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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Genomic methods reveal independent demographic histories despite strong morphological conservatism in fish species	234
Landscape genetics of a sub-alpine toad: climate change predicted to induce upward range shifts via asymmetrical migration corridors	63
A strategic sampling design revealed the local genetic structure of cold-water fluvial sculpin: a focus on groundwater-dependent water temperature heterogeneity	44
Performance of Bayesian and BLUP alphabets for genomic prediction: analysis, comparison and results	42
Correction to: Evolution of reproductive parasites with direct fitness benefits	42
Major QTL confer race-nonspecific resistance in the co-evolved Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme–Pinus taeda pathosystem	36
Long-term climatic stability drives accumulation and maintenance of divergent freshwater fish lineages in a temperate biodiversity hotspot	35
Correction: Intragenomic rDNA variation—the product of concerted evolution, mutation, or something in between?	32
Genome-wide local ancestry and the functional consequences of admixture in African and European cattle populations	31
Stem cell transcriptional profiles from mouse subspecies reveal cis-regulatory evolution at translation genes	29
Gene conversion: a non-Mendelian process integral to meiotic recombination	28
The genetic architecture underlying body-size traits plasticity over different temperatures and developmental stages in Caenorhabditis elegans	26
Shedding light on variation in reproductive success through studies of population genetic structure in a Southeast Pacific Coast mussel	25
AI-informed conservation genomics	24
Genetic architecture of dispersal behaviour in the post-harvest pest and model organism Tribolium castaneum	24
Temporal stability of sex ratio distorter prevalence in natural populations of the isopod Armadillidium vulgare	21
Heritability and developmental plasticity of growth in an oviparous lizard	21
Genetic variation at innate and adaptive immune genes – contrasting patterns of differentiation and local adaptation in a wild gull	21
Evolutionary transition to XY sex chromosomes associated with Y-linked duplication of a male hormone gene in a terrestrial isopod	20
Distinct genetic architectures underlie divergent thorax, leg, and wing pigmentation between Drosophila elegans and D. gunungcola	19
Using conservation genetics to prioritise management options for an endangered songbird	18
Revisiting a GWAS peak in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals possible confounding by genetic heterogeneity	18
Correction to: New molecular evidence on genome relationships and chromosome identification in fescue (Festuca) and ryegrass (Lolium)	18
Horizontal transfer of accessory chromosomes in fungi – a regulated process for exchange of genetic material?	17
Marsupials have monoallelic MEST expression with a conserved antisense lncRNA but MEST is not imprinted	17

Mitochondrially mediated RNA interference, a retrograde signaling system affecting nuclear gene expression	17
Covariance between nonrelatives in maize	16
Holocene climate changes explain the spatial pattern in genetic diversity in populations of Cyperus papyrus from Southeast Africa wetlands	16
A wide range of chromosome numbers result from unreduced gamete production in Brassica juncea × B. napus (AABC) interspecific hybrids	15
Too big to purge: persistence of deleterious Mutations in Island populations of the European Barn Owl (Tyto alba)	15
DNA methylation is associated with codon degeneracy in a species of bumblebee	14
Weighted kernels improve multi-environment genomic prediction	14
Different waves of postglacial recolonisation and genomic structure of bank vole populations in NE Poland	14
Aneuploidy and ploidy variation conditioned by the B chromosome of maize	14
Maternal effects in the model system Daphnia: the ecological past meets the epigenetic future	13
Mitochondrial genomes reveal mid-Pleistocene population divergence, and post-glacial expansion, in Australasian snapper (Chrysophrys auratus)	13
Why put all your eggs in one basket? Evolutionary perspectives on the origins of monogenic reproduction	13
Recent innovations and in-depth aspects of post-genome wide association study (Post-GWAS) to understand the genetic basis of complex phenotypes	13
Tests for associations between sexual dimorphism and patterns of quantitative genetic variation in the water strider, Aquarius remigis	13
Out of patterns, the euchromatic B chromosome of the grasshopper Abracris flavolineata is not enriched in high-copy repeats	13
Salinity stress tolerance and omics approaches: revisiting the progress and achievements in major cereal crops	13
Correction: Meiosis at three loci in autotetraploids: Probabilities of gamete modes and genotypes without and with preferential cross-over formation	13
Does chromoanagenesis play a role in the origin of B chromosomes?	13
Dynamics of sex-biased gene expression during development in the stick insect Timema californicum	13
Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring	13
Genome-wide analysis reveals associations between climate and regional patterns of adaptive divergence and dispersal in American pikas	12
Robust association tests for quantitative traits on the X chromosome	12
