OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Heredity is 8. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Seed germination and vigor: ensuring crop sustainability in a changing climate	148
Advances in deciphering the genetic basis of insect cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis and variation	74
An evaluation of inbreeding measures using a whole-genome sequenced cattle pedigree	49
Salinity stress tolerance and omics approaches: revisiting the progress and achievements in major cereal crops	47
The population genomics of adaptive loss of function	35
Tribolium beetles as a model system in evolution and ecology	35
Inheritance through the cytoplasm	34
High-value pleiotropic genes for developing multiple stress-tolerant biofortified crops for 21st-century challenges	32
A major quantitative trait locus affecting resistance to Tilapia lake virus in farmed Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)	32
Pedigree-based and phylogenetic methods support surprising patterns of mutation rate and spectrum in the gray mouse lemur	31
Genetic diversity and selection signatures in maize landraces compared across 50 years of in situ and ex situ conservation	28
Region-level epimutation rates in Arabidopsis thaliana	27
Multi-locus genome-wide association studies (ML-GWAS) reveal novel genomic regions associated with seedling and adult plant stage leaf rust resistance in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)	24
Inferring number of populations and changes in connectivity under the n-island model	22
Sex determination through X–Y heterogamety in Salix nigra	22
Long-term exhaustion of the inbreeding load in Drosophila melanogaster	22
Dynamics of sex-biased gene expression during development in the stick insect Timema californicum	21
Progenitor species hold untapped diversity for potential climate-responsive traits for use in wheat breeding and crop improvement	21
How the west was won: genetic reconstruction of rapid wolf recolonization into Germany’s anthropogenic landscapes	20
Physical and ecological isolation contribute to maintain genetic differentiation between fire salamander subspecies	20
Genetic variation for upper thermal tolerance diminishes within and between populations with increasing acclimation temperature in Atlantic salmon	19
Performance of Bayesian and BLUP alphabets for genomic prediction: analysis, comparison and results	19
Sex-specific responses to cold in a very cold-tolerant, northern Drosophila species	18
Gene conversion: a non-Mendelian process integral to meiotic recombination	18
Spatiotemporal adaptive evolution of an MHC immune gene in a frog-fungus disease system	17

High elevation increases the risk of Y chromosome loss in Alpine skink populations with sex reversal	16
The recombination landscape and multiple QTL mapping in a Solanum tuberosum cv. ‘Atlantic’-derived F1 population	16
Temporal and genomic analysis of additive genetic variance in breeding programmes	16
QTL-seq for the identification of candidate genes for days to flowering and leaf shape in pigeonpea	16
Stresses affect inbreeding depression in complex ways: disentangling stress-specific genetic effects from effects of initial size in plants	15
Population structure and inbreeding in wild house mice (Mus musculus) at different geographic scales	15
Population genomics and conservation management of a declining tropical rodent	15
Evolution at two time frames: ancient structural variants involved in post-glacial divergence of the European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)	15
A guide for kernel generalized regression methods for genomic-enabled prediction	14
Repetitive genomic regions and the inference of demographic history	14
Intragenomic rDNA variation - the product of concerted evolution, mutation, or something in between?	14
Recent innovations and in-depth aspects of post-genome wide association study (Post-GWAS) to understand the genetic basis of complex phenotypes	14
Mitochondrial genomes from modern and ancient Turano-Mongolian cattle reveal an ancient diversity of taurine maternal lineages in East Asia	14
Trade-offs in the genetic control of functional and nutritional quality traits in UK winter wheat	14
Weak founder effects but significant spatial genetic imprint of recent contraction and expansion of European beech populations	14
On the origin of the widespread self-compatible allotetraploid Capsella bursa-pastoris (Brassicaceae)	14
Fitness consequences of hybridization in a predominantly selfing species: insights into the role of dominance and epistatic incompatibilities	13
Development and characterization of nitrogen and phosphorus use efficiency responsive genic and miRNA derived SSR markers in wheat	13
Variation in mitochondrial DNA affects locomotor activity and sleep in Drosophila melanogaster	13
Physical geography, isolation by distance and environmental variables shape genomic variation of wild barley (Hordeum vulgare L. ssp. spontaneum) in the Southern Levant	13
Variable levels of introgression between the endangered Podarcis carbonelli and highly divergent congeneric species	12
