Peter Beerli

14.3k total citations · 8 hit papers
65 papers, 10.5k citations indexed

About

Peter Beerli is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Beerli has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 10.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Genetics, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Peter Beerli's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (14 papers). Peter Beerli is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (33 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (15 papers) and Amphibian and Reptile Biology (14 papers). Peter Beerli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Peter Beerli's co-authors include Joseph Felsenstein, Scott V. Edwards, Christopher E. Hill, Sacha Vignieri, Jonathan M. Hoekstra, David Berrigan, Hopi E. Hoekstra, Joel G. Kingsolver, Patricia Gibert and Robb T. Brumfield and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Bioinformatics.

In The Last Decade

Peter Beerli

62 papers receiving 10.2k 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.

The Strength of Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations

2001 1.5k citations Joel G. Kingsolver, Hopi E. Hoekstra et al. The American Naturalist profile →
Maximum likelihood estimation of a migration matrix and effective population sizes innsubpopulations by using a coalescent approach

2001 1.5k citations Peter Beerli et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Maximum-Likelihood Estimation of Migration Rates and Effective Population Numbers in Two Populations Using a Coalescent Approach

1999 854 citations Peter Beerli et al. profile →
PERSPECTIVE: GENE DIVERGENCE, POPULATION DIVERGENCE, AND THE VARIANCE IN COALESCENCE TIME IN PHYLOGEOGRAPHIC STUDIES

2000 768 citations Peter Beerli et al. profile →
Comparison of Bayesian and maximum-likelihood inference of population genetic parameters

2005 712 citations Peter Beerli profile →
Unified Framework to Evaluate Panmixia and Migration Direction Among Multiple Sampling Locations

2010 546 citations Peter Beerli et al. profile →
Estimating Divergence Times from Molecular Data on Phylogenetic and Population Genetic Timescales

2002 514 citations Scott V. Edwards, Peter Beerli et al. profile →
BEAGLE: An Application Programming Interface and High-Performance Computing Library for Statistical Phylogenetics

2011 461 citations Peter Beerli et al. Systematic Biology profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter Beerli	6.2k	3.2k	2.9k	2.3k	1.9k	65	10.5k
Mark Clement	4.9k 0.8×	3.6k 1.1×	2.7k 0.9×	2.6k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	89	10.2k
Paul Sunnucks	5.3k 0.8×	4.4k 1.4×	3.7k 1.3×	2.2k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	194	11.3k
Bryan C. Carstens	4.6k 0.7×	2.2k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	2.7k 1.2×	1.5k 0.8×	118	8.2k
Joseph Heled	3.9k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	2.9k 1.3×	1.3k 0.7×	14	8.6k
Rosemary G. Gillespie	4.4k 0.7×	2.8k 0.9×	4.4k 1.5×	1.6k 0.7×	2.1k 1.1×	189	9.8k
Michael W. Bruford	7.7k 1.2×	5.9k 1.8×	3.7k 1.2×	2.3k 1.0×	1.8k 0.9×	300	14.1k
Brett Calcott	3.3k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	4.0k 1.4×	3.0k 1.3×	1.4k 0.7×	21	9.9k
Patrick Forster	5.4k 0.9×	3.0k 0.9×	1.7k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	1.2k 0.6×	20	9.5k
Oscar E. Gaggiotti	6.7k 1.1×	3.8k 1.2×	1.8k 0.6×	1.9k 0.8×	2.6k 1.3×	86	10.4k
Roger K. Butlin	8.0k 1.3×	4.0k 1.2×	7.2k 2.4×	2.2k 1.0×	2.5k 1.3×	324	15.7k

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Edwards, Scott V., et al.. (2025). Estimating Genome-Wide Phylogenies Using Probabilistic Topic Modeling. Systematic Biology. 74(5). 850–861.

