Seán G. Brady

7.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
90 papers, 5.2k citations indexed

About

Seán G. Brady is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Seán G. Brady has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 5.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 55 papers in Genetics and 39 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Seán G. Brady's work include Plant and animal studies (64 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (47 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (19 papers). Seán G. Brady is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (64 papers), Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (47 papers) and Insect and Pesticide Research (19 papers). Seán G. Brady collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and France. Seán G. Brady's co-authors include Ted R. Schultz, Philip S. Ward, Brian L. Fisher, Bryan N. Danforth, Bonnie B. Blaimer, Sedonia D. Sipes, Michael W. Lloyd, John S. LaPolla, Michael G. Branstetter and A. M. Pearson and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Seán G. Brady

88 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

2008 447 citations Ted R. Schultz, Seán G. Brady profile →
The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade ( H ymenoptera: F ormicidae)

2014 334 citations Philip S. Ward, Seán G. Brady et al. Systematic Entomology profile →
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution of Stinging Wasps and the Origins of Ants and Bees

2017 287 citations Michael G. Branstetter, Bryan N. Danforth et al. profile →
Key innovations and the diversification of Hymenoptera

2023 90 citations Bonnie B. Blaimer, Bernardo F. Santos et al. Nature Communications profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Seán G. Brady

