Laurent Excoffier

Laurent Excoffier

Universität Bern

H-index: 107

Europe-Switzerland

About Laurent Excoffier

Laurent Excoffier, With an exceptional h-index of 107 and a recent h-index of 57 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Universität Bern, specializes in the field of evolution, population genetics, range expansions, statistical genetics, demographic inference.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Demogenomic inference from spatially and temporally heterogeneous samples

The Impact of Genetic Surfing on Neutral Genomic Diversity (vol 39, msac249, 2022)

Cycles of fusion and fission enabled rapid parallel adaptive radiations in African cichlids

Rise and fall of deleterious variants: the origins of modern genetic diseases

Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics

The genomic origins of the world’s first farmers

Strong neutral sweeps occurring during a population contraction

Statistical inference in population genomics

Laurent Excoffier Information

University

Position

Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Citations(all)

101597

Citations(since 2020)

26287

Cited By

86794

hIndex(all)

107

hIndex(since 2020)

57

i10Index(all)

204

i10Index(since 2020)

153

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Laurent Excoffier Skills & Research Interests

evolution

population genetics

range expansions

statistical genetics

demographic inference

Top articles of Laurent Excoffier

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Demogenomic inference from spatially and temporally heterogeneous samples

Molecular ecology resources

Nina Marchi

Adamandia Kapopoulou

Laurent Excoffier

2024/1

The Impact of Genetic Surfing on Neutral Genomic Diversity (vol 39, msac249, 2022)

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Flávia Schlichta

Antoine Moinet

Stephan Peischl

Laurent Excoffier

2022/11/1

Cycles of fusion and fission enabled rapid parallel adaptive radiations in African cichlids

Science

Joana I Meier

Matthew D McGee

David A Marques

Salome Mwaiko

Mary Kishe

...

2023/9/29

Rise and fall of deleterious variants: the origins of modern genetic diseases

Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris. BMSAP

Brina López Gfeller

Adamandia Kapopoulou

Laurent Excoffier

Nina Marchi

2022/1/1

Recommendations for improving statistical inference in population genomics

Parul Johri

Charles F Aquadro

Mark Beaumont

Brian Charlesworth

Laurent Excoffier

...

2022/5/31

The genomic origins of the world’s first farmers

Cell

Nina Marchi

Laura Winkelbach

Ilektra Schulz

Maxime Brami

Zuzana Hofmanová

...

2022/5/26

Strong neutral sweeps occurring during a population contraction

Genetics

Antoine Moinet

Flávia Schlichta

Stephan Peischl

Laurent Excoffier

2022/4/1

Statistical inference in population genomics

demography

Parul Johri

Charles F Aquadro

Mark Beaumont

Brian Charlesworth

Laurent Excoffier

...

2021

Recent evolutionary history of tigers highlights contrasting roles of genetic drift and selection

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Ellie E Armstrong

Anubhab Khan

Ryan W Taylor

Alexandre Gouy

Gili Greenbaum

...

2021/6/1

fastsimcoal ver 2.8 fsc28

Laurent Excoffier

Nina Marchi

Vitor C Sousa

2021

Simulations of Human Dispersal and Genetic Diversity

Mathias Currat

Claudio S Quilodrán

Laurent Excoffier

2021/5/28

fastsimcoal2: demographic inference under complex evolutionary scenarios

Bioinformatics

Laurent Excoffier

Nina Marchi

David Alexander Marques

Remi Matthey-Doret

Alexandre Gouy

...

2021/12/15

Reply to “Re-evaluating the evidence for facilitation of stickleback speciation by admixture in the Lake Constance basin”

Nature communications

David A Marques

Kay Lucek

Vitor C Sousa

Laurent Excoffier

Ole Seehausen

2021/5/14

Runs of homozygosity in killer whale genomes provide a global record of demographic histories

Molecular Ecology

Andrew D Foote

Rebecca Hooper

Alana Alexander

Robin W Baird

Charles Scott Baker

...

2021/12

Genomic insights into population history and biological adaptation in Oceania

Nature

Jeremy Choin

Javier Mendoza-Revilla

Lara R Arauna

Sebastian Cuadros-Espinoza

Olivier Cassar

...

2021/4/22

Evidence of long-term purging of mutation load in killer whale genomes

Biorxiv

Andrew D Foote

M Thomas P Gilbert

Shyam Gopalakrishnan

Marie Louis

Michael D Martin

...

2021/8/21

Demographic inference

Current Biology

Nina Marchi

Flávia Schlichta

Laurent Excoffier

2021/3/22

The impact of purifying and background selection on the inference of population history: problems and prospects

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Parul Johri

Kellen Riall

Hannes Becher

Laurent Excoffier

Brian Charlesworth

...

2021/7

Transition from background selection to associative overdominance promotes diversity in regions of low recombination

Current Biology

Kimberly J Gilbert

Fanny Pouyet

Laurent Excoffier

Stephan Peischl

2020/1/6

Gene flow as a simple cause for an excess of high‐frequency‐derived alleles

Evolutionary applications

Nina Marchi

Laurent Excoffier

2020/10

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Co-Authors

H-index: 61
Peter Smouse

Peter Smouse

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

H-index: 60
Mark Beaumont

Mark Beaumont

University of Bristol

H-index: 48
Oscar Gaggiotti

Oscar Gaggiotti

University of St Andrews

H-index: 47
Carlo R. Largiadèr

Carlo R. Largiadèr

Universität Bern

H-index: 45
Gerald Heckel

Gerald Heckel

Universität Bern

H-index: 44
Nicolas Ray

Nicolas Ray

Université de Genève

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