W. Owen McMillan

15.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
209 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

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W. Owen McMillan is a scholar working on Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, W. Owen McMillan has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Genetics, 98 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 43 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in W. Owen McMillan's work include Plant and animal studies (78 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (60 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (60 papers). W. Owen McMillan is often cited by papers focused on Plant and animal studies (78 papers), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy (60 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (60 papers). W. Owen McMillan collaborates with scholars based in Panama, United States and United Kingdom. W. Owen McMillan's co-authors include Chris D. Jiggins, Stephen R. Palumbi, Henrietta Brown Croom, Ana Isabel Martı́n, Cameron N. McIntosh, James Mallet, Riccardo Papa, Eldredge Bermingham, Brian A. Counterman and Mathieu Joron and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

W. Owen McMillan

201 papers receiving 9.1k 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.

The simple fool's guide to PCR

1989 1.6k citations Henrietta Brown Croom, Ana Isabel Martı́n et al. The Journal of Urology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. Owen McMillan Panama	52	5.2k	3.5k	2.3k	2.0k	1.5k	209	9.4k
Rosemary G. Gillespie United States	48	4.4k 0.9×	4.4k 1.2×	1.6k 0.7×	2.8k 1.4×	2.1k 1.4×	189	9.8k
Bernhard Misof Germany	52	3.0k 0.6×	3.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	1.9k 1.0×	635 0.4×	162	7.7k
Jonathan A. Coddington United States	53	6.4k 1.2×	5.7k 1.6×	1.4k 0.6×	2.8k 1.4×	3.1k 2.1×	114	12.5k
Curtis M. Lively United States	60	6.7k 1.3×	3.8k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	3.8k 1.9×	1.2k 0.8×	176	12.0k
Jeffrey L. Feder United States	55	5.6k 1.1×	4.6k 1.3×	1.8k 0.8×	4.2k 2.1×	1.5k 1.0×	204	11.7k
Frédéric Delsuc France	46	3.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	6.0k 2.5×	2.2k 1.1×	725 0.5×	108	11.0k
Rafael Zardoya Spain	58	3.6k 0.7×	1.5k 0.4×	6.4k 2.7×	2.9k 1.5×	2.1k 1.4×	147	12.5k
Chris D. Jiggins United Kingdom	69	9.3k 1.8×	7.1k 2.0×	3.3k 1.4×	1.8k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	221	14.1k
Michael F. Whiting United States	55	4.6k 0.9×	6.2k 1.7×	3.0k 1.3×	2.5k 1.2×	659 0.4×	131	10.7k
David R. Maddison United States	33	3.3k 0.6×	6.2k 1.8×	3.6k 1.5×	2.8k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	86	12.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cicconardi, Francesco, et al.. (2025). Convergent Molecular Evolution Associated With Repeated Transitions to Gregarious Larval Behavior in Heliconiini. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 42(8).

Chung, Albert K., et al.. (2025). Beating the Heat: A Lowland Tropical Lizard Expresses Heat Shock Protein Networks in Response to Acute Thermal Stress. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 65(4). 1109–1120.

Rosser, Neil, Krzysztof M. Kozak, W. Owen McMillan, et al.. (2025). Müllerian Mimicry in Neotropical Butterflies: One Mimicry Ring to Bring Them All and in the Jungle Bind Them. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 34(9).

Darragh, Kathy, Chi‐Yun Kuo, W. Owen McMillan, et al.. (2024). Selection drives divergence of eye morphology in sympatric Heliconius butterflies. Evolution. 78(7). 1338–1346. 4 indexed citations

Hanly, Joseph J., Anyi Mazo‐Vargas, Luca Livraghi, et al.. (2023). Frizzled2 receives WntA signaling during butterfly wing pattern formation. Development. 150(18). 10 indexed citations

Belleghem, Steven M. Van, Carolina Concha, Luca Livraghi, et al.. (2023). High level of novelty under the hood of convergent evolution. Science. 379(6636). 1043–1049. 23 indexed citations

Young, Fletcher J., et al.. (2023). Patterns of host plant use do not explain mushroom body expansion in Heliconiini butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 290(2003). 20231155–20231155. 6 indexed citations

Lessios, H. A., et al.. (2023). Near-Chromosomal-Level Genome Assembly of the Sea Urchin Echinometra lucunter, a Model for Speciation in the Sea. Genome Biology and Evolution. 15(6). 3 indexed citations

Montejo‐Kovacevich, Gabriela, Joana I. Meier, Caroline Bacquet, et al.. (2022). Repeated genetic adaptation to altitude in two tropical butterflies. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4676–4676. 28 indexed citations

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Byers, Kelsey J.R.P., Kathy Darragh, Ian A. Warren, et al.. (2020). Clustering of loci controlling species differences in male chemical bouquets of sympatric Heliconius butterflies. Ecology and Evolution. 11(1). 89–107. 13 indexed citations

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Darragh, Kathy, Mauricio Linares, Stefan Schulz, et al.. (2020). Chemical signals act as the main reproductive barrier between sister and mimetic Heliconius butterflies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 287(1926). 20200587–20200587. 29 indexed citations

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Belleghem, Steven M. Van, Riccardo Papa, Humberto Ortiz‐Zuazaga, et al.. (2017). patternize: An R package for quantifying colour pattern variation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 9(2). 390–398. 86 indexed citations

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Belleghem, Steven M. Van, Pasi Rastas, Alexie Papanicolaou, et al.. (2017). Complex modular architecture around a simple toolkit of wing pattern genes. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1(3). 52–52. 132 indexed citations

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Darragh, Kathy, Colin R. Morrison, Camilo Salazar, et al.. (2017). Male sex pheromone components in Heliconius butterflies released by the androconia affect female choice. PeerJ. 5. e3953–e3953. 60 indexed citations

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Dell’Aglio, Denise Dalbosco, Derya Akkaynak, W. Owen McMillan, & Chris D. Jiggins. (2017). Estimating the age of Heliconius butterflies from calibrated photographs. PeerJ. 5. e3821–e3821. 4 indexed citations

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Martin, Simon H., Markus Möst, William J. Palmer, et al.. (2016). Natural Selection and Genetic Diversity in the Butterfly Heliconius melpomene. Genetics. 203(1). 525–541. 65 indexed citations

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Supple, Megan A., Riccardo Papa, Heather M. Hines, W. Owen McMillan, & Brian A. Counterman. (2015). Divergence with gene flow across a speciation continuum of Heliconius butterflies. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 15(1). 204–204. 27 indexed citations

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Nadeau, Nicola J., Mayté Ruiz, Patricio A. Salazar, et al.. (2014). Population genomics of parallel hybrid zones in the mimetic butterflies, H. melpomene and H. erato. Genome Research. 24(8). 1316–1333. 90 indexed citations

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Reed, Robert D., Riccardo Papa, Arnaud Martin, et al.. (2011). optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry. Science. 333(6046). 1137–1141. 320 indexed citations

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Croom, Henrietta Brown, et al.. (1989). The simple fool's guide to PCR. The Journal of Urology. 159(4). 1161–2. 1626 indexed citations breakdown →

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