Molecular Ecology Resources

Papers
(The TQCC of Molecular Ecology Resources is 12. 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.)
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Bayesian tests for random mating in polyploids334
A road map for in vivo evolution experiments with blood‐borne parasitic microbes95
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Good from far, but far from good: The impact of a reference genome on evolutionary inference64
The endangered White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa) genome reveals low diversity and heterogenous patterns of differentiation62
Chromosome‐Level Genome Assembly of the Loach Goby Rhyacichthys aspro Offers Insights Into Gobioidei Evolution61
Revisiting the Briggs Ancient DNA Damage Model: A Fast Maximum Likelihood Method to Estimate Post‐Mortem Damage61
Evaluating the use of lake sedimentary DNA in palaeolimnology: A comparison with long‐term microscopy‐based monitoring of the phytoplankton community59
The voice of the little giants: Arcellinida testate amoebae in environmental DNA‐based bioindication, from taxonomy free to haplotypic level59
Chromosome‐scale assembly and whole‐genome sequencing of 266 giant panda roundworms provide insights into their evolution, adaptation and potential drug targets58
detectEVE: Fast, Sensitive and Precise Detection of Endogenous Viral Elements in Genomic Data50
Stomach Content DNA (scDNA) Detection and Quantification for Predator Diet Assessment Using High‐Throughput Nanofluidic Chip Technology: Species‐Specific qPCR Assay Pa50
Benchmarking the Mantel test and derived methods for testing association between distance matrices50
Molecular assays of pollen use consistently reflect pollinator visitation patterns in a system of flowering plants45
Fast‐tracking bespoke DNA reference database generation from museum collections for biomonitoring and conservation44
Molecular diet analysis in mussels and other metazoan filter feeders and an assessment of their utility as natural eDNA samplers43
A minimally invasive, field‐applicable CRISPR/Cas biosensor to aid in the detection of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative fungal agent of white‐nose syndrome in bats43
DNA barcoding of Chinese snakes reveals hidden diversity and conservation needs42
A chromosome‐scale genome assembly and annotation of the spring orchid (Cymbidium goeringii)42
Use of 16S rRNA gene sequences to identify cyanobacteria that can grow in far‐red light42
metaPR2: A database of eukaryotic 18S rRNA metabarcodes with an emphasis on protists40
Alignment‐free methods for polyploid genomes: Quick and reliable genetic distance estimation40
Collecting baleen whale blow samples by drone: A minimally intrusive tool for conservation genetics39
A second unveiling: Haplotig masking of the eastern oyster genome improves population‐level inference39
Particle size influences decay rates of environmental DNA in aquatic systems38
The topological nature of tag jumping in environmental DNA metabarcoding studies38
Potential PCR amplification bias in identifying complex ecological patterns: Higher species compositional homogeneity revealed in smaller‐size coral reef zooplankton by metatranscriptomics37
MaxTemp: A Method to Maximise Precision of the Temporal Method for Estimating Ne in Genetic Monitoring Programs37
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Chromosome‐level genome assembly reveals genomic architecture of northern range expansion in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)35
The chromosome‐scale assembly of the Canary Islands endemic spiderDysdera silvatica(Arachnida, Araneae) sheds light on the origin and genome structure of chemoreceptor gene families in chelicer35
A needle in a haystack: A new metabarcoding approach to survey diversity at the species level of Arcellinida (Amoebozoa: Tubulinea)35
Single‐molecule long‐read sequencing reveals extensive genomic and transcriptomic variation between maize and its wild relative teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis)35
Deciphering the molecular signal from past and alive bacterial communities in aquatic sedimentary archives34
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Improved genome assembly of Chinese shrimp (Fenneropenaeus chinensis) suggests adaptation to the environment during evolution and domestication33
SPEDE‐sampler: An R Shiny application to assess how methodological choices and taxon sampling can affect Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent output and interpretation33
Beyond taxonomy: Validating functional inference approaches in the context of fish‐farm impact assessments33
Demogenomic inference from spatially and temporally heterogeneous samples32
Simulating plasticity as a framework for understanding habitat selection and its role in adaptive capacity and extinction risk through an expansion of CDMetaPOP32
Fishing for DNA? Designing baits for population genetics in target enrichment experiments: Guidelines, considerations and the new tool supeRbaits32
Beware of Plant DNA in Animal Dietary Metabarcoding: Lessons From a Strictly Insectivorous Bat32
Monitoring of multiple fish species by quantitative environmental DNA metabarcoding surveys over two summer seasons32
Inference of the distribution of fitness effects of mutations is affected by single nucleotide polymorphism filtering methods, sample size and population structure32
