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Maren Wellenreuther

Maren Wellenreuther

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
40
Citations
5752
World Ranking
6155
National Ranking
73

Maren Wellenreuther publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Maren Wellenreuther sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 132 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Maren Wellenreuther 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 Maren Wellenreuther sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 40 D-Index — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Maren Wellenreuther is affiliated with Plant & Food Research in New Zealand and has a significant research output in the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and environmental science. Their work extensively covers genetics, molecular biology, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and aquatic science.

Their research focuses on several main topics including genetic diversity and population structure, fish ecology and management studies, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, aquaculture nutrition and growth, identification and quantification in food, genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities, as well as genomics and phylogenetic studies.

Wellenreuther's frequent co-authors include:

  • Peter A. Ritchie
  • Luciano B. Beheregaray
  • Jonathan Sandoval-Castillo
  • Claire Mérot
  • Emma L. Berdan

Their publications appear regularly in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication locations are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Evolutionary Applications
  • Genes
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Among recent papers associated with the broader collaboration network related to Wellenreuther's work are:

  • A Roadmap for Understanding the Evolutionary Significance of Structural Genomic Variation (2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Epigenetic inheritance and reproductive mode in plants and animals (2021, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)
  • Balancing selection via life-history trade-offs maintains an inversion polymorphism in a seaweed fly (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Locally Adaptive Inversions Modulate Genetic Variation at Different Geographic Scales in a Seaweed Fly (2021, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • Genetic stock structure of New Zealand fish and the use of genomics in fisheries management: an overview and outlook (2020, New Zealand Journal of Zoology)

Best Publications

  • Eco-Evolutionary Genomics of Chromosomal Inversions.

    Maren Wellenreuther;Maren Wellenreuther;Louis Bernatchez

  • A Roadmap for Understanding the Evolutionary Significance of Structural Genomic Variation

    Claire Mérot;Rebekah A. Oomen;Rebekah A. Oomen;Anna Tigano;Maren Wellenreuther;Maren Wellenreuther

  • Going beyond SNPs: The role of structural genomic variants in adaptive evolution and species diversification

    Maren Wellenreuther;Maren Wellenreuther;Claire Mérot;Emma Berdan;Louis Bernatchez

  • Harnessing the Power of Genomics to Secure the Future of Seafood

    Louis Bernatchez;Maren Wellenreuther;Maren Wellenreuther;Cristián Araneda;David T. Ashton

  • Sexual selection and genetic colour polymorphisms in animals

    Maren Wellenreuther;Erik I. Svensson;Bengt Hansson

  • Detecting Polygenic Evolution: Problems, Pitfalls, and Promises

    Maren Wellenreuther;Maren Wellenreuther;Bengt Hansson

  • Epigenetic inheritance and reproductive mode in plants and animals.

    Dafni Anastasiadi;Clare J. Venney;Louis Bernatchez;Maren Wellenreuther;Maren Wellenreuther

  • Animal movement across scales

    Lars-Anders Hansson;Susanne Åkesson

  • Permanent Genetic Resources added to Molecular Ecology Resources Database 1 December 2009–31 January 2010

    Silvia E. Arranz;Jean-Christophe Avarre;Chellam Balasundaram;Carmen Bouza

  • Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) as a bridge between ecology and evolutionary genomics.

    Seth Bybee;Alex Córdoba-Aguilar;M. Catherine Duryea;Ryo Futahashi

  • Balancing selection via life-history trade-offs maintains an inversion polymorphism in a seaweed fly

    Claire Mérot;Violaine Llaurens;Eric Normandeau;Louis Bernatchez

  • Locally Adaptive Inversions Modulate Genetic Variation at Different Geographic Scales in a Seaweed Fly.

    Claire Mérot;Emma L Berdan;Hugo Cayuela;Hugo Cayuela;Haig Djambazian

  • Climatic niche divergence or conservatism? Environmental niches and range limits in ecologically similar damselflies

    Maren Wellenreuther;Keith W. Larson;Erik I. Svensson

  • The genomic pool of standing structural variation outnumbers single nucleotide polymorphism by threefold in the marine teleost Chrysophrys auratus.

    Andrew Catanach;Ross Crowhurst;Cecilia Deng;Charles David

  • Evolutionary consequences of climate-induced range shifts in insects

    Rosa A. Sánchez-Guillén;Rosa A. Sánchez-Guillén;Alex Córdoba-Aguilar;Bengt Hansson;Jürgen Ott

  • Gene expression under thermal stress varies across a geographical range expansion front

    Lesley T. Lancaster;Rachael Y. Dudaniec;Pallavi Chauhan;Maren Wellenreuther;Maren Wellenreuther

  • Strong asymmetry in the relative strengths of prezygotic and postzygotic barriers between two damselfly sister species.

    Rosa Anna Sánchez-Guillén;Rosa Anna Sánchez-Guillén;Rosa Anna Sánchez-Guillén;Maren Wellenreuther;Adolfo Cordero Rivera

  • Ecological diversification in habitat use in subtidal triplefin fishes (Tripterygiidae)

    Maren Wellenreuther;Paul T Barrett;Kendall D Clements

  • Genetic divergence predicts reproductive isolation in damselflies

    R. A. Sánchez-Guillén;R. A. Sánchez-Guillén;A. Córdoba-Aguilar;A. Cordero-Rivera;M. Wellenreuther

  • Insect monitoring with fluorescence lidar techniques: field experiments

    Zuguang Guan;Mikkel Brydegaard;Patrik Lundin;Maren Wellenreuther

Frequent Co-Authors

Bengt Hansson
Bengt Hansson Lund University
Erik I. Svensson
Erik I. Svensson Lund University
Louis Bernatchez
Louis Bernatchez Université Laval
Kendall David Clements
Kendall David Clements University of Auckland
Roger K. Butlin
Roger K. Butlin University of Sheffield
Alex Córdoba-Aguilar
Alex Córdoba-Aguilar National Autonomous University of Mexico
Henrik Pavia
Henrik Pavia University of Gothenburg
John C. Montgomery
John C. Montgomery University of Auckland
David Chagné
David Chagné Plant & Food Research
Jiannis Ragoussis
Jiannis Ragoussis McGill University

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