OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of BMC Ecology and Evolution is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the freshwater-fish genus Pethia (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) in Sri Lanka	58
Assessing climate niche similarity between persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) areas in Iran	48
Analysis of Thaumatotibia leucotreta (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Olethreutinae) mitochondrial genomes in the context of a recent host range expansion	43
Regional effect on the molecular clock rate of protein evolution in Eutherian and Metatherian genomes	39
Investigating the reliability of molecular estimates of evolutionary time when substitution rates and speciation rates vary	36
Ecological factors and parity mode correlate with genome size variation in squamate reptiles	34
Spatially heterogeneous selection and inter-varietal differentiation maintain population structure and local adaptation in a widespread conifer	31
Body mass evolution as a driver of morphological and ecological diversity in terrestrial mammals	23
Reciprocal positive effects on parasitemia between coinfecting haemosporidian parasites in house sparrows	23
Understanding the role of ecological divergence in the evolution of isolated populations in the Arremonops rufivirgatus species complex across Mesoamerica	23
Spatial population genetic structure and colony dynamics in Damaraland mole-rats (Fukomys damarensis) from the southern Kalahari	20
Sequencing refractory regions in bird genomes are hotspots for accelerated protein evolution	19
Phylodynamic and phylogeographic analysis of the complete genome of the West Nile virus lineage 2 (WNV-2) in the Mediterranean basin	19
PhyloNext: a pipeline for phylogenetic diversity analysis of GBIF-mediated data	18
Citizen science in eDNA monitoring for Mediterranean monk seal conservation	18
Environmental colour pattern variation in Mediterranean Podarcis	18
Small-scale habitat heterogeneity and genotype modulate in situ gene expression of the Antarctic bivalve Aequiyoldia eightsii in front of a melting glacier	17
The emergence of ecotypes in a parasitoid wasp: a case of incipient sympatric speciation in Hymenoptera?	17
Anthropogenic disturbance has altered the habitat of two Azorean endemic coastal plants	16
A new whip scorpion (Arachnida: Thelyphonida) with a phoretic mite (Acariformes: Trochometridiidae) from Mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber	16
Common lizard microhabitat selection varies by sex, parity mode, and colouration	16
Multi-modal locomotor costs favor smaller males in a sexually dimorphic leaf-mimicking insect	16
Diversity of attachment systems in heelwalkers (Mantophasmatodea) – highly specialized, but uniform	16
Evolutionary insights into Na+/K+-ATPase-mediated toxin resistance in the Crested Serpent-eagle preying on introduced cane toads in Okinawa, Japan	16
The pillars of the sea: strategies to achieve successful marine citizen science programs in the Mediterranean area	15

Community composition drives siderophore dynamics in multispecies bacterial communities	15
Rapid genomic evolution in Brassica rapa with bumblebee selection in experimental evolution	15
Deciphering the variation in cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of six European honey bee subspecies	15
Correction: Colonization of the ocean floor by jawless vertebrates across three mass extinctions	14
Age and environment are the main drivers shaping the wild common sole (Solea solea) microbiota	14
Lateral line system diversification during the early stages of ecological speciation in cichlid fish	14
Patterns of reproductive isolation in a haplodiploid mite, Amphitetranychus viennensis: prezygotic isolation, hybrid inviability and hybrid sterility	13
Osteology and functional morphology of a transitional pterosaur Dearc sgiathanach from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) of Scotland	13
Species and structural diversity of trees at the structural type level	13
Glomalin related soil protein, soil aggregate stability and soil aggregate-associated organic carbon under agroforestry practices in southern Ethiopia	13
The characteristics of the intestinal bacterial community from Oreochromis mossambicus and its interaction with microbiota from artificial fishery habitats	13
Wolbachia-driven selective sweep in a range expanding insect species	12
Modeling the metabolic evolution of mixotrophic phytoplankton in response to rising ocean surface temperatures	12
Tree regeneration characteristics in limestone forests of the Cat Ba National Park, Vietnam	12
Pelage variation and morphometrics of closely related Callithrix marmoset species and their hybrids	12
A DNA barcode library for mangrove gastropods and crabs of Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area reveals an unexpected faunal diversity associated with the intertidal forests of Southern China	12
Forelimb feathering, soft tissues, and skeleton of the flying dromaeosaurid Microraptor	12
Temporal changes in the Swiss flora: implications for flower-visiting insects	11
Retraction Note: MtDNA structure: the women who formed the Brazilian Northeast	11
Floral diversity and conservation status of vascular plants in arid mountainous areas	11
Combining distribution modelling and phylogeography to understand present, past and future of an endangered spider	11
