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Alexander S. Mikheyev

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
43
Citations
6494
World Ranking
5351
National Ranking
432

Alexander S. Mikheyev publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 123 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Alexander S. Mikheyev D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexander S. Mikheyev sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexander S. Mikheyev is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia. Their research focuses primarily on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant involvement in agricultural and biological sciences. The subfields in which they publish extensively include genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, insect science, molecular biology, and ecology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics related to insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, plant and animal studies, insect and pesticide research, animal behavior and reproduction, venomous animal envenomation and studies, genetic diversity and population structure, and marine invertebrate physiology and ecology.

Alexander S. Mikheyev has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • Functional innovation promotes diversification of form in the evolution of an ultrafast trap-jaw mechanism in ants, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Markerless tracking of an entire honey bee colony, 2021, Nature Communications
  • An ancient, conserved gene regulatory network led to the rise of oral venom systems, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Co-option of the same ancestral gene family gave rise to mammalian and reptilian toxins, 2021, BMC Biology
  • Varroa mite evolution: a neglected aspect of worldwide bee collapses?, 2020, Current Opinion in Insect Science

Their frequent co-authors include Evan P. Economo, Maéva Angélique Techer, Nurit Eliash, Agneesh Barua, and John M. K. Roberts. These collaborations reflect a broad network within the field and interdisciplinary research partnerships.

Alexander S. Mikheyev has published in several key scientific venues. The most frequent include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Nature Communications, BMC Biology, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Best Publications

  • A first look at the Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencer

    Alexander S. Mikheyev;Mandy M. Y. Tin

  • A hybrid de novo genome assembly of the honeybee, Apis mellifera, with chromosome-length scaffolds

    Andreas Wallberg;Ignas Bunikis;Olga Vinnere Pettersson;Mai Britt Mosbech

  • Dancing bees tune both duration and rate of waggle-run production in relation to nectar-source profitability.

    Thomas D. Seeley;Alexander S. Mikheyev;Gary J. Pagano

  • The Neuropeptide Corazonin Controls Social Behavior and Caste Identity in Ants.

    Janko Gospocic;Emily J. Shields;Karl M. Glastad;Yanping Lin

  • Cryptic sex and many-to-one coevolution in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis

    Alexander S. Mikheyev;Ulrich G. Mueller;Patrick Abbot

  • Sequencing degraded DNA from non-destructively sampled museum specimens for RAD-tagging and low-coverage shotgun phylogenetics.

    Mandy Man-Ying Tin;Evan Philip Economo;Alexander Sergeyevich Mikheyev

  • Quantitative high-throughput profiling of snake venom gland transcriptomes and proteomes (Ovophis okinavensis and Protobothrops flavoviridis)

    Steven D Aird;Yutaka Watanabe;Alejandro Villar-Briones;Michael C Roy

  • Comparative genome sequencing reveals genomic signature of extreme desiccation tolerance in the anhydrobiotic midge

    Oleg Gusev;Oleg Gusev;Oleg Gusev;Yoshitaka Suetsugu;Richard Cornette;Takeshi Kawashima

  • Nest architecture of the ant Formica pallidefulva: structure, costs and rules of excavation

    A. S. Mikheyev;W. R. Tschinkel

  • Evolution of cold-tolerant fungal symbionts permits winter fungiculture by leafcutter ants at the northern frontier of a tropical ant–fungus symbiosis

    Ulrich G. Mueller;Alexander S. Mikheyev;Alexander S. Mikheyev;Eunki Hong;Ruchira Sen

  • Museums are biobanks: unlocking the genetic potential of the three billion specimens in the world's biological collections.

    David K Yeates;Andreas Zwick;Alexander S Mikheyev

  • Population genetic signatures of diffuse co-evolution between leaf-cutting ants and their cultivar fungi.

    A. S. Mikheyev;Ulrich G. Mueller;Jacobus J. Koos Boomsma

  • Comparative transcriptomics reveals the conserved building blocks involved in parallel evolution of diverse phenotypic traits in ants

    Claire Morandin;Mandy M. Y. Tin;Sílvia Abril;Crisanto Gómez

  • Worldwide invasion by the little fire ant: routes of introduction and eco-evolutionary pathways

    Julien Foucaud;Jérôme Orivel;Anne Loiseau;Jacques H C Delabie

  • Genes associated with ant social behavior show distinct transcriptional and evolutionary patterns

    Alexander S Mikheyev;Timothy A Linksvayer

  • Museum samples reveal rapid evolution by wild honey bees exposed to a novel parasite

    Alexander S. Mikheyev;Alexander S. Mikheyev;Mandy M. Y. Tin;Jatin Arora;Jatin Arora;Thomas D. Seeley

  • Free-living fungal symbionts (Lepiotaceae) of fungus-growing ants (Attini: Formicidae)

    Tanya L. Vo;Ulrich G. Mueller;Alexander S. Mikheyev

  • Comparative Dating of Attine Ant and Lepiotaceous Cultivar Phylogenies Reveals Coevolutionary Synchrony and Discord

    Alexander S. Mikheyev;Ulrich G. Mueller;Patrick Abbot

  • Convergent eusocial evolution is based on a shared reproductive groundplan plus lineage-specific plastic genes

    Michael R. Warner;Lijun Qiu;Michael J. Holmes;Michael J. Holmes;Alexander S. Mikheyev;Alexander S. Mikheyev

  • Coralsnake Venomics: Analyses of Venom Gland Transcriptomes and Proteomes of Six Brazilian Taxa

    Steven D. Aird;Nelson Jorge Da Silva;Lijun Qiu;Alejandro Villar-Briones

  • Phylogeography of post-Pleistocene population expansion in a fungus-gardening ant and its microbial mutualists.

    Alexander S. Mikheyev;Tanya Vo;Ulrich G. Mueller

  • Divergent evolutionary trajectories following speciation in two ectoparasitic honey bee mites.

    Maeva A. Techer;Rahul V. Rane;Rahul V. Rane;Miguel L. Grau;John M. K. Roberts

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich G. Mueller
Ulrich G. Mueller The University of Texas at Austin
Timothy A. Linksvayer
Timothy A. Linksvayer Arizona State University
Evan P. Economo
Evan P. Economo Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Camille Parmesan
Camille Parmesan The University of Texas at Austin
Jay D. Evans
Jay D. Evans Agricultural Research Service
Heikki Helanterä
Heikki Helanterä University of Oulu
Michael C. Singer
Michael C. Singer Plymouth University
Thomas D. Seeley
Thomas D. Seeley Cornell University
Andrew V. Suarez
Andrew V. Suarez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hugh M. Robertson
Hugh M. Robertson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Juan J. Calvete

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Madeleine Beekman

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