OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Biology and Evolution is 40. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
PHACE: Phylogeny-Aware Detection of Molecular Coevolution	1482
Highlight: Unmasking the Supergene Beneath the Ruff's Mating Strategies	1367
Odd-Paired is Involved in Morphological Divergence of Snail-Feeding Beetles	210
Genome-wide Parallelism Underlies Rapid Freshwater Adaptation Fueled by Standing Genetic Variation in a Wild Fish	186
Rewiring the Sex-Determination Pathway During the Evolution of Self-Fertility	180
Prevalent Introgression Underlies Convergent Evolution in the Diversification ofPungitiusSticklebacks	168
A Small Change With a Twist Ending: A Single Residue in EGF-CFC Drives Bilaterian Asymmetry	151
Brief Communication: The Predictable Network Topology of Evolutionary Genomic Constraint	119
Correction to: Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation	108
Evolution of Sex-Biased Gene Expression During Transitions to Separate Sexes in the Silene Genus	89
From Adam's rib: the Siberian moth's female W chromosome is derived from its Z counterpart	71
The Demographic History of Populations and Genomic Imprinting have Shaped the Transposon Patterns in Arabidopsis lyrata	70
An Ancestral Major Histocompatibility Complex Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC Origin and Evolution	69
Evolution of Spatial and Temporalcis-Regulatory Divergence in Sticklebacks	67
How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?	63
The Scorpionfly ( Panorpa cognata ) Genome Highlights Conserved and Derived Features of the Peculiar Dipteran X Chromosome	62
An Evolutionarily Conserved Laterally Acquired Toolkit Enables Microbiota Targeting by Trichomonas	59
Highlight: Ancient oceans, New skeletons—innovations in silicon transport shaped sponge skeletal evolution	57
Whole-genome Comparisons Identify Repeated Regulatory Changes Underlying Convergent Appendage Evolution in Diverse Fish Lineages	55
New Phylogenetic Models Incorporating Interval-Specific Dispersal Dynamics Improve Inference of Disease Spread	51
Functional Divergence in a Multi-gene Family Is a Key Evolutionary Innovation for Anaerobic Growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae	51
Adaptive evolution of odorant receptors is associated with elaborations of social organization in ants	49
HaploSweep: Detecting and Distinguishing Recent Soft and Hard Selective Sweeps through Haplotype Structure	49
The Human Developing Cerebral Cortex Is Characterized by an Elevated De Novo Expression of Long Noncoding RNAs in Excitatory Neurons	49
Chromatin Accessibility and Gene Expression Vary Between a New and Evolved Autopolyploid of Arabidopsis arenosa	46

UPrimer: A Clade-Specific Primer Design Program Based on Nested-PCR Strategy and Its Applications in Amplicon Capture Phylogenomics	46
Multilevel Gene Expression Changes in Lineages Containing Adaptive Copy Number Variants	45
Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation	44
Unequally Abundant Chromosomes and Unusual Collections of Transferred Sequences Characterize Mitochondrial Genomes of Gastrodia (Orchidaceae), One of the Largest Mycoheterotrophic Plant Genera	44
A General Substitution Matrix for Structural Phylogenetics	44
Inference of Gene Flow between Species under Misspecified Models	42
Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia	42
Genomic Features Underlying the Origin of Sociality and the Diversification of Caste Systems in Termites	42
Inference of Coalescence Times and Variant Ages Using Convolutional Neural Networks	41
Inference of Infectious Disease Transmission through a Relaxed Bottleneck Using Multiple Genomes Per Host	41
Elevated HIV Viral Load is Associated with Higher Recombination Rate In Vivo	41
The Interplay Between Developmental Stage and Environment Underlies the Adaptive Effect of a Natural Transposable Element Insertion	41
Germ Granule Evolution Provides Mechanistic Insight into Drosophila Germline Development	41
Using drift coefficients as a basis for inferring times, effective population sizes, and genetic adaptations	40
Terrestrial Birth and Body Size Tune UCP1 Functionality in Seals	40