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D-Index
126
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85118
World Ranking
300
National Ranking
158

Michael Lynch publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Lynch sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 367 publications — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Michael Lynch D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michael Lynch sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 126 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Michael Lynch is a researcher affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States, specializing in the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly contributions encompass a broad array of subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Their work covers diverse topics such as Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Protist Diversity and Phylogeny, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, CRISPR and Genetic Engineering, and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

Key publication venues for Michael Lynch include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), where they have published 20 papers, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with 9 papers, Genome Biology and Evolution with 8 papers, Molecular Biology and Evolution with 7 papers, and Marine Life Science & Technology with 6 papers.

Recent notable publications authored or coauthored by Michael Lynch are:

  • Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics, 2022, PLoS Biology
  • Physical bioenergetics: Energy fluxes, budgets, and constraints in cells, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Evolution of a minimal cell, 2023, Nature
  • Flagellar energy costs across the tree of life, 2022, eLife
  • The divergence of mutation rates and spectra across the Tree of Life, 2023, EMBO Reports

Frequent collaborators with Michael Lynch include Hongan Long, Zhiqiang Ye, Yaohai Wang, Jiao Pan, and Megan G. Behringer.

Michael Lynch has been recognized with several honors including membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2009, fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits

    Michael Lynch;Bruce Walsh

  • The evolutionary fate and consequences of duplicate genes

    Michael Lynch;John S. Conery

  • Preservation of Duplicate Genes by Complementary, Degenerative Mutations

    Allan Force;Michael Lynch;F. Bryan Pickett;Angel Amores

  • Analysis of population genetic structure with RAPD markers

    M. Lynch;B. G. Milligan

  • Toward an Ecological/Transactional Model of Community Violence and Child Maltreatment: Consequences for Children’s Development

    Dante Cicchetti;Michael Lynch

  • The origins of genome complexity.

    Michael Lynch;John S. Conery

  • The probability of duplicate gene preservation by subfunctionalization.

    Michael Lynch;Allan Force

  • The Origins of Genome Architecture

    Michael Lynch

  • The ecoresponsive genome of Daphnia pulex

    John K. Colbourne;Michael E. Pfrender;Michael E. Pfrender;Donald Gilbert;W. Kelley Thomas

  • Estimation of pairwise relatedness with molecular markers

    Michael Lynch;Kermit Ritland

  • The Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Stephan Ossowski;Korbinian Schneeberger;José Ignacio Lucas-Lledó;Norman Warthmann

  • MUTATION ACCUMULATION AND THE EXTINCTION OF SMALL POPULATIONS

    Michael Lynch;John Conery;Reinhard Burger

  • The similarity index and DNA fingerprinting.

    M Lynch

  • Evolution of the mutation rate.

    Michael Lynch

  • Mapping of DNA instability at the fragile X to a trinucleotide repeat sequence p(CCG)n.

    EJ Kremer;M Pritchard;M Lynch;S Yu

  • Fragile X genotype characterized by an unstable region of DNA

    S. Yu;M. Pritchard;E. Kremer;M. Lynch

  • THE GENETIC INTERPRETATION OF INBREEDING DEPRESSION AND OUTBREEDING DEPRESSION.

    Michael Lynch

  • The frailty of adaptive hypotheses for the origins of organismal complexity

    Michael Lynch

  • Genetic drift, selection and the evolution of the mutation rate

    Michael Lynch;Matthew S. Ackerman;Jean Francois Gout;Hongan Long

  • Rate, molecular spectrum, and consequences of human mutation

    Michael Lynch

Frequent Co-Authors

W. Kelley Thomas
W. Kelley Thomas University of New Hampshire
Paul B. Stretesky
Paul B. Stretesky Northumbria University
Michael E. Pfrender
Michael E. Pfrender University of Notre Dame
Haixu Tang
Haixu Tang Indiana University
Reinhard Bürger
Reinhard Bürger University of Vienna
Melania E. Cristescu
Melania E. Cristescu McGill University
John K. Colbourne
John K. Colbourne University of Birmingham
Volker Brendel
Volker Brendel Indiana University
Jeffrey D. Jensen
Jeffrey D. Jensen Arizona State University
Peter D. Keightley
Peter D. Keightley University of Edinburgh

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