Michael G. Ritchie

13.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
173 papers, 6.0k citations indexed

About

Michael G. Ritchie is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael G. Ritchie has authored 173 papers receiving a total of 6.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Genetics, 127 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 22 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael G. Ritchie's work include Plant and animal studies (96 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (90 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (61 papers). Michael G. Ritchie is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (96 papers), Animal Behavior and Reproduction (90 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (61 papers). Michael G. Ritchie collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Finland. Michael G. Ritchie's co-authors include Jennifer M. Gleason, Roger K. Butlin, Anneli Hoikkala, Charalambos P. Kyriacou, Nathan W. Bailey, Sigurður S. Snorrason, David M. Kidd, Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir, William J. Etges and Leigh W. Simmons and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Michael G. Ritchie

168 papers receiving 5.8k citations

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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.

Sexual Selection and Speciation

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michael G. Ritchie United Kingdom	43	4.0k	3.5k	1.1k	948	779	173	6.0k
Susan E. Riechert United States	40	3.5k 0.9×	3.1k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.1×	351 0.5×	76	5.4k
Mark W. Blows Australia	49	5.7k 1.4×	4.8k 1.4×	935 0.8×	1.5k 1.6×	309 0.4×	125	8.0k
Akito Y. Kawahara United States	36	2.8k 0.7×	2.5k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	748 0.8×	186 0.2×	163	4.5k
Douglas J. Emlen United States	40	4.7k 1.2×	3.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.4×	1.9k 2.0×	1.0k 1.3×	75	6.8k
Michael P. Speed United Kingdom	35	4.3k 1.1×	1.7k 0.5×	811 0.7×	965 1.0×	425 0.5×	80	5.2k
Nina Wedell United Kingdom	52	7.2k 1.8×	5.0k 1.4×	2.3k 2.1×	1.1k 1.2×	266 0.3×	157	9.0k
Leena Lindström Finland	35	2.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.3×	1.1k 1.0×	797 0.8×	341 0.4×	85	3.7k
Stephen F. Chenoweth Australia	39	3.0k 0.7×	2.9k 0.8×	833 0.8×	753 0.8×	230 0.3×	107	4.7k
Ann L. Rypstra United States	42	2.9k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	1.1k 1.0×	731 0.8×	478 0.6×	103	4.0k
Tracey Chapman United Kingdom	54	7.9k 2.0×	5.9k 1.7×	2.9k 2.7×	1.2k 1.3×	1.6k 2.1×	155	10.9k

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Vieites, David R., et al.. (2025). Contributions of epigenomic and epitranscriptomic methylation to animal colouration. Trends in Genetics. 41(11). 1005–1016.

Hoedjes, Katja M., Sonja Grath, Nico Posnien, et al.. (2024). From whole bodies to single cells: A guide to transcriptomic approaches for ecology and evolutionary biology. Molecular Ecology. 34(15). e17382–e17382. 6 indexed citations

Thorpe, Peter, et al.. (2023). Genomic Signatures Associated with Transitions to Viviparity in Cyprinodontiformes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(10). 5 indexed citations

Snook, Rhonda R., et al.. (2023). Selection on the Fly: Short-Term Adaptation to an Altered Sexual Selection Regime in Drosophila pseudoobscura. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(7). 3 indexed citations

Veltsos, Paris, et al.. (2022). Experimental sexual selection reveals rapid evolutionary divergence in sex‐specific transcriptomes and their interactions following mating. Molecular Ecology. 31(12). 3374–3388. 10 indexed citations

Wiberg, R. Axel W., Venera Tyukmaeva, Anneli Hoikkala, Michael G. Ritchie, & Maaria Kankare. (2021). Cold adaptation drives population genomic divergence in the ecological specialist, Drosophila montana. Molecular Ecology. 30(15). 3783–3796. 12 indexed citations

Laetsch, Dominik R., Leonardo Dapporto, Alexander Hayward, et al.. (2021). The Pleistocene species pump past its prime: Evidence from European butterfly sister species. Molecular Ecology. 30(14). 3575–3589. 36 indexed citations

Ritchie, Michael G., et al.. (2020). Within-population sperm competition intensity does not predict asymmetry in conpopulation sperm precedence. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1813). 20200071–20200071. 9 indexed citations

Hunt, John, et al.. (2020). Sexual selection and population divergence III: Interspecific and intraspecific variation in mating signals. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(7). 990–1005. 10 indexed citations

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Dussex, Nicolás, Verena E. Kutschera, R. Axel W. Wiberg, et al.. (2020). A genome‐wide investigation of adaptive signatures in protein‐coding genes related to tool behaviour in New Caledonian and Hawaiian crows. Molecular Ecology. 30(4). 973–986. 6 indexed citations

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Pascoal, Sónia, Xuan Liu, Yongxiang Fang, et al.. (2018). Increased socially mediated plasticity in gene expression accompanies rapid adaptive evolution. Ecology Letters. 21(4). 546–556. 22 indexed citations

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Parker, Darren J., R. Axel W. Wiberg, Urmi Trivedi, et al.. (2018). Inter and Intraspecific Genomic Divergence in Drosophila montana Shows Evidence for Cold Adaptation. Genome Biology and Evolution. 10(8). 2086–2101. 21 indexed citations

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Veltsos, Paris, Yongxiang Fang, Andrew R. Cossins, Rhonda R. Snook, & Michael G. Ritchie. (2017). Mating system manipulation and the evolution of sex-biased gene expression in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 8(1). 2072–2072. 31 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Christopher B., Lexiang Ji, R. Axel W. Wiberg, et al.. (2015). The Genome and Methylome of a Beetle with Complex Social Behavior, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae). Genome Biology and Evolution. 7(12). 3383–3396. 68 indexed citations

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Pascoal, Sónia, Timothée Cezard, Karim Gharbi, et al.. (2014). Rapid Convergent Evolution in Wild Crickets. Current Biology. 24(12). 1369–1374. 99 indexed citations

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McClure, Colin D., et al.. (2013). Immune anticipation of mating in Drosophila : Turandot M promotes immunity against sexually transmitted fungal infections. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 280(1773). 20132018–20132018. 37 indexed citations

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Keays, Maria, Daniel Barker, Thomas Wicker, & Michael G. Ritchie. (2011). Signatures of selection and sex-specific expression variation of a novel duplicate during the evolution of the Drosophila desaturase gene family. Molecular Ecology. 20(17). no–no. 15 indexed citations

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Bailey, Nathan W., et al.. (2007). Multiple differences in calling songs and other traits between solitary and gregarious Mormon crickets from allopatric mtDNA clades.. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 7(1). 5–5. 17 indexed citations

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Ritchie, Michael G., et al.. (1994). Genetic variability of the interpulse interval of courtship song among some European populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity. 72(5). 459–464. 44 indexed citations

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Ritchie, Michael G.. (1992). Behavioral coupling in tettigoniid hybrids (Orthoptera). Behavior Genetics. 22(3). 369–379. 21 indexed citations

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