The most cited papers

	According to the Web of Science database, as of January 11, 2025
	Holt RA,… Kokoza E,… Zhimulev I,… Hoffman SL The genome sequence of the malaria mosquito Anopheles gambiae Science 298: 129-149, 2002 cited 2 090 times
	Jarvis ED,... Perelman P,... Zhang G Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds Science 346: 1320-1331, 2014 cited 1 450 times
	Perelman P, Johnson WE, Roos C, Seuánez HN, Horvath JE, Moreira MA, Kessing B, Pontius J, Roelke M, Rumpler Y, Schneider MP, Silva A, O'Brien SJ, Pecon-Slattery J A molecular phylogeny of living primates PLoS Genet 7(3): e1001342, 2011 cited 1 101 times
	Mallick S, ... Starikovskaya EB, ... Dryomov S, Sukernik R, ... Reich D The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations Nature 538: 201-206, 2016 cited 962 times
	Lazaridis I, ... Dryomov S, ... Starikovskaya EB, ... Sukernik R, ... Krause J Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans Nature 513: 409-413, 2014 cited 944 times
	Mishmar D,… Sukernik RI,… Wallace DC Natural selection shaped regional mtDNA variation in humans Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100: 171-176, 2003 cited 903 times
	Reich D, ... Sukernik RI, ... Ruiz-Linares A Reconstructing native american population history Nature 488: 370-374, 2012 cited 603 times
	Thalmann O, ... Druzhkova A, Graphodatsky AS, ... Wayne RK Complete mitochondrial genomes of ancient canids suggest a European origin of domestic dogs Science 342: 871-874, 2013 cited 430 times
	Kalverda B, Pickersgill H, Shloma VV, Fornerod M Nucleoporins directly stimulate expression of developmental and cell-cycle genes inside the nucleoplasm Cell 140: 360-371, 2010 cited 397 times
	Genome 10K Community of Scientists: Haussler D,… Graphodatsky AS,… Zhang YP Genome 10K: a proposal to obtain whole-genome sequence for 10,000 vertebrate species J Hered 100: 659-674, 2009 cited 338 times
	Cherbas L, Hu X, Zhimulev I, Belyaeva E, Cherbas P EcR isoforms in Drosophila: testing tissue-specific requirements by targeted blockade and rescue Development 130: 271-284, 2003 cited 328 times
	Hoskins RA, ... Demakova OV, Andreyeva EN, Boldyreva LV, ... Zhimulev IF, ... Celniker SE The Release 6 reference sequence of the Drosophila melanogaster genome Genome Res 25(3): 445-458, 2015 cited 326 times
	Torroni A, Sukernik RI, Schurr TG, Starikovskaya YB, Cabell MF, Crawford MH, Comuzzie AG, Wallace DC mtDNA variation of aboriginal Siberians reveals distinct genetic affinities with Native Americans Am J Hum Genet 53: 591-608, 1993 cited 314 times
	Yang F, O’Brien PC, Milne BS, Graphodatsky AS, Solanky N, Trifonov V, Rens W, Sargan D, Ferguson-Smith MA A complete comparative chromosome map for the dog, red fox, and human and its integration with canine genetic maps Genomics 62: 189-202, 1999 cited 304 times
	Sudmant PH,... Starikovskaya EB, ... Dryomov S, Sukernik R, ... Eichler EE Global diversity, population stratification, and selection of human copy number variation Science 349: 1181, 2015 cited 285 times
	Hancock AM, Witonsky DB, Alkorta-Aranburu G, Beall CM, Gebremedhin A, Sukernik R, Utermann G, Pritchard JK, Coop G, Di Rienzo A Adaptations to climate-mediated selective pressures in humans PLoS Genet 7(4): e1001375, 2011 cited 250 times
	Hancock AM, Witonsky DB, Ehler E, Alkorta-Aranburu G, Beall C, Gebremedhin A, Sukernik R, Utermann G, Pritchard J, Coop G, Di Rienzo A Colloquium paper: human adaptations to diet, subsistence, and ecoregion are due to subtle shifts in allele frequency Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107 (Suppl. 2): 8924-8930, 2010 cited 225 times
	Ellis TH, Poyser SJ, Knox MR, Vershinin AV, Ambrose MJ Polymorphism of insertion sites of Ty1-copia class retrotransposons and its use for linkage and diversity analysis in pea Mol Gen Genet 260: 9-19, 1998 cited 206 times
