OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Heredity is 7. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Widespread coexistence of self-compatible and self-incompatible phenotypes in a diallelic self-incompatibility system in Ligustrum vulgare (Oleaceae)	177
Kinship clustering within an ecologically diverse killer whale metapopulation	47
Some hope and many concerns on the future of the vaquita	41
6 years at Heredity	37
Linkage disequilibrium under polysomic inheritance	34
Parental kinship coefficient but not paternal coloration predicts early offspring growth in lake char	32
Low levels of genetic differentiation with isolation by geography and environment in populations of Drosophila melanogaster from across China	32
Genetic and behavioral differences between above and below ground Culex pipiens bioforms	31
Polyandry and non-random fertilisation maintain long-term genetic diversity in an isolated island population of adders (Vipera berus)	29
Performance of Bayesian and BLUP alphabets for genomic prediction: analysis, comparison and results	28
Genomic methods reveal independent demographic histories despite strong morphological conservatism in fish species	24
Joint analysis of days to flowering reveals independent temperate adaptations in maize	22
Genome-wide association studies demonstrate that TASP1 contributes to increased muscle fiber diameter	22
Rapid evolution of hybrid breakdown following recent divergence with gene flow in Senecio species on Mount Etna, Sicily	21
Heritability and variance components of seed size in wild species: influences of breeding design and the number of genotypes tested	21
Population genomics and conservation management of a declining tropical rodent	20
Experimental validation of small mammal gut microbiota sampling from faeces and from the caecum after death	20
Predicting recombination frequency from map distance	19
Landscape genetics of a sub-alpine toad: climate change predicted to induce upward range shifts via asymmetrical migration corridors	19
Egg provisioning explains the penetrance of symbiont-mediated sex allocation distortion in haplodiploids	19
Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map	18
Multi-faceted approaches for breeding nutrient-dense, disease-resistant, and climate-resilient crop varieties for food and nutritional security	18
Hybridization is strongly constrained by salinity during secondary contact between silverside fishes (Odontesthes, Atheriniformes)	16
Selection, recombination and population history effects on runs of homozygosity (ROH) in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus)	16
Evidence of local adaptation despite strong drift in a Neotropical patchily distributed bromeliad	16

Reverse genetic approaches for breeding nutrient-rich and climate-resilient cereal and food legume crops	15
Infection pattern of male-killing viruses alters phenotypes in the tea tortrix moth Homona magnanima	15
Boundaries and hybridization in a secondary contact zone between freshwater mussel species (Family:Unionidae)	15
Evolutionary effects of geographic and climatic isolation between Rhododendron tsusiophyllum populations on the Izu Islands and mainland Honshu of Japan	15
Genomic basis of insularity and ecological divergence in barn owls (Tyto alba) of the Canary Islands	15
Rolling down that mountain: microgeographical adaptive divergence during a fast population expansion along a steep environmental gradient in European beech	14
A strategic sampling design revealed the local genetic structure of cold-water fluvial sculpin: a focus on groundwater-dependent water temperature heterogeneity	14
Development and optimization of expected cross value for mate selection problems	14
Improving lodgepole pine genomic evaluation using spatial correlation structure and SNP selection with single-step GBLUP	14
Variation in mitochondrial DNA affects locomotor activity and sleep in Drosophila melanogaster	14
Predicting recombination suppression outside chromosomal inversions in Drosophila melanogaster using crossover interference theory	14
Utilizing museomics to trace the complex history and species boundaries in an avian-study system of conservation concern	13
Complex parental effects impact variation in larval thermal tolerance in a vertically transmitting coral	13
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of checkpoint genes on the tumour side of the immunological synapse	13
Short-term effects of controlled mating and selection on the genetic variance of honeybee populations	13
Influence of geographic isolation and the environment on gene flow among phenotypically diverse lizards	13
Long-term exhaustion of the inbreeding load in Drosophila melanogaster	12
Two transects reveal remarkable variation in gene flow on opposite ends of a European toad hybrid zone	12
