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, Claire Peart, Inbar Maayan, Alan Brelsford and Sergio Tusso 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

Author Peers

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

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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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Hoffman, Eric A., et al.. (2024). Island demographics and trait associations in white-tailed deer. Heredity. 133(1). 1–10. 3 indexed citations
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Shafer, Aaron B. A., et al.. (2024). Quantifying the effect of water quality on eDNA degradation using microcosm and bioassay experiments. Environmental DNA. 6(2). 5 indexed citations
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Northrup, Joseph M., et al.. (2024). Epigenetic clocks, sex markers and age‐class diagnostics in three harvested large mammals. Molecular Ecology Resources. 24(5). e13956–e13956. 3 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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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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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). Speciation without gene‐flow in hybridizing deer. Molecular Ecology. 32(5). 1117–1132. 8 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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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). Development of an environmental DNA metabarcoding assay for aquatic vascular plant communities. Environmental DNA. 3(2). 372–387. 28 indexed citations
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Shafer, Aaron B. A., et al.. (2020). The complexity of co-limitation: nutrigenomics reveal non-additive interactions of calcium and phosphorus on gene expression in Daphnia pulex. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1941). 20202302–20202302. 4 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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Chikhi, Rayan, et al.. (2019). Genome Assembly and Analysis of the North American Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus) Reveals Species-Level Responses to Extreme Environments. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(2). 437–442. 7 indexed citations
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Murray, Dennis L., et al.. (2019). Genome‐scale sampling suggests cryptic epigenetic structuring and insular divergence in Canada lynx. Molecular Ecology. 28(13). 3186–3196. 25 indexed citations

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