Devitt, Thomas J., et al.. (2023). Population Subdivision in the Gopher Frog (Rana capito) across the Fragmented Longleaf Pine-Wiregrass Savanna of the Southeastern USA. Diversity. 15(1). 93–93. 2 indexed citations

Ospina, Oscar E., et al.. (2023). The population genetics of speciation by cascade reinforcement. Ecology and Evolution. 13(2). e9773–e9773. 2 indexed citations

Beerli, Peter, et al.. (2022). Population divergence time estimation using individual lineage label switching. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 12(4). 4 indexed citations

Beerli, Peter, et al.. (2022). Genetic diversity and population structure of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in the Peruvian jungle. PLoS neglected tropical diseases. 16(5). e0010374–e0010374. 3 indexed citations

Mashayekhi, Somayeh & Peter Beerli. (2019). Fractional coalescent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(13). 6244–6249. 26 indexed citations

Bradić, Martina, et al.. (2012). Gene flow and population structure in the Mexican blind cavefish complex (Astyanax mexicanus). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 12(1). 9–9. 135 indexed citations

Hotz, Hansjürg, Peter Beerli, Thomas Uzzell, et al.. (2012). Balancing a Cline by Influx of Migrants: A Genetic Transition in Water Frogs of Eastern Greece. Journal of Heredity. 104(1). 57–71. 15 indexed citations

Kitchen, Andrew, et al.. (2012). A possible explanation for the population size discrepancy in tuna (genus Thunnus) estimated from mitochondrial DNA and microsatellite data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66(2). 463–468. 12 indexed citations

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Akın, Çiğdem, C. Can Bilgin, Peter Beerli, et al.. (2010). Phylogeographic patterns of genetic diversity in eastern Mediterranean water frogs were determined by geological processes and climate change in the Late Cenozoic. Journal of Biogeography. 37(11). 2111–2124. 115 indexed citations

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Bedford, Trevor, Sarah Cobey, Peter Beerli, & Mercedes Pascual. (2010). Global Migration Dynamics Underlie Evolution and Persistence of Human Influenza A (H3N2). PLoS Pathogens. 6(5). e1000918–e1000918. 127 indexed citations

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González, Elena, Peter Beerli, & Rafael Zardoya. (2008). Genetic structuring and migration patterns of Atlantic bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus (Lowe, 1839). BMC Evolutionary Biology. 8(1). 252–252. 60 indexed citations

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Douhan, Greg W., et al.. (2008). Multigene analysis suggests ecological speciation in the fungal pathogen Claviceps purpurea. Molecular Ecology. 17(9). 2276–2286. 41 indexed citations

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Mu, Jianbing, Deirdre A. Joy, Junhui Duan, et al.. (2005). Host Switch Leads to Emergence of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Humans. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(8). 1686–1693. 155 indexed citations

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Beerli, Peter. (2004). Effect of unsampled populations on the estimation of population sizes and migration rates between sampled populations. Molecular Ecology. 13(4). 827–836. 240 indexed citations

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Kingsolver, Joel G., Hopi E. Hoekstra, Jonathan M. Hoekstra, et al.. (2001). The Strength of Phenotypic Selection in Natural Populations. The American Naturalist. 157(3). 245–261. 1517 indexed citations breakdown →

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Semlitsch, Raymond D., et al.. (1996). Genetic compatibility between sexual and clonal genomes in local populations of the hybridogeneticRana esculenta complex. Evolutionary Ecology. 10(5). 531–543. 34 indexed citations

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Hotz, H., et al.. (1994). Clonal diversity and hybrid frequency are not correlated in water frogs. Is the frozen niche variation model wrong. 39. 6 indexed citations

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Hotz, H., et al.. (1994). Spontaneous heterosis in larval life-history traits of hemiclonal water frog hybrids. 39. 5 indexed citations

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Hotz, H., Peter Beerli, & Christina Spolsky. (1992). Mitochondrial DNA reveals formation of nonhybrid frogs by natural matings between hemiclonal hybrids.. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 9(4). 610–20. 49 indexed citations

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