Alan O. Bergland

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Alan O. Bergland is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan O. Bergland has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Genetics, 16 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 12 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alan O. Bergland's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (14 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (14 papers). Alan O. Bergland is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (15 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (14 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (14 papers). Alan O. Bergland collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Alan O. Bergland's co-authors include Dmitri A. Petrov, Paul Schmidt, Emily L. Behrman, Katherine R. O’Brien, Josefa González, Marc Tatar, Alison F. Feder, Raymond Tobler, Heather E. Machado and Maria Stager and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Current Biology.

In The Last Decade

Alan O. Bergland

34 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Genomic Evidence of Rapid and Stable Adaptive Oscillations over Seasonal Time Scales in Drosophila

2014 359 citations Alan O. Bergland, Emily L. Behrman et al. PLoS Genetics profile →
Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species’ responses to climate change

2020 198 citations Alan O. Bergland et al. Evolution Letters profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan O. Bergland United States	20	1.0k	571	505	360	348	37	1.8k
Barbara Feldmeyer Germany	24	1.0k 1.0×	759 1.3×	425 0.8×	538 1.5×	240 0.7×	77	1.7k
Raymond Tobler Australia	19	1.1k 1.1×	337 0.6×	352 0.7×	200 0.6×	512 1.5×	32	1.8k
John E. Pool United States	27	1.6k 1.5×	621 1.1×	340 0.7×	438 1.2×	776 2.2×	48	2.4k
Catherine R. Linnen United States	21	806 0.8×	649 1.1×	362 0.7×	255 0.7×	301 0.9×	38	1.5k
Tim Connallon Australia	28	1.5k 1.4×	1.1k 1.8×	302 0.6×	254 0.7×	456 1.3×	73	2.2k
W. Jason Kennington Australia	27	916 0.9×	686 1.2×	876 1.7×	178 0.5×	285 0.8×	106	2.0k
Gregory J. Ragland United States	26	768 0.7×	749 1.3×	1.3k 2.5×	766 2.1×	287 0.8×	51	2.2k
Erik B. Dopman United States	20	922 0.9×	484 0.8×	259 0.5×	416 1.2×	759 2.2×	37	1.7k
Martin Kapun Austria	18	738 0.7×	288 0.5×	285 0.6×	320 0.9×	237 0.7×	40	1.2k
Kevin J. Emerson United States	16	536 0.5×	296 0.5×	356 0.7×	200 0.6×	273 0.8×	25	1.2k

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Rhodes, Jessica A., Sharon Greenblum, Mark C. Bitter, et al.. (2025). Drosophila melanogaster pigmentation demonstrates adaptive phenotypic parallelism over multiple spatiotemporal scales. Evolution Letters. 9(4). 408–420.

Becker, Dörthe, et al.. (2024). Trans‐Specific Polymorphisms Between Cryptic Daphnia Species Affect Fitness and Behavior. Molecular Ecology. 34(3). e17632–e17632. 2 indexed citations

Cole, Christine L., et al.. (2023). A small survey of introduced Zaprionus indianus (Diptera: Drosophilidae) in orchards of the eastern United States. Journal of Insect Science. 23(5). 3 indexed citations

Yu, Yang, et al.. (2023). A cosmopolitan inversion facilitates seasonal adaptation in overwintering Drosophila. Genetics. 226(2). 10 indexed citations

Becker, Dörthe, Robert Porter, Priscilla A. Erickson, et al.. (2022). Genetic Variation in Reproductive Investment Across an Ephemerality Gradient inDaphnia pulex. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(6). 7 indexed citations

Tilk, Susanne, et al.. (2021). Accurate, ultra-low coverage genome reconstruction and association studies in Hybrid Swarm mapping populations. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(4). 3 indexed citations

Erickson, Priscilla A., et al.. (2020). Unique genetic signatures of local adaptation over space and time for diapause, an ecologically relevant complex trait, in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS Genetics. 16(11). e1009110–e1009110. 24 indexed citations

Fu, Zhen, Amanda R. Meier, Brendan Epstein, et al.. (2020). Host plants and Wolbachia shape the population genetics of sympatric herbivore populations. Evolutionary Applications. 13(10). 2740–2753. 16 indexed citations

Tilk, Susanne, et al.. (2019). Accurate Allele Frequencies from Ultra-low Coverage Pool-Seq Samples in Evolve-and-Resequence Experiments. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 9(12). 4159–4168. 24 indexed citations

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Stone, Helen, Priscilla A. Erickson, & Alan O. Bergland. (2019). Phenotypic plasticity, but not adaptive tracking, underlies seasonal variation in post‐cold hardening freeze tolerance of Drosophila melanogaster. Ecology and Evolution. 10(1). 217–231. 8 indexed citations

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Rajpurohit, Subhash, Eran Gefen, Alan O. Bergland, et al.. (2018). Spatiotemporal dynamics and genome‐wide association analysis of desiccation tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology. 27(17). 3525–3540. 24 indexed citations

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Behrman, Emily L., Virginia M. Howick, Martin Kapun, et al.. (2018). Rapid seasonal evolution in innate immunity of wild Drosophila melanogaster. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1870). 20172599–20172599. 52 indexed citations

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Wittmann, Meike J., Alan O. Bergland, Marcus W. Feldman, Paul Schmidt, & Dmitri A. Petrov. (2017). Seasonally fluctuating selection can maintain polymorphism at many loci via segregation lift. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(46). E9932–E9941. 81 indexed citations

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Fu, Zhen, Brendan Epstein, Joanna L. Kelley, et al.. (2017). Using NextRAD sequencing to infer movement of herbivores among host plants. PLoS ONE. 12(5). e0177742–e0177742. 20 indexed citations

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Zhou, Cyrus, Peter DeFord, Alan O. Bergland, et al.. (2017). Natural variation in stochastic photoreceptor specification and color preference in Drosophila. eLife. 6. 20 indexed citations

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Bergland, Alan O., Raymond Tobler, Josefa González, Paul Schmidt, & Dmitri A. Petrov. (2015). Secondary contact and local adaptation contribute to genome‐wide patterns of clinal variation in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology. 25(5). 1157–1174. 99 indexed citations

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Paaby, Annalise B., Alan O. Bergland, Emily L. Behrman, & Paul Schmidt. (2014). A highly pleiotropic amino acid polymorphism in the Drosophila insulin receptor contributes to life-history adaptation. Evolution. 68(12). 3395–3409. 70 indexed citations

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Bergland, Alan O., Raymond Tobler, Josefa González, & Paul Schmidt. (2014). Title: Secondary contact and local adaptation contribute to genome-wide patterns of clinal variation in Drosophila melanogaster Running title: Demography, adaptation, and clines in Drosophila. 2 indexed citations

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Bergland, Alan O., et al.. (2012). Fine-Scale Mapping of Natural Variation in Fly Fecundity Identifies Neuronal Domain of Expression and Function of an Aquaporin. PLoS Genetics. 8(4). e1002631–e1002631. 26 indexed citations

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Bergland, Alan O., Anne Génissel, Sergey V. Nuzhdin, & Marc Tatar. (2008). Quantitative Trait Loci Affecting Phenotypic Plasticity and the Allometric Relationship of Ovariole Number and Thorax Length in Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics. 180(1). 567–582. 68 indexed citations

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