| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Heat-Shock Proteins | Annual Review of Genetics | 1988 | 4,976 |
| 2 | Regulation Mechanisms and Signaling Pathways of Autophagy | Annual Review of Genetics | 2009 | 3,114 |
| 3 | Regulatory Sequences Involved in the Promotion and Termination of RNA Transcription | Annual Review of Genetics | 1979 | 2,923 |
| 4 | A Mitochondrial Paradigm of Metabolic and Degenerative Diseases, Aging, and Cancer: A Dawn for Evolutionary Medicine | Annual Review of Genetics | 2005 | 2,836 |
| 5 | Phylogenies from Molecular Sequences: Inference and Reliability | Annual Review of Genetics | 1988 | 2,097 |
| 6 | The Function of Heat-Shock Proteins in Stress Tolerance: Degradation and Reactivation of Damaged Proteins | Annual Review of Genetics | 1993 | 2,049 |
| 7 | Polyploid Incidence and Evolution | Annual Review of Genetics | 2000 | 2,008 |
| 8 | Steroid Receptor Regulated Transcription of Specific Genes and Gene Networks | Annual Review of Genetics | 1985 | 1,939 |
| 9 | Communication Modules in Bacterial Signaling Proteins | Annual Review of Genetics | 1992 | 1,629 |
| 10 | How Shelterin Protects Mammalian Telomeres | Annual Review of Genetics | 2008 | 1,604 |
| 11 | UBIQUITIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN DEGRADATION | Annual Review of Genetics | 1996 | 1,566 |
| 12 | The Role of Mitochondria in Apoptosis | Annual Review of Genetics | 2009 | 1,503 |
| 13 | Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts | Annual Review of Genetics | 2008 | 1,460 |
| 14 | Bacterial Quorum-Sensing Network Architectures | Annual Review of Genetics | 2009 | 1,426 |
| 15 | Molecular Signatures of Natural Selection | Annual Review of Genetics | 2005 | 1,406 |
| 16 | Double-Strand Break End Resection and Repair Pathway Choice | Annual Review of Genetics | 2011 | 1,264 |
| 17 | Regulation of Gene Expression by Cell-to-Cell Communication: Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing | Annual Review of Genetics | 2001 | 1,251 |
| 18 | Meiotic Chromosomes: Integrating Structure and Function | Annual Review of Genetics | 1999 | 1,226 |
| 19 | Germ-Line Transformation of Mice | Annual Review of Genetics | 1986 | 1,207 |
| 20 | Mapping Polygenes | Annual Review of Genetics | 1993 | 1,186 |
| 21 | Concerted and Birth-and-Death Evolution of Multigene Families | Annual Review of Genetics | 2005 | 1,150 |
| 22 | Genetic Analyses from Ancient DNA | Annual Review of Genetics | 2004 | 1,084 |
| 23 | Orthologs, Paralogs, and Evolutionary Genomics | Annual Review of Genetics | 2005 | 1,084 |
| 24 | Plant Retrotransposons | Annual Review of Genetics | 1999 | 1,029 |
| 25 | The Rules of Engagement in the Legume-Rhizobial Symbiosis | Annual Review of Genetics | 2011 | 1,008 |
| 26 | DNA Transposons and the Evolution of Eukaryotic Genomes | Annual Review of Genetics | 2007 | 1,003 |
| 27 | Fusion and Fission: Interlinked Processes Critical for Mitochondrial Health | Annual Review of Genetics | 2012 | 987 |
| 28 | The Genetic Architecture of Quantitative Traits | Annual Review of Genetics | 2001 | 985 |
| 29 | Epigenetic Regulation of Cellular Memory by the Polycomb and Trithorax Group Proteins | Annual Review of Genetics | 2004 | 965 |
| 30 | Conservation Genetics | Annual Review of Genetics | 1995 | 959 |
| 31 | Mutagenesis by Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Sites | Annual Review of Genetics | 1986 | 930 |
| 32 | Mechanisms and Biological Effects of Mismatch Repair | Annual Review of Genetics | 1991 | 917 |
| 33 | Comparative Organization of Chloroplast Genomes | Annual Review of Genetics | 1985 | 900 |
| 34 | Regulation of Homologous Recombination in Eukaryotes | Annual Review of Genetics | 2010 | 899 |
| 35 | Metagenomics: Genomic Analysis of Microbial Communities | Annual Review of Genetics | 2004 | 890 |
| 36 | Cohesin: Its Roles and Mechanisms | Annual Review of Genetics | 2009 | 869 |
| 37 | Genetics and Control of Tomato Fruit Ripening and Quality Attributes | Annual Review of Genetics | 2011 | 855 |
| 38 | Light Signal Transduction in Higher Plants | Annual Review of Genetics | 2004 | 843 |
| 39 | Transposable Elements in Prokaryotes | Annual Review of Genetics | 1981 | 831 |
| 40 | Selection on Codon Bias | Annual Review of Genetics | 2008 | 827 |
| 41 | Quorum Sensing in Staphylococci | Annual Review of Genetics | 2008 | 773 |
| 42 | Duplication and Divergence: The Evolution of New Genes and Old Ideas | Annual Review of Genetics | 2004 | 756 |
| 43 | Disseminating the Genome: Joining, Resolving, and Separating Sister Chromatids During Mitosis and Meiosis | Annual Review of Genetics | 2001 | 752 |
| 44 | New Insights into Plant Responses to the Attack from Insect Herbivores | Annual Review of Genetics | 2010 | 752 |
| 45 | The Molecular Genetics of Cellular Oncogenes | Annual Review of Genetics | 1984 | 747 |
| 46 | CRISPR-Cas Systems in Bacteria and Archaea: Versatile Small RNAs for Adaptive Defense and Regulation | Annual Review of Genetics | 2011 | 747 |
| 47 | Alternative Splicing in the Control of Gene Expression | Annual Review of Genetics | 1989 | 743 |
| 48 | Histones: Annotating Chromatin | Annual Review of Genetics | 2009 | 737 |
| 49 | PRE-mRNA Splicing | Annual Review of Genetics | 1986 | 724 |
| 50 | The myc Oncogene: Its Role in Transformation and Differentiation | Annual Review of Genetics | 1986 | 724 |