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	UCE-based phylogenomics of the lepidopteran endoparasitoid wasp subfamily Rogadinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) unveils a new Neotropical tribe 2024 ·Invertebrate Systematics ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Angélica Maria Penteado‐Dias, (unknown), Seán G. Brady, Donаld L. J. Quicke, Robert R. Kula, Alejandro Zaldívar‐Riverón	1
2	Insights from the first phylogenomic analysis of flat wasps (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) reveal two new subfamilies 2024 ·Cladistics ·Bernardo F. Santos, Wesley D. Colombo, Elizabeth A. Murray, Seán G. Brady, Celso O. Azevedo	0
3	Out of the desert: Paleoclimatic changes drove the diversification of arid-adapted Ocymyrmex ants in southern Africa 2023 ·Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·(unknown), Bonnie B. Blaimer, Johannes J. Le Roux, Simon van Noort, Seán G. Brady, Theresa C. Wossler	2
4	Leveraging museum specimens, genomics and legacy datasets to unravel the phylogeny and biogeography of cryptin wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, Cryptini) 2023 ·Zoologica Scripta ·Bernardo F. Santos, Seán G. Brady	4
5	Phylomitogenomics reveals mito‐nuclear concordance in social wasps: The performance of mitochondrial markers and gene order for hymenopteran systematics 2023 ·Systematic Entomology ·Rodolpho S. T. Menezes, Fernando Barbosa Noll, (unknown), Marcel G. Hermes, Seán G. Brady	5
6	Key innovations and the diversification of Hymenoptera breakdown → 2023 ·Nature Communications ·Bonnie B. Blaimer, Bernardo F. Santos, Astrid Cruaud, Michael W. Gates, Robert R. Kula, István Mikó, Jean–Yves Rasplus, David R. Smith, Elijah J. Talamas, Seán G. Brady, Matthew L. Buffington	90
7	Phylogenetic affinities of the non-cyclostome subfamilies Amicrocentrinae and Dirrhopinae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) confirmed by ultraconserved element data 2023 ·Journal of Hymenoptera Research ·(unknown), Seán G. Brady, Robert R. Kula	0
8	Out of the temperate zone: A phylogenomic test of the biogeographical conservatism hypothesis in a contrarian clade of ants 2022 ·Journal of Biogeography ·Michael G. Branstetter, John T. Longino, Joaquı́n Reyes-López, Seán G. Brady, Ted R. Schultz	16
9	Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the mining bee family Andrenidae 2021 ·Systematic Entomology ·Silas Bossert, Thomas J. Wood, Sébastien Patiny, Denis Michez, Eduardo A. B. Almeida, Robert L. Minckley, Laurence Packer, John L. Neff, Robert S. Copeland, Jakub Straka, Alain Pauly, Terry Griswold, Seán G. Brady, Bryan N. Danforth, Elizabeth A. Murray	51
10	Gene Tree Estimation Error with Ultraconserved Elements: An Empirical Study on Pseudapis Bees 2020 ·Systematic Biology ·Silas Bossert, Elizabeth A. Murray, Alain Pauly, (unknown), Seán G. Brady, Bryan N. Danforth	30
11	Ultra‐Conserved Elements and morphology reciprocally illuminate conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses in Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) 2020 ·Cladistics ·Astrid Cruaud, Gérard Delvare, Sabine Nidelet, Laure Sauné, Sujeevan Ratnasingham, (unknown), Bonnie B. Blaimer, Michael W. Gates, Seán G. Brady, (unknown), Simon van Noort, Jean‐Pierre Rossi, Jean–Yves Rasplus	26
12	Phylogenomics indicates Amazonia as the major source of Neotropical swarm-founding social wasp diversity 2020 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Rodolpho S. T. Menezes, Michael W. Lloyd, Seán G. Brady	23
13	A first phylogenomic hypothesis for Eulophidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) 2020 ·Journal of Natural History ·Jean–Yves Rasplus, Bonnie B. Blaimer, Seán G. Brady, Roger A. Burks, Gérard Delvare, Nicole Fisher, Michael W. Gates, Nathalie Gauthier, Alex Gumovsky, Christer Hansson, John M. Heraty, Lucian Fusu, Sabine Nidelet, Rodrigo Augusto Santinelo Pereira, Laure Sauné, Rosichon Ubaidillah, Astrid Cruaud	14
14	Phylogenomic and Morphological Reevaluation of the Bee Tribes Biastini, Neolarrini, and Townsendiellini (Hymenoptera: Apidae) With Description of Three New Species ofSchwarzia 2020 ·Insect Systematics and Diversity ·Silas Bossert, Robert S. Copeland, (unknown), Michael G. Branstetter, Jéssica P. Gillung, Seán G. Brady, Bryan N. Danforth, (unknown), Jakub Straka	17
15	Genomic architecture of endogenous ichnoviruses reveals distinct evolutionary pathways leading to virus domestication in parasitic wasps 2020 ·BMC Biology ·Fabrice Legeai, Bernardo F. Santos, Stéphanie Robin, Anthony Bretaudeau, Rebecca B. Dikow, Claire Lemaitre, Véronique Jouan, Marc Ravallec, Jean‐Michel Drezen, Denis Tagu, Frédéric Baudat, Gàbor Gyapay, (unknown), Shanlin Liu, Bruce A. Webb, Seán G. Brady, Anne‐Nathalie Volkoff	24
16	Compositional heterogeneity and outgroup choice influence the internal phylogeny of the ants 2019 ·Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ·Marek L. Borowiec, Christian Rabeling, Seán G. Brady, Brian L. Fisher, Ted R. Schultz, Philip S. Ward	78
17	Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants 2017 ·Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Michael G. Branstetter, Ana Ješovnik, Jeffrey Sosa‐Calvo, Michael W. Lloyd, Brant C. Faircloth, Seán G. Brady, Ted R. Schultz	116
18	A non-linear data mining parameter selection algorithm for continuous variables 2017 ·PLoS ONE ·Peyman Tavallali, (unknown), Seán G. Brady	10
19	Greater than X kb: a quantitative assessment of preservation conditions on genomic DNA quality, and a proposed standard for genome-quality DNA 2016 ·PeerJ ·Daniel G. Mulcahy, Kenneth S. Macdonald, Seán G. Brady, Chris Meyer, Katharine Barker, Jonathan A. Coddington	25
20	John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and Homosexuality: A Critical Edition of Sources 2012 ·BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) ·Seán G. Brady	5

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