Christen M. Bossu

1.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Christen M. Bossu is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Christen M. Bossu has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Genetics, 15 papers in Ecology and 7 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Christen M. Bossu's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (21 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (10 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 papers). Christen M. Bossu is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (21 papers), Avian ecology and behavior (10 papers) and Species Distribution and Climate Change (7 papers). Christen M. Bossu collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Sweden. Christen M. Bossu's co-authors include Thomas J. Near, Jochen B. W. Wolf, Nagarjun Vijay, Jelmer W. Poelstra, Per Unneberg, Bettina Ryll, I. Müller, Martin Wikelski, Manfred Grabherr and Vittorio Baglione and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Christen M. Bossu

27 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

The genomic landscape underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows

2014 399 citations Jelmer W. Poelstra, Nagarjun Vijay et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Christen M. Bossu United States	12	748	327	295	278	256	32	1.1k
Gina L. Conte Canada	9	934 1.2×	234 0.7×	294 1.0×	349 1.3×	400 1.6×	10	1.3k
Marius Roesti Switzerland	20	1.1k 1.4×	374 1.1×	292 1.0×	399 1.4×	214 0.8×	31	1.4k
Alexandra M. Tyers United Kingdom	10	500 0.7×	298 0.9×	207 0.7×	239 0.9×	230 0.9×	14	855
Kay Lucek Switzerland	22	1.0k 1.4×	272 0.8×	435 1.5×	494 1.8×	412 1.6×	67	1.5k
Paul Z. Goldstein United States	14	494 0.7×	357 1.1×	379 1.3×	209 0.8×	499 1.9×	49	1.2k
Steven M. Bogdanowicz United States	21	833 1.1×	222 0.7×	492 1.7×	241 0.9×	530 2.1×	42	1.5k
Claire Mérot Canada	19	1.0k 1.4×	537 1.6×	327 1.1×	223 0.8×	398 1.6×	36	1.5k
Lukáš Choleva Czechia	20	701 0.9×	231 0.7×	249 0.8×	198 0.7×	204 0.8×	42	1.1k
Andreas F. Kautt Germany	15	442 0.6×	220 0.7×	221 0.7×	344 1.2×	143 0.6×	24	810
Tuomas Leinonen Finland	16	923 1.2×	175 0.5×	374 1.3×	477 1.7×	464 1.8×	27	1.5k

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Bossu, Christen M., et al.. (2025). Identifying genomic adaptation to local climate using a mechanistic evolutionary model. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(10). 2448–2460. 1 indexed citations

Hostetler, Jeffrey A., Emily B. Cohen, Christen M. Bossu, et al.. (2025). Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 16(2). 362–376. 2 indexed citations

Bossu, Christen M., et al.. (2025). Factors underlying migratory timing of a seasonally migrating bird. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 8527–8527.

Walker, Brett L., et al.. (2024). Field research guided by citizen science and monitoring data reveal a novel alpine breeding distribution and vegetation associations of a declining, habitat-specialist songbird in Colorado, USA. Avian Conservation and Ecology. 19(1). 2 indexed citations

Bossu, Christen M., Julie C. Hagelin, Ryan J. Harrigan, et al.. (2024). mignette : An R package for creating and visualizing migratory network models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 15(12). 2216–2225.

Somveille, Marius, et al.. (2024). Broad‐scale seasonal climate tracking is a consequence, not a driver, of avian migratory connectivity. Ecology Letters. 27(8). e14496–e14496. 2 indexed citations

Bossu, Christen M., James F. Saracco, David P. L. Toews, et al.. (2023). Genomics‐informed conservation units reveal spatial variation in climate vulnerability in a migratory bird. Molecular Ecology. 33(1). 7 indexed citations

Contina, Andrea, Christen M. Bossu, Daniel C. Allen, Michael B. Wunder, & Kristen Ruegg. (2023). Genetic and ecological drivers of molt in a migratory bird. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 814–814. 5 indexed citations

Anderson, Eric C., Christen M. Bossu, Teia M. Schweizer, et al.. (2023). Low‐coverage whole genome sequencing for highly accurate population assignment: Mapping migratory connectivity in the American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla). Molecular Ecology. 32(20). 5528–5540. 9 indexed citations

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Bossu, Christen M., et al.. (2023). Winter connectivity and leapfrog migration in a migratory passerine. Ecology and Evolution. 13(2). e9769–e9769. 7 indexed citations

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Turbek, Sheela P., Christen M. Bossu, Barbara E. Kus, et al.. (2023). Historical DNA reveals climate adaptation in an endangered songbird. Nature Climate Change. 13(7). 735–741. 11 indexed citations

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Bossu, Christen M., et al.. (2023). Genomic approaches to mitigating genetic diversity loss in declining populations. Molecular Ecology. 32(19). 5228–5240. 5 indexed citations

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Bossu, Christen M., et al.. (2022). Genotype–environment associations across spatial scales reveal the importance of putative adaptive genetic variation in divergence. Evolutionary Applications. 15(9). 1390–1407. 13 indexed citations

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Bossu, Christen M., Julie A. Heath, Gregory S. Kaltenecker, Barbara Helm, & Kristen Ruegg. (2022). Clock-linked genes underlie seasonal migratory timing in a diurnal raptor. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1974). 20212507–20212507. 14 indexed citations

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Knief, Ulrich, Christen M. Bossu, & Jochen B. W. Wolf. (2020). Extra‐pair paternity as a strategy to reduce the costs of heterospecific reproduction? Insights from the crow hybrid zone. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(5). 727–733. 4 indexed citations

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Knief, Ulrich, Christen M. Bossu, Nicola Saino, et al.. (2019). Epistatic mutations under divergent selection govern phenotypic variation in the crow hybrid zone. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 3(4). 570–576. 59 indexed citations

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Vijay, Nagarjun, Christen M. Bossu, Jelmer W. Poelstra, et al.. (2016). Evolution of heterogeneous genome differentiation across multiple contact zones in a crow species complex. Nature Communications. 7(1). 13195–13195. 141 indexed citations

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Poelstra, Jelmer W., Nagarjun Vijay, Christen M. Bossu, et al.. (2014). The genomic landscape underlying phenotypic integrity in the face of gene flow in crows. Science. 344(6190). 1410–1414. 399 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bossu, Christen M. & Thomas J. Near. (2009). Gene Trees Reveal Repeated Instances of Mitochondrial DNA Introgression in Orangethroat Darters (Percidae: Etheostoma). Systematic Biology. 58(1). 114–129. 109 indexed citations

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Pigliucci, Massimo, et al.. (2005). The Alleged Fallacies of Evolutionary Theory. 63(2). 7. 2 indexed citations

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