Remko Leys

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Remko Leys is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Remko Leys has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 12 papers in Genetics and 9 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Remko Leys's work include Plant and animal studies (14 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (10 papers) and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (9 papers). Remko Leys is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (14 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (10 papers) and Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy (9 papers). Remko Leys collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Netherlands and Canada. Remko Leys's co-authors include Steven J. Cooper, C. H. S. Watts, William F. Humphreys, J. Scott Keogh, Katja Hogendoorn, J. M. Bowler, Leo Joseph, David K. Yeates, Stephen C. Donnellan and K.‐H. Wyrwoll and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Journal of Virology and Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Remko Leys

30 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota

2008 580 citations Margaret Byrne, David K. Yeates et al. Molecular Ecology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Remko Leys Australia	19	898	781	658	610	414	31	2.2k
Pedro Oromı́ Spain	31	1.2k 1.3×	1.2k 1.5×	725 1.1×	811 1.3×	335 0.8×	96	2.7k
Brenden S. Holland United States	20	618 0.7×	775 1.0×	290 0.4×	1.0k 1.7×	471 1.1×	43	2.2k
Valerio Sbordoni Italy	31	945 1.1×	1.3k 1.6×	445 0.7×	731 1.2×	202 0.5×	128	2.5k
Francis G. Howarth United States	25	685 0.8×	385 0.5×	706 1.1×	765 1.3×	753 1.8×	53	2.4k
Anders N. Nilsson Sweden	25	1.3k 1.5×	819 1.0×	316 0.5×	939 1.5×	523 1.3×	100	2.2k
C. H. S. Watts Australia	25	814 0.9×	507 0.6×	753 1.1×	1.1k 1.8×	164 0.4×	107	2.1k
Jérôme Murienne France	28	940 1.0×	574 0.7×	563 0.9×	898 1.5×	191 0.5×	83	2.6k
Benoı̂t Dayrat United States	17	736 0.8×	596 0.8×	220 0.3×	996 1.6×	551 1.3×	45	2.5k
Somsak Panha Thailand	22	709 0.8×	430 0.6×	411 0.6×	825 1.4×	740 1.8×	180	1.9k
Carles Ribera Spain	24	691 0.8×	1000 1.3×	518 0.8×	892 1.5×	151 0.4×	82	2.5k

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Rehan, Sandra M., Remko Leys, & Michael P. Schwarz. (2013). First Evidence for a Massive Extinction Event Affecting Bees Close to the K-T Boundary. PLoS ONE. 8(10). e76683–e76683. 23 indexed citations

Rehan, Sandra M., Remko Leys, & Michael P. Schwarz. (2012). A Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Sociality in Xylocopine Bees with Only Two Origins of True Worker Castes Indicates Severe Barriers to Eusociality. PLoS ONE. 7(4). e34690–e34690. 60 indexed citations

Guzik, Michelle T., Andrew D. Austin, Steven J. Cooper, et al.. (2011). Is the Australian subterranean fauna uniquely diverse?. Invertebrate Systematics. 24(5). 407–418. 89 indexed citations

Byrne, Margaret, David K. Yeates, Leo Joseph, et al.. (2008). Birth of a biome: insights into the assembly and maintenance of the Australian arid zone biota. Molecular Ecology. 17(20). 4398–4417. 580 indexed citations breakdown →

Sanders, Kate L., et al.. (2008). Molecular phylogeny and divergence dates for Australasian elapids and sea snakes (hydrophiinae): evidence from seven genes for rapid evolutionary radiations. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 21(3). 682–695. 137 indexed citations

Leys, Remko & C. H. S. Watts. (2008). Systematics and evolution of the Australian subterranean hydroporine diving beetles (Dytiscidae), with notes on Carabhydrus. Invertebrate Systematics. 22(2). 217–225. 52 indexed citations

Leys, Remko & Katja Hogendoorn. (2008). Correlated evolution of mating behaviour and morphology in large carpenter bees (Xylocopa). Apidologie. 39(1). 119–132. 18 indexed citations

Cooper, Steven J., John Bradbury, Kathleen M. Saint, et al.. (2007). Subterranean archipelago in the Australian arid zone: mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of amphipods from central Western Australia. Molecular Ecology. 16(7). 1533–1544. 95 indexed citations

Watts, C. H. S., Peter Hancock, & Remko Leys. (2007). A stygobitic Carabhydrus Watts (Dytiscidae, Coleoptera) from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology. 46(1). 56–59. 16 indexed citations

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Bromham, Lindell & Remko Leys. (2005). Sociality and the Rate of Molecular Evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22(6). 1393–1402. 58 indexed citations

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Leys, Remko, Steven J. Cooper, Ulrike Strecker, & Horst Wilkens. (2005). Regressive evolution of an eye pigment gene in independently evolved eyeless subterranean diving beetles. Biology Letters. 1(4). 496–499. 43 indexed citations

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Leys, Remko, C. H. S. Watts, Steven J. Cooper, & William F. Humphreys. (2003). EVOLUTION OF SUBTERRANEAN DIVING BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE HYDROPORINI, BIDESSINI) IN THE ARID ZONE OF AUSTRALIA. Evolution. 57(12). 2819–2834. 201 indexed citations

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Leys, Remko, C. H. S. Watts, Steven J. Cooper, & William F. Humphreys. (2003). EVOLUTION OF SUBTERRANEAN DIVING BEETLES (COLEOPTERA: DYTISCIDAE: HYDROPORINI, BIDESSINI) IN THE ARID ZONE OF AUSTRALIA. Evolution. 57(12). 2819–2819. 52 indexed citations

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Cooper, Steven J., et al.. (2002). Islands under the desert: molecular systematics and evolutionary origins of stygobitic water beetles (Coleoptera : Dytiscidae) from central Western Australia. Invertebrate taxonomy. 16(4). 589–590. 105 indexed citations

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Leys, Remko. (2000). A revision of the Australian carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa Latreille, subgenera Koptortosoma Gribodo and Lestis Lepeletier & Serville (Hymenoptera : Apidae). Invertebrate taxonomy. 14(1). 115–136. 18 indexed citations

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Leys, Remko, et al.. (2000). Molecular Phylogeny of the Large Carpenter Bees, Genus Xylocopa (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Based on Mitochondrial DNA Sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 17(3). 407–418. 41 indexed citations

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Leys, Remko. (2000). Mate locating strategies of the green carpenter bees Xylocopa (Lestis) aeratus and X. (L.) bombylans. Journal of Zoology. 252(4). 453–462. 17 indexed citations

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Hogendoorn, Katja & Remko Leys. (1997). Life-cycle of Halictus rubicundus christ (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) in the Netherlands: comparison of two populations. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society. 70(4). 347–352. 17 indexed citations

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Hogendoorn, Katja & Remko Leys. (1993). The superseded female's dilemma: ultimate and proximate factors that influence guarding behaviour of the carpenter bee Xylocopa pubescens. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 33(6). 42 indexed citations

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Leys, Remko. (1978). On the biology of Andrena ferox Smith (Hymenoptera, Aculeata: Andrenidae). Entomologische berichten. 38(4). 58–60. 1 indexed citations

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