OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 44. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
PHACE: Phylogeny-Aware Detection of Molecular Coevolution	1023
Genome-wide Parallelism Underlies Rapid Freshwater Adaptation Fueled by Standing Genetic Variation in a Wild Fish	467
Multilevel Gene Expression Changes in Lineages Containing Adaptive Copy Number Variants	151
Adaptation of Antarctic Icefish Vision to Extreme Environments	140
Bidirectional Movement of Emerging H5N8 Avian Influenza Viruses Between Europe and Asia via Migratory Birds Since Early 2020	134
Brief Communication: The Predictable Network Topology of Evolutionary Genomic Constraint	118
Evolutionary Processes in the Emergence and Recent Spread of the Syphilis Agent,Treponema pallidum	105
Germ Granule Evolution Provides Mechanistic Insight into Drosophila Germline Development	104
Evolution of Sex-Biased Gene Expression During Transitions to Separate Sexes in the Silene Genus	101
How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?	99
A General Substitution Matrix for Structural Phylogenetics	95
An Ancestral Major Histocompatibility Complex Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC Origin and Evolution	88
The Interplay Between Developmental Stage and Environment Underlies the Adaptive Effect of a Natural Transposable Element Insertion	87
Elevated HIV Viral Load is Associated with Higher Recombination Rate In Vivo	84
Inference of Infectious Disease Transmission through a Relaxed Bottleneck Using Multiple Genomes Per Host	79
An evolutionarily conserved laterally acquired toolkit enables microbiota targeting by Trichomonas	72
Terrestrial Birth and Body Size Tune UCP1 Functionality in Seals	69
Evolution of Spatial and Temporalcis-Regulatory Divergence in Sticklebacks	68
Correction to: Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation	68
Redefining the Limits of Functional Continuity in the Early Evolution of P-Loop NTPases	67
Highlight: Unmasking the Supergene Beneath the Ruff's Mating Strategies	66
Functional Divergence in a Multi-gene Family Is a Key Evolutionary Innovation for Anaerobic Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	66
Transposable Element Diversity and Activity Patterns in Neotropical Salamanders	64
Whole-genome Comparisons Identify Repeated Regulatory Changes Underlying Convergent Appendage Evolution in Diverse Fish Lineages	64
The Human Developing Cerebral Cortex Is Characterized by an Elevated De Novo Expression of Long Noncoding RNAs in Excitatory Neurons	62

Rewiring the Sex-Determination Pathway During the Evolution of Self-Fertility	61
Odd-Paired is Involved in Morphological Divergence of Snail-Feeding Beetles	60
New Phylogenetic Models Incorporating Interval-Specific Dispersal Dynamics Improve Inference of Disease Spread	55
Chromatin Accessibility and Gene Expression Vary Between a New and Evolved Autopolyploid of Arabidopsis arenosa	55
UPrimer: A Clade-Specific Primer Design Program Based on Nested-PCR Strategy and Its Applications in Amplicon Capture Phylogenomics	54
Prevalent Introgression Underlies Convergent Evolution in the Diversification ofPungitiusSticklebacks	52
Inference of Gene Flow between Species under Misspecified Models	52
Polishing De Novo Nanopore Assemblies of Bacteria and Eukaryotes With FMLRC2	50
HaploSweep: Detecting and Distinguishing Recent Soft and Hard Selective Sweeps through Haplotype Structure	49
Genetic Differentiation is Constrained to Chromosomal Inversions and Putative Centromeres in Locally Adapted Populations With Higher Gene Flow	49
A Small Change With a Twist Ending: A Single Residue in EGF-CFC Drives Bilaterian Asymmetry	48
FishmiRNA: An Evolutionarily Supported MicroRNA Annotation and Expression Database for Ray-Finned Fishes	48
Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia	47
The Demographic History of Populations and Genomic Imprinting have Shaped the Transposon Patterns in Arabidopsis lyrata	47
Disentangling Signatures of Selection Before and After European Colonization in Latin Americans	45
Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation	45
Phylogeography Reveals Association between Swine Trade and the Spread of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus in China and across the World	45
Weighting by Gene Tree Uncertainty Improves Accuracy of Quartet-based Species Trees	44
Evolution of Brain-Expressed Biogenic Amine Receptors into Olfactory Trace Amine-Associated Receptors	44