OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Genome Biology and Evolution is 28. 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.)

Article	Citations
Discovery of New Genomic Configuration of Mating-Type Loci in the Largest Lineage of Lichen-Forming Fungi	109
Erratum to: Chromosome-Level Assembly of the Atlantic Silverside Genome Reveals Extreme Levels of Sequence Diversity and Structural Genetic Variation	97
Correction to: Genome-Scale Data Reveal Deep Lineage Divergence and a Complex Demographic History in the Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) throughout the Southwestern and Central United	88
Myxozoans (Cnidaria) do not Retain Key Oxygen-Sensing and Homeostasis Toolkit Genes	85
Highlight: Gene Cluster Reshuffling Drives Natural Sunscreen Evolution in Lichens	63
Evolution of Plant Conserved microRNAs After Whole-Genome Duplications	53
Palaeognaths Reveal Evolutionary Ancestry of the Avian Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II	52
Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Kazachstania barnettii Strains Isolated from Anthropic Environments	43
“Correcting” Gene Trees to be More Like Species Trees Frequently Increases Topological Error	42
Genome Evolution and Introgression in the New Zealand mud Snails Potamopyrgus estuarinus and Potamopyrgus kaitunuparaoa	40
Ancient Sheep Genomes Reveal Four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea Region	40
Ohnologs and SSD Paralogs Differ in Genomic and Expression Features Related to Dosage Constraints	39
Conservation of a DNA Replication Motif among Phylogenetically Distant Budding Yeast Species	39
Genomic Resources and Annotations for a Colonial Ascidian, the Light-Bulb Sea Squirt Clavelina lepadiformis	38
Filtration of Gene Trees From 9,000 Exons, Introns, and UCEs Disentangles Conflicting Phylogenomic Relationships in Tree Frogs (Hylidae)	38
Divergence in theSaccharomycesSpecies’ Heat Shock Response Is Indicative of Their Thermal Tolerance	37
Genetic Analysis of Mingrelians Reveals Long-Term Continuity of Populations in Western Georgia (Caucasus)	37
Genealogical Analyses of 3 Cultivated and 1 Wild Specimen of Vitis vinifera from Greece	37
The Nitroplast and Its Relatives Support a Universal Model of Features Predicting Gene Retention in Endosymbiont and Organelle Genomes	36
Diversity of Sex Chromosomes in Vertebrates: Six Novel Sex Chromosomes in Basal Haplochromines (Teleostei: Cichlidae)	32
Does Effective Population Size Govern Evolutionary Differences in Telomere Length?	32
OrthoPhy: A Program to Construct Ortholog Data Sets Using Taxonomic Information	31
Egg Yolk Protein Homologs Identified in Live-Bearing Sharks: Co-Opted in the Lecithotrophy-to-Matrotrophy Shift?	30
Population Genomics of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata): Insights Into Deep Population Divergence and Multiple Merging Histories	30
New Perspectives on the Evolution of Within-Individual Genome Variation and Germline/Soma Distinction	30

Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome Assemblies for the Endangered Wood-Decaying Fungus Somion occarium	30
Multiple Domestication Centers of the Indian Pig Population	30
Comprehensive Phylogenomics of Methylobacterium Reveals Four Evolutionary Distinct Groups and Underappreciated Phyllosphere Diversity	29
Cis-regulatory Variation in Relation to Sex and Sexual Dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster	28
A Simulation Framework for Modeling the Within-Patient Evolutionary Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2	28
Our Tangled Family Tree: New Genomic Methods Offer Insight into the Legacy of Archaic Admixture	28