Hans Ellegren

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Top papers

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1 The genome of a songbird. Nature 2010 5.90
2 A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms. Nature 2004 5.24
3 Rescue of a severely bottlenecked wolf (Canis lupus) population by a single immigrant. Proc Biol Sci 2003 2.76
4 Genes of domestic mammals augmented by backcrossing with wild ancestors. Trends Genet 2005 2.04
5 Male-biased mutation rate and divergence in autosomal, z-linked and w-linked introns of chicken and Turkey. Mol Biol Evol 2004 2.01
6 Cattle domestication in the Near East was followed by hybridization with aurochs bulls in Europe. Proc Biol Sci 2005 2.01
7 Evolutionary strata on the chicken Z chromosome: implications for sex chromosome evolution. Genetics 2004 1.80
8 Prehistoric contacts over the Straits of Gibraltar indicated by genetic analysis of Iberian Bronze Age cattle. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 1.74
9 Comparison of the chicken and turkey genomes reveals a higher rate of nucleotide divergence on microchromosomes than macrochromosomes. Genome Res 2004 1.73
10 The recombination landscape of the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata genome. Genome Res 2010 1.72
11 Limited number of patrilines in horse domestication. Nat Genet 2004 1.70
12 Deterministic mutation rate variation in the human genome. Genome Res 2002 1.63
13 Microsatellite evolution inferred from human-chimpanzee genomic sequence alignments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 1.59
14 From wild wolf to domestic dog: gene expression changes in the brain. Brain Res Mol Brain Res 2004 1.59
15 Pleiotropic constraint hampers the resolution of sexual antagonism in vertebrate gene expression. Am Nat 2008 1.51
16 Strong regional biases in nucleotide substitution in the chicken genome. Mol Biol Evol 2006 1.50
17 The evolutionary causes and consequences of sex-biased gene expression. Nat Rev Genet 2013 1.50
18 Fast-X on the Z: rapid evolution of sex-linked genes in birds. Genome Res 2007 1.49
19 Ecological and genetic spatial structuring in the Canadian lynx. Nature 2003 1.49
20 Evidence for turnover of functional noncoding DNA in mammalian genome evolution. Genomics 2004 1.45
21 Male-driven biased gene conversion governs the evolution of base composition in human alu repeats. Mol Biol Evol 2005 1.44
22 Comparative genomics based on massive parallel transcriptome sequencing reveals patterns of substitution and selection across 10 bird species. Mol Ecol 2010 1.44
23 Insertion-deletion polymorphisms (indels) as genetic markers in natural populations. BMC Genet 2008 1.43
24 Genetic mapping in a natural population of collared flycatchers (Ficedula albicollis): conserved synteny but gene order rearrangements on the avian Z chromosome. Genetics 2006 1.41
25 Reduced variation on the chicken Z chromosome. Genetics 2004 1.39
26 To what extent do microsatellite markers reflect genome-wide genetic diversity in natural populations? Mol Ecol 2008 1.37
27 Genomics of natural bird populations: a gene-based set of reference markers evenly spread across the avian genome. Mol Ecol 2007 1.36
28 The chicken (Gallus gallus) Z chromosome contains at least three nonlinear evolutionary strata. Genetics 2008 1.33
29 Low levels of nucleotide diversity in mammalian Y chromosomes. Mol Biol Evol 2003 1.33
30 Heterozygosity-fitness correlations in zebra finches: microsatellite markers can be better than their reputation. Mol Ecol 2012 1.33
31 Compositional evolution of noncoding DNA in the human and chimpanzee genomes. Mol Biol Evol 2003 1.32
32 Next generation molecular ecology. Mol Ecol 2010 1.30
33 A gene-based genetic linkage map of the collared flycatcher (Ficedula albicollis) reveals extensive synteny and gene-order conservation during 100 million years of avian evolution. Genetics 2008 1.28
34 Genome-wide analysis of microsatellite polymorphism in chicken circumventing the ascertainment bias. Genome Res 2008 1.27
35 Chicken W: a genetically uniform chromosome in a highly variable genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 1.26
36 Copy number variation, chromosome rearrangement, and their association with recombination during avian evolution. Genome Res 2010 1.26
