Molly Schumer

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Molly Schumer is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Molly Schumer has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Genetics, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Molly Schumer's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (26 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (12 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers). Molly Schumer is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (26 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (12 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (10 papers). Molly Schumer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Mexico. Molly Schumer's co-authors include Peter Andolfatto, Gil G. Rosenthal, Rongfeng Cui, Daniel L. Powell, Molly Przeworski, Edgar M. Medina, Suzy C. P. Renn, Matthew L. Aardema, Ying Zhen and Chris Holland and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Molly Schumer

41 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes

2018 256 citations Molly Schumer, Chenling Xu et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Molly Schumer United States	20	1.2k	618	489	469	254	42	1.8k
Eric S. Haag United States	24	1.0k 0.9×	838 1.4×	313 0.6×	427 0.9×	262 1.0×	57	2.0k
Gregory L. Owens Canada	24	1.0k 0.9×	656 1.1×	480 1.0×	508 1.1×	383 1.5×	50	2.0k
Rob W. Ness Canada	23	988 0.8×	885 1.4×	627 1.3×	551 1.2×	221 0.9×	49	1.8k
Marta L. Wayne United States	20	1.1k 0.9×	748 1.2×	477 1.0×	308 0.7×	233 0.9×	58	2.0k
Yohey Terai Japan	21	1.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.7×	775 1.6×	601 1.3×	687 2.7×	54	2.9k
Catherine R. Linnen United States	21	806 0.7×	301 0.5×	649 1.3×	166 0.4×	362 1.4×	38	1.5k
Erica L. Larson United States	20	1.4k 1.1×	501 0.8×	686 1.4×	345 0.7×	420 1.7×	41	2.0k
Arnaud Le Rouzic France	25	800 0.7×	787 1.3×	403 0.8×	857 1.8×	284 1.1×	60	2.0k
Annalise B. Paaby United States	14	651 0.5×	392 0.6×	316 0.6×	136 0.3×	307 1.2×	25	1.3k
Calvin A. Porter United States	20	593 0.5×	795 1.3×	454 0.9×	424 0.9×	277 1.1×	35	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Molly Schumer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Molly Schumer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Molly Schumer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Molly Schumer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Molly Schumer. Molly Schumer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Aguillon, Stepfanie M., Quinn K. Langdon, John J. Baczenas, et al.. (2025). Pervasive gene flow despite strong and varied reproductive barriers in swordtails. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(5). 867–878. 4 indexed citations

Du, Kang, Ronald B. Walter, Molly Schumer, et al.. (2024). Phylogenomic analyses of all species of swordtail fishes (genus Xiphophorus) show that hybridization preceded speciation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6609–6609. 10 indexed citations

Manuel, Marc de, Mohamed Mahgoub, Zachary L. Fuller, et al.. (2024). Patterns of recombination in snakes reveal a tug-of-war between PRDM9 and promoter-like features. Science. 383(6685). eadj7026–eadj7026. 17 indexed citations

Langdon, Quinn K., Stepfanie M. Aguillon, Daniel L. Powell, et al.. (2024). Swordtail fish hybrids reveal that genome evolution is surprisingly predictable after initial hybridization. PLoS Biology. 22(8). e3002742–e3002742. 6 indexed citations

Baczenas, John J., Daniel L. Powell, Markita Savage, et al.. (2024). Recurrent evolution of small body size and loss of the sword ornament in Northern swordtail fish. Evolution. 78(12). 2017–2031. 1 indexed citations

Thompson, Ken, Yaniv Brandvain, Jenn M. Coughlan, et al.. (2023). The Ecology of Hybrid Incompatibilities. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 16(9). a041440–a041440. 23 indexed citations

Farquharson, Katherine A., et al.. (2023). Genomes of two Extinct‐in‐the‐Wild reptiles from Christmas Island reveal distinct evolutionary histories and conservation insights. Molecular Ecology Resources. 25(5). e13780–e13780. 6 indexed citations

Banerjee, Shreya M., Daniel L. Powell, Benjamin M. Moran, et al.. (2023). Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem. Evolution. 77(4). 995–1005. 5 indexed citations

Young, Rebecca L., et al.. (2023). Individual variation in preference behavior in sailfin fish refines the neurotranscriptomic pathway for mate preference. Ecology and Evolution. 13(7). e10323–e10323. 1 indexed citations

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Langdon, Quinn K., Daniel L. Powell, Bernard Kim, et al.. (2022). Predictability and parallelism in the contemporary evolution of hybrid genomes. PLoS Genetics. 18(1). e1009914–e1009914. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Juan, Molly Schumer, & Claudia Bank. (2022). Imbalanced segregation of recombinant haplotypes in hybrid populations reveals inter- and intrachromosomal Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities. PLoS Genetics. 18(3). e1010120–e1010120. 12 indexed citations

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Powell, Daniel L., et al.. (2022). Genomic insights into variation in thermotolerance between hybridizing swordtail fishes. Molecular Ecology. 33(23). e16489–e16489. 8 indexed citations

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Schierup, Mikkel Heide, et al.. (2022). PRDM9 losses in vertebrates are coupled to those of paralogs ZCWPW1 and ZCWPW2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(9). 24 indexed citations

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Powell, Daniel L., Shreya M. Banerjee, Elizaveta Bashkirova, et al.. (2021). The Genetic Architecture of Variation in the Sexually Selected Sword Ornament and Its Evolution in Hybrid Populations. Current Biology. 31(5). 923–935.e11. 18 indexed citations

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Schumer, Molly, et al.. (2020). Versatile simulations of admixture and accurate local ancestry inference with mixnmatch and ancestryinfer. Molecular Ecology Resources. 20(4). 1141–1151. 20 indexed citations

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Powell, Daniel L., Kang Du, Shreya M. Banerjee, et al.. (2020). Natural hybridization reveals incompatible alleles that cause melanoma in swordtail fish. Science. 368(6492). 731–736. 67 indexed citations

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Schumer, Molly, Chenling Xu, Daniel L. Powell, et al.. (2018). Natural selection interacts with recombination to shape the evolution of hybrid genomes. Science. 360(6389). 656–660. 256 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ghosh, Rajarshi, Joshua S. Bloom, Molly Schumer, et al.. (2015). Genetics of Intraspecies Variation in Avoidance Behavior Induced by a Thermal Stimulus in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 200(4). 1327–1339. 5 indexed citations

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Zhen, Ying, Matthew L. Aardema, Edgar M. Medina, Molly Schumer, & Peter Andolfatto. (2012). Parallel Molecular Evolution in an Herbivore Community. Science. 337(6102). 1634–1637. 196 indexed citations

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Schumer, Molly, Rongfeng Cui, Bastien Boussau, et al.. (2012). AN EVALUATION OF THE HYBRID SPECIATION HYPOTHESIS FORXIPHOPHORUS CLEMENCIAEBASED ON WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCES. Evolution. 67(4). 1155–1168. 25 indexed citations

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