Edward Susko

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Edward Susko is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Edward Susko has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Genetics and 20 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Edward Susko's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (62 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (38 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (20 papers). Edward Susko is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (62 papers), Genetic diversity and population structure (38 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (20 papers). Edward Susko collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Edward Susko's co-authors include Andrew J. Roger, Huai-Chun Wang, Bùi Quang Minh, W. Ford Doolittle, Éric Bapteste, Matthew Spencer, Manuela Baumgärtner, Jessica Leigh, Yuji Inagaki and Chris Field and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Edward Susko

89 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

A robustly rooted tree of eukaryotes reveals their excavate ancestry

2025 23 citations Laura Eme, Hector Baños et al. profile →

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Edward Susko

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Philippe Lopez France

Nicolas Rodrigue Canada

Sankar Subramanian Australia

Ari Löytynoja Finland

Samuel Blanquart France

Cecilia Lanave Italy

Homayoun C. Bagheri Switzerland

Stinus Lindgreen Denmark

Giddy Landan Germany

Sonja J. Prohaska Germany

Philippe Lopez France

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1.0k ×1.5

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248 ×0.6

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476 ×1.4

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Countries citing papers authored by Edward Susko

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Edward Susko

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Edward Susko. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Edward Susko based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Edward Susko. Edward Susko is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Baños, Hector, Thomas K. F. Wong, Edward Susko, et al.. (2024). GTRpmix: A Linked General Time-Reversible Model for Profile Mixture Models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(9). 5 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez‐Preciado, Ana, Álvaro Rodríguez del Río, Charley McCarthy, et al.. (2024). Expanded phylogeny of extremely halophilic archaea shows multiple independent adaptations to hypersaline environments. Nature Microbiology. 9(4). 964–975. 17 indexed citations

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Hehenberger, Elisabeth, Jian Guo, Susanne Wilken, et al.. (2023). Phosphate Limitation Responses in Marine Green Algae Are Linked to Reprogramming of the tRNA Epitranscriptome and Codon Usage Bias. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(12). 2 indexed citations

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Baños, Hector, Edward Susko, & Andrew J. Roger. (2023). Is Over-parameterization a Problem for Profile Mixture Models?. Systematic Biology. 73(1). 53–75. 10 indexed citations

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Muñoz-Gómez, Sergio A., Edward Susko, Laura Eme, et al.. (2022). Site-and-branch-heterogeneous analyses of an expanded dataset favour mitochondria as sister to known Alphaproteobacteria. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(3). 253–262. 60 indexed citations

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Susko, Edward, et al.. (2022). Evolution of Amino Acid Propensities under Stability-Mediated Epistasis. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(3). 5 indexed citations

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Susko, Edward, et al.. (2021). Shifts in amino acid preferences as proteins evolve: A synthesis of experimental and theoretical work. Protein Science. 30(10). 2009–2028. 4 indexed citations

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Roger, Andrew J., Edward Susko, & Michelle M. Leger. (2021). Evolution: Reconstructing the Timeline of Eukaryogenesis. Current Biology. 31(4). R193–R196. 15 indexed citations

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Muñoz-Gómez, Sergio A., Sebastian Hess, Gertraud Burger, et al.. (2019). An updated phylogeny of the Alphaproteobacteria reveals that the parasitic Rickettsiales and Holosporales have independent origins. eLife. 8. 78 indexed citations

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Wang, Huai-Chun, Edward Susko, & Andrew J. Roger. (2016). Split-specific bootstrap measures for quantifying phylogenetic stability and the influence of taxon selection. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 105. 114–125. 2 indexed citations

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Susko, Edward. (2014). Tests for Two Trees Using Likelihood Methods. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31(4). 1029–1039. 12 indexed citations

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Stairs, Courtney W., Laura Eme, Matthew W. Brown, et al.. (2014). A SUF Fe-S Cluster Biogenesis System in the Mitochondrion-Related Organelles of the Anaerobic Protist Pygsuia. Current Biology. 24(11). 1176–1186. 69 indexed citations

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Susko, Edward, et al.. (2013). Defining structural and evolutionary modules in proteins: a community detection approach to explore sub-domain architecture. BMC Structural Biology. 13(1). 20–20. 12 indexed citations

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Wu, Jihua & Edward Susko. (2010). A Test for Heterotachy Using Multiple Pairs of Sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(5). 1661–1673. 9 indexed citations

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Susko, Edward, et al.. (2007). On Reduced Amino Acid Alphabets for Phylogenetic Inference. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(9). 2139–2150. 128 indexed citations

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Inagaki, Yuji, Edward Susko, & Andrew J. Roger. (2006). Recombination between elongation factor 1α genes from distantly related archaeal lineages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(12). 4528–4533. 29 indexed citations

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Wang, Huai-Chun, Matthew Spencer, Edward Susko, & Andrew J. Roger. (2006). Testing for Covarion-like Evolution in Protein Sequences. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24(1). 294–305. 56 indexed citations

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Gu, Hong, et al.. (2005). The Comparison of the Confidence Regions in Phylogeny. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(11). 2285–2296. 25 indexed citations

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Susko, Edward. (2004). On Inconsistency of the Neighbor-Joining, Least Squares, and Minimum Evolution Estimation When Substitution Processes Are Incorrectly Modeled. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21(9). 1629–1642. 33 indexed citations

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Inagaki, Yuji, Edward Susko, Naomi M. Fast, & Andrew J. Roger. (2004). Covarion Shifts Cause a Long-Branch Attraction Artifact That Unites Microsporidia and Archaebacteria in EF-1α Phylogenies. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21(7). 1340–1349. 75 indexed citations

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