Ole Seehausen

29.7k total citations · 9 hit papers
269 papers, 18.3k citations indexed

About

Ole Seehausen is a scholar working on Ecology, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ole Seehausen has authored 269 papers receiving a total of 18.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Ecology, 151 papers in Genetics and 124 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Ole Seehausen's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (145 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (100 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (96 papers). Ole Seehausen is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (145 papers), Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity (100 papers) and Fish Ecology and Management Studies (96 papers). Ole Seehausen collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Ole Seehausen's co-authors include Jacques J. M. van Alphen, Martine E. Maan, Catherine E. Wagner, Frans Witte, Luke J. Harmon, Joana I. Meier, David A. Marques, Salome Mwaiko, Oliver M. Selz and Rike Stelkens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ole Seehausen

263 papers receiving 17.8k 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.

Hybridization and adaptive radiation

2004 1.4k citations Ole Seehausen profile →
Cichlid Fish Diversity Threatened by Eutrophication That Curbs Sexual Selection

1997 977 citations Ole Seehausen et al. profile →
Speciation through sensory drive in cichlid fish

2008 839 citations Ole Seehausen, Karen L. Carleton et al. Nature profile →
EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA

2010 667 citations Luke J. Harmon, Jonathan B. Losos et al. Evolution profile →
African cichlid fish: a model system in adaptive radiation research

2006 594 citations Ole Seehausen profile →
Ecological explanations for (incomplete) speciation

2009 549 citations Luke J. Harmon, Ole Seehausen et al. profile →
Ancient hybridization fuels rapid cichlid fish adaptive radiations

2017 461 citations Joana I. Meier, David A. Marques et al. Nature Communications profile →
Ecological opportunity and sexual selection together predict adaptive radiation

2012 370 citations Catherine E. Wagner, Luke J. Harmon et al. Nature profile →
A Combinatorial View on Speciation and Adaptive Radiation

2019 326 citations David A. Marques, Joana I. Meier et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ole Seehausen Switzerland	64	9.0k	7.1k	7.0k	6.2k	3.1k	269	18.3k
Eldredge Bermingham Panama	74	9.4k 1.0×	5.6k 0.8×	4.9k 0.7×	5.4k 0.9×	1.6k 0.5×	214	18.0k
Thomas D. Kocher United States	66	11.5k 1.3×	6.0k 0.8×	5.0k 0.7×	3.2k 0.5×	3.6k 1.2×	177	20.7k
Andrew P. Hendry Canada	80	10.2k 1.1×	9.3k 1.3×	10.4k 1.5×	7.7k 1.3×	1.8k 0.6×	266	23.4k
David N. Reznick United States	71	6.8k 0.8×	8.8k 1.2×	9.2k 1.3×	10.7k 1.7×	2.4k 0.8×	229	22.7k
Derek A. Roff Canada	70	8.6k 1.0×	6.4k 0.9×	5.1k 0.7×	11.4k 1.8×	1.2k 0.4×	244	21.2k
Fred W. Allendorf United States	75	16.2k 1.8×	10.8k 1.5×	10.1k 1.5×	5.0k 0.8×	2.9k 1.0×	211	27.7k
Gary R. Carvalho United Kingdom	66	6.0k 0.7×	7.1k 1.0×	4.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.3×	2.0k 0.7×	191	15.1k
Patrik Nosil United States	60	10.4k 1.2×	4.2k 0.6×	3.8k 0.5×	6.6k 1.1×	510 0.2×	149	16.0k
Walter Salzburger Switzerland	60	5.0k 0.6×	3.3k 0.5×	4.1k 0.6×	2.0k 0.3×	2.5k 0.8×	199	10.7k
Juha Merilä Finland	77	10.4k 1.2×	9.3k 1.3×	6.0k 0.9×	10.4k 1.7×	1.2k 0.4×	456	23.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ole Seehausen

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Peichel, Catherine L., et al.. (2024). Testing for a role of postzygotic incompatibilities in rapidly speciated Lake Victoria cichlids. Evolution. 78(4). 652–664.

