Hernán E. Morales

2.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 948 citations indexed

About

Hernán E. Morales is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hernán E. Morales has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 948 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Genetics, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Hernán E. Morales's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (20 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (8 papers). Hernán E. Morales is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (20 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (9 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (8 papers). Hernán E. Morales collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Sweden and United Kingdom. Hernán E. Morales's co-authors include Paul Sunnucks, Alexandra Pavlova, Cock van Oosterhout, Leo Joseph, Roger K. Butlin, Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, Anja M. Westram, Chris Greening and Chiara Bortoluzzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Nature Reviews Genetics and Genome Research.

In The Last Decade

Hernán E. Morales

31 papers receiving 946 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.

Genetic load: genomic estimates and applications in non-model animals

2022 142 citations Giorgio Bertorelle, Francesca Raffini et al. Nature Reviews Genetics profile →
Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation

2023 78 citations Nicolás Dussex, Hernán E. Morales et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hernán E. Morales Denmark	17	687	325	289	169	124	34	948
Angel G. Rivera‐Colón United States	9	528 0.8×	306 0.9×	300 1.0×	191 1.1×	156 1.3×	17	936
Anna Tigano United States	12	540 0.8×	269 0.8×	252 0.9×	129 0.8×	135 1.1×	22	797
Ludovic Dutoit New Zealand	15	617 0.9×	264 0.8×	220 0.8×	185 1.1×	122 1.0×	45	861
Rémi Allio France	9	369 0.5×	349 1.1×	175 0.6×	220 1.3×	100 0.8×	15	746
René M. Malenfant Canada	11	573 0.8×	210 0.6×	379 1.3×	179 1.1×	119 1.0×	18	847
Sean Stankowski United Kingdom	17	508 0.7×	199 0.6×	261 0.9×	315 1.9×	138 1.1×	38	868
Jagoba Malumbres‐Olarte Finland	13	366 0.5×	250 0.8×	285 1.0×	256 1.5×	69 0.6×	42	877
Stefan Laurent Germany	16	486 0.7×	265 0.8×	146 0.5×	240 1.4×	194 1.6×	33	849
Petri Kemppainen Finland	15	531 0.8×	147 0.5×	265 0.9×	140 0.8×	94 0.8×	29	802
José Cerca Norway	10	235 0.3×	180 0.6×	222 0.8×	242 1.4×	102 0.8×	25	665

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Cahsan, Binia De, Marcela Sandoval‐Velasco, Michael V. Westbury, et al.. (2025). Road to Extinction? Past and Present Population Structure and Genomic Diversity in the Koala. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(4). 1 indexed citations

Farquharson, Katherine A., Emma Peel, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, et al.. (2025). Temporal Loss of Genome‐Wide and Immunogenetic Diversity in a Near‐Extinct Parrot. Molecular Ecology. 34(9). e17746–e17746. 1 indexed citations

Fontsere, Claudia, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Xuejing Wang, et al.. (2025). Persistent Genomic Erosion in Whooping Cranes Despite Demographic Recovery. Molecular Ecology. 34(23). e70088–e70088. 1 indexed citations

Cavill, Emily Louisa, Hernán E. Morales, Xin Sun, et al.. (2024). When birds of a feather flock together: Severe genomic erosion and the implications for genetic rescue in an endangered island passerine. Evolutionary Applications. 17(7). e13739–e13739. 7 indexed citations

Martin, Edward J., et al.. (2024). Sonification of Genomic Data to Represent Genetic Load in Zoo Populations. Zoo Biology. 43(6). 513–519. 1 indexed citations

Gilbert, M. Thomas P., et al.. (2024). Evolutionary genomics analysis reveals a unique lineage of Megachile pruina found in an isolated population in Bermuda. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 17(6). 1143–1155.

Lemmon, Alan R., Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Ron I. Eytan, et al.. (2023). Phylogenomics and biogeography of arid-adapted Chlamydogobius goby fishes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 182. 107757–107757.

Morales, Hernán E., et al.. (2023). Integrating Pool‐seq uncertainties into demographic inference. Molecular Ecology Resources. 23(7). 1737–1755. 2 indexed citations

Dussex, Nicolás, Hernán E. Morales, Christine Grossen, Love Dalén, & Cock van Oosterhout. (2023). Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(10). 961–969. 78 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stankowski, Sean, Juan Galindo, Rui Faria, et al.. (2023). Whole-genome phylogeography of the intertidal snail Littorina saxatilis. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 2(1). 3 indexed citations

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Oosterhout, Cock van, Shaohong Feng, Rachel Bristol, et al.. (2023). Genetic Load and Adaptive Potential of a Recovered Avian Species that Narrowly Avoided Extinction. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(12). 19 indexed citations

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Bertorelle, Giorgio, Francesca Raffini, Mirte Bosse, et al.. (2022). Genetic load: genomic estimates and applications in non-model animals. Nature Reviews Genetics. 23(8). 492–503. 142 indexed citations breakdown →

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Koch, Eva L., Hernán E. Morales, Anja M. Westram, et al.. (2021). Genetic variation for adaptive traits is associated with polymorphic inversions inLittorina saxatilis. Evolution Letters. 5(3). 196–213. 51 indexed citations

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Morales, Hernán E., Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, et al.. (2019). Genomic architecture of parallel ecological divergence: Beyond a single environmental contrast. Science Advances. 5(12). eaav9963–eaav9963. 77 indexed citations

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Gan, Han Ming, et al.. (2019). Genomic evidence of neo-sex chromosomes in the eastern yellow robin. GigaScience. 8(9). 36 indexed citations

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Morales, Hernán E., Alexandra Pavlova, Richard E. Major, et al.. (2018). Concordant divergence of mitogenomes and a mitonuclear gene cluster in bird lineages inhabiting different climates. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(8). 1258–1267. 66 indexed citations

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Faria, Rui, Hernán E. Morales, Tomas Larsson, et al.. (2018). Multiple chromosomal rearrangements in a hybrid zone betweenLittorina saxatilisecotypes. Molecular Ecology. 28(6). 1375–1393. 89 indexed citations

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Morales, Hernán E., Paul Sunnucks, Leo Joseph, & Alexandra Pavlova. (2017). Perpendicular axes of differentiation generated by mitochondrial introgression. Molecular Ecology. 26(12). 3241–3255. 29 indexed citations

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Morales, Hernán E., Alexandra Pavlova, Paul Sunnucks, et al.. (2016). Neutral and selective drivers of colour evolution in a widespread Australian passerine. Journal of Biogeography. 44(3). 522–536. 17 indexed citations

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Garcia‐Porta, Joan, Hernán E. Morales, Elena Gómez‐Díaz, Roberto Sindaco, & Salvador Carranza. (2016). Patterns of diversification in islands: A comparative study across three gecko genera in the Socotra Archipelago. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 98. 288–299. 20 indexed citations

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