Leon Hilgers

798 total citations
17 papers, 295 citations indexed

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Leon Hilgers is a scholar working on Aquatic Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Leon Hilgers has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 295 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Aquatic Science, 6 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Leon Hilgers's work include Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (7 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Leon Hilgers is often cited by papers focused on Fish Biology and Ecology Studies (7 papers), Identification and Quantification in Food (3 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (3 papers). Leon Hilgers collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Indonesia and Switzerland. Leon Hilgers's co-authors include Julia Schwarzer, Dominic J. Hare, Nicholas Chen, Veronica Cottam, Glenda M. Halliday, Katherine M. Davies, Kay L. Double, Julian F. B. Mercer, Thomas von Rintelen and Michael Hofreiter and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Current Biology and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Leon Hilgers

16 papers receiving 292 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Leon Hilgers Germany	9	92	79	58	58	55	17	295
Spencer T. Mukai Canada	11	33 0.4×	160 2.0×	27 0.5×	31 0.5×	45 0.8×	19	413
Miquel Riera‐Codina Spain	9	17 0.2×	122 1.5×	145 2.5×	109 1.9×	13 0.2×	11	402
Zhi-Shuai Hou China	12	38 0.4×	127 1.6×	160 2.8×	94 1.6×	13 0.2×	36	468
Jean Forgue France	11	19 0.2×	105 1.3×	71 1.2×	123 2.1×	49 0.9×	13	380
Laura Cal Spain	8	85 0.9×	75 0.9×	48 0.8×	24 0.4×	8 0.1×	10	287
D. Burton Canada	12	64 0.7×	51 0.6×	68 1.2×	66 1.1×	12 0.2×	38	345
K Kellner France	12	34 0.4×	119 1.5×	153 2.6×	84 1.4×	32 0.6×	24	489
Guillaume Holzer France	11	12 0.1×	123 1.6×	59 1.0×	86 1.5×	57 1.0×	16	408
Courtney A. Deck United States	12	23 0.3×	43 0.5×	127 2.2×	118 2.0×	4 0.1×	17	367
Haude M. Levesque Canada	6	40 0.4×	34 0.4×	188 3.2×	79 1.4×	219 4.0×	8	424

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17 of 17 papers shown

Hilgers, Leon, Shenglin Liu, Axel Jensen, et al.. (2025). Avoidable false PSMC population size peaks occur across numerous studies. Current Biology. 35(4). 927–930.e3. 9 indexed citations

Hilgers, Leon & Michael Hiller. (2025). Linking phenotype to genotype using comprehensive genomic comparisons. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 94. 102384–102384.

Meusemann, Karen, Leon Hilgers, Astrid Böhne, et al.. (2023). Potential Contribution of Ancient Introgression to the Evolution of a Derived Reproductive Strategy in Ricefishes. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(8). 4 indexed citations

Hilgers, Leon, Bernhard Misof, Benjamin Wipfler‍, et al.. (2023). A landmark‐free analysis of the pelvic girdle in Sulawesi ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae): How 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics can complement each other in the analysis of a complex structure. Ecology and Evolution. 13(10). e10613–e10613. 1 indexed citations

Hilgers, Leon, Fabian Herder, Bernhard Misof, et al.. (2022). The genetic basis of a novel reproductive strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes: How modularity and a low number of loci shape pelvic brooding. Evolution. 76(5). 1033–1051. 4 indexed citations

Hilgers, Leon, Benjamin Wipfler‍, Daisy Wowor, et al.. (2022). How to stay attached—Formation of the ricefish plug and changes of internal reproductive structures in the pelvic brooding ricefish, Oryzias eversi Herder et al. (2012) (Beloniformes: Adrianichthyidae). Journal of Morphology. 283(11). 1451–1463. 3 indexed citations

Herder, Fabian, Daisy Wowor, Farnis B. Boneka, et al.. (2022). More non-native fish species than natives, and an invasion of Malawi cichlids, in ancient Lake Poso, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Aquatic Invasions. 17(1). 72–91. 11 indexed citations

Hilgers, Leon, et al.. (2022). Evolutionary Divergence and Radula Diversification in Two Ecomorphs from an Adaptive Radiation of Freshwater Snails. Genes. 13(6). 1029–1029. 6 indexed citations

Hilgers, Leon, Benjamin Wipfler‍, Arne W. Nolte, et al.. (2021). Complex sexually dimorphic traits shape the parallel evolution of a novel reproductive strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes (Adrianichthyidae). SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 21(1). 57–57. 7 indexed citations

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Hilgers, Leon, Olivia Roth, Arne W. Nolte, et al.. (2021). Inflammation and convergent placenta gene co-option contributed to a novel reproductive tissue. Current Biology. 32(3). 715–724.e4. 9 indexed citations

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Hilgers, Leon & Julia Schwarzer. (2019). The untapped potential of medaka and its wild relatives. eLife. 8. 42 indexed citations

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Hilgers, Leon, Fabian Herder, Renny K. Hadiaty, & Jobst Pfaender. (2018). Alien attack: trophic interactions of flowerhorn cichlids with endemics of ancient Lake Matano (Sulawesi, Indonesia). Evolutionary ecology research. 19(5). 561–574. 15 indexed citations

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Beermann, Jan, Michael V. Westbury, Michael Hofreiter, et al.. (2018). Cryptic species in a well-known habitat: applying taxonomics to the amphipod genus Epimeria (Crustacea, Peracarida). Scientific Reports. 8(1). 6893–6893. 19 indexed citations

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Hilgers, Leon, Stefanie Hartmann, Michael Hofreiter, & Thomas von Rintelen. (2018). Novel Genes, Ancient Genes, and Gene Co-Option Contributed to the Genetic Basis of the Radula, a Molluscan Innovation. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(7). 1638–1652. 28 indexed citations

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Grau, José Horacio, Leon Hilgers, Janine Altmüller, Vendula Šlechtová, & Jörg Bohlen. (2017). The complete mitochondrial transcript of the red tail loach Yasuhikotakia modesta as assembled from RNAseq (Teleostei: Botiidae). Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 2(1). 46–47. 2 indexed citations

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Hilgers, Leon, José Horacio Grau, Jobst Pfaender, & Thomas von Rintelen. (2016). The complete mitochondrial genome of the viviparous freshwater snail Tylomelania sarasinorum (Caenogastropoda: Cerithioidea). Mitochondrial DNA Part B. 1(1). 330–331. 11 indexed citations

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Davies, Katherine M., Dominic J. Hare, Veronica Cottam, et al.. (2012). Localization of copper and copper transporters in the human brain. Metallomics. 5(1). 43–51. 124 indexed citations

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