| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Intra-sexual selection in Drosophila | Heredity | 1948 | 3,403 |
| 2 | A simple regression method for mapping quantitative trait loci in line crosses using flanking markers | Heredity | 1992 | 1,954 |
| 3 | Statistical tests of selective neutrality in the age of genomics | Heredity | 2001 | 1,640 |
| 4 | Natural selection and the heritability of fitness components | Heredity | 1987 | 1,556 |
| 5 | Indirect measures of gene flow and migration: FST≠1/(4Nm+1) | Heredity | 1999 | 1,408 |
| 6 | Adjusting multiple testing in multilocus analyses using the eigenvalues of a correlation matrix | Heredity | 2005 | 1,227 |
| 7 | Spatial autocorrelation analysis of individual multiallele and multilocus genetic structure | Heredity | 1999 | 994 |
| 8 | Transgressive segregation, adaptation and speciation | Heredity | 1999 | 955 |
| 9 | Applications of next generation sequencing in molecular ecology of non-model organisms | Heredity | 2011 | 930 |
| 10 | Steps in the evolution of heteromorphic sex chromosomes | Heredity | 2005 | 827 |
| 11 | Do island populations have less genetic variation than mainland populations? | Heredity | 1997 | 815 |
| 12 | Inbreeding depression in the wild | Heredity | 1999 | 767 |
| 13 | Microsatellite null alleles in parentage analysis | Heredity | 2004 | 759 |
| 14 | The evolutionary ecology of the major histocompatibility complex | Heredity | 2006 | 746 |
| 15 | Putting the ‘landscape’ in landscape genetics | Heredity | 2007 | 732 |
| 16 | Some statistical aspects of partitioning genotype-environmental components of variability | Heredity | 1972 | 731 |
| 17 | Detecting loci under selection in a hierarchically structured population | Heredity | 2009 | 718 |
| 18 | Spatial patterns of genetic variation generated by different forms of dispersal during range expansion | Heredity | 1996 | 683 |
| 19 | Epigenetics and gene expression | Heredity | 2010 | 666 |
| 20 | Estimating the relative rates of pollen and seed migration among plant populations | Heredity | 1994 | 653 |
| 21 | Extensions of models for the estimation of mating systems using n independent loci | Heredity | 2002 | 642 |
| 22 | Estimation of linkage disequilibrium in randomly mating populations | Heredity | 1974 | 633 |
| 23 | The barrier to genetic exchange between hybridising populations | Heredity | 1986 | 603 |
| 24 | Genome evolution and biodiversity in teleost fish | Heredity | 2005 | 562 |
| 25 | A model for the estimation of outcrossing rate and gene frequencies using n independent loci | Heredity | 1981 | 560 |
| 26 | Quantitative genetics and fitness: lessons from Drosophila | Heredity | 1987 | 555 |
| 27 | The separation of epistatic from additive and dominance variation in generation means | Heredity | 1958 | 544 |
| 28 | Combining population genomics and quantitative genetics: finding the genes underlying ecologically important traits | Heredity | 2008 | 534 |
| 29 | Selection experiments on industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera | Heredity | 1955 | 532 |
| 30 | A Quasi-equilibrium theory of the distribution of rare alleles in a subdivided population | Heredity | 1986 | 531 |
| 31 | Developments in the prediction of effective population size | Heredity | 1994 | 528 |
| 32 | Ψ, A cytoplasmic suppressor of super-suppressor in yeast | Heredity | 1965 | 527 |
| 33 | Genetics, development and evolution of adaptive pigmentation in vertebrates | Heredity | 2006 | 524 |
| 34 | Testing for linkage disequilibrium in genotypic data using the Expectation-Maximization algorithm | Heredity | 1996 | 517 |
| 35 | Evolution of the mitochondrial genome of Metazoa as exemplified by comparison of congeneric species | Heredity | 2008 | 515 |
| 36 | Inbreeding depression in benign and stressful environments | Heredity | 2005 | 514 |
| 37 | Model-fitting approaches to the analysis of human behaviour | Heredity | 1978 | 506 |
| 38 | Genetic diversity, mating systems, and interpopulation gene flow in neotropical Hemionitis palmata L. (Adiantaceae) | Heredity | 1992 | 505 |
| 39 | EST-SSRs as a resource for population genetic analyses | Heredity | 2007 | 499 |
| 40 | The power of the classical twin study | Heredity | 1978 | 489 |
| 41 | Revealing cryptic spatial patterns in genetic variability by a new multivariate method | Heredity | 2008 | 484 |
| 42 | Fluctuating asymmetry: a biological monitor of environmental and genomic stress | Heredity | 1992 | 483 |
| 43 | Genetical control of stability in development | Heredity | 1953 | 479 |
| 44 | The dynamics of hybrid zones | Heredity | 1979 | 470 |
| 45 | Constraints on the evolution of phenotypic plasticity: limits and costs of phenotype and plasticity | Heredity | 2015 | 469 |
| 46 | Environmental epigenetics | Heredity | 2010 | 468 |
| 47 | Evolutionary divergence among adjacent plant populations I. The evidence and its theoretical analysis | Heredity | 1966 | 459 |
| 48 | Genetic resource impacts of habitat loss and degradation; reconciling empirical evidence and predicted theory for neotropical trees | Heredity | 2005 | 452 |
| 49 | Local adaptation in host–parasite systems | Heredity | 1998 | 442 |
| 50 | Molecular evolution of the major chemosensory gene families in insects | Heredity | 2009 | 430 |
