OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Molecular Evolution is 5. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Molecular Evolution of Malacostracan Short Wavelength Sensitive Opsins	74
Correction: Analysis of Cancer-Resisting Evolutionary Adaptations in Wild Animals and Applications for Human Oncology	45
Prebiotic N-(2-Aminoethyl)-Glycine (AEG)-Assisted Synthesis of Proto-RNA?	28
Correction: Stochastic Epigenetic Modification and Evolution of Sex Determination in Vertebrates	27
Modified Metabolism and Response to UV Radiation: Gene Expression Variations Along an Elevational Gradient in the Asiatic Toad (Bufo gargarizans)	23
Extant Sequence Reconstruction: The Accuracy of Ancestral Sequence Reconstructions Evaluated by Extant Sequence Cross-Validation	22
An Ultimate Question for Functional A-to-I mRNA Editing: Why Not a Genomic G?	19
Learning from the Codon Table: Convergent Recoding Provides Novel Understanding on the Evolution of A-to-I RNA Editing	19
Unusual Evolution of Cephalopod Tryptophan Indole-Lyases	18
Scaling up Functional Analyses of the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin	18
Embracing Complexity: Yeast Evolution Experiments Featuring Standing Genetic Variation	15
The Ancient Origins of Death Domains Support the ‘Original Sin’ Hypothesis for the Evolution of Programmed Cell Death	14
Post-Subfunctionalization Functions of HIF-1αA and HIF-1αB in Cyprinid Fish: Fine-Tuning Mitophagy and Apoptosis Regulation Under Hypoxic Stress	14
Overlaps Between CDS Regions of Protein-Coding Genes in the Human Genome: A Case Study on the NR1D1-THRA Gene Pair	14
Organophosphorus Compound Formation Through the Oxidation of Reduced Oxidation State Phosphorus Compounds on the Hadean Earth	14
dN/dS-H, a New Test to Distinguish Different Selection Modes in Protein Evolution and Cancer Evolution	13
Odorant-Binding and Chemosensory Proteins in Fig Wasps: Evolutionary Insights From Comparative Studies	13
On the Nature of the Last Common Ancestor: A Story from its Translation Machinery	11
Evolution of Transcript Abundance is Influenced by Indels in Protein Low Complexity Regions	11
Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Analysis of Plant Small RNA 2′-O-Methyltransferase (HEN1) Protein Family	10
On Protein Loops, Prior Molecular States and Common Ancestors of Life	10
Molecular Footprints on Osmoregulation-Related Genes Associated with Freshwater Colonization by Cetaceans and Sirenians	9
A Closer Look at Non-random Patterns Within Chemistry Space for a Smaller, Earlier Amino Acid Alphabet	9
Detecting Selection on Segregating Gene Duplicates in a Population	9
Understanding the Origin and Evolution of Tea (Camellia sinensis [L.]): Genomic Advances in Tea	8

Functional Diversity of the Lepidopteran ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters	8
RNA or DNA? Revisiting the Chemical Nature of the Cenancestral Genome	8
The Last Universal Common Ancestor of Ribosome-Encoding Organisms: Portrait of LUCA	8
Biochemical Property Based Positional Matrix: A New Approach Towards Genome Sequence Comparison	8
Conservation of Protein Kinase A Substrates in the Cnidarian Coral Spermatozoa Among Animals and Their Molecular Evolution	8
Adaptation and Exaptation: From Small Molecules to Feathers	8
Pheromone Gene Diversification and the Evolution of Courtship Glands in Plethodontid Salamanders	8
Biothermodynamics of Hemoglobin and Red Blood Cells: Analysis of Structure and Evolution of Hemoglobin and Red Blood Cells, Based on Molecular and Empirical Formulas, Biosynthesis Reactions, and Therm	7
Informatic Capabilities of Translation and Its Implications for the Origins of Life	7
Best Practices in Designing, Sequencing, and Identifying Random DNA Barcodes	7
Evolution and Functional Diversification of Serine Racemase Homologs in Bacteria	7
The De Novo Emergence of Two Brain Genes in the Human Lineage Appears to be Unsupported	7
GC Content Across Insect Genomes: Phylogenetic Patterns, Causes and Consequences	7
A New View of the Last Universal Common Ancestor	7
PAReTT: A Python Package for the Automated Retrieval and Management of Divergence Time Data from the TimeTree Resource for Downstream Analyses	7
EasyDIVER + : An Advanced Tool for Analyzing High Throughput Sequencing Data from In Vitro Evolution of Nucleic Acids or Amino Acids	6
Deep Conservation and Unexpected Evolutionary History of Neighboring lncRNAs MALAT1 and NEAT1	6
Context-Dependent Mutation Dynamics, Not Selection, Explains the Codon Usage Bias of Most Angiosperm Chloroplast Genes	6
A Law of Redundancy Compounds the Problem of Cancer and Precision Medicine	6
Correction: Sequence Divergence in Venom Genes Within and Between Montane Pitviper (Viperidae: Crotalinae: Cerrophidion) Species is Driven by Mutation–Drift Equilibrium	6
FEZF2 and AIRE1: An Evolutionary Trade-off in the Elimination of Auto-reactive T Cells in the Thymus	6
Promiscuous Domains in Eukaryotes and HAT Proteins in FUNGI Have Followed Different Evolutionary Paths	6
The Evolutionary Fate of Mitochondrial Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in Amitochondrial Organisms	6
Analysis of the MCTP Amino Acid Sequence Reveals the Conservation of Putative Calcium- and Lipid-Binding Pockets Within the C2 Domains In Silico	6
Evidence for Multiple Independent Expansions of Fox Gene Families Within Flatworms	5
Transposable Element Diversity Remains High in Gigantic Genomes	5
Tracking the Diversity and Chromosomal Distribution of the Olfactory Receptor Gene Repertoires of Three Anurans Species	5
Jump-Chain Simulation of Markov Substitution Processes Over Phylogenies	5
Main Factors Shaping Amino Acid Usage Across Evolution	5
Costly circRNAs, Effective Population Size, and the Origins of Molecular Complexity	5
Evolutionary Nonindependence Between Human piRNAs and Their Potential Target Sites in Protein-Coding Genes	5
APGW/AKH Precursor from Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis and the DNA Loss Model Explain Evolutionary Trends of the Neuropeptide LWamide, APGWamide, RPCH, AKH, ACP, CRZ, and GnRH Families	5
Selection Pressure Regulates the Evolution-Structure–Function Paradigm of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein Family	5
Origins and Functional Significance of Eukaryotic Protein Folds	5
Molecular Evolution of clock Genes in Vertebrates	5
Putative MutS2 Homologs in Algae: More Goods in Shopping Bag?	5
Is the Association of the Rare rs35667974 IFIH1 Gene Polymorphism With Autoimmune Diseases a Case of RNA Epigenetics?	5
The Mystery of Cancer Resistance: A Revelation Within Nature	5
Correction: Principles of Molecular Evolution: Concepts from Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics for the Multilevel Theory of Learning	5
Caspase Domain Duplication During the Evolution of Caspase-16	5