2026 Adam Eyre-Walker: Genetics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Genetics	76	1833	1743	229	220	164	20096

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Adam Eyre-Walker is affiliated with the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular emphasis on genetics and molecular biology as subfields.

The key topics covered in their work include:

Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Genetic diversity and population structure
Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
Bacteriophages and microbial interactions
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis

The scientist's recent publications illustrate their interest in population genomics, gene evolution, and related methodologies. Notable recent papers include:

Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics, 2022, PLoS Biology
On the prospect of achieving accurate joint estimation of selection with population history, 2022, Genome Biology and Evolution
Strong evidence for the adaptive walk model of gene evolution in Drosophila and Arabidopsis, 2022, PLoS Biology
The outstanding scientist, R.A. Fisher: his views on eugenics and race, 2021, Heredity
Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Diversity in Mammals: A Correlation between the Effective and Census Population Sizes, 2020, Genome Biology and Evolution

Frequently collaborating researchers include Ana Filipa Moutinho, Vivak Soni, Parul Johri, Brian Charlesworth, and Jeffrey D. Jensen. Their publications often appear in these venues:

Genome Biology and Evolution
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
PLoS Biology
Molecular Biology and Evolution
Heredity

Adam Eyre-Walker has been recognized with the title of Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, awarded in 2020. This recognition reflects their established role within the scientific community in their fields of expertise.

Best Publications

The distribution of fitness effects of new mutations

Adam Eyre-Walker;Adam Eyre-Walker;Peter D. Keightley

1579
Citations
Adaptive protein evolution in Drosophila

Nick G. C. Smith;Adam Eyre-Walker

768
Citations
Variation in the mutation rate across mammalian genomes

Alan Hodgkinson;Adam Eyre-Walker

530
Citations
High genomic deleterious mutation rates in hominids

Adam Eyre-Walker;Peter D. Keightley

498
Citations
The evolution of isochores.

Adam Eyre-Walker;Laurence D. Hurst

495
Citations
Linkage disequilibrium and recombination in hominid mitochondrial DNA

Phillip Awadalla;Adam Eyre-Walker;John Maynard Smith

473
Citations
Investigation of the bottleneck leading to the domestication of maize

Adam Eyre-Walker;Rebecca L. Gaut;Holly Hilton;Dawn L. Feldman

464
Citations
Population size and the rate of evolution

Robert Lanfear;Robert Lanfear;Hanna Kokko;Adam Eyre-Walker

462
Citations
Estimating the rate of adaptive molecular evolution in the presence of slightly deleterious mutations and population size change

Adam Eyre-Walker;Peter D. Keightley

457
Citations
Evidence of selection upon genomic GC-content in bacteria

Falk Hildebrand;Axel Meyer;Adam Eyre-Walker

441
Citations
The distribution of fitness effects of new deleterious amino acid mutations in humans

Adam Eyre-Walker;Megan Woolfit;Ted Phelps

422
Citations
Joint Inference of the Distribution of Fitness Effects of Deleterious Mutations and Population Demography Based on Nucleotide Polymorphism Frequencies

Peter D Keightley;Adam Eyre-Walker

391
Citations
Synonymous Codon Usage in Escherichia coli: Selection for Translational Accuracy

Nina Stoletzki;Adam Eyre-Walker;Adam Eyre-Walker

376
Citations
The genomic rate of adaptive evolution

Adam Eyre-Walker

348
Citations
Direct Measure of the De Novo Mutation Rate in Autism and Schizophrenia Cohorts

Philip Awadalla;Julie Gauthier;Rachel A. Myers;Rachel A. Myers;Ferran Casals

307
Citations
Synonymous codon bias is related to gene length in Escherichia coli: selection for translational accuracy?

Adam Eyre-Walker

285
Citations
Recombination and mammalian genome evolution

Adam Eyre-Walker

278
Citations
Changing Effective Population Size and the McDonald-Kreitman Test

Adam Eyre-Walker

267
Citations
Molecular Evolution by Wen-Hsiung Li. Published by Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, USA. ISBN: 0-87893-463-4 (cloth).

Adam Eyre-Walker

265
Citations
The distribution of bacterial doubling times in the wild.

Beth Gibson;Daniel J. Wilson;Edward Feil;Adam Eyre-Walker

261
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter D. Keightley University of Edinburgh

Robert Lanfear Australian National University

John Maynard Smith University of Sussex

Nicolas Bierne University of Montpellier

John J. Welch Washington University in St. Louis

Hervé Moreau Objectif Avenir

Daniel J. Wilson University of Oxford

Edward J. Feil University of Bath

Martin J. Lercher Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Laurence D. Hurst University of Bath

External Links

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