	Schurr TG, Sukernik RI, Starikovskaya YB, Wallace DC Mitochondrial DNA variation in Koryaks and Itel'men: population replacement in the Okhotsk Sea-Bering Sea region during the Neolithic Am J Phys Anthropol 108: 1-39, 1999 cited 197 times
	Brown MD, Starikovskaya E, Derbeneva O, Hosseini S, Allen JC, Mikhailovskaya IE, Sukernik RI, Wallace DC The role of mtDNA background in disease expression: a new primary LHON mutation associated with Western Eurasian haplogroup J Hum Genet 110: 130-138, 2002 cited 197 times
	Vershinin AV, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS The large-scale genomic organization of repetitive DNA families at the telomeres of rye chromosomes Plant Cell 7: 1823-1833, 1995 cited 180 times
	Starikovskaya EB, Sukernik RI, Derbeneva OA, Volodko NV, Ruiz-Pesini E, Torroni A, Brown MD, Lott MT, Hosseini SH, Huoponen K, Wallace DC Mitochondrial DNA diversity in indigenous populations of the southern extent of Siberia, and the origins of Native American haplogroups Ann Hum Genet 69(1): 67-89, 2005 cited 177 times
	Zhimulev IF, Semeshin VF, Kulichkov VA, Belyaeva ES Intercalary heterochromatin in Drosophila Chromosoma 87: 197-228, 1982 cited 169 times
	Lell JT, Sukernik RI, Starikovskaya YB, Su B, Jin L, Schurr TG, Underhill PA, Wallace DC The dual origin and Siberian affinities of Native American Y chromosomes Am J Hum Genet 70: 192-206, 2002 cited 166 times
	Zangerl B, ... Graphodatsky AS, ... Aguirre GD Identical mutation in a novel retinal gene causes progressive rod-cone degeneration in dogs and retinitis pigmentosa in humans Genomics 88(5): 551-563, 2006 cited 164 times
	Starikovskaya YB, Sukernik RI, Schurr TG, Kogelnik AM, Wallace DC mtDNA diversity in Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos: implications for the genetic history of Ancient Beringia and the peopling of the New World Am J Hum Genet 63: 1473-1491, 1998 cited 163 times
	Librado P, ... Kusliy MA, ... Graphodatsky AS, ... Orlando L. The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes Nature 598: 634-640, 2021 cited 161 times
	Yang F, Alkalaeva EZ, Perelman PL, Pardini AT, Harrison WR, O’Brien PC, Fu B, Graphodatsky AS, Ferguson-Smith MA, Robinson TJ Reciprocal chromosome painting among human, aardvark, and elephant (superorder Afrotheria) reveals the likely eutherian ancestral karyotype Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 100: 1062-1066, 2003 cited 152 times
	Najakshin AM, Mechetina LV, Alabyev BY, Taranin AV. Identification of an IL‐8 homolog in lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis): early evolutionary divergence of chemokines Eur J Immunol 29(2): 375-382, 1999 cited 135 times
	Dobrynin P,... Makunin A,... Perelman P,... O’Brien SJ Genomic legacy of the African cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus Genome Biol 16: 277, 2015 cited 134 times
	Belyaeva ES, Zhimulev IF, Volkova EI, Alekseyenko AA, Moshkin YM, Koryakov DE Su(UR)ES: A gene suppressing DNA underreplication in intercalary and pericentric heterochromatin of Drosophila melanogaster polytene chromosomes Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95: 7532-7537, 1998 cited 134 times
	Belyaeva ES, Aizenzon MG, Semeshin VF, Kiss II, Koczka K, Baritcheva EM, Gorelova TD, Zhimulev IF Cytogenetic analysis of the 2B3-4 – 2B11 region of the X-chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. I. Cytology of the region and mutant complementation groups Chromosoma 81: 281-306, 1980 cited 132 times
	Heslop-Harrison JS, ... Vershinin AV, ... Harrison GE The chromosomal distributions of Ty1-copia group retrotransposable elements in higher plants and their implications for genome evolution Genetica 100: 197-204, 1997 cited 119 times