Peñalba, Joshua V., Anna Runemark, Joana I. Meier, et al.. (2024). The Role of Hybridization in Species Formation and Persistence. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology. 16(12). a041445–a041445. 22 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

Rüber, Lukas, et al.. (2023). Phylogenetic and biogeographic history of brook lampreys (Lampetra: Petromyzontidae) in the river basins of the Adriatic Sea based on DNA barcode data. Ecology and Evolution. 13(9). e10496–e10496. 5 indexed citations

Svensson, Ola, et al.. (2023). Sympatry and parapatry among rocky reef cichlids of Lake Victoria explained by female mating preferences. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 37(1). 51–61.

Alonzo, Suzanne H., et al.. (2022). Multispecies colour polymorphisms associated with contrasting microhabitats in two Mediterranean wrasse radiations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(4). 633–647. 4 indexed citations

Carleton, Karen L., Matthew A. Conte, Milan Malinsky, et al.. (2020). Movement of transposable elements contributes to cichlid diversity. Molecular Ecology. 29(24). 4956–4969. 17 indexed citations

Rougeux, Clément, Pierre‐Alexandre Gagnaire, Kim Præbel, Ole Seehausen, & Louis Bernatchez. (2019). Polygenic selection drives the evolution of convergent transcriptomic landscapes across continents within a Nearctic sister species complex. Molecular Ecology. 28(19). 4388–4403. 28 indexed citations

Groothuis, Ton G. G., et al.. (2019). Visual adaptation and microhabitat choice in Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Royal Society Open Science. 6(3). 181876–181876. 3 indexed citations

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Feulner, Philine G. D., Julia Schwarzer, Marcel P. Haesler, Joana I. Meier, & Ole Seehausen. (2018). A Dense Linkage Map of Lake Victoria Cichlids Improved the Pundamilia Genome Assembly and Revealed a Major QTL for Sex-Determination. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 8(7). 2411–2420. 24 indexed citations

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Lemoine, Mélissa, Marta Barluenga, Kay Lucek, et al.. (2018). Recent sympatric speciation involving habitat-associated nuptial colour polymorphism in a crater lake cichlid. Hydrobiologia. 832(1). 297–315. 7 indexed citations

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Meier, Joana I., David A. Marques, Salome Mwaiko, et al.. (2017). Ancient hybridization fuels rapid cichlid fish adaptive radiations. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14363–14363. 461 indexed citations breakdown →

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Best, Rebecca J., Jaime M. Anaya‐Rojas, Miguel C. Leal, et al.. (2017). Transgenerational selection driven by divergent ecological impacts of hybridizing lineages. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(11). 1757–1765. 19 indexed citations

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Hudson, A., Pascal Vonlanthen, Étienne Bezault, & Ole Seehausen. (2013). Genomic signatures of relaxed disruptive selection associated with speciation reversal in whitefish. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 13(1). 108–108. 27 indexed citations

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Lucek, Kay, et al.. (2012). Signals of predation-induced directional and disruptive selection in the threespine stickleback. Evolutionary ecology research. 14(2). 193–205. 17 indexed citations

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Keller, Irene, et al.. (2012). Parallel divergent adaptation along replicated altitudinal gradients in Alpine trout. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12(1). 210–210. 11 indexed citations

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Seehausen, Ole. (2012). Biodiversity and fisheries. Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern). 1 indexed citations

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Harmon, Luke J., Jonathan B. Losos, T. Jonathan Davies, et al.. (2010). EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA. Evolution. 64(8). no–no. 667 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sluijs, Inke van der, et al.. (2008). A test of fitness consequences of hybridization in sibling species of Lake Victoria cichlid fish. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21(2). 480–491. 33 indexed citations

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Parry, Juliet W. L., et al.. (2004). SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY TUNING BY DIFFERENTIAL GENE EXPRESSION IN AFRICAN CICHLIDS. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 45(13). 3633–3633. 1 indexed citations

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