Axel Meyer

59.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
520 papers, 39.2k citations indexed

About

Axel Meyer is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Axel Meyer has authored 520 papers receiving a total of 39.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 229 papers in Genetics, 210 papers in Molecular Biology and 182 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Axel Meyer's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (187 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (117 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (95 papers). Axel Meyer is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (187 papers), Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (117 papers) and Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (95 papers). Axel Meyer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Belgium. Axel Meyer's co-authors include Yves Van de Peer, Rafael Zardoya, Thomas D. Kocher, Walter Salzburger, Marta Barluenga, Alex C. C. Wilson, W. Kelley Thomas, Francis X. Villablanca, Svante Pääbo and Scott V. Edwards and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Axel Meyer

514 papers receiving 37.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers.

1989 4.3k citations Axel Meyer et al. profile →
SHAPE ANALYSIS OF SYMMETRIC STRUCTURES: QUANTIFYING VARIATION AMONG INDIVIDUALS AND ASYMMETRY

2002 841 citations Axel Meyer et al. profile →
From 2R to 3R: evidence for a fish‐specific genome duplication (FSGD)

2005 816 citations Axel Meyer et al. profile →
The evolutionary significance of ancient genome duplications

2009 813 citations Axel Meyer et al. profile →
Monophyletic origin of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes suggested by mitochondrial DNA sequences

1990 783 citations Axel Meyer et al. Nature profile →
Genome Duplication, a Trait Shared by 22,000 Species of Ray-Finned Fish

2003 716 citations Axel Meyer et al. profile →
Gene and genome duplications in vertebrates: the one-to-four (-to-eight in fish) rule and the evolution of novel gene functions

1999 653 citations Axel Meyer, Manfred Schartl profile →
Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish

2006 505 citations Axel Meyer et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Axel Meyer Germany	103	15.4k	15.3k	10.5k	8.8k	6.6k	520	39.2k
Keith A. Crandall United States	77	16.9k 1.1×	20.9k 1.4×	8.3k 0.8×	19.6k 2.2×	4.0k 0.6×	377	57.3k
Louis Bernatchez Canada	100	10.4k 0.7×	23.5k 1.5×	17.4k 1.6×	14.9k 1.7×	6.2k 0.9×	578	39.9k
John C. Avise United States	91	9.6k 0.6×	21.7k 1.4×	9.6k 0.9×	11.8k 1.3×	4.0k 0.6×	367	36.0k
Thomas D. Kocher United States	66	8.1k 0.5×	11.5k 0.8×	5.0k 0.5×	6.0k 0.7×	3.6k 0.5×	177	20.7k
Laurent Excoffier Switzerland	85	18.0k 1.2×	45.6k 3.0×	10.9k 1.0×	19.0k 2.2×	4.3k 0.7×	185	70.9k
Montgomery Slatkin United States	81	8.7k 0.6×	24.7k 1.6×	5.4k 0.5×	9.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.2×	229	39.1k
François Rousset France	63	7.6k 0.5×	26.3k 1.7×	7.6k 0.7×	12.1k 1.4×	2.0k 0.3×	178	41.7k
Dolph Schluter Canada	84	5.0k 0.3×	19.2k 1.3×	12.9k 1.2×	12.5k 1.4×	2.0k 0.3×	200	38.6k
Fred W. Allendorf United States	75	4.3k 0.3×	16.2k 1.1×	10.1k 1.0×	10.8k 1.2×	2.9k 0.4×	211	27.7k
Peter E. Smouse United States	36	9.5k 0.6×	25.1k 1.6×	7.5k 0.7×	12.9k 1.5×	1.8k 0.3×	78	44.9k

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Meyer, Axel, et al.. (2024). Visual pigment chromophore usage in Nicaraguan Midas cichlids: phenotypic plasticity and genetic assimilation of cyp27c1 expression. Hydrobiologia. 852(15). 3831–3845. 4 indexed citations

Du, Kang, Ronald B. Walter, Molly Schumer, et al.. (2024). Phylogenomic analyses of all species of swordtail fishes (genus Xiphophorus) show that hybridization preceded speciation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6609–6609. 10 indexed citations

