Most cited papers in Genetic diversity and population structure
What are the most cited papers in Genetic diversity and population structure?
The most cited paper in Genetic diversity and population structure is "The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees." (Naruya Saitou, M Nei, 1987), with 60,643 citations. Next come "MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0" (48,154) and "MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods" (40,453).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 3,767 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Naruya Saitou, M Nei · Molecular Biology and Evolution | Jul 1987 | 60,643 |
| 2 | MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0 Koichiro Tamura, Glen Stecher, Daniel S. Peterson et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 16 Oct 2013 | 48,154 |
| 3 | MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods Koichiro Tamura, Daniel Gunnar Peterson, Nora Peterson et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 4 May 2011 | 40,453 |
| 4 | RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies Alexandros Stamatakis · Bioinformatics | 21 Jan 2014 | 34,939 |
| 5 | Inference of Population Structure Using Multilocus Genotype Data Jonathan K. Pritchard, Matthew Stephens, Peter Donnelly · Genetics | Jun 2000 | 34,685 |
| 6 | MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models Fredrik Ronquist, John P. Huelsenbeck · Bioinformatics | 11 Aug 2003 | 29,587 |
| 7 | MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0 Koichiro Tamura, Joel T. Dudley, M Nei et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 18 Apr 2007 | 28,894 |
| 8 | MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space Fredrik Ronquist, Maxim Teslenko, Paul van der Mark et al. · Systematic Biology | 22 Feb 2012 | 28,705 |
| 9 | MEGA11: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 11 Koichiro Tamura, Glen Stecher, Sudhir Kumar · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 22 Apr 2021 | 23,365 |
| 10 | Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software structure : a simulation study Guillaume Evanno, Sébastien Regnaut, Jérôme Goudet · Molecular Ecology | 11 May 2005 | 22,449 |
| 11 | MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees John P. Huelsenbeck, Fredrik Ronquist · Bioinformatics | Aug 2001 | 22,339 |
| 12 | MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution. David Posada, Keith A. Crandall · Bioinformatics | 1998 | 20,136 |
| 13 | ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates Subha Kalyaanamoorthy, Bùi Quang Minh, Thomas K. F. Wong et al. · Nature Methods | 8 May 2017 | 19,804 |
| 14 | New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0 Stéphane Guindon, Jean-François Dufayard, Vincent Lefort et al. · Systematic Biology | 29 Mar 2010 | 19,476 |
| 15 | IQ-TREE 2: New Models and Efficient Methods for Phylogenetic Inference in the Genomic Era Bùi Quang Minh, Heiko A. Schmidt, Olga Chernomor et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 22 Jan 2020 | 18,005 |
| 16 | A Simple, Fast, and Accurate Algorithm to Estimate Large Phylogenies by Maximum Likelihood Stéphane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel · Systematic Biology | Oct 2003 | 17,109 |
| 17 | ESTIMATING F -STATISTICS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF POPULATION STRUCTURE Bruce S Weir, C. Clark Cockerham · Evolution | Nov 1984 | 17,021 |
| 18 | genalex 6: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research Rod Peakall, Peter E. Smouse · Molecular Ecology Notes | 29 Sep 2005 | 16,827 |
| 19 | PAML 4: Phylogenetic Analysis by Maximum Likelihood Z. Yang · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 18 Apr 2007 | 15,163 |
| 20 | Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach Joseph Felsenstein · Journal of Molecular Evolution | Nov 1981 | 14,967 |
| 21 | Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism. Fumio Tajima · Genetics | Nov 1989 | 14,372 |
| 22 | Analysis of molecular variance inferred from metric distances among DNA haplotypes: application to human mitochondrial DNA restriction data. Laurent Excoffier, Peter E. Smouse, Joseph M. Quattro · Genetics | Jun 1992 | 14,110 |
| 23 | Biological identifications through DNA barcodes Paul D. N. Hebert, Alina Cywinska, Shelley L. Ball et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 7 Feb 2003 | 13,617 |
| 24 | GenAlEx 6.5: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research—an update Rod Peakall, Peter E. Smouse · Bioinformatics | 20 Jul 2012 | 13,417 |