Heterogeneous microgeographic genetic structure of the common cockle (Cerastoderma edule) in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean: biogeographic barriers and environmental factors	12
Multi-population GWAS detects robust marker associations in a newly established six-rowed winter barley breeding program	12
Population structure and inbreeding in wild house mice (Mus musculus) at different geographic scales	12
Ecotype variation in the endemic tree Callicarpa subpubescens on small oceanic islands: genetic, phenotypic, and environmental insights	12
The evolutionary significance of meiotic drive	12
Heritability and variance components of seed size in wild species: influences of breeding design and the number of genotypes tested	11
Polyandry and non-random fertilisation maintain long-term genetic diversity in an isolated island population of adders (Vipera berus)	11
Infection pattern of male-killing viruses alters phenotypes in the tea tortrix moth Homona magnanima	11
Influence of geographic isolation and the environment on gene flow among phenotypically diverse lizards	11
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of checkpoint genes on the tumour side of the immunological synapse	11
Egg provisioning explains the penetrance of symbiont-mediated sex allocation distortion in haplodiploids	10
The genetic origins of species boundaries at subtropical and temperate ecoregions in the North American racers (Coluber constrictor)	10
Experimental validation of small mammal gut microbiota sampling from faeces and from the caecum after death	10
Contrasting genetic trajectories of endangered and expanding red fox populations in the western U.S	10
Reverse genetic approaches for breeding nutrient-rich and climate-resilient cereal and food legume crops	10
Support for Y-compensation of mother’s curse affecting lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster	10
Desert landscape features influencing the microgeographic genetic structure of Nelson’s pocket mouse Chaetodipus nelsoni	10
Evidence of spatial genetic structure in a snow leopard population from Gansu, China	9
Quantitative trait locus analysis of parasitoid counteradaptation to symbiont-conferred resistance	9
Concurrently mapping quantitative trait loci associations from multiple subspecies within hybrid populations	9
Gene expression and alternative splicing contribute to adaptive divergence of ecotypes	9
Fitness consequences of hybridization in a predominantly selfing species: insights into the role of dominance and epistatic incompatibilities	9
Genetic improvement of speed across distance categories in thoroughbred racehorses in Great Britain	9
Ecological divergence despite common mating sites: Genotypes and symbiotypes shed light on cryptic diversity in the black bean aphid species complex	9
Estimation of coalescence probabilities and population divergence times from SNP data	8
First large-scale genomic prediction in the honey bee	8
The transcriptomic signature of obligate parthenogenesis	8
Correction to: Excessive replacement changes drive evolution of global sheep prion protein (PRNP) sequences	8

Incorporating spatial and genetic competition into breeding pipelines with the R package gencomp	8
Population genomics and conservation management of the threatened black-footed tree-rat (Mesembriomys gouldii) in northern Australia	8
Transcriptomics and the origin of obligate parthenogenesis	8
Genetic diversity and structure in wild Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora A. Froehner) populations in Yangambi (DR Congo) and their relation to forest disturbance	8
Reduced within-population quantitative genetic variation is associated with climate harshness in maritime pine	7
Accelerated differentiation of neo-W nuclear-encoded mitochondrial genes between two climate-associated bird lineages signals potential co-evolution with mitogenomes	7
Chromosomal aberrations and early mortality in a non-mammalian vertebrate: example from pressure-induced triploid Atlantic salmon	7
A decision-making framework to maximise the evolutionary potential of populations - Genetic and genomic insights from the common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) at its range limits	7
Genetic constraints in genes exhibiting splicing plasticity in facultative diapause	7
Population genetic diversity and environmental adaptation of Tamarix hispida in the Tarim Basin, arid Northwestern China	7
Patterns of genetic diversity and structure of a threatened palm species (Euterpe edulis Arecaceae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	7
Excessive replacement changes drive evolution of global sheep prion protein (PRNP) sequences	7
Physical geography, isolation by distance and environmental variables shape genomic variation of wild barley (Hordeum vulgare L. ssp. spontaneum) in the Southern Levant	7
Differential effects of steroid hormones on levels of broad-sense heritability in a wild bird: possible mechanism of environment × genetic variance interaction?	7
Divergent mechanisms of reduced growth performance in Betula ermanii saplings from high-altitude and low-latitude range edges	7
Genetic footprints of a rapid and large-scale range expansion: the case of cyclic common vole in Spain	7
Forest tree breeding using genomic Markov causal models: a new approach to genomic tree breeding improvement	7
Breeding of ornamental orchids with focus on Phalaenopsis: current approaches, tools, and challenges for this century	7