OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Molecular Evolution 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Molecular Evolution of Malacostracan Short Wavelength Sensitive Opsins	74
Correction: Analysis of Cancer-Resisting Evolutionary Adaptations in Wild Animals and Applications for Human Oncology	45
Prebiotic N-(2-Aminoethyl)-Glycine (AEG)-Assisted Synthesis of Proto-RNA?	28
Correction: Stochastic Epigenetic Modification and Evolution of Sex Determination in Vertebrates	27
Modified Metabolism and Response to UV Radiation: Gene Expression Variations Along an Elevational Gradient in the Asiatic Toad (Bufo gargarizans)	23
Extant Sequence Reconstruction: The Accuracy of Ancestral Sequence Reconstructions Evaluated by Extant Sequence Cross-Validation	22
Learning from the Codon Table: Convergent Recoding Provides Novel Understanding on the Evolution of A-to-I RNA Editing	19
An Ultimate Question for Functional A-to-I mRNA Editing: Why Not a Genomic G?	19
Scaling up Functional Analyses of the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin	18
Unusual Evolution of Cephalopod Tryptophan Indole-Lyases	18
Embracing Complexity: Yeast Evolution Experiments Featuring Standing Genetic Variation	15
Organophosphorus Compound Formation Through the Oxidation of Reduced Oxidation State Phosphorus Compounds on the Hadean Earth	14
The Ancient Origins of Death Domains Support the ‘Original Sin’ Hypothesis for the Evolution of Programmed Cell Death	14
Post-Subfunctionalization Functions of HIF-1αA and HIF-1αB in Cyprinid Fish: Fine-Tuning Mitophagy and Apoptosis Regulation Under Hypoxic Stress	14
Overlaps Between CDS Regions of Protein-Coding Genes in the Human Genome: A Case Study on the NR1D1-THRA Gene Pair	14
Odorant-Binding and Chemosensory Proteins in Fig Wasps: Evolutionary Insights From Comparative Studies	13
dN/dS-H, a New Test to Distinguish Different Selection Modes in Protein Evolution and Cancer Evolution	13
Evolution of Transcript Abundance is Influenced by Indels in Protein Low Complexity Regions	11
On the Nature of the Last Common Ancestor: A Story from its Translation Machinery	11
Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Analysis of Plant Small RNA 2′-O-Methyltransferase (HEN1) Protein Family	10
On Protein Loops, Prior Molecular States and Common Ancestors of Life	10
Detecting Selection on Segregating Gene Duplicates in a Population	9
Molecular Footprints on Osmoregulation-Related Genes Associated with Freshwater Colonization by Cetaceans and Sirenians	9
A Closer Look at Non-random Patterns Within Chemistry Space for a Smaller, Earlier Amino Acid Alphabet	9
Biochemical Property Based Positional Matrix: A New Approach Towards Genome Sequence Comparison	8

Conservation of Protein Kinase A Substrates in the Cnidarian Coral Spermatozoa Among Animals and Their Molecular Evolution	8
Adaptation and Exaptation: From Small Molecules to Feathers	8
Pheromone Gene Diversification and the Evolution of Courtship Glands in Plethodontid Salamanders	8
Understanding the Origin and Evolution of Tea (Camellia sinensis [L.]): Genomic Advances in Tea	8
Functional Diversity of the Lepidopteran ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters	8
RNA or DNA? Revisiting the Chemical Nature of the Cenancestral Genome	8
The Last Universal Common Ancestor of Ribosome-Encoding Organisms: Portrait of LUCA	8
Evolution and Functional Diversification of Serine Racemase Homologs in Bacteria	7
The De Novo Emergence of Two Brain Genes in the Human Lineage Appears to be Unsupported	7
GC Content Across Insect Genomes: Phylogenetic Patterns, Causes and Consequences	7
A New View of the Last Universal Common Ancestor	7
PAReTT: A Python Package for the Automated Retrieval and Management of Divergence Time Data from the TimeTree Resource for Downstream Analyses	7
Biothermodynamics of Hemoglobin and Red Blood Cells: Analysis of Structure and Evolution of Hemoglobin and Red Blood Cells, Based on Molecular and Empirical Formulas, Biosynthesis Reactions, and Therm	7
Informatic Capabilities of Translation and Its Implications for the Origins of Life	7
Best Practices in Designing, Sequencing, and Identifying Random DNA Barcodes	7
Promiscuous Domains in Eukaryotes and HAT Proteins in FUNGI Have Followed Different Evolutionary Paths	6
The Evolutionary Fate of Mitochondrial Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases in Amitochondrial Organisms	6
Analysis of the MCTP Amino Acid Sequence Reveals the Conservation of Putative Calcium- and Lipid-Binding Pockets Within the C2 Domains In Silico	6
EasyDIVER + : An Advanced Tool for Analyzing High Throughput Sequencing Data from In Vitro Evolution of Nucleic Acids or Amino Acids	6
Deep Conservation and Unexpected Evolutionary History of Neighboring lncRNAs MALAT1 and NEAT1	6
Context-Dependent Mutation Dynamics, Not Selection, Explains the Codon Usage Bias of Most Angiosperm Chloroplast Genes	6
A Law of Redundancy Compounds the Problem of Cancer and Precision Medicine	6
Correction: Sequence Divergence in Venom Genes Within and Between Montane Pitviper (Viperidae: Crotalinae: Cerrophidion) Species is Driven by Mutation–Drift Equilibrium	6
FEZF2 and AIRE1: An Evolutionary Trade-off in the Elimination of Auto-reactive T Cells in the Thymus	6
Origins and Functional Significance of Eukaryotic Protein Folds	5
Molecular Evolution of clock Genes in Vertebrates	5
Putative MutS2 Homologs in Algae: More Goods in Shopping Bag?	5
Is the Association of the Rare rs35667974 IFIH1 Gene Polymorphism With Autoimmune Diseases a Case of RNA Epigenetics?	5
The Mystery of Cancer Resistance: A Revelation Within Nature	5
Correction: Principles of Molecular Evolution: Concepts from Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics for the Multilevel Theory of Learning	5
Caspase Domain Duplication During the Evolution of Caspase-16	5
Evidence for Multiple Independent Expansions of Fox Gene Families Within Flatworms	5
Transposable Element Diversity Remains High in Gigantic Genomes	5
Tracking the Diversity and Chromosomal Distribution of the Olfactory Receptor Gene Repertoires of Three Anurans Species	5
Jump-Chain Simulation of Markov Substitution Processes Over Phylogenies	5
Main Factors Shaping Amino Acid Usage Across Evolution	5
Costly circRNAs, Effective Population Size, and the Origins of Molecular Complexity	5
Evolutionary Nonindependence Between Human piRNAs and Their Potential Target Sites in Protein-Coding Genes	5
APGW/AKH Precursor from Rotifer Brachionus plicatilis and the DNA Loss Model Explain Evolutionary Trends of the Neuropeptide LWamide, APGWamide, RPCH, AKH, ACP, CRZ, and GnRH Families	5
Selection Pressure Regulates the Evolution-Structure–Function Paradigm of Monocyte Chemoattractant Protein Family	5