OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review of Animal Biosciences is 5. 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.)

Article	Citations
How Can Genomics Help or Hinder Wildlife Conservation?	214
Endogenous Retroviruses Drive Resistance and Promotion of Exogenous Retroviral Homologs	132
Introduction	107
Improving Nutrition Security in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and the Role of Animal-Source Foods	81
Chagas Disease Ecology in the United States: Recent Advances in UnderstandingTrypanosoma cruziTransmission Among Triatomines, Wildlife, and Domestic Animals and a Quantitative Synthesis of Vect	76
Strategies to Improve Poultry Food Safety, a Landscape Review	71
Breeding and Selecting Corals Resilient to Global Warming	41
Genetics of Thoroughbred Racehorse Performance	41
Chromosome Engineering: Technologies, Applications, and Challenges	39
The Geometric Framework for Nutrition and Its Application to Rodent Models	38
A Passion for Small Things and Staying Primed: My Career in Virology and Immunology	37
Cloning for the Twenty-First Century and Its Place in Endangered Species Conservation	35
Salmonellain Swine: Prevalence, Multidrug Resistance, and Vaccination Strategies	35
Neuroendocrine Control of Reproduction in Teleost Fish: Concepts and Controversies	33
Sperm in the Mammalian Female Reproductive Tract: Surfing Through the Tract to Try to Beat the Odds	33
Phylogenomics and the Genetic Architecture of the Placental Mammal Radiation	31
Extensive Recoding of the Neural Proteome in Cephalopods by RNA Editing	28
Potential Applications and Perspectives of Humanized Mouse Models	28
Beyond Antimicrobial Use: A Framework for Prioritizing Antimicrobial Resistance Interventions	27
Evolution of Vertebrate Hormones and Their Receptors: Insights from Non-Osteichthyan Genomes	26
Convergent Evolution of Pregnancy in Vertebrates	25
Interrogating the Roles of Mutation–Selection Balance, Heterozygote Advantage, and Linked Selection in Maintaining Recessive Lethal Variation in Natural Populations	24
Reproductive and Metabolic Health Following Exposure to Environmental Chemicals: Mechanistic Insights from Mammalian Models	24
The Naked Mole-Rat as a Model for Healthy Aging	22
Conservation Genomics and Metagenomics of Giant and Red Pandas in the Wild	21

Genetic Causes and Consequences of Sympatric Morph Divergence in Salmonidae: A Search for Mechanisms	21
Ovarian Cancer: Applications of Chickens to Humans	21
Host Genetic Determinants of the Microbiome Across Animals: From Caenorhabditis elegans to Cattle	20
Diversity and Convergence of Sex-Determination Mechanisms in Teleost Fish	20
Advances and Challenges in Cell Biology for Cultured Meat	19
Nonhuman Primates in Translational Research	19
Bacteriome Structure, Function, and Probiotics in Fish Larviculture: The Good, the Bad, and the Gaps	19
Advances in Microbiome Research for Animal Health	18
Genetic Variation and Hybridization in Evolutionary Radiations of Cichlid Fishes	18
Illuminating the Mysteries of the Smallest Birds: Hummingbird Population Health, Disease Ecology, and Genomics	17
Advocating for Generalizability: Accepting Inherent Variability in Translation of Animal Research Outcomes	15
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No More Extinctions: Recovering Australia's Biodiversity	14
Pregnancy Establishment and Diagnosis in Livestock	14
Applications of Nanobodies	12
Dog Models of Aging	12
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The Role of Zoos and Aquariums in a Changing World	11
The Biology and Evolution of Fierce Females (Moles and Hyenas)	9
Lipotoxicity and Oocyte Quality in Mammals: Pathogenesis, Consequences, and Reversibility	9
Opportunities and Limitations for Reproductive Science in Species Conservation	9
Genomics and the Evolutionary History of Equids	9
Toxoplasmosis: Recent Advances in Understanding the Link Between Infection and Host Behavior	9
How Fish Population Genomics Can Promote Sustainable Fisheries: A Road Map	8
The Path to Net-Zero in Dairy Production: Are Pronounced Decreases in Enteric Methane Achievable?	7
New Insights in Muscle Biology that Alter Meat Quality	6
The Rhesus Macaque as an Animal Model for Human Nutrition: An Ecological-Evolutionary Perspective	6
Epigenetic Regulation of the Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genomes: Involvement in Metabolism, Development, and Disease	6
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Introduction	5