Detecting purging of inbreeding depression by a slow rate of inbreeding for various traits: the impact of environmental and experimental conditions	12
Transitions in sex determination mechanisms through parental and sexual antagonism	12
Key triggers of adaptive genetic variability of sessile oak [Q. petraea (Matt.) Liebl.] from the Balkan refugia: outlier detection and association of SNP loci from ddRAD-seq data	12
Correction to: The IICR and the non-stationary structured coalescent: towards demographic inference with arbitrary changes in population structure	11
Inferring number of populations and changes in connectivity under the n-island model	11
Island demographics and trait associations in white-tailed deer	11
Major QTL confer race-nonspecific resistance in the co-evolved Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme–Pinus taeda pathosystem	11
Correction to: Evolution of reproductive parasites with direct fitness benefits	11
Correction to: Balancing selection versus allele and supertype turnover in MHC class II genes in guppies	11
Correction to: Patterns of genetic diversity and structure of a threatened palm species (Euterpe edulis Arecaceae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	11
Shedding light on variation in reproductive success through studies of population genetic structure in a Southeast Pacific Coast mussel	10
Distinct effects of three Wolbachia strains on fitness and immune traits in Homona magnanima	10
The role of maternal effects on offspring performance in familiar and novel environments	10
Multiple karyotype differences between populations of the Hoplias malabaricus (Teleostei; Characiformes), a species complex in the gray area of the speciation process	10
Epigenetic responses of hare barley (Hordeum murinum subsp. leporinum) to climate change: an experimental, trait-based approach	10
Dissecting the sequential evolution of a selfish mitochondrial genome in Caenorhabditis elegans	10
Integrating environmental gradients into breeding: application of genomic reactions norms in a perennial species	10
A high-density linkage map reveals broad- and fine-scale sex differences in recombination in the hihi (stitchbird; Notiomystis cincta)	10
Genetic variation of morphological scaling in Drosophila melanogaster	10
Long-term climatic stability drives accumulation and maintenance of divergent freshwater fish lineages in a temperate biodiversity hotspot	10
Ecological genetics of isolated loach populations indicate compromised adaptive potential	9
The recombination landscape and multiple QTL mapping in a Solanum tuberosum cv. ‘Atlantic’-derived F1 population	9
Contrasting genetic trajectories of endangered and expanding red fox populations in the western U.S	9
Stem cell transcriptional profiles from mouse subspecies reveal cis-regulatory evolution at translation genes	9
Genetic and environmental effects on morphological traits of social phenotypes in wasps	9
AI-informed conservation genomics	9
Comparative transmission genetics of introgressed chromatin in reciprocal advanced backcross populations in Gossypium (cotton) polyploids	9
Performance evaluation of six popular short-read simulators	9
The maternal effects of dietary restriction on Dnmt expression and reproduction in two clones of Daphnia pulex	9
Demystifying the mythical Mendel: a biographical review	9
Additive genetic variation in Pinus radiata bark chemistry and the chemical traits associated with variation in mammalian bark stripping	9
Genetic purging in captive endangered ungulates with extremely low effective population sizes	8

Genome-wide local ancestry and the functional consequences of admixture in African and European cattle populations	8
A new lineage of Galapagos giant tortoises identified from museum samples	8
The evolution and maintenance of trioecy with cytoplasmic male sterility	8
The evolution of preferred male traits, female preference and the G matrix: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore”	8
Desert landscape features influencing the microgeographic genetic structure of Nelson’s pocket mouse Chaetodipus nelsoni	8
Despite structural identity, ace-1 heterogenous duplication resistance alleles are quite diverse in Anopheles mosquitoes	7
Multi-generation genomic prediction of maize yield using parametric and non-parametric sparse selection indices	7
Marker-assisted introgression of genes into rye translocation leads to the improvement in bread making quality of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)	7
Why not Y naught	7
Transcriptomics of differences in thermal plasticity associated with selection for an exaggerated male sexual trait	7
Fitness consequences of hybridization in a predominantly selfing species: insights into the role of dominance and epistatic incompatibilities	7
Physical and ecological isolation contribute to maintain genetic differentiation between fire salamander subspecies	7