Michael V. Westbury

1.7k total citations
57 papers, 631 citations indexed

About

Michael V. Westbury is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael V. Westbury has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 631 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Genetics, 29 papers in Ecology and 24 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Michael V. Westbury's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (26 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers). Michael V. Westbury is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (26 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers) and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (14 papers). Michael V. Westbury collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Germany and United States. Michael V. Westbury's co-authors include Eline D. Lorenzen, Michael Hofreiter, Axel Barlow, Bent Petersen, Mads Peter Heide‐Jørgensen, Love Dalén, Aparna Prasad, Johanna L. A. Paijmans, Guilian Sheng and Stefanie Hartmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael V. Westbury

51 papers receiving 617 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael V. Westbury Denmark 14 356 294 234 124 84 57 631
Julia T. Vilstrup Denmark 11 386 1.1× 570 1.9× 339 1.4× 193 1.6× 44 0.5× 14 975
Nicolás Dussex Sweden 17 459 1.3× 327 1.1× 182 0.8× 67 0.5× 30 0.4× 46 762
Vikas Kumar India 11 308 0.9× 270 0.9× 250 1.1× 117 0.9× 20 0.2× 40 672
Kieren J. Mitchell Australia 19 339 1.0× 391 1.3× 214 0.9× 461 3.7× 130 1.5× 52 949
N. I. Abramson Russia 13 377 1.1× 427 1.5× 78 0.3× 219 1.8× 33 0.4× 49 610
Tobias Bidon Germany 9 327 0.9× 288 1.0× 175 0.7× 93 0.8× 21 0.3× 9 553
Elmira Mohandesan Austria 10 195 0.5× 115 0.4× 106 0.5× 94 0.8× 50 0.6× 22 429
Eva V. Bärmann Germany 10 186 0.5× 240 0.8× 90 0.4× 236 1.9× 78 0.9× 21 498
Kristian Hanghøj Denmark 15 500 1.4× 202 0.7× 273 1.2× 120 1.0× 19 0.2× 21 663
Verena E. Kutschera Germany 17 426 1.2× 375 1.3× 243 1.0× 169 1.4× 15 0.2× 30 939

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael V. Westbury

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Westbury, Michael V., et al.. (2025). Indexing of ancient DNA libraries v1.
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Cahsan, Binia De, Marcela Sandoval‐Velasco, Michael V. Westbury, et al.. (2025). Road to Extinction? Past and Present Population Structure and Genomic Diversity in the Koala. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(4). 1 indexed citations
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Westbury, Michael V., Alba Rey‐Iglesia, Addisu Asefa, et al.. (2024). Topographic barriers drive the pronounced genetic subdivision of a range‐limited fossorial rodent. Molecular Ecology. 33(5). e17271–e17271.
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Segawa, Takahiro, Alba Rey‐Iglesia, Eline D. Lorenzen, & Michael V. Westbury. (2024). The origins and diversification of Holarctic brown bear populations inferred from genomes of past and present populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2015). 20232411–20232411. 5 indexed citations
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Cavill, Emily Louisa, Hernán E. Morales, Xin Sun, et al.. (2024). When birds of a feather flock together: Severe genomic erosion and the implications for genetic rescue in an endangered island passerine. Evolutionary Applications. 17(7). e13739–e13739. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Fengli, Linying Wang, Bo Xiao, et al.. (2024). Camelus knoblochi genome reveals the complex evolutionary history of Old World camels. Current Biology. 34(11). 2502–2508.e5. 1 indexed citations
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Westbury, Michael V., Stuart C. Brown, Christina Cheung, et al.. (2023). Impact of Holocene environmental change on the evolutionary ecology of an Arctic top predator. Science Advances. 9(45). eadf3326–eadf3326. 4 indexed citations
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Bibi, Faysal, J. Tyler Faith, Klaus‐Peter Koepfli, et al.. (2022). Blue Turns to Gray: Paleogenomic Insights into the Evolutionary History and Extinction of the Blue Antelope ( Hippotragus leucophaeus ). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(12). 8 indexed citations
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Westbury, Michael V., Chunxue Wang, Bo Xiao, et al.. (2022). An extinct and deeply divergent tiger lineage from northeastern China recognized through palaeogenomics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1979). 20220617–20220617. 4 indexed citations
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Westbury, Michael V. & Eline D. Lorenzen. (2022). Iteratively mapping ancient DNA to reconstruct highly divergent mitochondrial genomes: An evaluation of software, parameters and bait reference. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 13(11). 2419–2428. 3 indexed citations
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Xiao, Bo, et al.. (2022). Ancient Mitogenomes Suggest Stable Mitochondrial Clades of the Siberian Roe Deer. Genes. 13(1). 114–114. 3 indexed citations
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Westbury, Michael V., Binia De Cahsan, Lara D. Shepherd, et al.. (2022). Genomic insights into the evolutionary relationships and demographic history of kiwi. PLoS ONE. 17(10). e0266430–e0266430.
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Barreiro, Fátima Sánchez, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Jazmín Ramos‐Madrigal, et al.. (2021). Historical population declines prompted significant genomic erosion in the northern and southern white rhinoceros ( Ceratotherium simum ). Molecular Ecology. 30(23). 6355–6369. 30 indexed citations
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Prasad, Aparna, Eline D. Lorenzen, & Michael V. Westbury. (2021). Evaluating the role of reference‐genome phylogenetic distance on evolutionary inference. Molecular Ecology Resources. 22(1). 45–55. 37 indexed citations
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Westbury, Michael V., Diana Le Duc, David A. Duchêne, et al.. (2021). Ecological Specialization and Evolutionary Reticulation in Extant Hyaenidae. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(9). 3884–3897. 13 indexed citations
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Westbury, Michael V., K. F. Thompson, Marié Louis, et al.. (2021). Ocean-wide genomic variation in Gray's beaked whales, Mesoplodon grayi. Royal Society Open Science. 8(3). 201788–201788. 9 indexed citations
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Westbury, Michael V., Stefanie Hartmann, Axel Barlow, et al.. (2018). Extended and Continuous Decline in Effective Population Size Results in Low Genomic Diversity in the World’s Rarest Hyena Species, the Brown Hyena. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 35(5). 1225–1237. 58 indexed citations
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Sheng, Guilian, Axel Barlow, Alan Cooper, et al.. (2018). Ancient DNA from Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) of South-Western China Reveals Genetic Diversity Loss during the Holocene. Genes. 9(4). 198–198. 14 indexed citations
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Xenikoudakis, Georgios, et al.. (2017). Reduction of the contaminant fraction of DNA obtained from an ancient giant panda bone. BMC Research Notes. 10(1). 754–754. 28 indexed citations

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