Wolfgang Stephan

11.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
127 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Stephan is a scholar working on Genetics, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Stephan has authored 127 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Genetics, 30 papers in Plant Science and 27 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Stephan's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (73 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (61 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (21 papers). Wolfgang Stephan is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (73 papers), Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (61 papers) and Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (21 papers). Wolfgang Stephan collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Wolfgang Stephan's co-authors include Brian Charlesworth, Paul Sniegowski, Yuseob Kim, Charles H. Langley, Haipeng Li, Thomas Wiehe, Pavlos Pavlidis, Thomas Städler, John M. Braverman and David A. Kirby and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Stephan

126 papers receiving 7.8k citations

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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 evolutionary dynamics of repetitive DNA in eukaryotes

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wolfgang Stephan Germany	48	5.3k	3.2k	2.6k	1.0k	633	127	8.0k
Peter Andolfatto United States	49	5.4k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	1.8k 0.7×	1.7k 1.6×	861 1.4×	91	7.9k
Adam Eyre‐Walker United Kingdom	61	7.0k 1.3×	7.2k 2.3×	2.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	1.1k 1.7×	142	11.9k
Spencer V. Muse United States	27	3.9k 0.7×	3.9k 1.2×	4.2k 1.6×	1.4k 1.3×	880 1.4×	37	10.0k
Richard R. Hudson United States	42	7.5k 1.4×	4.7k 1.5×	2.7k 1.0×	1.4k 1.4×	1.4k 2.2×	62	12.2k
Charles H. Langley United States	58	7.1k 1.4×	5.9k 1.9×	4.9k 1.9×	1.7k 1.7×	759 1.2×	140	12.3k
Peter D. Keightley United Kingdom	54	8.5k 1.6×	4.8k 1.5×	2.1k 0.8×	1.6k 1.6×	739 1.2×	150	11.1k
Naoyuki Takahata Japan	53	4.4k 0.8×	3.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.4×	1.1k 1.0×	1.2k 1.8×	126	8.5k
Dan Graur Israel	44	2.8k 0.5×	5.1k 1.6×	1.6k 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	1.3k 2.1×	114	8.5k
Gabriel A. Dover United Kingdom	38	2.3k 0.4×	4.0k 1.3×	2.7k 1.0×	620 0.6×	852 1.3×	71	6.8k
R R Hudson United States	16	6.3k 1.2×	2.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	1.4k 1.4×	1.6k 2.5×	21	9.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wolfgang Stephan

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20 of 20 papers shown

Eldon, Bjarki & Wolfgang Stephan. (2023). Sweepstakes reproduction facilitates rapid adaptation in highly fecund populations. Molecular Ecology. 33(10). e16903–e16903. 5 indexed citations

Stam, Remco, Tetyana Nosenko, Anja C. Hörger, et al.. (2019). The de Novo Reference Genome and Transcriptome Assemblies of the Wild Tomato Species Solanum chilense Highlights Birth and Death of NLR Genes Between Tomato Species. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 9(12). 3933–3941. 31 indexed citations

Nosenko, Tetyana, et al.. (2018). Signatures of natural selection in abiotic stress-responsive genes ofSolanum chilense. Royal Society Open Science. 5(1). 171198–171198. 17 indexed citations

Živković, Daniel, Matthias Steinrücken, Yun S. Song, & Wolfgang Stephan. (2015). Transition Densities and Sample Frequency Spectra of Diffusion Processes with Selection and Variable Population Size. Genetics. 200(2). 601–617. 24 indexed citations

Tellier, Aurélien, et al.. (2015). Survival Rate and Transcriptional Response upon Infection with the Generalist Parasite Beauveria bassiana in a World-Wide Sample of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132129–e0132129. 14 indexed citations

Kharkov, V. N., Alexey G. Nikitin, Florina Raicu, et al.. (2013). Paleo-Balkan and Slavic Contributions to the Genetic Pool of Moldavians: Insights from the Y Chromosome. PLoS ONE. 8(1). e53731–e53731. 10 indexed citations

Mboup, Mamadou, et al.. (2012). Trans-Species Polymorphism and Allele-Specific Expression in the CBF Gene Family of Wild Tomatoes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29(12). 3641–3652. 40 indexed citations

Rose, Laura, Lukasz Grzeskowiak, Anja C. Hörger, Martin Groth, & Wolfgang Stephan. (2011). Targets of selection in a disease resistance network in wild tomatoes. Molecular Plant Pathology. 12(9). 921–927. 17 indexed citations

Tellier, Aurélien, Iris Fischer, Carlos Merino, et al.. (2011). Fitness effects of derived deleterious mutations in four closely related wild tomato species with spatial structure. Heredity. 107(3). 189–199. 17 indexed citations

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Stephan, Wolfgang. (2010). Detecting strong positive selection in the genome. Molecular Ecology Resources. 10(5). 863–872. 17 indexed citations

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Svetec, Nicolas, Pavlos Pavlidis, José M. Álvarez-Castro, et al.. (2010). Identification of X-linked quantitative trait loci affecting cold tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster and fine mapping by selective sweep analysis. Molecular Ecology. 20(3). 530–544. 23 indexed citations

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Städler, Thomas, Bernhard Haubold, Carlos Merino, Wolfgang Stephan, & Peter Pfaffelhuber. (2009). The Impact of Sampling Schemes on the Site Frequency Spectrum in Nonequilibrium Subdivided Populations. Genetics. 182(1). 205–216. 168 indexed citations

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Stephan, Wolfgang, Yun S. Song, & Charles H. Langley. (2006). The Hitchhiking Effect on Linkage Disequilibrium Between Linked Neutral Loci. Genetics. 172(4). 2647–2663. 124 indexed citations

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Lorenzo, David, et al.. (2006). Evidence of Gene Conversion Associated with a Selective Sweep in Drosophila melanogaster. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23(10). 1869–1878. 20 indexed citations

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Stephan, Wolfgang & Haipeng Li. (2006). The recent demographic and adaptive history of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity. 98(2). 65–68. 83 indexed citations

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Li, Haipeng & Wolfgang Stephan. (2006). Inferring the Demographic History and Rate of Adaptive Substitution in Drosophila. PLoS Genetics. 2(10). e166–e166. 235 indexed citations

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Baines, John F., Aparup Das, Sylvain Mousset, & Wolfgang Stephan. (2004). The Role of Natural Selection in Genetic Differentiation of Worldwide Populations of Drosophila ananassae. Genetics. 168(4). 1987–1998. 25 indexed citations

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Baines, John F., Ying Chen, Aparup Das, & Wolfgang Stephan. (2002). DNA Sequence Variation at a Duplicated Gene: Excess of Replacement Polymorphism and Extensive Haplotype Structure in the Drosophila melanogasterbicoid Region. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19(7). 989–998. 14 indexed citations

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Stephan, Wolfgang. (1995). Perturbation analysis of a two-locus model with directional selection and recombination. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 34(1). 95–109. 5 indexed citations

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Stephan, Wolfgang & Simon J. Mitchell. (1992). Reduced levels of DNA polymorphism and fixed between-population differences in the centromeric region of Drosophila ananassae.. Genetics. 132(4). 1039–1045. 58 indexed citations

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