| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Detecting the number of clusters of individuals using the software structure: a simulation study | Molecular Ecology | 2005 | 18,555 |
| 2 | TCS: a computer program to estimate gene genealogies | Molecular Ecology | 2000 | 8,515 |
| 3 | ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes ‐ application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts | Molecular Ecology | 1993 | 8,354 |
| 4 | Revising how the computer program cervus accommodates genotyping error increases success in paternity assignment | Molecular Ecology | 2007 | 4,426 |
| 5 | Statistical confidence for likelihood‐based paternity inference in natural populations | Molecular Ecology | 1998 | 3,771 |
| 6 | Stacks: an analysis tool set for population genomics | Molecular Ecology | 2013 | 3,077 |
| 7 | Towards a unified paradigm for sequence‐based identification of fungi | Molecular Ecology | 2013 | 2,997 |
| 8 | A DNA test to sex most birds | Molecular Ecology | 1998 | 2,688 |
| 9 | Comparative phylogeography and postglacial colonization routes in Europe | Molecular Ecology | 1998 | 2,534 |
| 10 | ABGD, Automatic Barcode Gap Discovery for primary species delimitation | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 2,396 |
| 11 | GST and its relatives do not measure differentiation | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 2,151 |
| 12 | Site-specific genetic divergence in parallel hybrid zones suggests nonallopatric evolution of reproductive barriers | Molecular Ecology | 2006 | 1,818 |
| 13 | Analysis of population genetic structure with RAPD markers | Molecular Ecology | 1994 | 1,795 |
| 14 | The incomplete natural history of mitochondria | Molecular Ecology | 2004 | 1,767 |
| 15 | Microsatellite analysis of population structure in Canadian polar bears | Molecular Ecology | 1995 | 1,738 |
| 16 | A simulated annealing approach to define the genetic structure of populations | Molecular Ecology | 2002 | 1,670 |
| 17 | Strategies for microsatellite isolation: a review | Molecular Ecology | 2002 | 1,593 |
| 18 | Comparison of different nuclear DNA markers for estimating intraspecific genetic diversity in plants | Molecular Ecology | 2004 | 1,572 |
| 19 | Founding events in species invasions: genetic variation, adaptive evolution, and the role of multiple introductions | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 1,468 |
| 20 | Detection of reduction in population size using data from microsatellite loci | Molecular Ecology | 2001 | 1,385 |
| 21 | Genetic assignment methods for the direct, real-time estimation of migration rate: a simulation-based exploration of accuracy and power | Molecular Ecology | 2004 | 1,321 |
| 22 | FAST-TRACK: Integrating QTL mapping and genome scans towards the characterization of candidate loci under parallel selection in the lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) | Molecular Ecology | 2004 | 1,298 |
| 23 | Genetic variation across species’ geographical ranges: the central–marginal hypothesis and beyond | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 1,298 |
| 24 | What is a population? An empirical evaluation of some genetic methods for identifying the number of gene pools and their degree of connectivity | Molecular Ecology | 2006 | 1,266 |
| 25 | Towards next‐generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 1,253 |
| 26 | Multiple marker parallel tag environmental DNA sequencing reveals a highly complex eukaryotic community in marine anoxic water | Molecular Ecology | 2010 | 1,229 |
| 27 | How to track and assess genotyping errors in population genetics studies | Molecular Ecology | 2004 | 1,227 |
| 28 | Extra pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 1,223 |
| 29 | Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities | Molecular Ecology | 2017 | 1,210 |
| 30 | GeoDis: a program for the cladistic nested analysis of the geographical distribution of genetic haplotypes | Molecular Ecology | 2000 | 1,205 |
| 31 | The biogeography of mitochondrial and nuclear discordance in animals | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 1,183 |
| 32 | Nested clade analyses of phylogeographic data: testing hypotheses about gene flow and population history | Molecular Ecology | 1998 | 1,102 |
| 33 | Estimating the probability of identity among genotypes in natural populations: cautions and guidelines | Molecular Ecology | 2001 | 1,101 |
| 34 | A set of universal primers for amplification of polymorphic non‐coding regions of mitochondrial and chloroplast DNA in plants | Molecular Ecology | 1995 | 1,042 |
| 35 | New insights from fine-scale spatial genetic structure analyses in plant populations | Molecular Ecology | 2004 | 1,037 |
| 36 | The role of hybridization in evolution | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 1,007 |
| 37 | Divergent selection and heterogeneous genomic divergence | Molecular Ecology | 2009 | 1,005 |
| 38 | Climate change and evolution: disentangling environmental and genetic responses | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 959 |
| 39 | Reanalysis suggests that genomic islands of speciation are due to reduced diversity, not reduced gene flow | Molecular Ecology | 2014 | 937 |
| 40 | Microsatellites: genomic distribution, putative functions and mutational mechanisms: a review | Molecular Ecology | 2002 | 931 |
| 41 | Environmental DNA | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 926 |
| 42 | The estimation of population differentiation with microsatellite markers | Molecular Ecology | 2002 | 916 |
| 43 | Who is eating what: diet assessment using next generation sequencing | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 913 |
| 44 | Identifying adaptive genetic divergence among populations from genome scans | Molecular Ecology | 2004 | 906 |
| 45 | How to fail at species delimitation | Molecular Ecology | 2013 | 896 |
| 46 | Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA | Molecular Ecology | 2012 | 882 |
| 47 | Molecular evidence for glacial refugia of mountain plants in the European Alps | Molecular Ecology | 2005 | 878 |
| 48 | Next‐generation monitoring of aquatic biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding | Molecular Ecology | 2016 | 873 |
| 49 | Speciation, hybrid zones and phylogeography - or seeing genes in space and time | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 854 |
| 50 | Mitochondrial DNA as a marker of molecular diversity: a reappraisal | Molecular Ecology | 2009 | 854 |
