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| 2 | Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 4,012 |
| 3 | Plešovice zircon — A new natural reference material for U–Pb and Hf isotopic microanalysis | Chemical Geology | 2008 | 3,858 |
| 4 | TESTING SIGNIFICANCE OF INCONGRUENCE | Cladistics | 1994 | 3,589 |
| 5 | European phenological response to climate change matches the warming pattern | Global Change Biology | 2006 | 2,412 |
| 6 | Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 1,801 |
| 7 | THE LIMITS OF AMINO ACID SEQUENCE DATA IN ANGIOSPERM PHYLOGENETIC RECONSTRUCTION | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1988 | 1,514 |
| 8 | Magmatic and Crustal Differentiation History of Granitic Rocks from Hf-O Isotopes in Zircon | Science | 2007 | 1,154 |
| 9 | Further Characterisation of the 91500 Zircon Crystal | Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research | 2004 | 1,142 |
| 10 | Constructing a Significance Test for Incongruence | Systematic Biology | 1995 | 1,030 |
| 11 | A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera | Systematic Biology | 2012 | 742 |
| 12 | The origin and early diversification of angiosperms | Nature | 1995 | 694 |
| 13 | Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2009 | 645 |
| 14 | Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils | Biology Letters | 2006 | 617 |
| 15 | The application of electron backscatter diffraction and orientation contrast imaging in the SEM to textural problems in rocks | American Mineralogist | 1999 | 610 |
| 16 | Improvements to resampling measures of group support | Cladistics | 2003 | 594 |
| 17 | Spatial, Temporal, and Species Variation in Prevalence of Influenza A Viruses in Wild Migratory Birds | PLoS Pathogens | 2007 | 591 |
| 18 | The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits | Systematic Biology | 2009 | 581 |
| 19 | Characterisation of early Archaean chemical sediments by trace element signatures | Earth and Planetary Science Letters | 2004 | 571 |
| 20 | BEAGLE: An Application Programming Interface and High-Performance Computing Library for Statistical Phylogenetics | Systematic Biology | 2012 | 555 |
| 21 | RevBayes: Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference Using Graphical Models and an Interactive Model-Specification Language | Systematic Biology | 2016 | 538 |
| 22 | DDT and PCB in Marine Animals from Swedish Waters | Nature | 1969 | 515 |
| 23 | Genomics and the challenging translation into conservation practice | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2015 | 469 |
| 24 | Dating high-grade metamorphism—constraints from rare-earth elements in zircon and garnet | Contributions To Mineralogy and Petrology | 2003 | 452 |
| 25 | Phylogenies without roots? A plea for the use of vouchers in molecular phylogenetic studies | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2008 | 421 |
| 26 | The Function of Marine Critical Transition Zones and the Importance of Sediment Biodiversity | Ecosystems | 2001 | 413 |
| 27 | Conservation status of freshwater mussels in Europe: state of the art and future challenges | Biological Reviews | 2017 | 400 |
| 28 | Dinosaur Coprolites and the Early Evolution of Grasses and Grazers | Science | 2005 | 394 |
| 29 | Towards an integrated phylogenetic classification of the Tremellomycetes | Studies in Mycology | 2015 | 393 |
| 30 | FungalTraits: a user-friendly traits database of fungi and fungus-like stramenopiles | Fungal Diversity | 2020 | 387 |
| 31 | The Effect of Geographical Scale of Sampling on DNA Barcoding | Systematic Biology | 2012 | 386 |
| 32 | Fungal diversity notes 111–252—taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa | Fungal Diversity | 2015 | 375 |
| 33 | Population Genomics Reveal Recent Speciation and Rapid Evolutionary Adaptation in Polar Bears | Cell | 2014 | 363 |
| 34 | SKEWNESS AND PERMUTATION | Cladistics | 1992 | 359 |
| 35 | Phylogenetics of asterids based on 3 coding and 3 non-coding chloroplast DNA markers and the utility of non-coding DNA at higher taxonomic levels | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2002 | 353 |
| 36 | Perfluorinated Alkyl Acids in Blood Serum from Primiparous Women in Sweden: Serial Sampling during Pregnancy and Nursing, And Temporal Trends 1996–2010 | Environmental Science & Technology | 2012 | 351 |
| 37 | Cretaceous angiosperm flowers: Innovation and evolution in plant reproduction | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology | 2006 | 346 |
| 38 | A Gondwanan origin of passerine birds supported by DNA sequences of the endemic New Zealand wrens | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2002 | 305 |
| 39 | Total-Evidence Dating under the Fossilized Birth–Death Process | Systematic Biology | 2016 | 304 |
| 40 | Xenacoelomorpha is the sister group to Nephrozoa | Nature | 2016 | 301 |
| 41 | Temporal trends of organochlorines in Northern Europe, 1967–1995. Relation to global fractionation, leakage from sediments and international measures | Environmental Pollution | 1998 | 285 |
| 42 | Decoupled taxonomic radiation and ecological expansion of open-habitat grasses in the Cenozoic of North America | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 285 |
| 43 | Adaptive responses of animals to climate change are most likely insufficient | Nature Communications | 2019 | 285 |
| 44 | Synchrotron X-ray tomographic microscopy of fossil embryos | Nature | 2006 | 279 |
| 45 | Continentally-derived solutes in shallow Archean seawater: Rare earth element and Nd isotope evidence in iron formation from the 2.9Ga Pongola Supergroup, South Africa | Geochimica Et Cosmochimica Acta | 2008 | 279 |
| 46 | Ancient Wolf Genome Reveals an Early Divergence of Domestic Dog Ancestors and Admixture into High-Latitude Breeds | Current Biology | 2015 | 270 |
| 47 | Tree pollen spectra in the stockholm region (sweden), 1973–1980 | Grana | 1981 | 268 |
| 48 | Complete Genomes Reveal Signatures of Demographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth | Current Biology | 2015 | 263 |
| 49 | Hafnium isotope evidence for a transition in the dynamics of continental growth 3.2 Gyr ago | Nature | 2012 | 254 |
| 50 | Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics | Nature | 2020 | 251 |
