OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 35. 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
TimeTree 5: An Expanded Resource for Species Divergence Times	556
The Chicken Pan-Genome Reveals Gene Content Variation and a Promoter Region Deletion in IGF2BP1 Affecting Body Size	90
The Emergence of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern Is Driven by Acceleration of the Substitution Rate	88
Herbicide Selection Promotes Antibiotic Resistance in Soil Microbiomes	84
Selection Analysis Identifies Clusters of Unusual Mutational Changes in Omicron Lineage BA.1 That Likely Impact Spike Function	72
Whole-Genome Resequencing of Worldwide Wild and Domestic Sheep Elucidates Genetic Diversity, Introgression, and Agronomically Important Loci	66
Causes and Consequences of Bacteriophage Diversification via Genetic Exchanges across Lifestyles and Bacterial Taxa	62
Beginner's Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection	58
Unraveling the Complex Hybrid Ancestry and Domestication History of Cultivated Strawberry	56
Evolution of Plasmid Mobility: Origin and Fate of Conjugative and Nonconjugative Plasmids	55
Pseudofinder: Detection of Pseudogenes in Prokaryotic Genomes	52
Comprehensive Species Sampling and Sophisticated Algorithmic Approaches Refute the Monophyly of Arachnida	51
The Emergence of the Spike Furin Cleavage Site in SARS-CoV-2	51
Giant Starship Elements Mobilize Accessory Genes in Fungal Genomes	50
Spatiotemporal Evolution of the Global Species Diversity of Rhododendron	50
Purifying Selection Determines the Short-Term Time Dependency of Evolutionary Rates in SARS-CoV-2 and pH1N1 Influenza	49
Weighting by Gene Tree Uncertainty Improves Accuracy of Quartet-based Species Trees	46
A Dual Barcoding Approach to Bacterial Strain Nomenclature: Genomic Taxonomy ofKlebsiella pneumoniaeStrains	46
Premetazoan Origin of Neuropeptide Signaling	45
Global Dynamics of Porcine Enteric Coronavirus PEDV Epidemiology, Evolution, and Transmission	45
De Novo Assembly of 20 Chicken Genomes Reveals the Undetectable Phenomenon for Thousands of Core Genes on Microchromosomes and Subtelomeric Regions	42
Phylotranscriptomics Resolves the Phylogeny of Pooideae and Uncovers Factors for Their Adaptive Evolution	41
The Carbon Footprint of Bioinformatics	41
Phylogeography Reveals Association between Swine Trade and the Spread of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus in China and across the World	41
AliSim: A Fast and Versatile Phylogenetic Sequence Simulator for the Genomic Era	41

MitoFish, MitoAnnotator, and MiFish Pipeline: Updates in 10 Years	40
Demographic History and Natural Selection Shape Patterns of Deleterious Mutation Load and Barriers to Introgression across Populus Genome	39
Genome Resequencing Reveals Rapid, Repeated Evolution in the Colorado Potato Beetle	37
A Near-Deterministic Mutational Hotspot in Pseudomonas fluorescens Is Constructed by Multiple Interacting Genomic Features	37
Loss of Timeless Underlies an Evolutionary Transition within the Circadian Clock	37
Ongoing Recombination in SARS-CoV-2 Revealed through Genealogical Reconstruction	36
Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 Mutational Spectrum	36
Nemertean, Brachiopod, and Phoronid Neuropeptidomics Reveals Ancestral Spiralian Signaling Systems	35
Giant Viruses Encode Actin-Related Proteins	35
Functional Evolution of a Bark Beetle Odorant Receptor Clade Detecting Monoterpenoids of Different Ecological Origins	35
Phenotype Bias Determines How Natural RNA Structures Occupy the Morphospace of All Possible Shapes	35