Kutterolf, Steffen, Mark Brenner, Robert A. Dull, et al.. (2023). Workshop on drilling the Nicaraguan lakes: bridging continents and oceans (NICA-BRIDGE). Scientific Drilling. 32. 73–84. 1 indexed citations

Olave, Melisa, et al.. (2023). Historical Climate Change Dynamics Facilitated Speciation and Hybridization Between Highland and Lowland Species of Baripus Ground Beetles From Patagonia. 2(3). 1–16. 3 indexed citations

Singh, Pooja, Iker Irisarri, Julián Torres‐Dowdall, et al.. (2022). Phylogenomics of trophically diverse cichlids disentangles processes driving adaptive radiation and repeated trophic transitions. Ecology and Evolution. 12(7). e9077–e9077. 7 indexed citations

Kratochwil, Claudius F., Andreas F. Kautt, Alexander Nater, et al.. (2022). An intronic transposon insertion associates with a trans-species color polymorphism in Midas cichlid fishes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 296–296. 22 indexed citations

Ibrahim, Anan, et al.. (2022). Vegetation changes over the last centuries in the Lower Lake Constance region reconstructed from sediment‐core environmental DNA. Environmental DNA. 4(4). 830–845. 6 indexed citations

Kratochwil, Claudius F., Andreas F. Kautt, Alexander Nater, et al.. (2022). Molecular parallelism in the evolution of a master sex‐determining role for the anti‐Mullerian hormone receptor 2 gene (amhr2) in Midas cichlids. Molecular Ecology. 32(6). 1398–1410. 12 indexed citations

Kautt, Andreas F., Claudius F. Kratochwil, Alexander Nater, et al.. (2020). Contrasting signatures of genomic divergence during sympatric speciation. Nature. 588(7836). 106–111. 118 indexed citations

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Franchini, Paolo, Andreas F. Kautt, Alexander Nater, et al.. (2020). Reconstructing the Evolutionary History of Chromosomal Races on Islands: A Genome-Wide Analysis of Natural House Mouse Populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(10). 2825–2837. 15 indexed citations

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Schartl, Manfred, Susanne Kneitz, Cornelia Schmidt, et al.. (2020). The Developmental and Genetic Architecture of the Sexually Selected Male Ornament of Swordtails. Current Biology. 31(5). 911–922.e4. 19 indexed citations

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Ibrahim, Anan, Éric Capo, M. Wessels, et al.. (2020). Anthropogenic impact on the historical phytoplankton community of Lake Constance reconstructed by multimarker analysis of sediment‐core environmental DNA. Molecular Ecology. 30(13). 3040–3056. 35 indexed citations

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Lehtonen, Topi K., Kathryn R. Elmer, Maarit Lappalainen, & Axel Meyer. (2018). Genetic evidence for panmixia in a colony-breeding crater lake cichlid fish. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1166–1166. 4 indexed citations

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Kratochwil, Claudius F., Joost M. Woltering, Sabine Urban, et al.. (2018). Agouti-related peptide 2 facilitates convergent evolution of stripe patterns across cichlid fish radiations. Science. 362(6413). 457–460. 115 indexed citations

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Irisarri, Iker, Pooja Singh, Stephan Koblmüller, et al.. (2018). Phylogenomics uncovers early hybridization and adaptive loci shaping the radiation of Lake Tanganyika cichlid fishes. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3159–3159. 173 indexed citations

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Kratochwil, Claudius F. & Axel Meyer. (2015). Evolution: Tinkering within Gene Regulatory Landscapes. Current Biology. 25(7). R285–R288. 12 indexed citations

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Wirth, Thierry, et al.. (2007). The rise and spread of a new pathogen: Seroresistant Moraxella catarrhalis. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 7 indexed citations

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Stiassny, Melanie L. J. & Axel Meyer. (1999). Cichlids of the Rift Lakes The extraordinary diversity of cichlid fishes challenges entrenched ideas of how quickly new species can arise. Scientific American. 64–69. 3 indexed citations

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Meyer, Axel, et al.. (1992). Molecules, fossils, and the origin of tetrapods. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 35(2). 102–13. 84 indexed citations

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Meyer, Axel, et al.. (1984). Investigation of the Initial Events in Biofouling.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 2 indexed citations

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