Kay Lucek

3.5k total citations
67 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Kay Lucek is a scholar working on Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kay Lucek has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Genetics, 25 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation and 22 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Kay Lucek's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (48 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (19 papers) and Plant and animal studies (12 papers). Kay Lucek is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (48 papers), Fish Ecology and Management Studies (19 papers) and Plant and animal studies (12 papers). Kay Lucek collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and Germany. Kay Lucek's co-authors include Ole Seehausen, Arjun Sivasundar, David A. Marques, Denis Roy, Laurent Excoffier, Catherine E. Wagner, Joana I. Meier, Salome Mwaiko, Patrik Nosil and Roger K. Butlin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Kay Lucek

62 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kay Lucek Switzerland 22 1.0k 494 435 412 272 67 1.5k
Mark Ravinet Norway 19 1.2k 1.2× 372 0.8× 511 1.2× 404 1.0× 436 1.6× 48 1.8k
Gina L. Conte Canada 9 934 0.9× 349 0.7× 294 0.7× 400 1.0× 234 0.9× 10 1.3k
Tuomas Leinonen Finland 16 923 0.9× 477 1.0× 374 0.9× 464 1.1× 175 0.6× 27 1.5k
Hannu Mäkinen Finland 18 1.2k 1.2× 461 0.9× 443 1.0× 333 0.8× 443 1.6× 29 1.6k
Joana I. Meier United Kingdom 19 1.3k 1.3× 511 1.0× 472 1.1× 584 1.4× 562 2.1× 33 2.0k
Anja M. Westram United Kingdom 22 1.3k 1.3× 330 0.7× 640 1.5× 350 0.8× 425 1.6× 40 1.9k
Oliver M. Selz Switzerland 16 799 0.8× 433 0.9× 365 0.8× 336 0.8× 344 1.3× 33 1.3k
Salome Mwaiko Switzerland 15 1.1k 1.1× 550 1.1× 466 1.1× 384 0.9× 547 2.0× 27 1.7k
Min A. Hahn Switzerland 9 576 0.6× 294 0.6× 317 0.7× 379 0.9× 229 0.8× 10 1.1k
José Manuel Cano Finland 21 1.0k 1.0× 537 1.1× 462 1.1× 536 1.3× 186 0.7× 29 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kay Lucek

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kay Lucek

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kay Lucek. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kay Lucek 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 Kay Lucek. Kay Lucek is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Zedek, František, Petr Bureš, Tammy L. Elliott, et al.. (2025). Chromosome size as a robust predictor of recombination rate: insights from holocentric and monocentric systems. Genetics. 232(1).
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Bužan, Elena, Nathaniel R. Street, Kay Lucek, et al.. (2025). Biodiversity Genomics Research Practices Require Harmonising to Meet Stakeholder Needs in Conservation. Molecular Ecology. 34(23). e70001–e70001. 1 indexed citations
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Klečková, Irena, et al.. (2025). Co‐Occurring Sister Taxa of Mountain Butterflies Exhibit Distinct Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles. Ecology and Evolution. 15(9). e72027–e72027.
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Dincă, Vlad, Kota Ogawa, Roger Vila, et al.. (2024). A macroevolutionary role for chromosomal fusion and fission in Erebia butterflies. Science Advances. 10(16). eadl0989–eadl0989. 10 indexed citations
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Patsiou, Theofania, et al.. (2024). Living on the edge—Genomic and ecological delineation of cryptic lineages in the high‐elevation specialist Erebia nivalis. Insect Conservation and Diversity. 17(3). 526–542. 1 indexed citations
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Lucek, Kay, Marco A. L. Zuffi, Marcello Mezzasalma, et al.. (2023). Extensive gene flow suggests lack of reproductive barriers between the two subspecies of the green whip snake, Hierophis viridiflavus (Squamata: Colubridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 141(1). 133–147. 1 indexed citations
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Mora, Pablo, et al.. (2023). Holocentric repeat landscapes: From micro‐evolutionary patterns to macro‐evolutionary associations with karyotype evolution. Molecular Ecology. 33(24). e17100–e17100. 7 indexed citations
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Lucek, Kay, Mabel D. Giménez, Mathieu Joron, et al.. (2023). The Impact of Chromosomal Rearrangements in Speciation: From Micro- to Macroevolution. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 15(11). a041447–a041447. 18 indexed citations
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Chittaro, Yannick, et al.. (2023). Genomic evidence for three distinct species in the Erebia manto complex in Central Europe (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae). Conservation Genetics. 24(3). 293–304. 6 indexed citations
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Winiger, Nathalie, Sebastian Seibold, Kay Lucek, Jörg Müller, & Gernot Segelbacher. (2022). Lost in dead wood? Environmental DNA sequencing from dead wood shows little signs of saproxylic beetles. Environmental DNA. 4(3). 654–660. 2 indexed citations
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Willi, Yvonne, et al.. (2022). Recent speciation associated with range expansion and a shift to self-fertilization in North American Arabidopsis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 7564–7564. 10 indexed citations
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Lucek, Kay & Yvonne Willi. (2021). Drivers of linkage disequilibrium across a species’ geographic range. PLoS Genetics. 17(3). e1009477–e1009477. 19 indexed citations
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Lucek, Kay, Roger K. Butlin, & Theofania Patsiou. (2020). Secondary contact zones of closely‐related Erebia butterflies overlap with narrow phenotypic and parasitic clines. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(9). 1152–1163. 20 indexed citations
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Vos, Jurriaan M. de, et al.. (2020). Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1806). 20190539–20190539. 75 indexed citations
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Vos, Jurriaan M. de, et al.. (2020). ESM3 from Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera. Figshare. 1 indexed citations
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Marques, David A., Kay Lucek, Vítor C. Sousa, Laurent Excoffier, & Ole Seehausen. (2019). Admixture between old lineages facilitated contemporary ecological speciation in Lake Constance stickleback. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4240–4240. 44 indexed citations
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Lemoine, Mélissa, Marta Barluenga, Kay Lucek, et al.. (2018). Recent sympatric speciation involving habitat-associated nuptial colour polymorphism in a crater lake cichlid. Hydrobiologia. 832(1). 297–315. 7 indexed citations
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Lucek, Kay, et al.. (2012). Signals of predation-induced directional and disruptive selection in the threespine stickleback. Evolutionary ecology research. 14(2). 193–205. 17 indexed citations
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Lucek, Kay, Arjun Sivasundar, & Ole Seehausen. (2012). Evidence of Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence during Biological Invasion. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e49377–e49377. 36 indexed citations
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Lucek, Kay, Denis Roy, Étienne Bezault, Arjun Sivasundar, & Ole Seehausen. (2010). Hybridization between distant lineages increases adaptive variation during a biological invasion: stickleback in Switzerland. Molecular Ecology. 19(18). 3995–4011. 96 indexed citations

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