OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Genome Biology and Evolution is 27. 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
Mitonuclear Coevolution in Bumblebees (Bombus): Genomic Signatures and Its Role in Climatic Niche Adaptation	86
Genomic Resources and Annotations for a Colonial Ascidian, the Light-Bulb Sea Squirt Clavelina lepadiformis	77
Genome Evolution and Introgression in the New Zealand mud Snails Potamopyrgus estuarinus and Potamopyrgus kaitunuparaoa	66
Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome Assemblies for the Endangered Wood-Decaying Fungus Somion occarium	57
A Simulation Framework for Modeling the Within-Patient Evolutionary Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2	57
Palaeognaths Reveal Evolutionary Ancestry of the Avian Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II	52
Cis-regulatory Variation in Relation to Sex and Sexual Dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster	52
Impact of Phylogenetic Method Choice on Indel Analyses in HIV-1 Subtype B	52
Divergence in theSaccharomycesSpecies’ Heat Shock Response Is Indicative of Their Thermal Tolerance	52
Genealogical Analyses of 3 Cultivated and 1 Wild Specimen of Vitis vinifera from Greece	46
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	43
Highlight: Gene Cluster Reshuffling Drives Natural Sunscreen Evolution in Lichens	41
The Nitroplast and Its Relatives Support a Universal Model of Features Predicting Gene Retention in Endosymbiont and Organelle Genomes	38
Ancient Sheep Genomes Reveal Four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea Region	37
OrthoPhy: A Program to Construct Ortholog Data Sets Using Taxonomic Information	36
Genetic Analysis of Mingrelians Reveals Long-Term Continuity of Populations in Western Georgia (Caucasus)	34
Technological Development and Advances for Constructing and Analyzing Plant Pangenomes	34
An Ocean of Opsins	33
Detecting Positive Selection by Modeling Structure Within Images of Genetic Variation	33
Archaic introgression shapes genetic variation at loci associated with DNA virus load in modern humans	33
Diversity of Sex Chromosomes in Vertebrates: Six Novel Sex Chromosomes in Basal Haplochromines (Teleostei: Cichlidae)	32
“Correcting” Gene Trees to be More Like Species Trees Frequently Increases Topological Error	31
Origin and Evolution of Key Enzymes in the Anammox Pathway Revisited	30
Testing the Mother's Curse Hypothesis in Human Mitochondrial Genome Evolution	30
Highlight: The “Wild West” of Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in the Gastrotricha	29

Filtration of Gene Trees From 9,000 Exons, Introns, and UCEs Disentangles Conflicting Phylogenomic Relationships in Tree Frogs (Hylidae)	28
Egg Yolk Protein Homologs Identified in Live-Bearing Sharks: Co-Opted in the Lecithotrophy-to-Matrotrophy Shift?	28
High Polymorphism Levels of De Novo ORFs in a Yoruba Human Population	27
Evolution of Plant Conserved microRNAs After Whole-Genome Duplications	27