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Sylvain Glémin

Sylvain Glémin

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
55
Citations
12187
World Ranking
2961
National Ranking
124

Sylvain Glémin 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 Sylvain Glémin sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 170 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sylvain Glémin 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 Sylvain Glémin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Sylvain Glémin is affiliated with the University of Rennes in France. Their body of work spans several interconnected fields within biology, focusing primarily on genetics, molecular biology, and evolutionary biology.

The scientist's research covers the following main fields of study:

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences

Within these broader fields, key subfields addressed in their publications include:

  • Genetics
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

The main topics of research work focus on:

  • Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations

Sylvain Glémin has contributed to a variety of publications, including papers published in notable venues such as PLoS Genetics, Systematic Biology, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Ecology Letters, and Genetics. Some recent publications are:

  • Diversity and determinants of recombination landscapes in flowering plants, 2022, PLoS Genetics
  • Pulled Diversification Rates, Lineages-Through-Time Plots, and Modern Macroevolutionary Modeling, 2021, Systematic Biology
  • Dioecy Is Associated with High Genetic Diversity and Adaptation Rates in the Plant Genus Silene, 2020, Molecular Biology and Evolution
  • Trait-dependent diversification in angiosperms: Patterns, models and data, 2023, Ecology Letters
  • From Drift to Draft: How Much Do Beneficial Mutations Actually Contribute to Predictions of Ohta's Slightly Deleterious Model of Molecular Evolution?, 2020, Genetics

Frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • PLoS Genetics
  • New Phytologist
  • eLife

Co-authorship appears prominently in their work, with several frequent collaborators contributing to multiple papers. These include:

  • Martin Lascoux
  • Concetta Burgarella
  • Marion Orsucci
  • Tianlin Duan
  • Lucas Marie-Orleach

Best Publications

  • Mitochondrial DNA as a marker of molecular diversity: a reappraisal

    N. Galtier;Benoit Nabholz;S. Glemin;G. D. D. Hurst

  • Population Size Does Not Influence Mitochondrial Genetic Diversity in Animals

    Eric Bazin;Sylvain Glémin;Nicolas Galtier

  • Comparative population genomics in animals uncovers the determinants of genetic diversity

    J. Romiguier;Philippe Gayral;Marion Ballenghien;Aurélien Bernard

  • Strong Variations of Mitochondrial Mutation Rate across Mammals—the Longevity Hypothesis

    Benoit Nabholz;Sylvain Glémin;Nicolas Galtier

  • Grinding up Wheat: A Massive Loss of Nucleotide Diversity Since Domestication

    Annabelle Haudry;Alberto Cenci;C. Ravel;Thomas Bataillon

  • HOW ARE DELETERIOUS MUTATIONS PURGED? DRIFT VERSUS NONRANDOM MATING

    Sylvain Glémin

  • Impact of mating systems on patterns of sequence polymorphism in flowering plants.

    Sylvain Glémin;Eric Bazin;Deborah Charlesworth

  • The erratic mitochondrial clock: variations of mutation rate, not population size, affect mtDNA diversity across birds and mammals

    Benoit Nabholz;Sylvain Glémin;Nicolas Galtier

  • A comparative view of the evolution of grasses under domestication.

    Sylvain Glémin;Thomas Bataillon;Thomas Bataillon

  • How are deleterious mutations purged? Drift versus nonrandom mating.

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  • Reference-Free Population Genomics from Next-Generation Transcriptome Data and the Vertebrate–Invertebrate Gap

    Philippe Gayral;José Melo-Ferreira;Sylvain Glémin;Nicolas Bierne

  • GC-biased gene conversion promotes the fixation of deleterious amino acid changes in primates.

    Nicolas Galtier;Laurent Duret;Sylvain Glémin;Vincent Ranwez

  • Plant self-incompatibility systems: a molecular evolutionary perspective

    Deborah Charlesworth;Xavier Vekemans;Vincent Castric;Sylvain Glémin

  • Genetic Diversity and the Efficacy of Purifying Selection across Plant and Animal Species.

    Jun Chen;Sylvain Glémin;Sylvain Glémin;Martin Lascoux

  • Determination of mitochondrial genetic diversity in mammals

    Benoit Nabholz;Jean-François Mauffrey;Eric Bazin;Eric Bazin;Nicolas Galtier

  • ADAPTATION AND MALADAPTATION IN SELFING AND OUTCROSSING SPECIES: NEW MUTATIONS VERSUS STANDING VARIATION

    Sylvain Glémin;Joëlle Ronfort

  • Codon usage bias in animals: disentangling the effects of natural selection, effective population size and GC-biased gene conversion

    Nicolas Galtier;Camille Roux;Camille Roux;Camille Roux;Marjolaine Rousselle;Jonathan Romiguier;Jonathan Romiguier

  • Detecting positive selection within genomes : the problem of biased gene conversion

    Abhirami Ratnakumar;Sylvain Mousset;Sylvain Glémin;Jonas Berglund

  • Inference of Distribution of Fitness Effects and Proportion of Adaptive Substitutions from Polymorphism Data.

    Paula Tataru;Maéva Mollion;Sylvain Glémin;Sylvain Glémin;Thomas Bataillon

  • Quantification of GC-biased gene conversion in the human genome

    Sylvain Glémin;Sylvain Glémin;Peter F. Arndt;Philipp W. Messer;Dmitri Petrov

  • Bio++: a set of C++ libraries for sequence analysis, phylogenetics, molecular evolution and population genetics

    Julien Dutheil;Sylvain Gaillard;Eric Bazin;Sylvain Glémin

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicolas Galtier
Nicolas Galtier University of Montpellier
Martin Lascoux
Martin Lascoux Uppsala University
Thomas Bataillon
Thomas Bataillon Aarhus University
Laurent Duret
Laurent Duret Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Stephen I. Wright
Stephen I. Wright University of Toronto
Isabelle Olivieri
Isabelle Olivieri University of Montpellier
Nicolas Bierne
Nicolas Bierne University of Montpellier
Guillaume Besnard
Guillaume Besnard Paul Sabatier University
John R. Stinchcombe
John R. Stinchcombe University of Toronto
Deborah Charlesworth
Deborah Charlesworth University of Edinburgh

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