Adam D. Leaché

9.0k citations

114 papers · 6.5k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 34

Genetics top 0.2%
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
Molecular Biology top 5%
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.2%
Ecological Modeling top 0.2%

Co-authors: Matthew K. Fujita Tod W. Reeder Jimmy A. McGuire Bruce Rannala Craig Moritz Frank T. Burbrink Vladimir N. Minin Ziheng Yang
Topics: Genetic diversity and population structure (72 papers)Amphibian and Reptile Biology (69 papers)Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers)
Cited by: Ecological Modeling Genetics Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Journals: Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Nature Communications
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Adam D. Leaché

108 papers receiving 6.4k 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.

Coalescent-based species delimitation in an integrative taxonomy

2012 667 citations Matthew K. Fujita, Adam D. Leaché et al. profile →
Molecular Systematics of the Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus): A Comparison of Parsimony, Likelihood, and Bayesian Approaches

2002 543 citations Adam D. Leaché, Tod W. Reeder Systematic Biology profile →
Species Delimitation using Genome-Wide SNP Data

2014 359 citations Adam D. Leaché, Matthew K. Fujita et al. Systematic Biology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Comparative Phylogeography of Phrynosomatid Lizards in Baja California: Asynchronous Divergences and Expansion of Callisaurus draconoides Across the North American Deserts 2025 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Andrew D. Gottscho,Bradford D. Hollingsworth,Julio A. Lemos‐Espinal,Adam D. Leaché,Tod W. Reeder,Kevin de Queiroz	0
2	Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards 2025 ·Evolution ·Jonathan Q. Richmond,Andrew D. Gottscho,Elizabeth L. Jockusch,Adam D. Leaché,Robert N. Fisher,Tod W. Reeder	1
3	Establishing species boundaries in Bornean geckos 2024 ·Biology Letters ·(unknown),(unknown),Indraneil Das,(unknown),Adam D. Leaché	2
4	Comparative approaches to understanding speciation: a case study in Xantusia lizards 2024 ·Sonal Singhal,(unknown),Julio A. Lemos‐Espinal,Matthew K. Fujita,Adam D. Leaché	3
5	Phase Resolution of Heterozygous Sites in Diploid Genomes is Important to Phylogenomic Analysis under the Multispecies Coalescent Model 2021 ·Systematic Biology ·Jun Huang,(unknown),Tomáš Flouri,Adam D. Leaché,Ziheng Yang	16
6	Characterization of a pericentric inversion in plateau fence lizards ( Sceloporus tristichus ): evidence from chromosome-scale genomes 2021 ·G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·(unknown),Adam D. Leaché	7
7	A chromosome-level genome assembly for the eastern fence lizard ( Sceloporus undulatus ), a reptile model for physiological and evolutionary ecology 2021 ·GigaScience ·(unknown),Rory S. Telemeco,Mariana B. Grizante,Damien S. Waits,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Alexis Sullivan,George H. Perry,Michael W. Sears,Christian L. Cox,Robert M. Cox,Matthew E. Gifford,Henry B. John‐Alder,Tracy Langkilde,Michael J. Angilletta,Adam D. Leaché,Marc Tollis,Kenro Kusumi,Tonia S. Schwartz	19
8	A new critically endangered slippery frog (Amphibia, Conrauidae, Conraua) from the Atewa Range, central Ghana 2021 ·Zootaxa ·(unknown),Caleb Ofori‐Boateng,(unknown),David C. Blackburn,Gabriel Hoinsoudé Segniagbeto,Annika Hillers,Michael F. Barej,Adam D. Leaché,Mark‐Oliver Rödel	2
9	The effects of climate and demographic history in shaping genomic variation across populations of the Desert Horned Lizard (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) 2021 ·Molecular Ecology ·(unknown),(unknown),Christopher Blair,(unknown),(unknown),Drew R. Schield,Daren C. Card,(unknown),(unknown),Adam D. Leaché,Todd A. Castoe,Tereza Ježková	9
10	A transmissible cancer shifts from emergence to endemism in Tasmanian devils 2020 ·Science ·Austin H. Patton,(unknown),Mark J. Margres,Christopher P. Kozakiewicz,Rodrigo Hamede,Manuel Ruiz‐Aravena,David G. Hamilton,Sébastien Comte,(unknown),Robyn Taylor,Tanja Stadler,Adam D. Leaché,Hamish McCallum,Menna E. Jones,Paul A. Hohenlohe,Andrew Storfer	26
11	Locally adaptive Bayesian birth-death model successfully detects slow and rapid rate shifts 2020 ·PLoS Computational Biology ·Andrew F. Magee,Sebastian Höhna,Tetyana I. Vasylyeva,Adam D. Leaché,Vladimir N. Minin	31
12	The Spectre of Too Many Species 2018 ·Systematic Biology ·Adam D. Leaché,Tianqi Zhu,Bruce Rannala,Ziheng Yang	207
13	A new species of Puddle Frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from Ghana 2018 ·Zootaxa ·Caleb Ofori‐Boateng,Adam D. Leaché,(unknown),(unknown),Annika Hillers,Mark‐Oliver Rödel	2
14	Evidence for concerted movement of nuclear and mitochondrial clines in a lizard hybrid zone 2017 ·Molecular Ecology ·Adam D. Leaché,Jared A. Grummer,Rebecca B. Harris,Ian Breckheimer	21
15	Phylogenomics and species delimitation in the knob-scaled lizards of the genus Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) using ddRADseq data reveal a substantial underestimation of diversity 2016 ·Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Adrián Nieto‐Montes de,Anthony J. Barley,Rubí N. Meza-Lázaro,Uri Omar García‐Vázquez,(unknown),Robert C. Thomson,Adam D. Leaché	61
16	Estimating the temporal and spatial extent of gene flow among sympatric lizard populations (genus Sceloporus ) in the southern Mexican highlands 2015 ·Molecular Ecology ·Jared A. Grummer,Martha L. Calderón‐Espinosa,Adrián Nieto‐Montes de,Eric N. Smith,Fausto R. Méndez‐de la Cruz,Adam D. Leaché	18
17	Species Delimitation using Genome-Wide SNP Databreakdown → 2014 ·Systematic Biology ·Adam D. Leaché,Matthew K. Fujita,Vladimir N. Minin,Remco Bouckaert	359
18	Comparative Species Divergence across Eight Triplets of Spiny Lizards (Sceloporus) Using Genomic Sequence Data 2013 ·Genome Biology and Evolution ·Adam D. Leaché,Rebecca B. Harris,(unknown),Charles W. Linkem	27
19	Late Cretaceous origin of the rice tribe provides evidence for early diversification in Poaceae 2011 ·Nature Communications ·Vandana Prasad,Caroline A. E. Strömberg,Adam D. Leaché,Bandana Samant,Rajeev Patnaik,Li-Ping Tang,Dhananjay M. Mohabey,S. Ge,A. Sahni	158
20	The amphibians of the forested parts of south-western Ghana 2005 ·(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Adam D. Leaché,Raúl E. Díaz,Matthew K. Fujita,Raffael Ernst	27

About Adam D. Leaché

Adam D. Leaché is a scholar working on Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change and Genetics, having authored 114 papers that have together received 6.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Genetic diversity and population structure (72 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (69 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (50 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecological Modeling (1.7k citations), Genetics (3.7k citations) and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (2.1k citations). Adam D. Leaché has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Matthew K. Fujita, Tod W. Reeder, Jimmy A. McGuire, Bruce Rannala, Craig Moritz, Frank T. Burbrink, Vladimir N. Minin, Ziheng Yang, Charles W. Linkem and Rebecca B. Harris. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

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