Rob W. Ness

3.2k total citations
49 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Rob W. Ness is a scholar working on Genetics, Molecular Biology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rob W. Ness has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Genetics, 25 papers in Molecular Biology and 15 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Rob W. Ness's work include Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (19 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers). Rob W. Ness is often cited by papers focused on Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (19 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (10 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (10 papers). Rob W. Ness collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and United States. Rob W. Ness's co-authors include Peter D. Keightley, Spencer C. H. Barrett, Stephen Wright, Daniel L. Halligan, Nick Colegrave, Alex D. Twyford, Penelope R. Haddrill, Andrew D. Morgan, Mathieu Siol and John Paul Foxe and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Rob W. Ness

45 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rob W. Ness Canada 23 988 885 627 551 221 49 1.8k
Erik B. Dopman United States 20 922 0.9× 759 0.9× 484 0.8× 434 0.8× 259 1.2× 37 1.7k
Nicholas Stiffler United States 8 888 0.9× 621 0.7× 197 0.3× 296 0.5× 247 1.1× 9 1.4k
Takahiro Yonezawa Japan 21 458 0.5× 565 0.6× 285 0.5× 275 0.5× 420 1.9× 68 1.4k
Jeffery P. Demuth United States 11 551 0.6× 1.0k 1.2× 284 0.5× 598 1.1× 248 1.1× 11 1.8k
Tina T. Hu United States 13 1.3k 1.3× 1.2k 1.3× 370 0.6× 1.5k 2.7× 96 0.4× 13 2.6k
Alison E. Wright United Kingdom 23 1.4k 1.4× 535 0.6× 614 1.0× 584 1.1× 196 0.9× 36 1.8k
Tim Connallon Australia 28 1.5k 1.5× 456 0.5× 1.1k 1.7× 251 0.5× 302 1.4× 73 2.2k
Colin D. Meiklejohn United States 23 1.6k 1.6× 1.2k 1.4× 559 0.9× 422 0.8× 292 1.3× 26 2.5k
Marc Crepeau United States 19 519 0.5× 720 0.8× 142 0.2× 542 1.0× 215 1.0× 31 1.4k
Jelmer W. Poelstra United States 17 843 0.9× 507 0.6× 395 0.6× 190 0.3× 382 1.7× 37 1.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Rob W. Ness

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Santangelo, James S., Marc T. J. Johnson, & Rob W. Ness. (2025). Signatures of selective sweeps in urban and rural white clover populations. Evolution. 79(10). 2115–2132.
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Ness, Rob W., et al.. (2024). The Evolution of Gene Expression Plasticity During Adaptation to Salt in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(11).
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Johnson, Marc T. J., Francesco Marchetti, Jason Munshi‐South, et al.. (2024). Effects of urban-induced mutations on ecology, evolution and health. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 8(6). 1074–1086. 9 indexed citations
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Ness, Rob W., et al.. (2024). A chromosome level reference genome of Diviner’s sage (Salvia divinorum) provides insight into salvinorin A biosynthesis. BMC Plant Biology. 24(1). 914–914. 4 indexed citations
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Santangelo, James S., Paul Battlay, Kenneth M. Olsen, et al.. (2023). Haplotype-Resolved, Chromosome-Level Assembly of White Clover (Trifolium repens L., Fabaceae). Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(8). 9 indexed citations
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Ness, Rob W., et al.. (2022). How Sequence Context-Dependent Mutability Drives Mutation Rate Variation in the Genome. Genome Biology and Evolution. 14(3). 13 indexed citations
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Craig, Rory J., et al.. (2021). Comparative genomics of Chlamydomonas. The Plant Cell. 33(4). 1016–1041. 46 indexed citations
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López‐Cortegano, Eugenio, Rory J. Craig, Toby Samuels, et al.. (2021). De Novo Mutation Rate Variation and Its Determinants inChlamydomonas. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 38(9). 3709–3723. 17 indexed citations
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Ness, Rob W., et al.. (2020). Recombination Rate Variation and Infrequent Sex Influence Genetic Diversity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(4). 370–380. 13 indexed citations
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Ness, Rob W., et al.. (2019). Consequences of recombination for the evolution of the mating type locus in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. New Phytologist. 224(3). 1339–1348. 7 indexed citations
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Kraemer, Susanne A., Toby Samuels, Deirdre McClean, et al.. (2019). Inferring the distribution of fitness effects of spontaneous mutations in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. PLoS Biology. 17(6). e3000192–e3000192. 34 indexed citations
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Craig, Rory J., Kazuharu Arakawa, Takashi Nakada, et al.. (2019). Patterns of population structure and complex haplotype sharing among field isolates of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Molecular Ecology. 28(17). 3977–3993. 17 indexed citations
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Santangelo, James S., Marc T. J. Johnson, & Rob W. Ness. (2018). Modern spandrels: the roles of genetic drift, gene flow and natural selection in the evolution of parallel clines. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1878). 20180230–20180230. 25 indexed citations
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Expósito‐Alonso, Moisés, Claude Becker, Verena J. Schuenemann, et al.. (2018). The rate and potential relevance of new mutations in a colonizing plant lineage. PLoS Genetics. 14(2). e1007155–e1007155. 91 indexed citations
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Booker, Tom R., Rob W. Ness, & Peter D. Keightley. (2017). The Recombination Landscape in Wild House Mice Inferred Using Population Genomic Data. Genetics. 207(1). 297–309. 22 indexed citations
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Vanderwolf, Karen J., Vikram Misra, Craig K. R. Willis, et al.. (2017). Fungus Causing White-Nose Syndrome in Bats Accumulates Genetic Variability in North America with No Sign of Recombination. mSphere. 2(4). 17 indexed citations
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Ness, Rob W., Mathieu Siol, & Spencer C. H. Barrett. (2011). De novo sequence assembly and characterization of the floral transcriptome in cross- and self-fertilizing plants. BMC Genomics. 12(1). 298–298. 87 indexed citations

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