Roger K. Butlin

27.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
324 papers, 15.7k citations indexed

About

Roger K. Butlin is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Roger K. Butlin has authored 324 papers receiving a total of 15.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Genetics, 158 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 78 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Roger K. Butlin's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (122 papers), Plant and animal studies (101 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (56 papers). Roger K. Butlin is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (122 papers), Plant and animal studies (101 papers) and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies (56 papers). Roger K. Butlin collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and United States. Roger K. Butlin's co-authors include Carole M. Smadja, Tom Tregenza, J. Grahame, Anja M. Westram, Kerstin Johannesson, Juan Galindo, G. M. Hewitt, Ralph E. Harbach, Tami M. Panhuis and Marlene Zuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Roger K. Butlin

317 papers receiving 15.3k citations

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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.

Sexual selection and speciation

2001 724 citations Roger K. Butlin et al. profile →
Taxon‐specific PCR for DNA barcoding arthropod prey in bat faeces

2010 438 citations Roger K. Butlin et al. Molecular Ecology Resources profile →
Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites

2016 367 citations Roger K. Butlin et al. profile →
Interpreting the genomic landscape of speciation: a road map for finding barriers to gene flow

2017 335 citations Rui Faria, Roger K. Butlin et al. Journal of Evolutionary Biology profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	The Genetics of Host Plant Acceptance in Pea Aphids 2025 ·Molecular Ecology ·Isobel Eyres, (unknown), (unknown), Jean Peccoud, Julia Ferrari, Roger K. Butlin, Carole M. Smadja	0
2	A metabarcoding analysis of the wrackbed microbiome indicates a phylogeographic break along the North Sea–Baltic Sea transition zone 2023 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Emma L. Berdan, Fabian Roger, Maren Wellenreuther, (unknown), Gunnar Cervin, Ricardo T. Pereyra, Mats Töpel, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger K. Butlin, Carl André	3
3	Integrating Pool‐seq uncertainties into demographic inference 2023 ·Molecular Ecology Resources ·(unknown), Hernán E. Morales, Rui Faria, Roger K. Butlin, Vítor C. Sousa	2
4	Whole-genome phylogeography of the intertidal snail Littorina saxatilis 2023 ·SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository ·Sean Stankowski, (unknown), Juan Galindo, (unknown), Rui Faria, Natalia Mikhailova, April M. H. Blakeslee, Einar Árnason, Thomas Broquet, Hernán E. Morales, J. Grahame, Anja M. Westram, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger K. Butlin	3
5	Genome‐enabled discovery of candidate virulence loci in Striga hermonthica, a devastating parasite of African cereal crops 2022 ·New Phytologist ·Suo Qiu, (unknown), (unknown), Roy R. Chaudhuri, Mark Blaxter, Roger K. Butlin, Julie D. Scholes	15
6	Experimental evolution of local adaptation under unidimensional and multidimensional selection 2022 ·Current Biology ·(unknown), Andrew P. Beckerman, Rhonda R. Snook, Michael A. Brockhurst, Roger K. Butlin, Isobel Eyres	13
7	Genetic variation for adaptive traits is associated with polymorphic inversions inLittorina saxatilis 2021 ·Evolution Letters ·Eva L. Koch, Hernán E. Morales, (unknown), Anja M. Westram, Rui Faria, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger K. Butlin	51
8	Deleterious mutation accumulation and the long-term fate of chromosomal inversions 2021 ·PLoS Genetics ·Emma L. Berdan, Alexandre Blanckaert, Roger K. Butlin, Claudia Bank	68
9	Secondary contact zones of closely‐related Erebia butterflies overlap with narrow phenotypic and parasitic clines 2020 ·Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·Kay Lucek, Roger K. Butlin, Theofania Patsiou	20
10	Hybridization patterns between two marine snails, Littorina fabalis and L. obtusata 2020 ·Ecology and Evolution ·(unknown), Graciela Sotelo, Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou, (unknown), Roger K. Butlin, Johan Hollander, Rui Faria	14
11	Assortative mating, sexual selection, and their consequences for gene flow in Littorina 2020 ·Evolution ·(unknown), Marina Rafajlović, Anja M. Westram, Kerstin Johannesson, Roger K. Butlin	20
12	Ecological speciation in sympatric palms: 3. Genetic map reveals genomic islands underlying species divergence in Howea 2019 ·Evolution ·Alexander S. T. Papadopulos, Javier Igea, Luke T. Dunning, Owen G. Osborne, (unknown), Jaume Pellicer, Colin Turnbull, Ian Hutton, William J. Baker, Roger K. Butlin, Vincent Savolainen	14
13	Ecological speciation in sympatric palms: 4. Demographic analyses support speciation of Howea in the face of high gene flow 2019 ·Evolution ·Alexander S. T. Papadopulos, Javier Igea, Tom Smith, Ian Hutton, William J. Baker, Roger K. Butlin, Vincent Savolainen	15
14	Genomic architecture of parallel ecological divergence: Beyond a single environmental contrast 2019 ·Science Advances ·Hernán E. Morales, Rui Faria, Kerstin Johannesson, Tomas Larsson, Marina Panova, Anja M. Westram, Roger K. Butlin	77
15	Is embryo abortion a post‐zygotic barrier to gene flow between Littorina ecotypes? 2019 ·Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·Kerstin Johannesson, (unknown), Rui Faria, Anja M. Westram, Roger K. Butlin	13
16	Conflict between heterozygote advantage and hybrid incompatibility in haplodiploids (and sex chromosomes) 2018 ·Molecular Ecology ·(unknown), Alexandre Blanckaert, Roger K. Butlin, Jonna Kulmuni, Claudia Bank	5
17	Tissue Culture as a Source of Replicates in Nonmodel Plants: Variation in Cold Response in Arabidopsis lyrata ssp. petraea 2016 ·G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·Tanaka Kenta, (unknown), Roger K. Butlin, Terry Burke, W. Paul Quick, Peter E. Urwin, Matthew P. Davey	1
18	Ecological speciation in sympatric palms: 1. Gene expression, selection and pleiotropy 2016 ·Journal of Evolutionary Biology ·Luke T. Dunning, Helen Hipperson, William J. Baker, Roger K. Butlin, Céline Devaux, I. Hutton, Javier Igea, Alexander S. T. Papadopulos, (unknown), Carole M. Smadja, Colin Turnbull, Vincent Savolainen	26
19	Understanding and confronting\nspecies uncertainty in biology and\nconservation 2003 ·Insecta mundi ·Jody Hey, Robin S. Waples, Michael L. Arnold, Roger K. Butlin, R. G. Harrison	252
20	Molecular identification of mosquito species 1999 ·Biological Journal of the Linnean Society ·Catherine Walton, R. G. Sharpe, (unknown), (unknown), Roger K. Butlin	53

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