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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
PHACE: Phylogeny-Aware Detection of Molecular Coevolution	1340
Highlight: Unmasking the Supergene Beneath the Ruff's Mating Strategies	1318
Odd-Paired is Involved in Morphological Divergence of Snail-Feeding Beetles	202
Genome-wide Parallelism Underlies Rapid Freshwater Adaptation Fueled by Standing Genetic Variation in a Wild Fish	176
Rewiring the Sex-Determination Pathway During the Evolution of Self-Fertility	173
Prevalent Introgression Underlies Convergent Evolution in the Diversification ofPungitiusSticklebacks	164
A Small Change With a Twist Ending: A Single Residue in EGF-CFC Drives Bilaterian Asymmetry	148
Brief Communication: The Predictable Network Topology of Evolutionary Genomic Constraint	122
Correction to: Complex Evolutionary History With Extensive Ancestral Gene Flow in an African Primate Radiation	118
Adaptation of Antarctic Icefish Vision to Extreme Environments	111
UPrimer: A Clade-Specific Primer Design Program Based on Nested-PCR Strategy and Its Applications in Amplicon Capture Phylogenomics	107
Evolution of Sex-Biased Gene Expression During Transitions to Separate Sexes in the Silene Genus	99
From Adam's rib: the Siberian moth's female W chromosome is derived from its Z counterpart	87
The Demographic History of Populations and Genomic Imprinting have Shaped the Transposon Patterns in Arabidopsis lyrata	69
An Ancestral Major Histocompatibility Complex Organization in Cartilaginous Fish: Reconstructing MHC Origin and Evolution	69
Evolution of Spatial and Temporalcis-Regulatory Divergence in Sticklebacks	66
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
Highlight: Ancient oceans, New skeletons—innovations in silicon transport shaped sponge skeletal evolution	59
An Evolutionarily Conserved Laterally Acquired Toolkit Enables Microbiota Targeting by Trichomonas	59
Whole-genome Comparisons Identify Repeated Regulatory Changes Underlying Convergent Appendage Evolution in Diverse Fish Lineages	53
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	50
Transposable Element Diversity and Activity Patterns in Neotropical Salamanders	50
HaploSweep: Detecting and Distinguishing Recent Soft and Hard Selective Sweeps through Haplotype Structure	50

Inference of Infectious Disease Transmission through a Relaxed Bottleneck Using Multiple Genomes Per Host	48
Bidirectional Movement of Emerging H5N8 Avian Influenza Viruses Between Europe and Asia via Migratory Birds Since Early 2020	48
Redefining the Limits of Functional Continuity in the Early Evolution of P-Loop NTPases	48
Terrestrial Birth and Body Size Tune UCP1 Functionality in Seals	48
Elevated HIV Viral Load is Associated with Higher Recombination Rate In Vivo	44
Germ Granule Evolution Provides Mechanistic Insight into Drosophila Germline Development	44
Selection Can Favor a Recombination Landscape That Limits Polygenic Adaptation	43
The Interplay Between Developmental Stage and Environment Underlies the Adaptive Effect of a Natural Transposable Element Insertion	43
Inference of Coalescence Times and Variant Ages Using Convolutional Neural Networks	43
Phylogenomic Analyses Reveal that Panguiarchaeum Is a Clade of Genome-Reduced Asgard Archaea Within the Njordarchaeia	42
Polishing De Novo Nanopore Assemblies of Bacteria and Eukaryotes With FMLRC2	42
Chromatin Accessibility and Gene Expression Vary Between a New and Evolved Autopolyploid of Arabidopsis arenosa	41
Weighting by Gene Tree Uncertainty Improves Accuracy of Quartet-based Species Trees	41
Adaptive evolution of odorant receptors is associated with elaborations of social organization in ants	41
Multilevel Gene Expression Changes in Lineages Containing Adaptive Copy Number Variants	40
Genomic Features Underlying the Origin of Sociality and the Diversification of Caste Systems in Termites	40