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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Average nucleotide diversity should be weighted by per‐site sample size81
Current stewardship practices in invasion biology limit the value and secondary use of genomic data66
CPGView: A package for visualizing detailed chloroplast genome structures56
Leveraging genomic load estimates to optimize captive breeding programmes54
Improved recovery and annotation of genes in metagenomes through the prediction of fungal introns53
eDNAssay: A machine learning tool that accurately predicts qPCR cross‐amplification53
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The endangered White Sands pupfish (Cyprinodon tularosa) genome reveals low diversity and heterogenous patterns of differentiation53
Target enrichment of long open reading frames and ultraconserved elements to link microevolution and macroevolution in non‐model organisms53
Genetic landscape clustering of a large DNA barcoding data set reveals shared patterns of genetic divergence among freshwater fishes of the Maroni Basin52
Fast‐tracking bespoke DNA reference database generation from museum collections for biomonitoring and conservation51
The role of oceanic currents in the dispersal and connectivity of the mangrove Rhizophora mangle on the Southwest Atlantic region50
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Chromosome‐level genome assembly of Welwitschia mirabilis, a unique Namib Desert species46
Genomic insights into evolution and control of Wohlfahrtia magnifica, a widely distributed myiasis‐causing fly of warm‐blooded vertebrates46
Good from far, but far from good: The impact of a reference genome on evolutionary inference45
A chromosome‐level genome of Antechinus flavipes provides a reference for an Australian marsupial genus with male death after mating45
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Who are you? A framework to identify and report genetic sample mix‐ups43
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Chromosome‐level assembly of the mangrove plant Aegiceras corniculatum genome generated through Illumina, PacBio and Hi‐C sequencing technologies43
Machine learning in molecular ecology40
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The promise and challenges of characterizing genome‐wide structural variants: A case study in a critically endangered parrot39
Leveraging whole‐genome sequencing to estimate telomere length in plants37
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 bats37
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Genomic and machine learning‐based screening of aquaculture‐associated introgression into at‐risk wild North American Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations36
Does clustering of DNA barcodes agree with botanical classification directly at high taxonomic levels? Trees in French Guiana as a case study36
That's Not a Hybrid: How to Distinguish Patterns of Admixture and Isolation By Distance35
The voice of the little giants: Arcellinida testate amoebae in environmental DNA‐based bioindication, from taxonomy free to haplotypic level34
A high‐quality functional genome assembly of Delia radicum L. (Diptera: Anthomyiidae) annotated from egg to adult34
Crimp: An efficient tool for summarizing multiple clusterings in population structure analysis and beyond34
The Ocean barcode atlas: A web service to explore the biodiversity and biogeography of marine organisms33
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Genome and gene evolution of seahorse species revealed by the chromosome‐level genome of Hippocampus abdominalis32
The topological nature of tag jumping in environmental DNA metabarcoding studies32
Management and conservation implications of cryptic population substructure for two commercially exploited fishes (Merluccius spp.) in southern Africa31
Genotyping single nucleotide polymorphisms and inferring ploidy by amplicon sequencing for polyploid, ploidy‐variable organisms31
The complete and closed genome of the facultative generalist Candidatus Endoriftia persephone from deep‐sea hydrothermal vents31
A road map for in vivo evolution experiments with blood‐borne parasitic microbes31
The practice and promise of temporal genomics for measuring evolutionary responses to global change31
A chromosome‐level genome of Portunus trituberculatus provides insights into its evolution, salinity adaptation and sex determination30
Inferring the timing and strength of natural selection and gene migration in the evolution of chicken from ancient DNA data30
A multispecies amplicon sequencing approach for genetic diversity assessments in grassland plant species30
RNA allows identifying the consumption of carrion prey29
A second unveiling: Haplotig masking of the eastern oyster genome improves population‐level inference29
epiGBS2: Improvements and evaluation of highly multiplexed, epiGBS‐based reduced representation bisulfite sequencing29
Assessing genome assembly quality prior to downstream analysis: N50 versus BUSCO29
Optimizing ddRAD sequencing for population genomic studies with ddgRADer28
Revisiting the Briggs Ancient DNA Damage Model: A Fast Maximum Likelihood Method to Estimate Post‐Mortem Damage28
Use of 16S rRNA gene sequences to identify cyanobacteria that can grow in far‐red light28
