OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 43. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
PHACE: Phylogeny-Aware Detection of Molecular Coevolution	1122
A Small Change With a Twist Ending: A Single Residue in EGF-CFC Drives Bilaterian Asymmetry	728
Brief Communication: The Predictable Network Topology of Evolutionary Genomic Constraint	163
Evolution of Sex-Biased Gene Expression During Transitions to Separate Sexes in the Silene Genus	151
Correction to: Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation	130
Highlight: Unmasking the Supergene Beneath the Ruff's Mating Strategies	129
Whole-genome Comparisons Identify Repeated Regulatory Changes Underlying Convergent Appendage Evolution in Diverse Fish Lineages	120
Odd-Paired is Involved in Morphological Divergence of Snail-Feeding Beetles	112
HaploSweep: Detecting and Distinguishing Recent Soft and Hard Selective Sweeps through Haplotype Structure	101
Genomic Features Underlying the Origin of Sociality and the Diversification of Caste Systems in Termites	100
Elevated HIV Viral Load is Associated with Higher Recombination Rate In Vivo	100
How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?	95
The Scorpionfly ( Panorpa cognata ) Genome Highlights Conserved and Derived Features of the Peculiar Dipteran X Chromosome	92
Functional Divergence in a Multi-gene Family Is a Key Evolutionary Innovation for Anaerobic Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	81
Redefining the Limits of Functional Continuity in the Early Evolution of P-Loop NTPases	78
Genetic Differentiation is Constrained to Chromosomal Inversions and Putative Centromeres in Locally Adapted Populations With Higher Gene Flow	77
An Evolutionarily Conserved Laterally Acquired Toolkit Enables Microbiota Targeting by Trichomonas	72
Inference of Gene Flow between Species under Misspecified Models	71
Inference of Infectious Disease Transmission through a Relaxed Bottleneck Using Multiple Genomes Per Host	71
Terrestrial Birth and Body Size Tune UCP1 Functionality in Seals	69
Adaptation of Antarctic Icefish Vision to Extreme Environments	68
UPrimer: A Clade-Specific Primer Design Program Based on Nested-PCR Strategy and Its Applications in Amplicon Capture Phylogenomics	65
Germ Granule Evolution Provides Mechanistic Insight into Drosophila Germline Development	64
The Interplay Between Developmental Stage and Environment Underlies the Adaptive Effect of a Natural Transposable Element Insertion	58
Polishing De Novo Nanopore Assemblies of Bacteria and Eukaryotes With FMLRC2	56

Transposable Element Diversity and Activity Patterns in Neotropical Salamanders	56
Disentangling Signatures of Selection Before and After European Colonization in Latin Americans	56
The Human Developing Cerebral Cortex Is Characterized by an Elevated De Novo Expression of Long Noncoding RNAs in Excitatory Neurons	52
Unequally Abundant Chromosomes and Unusual Collections of Transferred Sequences Characterize Mitochondrial Genomes of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae), One of the Largest Mycoheterotrophic Plant Genera	51
Prevalent Introgression Underlies Convergent Evolution in the Diversification ofPungitiusSticklebacks	51
Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation	50
Evolution of Brain-Expressed Biogenic Amine Receptors into Olfactory Trace Amine-Associated Receptors	50
Inference of Coalescence Times and Variant Ages Using Convolutional Neural Networks	50
Genome-wide Parallelism Underlies Rapid Freshwater Adaptation Fueled by Standing Genetic Variation in a Wild Fish	50
Rewiring the Sex-Determination Pathway During the Evolution of Self-Fertility	48
Evolution of Spatial and Temporalcis-Regulatory Divergence in Sticklebacks	47
Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia	46
A General Substitution Matrix for Structural Phylogenetics	46
An Ancestral Major Histocompatibility Complex Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC Origin and Evolution	45
FishmiRNA: An Evolutionarily Supported MicroRNA Annotation and Expression Database for Ray-Finned Fishes	45
Bidirectional Movement of Emerging H5N8 Avian Influenza Viruses Between Europe and Asia via Migratory Birds Since Early 2020	44
Chromatin Accessibility and Gene Expression Vary Between a New and Evolved Autopolyploid of Arabidopsis arenosa	44
Weighting by Gene Tree Uncertainty Improves Accuracy of Quartet-based Species Trees	43