Additive genetic variation in Pinus radiata bark chemistry and the chemical traits associated with variation in mammalian bark stripping	12
Widespread coexistence of self-compatible and self-incompatible phenotypes in a diallelic self-incompatibility system in Ligustrum vulgare (Oleaceae)	12
The effects of drift and selection on latitudinal genetic variation in Scandinavian common toads (Bufo bufo) following postglacial recolonisation	12
Selection, recombination and population history effects on runs of homozygosity (ROH) in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus)	12
Genetics of randomly bred cats support the cradle of cat domestication being in the Near East	12
Short-term effects of controlled mating and selection on the genetic variance of honeybee populations	12
The outstanding scientist, R.A. Fisher: his views on eugenics and race	11
The transcriptomic signature of obligate parthenogenesis	11
Epigenetic responses of hare barley (Hordeum murinum subsp. leporinum) to climate change: an experimental, trait-based approach	11
On the genetic architecture of rapidly adapting and convergent life history traits in guppies	11
Genetic purging in captive endangered ungulates with extremely low effective population sizes	11
A strategic sampling design revealed the local genetic structure of cold-water fluvial sculpin: a focus on groundwater-dependent water temperature heterogeneity	11
Out of patterns, the euchromatic B chromosome of the grasshopper Abracris flavolineata is not enriched in high-copy repeats	11
Genetic dissection for head blast resistance in wheat using two mapping populations	11
Evolution of chaperome gene expression and regulatory elements in the antarctic notothenioid fishes	11
Major QTL confer race-nonspecific resistance in the co-evolved Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme–Pinus taeda pathosystem	11
DNA methylation is associated with codon degeneracy in a species of bumblebee	10
Population genetic differentiation and genomic signatures of adaptation to climate in an abundant lizard	10
Revisiting a GWAS peak in Arabidopsis thaliana reveals possible confounding by genetic heterogeneity	10
Predicting recombination frequency from map distance	10
Single-step genomic prediction of Eucalyptus dunnii using different identity-by-descent and identity-by-state relationship matrices	10
Genetic diversity and structure in wild Robusta coffee (Coffea canephora A. Froehner) populations in Yangambi (DR Congo) and their relation to forest disturbance	10
Experimental validation of small mammal gut microbiota sampling from faeces and from the caecum after death	10
Scalable bias-corrected linkage disequilibrium estimation under genotype uncertainty	10
Rank-invariant estimation of inbreeding coefficients	10
First large-scale genomic prediction in the honey bee	10
Neighbor GWAS: incorporating neighbor genotypic identity into genome-wide association studies of field herbivory	10
Genomic insights into the historical and contemporary demographics of the grey reef shark	9
Inferring historical survivals of climate relicts: the effects of climate changes, geography, and population-specific factors on herbaceous hydrangeas	9

Combining conventional QTL analysis and whole-exome capture-based bulk-segregant analysis provides new genetic insights into tuber sprout elongation and dormancy release in a diploid potato population	9
Predicting recombination suppression outside chromosomal inversions in Drosophila melanogaster using crossover interference theory	9
The evolutionary significance of meiotic drive	9
Mendel’s laws of heredity on his 200th birthday: What have we learned by considering exceptions?	9
Evidence of spatial genetic structure in a snow leopard population from Gansu, China	9
Improving lodgepole pine genomic evaluation using spatial correlation structure and SNP selection with single-step GBLUP	9
The sources of variation for individual prey-to-predator size ratios	9
Immune-mediated competition benefits protective microbes over pathogens in a novel host species	9
The mysterious sex chromosomes of haploid plants	9
Gene based markers improve precision of genome-wide association studies and accuracy of genomic predictions in rice breeding	9
Detecting purging of inbreeding depression by a slow rate of inbreeding for various traits: the impact of environmental and experimental conditions	9
Genome-wide association studies demonstrate that TASP1 contributes to increased muscle fiber diameter	8
Genetic, maternal, and environmental influences on sociality in a pedigreed primate population	8
Whole genome sequencing reveals high differentiation, low levels of genetic diversity and short runs of homozygosity among Swedish wels catfish	8
Fast and accurate population admixture inference from genotype data from a few microsatellites to millions of SNPs	8
Performance evaluation of six popular short-read simulators	8
Evolutionary transition to XY sex chromosomes associated with Y-linked duplication of a male hormone gene in a terrestrial isopod	8