Sara Guirao‐Rico

8.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Sara Guirao‐Rico is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Genetics and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Guirao‐Rico has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Sara Guirao‐Rico's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers). Sara Guirao‐Rico is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (11 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (5 papers). Sara Guirao‐Rico collaborates with scholars based in Spain, France and United Kingdom. Sara Guirao‐Rico's co-authors include Alejandro Sánchez‐Gracia, Julio Rozas, Sebastián E. Ramos‐Onsins, Pablo Librado, Josefa González, Montserrat Aguadé, Deborah Charlesworth, Laura Aguilera, Véronique Jamilloux and Hadi Quesneville and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Sara Guirao‐Rico

20 papers receiving 4.9k citations

Hit Papers

1 papers align trajectories

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.

DnaSP 6: DNA Sequence Polymorphism Analysis of Large Data Sets

2017 4.7k citations Julio Rozas, Sara Guirao‐Rico et al. Molecular Biology and Evolution profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Guirao‐Rico Spain	12	2.1k	1.6k	1.2k	1.1k	1.0k	21	5.0k
Alejandro Sánchez‐Gracia Spain	17	2.3k 1.1×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	39	5.8k
Diep Thi Hoang Vietnam	6	2.4k 1.2×	1.4k 0.9×	1.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	1.7k 1.6×	11	6.4k
Lê Sỹ Vinh Vietnam	15	2.9k 1.4×	1.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	1.7k 1.7×	53	7.1k
Laura Kubatko United States	27	2.4k 1.2×	2.7k 1.6×	1.0k 0.8×	747 0.7×	1.2k 1.2×	64	4.8k
Jessica Leigh Canada	12	1.8k 0.9×	2.1k 1.3×	810 0.7×	2.1k 2.0×	1.1k 1.0×	14	5.7k
Matthias Bernt Germany	15	3.3k 1.6×	1.6k 1.0×	653 0.5×	1.7k 1.6×	1.1k 1.1×	45	5.1k
Diego Darriba Germany	10	3.2k 1.6×	1.2k 0.7×	1.8k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	1.0k 1.0×	16	6.6k
Gerard Talavera Spain	26	2.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.3×	1.3k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	2.2k 2.1×	61	6.4k
Arnaud Couloux France	52	2.7k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	2.1k 2.0×	1.3k 1.2×	146	7.6k
Ivan Jakovlić China	23	2.0k 1.0×	732 0.4×	873 0.7×	1000 0.9×	867 0.8×	73	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Guirao‐Rico

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Guirao‐Rico

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Macías‐Hernández, Nuria, Miquel A. Arnedo, Pablo Librado, et al.. (2025). How Did Evolution Halve Genome Size During an Oceanic Island Colonization?. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(9).

Guirao‐Rico, Sara, et al.. (2024). Population Genomics of Adaptive Radiations: Exceptionally High Levels of Genetic Diversity and Recombination in an Endemic Spider From the Canary Islands. Molecular Ecology. 33(22). e17547–e17547. 1 indexed citations

Horváth, Vivien, Sara Guirao‐Rico, Judit Salces-Ortiz, et al.. (2023). Gene expression differences consistent with water loss reduction underlie desiccation tolerance of natural Drosophila populations. BMC Biology. 21(1). 35–35. 8 indexed citations

Rech, Gabriel E., Sara Guirao‐Rico, Laura Aguilera, et al.. (2022). Population-scale long-read sequencing uncovers transposable elements associated with gene expression variation and adaptive signatures in Drosophila. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1948–1948. 66 indexed citations

Guirao‐Rico, Sara & Josefa González. (2021). Benchmarking the performance of Pool‐seq SNP callers using simulated and real sequencing data. Molecular Ecology Resources. 21(4). 1216–1229. 13 indexed citations

