OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 41. 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
The Human Developing Cerebral Cortex Is Characterized by an Elevated De Novo Expression of Long Noncoding RNAs in Excitatory Neurons	811
Terrestrial Birth and Body Size Tune UCP1 Functionality in Seals	112
Functional Divergence in a Multi-gene Family Is a Key Evolutionary Innovation for Anaerobic Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	99
New Phylogenetic Models Incorporating Interval-Specific Dispersal Dynamics Improve Inference of Disease Spread	94
Brief Communication: The Predictable Network Topology of Evolutionary Genomic Constraint	93
Germ Granule Evolution Provides Mechanistic Insight into Drosophila Germline Development	90
Transposable Element Diversity and Activity Patterns in Neotropical Salamanders	81
A Small Change With a Twist Ending: A Single Residue in EGF-CFC Drives Bilaterian Asymmetry	78
Odd-Paired is Involved in Morphological Divergence of Snail-Feeding Beetles	78
Highlight: Unmasking the Supergene Beneath the Ruff's Mating Strategies	76
Multilevel Gene Expression Changes in Lineages Containing Adaptive Copy Number Variants	76
UPrimer: A Clade-Specific Primer Design Program Based on Nested-PCR Strategy and Its Applications in Amplicon Capture Phylogenomics	72
Correction to: Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation	70
The Interplay Between Developmental Stage and Environment Underlies the Adaptive Effect of a Natural Transposable Element Insertion	69
Papua New Guinean Genomes Reveal the Complex Settlement of North Sahul	64
Whole-genome Comparisons Identify Repeated Regulatory Changes Underlying Convergent Appendage Evolution in Diverse Fish Lineages	59
Chromatin Accessibility and Gene Expression Vary Between a New and Evolved Autopolyploid of Arabidopsis arenosa	59
Redefining the Limits of Functional Continuity in the Early Evolution of P-Loop NTPases	58
Inference of Coalescence Times and Variant Ages Using Convolutional Neural Networks	58
FishmiRNA: An Evolutionarily Supported MicroRNA Annotation and Expression Database for Ray-Finned Fishes	57
Adaptation of Antarctic Icefish Vision to Extreme Environments	56
Inference of Gene Flow between Species under Misspecified Models	55
Evolution of Spatial and Temporalcis-Regulatory Divergence in Sticklebacks	53
Inference of Infectious Disease Transmission through a Relaxed Bottleneck Using Multiple Genomes Per Host	49
Rewiring the Sex-Determination Pathway During the Evolution of Self-Fertility	49

Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation	48
The demographic history of populations and genomic imprinting have shaped the transposon patterns in Arabidopsis lyrata	47
Genetic differentiation is constrained to chromosomal inversions and putative centromeres in locally adapted populations with higher gene flow	46
Bidirectional Movement of Emerging H5N8 Avian Influenza Viruses Between Europe and Asia via Migratory Birds Since Early 2020	45
Evolution of Brain-Expressed Biogenic Amine Receptors into Olfactory Trace Amine-Associated Receptors	45
HaploSweep: Detecting and Distinguishing Recent Soft and Hard Selective Sweeps through Haplotype Structure	44
Unequally Abundant Chromosomes and Unusual Collections of Transferred Sequences Characterize Mitochondrial Genomes of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae), One of the Largest Mycoheterotrophic Plant Genera	43
The Scorpionfly (Panorpa cognata) Genome Highlights Conserved and Derived Features of the Peculiar Dipteran X Chromosome	43
Disentangling Signatures of Selection Before and After European Colonization in Latin Americans	43
Polishing De Novo Nanopore Assemblies of Bacteria and Eukaryotes With FMLRC2	43
Evolutionary Processes in the Emergence and Recent Spread of the Syphilis Agent,Treponema pallidum	42
Phylogeography Reveals Association between Swine Trade and the Spread of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus in China and across the World	42
Weighting by Gene Tree Uncertainty Improves Accuracy of Quartet-based Species Trees	42
An Ancestral Major Histocompatibility Complex Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC Origin and Evolution	42
Elevated HIV Viral Load is Associated with Higher Recombination Rate In Vivo	42
Correction to: The Impact of Genetic Surfing on Neutral Genomic Diversity	41
Prevalent Introgression Underlies Convergent Evolution in the Diversification ofPungitiusSticklebacks	41