Nathan Lo

11.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
158 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Nathan Lo is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan Lo has authored 158 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Genetics, 94 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 63 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Nathan Lo's work include Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (96 papers), Plant and animal studies (89 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (34 papers). Nathan Lo is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (96 papers), Plant and animal studies (89 papers) and Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences (34 papers). Nathan Lo collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Japan and United States. Nathan Lo's co-authors include Yves Roisin, David E. Bignell, Simon Y. W. Ho, Claudio Bandi, Hirofumi Watanabe, Theodore A. Evans, Gaku Tokuda, Thomas Bourguignon, Tiziana Beninati and Stephen J. Simpson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Nathan Lo

151 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Biology of Termites: a Modern Synthesis

2010 776 citations Nathan Lo, Yves Roisin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan Lo Australia	49	4.0k	3.6k	3.3k	1.2k	834	158	7.4k
Michael F. Whiting United States	55	4.6k 1.2×	6.2k 1.7×	2.4k 0.7×	3.0k 2.5×	1.2k 1.4×	131	10.7k
Gregory D. D. Hurst United Kingdom	58	3.3k 0.8×	3.1k 0.9×	8.7k 2.7×	1.4k 1.2×	1.5k 1.8×	191	12.0k
Francis M. Jiggins United Kingdom	55	2.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.4×	5.9k 1.8×	1.8k 1.5×	1.6k 1.9×	135	9.1k
Felix A. H. Sperling Canada	45	3.6k 0.9×	3.9k 1.1×	2.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.3×	908 1.1×	184	7.4k
Rosemary S. Hails United Kingdom	44	1.3k 0.3×	1.9k 0.5×	2.6k 0.8×	1.9k 1.6×	1.7k 2.0×	147	6.3k
Brian M. Wiegmann United States	37	1.1k 0.3×	3.1k 0.9×	2.2k 0.7×	657 0.5×	510 0.6×	99	4.6k
Francesco Frati Italy	32	3.3k 0.8×	4.8k 1.3×	3.3k 1.0×	2.2k 1.8×	1.2k 1.5×	136	9.4k
Alejandro Sánchez‐Gracia Spain	17	2.1k 0.5×	1.3k 0.3×	916 0.3×	2.3k 1.9×	1.3k 1.5×	39	5.8k
Adalgisa Caccone United States	52	3.3k 0.8×	1.5k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	2.4k 2.0×	1.1k 1.3×	252	8.9k
Michael T. Siva‐Jothy United Kingdom	48	2.3k 0.6×	3.7k 1.0×	3.0k 0.9×	312 0.3×	269 0.3×	86	6.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nathan Lo

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20 of 20 papers shown

Walker, James A., et al.. (2025). Two new species of Panesthia (Blattodea: Blaberidae, Panesthiinae) from Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature. 66. 1–11.

Lo, Nathan, et al.. (2025). Revision of the cockroach subfamily Blattinae based on morphological and molecular analyses. Systematic Entomology. 50(4). 836–854.

Miyazaki, Satoshi, et al.. (2025). Genomic Features Underlying the Origin of Sociality and the Diversification of Caste Systems in Termites. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(11).

Ewart, Kyle M., Kazuhiko Kawasaki, Joseph D. DiBattista, et al.. (2024). The spotted parrotfish genome provides insights into the evolution of a coral reef dietary specialist (Teleostei: Labridae: Scarini: Cetoscarus ocellatus). Ecology and Evolution. 14(3). e11148–e11148. 2 indexed citations

Taylor, Benjamin A., Brock A. Harpur, Tim A. Heard, et al.. (2024). Gene Flow Between Populations With Highly Divergent Mitogenomes in the Australian Stingless Bee, Tetragonula hockingsi. Ecology and Evolution. 14(11). e70475–e70475. 1 indexed citations

Burns, Brendan P., et al.. (2024). Metatranscriptomics provide insights into the role of the symbiont Midichloria mitochondrii in Ixodes ticks. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(12). 2 indexed citations

Lee, Ivy H. T., Wenyan Nong, C K Cheung, et al.. (2023). The genome and sex-dependent responses to temperature in the common yellow butterfly, Eurema hecabe. BMC Biology. 21(1). 200–200. 3 indexed citations

Ewart, Kyle M., et al.. (2023). Considerable gene flow in troglomorphic cockroach species across a vast subterranean landscape. Journal of Biogeography. 50(11). 1967–1980. 1 indexed citations

Šobotník, Jan, Aleš Buček, Yves Roisin, et al.. (2022). The functional evolution of termite gut microbiota. Microbiome. 10(1). 78–78. 69 indexed citations

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Wang, Menglin, Simon Hellemans, Jan Šobotník, et al.. (2022). Phylogeny, biogeography and classification of Teletisoptera (Blattaria: Isoptera). Systematic Entomology. 47(4). 581–590. 13 indexed citations

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Hogg, Carolyn J., David E. Alquezar‐Planas, Michael J. L. Magrath, et al.. (2021). Using phylogenetics to explore interspecies genetic rescue options for a critically endangered parrot. Conservation Science and Practice. 3(9). 3 indexed citations

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Arab, Daej A. & Nathan Lo. (2021). Evolutionary Rates are Correlated Between Buchnera Endosymbionts and the Mitochondrial Genomes of Their Aphid Hosts. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 89(4-5). 238–248. 7 indexed citations

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Bourguignon, Thomas, Nicholas V. Coleman, Qian Tang, et al.. (2020). Increased Mutation Rate Is Linked to Genome Reduction in Prokaryotes. Current Biology. 30(19). 3848–3855.e4. 39 indexed citations

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Montagu, Ashley, et al.. (2020). Global incursion pathways of Thaumastocoris peregrinus, an invasive Australian pest of eucalypts. Biological Invasions. 22(12). 3501–3518. 3 indexed citations

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Arab, Daej A., et al.. (2020). Evolutionary rates are correlated between cockroach symbionts and mitochondrial genomes. Biology Letters. 16(1). 20190702–20190702. 16 indexed citations

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Chang, Wei-Shan, John H.‐O. Pettersson, Mǎng Shī, et al.. (2019). Novel hepatitis D-like agents in vertebrates and invertebrates. Virus Evolution. 5(2). vez021–vez021. 53 indexed citations

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Wang, Menglin, Aleš Buček, Jan Šobotník, et al.. (2018). Historical biogeography of the termite clade Rhinotermitinae (Blattodea: Isoptera). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 132. 100–104. 14 indexed citations

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Wang, Zongqing, et al.. (2017). Reconstructing the phylogeny of Blattodea: robust support for interfamilial relationships and major clades. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 12359–12359. 60 indexed citations

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Ritchie, Andrew M., Nathan Lo, & Simon Y. W. Ho. (2016). The Impact of the Tree Prior on Molecular Dating of Data Sets Containing a Mixture of Inter- and Intraspecies Sampling. Systematic Biology. 66(3). syw095–syw095. 115 indexed citations

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Sassera, Davide, Nathan Lo, Sara Epis, et al.. (2011). Phylogenomic Evidence for the Presence of a Flagellum and cbb3 Oxidase in the Free-Living Mitochondrial Ancestor. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(12). 3285–3296. 110 indexed citations

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