Meta-analysis of the impact of plant invasions on soil microbial communities	11
Genetic diversity and family groups detected in a coyote population with red wolf ancestry on Galveston Island, Texas	11
Cell size, body size and Peto’s paradox	11
Evolutionarily stable payoff matrix in hawk–dove games	11
Development of environmental DNA metabarcoding primers for marine mollusks and comparison with published primers	11
Effects of habitat gradient and agro-climatic variation on selected soil physical and chemical properties in the Bale Mountains national park, south-eastern Ethiopia	11
Correction: 18S rRNA variability maps reveal three highly divergent, conserved motifs within Rotifera	11
Evolution of bird sex chromosomes: a cytogenomic approach in Palaeognathae species	10
Direct evidence for increased disease resistance in polyandrous broods exists only in eusocial Hymenoptera	10
Age, growth, and energy storage of the subterranean fish Triplophysa rosa (Cypriniformes: Nemacheilidae) from Chongqing, China	10
Complex mitogenomic rearrangements within the Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia)	10
Unravelling the palaeobiogeographical history of the living fossil genus Rehderodendron (Styracaceae) with fossil and extant pollen and fruit data	10
Seeing through sedimented waters: environmental DNA reduces the phantom diversity of sharks and rays in turbid marine habitats	10
Across a phylogeographic break in the Qinling Mountains-Huaihe River Line: Quaternary evolutionary history of a medicinal and edible homologous plant (Allium macrostemon) in China	10
Detecting natural selection in trait-trait coevolution	10
Widely used, short 16S rRNA mitochondrial gene fragments yield poor and erratic results in phylogenetic estimation and species delimitation of amphibians	10
Genotyping by sequencing for estimating relative abundances of diatom taxa in mock communities	10
Detecting the effects of opencast mining on ecosystem services value in arid and semi-arid areas based on time-series remote sensing images and Google Earth Engine (GEE)	10
Phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary patterns of the genus Psammolestes Bergroth, 1911 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)	10
Influence of hydraulic clam dredging and seasonal environmental changes on macro-benthic communities in the Southern Adriatic (Central Mediterranean Sea)	9
Reduced olfactory acuity in recently flightless insects suggests rapid regressive evolution	9
Seasonal trends and population status of the highly threatened Pteropus livingstonii in the Comoros archipelago	9
Increased phenotypic diversity as a consequence of ecological opportunity in the island radiation of Sulawesi ricefishes (Teleostei: Adrianichthyidae)	9
Experimental evolution reveals evolutionary bias and its causes	9
A new sphenodontian (Diapsida: Lepidosauria) from the Upper Triassic (Norian) of Germany and its implications for the mode of sphenodontian evolution	9
The composition of braconid wasp communities in three forest fragments in a tropical lowland forest of Panama	9
Parallels of quantum superposition in ecological models: from counterintuitive patterns to eco-evolutionary interpretations of cryptic species	9
Assessment of future habitat suitability and ecological vulnerability of Collichthys at population and species level	9
Dosage balance acts as a time-dependent selective barrier to subfunctionalization	9

Song determined by phylogeny and body mass in two differently constrained groups of birds: manakins and cardinals	9
Multicellularity and increasing Reynolds number impact on the evolutionary shift in flash-induced ciliary response in Volvocales	9
Distribution and extent of suitable habitats of Ruspoli’s Turaco (Tauraco ruspolii) and White-cheeked Turaco (Tauraco leucotis) under a changing climate in Ethiopia	8
Reconstructing the neuromuscular ground pattern of phylactolaemate bryozoans: new data from the Lophopodidae	8
Geographic range size and speciation in honeyeaters	8
Trade-offs between immunity and competitive ability in fighting ant males	8
Restricted antennal movement impacts the tandem running dynamics in a ponerine ant	8
A novel distribution of supergene genotypes is present in the socially polymorphic ant Formica neoclara	8
Patterns of enrichment and acceleration in evolutionary rates of promoters suggest a role of regulatory regions in cetacean gigantism	8
Sequencing the orthologs of human autosomal forensic short tandem repeats provides individual- and species-level identification in African great apes	8
Evidence for a chemical arms race between cuckoo wasps of the genus Hedychrum and their distantly related host apoid wasps	8
Co-structure analysis and genetic associations reveal insights into pinworms (Trypanoxyuris) and primates (Alouatta palliata) microevolutionary dynamics	8
The dilemma of underestimating freshwater biodiversity: morphological and molecular approaches	8
Genomic evidence indicates small island-resident populations and sex-biased behaviors of Hawaiian reef Manta Rays	8
Assessing the application of landmark-free morphometrics to macroevolutionary analyses	8
Unparalleled details of soft tissues in a Cretaceous ant	8
Response strategies of five common warm temperate plant species to insect defoliation	8
Thyasirid species composition (Bivalvia: Thyasiridae) and genetic connectivity of Parathyasira equalis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898) in deep basins of sub-Arctic fjords	7
