Sören Nylin

12.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
140 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Sören Nylin is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Sören Nylin has authored 140 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 118 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 74 papers in Genetics and 46 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Sören Nylin's work include Plant and animal studies (91 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (48 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (44 papers). Sören Nylin is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (91 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (48 papers) and Animal Behavior and Reproduction (44 papers). Sören Nylin collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Finland. Sören Nylin's co-authors include Karl Gotthard, Niklas Janz, Christer Wiklund, Niklas Wahlberg, Toomas Tammaru, Andrew V. Z. Brower, Toomas Esperk, Per‐Olof Wickman, Carlos Peña and Christopher W. Wheat and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Trends in Ecology & Evolution.

In The Last Decade

Sören Nylin

139 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

Plasticity in Life-History Traits

1998 801 citations Sören Nylin, Karl Gotthard profile →
Climate-induced phenology shifts linked to range expansions in species with multiple reproductive cycles per year

2019 334 citations Karl Gotthard, Sören Nylin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sören Nylin Sweden	53	5.9k	3.9k	2.4k	2.2k	2.0k	140	8.9k
Tadeusz J. Kawecki Switzerland	41	4.0k 0.7×	4.1k 1.1×	1.5k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	1.8k 0.9×	102	8.9k
Christer Wiklund Sweden	62	9.6k 1.6×	5.3k 1.4×	2.7k 1.2×	3.1k 1.4×	2.7k 1.3×	233	12.1k
Carol L. Boggs United States	47	4.6k 0.8×	2.8k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	1.9k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	100	7.5k
Wolfgang Nentwig Switzerland	45	2.8k 0.5×	2.4k 0.6×	2.4k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	2.0k 1.0×	168	7.5k
Paul M. Brakefield Netherlands	61	7.3k 1.2×	6.1k 1.6×	2.3k 1.0×	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	259	12.1k
Andrew V. Suarez United States	47	7.1k 1.2×	6.9k 1.8×	4.0k 1.7×	2.5k 1.2×	1.6k 0.8×	134	10.7k
Jeffrey L. Feder United States	55	4.6k 0.8×	5.6k 1.4×	4.4k 1.8×	4.2k 1.9×	1.5k 0.7×	204	11.7k
Roger K. Butlin United Kingdom	68	7.2k 1.2×	8.0k 2.0×	2.4k 1.0×	4.0k 1.8×	2.5k 1.2×	324	15.7k
Sara Via United States	40	5.6k 0.9×	4.4k 1.1×	3.6k 1.5×	2.4k 1.1×	1.9k 0.9×	62	10.8k
Rosemary G. Gillespie United States	48	4.4k 0.7×	4.4k 1.1×	976 0.4×	2.8k 1.3×	2.1k 1.0×	189	9.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sören Nylin

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Bijl, Wouter van der, et al.. (2024). Genome-Wide Gene Birth–Death Dynamics Are Associated with Diet Breadth Variation in Lepidoptera. Genome Biology and Evolution. 16(7). 3 indexed citations

Celorio‐Mancera, Maria de la Paz, et al.. (2024). Plasticity for the win: Flexible transcriptional response to host plant switches in the comma butterfly (Polygonia c‐album). Molecular Ecology. 33(16). e17479–e17479.

Braga, Mariana P., David J. Lohman, Sören Nylin, et al.. (2024). Rapid Evolution of Host Repertoire and Geographic Range in a Young and Diverse Genus of Montane Butterflies. Systematic Biology. 74(1). 141–157. 1 indexed citations

Celorio‐Mancera, Maria de la Paz, Peter Pruisscher, Agata Smialowska, et al.. (2022). Larval transcriptomes reflect the evolutionary history of plant–insect associations. Evolution. 77(2). 519–533. 5 indexed citations

Braga, Mariana P., Niklas Janz, Sören Nylin, Fredrik Ronquist, & Michael J. Landis. (2021). Phylogenetic reconstruction of ancestral ecological networks through time for pierid butterflies and their host plants. Ecology Letters. 24(10). 2134–2145. 19 indexed citations

Celorio‐Mancera, Maria de la Paz, et al.. (2021). Chromosome Level Assembly of the Comma Butterfly (Polygonia c-album). Genome Biology and Evolution. 13(5). 6 indexed citations

Braga, Mariana P., Michael J. Landis, Sören Nylin, Niklas Janz, & Fredrik Ronquist. (2020). Bayesian Inference of Ancestral Host–Parasite Interactions under a Phylogenetic Model of Host Repertoire Evolution. Systematic Biology. 69(6). 1149–1162. 23 indexed citations

Janz, Niklas, et al.. (2020). Structural plasticity of olfactory neuropils in relation to insect diapause. Ecology and Evolution. 10(24). 14423–14434. 5 indexed citations

Pruisscher, Peter, Sören Nylin, Christopher W. Wheat, & Karl Gotthard. (2020). A region of the sex chromosome associated with population differences in diapause induction contains highly divergent alleles at clock genes. Evolution. 75(2). 490–500. 10 indexed citations

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Nylin, Sören, et al.. (2019). Insect brain plasticity: effects of olfactory input on neuropil size. Royal Society Open Science. 6(8). 190875–190875. 8 indexed citations

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Hill, Jason, et al.. (2018). Microevolutionary selection dynamics acting on immune genes of the green‐veined white butterfly, Pieris napi. Molecular Ecology. 27(13). 2807–2822. 8 indexed citations

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Vaillant, Maryline Le, et al.. (2016). Species range expansion constrains the ecological niches of resident butterflies. Journal of Biogeography. 44(1). 28–38. 12 indexed citations

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Kubrak, Olga, Lucie Kučerová, Ulrich Theopold, Sören Nylin, & Dick R. Nässel. (2016). Characterization of Reproductive Dormancy in Male Drosophila melanogaster. Frontiers in Physiology. 7. 572–572. 25 indexed citations

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Nylin, Sören. (2013). Induction of diapause and seasonal morphs in butterflies and other insects: knowns, unknowns and the challenge of integration. Physiological Entomology. 38(2). 96–104. 43 indexed citations

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Kodandaramaiah, Ullasa, Carlos Peña, Michael F. Braby, et al.. (2009). Phylogenetics of Coenonymphina (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) and the problem of rooting rapid radiations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 54(2). 386–394. 31 indexed citations

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Bergström, Anders, et al.. (2008). Latitudinal Body Size Clines in the ButterflyPolyommatus icarusare Shaped by Gene-Environment Interactions. Journal of Insect Science. 8(47). 1–13. 57 indexed citations

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Esperk, Toomas, Toomas Tammaru, & Sören Nylin. (2007). Intraspecific Variability in Number of Larval Instars in Insects. Journal of Economic Entomology. 100(3). 627–645. 159 indexed citations

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Windig, J.J., R.F. Veerkamp, & Sören Nylin. (2004). Quantitative genetic variation in an island population of the speckled wood butterfly (Pararge aegeria). Heredity. 93(5). 450–454. 8 indexed citations

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Gotthard, Karl, Sören Nylin, & Christer Wiklund. (2000). Mating opportunity and the evolution of sex-specific mortality rates in a butterfly. Oecologia. 122(1). 36–43. 54 indexed citations

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Nylin, Sören, Per‐Olof Wickman, & Christer Wiklund. (1994). Genetics of development time in a butterfly: predictions from optimality and a test by subspecies crossing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 257(1350). 215–219. 18 indexed citations

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