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Species discrimination in Schima (Theaceae): Next‐generation super‐barcodes meet evolutionary complexity31
The proof is in the poo: Non‐invasive method to detect endoparasitic infection31
Contemporary Ne estimation using temporally spaced data with linked loci31
Pedigree simulations reveal that maternity assignment is reliable in populations with conspecific brood parasitism, incomplete parental sampling and kin structure30
Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies30
DNA methylation‐based biomarkers for ageing long‐lived cetaceans30
When barcoding fails: Genome chimerization (admixing) and reticulation obscure phylogenetic and taxonomic relationships30
Batch effects in population genomic studies with low‐coverage whole genome sequencing data: Causes, detection and mitigation30
Performance of DNA metabarcoding, standard barcoding and morphological approaches in the identification of insect biodiversity29
MycoAI: Fast and accurate taxonomic classification for fungal ITS sequences29
A comprehensive framework for detecting copy number variants from single nucleotide polymorphism data: ‘rCNV’, a versatile r package for paralogue and CNV detection29
Exploring the vertebrate fauna of the Bird’s Head Peninsula (Indonesia, West Papua) through DNA barcodes28
Assessing the impact of USER‐treatment on hyRAD capture applied to ancient DNA28
Comparative analysis of fish environmental DNA reveals higher sensitivity achieved through targeted sequence‐based metabarcoding28
The great tit HapMap project: A continental‐scale analysis of genomic variation in a songbird28
The Long and the Short of It: Nanopore‐Based eDNA Metabarcoding of Marine Vertebrates Works; Sensitivity and Species‐Level Assignment Depend on Amplicon Lengths28
Proteomic fingerprinting enables quantitative biodiversity assessments of species and ontogenetic stages in Calanus congeners (Copepoda, Crustacea) from the Arctic Ocean28
Chromosome‐level genome of Entada phaseoloides provides insights into genome evolution and biosynthesis of triterpenoid saponins27
Comparing eDNA and Transect Methods for Aquatic Biodiversity Assessment in Lakes and Ponds27
Evaluating the Benefits and Limits of Multiple Displacement Amplification With Whole‐Genome Oxford Nanopore Sequencing27
Allelic bias when performing in‐solution enrichment of ancient human DNA26
GenAPoPop 1.0: A user‐friendly software to analyse genetic diversity and structure from partially clonal and selfed autopolyploid organisms26
pr2‐primers: An 18S rRNA primer database for protists26
Evaluating the role of reference‐genome phylogenetic distance on evolutionary inference26
Recovering the genomes hidden in museum wet collections25
Non‐invasive age estimation based on faecal DNA using methylation‐sensitive high‐resolution melting for Indo‐Pacific bottlenose dolphins25
A roadmap to robust discriminant analysis of principal components25
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Coalescent‐based species delimitation meets deep learning: Insights from a highly fragmented cactus system25
Do not be scared of the genome's 5th base—Explaining phenotypic variability and evolutionary dynamics through DNA methylation analysis25
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Bee foraging preferences, microbiota and pathogens revealed by direct shotgun metagenomics of honey25
A Long‐Term Ecological Research Data Set From the Marine Genetic Monitoring Program ARMSMBON 2018–202024
Lessons from assembling UCEs: A comparison of common methods and the case of Clavinomia (Halictidae)24
Quantifying uncertainty in inferences of landscape genetic resistance due to choice of individual‐based genetic distance metric24
Replicate DNA metabarcoding can discriminate seasonal and spatial abundance shifts in river macroinvertebrate assemblages24
Evolutionary history and seascape genomics of Harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) across environmental gradients in the North Atlantic and adjacent waters24
Detecting clonemate pairs in multicellular diploid clonal species based on a shared heterozygosity index24
Genomic Prediction of Individual Inbreeding Levels for the Management of Genetic Diversity in Populations With Small Effective Size24
Enhancing metabarcoding efficiency and ecological insights through integrated taxonomy and DNA reference barcoding: A case study on beach meiofauna24
ParAquaSeq, a Database of Ecologically Annotated rRNA Sequences Covering Zoosporic Parasites Infecting Aquatic Primary Producers in Natural and Industrial S24
A consensus protocol for the recovery of mercury methylation genes from metagenomes23
COInr and mkCOInr: Building and customizing a nonredundant barcoding reference database from BOLD and NCBI using a semi‐automated pipeline23
Environmental RNA can distinguish life stages in amphibian populations23
On‐site environmental DNA detection of species using ultrarapid mobile PCR22
Plastid Genome Assembly Using Long‐read data22
Genotyping‐in‐thousands by sequencing (GT‐seq) of noninvasive faecal and degraded samples: A new panel to enable ongoing monitoring of Canadian polar bear populations22
Detection and population genomics of sea turtle species via noninvasive environmental DNA analysis of nesting beach sand tracks and oceanic water22