Bogaerts-Márquez, María, Sara Guirao‐Rico, Mathieu Gautier, & Josefa González. (2020). Temperature, rainfall and wind variables underlie environmental adaptation in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Ecology. 30(4). 938–954. 16 indexed citations

Lerat, Emmanuelle, Clément Goubert, Sara Guirao‐Rico, et al.. (2018). Population‐specific dynamics and selection patterns of transposable element insertions in European natural populations. Molecular Ecology. 28(6). 1506–1522. 32 indexed citations

Guirao‐Rico, Sara & Josefa González. (2018). Evolutionary insights from large scale resequencing datasets in Drosophila melanogaster. Current Opinion in Insect Science. 31. 70–76. 5 indexed citations

Rozas, Julio, et al.. (2017). DnaSP 6: DNA Sequence Polymorphism Analysis of Large Data Sets. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 34(12). 3299–3302. 4702 indexed citations breakdown →

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Sánchez‐Gracia, Alejandro, et al.. (2017). Computational prediction of the phenotypic effects of genetic variants: basic concepts and some application examples inDrosophilanervous system genes. Journal of Neurogenetics. 31(4). 307–319. 1 indexed citations

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Guirao‐Rico, Sara, Óscar Ramírez, Ana Ojeda, Marcel Amills, & Sebastián E. Ramos‐Onsins. (2017). Porcine Y-chromosome variation is consistent with the occurrence of paternal gene flow from non-Asian to Asian populations. Heredity. 120(1). 63–76. 10 indexed citations

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Frías-López, Cristina, et al.. (2016). DOMINO: development of informative molecular markers for phylogenetic and genome-wide population genetic studies in non-model organisms. Bioinformatics. 32(24). 3753–3759. 10 indexed citations

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Guirao‐Rico, Sara, Alejandro Sánchez‐Gracia, & Deborah Charlesworth. (2016). Sequence diversity patterns suggesting balancing selection in partially sex‐linked genes of the plant Silene latifolia are not generated by demographic history or gene flow. Molecular Ecology. 26(5). 1357–1370. 13 indexed citations

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Campos, José Luis, Suo Qiu, Sara Guirao‐Rico, Roberta Bergero, & Deborah Charlesworth. (2016). Recombination changes at the boundaries of fully and partially sex-linked regions between closely related Silene species pairs. Heredity. 118(4). 395–403. 11 indexed citations

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Frías-López, Cristina, Francisca C. Almeida, Sara Guirao‐Rico, et al.. (2015). Comparative analysis of tissue-specific transcriptomes in the funnel-web spiderMacrothele calpeiana(Araneae, Hexathelidae). PeerJ. 3. e1064–e1064. 12 indexed citations

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Qiu, Suo, Roberta Bergero, Sara Guirao‐Rico, et al.. (2015). RAD mapping reveals an evolving, polymorphic and fuzzy boundary of a plant pseudoautosomal region. Molecular Ecology. 25(1). 414–430. 30 indexed citations

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Guirao‐Rico, Sara & Montserrat Aguadé. (2013). Patterns of Nucleotide Diversity at the Regions Encompassing the Drosophila Insulin-Like Peptide (dilp) Genes: Demography vs. Positive Selection in Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e53593–e53593. 1 indexed citations

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Alvarez‐Ponce, David, Sara Guirao‐Rico, Dorcas J. Orengo, et al.. (2011). Molecular Population Genetics of the Insulin/TOR Signal Transduction Pathway: A Network-Level Analysis in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(1). 123–132. 16 indexed citations

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Guirao‐Rico, Sara & Montserrat Aguadé. (2010). Molecular Evolution of the Ligands of the Insulin-Signaling Pathway: dilp Genes in the Genus Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28(5). 1557–1560. 5 indexed citations

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Guirao‐Rico, Sara & Montserrat Aguadé. (2009). Positive Selection Has Driven the Evolution of the Drosophila Insulin-Like Receptor (InR) at Different Timescales. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26(8). 1723–1732. 13 indexed citations

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