuticle formation and pigmentation in beetles

    2016 · 196 citations

  18. Ultrastructure, Physiology, and Biochemistry of Bacillus Thuringiensis

    1980 · 183 citations

  19. Applications of solids NMR to the analysis of insect sclerotized structures

    1995 · 181 citations

  20. Characterization of two chitin synthase genes of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum, and alternate exon usage in one of the genes during development

    2003 · 177 citations

  21. Chitin synthases are required for survival, fecundity and egg hatch in the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum

    2008 · 177 citations

  22. Insect resistance of transgenic tobacco expressing an insect chitinase gene

    1998 · 176 citations

  23. Analysis of functions of the chitin deacetylase gene family in Tribolium castaneum

    2009 · 173 citations

  24. Genes encoding proteins with peritrophin A-type chitin-binding domains in Tribolium castaneum are grouped into three distinct families based on phylogeny, expression and function

    2010 · 169 citations

  25. Tyrosine metabolism for insect cuticle tanning

    1987 · 155 citations

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