Barbara Feldmeyer

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Barbara Feldmeyer is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Barbara Feldmeyer has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Genetics, 39 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 30 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Barbara Feldmeyer's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (43 papers), Plant and animal studies (31 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (17 papers). Barbara Feldmeyer is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (43 papers), Plant and animal studies (31 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (17 papers). Barbara Feldmeyer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Barbara Feldmeyer's co-authors include Susanne Foitzik, Markus Pfenninger, Florian Menzel, Ann‐Marie Waldvogel, D. Elsner, Ido Pen, Philip Kohlmeier, Björn Rotter, Nicolas Krezdorn and Christophe Pampoulie and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Barbara Feldmeyer

72 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Evolutionary genomics can improve prediction of species’ responses to climate change

2020 198 citations Ann‐Marie Waldvogel, Barbara Feldmeyer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Barbara Feldmeyer Germany	24	1.0k	759	538	425	240	77	1.7k
Alan O. Bergland United States	20	1.0k 1.0×	571 0.8×	360 0.7×	505 1.2×	348 1.4×	37	1.8k
Daegan Inward United Kingdom	17	914 0.9×	981 1.3×	536 1.0×	553 1.3×	240 1.0×	29	1.9k
José Á. Andrés United States	27	800 0.8×	1.0k 1.3×	316 0.6×	504 1.2×	275 1.1×	57	1.8k
Steven M. Bogdanowicz United States	21	833 0.8×	530 0.7×	317 0.6×	492 1.2×	222 0.9×	42	1.5k
Jesse W. Breinholt United States	27	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	437 0.8×	719 1.7×	454 1.9×	46	2.3k
Rosa Ana Sánchez‐Guillén Mexico	21	669 0.7×	747 1.0×	307 0.6×	425 1.0×	152 0.6×	53	1.4k
Hervé Jourdan France	25	1.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.9×	647 1.2×	323 0.8×	156 0.7×	82	2.0k
Shawn M. Wilder United States	25	900 0.9×	1.1k 1.5×	651 1.2×	573 1.3×	72 0.3×	78	1.9k
Maaria Kankare Finland	17	1.2k 1.2×	917 1.2×	408 0.8×	916 2.2×	213 0.9×	36	2.2k
Brandon S. Cooper United States	22	487 0.5×	487 0.6×	572 1.1×	502 1.2×	119 0.5×	40	1.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Barbara Feldmeyer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Barbara Feldmeyer

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20 of 20 papers shown

Doria, Halina Binde, et al.. (2025). Dissecting Oxidative Stress and Organismic Response to a Temperature Gradient in the Midge Chironomus riparius . Ecology and Evolution. 15(12). e72625–e72625.

Kohlmeier, Philip, Barbara Feldmeyer, & Susanne Foitzik. (2023). Histone acetyltransferases and external demands influence task switching in Temnothorax ants. Biology Letters. 19(7). 20230176–20230176. 3 indexed citations

Kramer, Isabelle, Markus Pfenninger, Barbara Feldmeyer, et al.. (2022). Genomic profiling of climate adaptation in Aedes aegypti along an altitudinal gradient in Nepal indicates nongradual expansion of the disease vector. Molecular Ecology. 32(2). 350–368. 7 indexed citations

Pfenninger, Markus, et al.. (2022). Selective effects of a short transient environmental fluctuation on a natural population. Molecular Ecology. 32(2). 335–349. 7 indexed citations

Feldmeyer, Barbara, Jennifer Wallner, Evelien Jongepier, et al.. (2022). Evidence for a conserved queen‐worker genetic toolkit across slave‐making ants and their ant hosts. Molecular Ecology. 31(19). 4991–5004. 4 indexed citations

Schmitt, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Candidate genes involved in cuticular hydrocarbon differentiation between cryptic, parabiotic ant species. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(5). 6 indexed citations

Pfenninger, Markus, Friederike Reuss, Susanne Gerber, et al.. (2021). Genomic basis for drought resistance in European beech forests threatened by climate change. eLife. 10. 33 indexed citations

Jongepier, Evelien, et al.. (2021). Convergent Loss of Chemoreceptors across Independent Origins of Slave-Making in Ants. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(1). 18 indexed citations

Korb, Judith, Karen Meusemann, Abel Bernadou, et al.. (2021). Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 376(1823). 20190728–20190728. 43 indexed citations

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Waldvogel, Ann‐Marie, et al.. (2020). Little parallelism in genomic signatures of local adaptation in two sympatric, cryptic sister species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 34(6). 937–952. 12 indexed citations

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Jongepier, Evelien, et al.. (2020). Comparative analyses of caste, sex, and developmental stage‐specific transcriptomes in two Temnothorax ants. Ecology and Evolution. 10(10). 4193–4203. 6 indexed citations

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Vogelweith, Fanny, et al.. (2020). Offspring reverse transcriptome responses to maternal deprivation when reared with pathogens in an insect with facultative family life. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1926). 20200440–20200440. 8 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Hanno, et al.. (2020). A High-Quality Genome Assembly from Short and Long Reads for the Non-biting Midge Chironomus riparius (Diptera). G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(4). 1151–1157. 18 indexed citations

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Feldmeyer, Barbara, et al.. (2019). Influence of Mutualistic Lifestyle, Mutualistic Partner, and Climate on Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles in Parabiotic Ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 45(9). 741–754. 8 indexed citations

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Orivel, Jérôme, Hannes Baur, Till Beuerle, et al.. (2019). Cuticular hydrocarbons as potential mediators of cryptic species divergence in a mutualistic ant association. Ecology and Evolution. 9(16). 9160–9176. 20 indexed citations

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Franke, Kristin, Isabell Karl, Tonatiuh Peña Centeno, et al.. (2019). Effects of adult temperature on gene expression in a butterfly: identifying pathways associated with thermal acclimation. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19(1). 32–32. 7 indexed citations

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Schell, Tilman, Evelien Jongepier, Hanno Schmidt, et al.. (2019). Hybrid Genome Assembly of a Neotropical Mutualistic Ant. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(8). 2306–2311. 9 indexed citations

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Waldvogel, Ann‐Marie, Tilman Schell, Hanno Schmidt, et al.. (2018). The genomic footprint of climate adaptation in Chironomus riparius. Molecular Ecology. 27(6). 1439–1456. 49 indexed citations

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Feldmeyer, Barbara, et al.. (2018). Comparative analyses of co-evolving host-parasite associations reveal unique gene expression patterns underlying slavemaker raiding and host defensive phenotypes. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 1951–1951. 11 indexed citations

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Kohlmeier, Philip, et al.. (2018). Gene expression is more strongly associated with behavioural specialization than with age or fertility in ant workers. Molecular Ecology. 28(3). 658–670. 28 indexed citations

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