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Oliver A. Ryder 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 Oliver A. Ryder sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 299 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Oliver A. Ryder 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 Oliver A. Ryder sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 85 D-Index — 93rd percentile

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

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Oliver A. Ryder is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with contributions across 153 publications in these fields.

Their research spans several subfields including Genetics, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Plant Science, and Infectious Diseases. The main topics covered in their work include genetic diversity and population structure, genomics and phylogenetic studies, chromosomal and genetic variations, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, animal genetics and reproduction, and genetic and clinical aspects of sex determination and chromosomal abnormalities.

Oliver A. Ryder has co-authored frequently with several researchers, including Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Elinor K. Karlsson, Cynthia Steiner, Harris A. Lewin, and Klaus-Peter Koepfli.

Their publications have appeared in a variety of notable scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets for their work are:

  • Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Conservation Genetics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Oliver A. Ryder include:

  • Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics, 2020, Nature
  • The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals, 2023, Science
  • The tuatara genome reveals ancient features of amniote evolution, 2020, Nature

Oliver A. Ryder was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

    Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

  • Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

    Erich D. Jarvis;Siavash Mirarab;Andre J. Aberer;Bo Li;Bo Li;Bo Li

  • Resolution of the early placental mammal radiation using Bayesian phylogenetics

    William J. Murphy;Eduardo Eizirik;Eduardo Eizirik;Stephen J. O'Brien;Ole Madsen

  • Molecular phylogenetics and the origins of placental mammals

    William J. Murphy;Eduardo Eizirik;Eduardo Eizirik;Warren E. Johnson;Ya Ping Zhang

  • Species conservation and systematics: the dilemma of subspecies

    Oliver A. Ryder

  • Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

    Robert W. Meredith;Jan E. Janečka;John Gatesy;Oliver A. Ryder

  • The sequence and de novo assembly of the giant panda genome

    Ruiqiang Li;Wei Fan;Geng Tian;Hongmei Zhu

  • Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation.

    Guojie Zhang;Guojie Zhang;Cai Li;Qiye Li;Bo Li

  • DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.

    Russell Higuchi;Barbara Bowman;Mary Freiberger;Oliver A. Ryder

  • Great ape genetic diversity and population history

    Javier Prado-Martinez;Peter H. Sudmant;Jeffrey M. Kidd;Jeffrey M. Kidd;Heng Li

  • Recalibrating Equus evolution using the genome sequence of an early Middle Pleistocene horse.

    Ludovic Orlando;Aurelien Ginolhac;Guojie Zhang;Duane Froese

  • Genome sequence, comparative analysis, and population genetics of the domestic horse.

    C. M. Wade;E. Giulotto;S. Sigurdsson;M. Zoli

  • Insights into hominid evolution from the gorilla genome sequence

    Aylwyn Scally;Julien Y. Dutheil;LaDeana W. Hillier;Gregory E. Jordan

  • Genome 10K: A Proposal to Obtain Whole-Genome Sequence for 10 000 Vertebrate Species

    David Haussler;Stephen J. O'Brien;Oliver A. Ryder;F. Keith Barker

  • Distribution of non-telomeric sites of the (TTAGGG)n telomeric sequence in vertebrate chromosomes.

    Julianne Meyne;Robert J. Baker;Holly H. Hobart;T. C. Hsu

  • Comparative and demographic analysis of orang-utan genomes.

    Devin P. Locke;LaDeana W. Hillier;Wesley C. Warren;Kim C. Worley

  • Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates.

    Joana Damas;Graham M. Hughes;Kathleen C. Keough;Corrie A. Painter

  • Molecular evidence for genetic exchanges among ribosomal genes on nonhomologous chromosomes in man and apes

    Norman Arnheim;Mark Krystal;Roy Schmickel;Golder Wilson

  • Determination of ancestral alleles for human single-nucleotide polymorphisms using high-density oligonucleotide arrays

    J. G. Hacia;J.-B. Fan;O. Ryder;Li Jin;Li Jin

  • Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics.

    Shaohong Feng;Josefin Stiller;Yuan Deng;Joel Armstrong;Joel Armstrong

  • Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species

    Arang Rhie;Shane A. McCarthy;Olivier Fedrigo;Joana Damas

Frequent Co-Authors

Ya-Ping Zhang
Ya-Ping Zhang Kunming Institute of Zoology
Stephen J. O'Brien
Stephen J. O'Brien Nova Southeastern University
Guojie Zhang
Guojie Zhang Zhejiang University
M. Thomas P. Gilbert
M. Thomas P. Gilbert University of Copenhagen
Michael N Romanov
Michael N Romanov University of Kent
Warren E. Johnson
Warren E. Johnson Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Tomas Marques-Bonet
Tomas Marques-Bonet Pompeu Fabra University
Erich D. Jarvis
Erich D. Jarvis Rockefeller University
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh
Kerstin Lindblad-Toh Uppsala University
David Haussler
David Haussler University of California, Santa Cruz

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