Diego Cortez

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 842 citations indexed

About

Diego Cortez is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Diego Cortez has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 842 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Diego Cortez's work include Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (14 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (7 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (6 papers). Diego Cortez is often cited by papers focused on Genetic and Clinical Aspects of Sex Determination and Chromosomal Abnormalities (14 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (7 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (6 papers). Diego Cortez collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United Kingdom and France. Diego Cortez's co-authors include Patrick Forterre, Angélica Liechti, Ray M. Marín, Henrik Kaessmann, Frank Grützner, Paul D. Waters, Deborah Toledo‐Flores, Simonetta Gribaldo, Guennadi Sezonov and Nicole Desnoues and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Diego Cortez

26 papers receiving 835 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.

Origins and functional evolution of Y chromosomes across mammals

2014 365 citations Diego Cortez, Ray M. Marín et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Diego Cortez Mexico	13	502	446	286	208	99	29	842
Carlos M. Rodríguez López Australia	20	194 0.4×	678 1.5×	684 2.4×	108 0.5×	83 0.8×	49	1.2k
Eric L. Cabot United States	10	378 0.8×	419 0.9×	235 0.8×	192 0.9×	122 1.2×	12	940
Toni I. Gossmann United Kingdom	18	533 1.1×	595 1.3×	242 0.8×	71 0.3×	144 1.5×	37	1.1k
Roy N. Platt United States	17	275 0.5×	582 1.3×	453 1.6×	178 0.9×	129 1.3×	35	988
Yu-Ping Poh United States	9	752 1.5×	413 0.9×	181 0.6×	118 0.6×	187 1.9×	11	1.1k
Mats E. Pettersson Sweden	20	793 1.6×	508 1.1×	300 1.0×	126 0.6×	86 0.9×	55	1.3k
David Alvarez‐Ponce United States	17	226 0.5×	601 1.3×	99 0.3×	114 0.5×	52 0.5×	46	860
Jeffery P. Demuth United States	17	600 1.2×	514 1.2×	358 1.3×	102 0.5×	208 2.1×	25	1.1k
Sylvie Samain France	13	288 0.6×	523 1.2×	593 2.1×	51 0.2×	42 0.4×	14	1.1k
Ying Zhen United States	14	284 0.6×	302 0.7×	257 0.9×	109 0.5×	166 1.7×	29	798

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Diego Cortez

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Castillo-Morales, Atahualpa, Jimena Monzón‐Sandoval, Orsolya Vincze, et al.. (2025). Maximum lifespan and brain size in mammals are associated with gene family size expansion related to immune system functions. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 15087–15087.

Castillo-Morales, Atahualpa, Kathryn H. Maher, Evangelos Mourkas, et al.. (2024). Sexual size dimorphism in mammals is associated with changes in the size of gene families related to brain development. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6257–6257. 3 indexed citations

Sánchez-Pérez, Mishael, et al.. (2024). Gene expression dynamics during temperature-dependent sex determination in a sea turtle. Developmental Biology. 514. 99–108. 2 indexed citations

Dolby, Greer, Adrián Munguía‐Vega, Rebecca J. Dorsey, et al.. (2024). A NEW WORKING MODEL FOR CO-EVOLUTION OF PLANT AND ANIMAL SPECIES ON THE BAJA CALIFORNIA PENINSULA FROM GENOMIC AND GEOLOGIC DATA. Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America.

Fisher, Robert N., et al.. (2023). Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Blacktail Brush Lizard,Urosaurus nigricaudus, Reveals Dosage Compensation in an Endemic Lizard. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(12). 3 indexed citations

Fernández-Valverde, Selene L., et al.. (2023). Genome-wide analysis of RNA-chromatin interactions in lizards as a mean for functional lncRNA identification. BMC Genomics. 24(1). 444–444. 1 indexed citations

Cruz, Maricela Villagrán‐Santa, et al.. (2022). Genetic determination and JARID2 over-expression in a thermal incubation experiment in Casque-Headed Lizard. PLoS ONE. 17(7). e0263804–e0263804.

Bush, Stephen J., Susana Castro‐Obregón, Lorraine Jaimes-Hoy, et al.. (2021). Rats exhibit age-related mosaic loss of chromosome Y. Communications Biology. 4(1). 1418–1418. 8 indexed citations

Merchant‐Larios, Horacio, Verónica Díaz-Hernández, & Diego Cortez. (2021). Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms Underlying Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Turtles. Sexual Development. 15(1-3). 38–46. 5 indexed citations

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Lira‐Noriega, Andrés, et al.. (2020). Sex determination systems in reptiles are related to ambient temperature but not to the level of climatic fluctuation. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20(1). 103–103. 15 indexed citations

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Lira‐Noriega, Andrés, et al.. (2019). Corytophanids Replaced the Pleurodont XY System with a New Pair of XY Chromosomes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(9). 2666–2677. 15 indexed citations

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Marín, Ray M., Diego Cortez, Francesco Lamanna, et al.. (2017). Convergent origination of aDrosophila-like dosage compensation mechanism in a reptile lineage. Genome Research. 27(12). 1974–1987. 65 indexed citations

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Link, Vivian, Diana Aguilar‐Gómez, Ciro Ramírez-Suástegui, Laurence D. Hurst, & Diego Cortez. (2017). Male Mutation Bias Is the Main Force Shaping Chromosomal Substitution Rates in Monotreme Mammals. Genome Biology and Evolution. 9(9). 2198–2210. 6 indexed citations

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Esposti, Mauro Degli, Diego Cortez, Luis Lozano, et al.. (2016). Alpha proteobacterial ancestry of the [Fe-Fe]-hydrogenases in anaerobic eukaryotes. Biology Direct. 11(1). 34–34. 22 indexed citations

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Cortez, Diego, Ray M. Marín, Deborah Toledo‐Flores, et al.. (2014). Origins and functional evolution of Y chromosomes across mammals. Nature. 508(7497). 488–493. 365 indexed citations breakdown →

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Oberto, Jacques, Diego Cortez, Ariane Bize, et al.. (2013). Genomics and genetics ofSulfolobus islandicusLAL14/1, a model hyperthermophilic archaeon. Open Biology. 3(4). 130010–130010. 49 indexed citations

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Soler, Nicolás, Evelyne Marguet, Diego Cortez, et al.. (2010). Two novel families of plasmids from hyperthermophilic archaea encoding new families of replication proteins. Nucleic Acids Research. 38(15). 5088–5104. 44 indexed citations

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Cortez, Diego, Sophie Quevillon‐Chéruel, Simonetta Gribaldo, et al.. (2010). Evidence for a Xer/dif System for Chromosome Resolution in Archaea. PLoS Genetics. 6(10). e1001166–e1001166. 40 indexed citations

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Cortez, Diego, Patrick Forterre, & Simonetta Gribaldo. (2009). A hidden reservoir of integrative elements is the major source of recently acquired foreign genes and ORFans in archaeal and bacterial genomes. Genome biology. 10(6). R65–R65. 94 indexed citations

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Keller, Jenny, Nicolas Leulliot, Christian Cambillau, et al.. (2007). Crystal structure of AFV3-109, a highly conserved protein from crenarchaeal viruses. Virology Journal. 4(1). 12–12. 24 indexed citations

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