Individual haplotyping of whale sharks from seawater environmental DNA28
The Ribosomal Operon Database: A Full‐Length rDNA Operon Database Derived From Genome Assemblies28
Using target capture to address conservation challenges: Population‐level tracking of a globally‐traded herbal medicine28
Allometric scaling improves the characterization of complex community transcriptomes28
Detecting Assembly Errors With Klumpy: Building Confidence in Your Daily Genomic Analysis28
Sequence coverage required for accurate genotyping by sequencing in polyploid species28
Particle size influences decay rates of environmental DNA in aquatic systems27
A molecular‐based identification resource for the arthropods of Finland26
Hybridization capture of larch (Larix Mill.) chloroplast genomes from sedimentary ancient DNA reveals past changes of Siberian forest26
Development of epigenetic biomarkers for the identification of sex and thermal stress in fish using DNA methylation analysis and machine learning procedures26
CRISPR‐based diagnostics detects invasive insect pests25
Alignment‐free methods for polyploid genomes: Quick and reliable genetic distance estimation25
A library preparation optimized for metagenomics of RNA viruses25
Tracing the geographic origin of endangered plant species using transcriptome‐derived SNPs: An example of Cathaya argyrophylla25
DNA barcoding of Chinese snakes reveals hidden diversity and conservation needs24
The impact of estimator choice: Disagreement in clustering solutions across K estimators for Bayesian analysis of population genetic structure across a wide range of empirical data sets24
Mini reviews: A new manuscript category for summarizing emerging topics24
Genomic library preparation and hybridization capture of formalin‐fixed tissues and allozyme supernatant for population genomics and considerations for combining capture‐ and RADseq‐based single nucle24
A high‐quality carabid genome assembly provides insights into beetle genome evolution and cold adaptation24
Bayesian tests for random mating in polyploids24
A chromosome‐scale genome assembly and annotation of the spring orchid (Cymbidium goeringii)24
A reference‐free approach to analyse RADseq data using standard next generation sequencing toolkits24
Successes and limitations of quantitative diet metabarcoding in a small, herbivorous mammal24
Predicting sample success for large‐scale ancient DNA studies on marine mammals24
Design and implementation of multiplexed amplicon sequencing panels to serve genomic epidemiology of infectious disease: A malaria case study24
Novel quality metrics allow identifying and generating high‐quality assemblies of piRNA clusters24
Reconstructing queen genotypes by pool sequencing colonies in eusocial insects: Statistical Methods and their application to honeybee24
A setback into a success: What can batch effects tell us about best practices in genomics?24
Chromosome‐scale assembly and whole‐genome sequencing of 266 giant panda roundworms provide insights into their evolution, adaptation and potential drug targets24
A chromosome‐level genome assembly for the tertiary relict plant Tetracentron sinense oliv. (trochodendraceae)23
SPdel: A pipeline to compare and visualize species delimitation methods for single‐locus datasets23
Recovered microbiome of an oviparous lizard differs across gut and reproductive tissues, cloacal swabs, and faeces23
Molecular assays of pollen use consistently reflect pollinator visitation patterns in a system of flowering plants23
Landscape transcriptomics as a tool for addressing global change effects across diverse species22
Collecting baleen whale blow samples by drone: A minimally intrusive tool for conservation genetics22
Ichthyoplankton metabarcoding: An efficient tool for early detection of invasive species establishment22
HMicroDB: A Comprehensive Database of Herpetofaunal Microbiota With a Focus on Host Phylogeny, Physiological Traits, and Environment Factors22
Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of a social hemipteran provide new insights into insect sociality22
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Benchmarking the Mantel test and derived methods for testing association between distance matrices20
Evaluating the use of lake sedimentary DNA in palaeolimnology: A comparison with long‐term microscopy‐based monitoring of the phytoplankton community20
Exhaustive reanalysis of barcode sequences from public repositories highlights ongoing misidentifications and impacts taxa diversity and distribution20
Mind the Gap: A Neural Network Framework for Imputing Genotypes in Non‐Model Species20
Nonlethal age estimation of three threatened fish species using DNA methylation: Australian lungfish, Murray cod and Mary River cod20
Journeying towards best practice data management in biodiversity genomics20
Recovery of 197 eukaryotic bins reveals major challenges for eukaryote genome reconstruction from terrestrial metagenomes20
f‐Statistics estimation and admixture graph construction with Pool‐Seq or allele count data using the R package poolfstat20
Monitoring environmental microbiomes: Alignment of microbiology and computational biology competencies within a culturally integrated curriculum and research framework20
