Standout Papers

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  1. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic estimation from DNA sequences with variable rates over sites: Approximate methods (1994)
    Ziheng Yang Journal of Molecular Evolution
  2. Codon-Substitution Models for Heterogeneous Selection Pressure at Amino Acid Sites (2000)
    Ziheng Yang, Rasmus Nielsen et al. Genetics
  3. Bayes Empirical Bayes Inference of Amino Acid Sites Under Positive Selection (2005)
    Ziheng Yang Molecular Biology and Evolution
  4. Statistical methods for detecting molecular adaptation (2000)
    Ziheng Yang, Joseph P. Bielawski Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  5. Estimating Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Substitution Rates Under Realistic Evolutionary Models (2000)
    Ziheng Yang, Rasmus Nielsen Molecular Biology and Evolution
  6. Likelihood Models for Detecting Positively Selected Amino Acid Sites and Applications to the HIV-1 Envelope Gene (1998)
    Rasmus Nielsen, Ziheng Yang Genetics
  7. Probability distribution of molecular evolutionary trees: A new method of phylogenetic inference (1996)
    Bruce Rannala, Ziheng Yang Journal of Molecular Evolution
  8. Codon-Substitution Models for Detecting Molecular Adaptation at Individual Sites Along Specific Lineages (2002)
    Ziheng Yang, Rasmus Nielsen Molecular Biology and Evolution
  9. Bayesian species delimitation using multilocus sequence data (2010)
    Ziheng Yang, Bruce Rannala Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  10. Bayesian phylogenetic inference using DNA sequences: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method (1997)
    Ziheng Yang, Bruce Rannala Molecular Biology and Evolution
  11. Among-site rate variation and its impact on phylogenetic analyses (1996)
    Ziheng Yang Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  12. Estimating the pattern of nucleotide substitution (1994)
    Ziheng Yang Journal of Molecular Evolution
  13. Bayes Estimation of Species Divergence Times and Ancestral Population Sizes Using DNA Sequences From Multiple Loci (2003)
    Bruce Rannala, Ziheng Yang Genetics
  14. Maximum-likelihood estimation of phylogeny from DNA sequences when substitution rates differ over sites. (1993)
    Ziheng Yang Molecular Biology and Evolution
  15. Computational Molecular Evolution (2006)
    Ziheng Yang UCL Discovery (University College London)
  16. Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times Under a Molecular Clock Using Multiple Fossil Calibrations with Soft Bounds (2005)
    Ziheng Yang, Bruce Rannala Molecular Biology and Evolution
  17. Accuracy and Power of the Likelihood Ratio Test in Detecting Adaptive Molecular Evolution (2001)
    Maria Anisimova, Joseph P. Bielawski et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution
  18. The timescale of early land plant evolution (2018)
    Jennifer L. Morris, Mark N. Puttick et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  19. The BPP program for species tree estimation and species delimitation (2015)
    Ziheng Yang Current Zoology
  20. Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice (2012)
    Ziheng Yang, Bruce Rannala Nature Reviews Genetics
  21. Unguided Species Delimitation Using DNA Sequence Data from Multiple Loci (2014)
    Ziheng Yang, Bruce Rannala Molecular Biology and Evolution
  22. Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales (2015)
    Mario dos Reis, Yuttapong Thawornwattana et al. Current Biology
  23. Species Tree Inference with BPP Using Genomic Sequences and the Multispecies Coalescent (2018)
    Tomáš Flouri, Xiyun Jiao et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution
  24. Phylogenetic tree building in the genomic age (2020)
    Paschalia Kapli, Ziheng Yang et al. Nature Reviews Genetics
  25. Beginner's Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection (2023)
    Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, Paschalia Kapli et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution
  26. The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system (2024)
    Edmund R. R. Moody, Sandra Álvarez-Carretero et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Works of Ziheng Yang being referenced

Probability distribution of molecular evolutionary trees: A new method of phylogenetic inference
1996 Standout
Maximum likelihood phylogenetic estimation from DNA sequences with variable rates over sites: Approximate methods
1994 Standout
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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Ziheng Yang 20009 15186 5815 7633 222 37.6k
Rasmus Nielsen 17551 23251 2427 5793 283 42.5k
James S. Farris 11129 7317 7000 11716 141 28.4k
Masami Hasegawa 11984 7777 3368 4646 221 22.9k
Olivier Gascuel 20519 8509 2462 6324 131 45.3k
Arndt von Haeseler 27207 13405 3668 11751 177 58.4k
Svante Pääbo 22667 23754 6947 2829 304 49.0k
Liang Liu 10407 7151 2825 7741 66 25.1k
Aaron E. Darling 14736 6228 1972 7280 98 33.0k
Makoto Kimura 27009 27330 1624 8818 345 62.6k
Wen‐Hsiung Li 26963 15930 1450 5308 373 47.0k

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