Tanja Schwander

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Tanja Schwander is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Tanja Schwander has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Genetics, 52 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 31 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Tanja Schwander's work include Plant and animal studies (45 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (32 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (26 papers). Tanja Schwander is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (45 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (32 papers) and Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior (26 papers). Tanja Schwander collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and United States. Tanja Schwander's co-authors include Laurent Keller, Bernard J. Crespi, Romain Libbrecht, Olof Leimar, Sara Helms Cahan, Jens Bast, Casper J. van der Kooi, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, Maurine Neiman and Wen‐Juan Ma and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Tanja Schwander

72 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Stick Insect Genomes Reveal Natural Selection’s Role in Parallel Speciation

2014 305 citations Víctor Soria‐Carrasco, Zachariah Gompert et al. Science profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tanja Schwander Switzerland	32	2.1k	1.8k	871	441	409	75	3.1k
Trine Bilde Denmark	33	1.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	905 1.0×	276 0.6×	453 1.1×	123	3.2k
James D. Fry United States	33	2.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	821 0.9×	601 1.4×	620 1.5×	64	3.4k
Rhonda R. Snook United Kingdom	32	2.0k 0.9×	2.6k 1.5×	639 0.7×	276 0.6×	660 1.6×	89	3.5k
Corrie S. Moreau United States	33	2.9k 1.4×	2.4k 1.4×	2.0k 2.3×	515 1.2×	422 1.0×	117	4.3k
Mary Whitehouse Australia	26	830 0.4×	999 0.6×	708 0.8×	480 1.1×	261 0.6×	66	2.0k
Seán G. Brady United States	36	3.6k 1.7×	4.0k 2.3×	2.0k 2.3×	635 1.4×	305 0.7×	90	5.2k
Thomas Bourguignon Czechia	24	1.9k 0.9×	1.8k 1.0×	759 0.9×	190 0.4×	148 0.4×	108	2.4k
Matthew D. Hall Australia	29	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.6×	601 0.7×	317 0.7×	691 1.7×	88	2.7k
Yves Roisin Belgium	32	3.5k 1.6×	3.4k 1.9×	1.4k 1.6×	210 0.5×	190 0.5×	183	4.1k
Tim Connallon Australia	28	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.6×	254 0.3×	456 1.0×	302 0.7×	73	2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tanja Schwander

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Dumas, Zoé, Patrick Tran Van, Darren J. Parker, et al.. (2025). Functional monocentricity with holocentric characteristics and chromosome-specific centromeres in a stick insect. Science Advances. 11(1). eads6459–eads6459. 2 indexed citations

Lavanchy, Guillaume, Alexander Brandt, Zoé Dumas, et al.. (2024). Evolution of alternative reproductive systems in Bacillus stick insects. Evolution. 78(6). 1109–1120. 1 indexed citations

Freitas, Susana, et al.. (2023). Evidence for cryptic sex in parthenogenetic stick insects of the genus Timema. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2007). 20230404–20230404. 13 indexed citations

Sartori, Michel, et al.. (2022). What Ecological Factors Favor Parthenogenesis over Sexual Reproduction? A Study on the Facultatively Parthenogenetic Mayfly Alainites muticus in Natural Populations. The American Naturalist. 201(2). 229–240. 4 indexed citations

Parker, Darren J., Kamil S. Jaroň, Zoé Dumas, Marc Robinson‐Rechavi, & Tanja Schwander. (2022). X chromosomes show relaxed selection and complete somatic dosage compensation across Timema stick insect species. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 35(12). 1734–1750. 13 indexed citations

Jaroň, Kamil S., Darren J. Parker, Patrick Tran Van, et al.. (2022). Convergent consequences of parthenogenesis on stick insect genomes. Science Advances. 8(8). eabg3842–eabg3842. 29 indexed citations

Ma, Wen‐Juan, Bart A. Pannebakker, Xuan Li, et al.. (2021). A single QTL with large effect is associated with female functional virginity in an asexual parasitoid wasp. Molecular Ecology. 30(9). 1979–1992. 10 indexed citations

Van, Patrick Tran, Jens Bast, Zoé Dumas, et al.. (2021). First annotated draft genomes of nonmarine ostracods (Ostracoda, Crustacea) with different reproductive modes. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(4). 10 indexed citations

Brandt, Alexander, Patrick Tran Van, Zoé Dumas, et al.. (2021). Haplotype divergence supports long-term asexuality in the oribatid mite Oppiella nova. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(38). 26 indexed citations

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Sartori, Michel, et al.. (2020). Extremely Widespread Parthenogenesis and a Trade-Off Between Alternative Forms of Reproduction in Mayflies (Ephemeroptera). Journal of Heredity. 112(1). 45–57. 20 indexed citations

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Matthey-Doret, Cyril, Casper J. van der Kooi, Daniel L. Jeffries, et al.. (2019). Mapping of Multiple Complementary Sex Determination Loci in a Parasitoid Wasp. Genome Biology and Evolution. 11(10). 2954–2962. 8 indexed citations

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Larose, Chloé, Darren J. Parker, & Tanja Schwander. (2018). Fundamental and realized feeding niche breadths of sexual and asexual stick insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 285(1892). 8 indexed citations

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Soria‐Carrasco, Víctor, Zachariah Gompert, Aaron A. Comeault, et al.. (2014). Stick Insect Genomes Reveal Natural Selection’s Role in Parallel Speciation. Science. 344(6185). 738–742. 305 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zande, Louis van de, et al.. (2014). Evolution of a Cellular Immune Response in Drosophila: A Phenotypic and Genomic Comparative Analysis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6(2). 273–289. 44 indexed citations

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Schwander, Tanja, Lee M. Henry, & Bernard J. Crespi. (2011). Molecular Evidence for Ancient Asexuality in Timema Stick Insects. Current Biology. 21(13). 1129–1134. 61 indexed citations

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Henry, Lee M., Tanja Schwander, & Bernard J. Crespi. (2011). Deleterious Mutation Accumulation in Asexual Timema Stick Insects. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(1). 401–408. 47 indexed citations

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Libbrecht, Romain, Tanja Schwander, & Laurent Keller. (2011). GENETIC COMPONENTS TO CASTE ALLOCATION IN A MULTIPLE-QUEEN ANT SPECIES. Evolution. 65(10). 2907–2915. 29 indexed citations

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Schwander, Tanja, Nathan Lo, Madeleine Beekman, Benjamin P. Oldroyd, & Laurent Keller. (2010). Nature versus nurture in social insect caste differentiation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 25(5). 275–282. 211 indexed citations

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Schwander, Tanja & Laurent Keller. (2008). Genetic Compatibility Affects Queen and Worker Caste Determination. Science. 322(5901). 552–552. 43 indexed citations

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Cahan, Sara Helms, G. Julian, Steven W. Rissing, et al.. (2004). Loss of Phenotypic Plasticity Generates Genotype-Caste Association in Harvester Ants. Current Biology. 14(24). 2277–2282. 58 indexed citations

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