FreshOmics: A manually curated and standardized –omics database for investigating freshwater microbiomes22
Improved high‐throughput MHC typing for non‐model species using long‐read sequencing22
Chromosome‐scale genome assembly of areca palm (Areca catechu)21
Comparative genomics of a vertically transmitted thiotrophic bacterial ectosymbiont and its close free‐living relative21
Pseudoreplication in genomic‐scale data sets21
Testing the applicability of environmental DNA metabarcoding to landscape genetics21
Phylogenomic and syntenic data demonstrate complex evolutionary processes in early radiation of the rosids21
Metabarcoding using nanopore long‐read sequencing for the unbiased characterization of apicomplexan haemoparasites21
SLRfinder: A method to detect candidate sex‐linked regions with linkage disequilibrium clustering21
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Leveraging an existing whole‐genome resequencing population data set to characterize toll‐like receptor gene diversity in a threatened bird21
Limits and convergence properties of the sequentially Markovian coalescent20
The accuracy of predicting maladaptation to new environments with genomic data20
Prey ration, temperature, and predator species influence digestion rates of prey DNA inferred from qPCR and metabarcoding20
An exploration of assembly strategies and quality metrics on the accuracy of the rewarewa (Knightia excelsa) genome20
The unknown unknown: A framework for assessing environmental DNA assay specificity against unsampled taxa20
New deep learning‐based methods for visualizing ecosystem properties using environmental DNA metabarcoding data20
A dynamic ancestral graph model and GPU‐based simulation of a community based on metagenomic sampling20
MuDoGeR: Multi‐Domain Genome recovery from metagenomes made easy20
A collaborative backbone resource for comparative studies of subterranean evolution: The World Asellidae database20
Missing genotype imputation in non‐model species using self‐organizing maps20
Unlocking inaccessible historical genomes preserved in formalin20
Three Novel Spider Genomes Unveil Spidroin Diversification and Hox Cluster Architecture: Ryuthela nishihirai (Liphistiidae), Uloborus plumipes (Uloboridae) and Cheiracanthium punctori20
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A bioinformatic toolkit to simultaneously identify sex and sex‐linked regions19
Conservation in a litre of air19
High‐quality genomes reveal significant genetic divergence and cryptic speciation in the model organism Folsomia candida (collembola)19
Environmental DNA metabarcoding of freshwater fish in Malaysian tropical rivers using short‐read nanopore sequencing as a potential biomonitoring tool19
The year of the tiger and the year of tiger genomes!19
Tools and applications for integrative analysis of DNA methylation in social insects18
Genome architecture used to supplement species delineation in two cryptic marine ciliates18
TransPi—a comprehensive TRanscriptome ANalysiS PIpeline for de novo transcriptome assembly18
Detailed DNA barcoding of mayflies in a small European country proved how far we are from having comprehensive barcode reference libraries18
CRISPR‐Cas9 enrichment, a new strategy in microbial metagenomics to investigate complex genomic regions: The case of an environmental integron18
Contemporary issues, current best practice and ways forward in soil protist ecology18
Identification and quantification of chimeric sequencing reads in a highly multiplexed RAD‐seq protocol18
Launching insectphylo.org; a new hub facilitating construction and use of synthesis molecular phylogenies of insects18
Using metatranscriptomics to estimate the diversity and composition of zooplankton communities17
Assessing the limits of local ancestry inference from small reference panels17
MOSCA 2.0: A bioinformatics framework for metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and metaproteomics data analysis and visualization17
The WZA: A window‐based method for characterizing genotype–environment associations17
A targeted amplicon sequencing panel to simultaneously identify mosquito species and Plasmodium presence across the entire Anopheles genus17
Influence of RNA‐Seq library construction, sampling methods, and tissue harvesting time on gene expression estimation17
SEGUL: Ultrafast, memory‐efficient and mobile‐friendly software for manipulating and summarizing phylogenomic datasets17
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Management and conservation implications of cryptic population substructure for two commercially exploited fishes (Merluccius spp.) in southern Africa16
Inferring the timing and strength of natural selection and gene migration in the evolution of chicken from ancient DNA data16
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Exhaustive reanalysis of barcode sequences from public repositories highlights ongoing misidentifications and impacts taxa diversity and distribution16
Testing genome skimming for species discrimination in the large and taxonomically difficult genus Rhododendron16
Bayesian StairwayPlot for Inferring Single Population Demographic Histories From Site Frequency Spectra16
A Short‐Read Amplicon Sequencing Protocol and Bioinformatic Pipeline for Ecological Surveillance of Dipteran Disease Vectors16
Log‐ratio analysis of microbiome data with many zeroes is library size dependent16
