| Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs A Bergström, DWG Stanton, UH Taron, L Frantz, MHS Sinding, E Ersmark, ... Nature 607 (7918), 313-320, 2022 | 101 | 2022 |
| A mitogenomic timetree for Darwin’s enigmatic South American mammal Macrauchenia patachonica M Westbury, S Baleka, A Barlow, S Hartmann, JLA Paijmans, A Kramarz, ... Nature Communications 8 (1), 15951, 2017 | 96 | 2017 |
| Extended and continuous decline in effective population size results in low genomic diversity in the world’s rarest hyena species, the brown hyena MV Westbury, S Hartmann, A Barlow, I Wiesel, V Leo, R Welch, ... Molecular biology and evolution 35 (5), 1225-1237, 2018 | 83 | 2018 |
| Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family S Liu, MV Westbury, N Dussex, KJ Mitchell, MHS Sinding, PD Heintzman, ... Cell 184 (19), 4874-4885. e16, 2021 | 66 | 2021 |
| Evolutionary history of saber-toothed cats based on ancient mitogenomics JLA Paijmans, R Barnett, MTP Gilbert, ML Zepeda-Mendoza, ... Current Biology 27 (21), 3330-3336. e5, 2017 | 58 | 2017 |
| Successful application of ancient DNA extraction and library construction protocols to museum wet collection specimens N Straube, ML Lyra, JLA Paijmans, M Preick, N Basler, J Penner, ... Molecular Ecology Resources 21 (7), 2299-2315, 2021 | 56 | 2021 |
| Narwhal Genome Reveals Long-Term Low Genetic Diversity despite Current Large Abundance Size MV Westbury, B Petersen, E Garde, MP Heide-Jřrgensen, ED Lorenzen iScience 15, 592-599, 2019 | 53 | 2019 |
| Genomic adaptations and evolutionary history of the extinct scimitar-toothed cat, Homotherium latidens R Barnett, MV Westbury, M Sandoval-Velasco, FG Vieira, S Jeon, ... Current Biology 30 (24), 5018-5025. e5, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Evaluating the role of reference‐genome phylogenetic distance on evolutionary inference A Prasad, ED Lorenzen, MV Westbury Molecular ecology resources 22 (1), 45-55, 2022 | 44 | 2022 |
| Historical population declines prompted significant genomic erosion in the northern and southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) F Sánchez‐Barreiro, S Gopalakrishnan, J Ramos‐Madrigal, MV Westbury, ... Molecular Ecology 30 (23), 6355-6369, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
| Hyena palaeogenomes reveal a complex evolutionary history of cross-continental gene flow between spotted and cave hyena MV Westbury, S Hartmann, A Barlow, M Preick, B Ridush, D Nagel, ... Science Advances 6 (11), eaay0456, 2020 | 44 | 2020 |
| Sequencing single-stranded libraries on the Illumina NextSeq 500 platform JLA Paijmans, S Baleka, K Henneberger, UH Taron, A Trinks, ... arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.11004, 2017 | 44 | 2017 |
| Hybridization between two high Arctic cetaceans confirmed by genomic analysis M Skovrind, JAS Castruita, J Haile, EC Treadaway, S Gopalakrishnan, ... Scientific reports 9 (1), 7729, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Reduction of the contaminant fraction of DNA obtained from an ancient giant panda bone N Basler, G Xenikoudakis, MV Westbury, L Song, G Sheng, A Barlow BMC Research Notes 10, 1-7, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Paleogenome reveals genetic contribution of extinct giant panda to extant populations GL Sheng, N Basler, XP Ji, JLA Paijmans, F Alberti, M Preick, S Hartmann, ... Current Biology 29 (10), 1695-1700. e6, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| Ancient DNA reveals the lost domestication history of South American camelids in Northern Chile and across the Andes P Diaz-Maroto, A Rey-Iglesia, I Cartajena, L Núńez, MV Westbury, ... Elife 10, e63390, 2021 | 33 | 2021 |
| African and Asian leopards are highly differentiated at the genomic level JLA Paijmans, A Barlow, MS Becker, JA Cahill, J Fickel, DWG Förster, ... Current Biology 31 (9), 1872-1882. e5, 2021 | 28 | 2021 |
| Interspecific gene flow and the evolution of specialization in black and white rhinoceros Y Moodley, MV Westbury, IRM Russo, S Gopalakrishnan, A Rakotoarivelo, ... Molecular biology and evolution 37 (11), 3105-3117, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| Cryptic species in a well-known habitat: applying taxonomics to the amphipod genus Epimeria (Crustacea, Peracarida) J Beermann, MV Westbury, M Hofreiter, L Hilgers, F Deister, H Neumann, ... Scientific Reports 8 (1), 6893, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| Circumpolar phylogeography and demographic history of beluga whales reflect past climatic fluctuations M Skovrind, M Louis, MV Westbury, C Garilao, K Kaschner, JAS Castruita, ... Molecular Ecology 30 (11), 2543-2559, 2021 | 22 | 2021 |
Michael HofreiterProfessor for Evolutionary Adaptive Genomics, University of PotsdamVerified email at uni-potsdam.de
