Aaron Liston

13.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
133 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Aaron Liston is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron Liston has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Plant Science, 71 papers in Molecular Biology and 69 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Aaron Liston's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (34 papers), Plant Diversity and Evolution (30 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers). Aaron Liston is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (34 papers), Plant Diversity and Evolution (30 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (27 papers). Aaron Liston collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and China. Aaron Liston's co-authors include Richard Cronn, Matthew Parks, David S. Gernandt, Shannon C. K. Straub, Tia‐Lynn Ashman, Mark Fishbein, Kevin Weitemier, John Syring, Ann Willyard and Loren H. Rieseberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Aaron Liston

131 papers receiving 7.6k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Navigating the tip of the genomic iceberg: Next‐generation sequencing for plant systematics

2011 508 citations Shannon C. K. Straub, Matthew Parks et al. American Journal of Botany profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron Liston United States	49	4.2k	3.7k	3.5k	2.3k	970	133	8.0k
Peter M. Hollingsworth United Kingdom	43	4.2k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	3.0k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	757 0.8×	146	8.4k
Bruce G. Baldwin United States	44	3.9k 0.9×	5.9k 1.6×	3.7k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	675 0.7×	105	8.7k
Richard Cronn United States	43	4.3k 1.0×	2.7k 0.7×	3.8k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	666 0.7×	100	7.8k
Elizabeth A. Zimmer United States	49	5.2k 1.2×	5.3k 1.4×	3.1k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	633 0.7×	105	8.5k
Tod F. Stuessy Austria	51	4.0k 1.0×	6.6k 1.8×	6.3k 1.8×	2.8k 1.2×	643 0.7×	332	12.4k
Mark P. Simmons United States	40	3.9k 0.9×	4.0k 1.1×	2.2k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	482 0.5×	114	7.6k
Kenneth J. Sytsma United States	61	5.2k 1.2×	7.6k 2.0×	4.0k 1.1×	1.6k 0.7×	570 0.6×	150	10.7k
Quentin Cronk Canada	50	3.7k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	3.4k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	262 0.3×	182	7.8k
Jun Wen United States	55	6.3k 1.5×	7.3k 2.0×	5.1k 1.4×	1.9k 0.8×	1.0k 1.1×	356	11.7k
Barbara A. Schaal United States	51	2.8k 0.7×	3.8k 1.0×	5.5k 1.6×	3.9k 1.7×	604 0.6×	151	9.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Liston, Aaron. (2023). On the origin of strawberries. Nature Plants. 9(8). 1176–1177. 2 indexed citations

Morales‐Briones, Diego F., Berit Gehrke, Chien‐Hsun Huang, et al.. (2021). Analysis of Paralogs in Target Enrichment Data Pinpoints Multiple Ancient Polyploidy Events in Alchemilla s.l. (Rosaceae). Systematic Biology. 71(1). 190–207. 43 indexed citations

Liston, Aaron, Kevin Weitemier, János Podani, et al.. (2021). Phylogeny of Crataegus (Rosaceae) based on 257 nuclear loci and chloroplast genomes: evaluating the impact of hybridization. PeerJ. 9. e12418–e12418. 14 indexed citations

Charboneau, Joseph L. M., Richard Cronn, Aaron Liston, Martin F. Wojciechowski, & Michael J. Sanderson. (2021). Plastome Structural Evolution and Homoplastic Inversions in Neo-Astragalus (Fabaceae). Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(10). 21 indexed citations

Wei, Na, et al.. (2019). Genome duplication effects on functional traits and fitness are genetic context and species dependent: studies of synthetic polyploid Fragaria. American Journal of Botany. 107(2). 262–272. 34 indexed citations

Weitemier, Kevin, Shannon C. K. Straub, Mark Fishbein, et al.. (2019). A draft genome and transcriptome of common milkweed ( Asclepias syriaca ) as resources for evolutionary, ecological, and molecular studies in milkweeds and Apocynaceae. PeerJ. 7. e7649–e7649. 19 indexed citations

Wei, Na, Richard Cronn, Aaron Liston, & Tia‐Lynn Ashman. (2018). Functional trait divergence and trait plasticity confer polyploid advantage in heterogeneous environments. New Phytologist. 221(4). 2286–2297. 76 indexed citations

Tennessen, Jacob A., Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Aaron Liston, & Tia‐Lynn Ashman. (2016). Homomorphic ZW chromosomes in a wild strawberry show distinctive recombination heterogeneity but a small sex‐determining region. New Phytologist. 211(4). 1412–1423. 30 indexed citations

Ashman, Tia‐Lynn, Jacob A. Tennessen, Rebecca Dalton, et al.. (2015). Multilocus Sex Determination Revealed in Two Populations of Gynodioecious Wild Strawberry, Fragaria vesca subsp. bracteata. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 5(12). 2759–2773. 19 indexed citations

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Weitemier, Kevin, Shannon C. K. Straub, Mark Fishbein, & Aaron Liston. (2015). Intragenomic polymorphisms among high-copy loci: a genus-wide study of nuclear ribosomal DNA in Asclepias (Apocynaceae). PeerJ. 3. e718–e718. 41 indexed citations

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Tennessen, Jacob A., Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Tia‐Lynn Ashman, & Aaron Liston. (2014). Evolutionary Origins and Dynamics of Octoploid Strawberry Subgenomes Revealed by Dense Targeted Capture Linkage Maps. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(12). 3295–3313. 164 indexed citations

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Straub, Shannon C. K., et al.. (2013). Horizontal Transfer of DNA from the Mitochondrial to the Plastid Genome and Its Subsequent Evolution in Milkweeds (Apocynaceae). Genome Biology and Evolution. 5(10). 1872–1885. 118 indexed citations

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Severns, Paul M., et al.. (2012). Whole genome duplication in a threatened grassland plant and the efficacy of seed transfer zones. Diversity and Distributions. 19(4). 455–464. 7 indexed citations

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Straub, Shannon C. K., Matthew Parks, Kevin Weitemier, et al.. (2011). Navigating the tip of the genomic iceberg: Next‐generation sequencing for plant systematics. American Journal of Botany. 99(2). 349–364. 508 indexed citations breakdown →

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Syring, John, Ann Willyard, Richard Cronn, & Aaron Liston. (2005). Evolutionary relationships among Pinus (Pinaceae) subsections inferred from multiple low‐copy nuclear loci. American Journal of Botany. 92(12). 2086–2100. 76 indexed citations

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Liston, Aaron, et al.. (2004). Genetic diversity of the narrow endemic Astragalus oniciformis (Fabaceae). American Journal of Botany. 91(12). 2004–2012. 36 indexed citations

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Xiang, Qiao‐Ping, et al.. (2004). Phylogenetic relationships in Abies (Pinaceae): evidence from PCR-RFLP of the nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer region. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 145(4). 425–435. 28 indexed citations

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Gernandt, David S., Aaron Liston, & Daniel Piñero. (2003). Phylogenetics of Pinus Subsections Cembroides and Nelsoniae Inferred from cpDNA Sequences. Systematic Botany. 28(4). 657–673. 41 indexed citations

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Liston, Aaron. (1997). Biogeographic relationships between the mediterranean and north american floras: insights from molecular data. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 19(1). 323–330. 24 indexed citations

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Liston, Aaron, et al.. (1994). 528 PB 522 WILD RIBES OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. HortScience. 29(5). 507a–507. 2 indexed citations

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