Correcting for Bias in Estimates of θw$$ {\theta}_w $$ and Tajima's D$$ D $$ From Missing Data in Next‐Generation Sequencing16
Who are you? A framework to identify and report genetic sample mix‐ups16
RNA allows identifying the consumption of carrion prey16
A high‐quality carabid genome assembly provides insights into beetle genome evolution and cold adaptation15
Species delimitation with limited sampling: An example from rare trapdoor spider genus Cyclocosmia (Mygalomorphae, Halonoproctidae)15
Validating a Target‐Enrichment Design for Capturing Uniparental Haplotypes in Ancient Domesticated Animals15
Genome and gene evolution of seahorse species revealed by the chromosome‐level genome of Hippocampus abdominalis15
A High‐Throughput Ancient DNA Extraction Method for Large‐Scale Sample Screening15
Machine learning in molecular ecology15
High quality haplotype‐resolved genome assemblies of Populus tomentosa Carr., a stabilized interspecific hybrid species widespread in Asia15
Long‐ and short‐read metabarcoding technologies reveal similar spatiotemporal structures in fungal communities14
RIDGE, a tool tailored to detect gene flow barriers across species pairs14
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Individual haplotyping of whale sharks from seawater environmental DNA14
A molecular‐based identification resource for the arthropods of Finland14
DNA barcodes highlight genetic diversity patterns in rodents from lowland desert and Andean areas in Argentina14
Efficiency of eDNA and iDNA in assessing vertebrate diversity and its abundance14
Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species‐level sorting of ecological samples14
Comparative genomics reveals the dynamic evolutionary history of cement protein genes of barnacles from intertidal to deep‐sea hydrothermal vents13
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of the mirid predator Cyrtorhinus lividipennis Reuter (Hemiptera: Miridae), an important natural enemy in the rice ecosystem13
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Environmental DNA phylogeography: Successful reconstruction of phylogeographic patterns of multiple fish species from cups of water13
Next‐generation bioinformatics: An ultrafast and user‐friendly tool for phylogenomic data exploration13
HMS‐S‐S: A tool for the identification of Sulphur metabolism‐related genes and analysis of operon structures in genome and metagenome assemblies13
Genome of the butterfly hillstream loach provides insights into adaptations to torrential mountain stream life13
A chromosome‐level genome assembly enables the identification of the follicule stimulating hormone receptor as the master sex‐determining gene in the flatfish Solea senegalensis13
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of Pedicularis kansuensis illuminates genome evolution of facultative parasitic plant13
An empirical test of the estimation of historical effective population size using Drosophila melanogaster13
Estimation of spatial demographic maps from polymorphism data using a neural network13
Genetic variation and domestication of horses revealed by 10 chromosome‐level genomes and whole‐genome resequencing13
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Temporal Variability in Effective Size (N̂e) Identifies Potential Sources of Discrepancies Between Mark Recapture and Close Kin Mark Recapture Estimates of Population Abundance13
A chromosomal level genome sequence for Quasipaa spinosa (Dicroglossidae) reveals chromosomal evolution and population diversity13
Macrobial airborne environmental DNA analysis: A review of progress, challenges, and recommendations for an emerging application13
quickLD: An efficient software for linkage disequilibrium analyses13
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind: Blow sampling provides a new dimension to whale population monitoring13
Scaling‐up RADseq methods for large datasets of non‐invasive samples: Lessons for library construction and data preprocessing12
Polly: An R package for genotyping microsatellites and detecting highly polymorphic DNA markers from short‐read data12
Affordable de novo generation of fish mitogenomes using amplification‐free enrichment of mitochondrial DNA and deep sequencing of long fragments12
Taxon‐specific or universal? Using target capture to study the evolutionary history of rapid radiations12
Integration of De Novo Chromosome‐Level Genome and Population Resequencing of Peganum (Nitrariaceae): A Case Study of Speciation and Evolutionary Trajectories in Arid Central Asia12
Quantitative assessment of reef foraminifera community from metabarcoding data12
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A guide to avian museomics: Insights gained from resequencing hundreds of avian study skins12
CCS‐Consensuser: A Haplotype‐Aware Consensus Generator for PacBio Amplicon Sequences12
Delimiting the rare, endangered and actively speciating12
Application of palaeogenetic techniques to historic mollusc shells reveals phylogeographic structure in a New Zealand abalone12
DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids12
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Identifying loci under selection via explicit demographic models12
Simultaneous genotyping of snails and infecting trematode parasites using high‐throughput amplicon sequencing12
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