María C. Ávila‐Arcos

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

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María C. Ávila‐Arcos is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, María C. Ávila‐Arcos has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in María C. Ávila‐Arcos's work include Forensic and Genetic Research (17 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). María C. Ávila‐Arcos is often cited by papers focused on Forensic and Genetic Research (17 papers), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (9 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (7 papers). María C. Ávila‐Arcos collaborates with scholars based in United States, Denmark and Mexico. María C. Ávila‐Arcos's co-authors include M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Eske Willerslev, Nathan Wales, Sarah L. Fordyce, Ludovic Orlando, Enrico Cappellini, Carlos D. Bustamante, Pontus Skoglund, Hannes Schroeder and Andrew D. Foote and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

María C. Ávila‐Arcos

37 papers receiving 1.5k citations

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Ancient DNA analysis

2021 169 citations Ludovic Orlando, Robin G. Allaby et al. Nature Reviews Methods Primers profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
María C. Ávila‐Arcos United States	21	839	464	436	278	245	39	1.5k
Hákon Jónsson Iceland	12	1.3k 1.5×	744 1.6×	417 1.0×	343 1.2×	330 1.3×	17	1.8k
Ceiridwen J. Edwards United Kingdom	27	1.5k 1.8×	373 0.8×	602 1.4×	197 0.7×	379 1.5×	51	2.2k
Clio Der Sarkissian France	18	856 1.0×	617 1.3×	652 1.5×	213 0.8×	357 1.5×	25	1.6k
Susanna Sawyer Germany	9	711 0.8×	571 1.2×	376 0.9×	427 1.5×	399 1.6×	17	1.6k
José Alfredo Samaniego Castruita Denmark	18	623 0.7×	527 1.1×	429 1.0×	146 0.5×	202 0.8×	33	1.4k
Stephan Schiffels Germany	13	1.3k 1.5×	461 1.0×	208 0.5×	327 1.2×	268 1.1×	25	1.7k
Jesse Dabney Germany	6	870 1.0×	566 1.2×	408 0.9×	382 1.4×	344 1.4×	6	1.4k
Eva-María Geigl France	19	463 0.6×	457 1.0×	320 0.7×	337 1.2×	273 1.1×	41	1.2k
Ross Barnett United Kingdom	21	1.0k 1.2×	478 1.0×	893 2.0×	126 0.5×	478 2.0×	42	1.9k
J. Víctor Moreno-Mayar Denmark	15	587 0.7×	307 0.7×	222 0.5×	191 0.7×	274 1.1×	24	1.1k

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Villanea, Fernando A., David Peede, Kelsey E. Witt, et al.. (2025). The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection. Science. 389(6762). eadl0882–eadl0882. 1 indexed citations

Ávila‐Arcos, María C., et al.. (2025). Ancient DNA insights into diverse pathogens and their hosts. Nature Reviews Genetics. 27(1). 96–111.

Li, Wenxi, Marcela Sandoval‐Velasco, R. H. Manzanilla-López, et al.. (2025). Columbian mammoth mitogenomes from Mexico uncover the species’ complex evolutionary history. Science. 390(6768). 47–52.

Dahinten, Silvia Lucrecia, et al.. (2023). Towards an ethical and legal framework in archeogenomics: A local case in the Atlantic coast of central Patagonia. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 182(2). 161–176. 4 indexed citations

Ávila‐Arcos, María C., Maanasa Raghavan, & Carina M. Schlebusch. (2023). Going local with ancient DNA: A review of human histories from regional perspectives. Science. 382(6666). 53–58. 9 indexed citations

Sandoval‐Velasco, Marcela, Anuradha Jagadeesan, Jazmín Ramos‐Madrigal, et al.. (2023). The ancestry and geographical origins of St Helena’s liberated Africans. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 110(9). 1590–1599. 1 indexed citations

Ávila‐Arcos, María C.. (2022). The gene variant that helped put Latinxs in the 1000 genomes project. Nature Reviews Genetics. 23(12). 712–713. 1 indexed citations

Sandoval‐Velasco, Marcela, Jorge Gómez‐Valdés, Gabriela Solís‐Pichardo, et al.. (2021). Ancient viral genomes reveal introduction of human pathogenic viruses into Mexico during the transatlantic slave trade. eLife. 10. 26 indexed citations

Orlando, Ludovic, Robin G. Allaby, Pontus Skoglund, et al.. (2021). Ancient DNA analysis. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 1(1). 169 indexed citations breakdown →

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Dehasque, Marianne, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, David Díez‐del‐Molino, et al.. (2020). Inference of natural selection from ancient DNA. Evolution Letters. 4(2). 94–108. 41 indexed citations

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Ávila‐Arcos, María C., Kimberly F. McManus, Karla Sandoval, et al.. (2019). Population History and Gene Divergence in Native Mexicans Inferred from 76 Human Exomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(4). 994–1006. 29 indexed citations

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Fregel, Rosa, Fernando L. Méndez, Youssef Bokbot, et al.. (2018). Ancient genomes from North Africa evidence prehistoric migrations to the Maghreb from both the Levant and Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(26). 6774–6779. 92 indexed citations

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Castro, Constanza de la Fuente, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, Meredith L. Carpenter, et al.. (2016). Insight into the population history of the Chilean Patagonia through the analysis of ancient and modern genomic data. 1 indexed citations

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Ávila‐Arcos, María C., Marcela Sandoval‐Velasco, Hannes Schroeder, et al.. (2015). Comparative performance of two whole‐genome capture methodologies on ancient DNA Illumina libraries. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6(6). 725–734. 33 indexed citations

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Noda‐García, Lianet, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, Gabriela M. Montero-Morán, et al.. (2015). Insights into the evolution of enzyme substrate promiscuity after the discovery of (βα)8 isomerase evolutionary intermediates from a diverse metagenome. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 107–107. 13 indexed citations

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Fonseca, Rute R. da, Bruce D. Smith, Nathan Wales, et al.. (2015). The origin and evolution of maize in the Southwestern United States. Nature Plants. 1(1). 14003–14003. 111 indexed citations

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Ávila‐Arcos, María C., Simon Y. W. Ho, Yasuko Ishida, et al.. (2012). One Hundred Twenty Years of Koala Retrovirus Evolution Determined from Museum Skins. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30(2). 299–304. 70 indexed citations

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Sánchez‐Quinto, Federico, Laura R. Botigué, Sergi Civit, et al.. (2012). North African Populations Carry the Signature of Admixture with Neandertals. PLoS ONE. 7(10). e47765–e47765. 54 indexed citations

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Kampmann, Marie‐Louise, Sarah L. Fordyce, María C. Ávila‐Arcos, et al.. (2011). A simple method for the parallel deep sequencing of full influenza A genomes. Journal of Virological Methods. 178(1-2). 243–248. 38 indexed citations

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Ávila‐Arcos, María C., Enrico Cappellini, Nathan Wales, et al.. (2011). Application and comparison of large-scale solution-based DNA capture-enrichment methods on ancient DNA. Scientific Reports. 1(1). 74–74. 86 indexed citations

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