Aaron B. A. Shafer

4.9k total citations
80 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Aaron B. A. Shafer is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron B. A. Shafer has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Genetics, 43 papers in Ecology and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Aaron B. A. Shafer's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (37 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (31 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (28 papers). Aaron B. A. Shafer is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (37 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (31 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (28 papers). Aaron B. A. Shafer collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Sweden. Aaron B. A. Shafer's co-authors include Jochen B. W. Wolf, David W. Coltman, Steeve D. Côté, Catherine I. Cullingham, Marty Kardos, Donald T. Stewart, Christopher W. Wheat, Inbar Maayan, Sergio Tusso and Claire Peart and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Aaron B. A. Shafer

78 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Aaron B. A. Shafer Canada 22 1.3k 969 550 501 339 80 2.2k
Catherine I. Cullingham Canada 21 1.2k 0.9× 1.2k 1.3× 454 0.8× 428 0.9× 286 0.8× 49 2.3k
Gideon S. Bradburd United States 18 1.6k 1.2× 649 0.7× 531 1.0× 551 1.1× 327 1.0× 32 2.4k
José Melo‐Ferreira Portugal 29 1.4k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 616 1.1× 658 1.3× 389 1.1× 68 2.6k
Joshua M. Miller Canada 21 1.5k 1.1× 773 0.8× 475 0.9× 403 0.8× 261 0.8× 49 2.1k
Éric Bazin France 17 1.8k 1.4× 766 0.8× 815 1.5× 530 1.1× 243 0.7× 19 2.8k
Elisabeth Haring Austria 28 1.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.1× 574 1.0× 871 1.7× 307 0.9× 110 2.4k
Mark J. Blacket Australia 25 727 0.6× 879 0.9× 561 1.0× 551 1.1× 223 0.7× 72 2.0k
Ai‐bing Zhang China 23 965 0.7× 626 0.6× 868 1.6× 458 0.9× 132 0.4× 61 1.8k
Rosalía Piñeiro United Kingdom 12 1.5k 1.2× 598 0.6× 529 1.0× 772 1.5× 212 0.6× 29 2.4k
Mikael Åkesson Sweden 26 1.4k 1.1× 1.5k 1.5× 358 0.7× 670 1.3× 212 0.6× 67 2.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Shafer, Aaron B. A. & Marty Kardos. (2025). Runs of Homozygosity and Inferences in Wild Populations. Molecular Ecology. 34(3). e17641–e17641. 2 indexed citations
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Cossette, Marie‐Laurence, Donald T. Stewart, & Aaron B. A. Shafer. (2024). Comparative Genomics of the World's Smallest Mammals Reveals Links to Echolocation, Metabolism, and Body Size Plasticity. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(11).
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Robert, Claude, et al.. (2023). Genomic health is dependent on long‐term population demographic history. Molecular Ecology. 32(8). 1943–1954. 12 indexed citations
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Dorken, Marcel E., et al.. (2023). Development of genomic resources for cattails ( Typha ), a globally important macrophyte genus. Freshwater Biology. 69(1). 74–83. 5 indexed citations
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Shafer, Aaron B. A., et al.. (2022). Characterizing nutritional phenotypes using experimental nutrigenomics: Is there nutrient‐specificity to different types of dietary stress?. Molecular Ecology. 32(5). 1073–1086. 2 indexed citations
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Shafer, Aaron B. A., et al.. (2022). Highland forest’s environmental complexity drives landscape genomics and connectivity of the rodent Peromyscus melanotis. Landscape Ecology. 37(6). 1653–1671. 8 indexed citations
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Robert, Claude, et al.. (2022). Demographic history and conservation genomics of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Québec. Evolutionary Applications. 15(12). 2043–2053. 9 indexed citations
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Shafer, Aaron B. A., et al.. (2022). The crux of time: A meta-analysis of ex vivo whole blood degradation. 2. 6 indexed citations
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Cossette, Marie‐Laurence, Donald T. Stewart, Amin Haghani, et al.. (2022). Epigenetics and island‐mainland divergence in an insectivorous small mammal. Molecular Ecology. 32(1). 152–166. 6 indexed citations
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Shafer, Aaron B. A., et al.. (2022). Using total RNA quality metrics for time since deposition estimates in degrading bloodstains. Journal of Forensic Sciences. 67(5). 1776–1785. 5 indexed citations
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Bonar, Maegwin, et al.. (2022). Genomic correlates for migratory direction in a free-ranging cervid. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1988). 20221969–20221969. 2 indexed citations
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Shafer, Aaron B. A., et al.. (2022). Speciation without gene‐flow in hybridizing deer. Molecular Ecology. 32(5). 1117–1132. 8 indexed citations
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Freeland, Joanna R., et al.. (2021). Genome assembly, annotation, and comparative analysis of the cattail Typha latifolia. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(2). 8 indexed citations
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Haworth, Sarah E., Larissa Nituch, Joseph M. Northrup, & Aaron B. A. Shafer. (2021). Characterizing the demographic history and prion protein variation to infer susceptibility to chronic wasting disease in a naïve population of white‐tailed deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ). Evolutionary Applications. 14(6). 1528–1539. 5 indexed citations
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Cossette, Marie‐Laurence, et al.. (2021). Whole bovine blood use in forensic research: Sample preparation and storage considerations. Science & Justice. 61(3). 214–220. 10 indexed citations
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Côté, Steeve D., et al.. (2020). Heritability Estimates of Antler and Body Traits in White-Tailed Deer ( Odocoileus virginianus ) From Genomic-Relatedness Matrices. Journal of Heredity. 111(5). 429–435. 4 indexed citations
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Shafer, Aaron B. A., et al.. (2020). Panmictic population genetic structure of northern British Columbia mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) has implications for harvest management. Conservation Genetics. 21(3). 613–623. 6 indexed citations
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Haworth, Sarah E., Kevin S. White, Steeve D. Côté, & Aaron B. A. Shafer. (2019). Space, time and captivity: quantifying the factors influencing the fecal microbiome of an alpine ungulate. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 95(7). 21 indexed citations
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Nielsen, Scott E., Aaron B. A. Shafer, Mark S. Boyce, & Gordon Stenhouse. (2013). Does Learning or Instinct Shape Habitat Selection?. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e53721–e53721. 41 indexed citations
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Shafer, Aaron B. A. & Donald T. Stewart. (2008). A Population Crash of the Red-backed Vole (Myodes gapperi) in Nova Scotia Inferred from Bycatch of the Long-tailed Shrew (Sorex dispar). Northeastern Naturalist. 15(4). 626–629. 1 indexed citations

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