OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Heredity is 7. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Some hope and many concerns on the future of the vaquita	222
Kinship clustering within an ecologically diverse killer whale metapopulation	63
6 years at Heredity	41
Detection of positive selection on depression-associated genes	40
Major QTL confer race-nonspecific resistance in the co-evolved Cronartium quercuum f. sp. fusiforme–Pinus taeda pathosystem	38
Complex parental effects impact variation in larval thermal tolerance in a vertically transmitting coral	34
Key triggers of adaptive genetic variability of sessile oak [Q. petraea (Matt.) Liebl.] from the Balkan refugia: outlier detection and association of SNP loci from ddRAD-seq data	31
Infection pattern of male-killing viruses alters phenotypes in the tea tortrix moth Homona magnanima	31
Egg provisioning explains the penetrance of symbiont-mediated sex allocation distortion in haplodiploids	29
Island demographics and trait associations in white-tailed deer	28
Genetic and behavioral differences between above and below ground Culex pipiens bioforms	27
Fine mapping of the Cepaea nemoralis shell colour and mid-banded loci using a high-density linkage map	27
Parental kinship coefficient but not paternal coloration predicts early offspring growth in lake char	25
Development and optimization of expected cross value for mate selection problems	25
Transitions in sex determination mechanisms through parental and sexual antagonism	23
Influence of geographic isolation and the environment on gene flow among phenotypically diverse lizards	22
Joint analysis of days to flowering reveals independent temperate adaptations in maize	21
Rolling down that mountain: microgeographical adaptive divergence during a fast population expansion along a steep environmental gradient in European beech	21
A strategic sampling design revealed the local genetic structure of cold-water fluvial sculpin: a focus on groundwater-dependent water temperature heterogeneity	19
Reverse genetic approaches for breeding nutrient-rich and climate-resilient cereal and food legume crops	18
Widespread coexistence of self-compatible and self-incompatible phenotypes in a diallelic self-incompatibility system in Ligustrum vulgare (Oleaceae)	17
Evidence of local adaptation despite strong drift in a Neotropical patchily distributed bromeliad	17
Linkage disequilibrium under polysomic inheritance	17
Multi-faceted approaches for breeding nutrient-dense, disease-resistant, and climate-resilient crop varieties for food and nutritional security	17
Long-term exhaustion of the inbreeding load in Drosophila melanogaster	16

Polyandry and non-random fertilisation maintain long-term genetic diversity in an isolated island population of adders (Vipera berus)	16
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of checkpoint genes on the tumour side of the immunological synapse	16
Variation in mitochondrial DNA affects locomotor activity and sleep in Drosophila melanogaster	15
Improving lodgepole pine genomic evaluation using spatial correlation structure and SNP selection with single-step GBLUP	15
Heritability and variance components of seed size in wild species: influences of breeding design and the number of genotypes tested	15
Genomic methods reveal independent demographic histories despite strong morphological conservatism in fish species	14
Correction to: Patterns of genetic diversity and structure of a threatened palm species (Euterpe edulis Arecaceae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest	14
Rapid evolution of hybrid breakdown following recent divergence with gene flow in Senecio species on Mount Etna, Sicily	14
Detecting purging of inbreeding depression by a slow rate of inbreeding for various traits: the impact of environmental and experimental conditions	14
Predicting recombination suppression outside chromosomal inversions in Drosophila melanogaster using crossover interference theory	13
Hybridization is strongly constrained by salinity during secondary contact between silverside fishes (Odontesthes, Atheriniformes)	13
Utilizing museomics to trace the complex history and species boundaries in an avian-study system of conservation concern	13
Landscape genetics of a sub-alpine toad: climate change predicted to induce upward range shifts via asymmetrical migration corridors	12
Two transects reveal remarkable variation in gene flow on opposite ends of a European toad hybrid zone	12
Performance of Bayesian and BLUP alphabets for genomic prediction: analysis, comparison and results	12
Correction to: Evolution of reproductive parasites with direct fitness benefits	12
Selection, recombination and population history effects on runs of homozygosity (ROH) in wild red deer (Cervus elaphus)	12
Experimental validation of small mammal gut microbiota sampling from faeces and from the caecum after death	12
