Laura Ross

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Laura Ross is a scholar working on Insect Science, Genetics and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Ross has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Insect Science, 26 papers in Genetics and 25 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Laura Ross's work include Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (18 papers), Research on scale insects (16 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (16 papers). Laura Ross is often cited by papers focused on Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (18 papers), Research on scale insects (16 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (16 papers). Laura Ross collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Laura Ross's co-authors include Doris Bachtrog, Heath Blackmon, Judith E. Mank, Jun Kitano, Itay Mayrose, Jana C. Vamosi, Ray Ming, Nicolas Perrin, Mark Kirkpatrick and Nicole Valenzuela and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Laura Ross

56 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?

2014 836 citations Doris Bachtrog, Judith E. Mank et al. PLoS Biology profile →
Horizontal Gene Transfer from Diverse Bacteria to an Insect Genome Enables a Tripartite Nested Mealybug Symbiosis

2013 314 citations Filip Husník, Laura Ross et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laura Ross United Kingdom	22	1.5k	876	843	688	641	61	2.5k
Beatriz Viçoso Austria	21	1.9k 1.3×	425 0.5×	629 0.7×	750 1.1×	864 1.3×	42	2.3k
Alison E. Wright United Kingdom	23	1.4k 0.9×	142 0.2×	614 0.7×	535 0.8×	584 0.9×	36	1.8k
Chau‐Ti Ting Taiwan	17	1.4k 1.0×	289 0.3×	700 0.8×	703 1.0×	411 0.6×	30	2.0k
Laura K. Sirot United States	23	1.6k 1.1×	956 1.1×	1.8k 2.2×	357 0.5×	110 0.2×	40	2.9k
Colin D. Meiklejohn United States	23	1.6k 1.1×	314 0.4×	559 0.7×	1.2k 1.8×	422 0.7×	26	2.5k
José M. Ranz United States	18	1.4k 1.0×	301 0.3×	450 0.5×	1.2k 1.7×	732 1.1×	42	2.2k
Alessandro Grapputo Italy	22	530 0.4×	396 0.5×	624 0.7×	396 0.6×	183 0.3×	57	1.7k
James R. Walters United States	25	1.3k 0.8×	510 0.6×	613 0.7×	608 0.9×	377 0.6×	44	1.9k
David J Begun United States	39	4.0k 2.7×	1.2k 1.4×	1.8k 2.1×	2.6k 3.7×	1.3k 2.0×	83	6.4k
Rhonda R. Snook United Kingdom	32	2.0k 1.4×	639 0.7×	2.6k 3.0×	276 0.4×	133 0.2×	89	3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Laura Ross

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Fields of papers citing papers by Laura Ross

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laura Ross

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

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20 of 20 papers shown

Flynn, Jullien M., et al.. (2025). Distinct satellite DNA composition between core and germline restricted chromosomes in Bradysia ( Sciara ) coprophila. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 15(9).

Vea, Isabelle M., et al.. (2025). The B Chromosome of Pseudococcus viburni: A Selfish Chromosome that Exploits Whole-Genome Meiotic Drive. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(1).

Mongue, Andrew J., Hollie Marshall, Arkadiy I. Garber, et al.. (2025). Contrasting Evolutionary Trajectories Under Paternal Genome Elimination in Male and Female Citrus Mealybugs. Molecular Ecology. 34(13). e17826–e17826. 1 indexed citations

Werner, Gijsbert D. A., et al.. (2024). Larger colony sizes favoured the evolution of more worker castes in ants. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(10). 1959–1971. 8 indexed citations

Marshall, Hollie, et al.. (2024). Lack of paternal silencing and ecotype-specific expression in head and body lice hybrids. Evolution Letters. 8(3). 455–465.

Marshall, Hollie, Jelle S. van Zweden, Felix Wäckers, et al.. (2023). DNA methylation is associated with codon degeneracy in a species of bumblebee. Heredity. 130(4). 188–195. 10 indexed citations

Yu, Xiudao, Hollie Marshall, Yan Liu, et al.. (2023). Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation landscapes of the Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of huanglongbing pathogens. Evolution. 77(5). 1203–1215. 10 indexed citations

Urban, John, et al.. (2023). Recent Evolution of a Maternally Acting Sex-Determining Supergene in a Fly with Single-Sex Broods. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(7). 9 indexed citations

Mongue, Andrew J., et al.. (2023). Why put all your eggs in one basket? Evolutionary perspectives on the origins of monogenic reproduction. Heredity. 131(2). 87–95. 7 indexed citations

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Jaroň, Kamil S., et al.. (2022). Genomic evidence of paternal genome elimination in the globular springtail Allacma fusca. Genetics. 222(3). 4 indexed citations

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Jaroň, Kamil S., Matthew Brian Couger, Jan Ševčı́k, et al.. (2022). Gene-rich X chromosomes implicate intragenomic conflict in the evolution of bizarre genetic systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(23). e2122580119–e2122580119. 10 indexed citations

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Mongue, Andrew J., et al.. (2021). Males That Silence Their Father’s Genes: Genomic Imprinting of a Complete Haploid Genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(6). 2566–2581. 22 indexed citations

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Mongue, Andrew J., Sozos Michaelides, Alejandro Tena, et al.. (2021). Sex, males, and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi *. Evolution. 75(11). 2972–2983. 14 indexed citations

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Marshall, Hollie, et al.. (2021). Sex‐specific expression and DNA methylation in a species with extreme sexual dimorphism and paternal genome elimination. Molecular Ecology. 30(22). 5687–5703. 28 indexed citations

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Lewis, Samuel H., Laura Ross, Eleni Pahita, et al.. (2020). Widespread conservation and lineage-specific diversification of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns across arthropods. PLoS Genetics. 16(6). e1008864–e1008864. 59 indexed citations

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Bachtrog, Doris, Judith E. Mank, Catherine L. Peichel, et al.. (2014). Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It?. PLoS Biology. 12(7). e1001899–e1001899. 836 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gardner, Andy & Laura Ross. (2011). The Evolution of Hermaphroditism by an Infectious Male-Derived Cell Lineage: An Inclusive-Fitness Analysis. The American Naturalist. 178(2). 191–201. 10 indexed citations

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Ross, Laura, David M. Shuker, & Ido Pen. (2010). THE EVOLUTION AND SUPPRESSION OF MALE SUICIDE UNDER PATERNAL GENOME ELIMINATION. Evolution. 65(2). 554–563. 7 indexed citations

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Ross, Laura, et al.. (2010). Sex allocation in a species with paternal genome elimination: the roles of crowding and female age in the mealybug Planococcus citri. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 22 indexed citations

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Ross, Laura & David M. Shuker. (2009). Scale insects. Current Biology. 19(5). R184–R186. 11 indexed citations

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