Nicolás Dussex

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 762 citations indexed

About

Nicolás Dussex is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolás Dussex has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 762 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Genetics, 23 papers in Ecology and 15 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Nicolás Dussex's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (34 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (13 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (8 papers). Nicolás Dussex is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (34 papers), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (13 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (8 papers). Nicolás Dussex collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, New Zealand and Norway. Nicolás Dussex's co-authors include Bruce C. Robertson, Helen R. Taylor, Yolanda van Heezik, Love Dalén, Johanna von Seth, Jonathan M. Waters, Hernán E. Morales, Christine Grossen, Cock van Oosterhout and Aaron Chuah and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Nicolás Dussex

42 papers receiving 755 citations

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Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation

2023 78 citations Nicolás Dussex, Hernán E. Morales et al. Trends in Ecology & Evolution profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolás Dussex Sweden	17	459	327	182	152	130	46	762
Jeremy J. Kirchman United States	17	452 1.0×	424 1.3×	121 0.7×	127 0.8×	196 1.5×	39	897
D. Graham Pearson United States	3	424 0.9×	401 1.2×	167 0.9×	187 1.2×	305 2.3×	10	880
Oliver Haddrath Canada	12	425 0.9×	313 1.0×	286 1.6×	175 1.2×	197 1.5×	22	904
Mariana Bulgarella New Zealand	19	426 0.9×	333 1.0×	130 0.7×	86 0.6×	292 2.2×	49	830
Ben H. Warren France	17	450 1.0×	422 1.3×	209 1.1×	196 1.3×	460 3.5×	30	1.2k
Rogan M. Colbourne New Zealand	12	288 0.6×	414 1.3×	83 0.5×	96 0.6×	126 1.0×	27	653
Cornelya F. C. Klütsch Canada	16	587 1.3×	433 1.3×	150 0.8×	81 0.5×	130 1.0×	44	908
Heather R. L. Lerner United States	8	482 1.1×	360 1.1×	218 1.2×	145 1.0×	266 2.0×	11	842
Deryn Alpers Australia	13	471 1.0×	413 1.3×	280 1.5×	121 0.8×	326 2.5×	18	932
Marco Masseti Italy	15	418 0.9×	393 1.2×	98 0.5×	64 0.4×	80 0.6×	55	893

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolás Dussex

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Dussex, Nicolás. (2025). Comparative Population Genomics Reveal the Determinants of Genome Erosion in Two Sympatric Neotropical Falcons. Molecular Ecology. 34(5). e17686–e17686.

Dussex, Nicolás, Tom van der Valk, Craig Packer, et al.. (2025). Constraints to gene flow increase the risk of genome erosion in the Ngorongoro Crater lion population. Communications Biology. 8(1). 640–640.

Brealey, Jaelle C., Mathilde Le Moullec, Vanessa C. Bieker, et al.. (2024). Ancient reindeer mitogenomes reveal island-hopping colonisation of the Arctic archipelagos. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 4143–4143. 5 indexed citations

Moullec, Mathilde Le, Jørgen Rosvold, Åshild Ønvik Pedersen, et al.. (2024). A palaeogenomic investigation of overharvest implications in an endemic wild reindeer subspecies. Molecular Ecology. 33(5). e17274–e17274. 4 indexed citations

Dussex, Nicolás, et al.. (2024). Strongly deleterious mutations influence reproductive output and longevity in an endangered population. Nature Communications. 15(1). 8378–8378. 5 indexed citations

Dussex, Nicolás, Hernán E. Morales, Christine Grossen, Love Dalén, & Cock van Oosterhout. (2023). Purging and accumulation of genetic load in conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 38(10). 961–969. 78 indexed citations breakdown →

Dussex, Nicolás, Sara Kurland, Remi‐André Olsen, et al.. (2023). Range-wide and temporal genomic analyses reveal the consequences of near-extinction in Swedish moose. Communications Biology. 6(1). 1035–1035. 9 indexed citations

Dussex, Nicolás, Ole K. Tørresen, Tom van der Valk, et al.. (2023). Adaptation to the High-Arctic island environment despite long-term reduced genetic variation in Svalbard reindeer. iScience. 26(10). 107811–107811. 9 indexed citations

Kutschera, Verena E., Marcin Kierczak, Tom van der Valk, et al.. (2022). GenErode: a bioinformatics pipeline to investigate genome erosion in endangered and extinct species. BMC Bioinformatics. 23(1). 228–228. 26 indexed citations

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Seth, Johanna von, Tom van der Valk, Hanna Sigeman, et al.. (2022). Genomic trajectories of a near-extinction event in the Chatham Island black robin. BMC Genomics. 23(1). 747–747. 16 indexed citations

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Dussex, Nicolás, Marianne Dehasque, David Díez‐del‐Molino, et al.. (2021). Integrating multi-taxon palaeogenomes and sedimentary ancient DNA to study past ecosystem dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1957). 20211252–20211252. 17 indexed citations

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Dussex, Nicolás, Johanna von Seth, Anders Angerbjörn, et al.. (2021). Genomic and fitness consequences of inbreeding in an endangered carnivore. Molecular Ecology. 30(12). 2790–2799. 23 indexed citations

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Rawlence, Nicolas J., Nicolás Dussex, David A. Orlovich, et al.. (2020). Plio‐Pleistocene environmental changes shape present day phylogeography of New Zealand's southern beeches (Nothofagaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany. 59(1). 55–71. 16 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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Dussex, Nicolás, et al.. (2019). Contrasting patterns of population structure at large and fine geographical scales in a migratory avian disturbance specialist of braided river ecosystems. Diversity and Distributions. 26(1). 16–33. 5 indexed citations

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Knapp, Michael, Jessica Thomas, James Haile, et al.. (2019). Mitogenomic evidence of close relationships between New Zealand’s extinct giant raptors and small-sized Australian sister-taxa. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 134. 122–128. 20 indexed citations

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Dussex, Nicolás & Bruce C. Robertson. (2017). Contemporary effective population size and predicted maintenance of genetic diversity in the endangered kea ( Nestor notabilis ). New Zealand Journal of Zoology. 45(1). 13–28. 6 indexed citations

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Taylor, Helen R., Nicolás Dussex, & Yolanda van Heezik. (2017). De-extinction needs consultation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(7). 198–198. 8 indexed citations

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Dussex, Nicolás, et al.. (2016). Low Spatial Genetic Differentiation Associated with Rapid Recolonization in the New Zealand Fur SealArctocephalus forsteri. Journal of Heredity. 107(7). 581–592. 17 indexed citations

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Dussex, Nicolás, Nicolas J. Rawlence, & Bruce C. Robertson. (2015). Ancient and Contemporary DNA Reveal a Pre-Human Decline but No Population Bottleneck Associated with Recent Human Persecution in the Kea (Nestor notabilis). PLoS ONE. 10(2). e0118522–e0118522. 23 indexed citations

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