OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Systemic Biology is 15. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Corrigendum to: Delayed Adaptive Radiation among New Zealand Stream Fishes: Joint Estimation of Divergence Time and Trait Evolution in a Newly Delineated Island Species Flock	95
Announcements	87
Unearthing Modes of Climatic Adaptation in Underground Storage Organs Across Liliales	84
The Community Coevolution Model with Application to the Study of Evolutionary Relationships between Genes Based on Phylogenetic Profiles	80
Hidden Phylogenomic Signal Helps Elucidate Arsenurine Silkmoth Phylogeny and the Evolution of Body Size and Wing Shape Trade-Offs	63
Understanding Species Boundaries that Arise from Complex Histories: Gene Flow Across the Speciation Continuum in the Spotted Whiptail Lizards	60
Impact of Phylogenetic Tree Completeness and Mis-specification of Sampling Fractions on Trait Dependent Diversification Models	43
How to Validate a Bayesian Evolutionary Model	40
Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)	40
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations	40
Identifying Climatic Drivers of Hybridization with a New Ancestral Niche Reconstruction Method	39
Summary Tests of Introgression Are Highly Sensitive to Rate Variation Across Lineages	38
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution and Origin of Nematoda	36
Phylogenetic Estimation of Branch-Specific Shifts in the Tempo of Origination	35
Evolutionary Timelines Help Explain the Evolution of Parental Care Strategies	34
The Explosive Radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia Subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) Has Been Accompanied by Pervasive Hybridization	34
Gene Transfer-Based Phylogenetics: Analytical Expressions and Additivity via Birth–Death Theory	33
Integrating Genomics and Biogeography to Unravel the Origin of a Mountain Biota: The Case of a Reptile Endemicity Hotspot in Arabia	33
Announcements	32
The Rediscovery of a Relict Unlocks the First Global Phylogeny of Whip Spiders (Amblypygi)	30
Whole-Genome Phylogenetic Reconstruction as a Powerful Tool to Reveal Homoplasy and Ancient Rapid Radiation in Waterflea Evolution	30
River Drainage Reorganization and Reticulate Evolution in the Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata) Species Complex	29
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis on Multi-Core Compute Architectures: Implementation and Evaluation of `BEAGLE` in `RevBayes` With `MPI`	29
Estimating Global Biodiversity: The Role of Cryptic Insect Species	28
Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush	28

Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards	28
Phylogenomics Supports the Monophyly of Aphelids and Fungi and Identifies New Molecular Synapomorphies	28
Evolutionary Tempo, Supertaxa, and Living Fossils	28
Phylogenetic Diversity Rankings in the Face of Extinctions: The Robustness of the Fair Proportion Index	25
Analyzing Phylogenetic Trees with a Tree Lattice Coordinate System and a Graph Polynomial	25
A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way	25
Online Phylogenetics with matOptimize Produces Equivalent Trees and is Dramatically More Efficient for Large SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenies than de novo and Maximum-Likelihood Implementations	25
Announcements	25
Robust, Universal Tree Balance Indices	25
Testing Relationships between Multiple Regional Features and Biogeographic Processes of Speciation, Extinction, and Dispersal	25
Full-Likelihood Genomic Analysis Clarifies a Complex History of Species Divergence and Introgression: The Example of theerato-saraGroup ofHeliconiusButterflies	24
A 4-lineage Statistical Suite to Evaluate the Support of Large-Scale Retrotransposon Insertion Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees	24
Scalable Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation With Ratio Transformations	24
A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data	24
Modeling Pulsed Evolution and Time-Independent Variation Improves the Confidence Level of Ancestral and Hidden State Predictions	23
Aquatic Biotas of Sundaland Are Fragmented But Not Refugial	23
Pervasive Introgression During Rapid Diversification of the European Mountain Genus Soldanella (L.) (Primulaceae)	23
DateLife: Leveraging Databases and Analytical Tools to Reveal the Dated Tree of Life	22
DEPP: Deep Learning Enables Extending Species Trees using Single Genes	22
Exon Capture Museomics Deciphers the Nine-Banded Armadillo Species Complex and Identifies a New Species Endemic to the Guiana Shield	22
Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama	21
PhyloFusion—Fast and Easy Fusion of Rooted Phylogenetic Trees into Rooted Phylogenetic Networks	21
Skyline Fossilized Birth–Death Model is Robust to Violations of Sampling Assumptions in Total-Evidence Dating	21
Macroevolutionary Analyses Provide New Evidence of Phasmid Wings Evolution as a Reversible Process	21
Nucleotide Substitution Model Selection Is Not Necessary for Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny With Well-Behaved Priors	21
Phylogenetic Analysis of Characters with Dependencies under Maximum Likelihood	20
Artifactual Orthologs and the Need for Diligent Data Exploration in Complex Phylogenomic Datasets: A Museomic Case Study from the Andean Flora	20
Is Phenotypic Evolution Affected by Spiders’ Construction Behaviors?	20
ConvexML: Fast and Accurate Branch Length Estimation under Irreversible Mutation Models, Illustrated through Applications to CRISPR/Cas9-Based Lineage Tracing	20
New Phylogenetic Markov Models for Inapplicable Morphological Characters	20
Comparing Partitioned Models to Mixture Models: Do Information Criteria Apply?	20
A Minimal yet Flexible Likelihood Framework to Assess Correlated Evolution	19
On Information Rank Deficiency in Phenotypic Covariance Matrices	19
Estimation of species divergence times in presence of cross-species gene flow	19
Waves of Colonization and Gene Flow in a Great Speciator	19
Diversification Models Conflate Likelihood and Prior, and Cannot be Compared Using Conventional Model-Comparison Tools	19
But the Clock, Tick-Tock: An Empirical Case Study Highlights the Preeminence of Relaxed Clock Models in Total-Evidence Dating	19
Too many numbers?	18
The Effect of Copy Number Hemiplasy on Gene Family Evolution	18
Recent, Intricate Speciation in Amazonia Uncovered by a Multilayered Genomic Analysis of Tree Squirrels	18
Distinguishing Cophylogenetic Signal from Phylogenetic Congruence Clarifies the Interplay Between Evolutionary History and Species Interactions	18
Global climate cooling spurred skipper butterfly diversification	18
Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses	18
Is Over-parameterization a Problem for Profile Mixture Models?	18
PickMe: Sample Selection for Species Tree Reconstruction using Coalescent Weighted Quartets	18
Estimating the Age of Poorly Dated Fossil Specimens and Deposits Using a Total-Evidence Approach and the Fossilized Birth-Death Process	17
Resolving Marine–Freshwater Transitions by Diatoms Through a Fog of Gene Tree Discordance	17
Deep Learning and Likelihood Approaches for Viral Phylogeography Converge on the Same Answers Whether the Inference Model Is Right or Wrong	17
Assessment of Absolute Substitution Model Fit Accommodating Time-Reversible and Non-Time-Reversible Evolutionary Processes	17
Improving the gold standard in NCBI GenBank and related databases: DNA sequences from type specimens and type strains	17

ARPIP: Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction with Insertions and Deletions under the Poisson Indel Process	17
Espalier: Efficient Tree Reconciliation and Ancestral Recombination Graphs Reconstruction Using Maximum Agreement Forests	17
Early Origins of Divergent Patterns of Morphological Evolution on the Mammal and Reptile Stem-Lineages	17
The Fundamental Role of Character Coding in Bayesian Morphological Phylogenetics	16
Robust Analysis of Phylogenetic Tree Space	16
Complex but Clear Allopolyploid Pattern of Subtribe Tussilagininae (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) Revealed by Robust Phylogenomic Evidence, with Development of a Novel Homeolog-Sorting Pipeline	16
MAST: Phylogenetic Inference with Mixtures Across Sites and Trees	15
Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates	15
Correction to: Modeling phylogenetic biome shifts on a planet with a past	15
Speciation Hypotheses from Phylogeographic Delimitation Yield an Integrative Taxonomy for Seal Salamanders (Desmognathus monticola)	15
Formalizing Invertebrate Morphological Data: A Descriptive Model for Cuticle-Based Skeleto-Muscular Systems, an Ontology for Insect Anatomy, and their Potential Applications in Biodiversity Research a	15
Phylogenomics and Pervasive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Among Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus)	15
Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Revisits Sloth Phylogeny and Biogeography: A Cautionary Tale on Morphological Clock Analyses	15
Biogeographic History of Pigeons and Doves Drives the Origin and Diversification of Their Parasitic Body Lice	15