OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Genome Biology and Evolution is 28. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Mitonuclear Coevolution in Bumblebees (Bombus): Genomic Signatures and Its Role in Climatic Niche Adaptation	128
OrthoPhy: A Program to Construct Ortholog Data Sets Using Taxonomic Information	123
Diversity of Sex Chromosomes in Vertebrates: Six Novel Sex Chromosomes in Basal Haplochromines (Teleostei: Cichlidae)	77
Palaeognaths Reveal Evolutionary Ancestry of the Avian Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II	67
Impact of Phylogenetic Method Choice on Indel Analyses in HIV-1 Subtype B	59
Genealogical Analyses of 3 Cultivated and 1 Wild Specimen of Vitis vinifera from Greece	51
Filtration of Gene Trees From 9,000 Exons, Introns, and UCEs Disentangles Conflicting Phylogenomic Relationships in Tree Frogs (Hylidae)	48
Myxozoans (Cnidaria) do not Retain Key Oxygen-Sensing and Homeostasis Toolkit Genes	47
Correction to: Genome-Scale Data Reveal Deep Lineage Divergence and a Complex Demographic History in the Texas Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) throughout the Southwestern and Central United	46
Highlight: Gene Cluster Reshuffling Drives Natural Sunscreen Evolution in Lichens	46
Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genome Assemblies for the Endangered Wood-Decaying Fungus Somion occarium	45
Genetic Analysis of Mingrelians Reveals Long-Term Continuity of Populations in Western Georgia (Caucasus)	41
The Nitroplast and Its Relatives Support a Universal Model of Features Predicting Gene Retention in Endosymbiont and Organelle Genomes	39
Egg Yolk Protein Homologs Identified in Live-Bearing Sharks: Co-Opted in the Lecithotrophy-to-Matrotrophy Shift?	38
An Ocean of Opsins	36
Testing the Mother's Curse Hypothesis in Human Mitochondrial Genome Evolution	35
Genome Evolution and Introgression in the New Zealand mud Snails Potamopyrgus estuarinus and Potamopyrgus kaitunuparaoa	35
Cis-regulatory Variation in Relation to Sex and Sexual Dimorphism in Drosophila melanogaster	35
Genomic Resources and Annotations for a Colonial Ascidian, the Light-Bulb Sea Squirt Clavelina lepadiformis	34
Ancient Sheep Genomes Reveal Four Millennia of North European Short-Tailed Sheep in the Baltic Sea Region	34
High Polymorphism Levels of De Novo ORFs in a Yoruba Human Population	33
Divergence in theSaccharomycesSpecies’ Heat Shock Response Is Indicative of Their Thermal Tolerance	31
Whole-Genome Sequences of Two Kazachstania barnettii Strains Isolated from Anthropic Environments	31
Origin and evolution of key enzymes in the anammox pathway revisited	30
Technological Development and Advances for Constructing and Analyzing Plant Pangenomes	30

Comprehensive Phylogenomics of Methylobacterium Reveals Four Evolutionary Distinct Groups and Underappreciated Phyllosphere Diversity	30
Does Effective Population Size Govern Evolutionary Differences in Telomere Length?	29
Discovery of New Genomic Configuration of Mating-Type Loci in the Largest Lineage of Lichen-Forming Fungi	29
Multiple Domestication Centers of the Indian Pig Population	28
Population Genomics of Japanese Macaques (Macaca fuscata): Insights Into Deep Population Divergence and Multiple Merging Histories	28