Gregory L. Owens

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Gregory L. Owens is a scholar working on Genetics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory L. Owens has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Genetics, 26 papers in Plant Science and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Gregory L. Owens's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (30 papers), Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (14 papers) and Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies (10 papers). Gregory L. Owens is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (30 papers), Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (14 papers) and Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies (10 papers). Gregory L. Owens collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Australia. Gregory L. Owens's co-authors include Loren H. Rieseberg, Kate L. Ostevik, Diana J. Rennison, Marco Todesco, Brook T. Moyers, Dan G. Bock, John S. Taylor, Sariel Hübner, Kira E. Delmore and Sylvia M. Heredia and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gregory L. Owens

48 papers receiving 1.9k citations

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Hybridization and extinction

2016 534 citations Marco Todesco, Gregory L. Owens et al. profile →

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Yingguang Frank Chan United States

Erica L. Larson United States

Arnaud Le Rouzic France

Molly Schumer United States

Bettina Harr Germany

Riccardo Papa Puerto Rico

Claire Mérot Canada

Paolo Franchini Germany

Daegan Inward United Kingdom

Brian A. Counterman United States

Yingguang Frank Chan United States

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bemmels, Jordan B., Samuel Starko, Brooke L. Weigel, et al.. (2025). Population genomics reveals strong impacts of genetic drift without purging and guides conservation of bull and giant kelp. Current Biology. 35(3). 688–698.e8. 5 indexed citations

Bemmels, Jordan B., et al.. (2025). Testing the roles of local adaptation and genetic diversity to improve Giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera) restoration. Restoration Ecology. 33(7).

Owens, Gregory L., Céline Caseys, Nora Mitchell, et al.. (2025). Shared Selection and Genetic Architecture Drive Strikingly Repeatable Evolution in Long-Term Experimental Hybrid Populations. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(1).

Owens, Gregory L., et al.. (2024). loco-pipe: an automated pipeline for population genomics with low-coverage whole-genome sequencing. Bioinformatics Advances. 4(1). vbae098–vbae098. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Kaichi, Kate L. Ostevik, Mojtaba Jahani, et al.. (2024). Inversions contribute disproportionately to parallel genomic divergence in dune sunflowers. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(2). 325–335. 3 indexed citations

Debnath, Samir C., et al.. (2023). Unveiling the evolutionary history of lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.) through genome sequencing and assembly of European and North American subspecies. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 14(3). 3 indexed citations

Sudmant, Peter H., et al.. (2023). Rapid turnover and evolution of sex‐determining regions in Sebastes rockfishes. Molecular Ecology. 32(18). 5013–5027. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Kaichi, Kate L. Ostevik, Cassandra Elphinstone, et al.. (2022). Mutation Load in Sunflower Inversions Is Negatively Correlated with Inversion Heterozygosity. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(5). 25 indexed citations

Mitchell, Nora, et al.. (2022). Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers ( Helianthus ). Evolution. 76(7). 1512–1528. 6 indexed citations

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Owens, Gregory L., et al.. (2021). Parallel shifts of visual sensitivity and body coloration in replicate populations of extremophile fish. Molecular Ecology. 31(3). 946–958. 5 indexed citations

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Owens, Gregory L., Juan Manuel Vázquez, Alexander L. Stubbs, et al.. (2021). Origins and evolution of extreme life span in Pacific Ocean rockfishes. Science. 374(6569). 842–847. 71 indexed citations

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Owens, Gregory L., Marco Todesco, Natalia Bercovich, et al.. (2021). Standing variation rather than recent adaptive introgression probably underlies differentiation of the texanus subspecies of Helianthus annuus. Molecular Ecology. 30(23). 6229–6245. 11 indexed citations

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Huang, Kaichi, Rose L. Andrew, Gregory L. Owens, Kate L. Ostevik, & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2020). Multiple chromosomal inversions contribute to adaptive divergence of a dune sunflower ecotype. Molecular Ecology. 29(14). 2535–2549. 102 indexed citations

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Owens, Gregory L. & Kieran Samuk. (2019). Adaptive introgression during environmental change can weaken reproductive isolation. Nature Climate Change. 10(1). 58–62. 25 indexed citations

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Mitchell, Nora, Gregory L. Owens, Stephen M. Hovick, Loren H. Rieseberg, & Kenneth D. Whitney. (2019). Hybridization speeds adaptive evolution in an eight-year field experiment. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 6746–6746. 44 indexed citations

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Owens, Gregory L., Marco Todesco, Emily B. M. Drummond, Sam Yeaman, & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2017). A novel post hoc method for detecting index switching finds no evidence for increased switching on the Illumina HiSeq X. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(1). 169–175. 16 indexed citations

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Samuk, Kieran, Gregory L. Owens, Kira E. Delmore, et al.. (2017). Gene flow and selection interact to promote adaptive divergence in regions of low recombination. Molecular Ecology. 26(17). 4378–4390. 90 indexed citations

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Irwin, Darren E., Miguel Alcaide, Kira E. Delmore, Jessica H. Irwin, & Gregory L. Owens. (2016). Recurrent selection explains parallel evolution of genomic regions of high relative but low absolute differentiation in a ring species. Molecular Ecology. 25(18). 4488–4507. 80 indexed citations

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Rennison, Diana J., Gregory L. Owens, & John S. Taylor. (2011). Opsin gene duplication and divergence in ray-finned fish. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62(3). 986–1008. 93 indexed citations

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Owens, Gregory L., et al.. (2009). A Fish Eye Out of Water: Ten Visual Opsins in the Four-Eyed Fish, Anableps anableps. PLoS ONE. 4(6). e5970–e5970. 32 indexed citations

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