Simone Immler

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
74 papers, 2.8k citations indexed

About

Simone Immler is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Immler has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 29 papers in Genetics and 21 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Simone Immler's work include Animal Behavior and Reproduction (32 papers), Plant and animal studies (23 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (15 papers). Simone Immler is often cited by papers focused on Animal Behavior and Reproduction (32 papers), Plant and animal studies (23 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (15 papers). Simone Immler collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Spain. Simone Immler's co-authors include T. R. Birkhead, Alexei A. Maklakov, Sara Calhim, Sarah P. Otto, Niclas Kolm, Susanne Zajitschek, Stefan Lüpold, Simon C. Griffith, Alexander Kotrschal and Björn Rogell and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Simone Immler

72 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain

2013 350 citations Simone Immler, Alexei A. Maklakov et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Immler United Kingdom	31	1.8k	961	883	383	348	74	2.8k
Stefan Lüpold Switzerland	30	2.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	645 0.7×	217 0.6×	295 0.8×	74	2.7k
Matthew S. Grober United States	33	1.3k 0.7×	737 0.8×	462 0.5×	398 1.0×	284 0.8×	73	2.5k
John Godwin United States	38	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.5×	670 0.8×	419 1.1×	267 0.8×	79	3.5k
Leonida Fusani Austria	34	2.3k 1.3×	467 0.5×	1.7k 1.9×	192 0.5×	121 0.3×	140	3.8k
Trevor E. Pitcher Canada	31	2.1k 1.2×	924 1.0×	1.2k 1.3×	1.1k 2.9×	207 0.6×	110	3.5k
David Crews United States	28	1.2k 0.7×	760 0.8×	259 0.3×	356 0.9×	373 1.1×	52	2.2k
Rhonda R. Snook United Kingdom	32	2.6k 1.4×	2.0k 2.1×	660 0.7×	247 0.6×	182 0.5×	89	3.5k
Scott Pitnick United States	42	4.8k 2.7×	3.6k 3.8×	906 1.0×	277 0.7×	360 1.0×	83	5.9k
Francisco García–González Australia	28	2.0k 1.1×	1.3k 1.4×	415 0.5×	225 0.6×	108 0.3×	69	2.5k
Steven A. Ramm Germany	24	1.2k 0.7×	751 0.8×	418 0.5×	81 0.2×	255 0.7×	57	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Simone Immler

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Simone Immler

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20 of 20 papers shown

Immler, Simone, et al.. (2025). Selection on the epigenome: small RNA inheritance in animal evolution. Trends in Genetics. 41(9). 804–816. 1 indexed citations

Kiehl, Berrit, et al.. (2025). Environmentally induced variation in sperm sRNAs is linked to gene expression and transposable elements in zebrafish offspring. Heredity. 134(3-4). 234–246.

Forstmeier, Wolfgang, Moritz Hertel, Manuel Irimia, et al.. (2025). The germline-restricted chromosome orchestrates germ cell development in passerine birds. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Sutter, Andreas, et al.. (2024). Heatwave‐Induced Paternal Effects Have Limited Adaptive Benefits in Offspring. Ecology and Evolution. 14(10). e70399–e70399. 2 indexed citations

Murray, David, et al.. (2024). Paternal starvation affects metabolic gene expression during zebrafish offspring development and lifelong fitness. Molecular Ecology. 33(6). e17296–e17296. 4 indexed citations

Scott, Michael & Simone Immler. (2024). One-factor sex determination evolves without linkage between feminizing and masculinizing mutations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 291(2026). 20240693–20240693. 2 indexed citations

Murray, David, et al.. (2023). Fasting increases investment in soma upon refeeding at the cost of gamete quality in zebrafish. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(1996). 20221556–20221556. 2 indexed citations

Solberg, Monica F., Kevin A. Glover, Ramakrishnan Vasudeva, et al.. (2023). Pre-fertilization gamete thermal environment influences reproductive success, unmasking opposing sex-specific responses in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar ). Royal Society Open Science. 10(12). 231427–231427. 5 indexed citations

Yethiraj, Anand, et al.. (2022). Frequency-dependent viscosity of salmon ovarian fluid has biophysical implications for sperm–egg interactions. Journal of Experimental Biology. 226(1). 6 indexed citations

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Sales, Kris, et al.. (2022). Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the developmental theory of ageing. Evolution. 76(12). 2829–2845. 3 indexed citations

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Oosterhout, Cock van, et al.. (2022). Accounting for the genetic load in assisted reproductive technology. Clinical and Translational Medicine. 12(5). e864–e864. 6 indexed citations

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Otto, Sarah P., et al.. (2021). Evolution of plasticity in production and transgenerational inheritance of small RNAs under dynamic environmental conditions. PLoS Genetics. 17(5). e1009581–e1009581. 8 indexed citations

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Hotzy, Cosima, Emily K. Fowler, Berrit Kiehl, et al.. (2021). Evolutionary history of sexual selection affects microRNA profiles in Drosophila sperm. Evolution. 76(2). 310–319. 6 indexed citations

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Sales, Kris, et al.. (2021). Transgenerational fitness effects of lifespan extension by dietary restriction in Caenorhabditis elegans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1950). 20210701–20210701. 16 indexed citations

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Chen, Hwei‐yen, et al.. (2020). Trade-off between somatic and germline repair in a vertebrate supports the expensive germ line hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(16). 8973–8979. 30 indexed citations

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Hotzy, Cosima, et al.. (2020). Intrinsic post‐ejaculation sperm ageing does not affect offspring fitness in Atlantic salmon. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 33(5). 576–583. 2 indexed citations

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Maklakov, Alexei A., et al.. (2019). Selection for longer lived sperm within ejaculate reduces reproductive ageing in offspring. Evolution Letters. 3(2). 198–206. 15 indexed citations

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Maklakov, Alexei A., et al.. (2017). Antagonistically pleiotropic allele increases lifespan and late-life reproduction at the cost of early-life reproduction and individual fitness. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 284(1856). 20170376–20170376. 26 indexed citations

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Maklakov, Alexei A., Simone Immler, Alejandro González‐Voyer, Johanna Rönn, & Niclas Kolm. (2011). Brains and the city: big-brained passerine birds succeed in urban environments. Biology Letters. 7(5). 730–732. 127 indexed citations

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Immler, Simone, Scott Pitnick, George A. Parker, et al.. (2011). Resolving variation in the reproductive tradeoff between sperm size and number. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(13). 5325–5330. 144 indexed citations

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