Boundaries and hybridization in a secondary contact zone between freshwater mussel species (Family:Unionidae)	12
Inferring number of populations and changes in connectivity under the n-island model	12
Predicting recombination frequency from map distance	12
Additive genetic variation in Pinus radiata bark chemistry and the chemical traits associated with variation in mammalian bark stripping	11
Correction: Intragenomic rDNA variation—the product of concerted evolution, mutation, or something in between?	11
Intragenomic rDNA variation - the product of concerted evolution, mutation, or something in between?	11
Shedding light on variation in reproductive success through studies of population genetic structure in a Southeast Pacific Coast mussel	11
Stem cell transcriptional profiles from mouse subspecies reveal cis-regulatory evolution at translation genes	11
The mosaicism of Cas-induced mutations and pleiotropic effects of scarlet gene in an emerging model system	11
Genetic purging in captive endangered ungulates with extremely low effective population sizes	11
Genomic basis of insularity and ecological divergence in barn owls (Tyto alba) of the Canary Islands	11
Sperm DNA methylation landscape and its links to male fertility in a non-model teleost using EM-seq	11
Correction: Revealing stable SNPs and genomic prediction insights across environments enhance breeding strategies of productivity, defense, and climate-adaptability traits in white spruce	11
The evolution of preferred male traits, female preference and the G matrix: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore”	11
Multi-generation genomic prediction of maize yield using parametric and non-parametric sparse selection indices	11
Correction to: Evolution at two time frames: ancient structural variants involved in post-glacial divergence of the European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)	10
The genetic architecture underlying body-size traits plasticity over different temperatures and developmental stages in Caenorhabditis elegans	10
Fitness consequences of hybridization in a predominantly selfing species: insights into the role of dominance and epistatic incompatibilities	10
Why not Y naught	10
Combining conventional QTL analysis and whole-exome capture-based bulk-segregant analysis provides new genetic insights into tuber sprout elongation and dormancy release in a diploid potato population	10
Gene conversion: a non-Mendelian process integral to meiotic recombination	10
Distinct effects of three Wolbachia strains on fitness and immune traits in Homona magnanima	9
Performance evaluation of six popular short-read simulators	9
Backcrossing to different parents produced two distinct hybrid species	9
A new lineage of Galapagos giant tortoises identified from museum samples	9
Contrasting genetic trajectories of endangered and expanding red fox populations in the western U.S	9
Genetic variation of morphological scaling in Drosophila melanogaster	9
Comparative transmission genetics of introgressed chromatin in reciprocal advanced backcross populations in Gossypium (cotton) polyploids	9
Genetic diversity and signatures of selection in four indigenous horse breeds of Iran	9
The maternal effects of dietary restriction on Dnmt expression and reproduction in two clones of Daphnia pulex	8
Despite structural identity, ace-1 heterogenous duplication resistance alleles are quite diverse in Anopheles mosquitoes	8
Demystifying the mythical Mendel: a biographical review	8

Genetics of randomly bred cats support the cradle of cat domestication being in the Near East	8
Genetic differentiation and evolution of broad-leaved evergreen shrub and tree varieties of Daphniphyllum macropodum (Daphniphyllaceae)	8
Long-term climatic stability drives accumulation and maintenance of divergent freshwater fish lineages in a temperate biodiversity hotspot	7
AI-informed conservation genomics	7
A high-density linkage map reveals broad- and fine-scale sex differences in recombination in the hihi (stitchbird; Notiomystis cincta)	7
Transcriptomics of differences in thermal plasticity associated with selection for an exaggerated male sexual trait	7
Multiple karyotype differences between populations of the Hoplias malabaricus (Teleostei; Characiformes), a species complex in the gray area of the speciation process	7
Dissecting the sequential evolution of a selfish mitochondrial genome in Caenorhabditis elegans	7
Genetic and environmental effects on morphological traits of social phenotypes in wasps	7
Ecological genetics of isolated loach populations indicate compromised adaptive potential	7
IBD sharing patterns as intra-breed admixture indicators in small ruminants	7
Support for Y-compensation of mother’s curse affecting lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster	7
Integrating environmental gradients into breeding: application of genomic reactions norms in a perennial species	7