Moritz Muschick

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Moritz Muschick is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Moritz Muschick has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Ecology, 13 papers in Genetics and 11 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Moritz Muschick's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (9 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (8 papers). Moritz Muschick is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (9 papers) and Fish biology, ecology, and behavior (8 papers). Moritz Muschick collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and United Kingdom. Moritz Muschick's co-authors include Walter Salzburger, Marta Barluenga, Axel Meyer, Adrian Indermaur, Kai N. Stölting, Patrik Nosil, Víctor Soria‐Carrasco, Rüdiger Riesch, Zach Gompert and Aaron A. Comeault and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Moritz Muschick

34 papers receiving 1.5k 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.

Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish

2006 505 citations Marta Barluenga, Kai N. Stölting et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Moritz Muschick Switzerland	14	776	645	506	386	287	35	1.6k
Matthew D. McGee United States	19	516 0.7×	516 0.8×	368 0.7×	297 0.8×	356 1.2×	37	1.4k
Patrick D. Danley United States	18	818 1.1×	826 1.3×	697 1.4×	492 1.3×	274 1.0×	39	1.8k
Kevin J. Parsons United Kingdom	23	647 0.8×	868 1.3×	582 1.2×	373 1.0×	186 0.6×	50	1.8k
Oliver M. Selz Switzerland	16	799 1.0×	433 0.7×	365 0.7×	336 0.9×	344 1.2×	33	1.3k
Peter Wimberger United States	15	393 0.5×	492 0.8×	440 0.9×	484 1.3×	181 0.6×	23	1.4k
Salome Mwaiko Switzerland	15	1.1k 1.4×	550 0.9×	466 0.9×	384 1.0×	547 1.9×	27	1.7k
Katrina McGuigan Australia	27	1.2k 1.5×	471 0.7×	423 0.8×	988 2.6×	267 0.9×	60	2.0k
Adrian Indermaur Switzerland	12	343 0.4×	409 0.6×	300 0.6×	190 0.5×	191 0.7×	27	908
Julián Torres‐Dowdall Germany	19	451 0.6×	502 0.8×	424 0.8×	382 1.0×	352 1.2×	51	1.3k
David A. Marques Switzerland	18	1.3k 1.7×	572 0.9×	509 1.0×	519 1.3×	568 2.0×	23	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Moritz Muschick

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Moritz Muschick. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Moritz Muschick 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 Moritz Muschick. Moritz Muschick is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Muschick, Moritz, Lukas Rüber, & Michael Matschiner. (2025). Museomics reveals the phylogenetic position of an enigmatic vertebrate family (Lophiiformes: Lophichthyidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 211. 108406–108406.

Mustaphi, Colin J. Courtney, Maria Cuenca Cambronero, Moritz Muschick, et al.. (2024). Temporal dynamics of invertebrate community assembly in Lake Victoria since the late Pleistocene based on chitinous remains. Freshwater Biology. 69(5). 660–678. 3 indexed citations

Lami, Andrea, Stefano M. Bernasconi, Madalina Jaggi, et al.. (2024). Latest Pleistocene and Holocene primary producer communities and hydroclimate in Lake Victoria, eastern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 330. 108599–108599. 4 indexed citations

Kishe, Mary A., Salome Mwaiko, Martín Grosjean, et al.. (2024). Testing alternative hypotheses for the decline of cichlid fish in Lake Victoria using fish tooth time series from sediment cores. Biology Letters. 20(3). 20230604–20230604. 3 indexed citations

Tylmann, Wojciech, Andrea Lami, Stefano M. Bernasconi, et al.. (2024). Anthropogenic Eutrophication Drives Major Food Web Changes in Mwanza Gulf, Lake Victoria. Ecosystems. 27(4). 577–591. 3 indexed citations

Vogel, Hendrik, Marina A. Morlock, Andrew S. Cohen, et al.. (2023). From desiccation to wetlands and outflow: Rapid re-filling of Lake Victoria during the Latest Pleistocene 14–13 ka. Journal of Great Lakes Research. 50(3). 102246–102246. 3 indexed citations

Muschick, Moritz, Mary A. Kishe, Salome Mwaiko, et al.. (2023). A continuous fish fossil record reveals key insights into adaptive radiation. Nature. 622(7982). 315–320. 14 indexed citations

Muschick, Moritz, Stephanie Hänsch, Nathan Wales, et al.. (2023). Ancient DNA is preserved in fish fossils from tropical lake sediments. Molecular Ecology. 32(22). 5913–5931. 5 indexed citations

Gompert, Zachariah, Jeffrey L. Feder, Owen G. Osborne, et al.. (2022). Climatic similarity and genomic background shape the extent of parallel adaptation in Timema stick insects. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 6(12). 1952–1964. 18 indexed citations

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Muschick, Moritz, et al.. (2022). The mitochondrial genome of the red icefish (Channichthys rugosus) casts doubt on its species status. Polar Biology. 45(10). 1541–1552. 4 indexed citations

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Cambronero, Maria Cuenca, Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi, Ryan Greenway, et al.. (2022). An integrative paleolimnological approach for studying evolutionary processes. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 37(6). 488–496. 7 indexed citations

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Villoutreix, Romain, Clarissa F. de Carvalho, Víctor Soria‐Carrasco, et al.. (2020). Large-scale mutation in the evolution of a gene complex for cryptic coloration. Science. 369(6502). 460–466. 41 indexed citations

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Riesch, Rüdiger, Moritz Muschick, Dorothea Lindtke, et al.. (2017). Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(4). 82–82. 131 indexed citations

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Riesch, Rüdiger, Moritz Muschick, Dorothea Lindtke, et al.. (2017). Data from: Transitions between phases of genomic differentiation during stick-insect speciation. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 1 indexed citations

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Janzen, Thijs, Adriana Alzate, Moritz Muschick, et al.. (2017). Community assembly in Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish: quantifying the contributions of both niche‐based and neutral processes. Ecology and Evolution. 7(4). 1057–1067. 12 indexed citations

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Nosil, Patrik, Rüdiger Riesch, & Moritz Muschick. (2013). Climate affects geographic variation in host-plant but not mating preferences of Timema cristinae stick-insect populations. Evolutionary ecology research. 15(6). 689–704. 4 indexed citations

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Muschick, Moritz, Adrian Indermaur, & Walter Salzburger. (2012). Convergent Evolution within an Adaptive Radiation of Cichlid Fishes. Current Biology. 22(24). 2362–2368. 324 indexed citations

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Muschick, Moritz, Marta Barluenga, Walter Salzburger, & Axel Meyer. (2011). Adaptive phenotypic plasticity in the Midas cichlid fish pharyngeal jaw and its relevance in adaptive radiation. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 11(1). 116–116. 134 indexed citations

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Matschiner, Michael, Malte Damerau, Moritz Muschick, et al.. (2011). Parallel ecological diversification in Antarctic notothenioid fishes as evidence for adaptive radiation. Molecular Ecology. 20(22). 4707–4721. 61 indexed citations

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Barluenga, Marta, Kai N. Stölting, Walter Salzburger, Moritz Muschick, & Axel Meyer. (2006). Sympatric speciation in Nicaraguan crater lake cichlid fish. Nature. 439(7077). 719–723. 505 indexed citations breakdown →

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