OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Molecular 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Molecular Evolution of Malacostracan Short Wavelength Sensitive Opsins	43
Prebiotic N-(2-Aminoethyl)-Glycine (AEG)-Assisted Synthesis of Proto-RNA?	42
Correction: Analysis of Cancer-Resisting Evolutionary Adaptations in Wild Animals and Applications for Human Oncology	39
Modified Metabolism and Response to UV Radiation: Gene Expression Variations Along an Elevational Gradient in the Asiatic Toad (Bufo gargarizans)	29
Correction: Stochastic Epigenetic Modification and Evolution of Sex Determination in Vertebrates	29
Avoiding Catastrophic Mutations Accurately Predicts Amino Acid to Codon Pairing	26
Molecular Evolution of the Green-Sensitive Opsins (RH2) in Sulawesi Oryzias Species with a Single Origin	24
Extant Sequence Reconstruction: The Accuracy of Ancestral Sequence Reconstructions Evaluated by Extant Sequence Cross-Validation	22
The evolutionary path of widespread IR heteroplasmy of chloroplast genomes in the context of Rhodophyta phylogeny	21
How Binding Affinity and Binding Specificity Map to Sequence Space	19
Screening for Viruses in Pallas’s Long-Tongued Bats (Glossophaga soricina) in Brazil	17
An Ultimate Question for Functional A-to-I mRNA Editing: Why Not a Genomic G?	17
Learning from the Codon Table: Convergent Recoding Provides Novel Understanding on the Evolution of A-to-I RNA Editing	16
Evaluating Pretrained Protein Language Model Embeddings as Proxies for Functional Similarity	15
Scaling up Functional Analyses of the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Rhodopsin	15
Embracing Complexity: Yeast Evolution Experiments Featuring Standing Genetic Variation	15
Unusual Evolution of Cephalopod Tryptophan Indole-Lyases	15
Understanding Functional Evolution in Orthologs and Paralogs	14
Odorant-Binding and Chemosensory Proteins in Fig Wasps: Evolutionary Insights From Comparative Studies	14
Organophosphorus Compound Formation Through the Oxidation of Reduced Oxidation State Phosphorus Compounds on the Hadean Earth	14
Overlaps Between CDS Regions of Protein-Coding Genes in the Human Genome: A Case Study on the NR1D1-THRA Gene Pair	14
Post-Subfunctionalization Functions of HIF-1αA and HIF-1αB in Cyprinid Fish: Fine-Tuning Mitophagy and Apoptosis Regulation Under Hypoxic Stress	13
Evolution of Transcript Abundance is Influenced by Indels in Protein Low Complexity Regions	12
On the Nature of the Last Common Ancestor: A Story from its Translation Machinery	12
MEGA 12.1: Cross-Platform Release for macOS and Linux Operating Systems	12

On Protein Loops, Prior Molecular States and Common Ancestors of Life	11
Phylogenetic and Evolutionary Analysis of Plant Small RNA 2′-O-Methyltransferase (HEN1) Protein Family	11
Mapping Patterns of G-Quadruplex-Forming Sequence Conservation in Primates	11
dN/dS-H, a New Test to Distinguish Different Selection Modes in Protein Evolution and Cancer Evolution	11
Systematic Detection of Alternative Open Reading Frames (altORFs) in Cancer Driver Genes	11
Evolution of the Metazoan Protein Domain Repertoire Revealed by a Birth-Death-Gain Model	10
Possible Acquisition and Molecular Evolution of vpu Genes Inferred from Comprehensive Sequence Analysis of Human and Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses	10
Conservation of Protein Kinase A Substrates in the Cnidarian Coral Spermatozoa Among Animals and Their Molecular Evolution	10
2025 Zuckerkandl Prize	10
A Closer Look at Non-random Patterns Within Chemistry Space for a Smaller, Earlier Amino Acid Alphabet	10
Molecular Footprints on Osmoregulation-Related Genes Associated with Freshwater Colonization by Cetaceans and Sirenians	10
Cystathionine Gamma-Lyase: A Potential Longevity Gene Under Selection?	10
Biochemical Property Based Positional Matrix: A New Approach Towards Genome Sequence Comparison	10
Type II LDH/MDH Oxidoreductases in Pacific Oyster Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793): Gene Organization and Expression Patterns During Development and Across Tissues	9
Understanding the Origin and Evolution of Tea (Camellia sinensis [L.]): Genomic Advances in Tea	9
RNA or DNA? Revisiting the Chemical Nature of the Cenancestral Genome	9
Reconstructing Evolutionary Histories with Hierarchical Orthologous Groups	9
The Last Universal Common Ancestor of Ribosome-Encoding Organisms: Portrait of LUCA	8
Reduction of Tooth Replacement Disproportionately Affects the Evolution of Enamel Matrix Proteins	8
The De Novo Emergence of Two Brain Genes in the Human Lineage Appears to be Unsupported	8
Correction: Reconstructing Evolutionary Histories with Hierarchical Orthologous Groups	8
Functional Diversity of the Lepidopteran ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters	8
Evolution and Functional Diversification of Serine Racemase Homologs in Bacteria	8
PAReTT: A Python Package for the Automated Retrieval and Management of Divergence Time Data from the TimeTree Resource for Downstream Analyses	7
GC Content Across Insect Genomes: Phylogenetic Patterns, Causes and Consequences	7
Informatic Capabilities of Translation and Its Implications for the Origins of Life	7
EasyDIVER + : An Advanced Tool for Analyzing High Throughput Sequencing Data from In Vitro Evolution of Nucleic Acids or Amino Acids	7
Best Practices in Designing, Sequencing, and Identifying Random DNA Barcodes	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
A New View of the Last Universal Common Ancestor	7
Codon Usage Evolution in Viruses: Implications for Survival and Pathogenicity	7
Correction: Sequence Divergence in Venom Genes Within and Between Montane Pitviper (Viperidae: Crotalinae: Cerrophidion) Species is Driven by Mutation–Drift Equilibrium	6
Deep Conservation and Unexpected Evolutionary History of Neighboring lncRNAs MALAT1 and NEAT1	6
OrthoGrafter: Rapid Identification of Orthologs from Precomputed Placement in Phylogenetic Trees	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
Decoding the Evolution and Co-Phospho-Regulatory Networks of SHROOM Proteins	6
Correlated Evolution Drives Structural Convergence of Interacting Proteins	6
Evidence for Multiple Independent Expansions of Fox Gene Families Within Flatworms	6
A Law of Redundancy Compounds the Problem of Cancer and Precision Medicine	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	6
Caspase Domain Duplication During the Evolution of Caspase-16	6