Heterogeneity in maternal mRNAs within clutches of eggs in response to thermal stress during the embryonic stage	7
Colonization of the ocean floor by jawless vertebrates across three mass extinctions	7
Paleoecology of extinct species	7
Does female control and male mating system predict courtship investment and mating outcomes? A comparative study in five widow spider species (genus Latrodectus) tested under similar laboratory condit	7
The evolution of insect visual opsin genes with specific consideration of the influence of ocelli and life history traits	7
Tracing the paths of modular evolution by quantifying rearrangement events of protein domains	7
Linking morphology, performance, and habitat utilization: adaptation across biologically relevant ‘levels’ in tamarins	7
A large new Middle Jurassic ichthyosaur shows the importance of body size evolution in the origin of the Ophthalmosauria	7
Ecosystem restoration, regeneration and rewilding	7
Biogeographic and demographic history of the Mediterranean snakes Malpolon monspessulanus and Hemorrhois hippocrepis across the Strait of Gibraltar	7
Crowdsourcing conservation: unveiling Taiwan’s sea turtle foraging grounds, emerging threats, and residency with broad societal engagement	7
Prevalence of co-infection and genetic diversity of avian haemosporidian parasites in two rehabilitation facilities in Iran: implications for the conservation of captive raptors	7
Genetic relationships between sympatric and allopatric Coregonus ciscoes in North and Central Europe	7
Does the expensive brain hypothesis apply to amphibians and reptiles?	7
Impact of cucurbit crop management techniques on the foraging behavior of honeybees and hoverflies in Morogoro, Tanzania	7
Positive selection and relaxed purifying selection contribute to rapid evolution of sex-biased genes in green seaweed Ulva	7
mtDNA “nomenclutter” and its consequences on the interpretation of genetic data	7
Temporal and spatial variations in local sex ratios in a suburban population of the European green toad Bufotes viridis	7
Shed teeth from Portezuelo formation at Sierra del Portezuelo reveal a higher diversity of predator theropods during Turonian-Coniacian times in northern Patagonia	7
Unveiling a hotspot of genetic diversity in southern Italy for the endangered Hermann’s tortoise Testudo hermanni	7
Resource presentation dictates genetic and phenotypic adaptation in yeast	7
Response of arboreal Collembola communities to the conversion of lowland rainforest into rubber and oil palm plantations	7
Elusive origin of mitochondria shared by two sister species of Eurema butterflies	7
A novel SNP assay reveals increased genetic variability and abundance following translocations to a remnant Allegheny woodrat population	7
Research on agroforestry systems and biodiversity conservation: what can we conclude so far and what should we improve?	7
Contrasting effects of agriculture and urbanisation on bird and reptile communities in a Mediterranean delta (Gediz Delta, Türkiye)	7
2024 joint BMC Ecology and Evolution and BMC Zoology image competition: the winning images	7
Whole genome based insights into the phylogeny and evolution of the Juglandaceae	6
Large-scale geographic patterns and environmental and anthropogenic drivers of wetland plant diversity in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau	6
Floral diversity, structural integrity, and regeneration patterns of Endba-Zend dry Afromontane forest in Northwestern Ethiopia	6
Ontogenetic drivers of morphological evolution in monitor lizards and allies (Squamata: Paleoanguimorpha), a clade with extreme body size disparity	6
Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species	6
The evolution of vitamin C biosynthesis and transport in animals	6
Mitochondrial phylogenomics and mitogenome organization in the parasitoid wasp family Braconidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea)	6
Relative model selection of evolutionary substitution models can be sensitive to multiple sequence alignment uncertainty	6
Chromosomal mapping of repetitive DNA and retroelement sequences and its implications for the chromosomal evolution process in Ctenoluciidae (Characiformes)	6
Mitochondrial composition of and diffusion limiting factors of three social wasp genera Polistes, Ropalidia, and parapolybia (Hymenoptera: Vespidae)	6
Floristic composition and plant community distribution along environmental gradients in Guard dry Afromontane forest of Northwestern Ethiopia	6
Gazella arabica dareshurii: a remarkable relict population on Farur Island, Iran	6
Species delimitation and coexistence in an ancient, depauperate vertebrate clade	6
History of the terrestrial isopod genus Ligidium in Japan based on phylogeographic analysis	6
The natural and human-mediated expansion of a human-commensal lizard into the fringes of Southeast Asia	6
The influence of native shrub density on bird communities in the southern drylands of California, USA	6
Correction to: Inaugural BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition: the winning images	6
Snake-like bird hisses induce anti-predator responses in a frog	6
QInfoMating: sexual selection and assortative mating estimation software	6
Re-study of Guangdedendron micrum from the Late Devonian Xinhang forest	6
European agroforestry has no unequivocal effect on biodiversity: a time-cumulative meta-analysis	6
Expectations of duplicate gene retention under the gene duplicability hypothesis	6