37 Bottlenecked but long-lived: high genetic diversity retained in white-tailed eagles upon recovery from population decline. Biol Lett 2006 1.24
38 Sex-linkage of sexually antagonistic genes is predicted by female, but not male, effects in birds. Evolution 2009 1.22
39 The unique genomic properties of sex-biased genes: insights from avian microarray data. BMC Genomics 2008 1.22
40 Heterogeneity in the rate and pattern of germline mutation at individual microsatellite loci. Nucleic Acids Res 2002 1.22
41 Recombination drives vertebrate genome contraction. PLoS Genet 2012 1.20
42 Faster-Z evolution is predominantly due to genetic drift. Mol Biol Evol 2009 1.20
43 Dynamic evolution of base composition: causes and consequences in avian phylogenomics. Mol Biol Evol 2011 1.17
44 Ontogenetic complexity of sexual dimorphism and sex-specific selection. Mol Biol Evol 2010 1.16
45 Nonlinear dynamics of nonsynonymous (dN) and synonymous (dS) substitution rates affects inference of selection. Genome Biol Evol 2009 1.15
46 Levels of linkage disequilibrium in a wild bird population. Biol Lett 2006 1.15
47 Life history and the male mutation bias. Evolution 2003 1.14
48 Speciation in Ficedula flycatchers. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 2010 1.14
49 The genomic landscape of short insertion and deletion polymorphisms in the chicken (Gallus gallus) Genome: a high frequency of deletions in tandem duplicates. Genetics 2007 1.13
50 Molecular evolution of genes in avian genomes. Genome Biol 2010 1.12
51 Fast accumulation of nonsynonymous mutations on the female-specific W chromosome in birds. J Mol Evol 2005 1.12
52 A high-density linkage map enables a second-generation collared flycatcher genome assembly and reveals the patterns of avian recombination rate variation and chromosomal evolution. Mol Ecol 2014 1.11
53 Y chromosome conserved anchored tagged sequences (YCATS) for the analysis of mammalian male-specific DNA. Mol Ecol 2003 1.11
54 Nonrandom distribution of genes with sex-biased expression in the chicken genome. Evolution 2006 1.09
55 Gene expression, synteny, and local similarity in human noncoding mutation rates. Mol Biol Evol 2004 1.09
56 Gene conversion drives the evolution of HINTW, an ampliconic gene on the female-specific avian W chromosome. Mol Biol Evol 2005 1.08
57 Insertion events of CR1 retrotransposable elements elucidate the phylogenetic branching order in galliform birds. Mol Biol Evol 2006 1.07
58 Are sex-biased genes more dispensable? Biol Lett 2009 1.07
59 Natural selection in avian protein-coding genes expressed in brain. Mol Ecol 2008 1.03
60 Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data. PLoS Genet 2013 1.03
61 Substitution rate variation at human CpG sites correlates with non-CpG divergence, methylation level and GC content. Genome Biol 2011 1.01
62 MHC class II genes in European wolves: a comparison with dogs. Immunogenetics 2002 1.01
63 Rapid evolution of female-biased, but not male-biased, genes expressed in the avian brain. Mol Biol Evol 2007 1.00
64 Parallel divergence and degradation of the avian W sex chromosome. Trends Ecol Evol 2007 0.97
65 Twisted signatures of GC-biased gene conversion embedded in an evolutionary stable karyotype. Mol Biol Evol 2013 0.97
66 Transcriptome sequencing reveals the character of incomplete dosage compensation across multiple tissues in flycatchers. Genome Biol Evol 2013 0.96
67 A guide to the genomics of ecological speciation in natural animal populations. Ecol Lett 2010 0.95
68 QTL linkage mapping of zebra finch beak color shows an oligogenic control of a sexually selected trait. Evolution 2011 0.94
69 Quantification of adaptive evolution of genes expressed in avian brain and the population size effect on the efficacy of selection. Mol Biol Evol 2009 0.93
70 A low rate of simultaneous double-nucleotide mutations in primates. Mol Biol Evol 2003 0.93
71 Estimation of linkage disequilibrium and interspecific gene flow in Ficedula flycatchers by a newly developed 50k single-nucleotide polymorphism array. Mol Ecol Resour 2014 0.93
72 Ancient DNA reveals traces of Iberian Neolithic and Bronze Age lineages in modern Iberian horses. Mol Ecol 2009 0.91
