Jesper Bechsgaard

2.5k total citations
45 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Jesper Bechsgaard is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jesper Bechsgaard has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 26 papers in Genetics and 13 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jesper Bechsgaard's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (14 papers), Plant and animal studies (13 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers). Jesper Bechsgaard is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (14 papers), Plant and animal studies (13 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (11 papers). Jesper Bechsgaard collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and South Africa. Jesper Bechsgaard's co-authors include Mikkel Heide Schierup, Trine Bilde, Vincent Castric, Xavier Vekemans, Deborah Charlesworth, Virginia Settepani, Tanja Slotte, Martin Lascoux, Ya‐Long Guo and Detlef Weigel and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Jesper Bechsgaard

45 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jesper Bechsgaard Denmark 20 630 602 572 414 164 45 1.2k
Richard Challis United Kingdom 15 429 0.7× 494 0.8× 419 0.7× 349 0.8× 217 1.3× 17 1.3k
Antonio Barbadilla Spain 20 726 1.2× 305 0.5× 1.0k 1.8× 540 1.3× 292 1.8× 48 1.6k
Alison E. Wright United Kingdom 23 535 0.8× 614 1.0× 1.4k 2.4× 584 1.4× 142 0.9× 36 1.8k
Malte Petersen Germany 16 479 0.8× 612 1.0× 511 0.9× 336 0.8× 406 2.5× 31 1.4k
Chau‐Ti Ting Taiwan 17 703 1.1× 700 1.2× 1.4k 2.5× 411 1.0× 289 1.8× 30 2.0k
Penelope R. Haddrill United Kingdom 21 730 1.2× 289 0.5× 976 1.7× 380 0.9× 383 2.3× 35 1.7k
Hope Hollocher United States 19 329 0.5× 563 0.9× 771 1.3× 227 0.5× 299 1.8× 48 1.3k
James B. Pease United States 14 755 1.2× 465 0.8× 806 1.4× 437 1.1× 113 0.7× 24 1.4k
Abderrahman Khila France 18 360 0.6× 634 1.1× 578 1.0× 214 0.5× 361 2.2× 42 1.2k
Jeffery P. Demuth United States 17 514 0.8× 208 0.3× 600 1.0× 358 0.9× 163 1.0× 25 1.1k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jesper Bechsgaard

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pedersen, Jan, Mads F. Schou, Jesper Bechsgaard, et al.. (2025). Gene Flow Disruption and Population Declines in a Soil Arthropod in Fragmented Habitats. Molecular Ecology. 34(23). e17820–e17820. 1 indexed citations
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Bechsgaard, Jesper, et al.. (2024). Impact of pre-copulatory sexual cannibalism on genetic diversity and efficacy of selection. Biology Letters. 20(5). 20230505–20230505. 3 indexed citations
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Fisher, David N., Jesper Bechsgaard, & Trine Bilde. (2024). Exploring changes in social spider DNA methylation profiles in all cytosine contexts following infection. Heredity. 133(6). 410–417. 1 indexed citations
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Bechsgaard, Jesper, Jesper Givskov Sørensen, Virginia Settepani, et al.. (2024). Molecular Mechanisms of Temperature Tolerance Plasticity in an Arthropod. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(8). 3 indexed citations
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Lund, M., et al.. (2023). Does ecological drift explain variation in microbiome composition among groups in a social host species?. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 36(12). 1684–1694. 4 indexed citations
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Lund, M., et al.. (2023). Social transmission of bacterial symbionts homogenizes the microbiome within and across generations of group-living spiders. ISME Communications. 3(1). 60–60. 9 indexed citations
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Bechsgaard, Jesper, et al.. (2022). Impaired immune function accompanies social evolution in spiders. Biology Letters. 18(12). 20220331–20220331. 5 indexed citations
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Liu, Shenglin, Tom Tregenza, M. Lund, et al.. (2022). Adapting to climate with limited genetic diversity: Nucleotide,DNAmethylation and microbiome variation among populations of the social spiderStegodyphus dumicola. Molecular Ecology. 31(22). 5765–5783. 16 indexed citations
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Malmos, Kirsten Gade, et al.. (2021). Behavioural and physiological responses to thermal stress in a social spider. Functional Ecology. 35(12). 2728–2742. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Shenglin, et al.. (2019). DNA Methylation Patterns in the Social Spider, Stegodyphus dumicola. Genes. 10(2). 137–137. 39 indexed citations
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Vanthournout, Bram, et al.. (2018). Male spiders control offspring sex ratio through greater production of female-determining sperm. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1875). 20172887–20172887. 17 indexed citations
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Schou, Mads F. & Jesper Bechsgaard. (2017). Flaskehalse - når genetisk variation går tabt. 4. 8–12. 1 indexed citations
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Bechsgaard, Jesper, et al.. (2017). Characterisation of protein families in spider digestive fluids and their role in extra-oral digestion. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 600–600. 37 indexed citations
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Sanggaard, Kristian W., Thomas F. Dyrlund, Jesper Bechsgaard, et al.. (2015). The spider hemolymph clot proteome reveals high concentrations of hemocyanin and von Willebrand factor-like proteins. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Proteins and Proteomics. 1864(2). 233–241. 18 indexed citations
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Bechsgaard, Jesper, Ary A. Hoffmann, Carla M. Sgrò, et al.. (2013). A Comparison of Inbreeding Depression in Tropical and Widespread Drosophila Species. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e51176–e51176. 12 indexed citations
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Kristensen, Torsten Nygaard, Volker Loeschcke, Trine Bilde, et al.. (2011). NO INBREEDING DEPRESSION FOR LOW TEMPERATURE DEVELOPMENTAL ACCLIMATION ACROSS MULTIPLE DROSOPHILA SPECIES. Evolution. 65(11). 3195–3201. 17 indexed citations
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Guo, Ya‐Long, Jesper Bechsgaard, Tanja Slotte, et al.. (2009). Recent speciation of Capsella rubella from Capsella grandiflora , associated with loss of self-incompatibility and an extreme bottleneck. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(13). 5246–5251. 176 indexed citations
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Castric, Vincent, et al.. (2009). Molecular Evolution within and between Self-Incompatibility Specificities. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27(1). 11–20. 31 indexed citations
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Bechsgaard, Jesper, Vincent Castric, Deborah Charlesworth, Xavier Vekemans, & Mikkel Heide Schierup. (2006). The Transition to Self-Compatibility in Arabidopsis thaliana and Evolution within S-Haplotypes over 10 Myr. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(9). 1741–1750. 116 indexed citations

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