| 25 | DNA polymorphisms amplified by arbitrary primers are useful as genetic markers John Garnett Williams, Anne R. Kubelik, Kenneth J. Livak et al. · Nucleic Acids Research | 1990 | 13,158 |
| 26 | Arlequin (version 3.0): an integrated software package for population genetics data analysis. Laurent Excoffier, Guillaume Laval, Stefan Schneider · Europe PMC (PubMed Central) | 23 Feb 2007 | 12,849 |
| 27 | STRUCTURE HARVESTER: a website and program for visualizing STRUCTURE output and implementing the Evanno method Dent A. Earl, Bridgett M. vonHoldt · Conservation Genetics Resources | 12 Oct 2011 | 12,797 |
| 28 | Median-joining networks for inferring intraspecific phylogenies H. -J. Bandelt, Patrick Forster, Andrew Lloyd Rohl · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 1999 | 11,943 |
| 29 | MEGA3: Integrated software for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis and sequence alignment Sudhir Kumar · Briefings in Bioinformatics | 2004 | 11,822 |
| 30 | Posterior Summarization in Bayesian Phylogenetics Using Tracer 1.7 Andrew Rambaut, Alexei J. Drummond, Dong Xie et al. · Systematic Biology | 24 Apr 2018 | 11,739 |
| 31 | UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation Diep Thi Hoang, Olga Chernomor, Arndt von Haeseler et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 24 Oct 2017 | 11,628 |
| 32 | ESTIMATION OF AVERAGE HETEROZYGOSITY AND GENETIC DISTANCE FROM A SMALL NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS Masatoshi Nei · Genetics | 20 Jul 1978 | 11,592 |
| 33 | Selection of Conserved Blocks from Multiple Alignments for Their Use in Phylogenetic Analysis José Castresana · Molecular Biology and Evolution | Apr 2000 | 10,986 |
| 34 | jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging David Posada · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 3 Apr 2008 | 10,650 |
| 35 | Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7 Alexei J. Drummond, Marc A. Suchard, Dong Xie et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 25 Feb 2012 | 10,530 |
| 36 | micro ‐ checker : software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data Cock van Oosterhout, William F. Hutchinson, D. P. M. Wills et al. · Molecular Ecology Notes | 8 Jun 2004 | 10,424 |
| 37 | Tree View: An application to display phylogenetic trees on personal computers Roderic Page · Computer applications in the biosciences | 1996 | 10,261 |
| 38 | TCS: a computer program to estimate gene genealogies Mark Clement, David Posada, Keith A. Crandall · Molecular Ecology | Oct 2000 | 10,026 |
| 39 | Application of Phylogenetic Networks in Evolutionary Studies Daniel H. Huson, David Bryant · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 12 Oct 2005 | 9,211 |
| 40 | Dating of the human-ape splitting by a molecular clock of mitochondrial DNA Masami Hasegawa, Hirohisa Kishino, Taka-aki Yano · Journal of Molecular Evolution | Oct 1985 | 9,042 |
| 41 | Analysis of Gene Diversity in Subdivided Populations Masatoshi Nei · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Dec 1973 | 9,028 |
| 42 | MCScanX: a toolkit for detection and evolutionary analysis of gene synteny and collinearity Yupeng Wang, Haibao Tang, Jeremy D. DeBarry et al. · Nucleic Acids Research | 4 Jan 2012 | 8,668 |
| 43 | genepop ’007: a complete re‐implementation of the genepop software for Windows and Linux François Rousset · Molecular Ecology Resources | 17 Aug 2007 | 8,640 |
| 44 | OrthoFinder: phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics David Emms, Steven L. Kelly · Genome biology | 14 Nov 2019 | 8,364 |
| 45 | adegenet : a R package for the multivariate analysis of genetic markers Thibaut Jombart · Bioinformatics | 8 Apr 2008 | 8,306 |
| 46 | Prediction of Total Genetic Value Using Genome-Wide Dense Marker Maps T.H.E. Meuwissen, Ben J. Hayes, Michael Edward Goddard · Genetics | Apr 2001 | 8,136 |
| 47 | DnaSP 6: DNA Sequence Polymorphism Analysis of Large Data Sets Julio Rozas, Albert Ferrer-Mata, Juan Carlos Sánchez-DelBarrio et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 18 Sep 2017 | 8,112 |
| 48 | dbSNP: the NCBI database of genetic variation Stephen T. Sherry · Nucleic Acids Research | 2001 | 7,951 |
| 49 | A statistical framework for SNP calling, mutation discovery, association mapping and population genetical parameter estimation from sequencing data Heng Li · Bioinformatics | 8 Sep 2011 | 7,508 |
| 50 | The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages Godfrey M. Hewitt · Nature | 22 Jun 2000 | 7,354 |
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