73 Patterns of sequencing coverage bias revealed by ultra-deep sequencing of vertebrate mitochondria. BMC Genomics 2014 0.91
74 Adaptive molecular evolution of HINTW, a female-specific gene in birds. Mol Biol Evol 2003 0.90
75 Individual variation in microsatellite mutation rate in barn swallows. Mutat Res 2004 0.90
76 Inferring the demographic history of European Ficedula flycatcher populations. BMC Evol Biol 2013 0.89
77 Kr/Kc but not dN/dS correlates positively with body mass in birds, raising implications for inferring lineage-specific selection. Genome Biol 2014 0.89
78 Microsatellite genotyping of DNA isolated from claws left on tanned carnivore hides. Int J Legal Med 2005 0.89
79 Sampling strategies for species trees: the effects on phylogenetic inference of the number of genes, number of individuals, and whether loci are mitochondrial, sex-linked, or autosomal. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2013 0.89
80 Mismatch repair and mutational bias in microsatellite DNA. Trends Genet 2002 0.88
81 Third Report on Chicken Genes and Chromosomes 2015. Cytogenet Genome Res 2015 0.88
82 Significant selective constraint at 4-fold degenerate sites in the avian genome and its consequence for detection of positive selection. Genome Biol Evol 2011 0.88
83 The genomic signature of sexual selection in the genetic diversity of the sex chromosomes and autosomes. Evolution 2012 0.88
84 Effective size of fluctuating populations with two sexes and overlapping generations. Evolution 2007 0.88
85 Reconstruction of gross avian genome structure, organization and evolution suggests that the chicken lineage most closely resembles the dinosaur avian ancestor. BMC Genomics 2014 0.88
86 The relationship between microsatellite polymorphism and recombination hot spots in the human genome. Mol Biol Evol 2008 0.88
87 Substitution rate heterogeneity and the male mutation bias. J Mol Evol 2006 0.87
88 A high-density scan of the Z chromosome in Ficedula flycatchers reveals candidate loci for diversifying selection. Evolution 2010 0.87
89 Lack of dosage compensation accompanies the arrested stage of sex chromosome evolution in ostriches. Mol Biol Evol 2013 0.87
90 Is the rate of insertion and deletion mutation male biased?: Molecular evolutionary analysis of avian and primate sex chromosome sequences. Genetics 2003 0.86
91 Positive diversifying selection in avian Mx genes. Immunogenetics 2008 0.86
92 Evidence for GC-biased gene conversion as a driver of between-lineage differences in avian base composition. Genome Biol 2014 0.86
93 Trisomy and triploidy are sources of embryo mortality in the zebra finch. Proc Biol Sci 2010 0.85
94 Population genomics of the inbred Scandinavian wolf. Mol Ecol 2009 0.84
95 Genome-wide analysis in chicken reveals that local levels of genetic diversity are mainly governed by the rate of recombination. BMC Genomics 2013 0.84
96 High levels of gene expression explain the strong evolutionary constraint of mitochondrial protein-coding genes. Mol Biol Evol 2012 0.84
97 QTL linkage mapping of wing length in zebra finch using genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms markers. Mol Ecol 2011 0.83
98 Obtaining mtDNA genomes from next-generation transcriptome sequencing: a case study on the basal Passerida (Aves: Passeriformes) phylogeny. Mol Phylogenet Evol 2010 0.83
99 No evidence for Z-chromosome rearrangements between the pied flycatcher and the collared flycatcher as judged by gene-based comparative genetic maps. Mol Ecol 2010 0.83
100 Human genetics: mystery of the mutagenic male. Nature 2002 0.83
101 Adaptive evolution of gamete-recognition proteins in birds. J Mol Evol 2008 0.80
102 Do avian mitochondria recombine? J Mol Evol 2004 0.80
103 Human mutation--blame (mostly) men. Nat Genet 2002 0.80
104 Single-molecule analysis of the hypermutable tetranucleotide repeat locus D21S1245 through sperm genotyping: a heterogeneous pattern of mutation but no clear male age effect. Mol Biol Evol 2003 0.79
105 QTL and quantitative genetic analysis of beak morphology reveals patterns of standing genetic variation in an Estrildid finch. Mol Ecol 2012 0.79
106 Evolutionary constraint in flanking regions of avian genes. Mol Biol Evol 2011 0.77
107 Genomics: the dog has its day. Nature 2005 0.75