Hīkina te mānuka: Advancing Indigenous Leadership in Molecular Ecology20
Pan‐genome analysis highlights the role of structural variation in the evolution and environmental adaptation of Asian honeybees20
Long‐ and short‐read metabarcoding technologies reveal similar spatiotemporal structures in fungal communities20
metaPR2: A database of eukaryotic 18S rRNA metabarcodes with an emphasis on protists19
A step towards the validation of bacteria biotic indices using DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring19
Efficiency of eDNA and iDNA in assessing vertebrate diversity and its abundance19
Airborne environmental DNA captures terrestrial vertebrate diversity in nature19
Analysing landscape effects on dispersal networks and gene flow with genetic graphs19
Improved de novo chromosome‐level genome assembly of the vulnerable walnut tree Juglans mandshurica reveals gene family evolution and possible genome basis of resistance to lesion nematode19
Labile sex chromosomes in the Australian freshwater fish family Percichthyidae18
Molecular diet analysis in mussels and other metazoan filter feeders and an assessment of their utility as natural eDNA samplers18
Complex interactions between environmental DNA (eDNA) state and water chemistries on eDNA persistence suggested by meta‐analyses18
Why eDNA fractions need consideration in biomonitoring18
High quality haplotype‐resolved genome assemblies of Populus tomentosa Carr., a stabilized interspecific hybrid species widespread in Asia18
Chromosome‐level de novo genome assembly and whole‐genome resequencing of the threatened species Acanthochlamys bracteata (Velloziaceae) provide insights into alpine plant divergence in a biodi18
eDNAFlow, an automated, reproducible and scalable workflow for analysis of environmental DNA sequences exploiting Nextflow and Singularity18
ModEst: Accurate estimation of genome size from next generation sequencing data18
Optimal sequence similarity thresholds for clustering of molecular operational taxonomic units inDNAmetabarcoding studies18
Environmental RNA degrades more rapidly than environmental DNA across a broad range of pH conditions18
A chromosome‐level assembly of the black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) genome facilitates the identification of growth‐associated genes18
GeneMiner: A tool for extracting phylogenetic markers from next‐generation sequencing data17
Metazoa‐level USCOs as markers in species delimitation and classification17
Seq2Sat and SatAnalyzer toolkit: Towards comprehensive microsatellite genotyping from sequencing data17
Integrating eDNA metabarcoding and simultaneous underwater visual surveys to describe complex fish communities in a marine biodiversity hotspot17
Species delimitation with limited sampling: An example from rare trapdoor spider genus Cyclocosmia (Mygalomorphae, Halonoproctidae)17
A cost‐effective blood DNA methylation‐based age estimation method in domestic cats, Tsushima leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis euptilurus) and Panthera species, using ta17
Improving the reliability of eDNA data interpretation17
RIDGE, a tool tailored to detect gene flow barriers across species pairs17
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of Sichuan pepper provides insights into apomixis, drought tolerance, and alkaloid biosynthesis17
slimr: An R package for tailor‐made integrations of data in population genomic simulations over space and time16
DNA methylation as a tool to explore ageing in wild roe deer populations16
Pedigree‐based assessment of recent population connectivity in a threatened rattlesnake16
Sampling effect in predicting the evolutionary response of populations to climate change16
A comprehensive analysis comparing linear and generalized linear models in detecting adaptive SNPs16
gscramble: Simulation of Admixed Individuals Without Reuse of Genetic Material16
DNA barcodes highlight genetic diversity patterns in rodents from lowland desert and Andean areas in Argentina16
Scaling‐up RADseq methods for large datasets of non‐invasive samples: Lessons for library construction and data preprocessing16
quickLD: An efficient software for linkage disequilibrium analyses16
Regarding the F‐word: The effects of data filtering on inferred genotype‐environment associations16
Filtration extraction method using a microfluidic channel for measuring environmental DNA16
Genome of the butterfly hillstream loach provides insights into adaptations to torrential mountain stream life16
Chromosome‐level assembly of Culex pipiens molestus and improved reference genome of Culex pipiens pallens (Culicidae, Diptera)16
Time to get real with qPCR controls: The frequency of sample contamination and the informative power of negative controls in environmental DNA studies15
HMS‐S‐S: A tool for the identification of Sulphur metabolism‐related genes and analysis of operon structures in genome and metagenome assemblies15
Arthropods are kin: Operationalizing Indigenous data sovereignty to respectfully utilize genomic data from Indigenous lands15
Comparing iDNA from mosquitoes and flies to survey mammals in a semi‐controlled Neotropical area15
A chromosome‐level genome assembly enables the identification of the follicule stimulating hormone receptor as the master sex‐determining gene in the flatfish Solea senegalensis15
