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Cymon J. Cox

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
49
Citations
11019
World Ranking
3992
National Ranking
26

Cymon J. Cox publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 106 publications — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Cymon J. Cox 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 Cymon J. Cox sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 49 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Cymon J. Cox is affiliated with the University of Algarve in Portugal. Their research spans multiple fields, including Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on several subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Oceanography, Pollution, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The scientist's work is concentrated on topics including:

  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Mollusks and Parasites Studies
  • Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies

Among recent publications, key papers include:

  • Metagenomic insights into the taxonomy, function, and dysbiosis of prokaryotic communities in octocorals, 2021, Microbiome
  • Integrated phylogenomic analyses unveil reticulate evolution in Parthenocissus (Vitaceae), highlighting speciation dynamics in the Himalayan-Hengduan Mountains, 2022, New Phytologist
  • Mitochondrial genes from 18 angiosperms fill sampling gaps for phylogenomic inferences of the early diversification of flowering plants, 2020, Journal of Systematics and Evolution
  • The mitochondrial phylogeny of land plants shows support for Setaphyta under composition-heterogeneous substitution models, 2020, PeerJ
  • Inferring the Deep Past from Molecular Data, 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution

Cymon J. Cox frequently collaborates with the following coauthors:

  • Peter G. Foster
  • Katrina Exter
  • Robert Finn
  • Ioulia Santi
  • Christina Pavloudi

The scientist's work has been published in venues including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PeerJ
  • Molecular Ecology
  • F1000Research
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Best Publications

  • Biopython: freely available Python tools for computational molecular biology and bioinformatics

    Peter J. A. Cock;Tiago Antao;Jeffrey T. Chang;Brad A. Chapman

  • Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny

    Timothy Y. James;Frank Kauff;Conrad L. Schoch;P. Brandon Matheny

  • Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits

    François Lutzoni;Frank Kauff;Cymon J. Cox;David McLaughlin

  • An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

    Tom A. Williams;Peter G. Foster;Cymon J. Cox;T. Martin Embley

  • The Interrelationships of Land Plants and the Nature of the Ancestral Embryophyte

    Mark N. Puttick;Mark N. Puttick;Jennifer L. Morris;Jennifer L. Morris;Tom A. Williams;Cymon J. Cox

  • The archaebacterial origin of eukaryotes

    Cymon J. Cox;Peter G. Foster;Robert P. Hirt;Simon R. Harris

  • Phylogenomics provides robust support for a two-domains tree of life

    Tom A. Williams;Cymon J. Cox;Peter G. Foster;Gergely J. Szöllősi;Gergely J. Szöllősi

  • Three geographically separate domestications of Asian rice.

    Peter Civáň;Hayley Craig;Cymon J. Cox;Terence A. Brown

  • Moss diversity: A molecular phylogenetic analysis of genera

    C. J. Cox;B. Goffinet;N. J. Wickett;S. B. Boles

  • Extant diversity of bryophytes emerged from successive post-Mesozoic diversification bursts

    B. Laenen;B. Laenen;B. Shaw;H. Schneider;B. Goffinet

  • Conflicting Phylogenies for Early Land Plants are Caused by Composition Biases among Synonymous Substitutions

    Cymon J. Cox;Blaise Li;Peter G. Foster;T. Martin Embley

  • Chloroplast Phylogeny of Asplenioid Ferns based on rbcL and trnL-F Spacer Sequences (Polypodiidae, Aspleniaceae) and its Implications for Biogeography

    Harald Schneider;Harald Schneider;Steve J. Russell;Cymon J. Cox;Freek Bakker

  • Evolution of the major moss lineages phylogenetic analyses based on multiple gene sequences and morphology

    Angela E. Newton;Cymon J. Cox;Jeffrey G. Duckett;John A. Wheeler

  • A congruent phylogenomic signal places eukaryotes within the Archaea

    Tom A. Williams;Peter G. Foster;Tom M. W. Nye;Cymon J. Cox

  • Phylogeny and evolution of medical species of Candida and related taxa: a multigenic analysis.

    Stephanie Diezmann;Stephanie Diezmann;Cymon J. Cox;Gabriele Schönian;Rytas J. Vilgalys

  • Resolution of the ordinal phylogeny of mosses using targeted exons from organellar and nuclear genomes.

    Yang Liu;Matthew G. Johnson;Cymon J. Cox;Rafael Medina

  • Polarity of peatmoss (Sphagnum) evolution: who says bryophytes have no roots?

    A. Jonathan Shaw;Cymon J. Cox;Sandra B. Boles

  • Mitochondrial phylogenomics of early land plants: mitigating the effects of saturation, compositional heterogeneity, and codon-usage bias.

    Yang Liu;Cymon J. Cox;Wei Wang;Bernard Goffinet

  • Phylogenetic evidence of a rapid radiation of pleurocarpous mosses (Bryophyta).

    A. J. Shaw;C. J. Cox;B. Goffinet;W. R. Buck

  • Phylogenetic Relationships among the Mosses Based on Heterogeneous Bayesian Analysis of Multiple Genes from Multiple Genomic Compartments

    Cymon J. Cox;Bernard Goffinet;A. Jonathan Shaw;Sandra B. Boles

  • The Bryophyta (Mosses): Systematic and Evolutionary Inferences from an rps4 Gene (cpDNA) Phylogeny

    Bernard Goffinet;Cymon J. Cox;A.Jonathan Shaw;Terry A.J. Hedderson

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Goffinet
Bernard Goffinet University of Connecticut
A. Jonathan Shaw
A. Jonathan Shaw Duke University
Peter G. Foster
Peter G. Foster Natural History Museum
T. Martin Embley
T. Martin Embley Newcastle University
Harald Schneider
Harald Schneider Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden
Alain Vanderpoorten
Alain Vanderpoorten University of Liège
Terry A. Hedderson
Terry A. Hedderson University of Cape Town
Norman J. Wickett
Norman J. Wickett University of Vienna
Terence A. Brown
Terence A. Brown University of Manchester
Lars Hedenäs
Lars Hedenäs Swedish Museum of Natural History

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