Melisa Olave

844 total citations
20 papers, 508 citations indexed

About

Melisa Olave is a scholar working on Genetics, Global and Planetary Change and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Melisa Olave has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 508 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Genetics, 11 papers in Global and Planetary Change and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Melisa Olave's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (14 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Melisa Olave is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (14 papers), Amphibian and Reptile Biology (11 papers) and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (6 papers). Melisa Olave collaborates with scholars based in Argentina, United States and Germany. Melisa Olave's co-authors include Mariana Morando, Luciano Javier Ávila, Jack W. Sites, Axel Meyer, L. Lacey Knowles, Andreas F. Kautt, Alexander Nater, C. Darrin Hulsey, Frank M. Fontanella and Paolo Franchini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Melisa Olave

19 papers receiving 507 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melisa Olave Argentina 13 307 241 153 145 137 20 508
Catriona R. Hendry United States 7 223 0.7× 237 1.0× 112 0.7× 89 0.6× 139 1.0× 7 399
Danielle Rivera United States 6 258 0.8× 175 0.7× 90 0.6× 186 1.3× 182 1.3× 9 500
Frank M. Fontanella United States 8 242 0.8× 186 0.8× 102 0.7× 157 1.1× 82 0.6× 18 445
Michael F. Barej Germany 11 249 0.8× 353 1.5× 80 0.5× 201 1.4× 156 1.1× 33 542
Evan McCartney‐Melstad United States 10 238 0.8× 212 0.9× 136 0.9× 72 0.5× 87 0.6× 18 439
Maria Tereza C. Thomé Brazil 13 296 1.0× 328 1.4× 89 0.6× 232 1.6× 250 1.8× 29 624
Fèlix Amat Spain 13 260 0.8× 351 1.5× 58 0.4× 204 1.4× 225 1.6× 37 548
Rosa Polymeni Greece 8 183 0.6× 216 0.9× 74 0.5× 92 0.6× 108 0.8× 13 414
Tao Pan China 11 232 0.8× 95 0.4× 194 1.3× 91 0.6× 64 0.5× 57 448
Damien Esquerré Australia 11 174 0.6× 248 1.0× 75 0.5× 158 1.1× 173 1.3× 26 486

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Olave, Melisa. (2024). Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations. Evolution. 78(5). 1018–1019. 1 indexed citations
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Olave, Melisa, Alexander Nater, Andreas F. Kautt, & Axel Meyer. (2022). Early stages of sympatric homoploid hybrid speciation in crater lake cichlid fishes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 5893–5893. 11 indexed citations
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Olave, Melisa, Luciano Javier Ávila, Jack W. Sites, & Mariana Morando. (2020). How important is it to consider lineage diversification heterogeneity in macroevolutionary studies? Lessons from the lizard family Liolaemidae. Journal of Biogeography. 47(6). 1286–1297. 10 indexed citations
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Kautt, Andreas F., Claudius F. Kratochwil, Alexander Nater, et al.. (2020). Contrasting signatures of genomic divergence during sympatric speciation. Nature. 588(7836). 106–111. 118 indexed citations
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Morando, Mariana, Melisa Olave, Luciano Javier Ávila, Jack W. Sites, & Adam D. Leaché. (2020). Phylogenomic data resolve higher-level relationships within South American Liolaemus lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 147. 106781–106781. 13 indexed citations
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Hulsey, C. Darrin, Jimmy Zheng, Roi Holzman, et al.. (2018). Phylogenomics of a putatively convergent novelty: did hypertrophied lips evolve once or repeatedly in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes?. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18(1). 179–179. 14 indexed citations
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Olave, Melisa, et al.. (2018). Evidence of body size and shape stasis driven by selection in Patagonian lizards of the Phymaturus patagonicus clade (Squamata: Liolaemini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 129. 226–241. 9 indexed citations
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Olave, Melisa, Luciano Javier Ávila, Jack W. Sites, & Mariana Morando. (2018). Hybridization could be a common phenomenon within the highly diverse lizard genus Liolaemus. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 31(6). 893–903. 20 indexed citations
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Olave, Melisa, Luciano Javier Ávila, Jack W. Sites, & Mariana Morando. (2017). Detecting hybridization by likelihood calculation of gene tree extra lineages given explicit models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(1). 121–133. 14 indexed citations
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Olave, Melisa, Luciano Javier Ávila, Jack W. Sites, & Mariana Morando. (2016). Hidden diversity within the lizard genus Liolaemus: Genetic vs morphological divergence in the L. rothi complex (Squamata:Liolaeminae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107. 56–63. 23 indexed citations
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Olave, Melisa, Luciano Javier Ávila, Jack W. Sites, & Mariana Morando. (2015). Model-based approach to test hard polytomies in theEulaemusclade of the most diverse South American lizard genusLiolaemus(Liolaemini, Squamata). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 174(1). 169–184. 22 indexed citations
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Morando, Mariana, et al.. (2015). Molecular Phylogeny of the Lizard Clade Leiosaurae Endemic to Southern South America. Herpetologica. 71(4). 322–322. 14 indexed citations
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Olave, Melisa, Luciano Javier Ávila, Jack W. Sites, & Mariana Morando. (2014). Multilocus phylogeny of the widely distributed South American lizard clade Eulaemus (Liolaemini, Liolaemus). Zoologica Scripta. 43(4). 323–337. 29 indexed citations
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Ávila, Luciano Javier, Melisa Olave, Cristian Hernán Fulvio Pérez, Daniel Roberto Pérez, & Mariana Morando. (2013). Molecular phylogenetic relationships of the Liolaemus rothi complex and a new species of lizard from Auca Mahuida Volcano (Squamata: Liolaemini). Zootaxa. 3608(4). 221–38. 10 indexed citations
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Olave, Melisa, et al.. (2013). Upstream Analyses Create Problems with DNA-Based Species Delimitation. Systematic Biology. 63(2). 263–271. 61 indexed citations
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Fontanella, Frank M., Melisa Olave, Luciano Javier Ávila, Jack W. Sites, & Mariana Morando. (2012). Molecular dating and diversification of the South American lizard genus Liolaemus (subgenus Eulaemus) based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 164(4). 825–835. 50 indexed citations
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