Development of SNP Panels from Low‐Coverage Whole Genome Sequencing (lcWGS) to Support Indigenous Fisheries for Three Salmonid Species in Northern Canada15
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Benchmarking long‐read sequencing strategies for obtaining ASV‐resolved rRNA operons from environmental microeukaryotes15
A rodent anchored hybrid enrichment probe set for a range of phylogenetic utility: From order to species15
SPEDE‐sampler: An R Shiny application to assess how methodological choices and taxon sampling can affect Generalized Mixed Yule Coalescent output and interpretation15
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Roof of the world: Home and border in the genomic era15
Barcoding and traditional health practitioner perspectives are informative to monitor and conserve frogs and reptiles traded for traditional medicine in urban South Africa15
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DROP: Molecular voucher database for identification of Drosophila parasitoids14
Genetic variation and domestication of horses revealed by 10 chromosome‐level genomes and whole‐genome resequencing14
More than dirt: Sedimentary ancient DNA and Indigenous Australia14
Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species‐level sorting of ecological samples14
Culture‐enriched community profiling improves resolution of the vertebrate gut microbiota14
Reframing Formalin: A Molecular Opportunity Enabling Historical Epigenomics and Retrospective Gene Expression Studies14
Individual genotypes from environmental DNA: Fingerprinting snow tracks of three large carnivore species14
Multiplexing PCR allows the identification of within‐species genetic diversity in ancient eDNA14
Improved genome assembly of Chinese shrimp (Fenneropenaeus chinensis) suggests adaptation to the environment during evolution and domestication13
Metagenomic‐based discovery and comparison of the lignin degrading potential of microbiomes in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems via the LCdb database13
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Lysis‐Hi‐C as a method to study polymicrobial communities and eDNA13
Variance effective population size is affected by census size in sub‐structured populations13
Simulating plasticity as a framework for understanding habitat selection and its role in adaptive capacity and extinction risk through an expansion of CDMetaPOP13
An empirical test of the estimation of historical effective population size using Drosophila melanogaster13
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of Pedicularis kansuensis illuminates genome evolution of facultative parasitic plant13
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Demogenomic inference from spatially and temporally heterogeneous samples13
Single‐molecule long‐read sequencing reveals extensive genomic and transcriptomic variation between maize and its wild relative teosinte (Zea mays ssp. parviglumis)13
Comparative genomics reveals the dynamic evolutionary history of cement protein genes of barnacles from intertidal to deep‐sea hydrothermal vents13
Evaluating restriction enzyme selection for reduced representation sequencing in conservation genomics13
Inference of the distribution of fitness effects of mutations is affected by single nucleotide polymorphism filtering methods, sample size and population structure13
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Chromosome‐level genome assembly of an agricultural pest, the rice leaffolder Cnaphalocrocis exigua (Crambidae, Lepidoptera)12
Environmental DNA phylogeography: Successful reconstruction of phylogeographic patterns of multiple fish species from cups of water12
Assembly‐free quantification of vagrant DNA inserts12
Chromosome‐level genome and population genomic analysis provide insights into the evolution and environmental adaptation of Jinjiang oysterCrassostrea ariakensis12
Chromosome‐level genome assembly of the mirid predator Cyrtorhinus lividipennis Reuter (Hemiptera: Miridae), an important natural enemy in the rice ecosystem12
Exploring Environmental Microfungal Diversity Through Serial Single Cell Screening12
Affordable de novo generation of fish mitogenomes using amplification‐free enrichment of mitochondrial DNA and deep sequencing of long fragments12
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Genomic analysis of Medicago ruthenica provides insights into its tolerance to abiotic stress and demographic history12
Chromosome‐level de novo genome assembly of Telopea speciosissima (New South Wales waratah) using long‐reads, linked‐reads and Hi‐C12
MaxTemp: A Method to Maximise Precision of the Temporal Method for Estimating Ne in Genetic Monitoring Programs12
A target capture approach for phylogenomic analyses at multiple evolutionary timescales in rosewoods (Dalbergia spp.) and the legume family (Fabaceae)12
Chromosome‐level genome assembly reveals genomic architecture of northern range expansion in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)12
SambaR: An R package for fast, easy and reproducible population‐genetic analyses of biallelic SNP data sets12
Insect Cytochrome P450 Database: An Integrated Resource of Genetic Diversity, Evolution and Function12
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