	Volodko NV, Starikovskaya EB, Mazunin IO, Eltsov NP, Naidenko PV, Wallace DC, Sukernik RI Mitochondrial genome diversity in arctic Siberians, with particular reference to the evolutionary history of Beringia and Pleistocenic peopling of the Americas Am J Hum Genet 82(5): 1084-1100б 2008 cited 114 times
	Graphodatsky AS, Trifonov VA, Stanyon R The genome diversity and karyotype evolution of mammals Molecular Cytogenetics 4:22, 2011 cited 112 times
	Belyaeva ES, Vlassova IE, Biyasheva ZM, Kakpakov VT, Richards G, Zhimulev IF Cytogenetic analysis of the 2B3-4-2B11 region of the X chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster. II. Changes in 20-OH ecdysone puffing caused by genetic defects of puff 2B5 Chromosoma 84: 207-219, 1981 cited 110 times
	Graphodatsky AS, Yang F, O'Brien PCM, Serdukova N, Milne BS, Trifonov V, Ferguson-Smith MA A comparative chromosome map of the Arctic fox, red fox and dog defined by chromosome painting and high resolution G-banding Chromosome Res 8(3): 253-263, 2000 cited 109 times
	Kukekova AV,... Serdyukova NA,... Beklemischeva V,... Perelman PL, Graphodatsky AS,... Zhang G. Red fox genome assembly identifies genomic regions associated with tame and aggressive behaviours Nature Ecol Evol 2: 1479-1491, 2018 cited 105 times
	Yang F, Graphodatsky AS, O'Brien PC, Colabella A, Solanky N, Squire M, Sargan DR, Ferguson-Smith MA Reciprocal chromosome painting illuminates the history of genome evolution of the domestic cat, dog and human Chromosome Res 8(5): 393-404, 2000 cited 102 times

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	Mathieson I, ... Dryomov S, ... Reich D Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians Nature 528: 499-503, 2015 cited 939 times
	Zdobnov EM,… Kokoza E,… Bork P Comparative genome and proteome analysis of Anopheles gambiae and Drosophila melanogaster Science 298: 149-159, 2002 cited 418 times
	Ferguson-Smith MA, Trifonov V Mammalian karyotype evolution Nat Rev Genet 8: 950-962, 2007 cited 264 times
	Akhtar W, de Jong J, Pindyurin AV, Pagie L, Meuleman W, de Ridder J, Berns A, Wessels LF, van Lohuizen M, van Steensel B Chromatin position effects assayed by thousands of reporters integrated in parallel Cell 154(4): 914-927, 2013 cited 236 times
	Liehr T, Heller A, Starke H, Rubtsov N, Trifonov V, Mrasek K, Weise A, Kuechler A, Claussen U Microdissection based high resolution multicolor banding for all 24 human chromosomes Int J Mol Med 9: 335-339, 2002 cited 220 times
	Nesterova TB,... Kolesnikov NN,... Zakian SM Characterization of the genomic Xist locus in Rodents reveals conservation of overall gene structure and tandem repeats but rapid evolution of unique sequence Genome Res 11: 833-849, 2001 cited 195 times
	Du K, ... Prokopov D, Makunin A, Kichigin I, ... Trifonov V, ... Schartl M The sterlet sturgeon genome sequence and the mechanisms of segmental rediploidization Nature Ecol Evol 4(6): 841-852, 2020 cited 180 times
	Schwartz YB, ... Gorchakov AA, ... Pirrotta V Nature and function of insulator protein binding sites in the Drosophila genome Genome Res 22(11): 2188-2198, 2012 cited 170 times
	Elisaphenko EA, Kolesnikov NN, Shevchenko AI, Rogozin IB, Nesterova TB, Brockdorff N, Zakian SM A dual origin of the Xist gene from a protein-coding gene and a set of transposable elements PLoS ONE 3(6): e2521, 2008 cited 153 times
	Vij S, ... Trifonov V, ... Orban L Chromosomal-level assembly of the Asian seabass genome using long sequence reads and multi-layered scaffolding PLoS Genet 12(4): e1005954, 2016 cited 132 times
	Rens W, ... Trifonov VA, ... Ferguson-Smith MA The multiple sex chromosomes of platypus and echidna are not completely identical and several share homology with the avian Z Genome Biol 8(11): R243, 2007 cited 112 times

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