| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Structural absorption by barbule microstructures of super black bird of paradise feathers | Nature Communications | 2018 | 12,629 |
| 2 | The global diversity of birds in space and time | Nature | 2012 | 2,740 |
| 3 | Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being | Science | 2017 | 2,026 |
| 4 | Getting to the fat of the matter: models, methods and assumptions for dealing with lipids in stable isotope analyses | Oecologia | 2007 | 1,997 |
| 5 | Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis | Systematic Biology | 2008 | 1,871 |
| 6 | The gut microbiota of insects – diversity in structure and function | FEMS Microbiology Reviews | 2013 | 1,853 |
| 7 | Measurement of mRNA abundance using RNA-seq data: RPKM measure is inconsistent among samples | Theory in Biosciences | 2012 | 1,737 |
| 8 | Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life | Nature | 2008 | 1,698 |
| 9 | Local dispersal promotes biodiversity in a real-life game of rock–paper–scissors | Nature | 2002 | 1,423 |
| 10 | CAN STABLE ISOTOPE RATIOS PROVIDE FOR COMMUNITY-WIDE MEASURES OF TROPHIC STRUCTURE? | Ecology | 2007 | 1,251 |
| 11 | Extreme genome reduction in symbiotic bacteria | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2012 | 1,195 |
| 12 | Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa | Nature | 2010 | 1,131 |
| 13 | Bacteriocins: Evolution, Ecology, and Application | Annual Review of Microbiology | 2002 | 1,000 |
| 14 | Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency | Nature | 2004 | 968 |
| 15 | Applying stable isotopes to examine food‐web structure: an overview of analytical tools | Biological Reviews | 2012 | 936 |
| 16 | Phylomatic: tree assembly for applied phylogenetics | Molecular Ecology Notes | 2005 | 920 |
| 17 | Cryptic invasion by a non-native genotype of the common reed, Phragmites australis, into North America | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2002 | 902 |
| 18 | Improved software detection and extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from ribosomal ITS sequences of fungi and other eukaryotes for analysis of environmental sequencing data | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 868 |
| 19 | The road to modularity | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2007 | 853 |
| 20 | THE INVASION PARADOX: RECONCILING PATTERN AND PROCESS IN SPECIES INVASIONS | Ecology | 2007 | 763 |
| 21 | Nine exceptional radiations plus high turnover explain species diversity in jawed vertebrates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 756 |
| 22 | Emergent simplicity in microbial community assembly | Science | 2018 | 706 |
| 23 | A LIKELIHOOD FRAMEWORK FOR INFERRING THE EVOLUTION OF GEOGRAPHIC RANGE ON PHYLOGENETIC TREES | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2005 | 698 |
| 24 | Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2014 | 674 |
| 25 | EARLY BURSTS OF BODY SIZE AND SHAPE EVOLUTION ARE RARE IN COMPARATIVE DATA | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2010 | 672 |
| 26 | Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 671 |
| 27 | Analytical sensitivity and efficiency comparisons of SARS-CoV-2 RT–qPCR primer–probe sets | Nature Microbiology | 2020 | 661 |
| 28 | Phage Therapy: A Renewed Approach to Combat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria | Cell Host and Microbe | 2019 | 657 |
| 29 | Mapping tree density at a global scale | Nature | 2015 | 642 |
| 30 | Rates of Molecular Evolution Are Linked to Life History in Flowering Plants | Science | 2008 | 635 |
| 31 | Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa | American Journal of Botany | 2011 | 590 |
| 32 | Illumina-based analysis of microbial community diversity | ISME Journal | 2012 | 584 |
| 33 | The Ascomycota Tree of Life: A Phylum-wide Phylogeny Clarifies the Origin and Evolution of Fundamental Reproductive and Ecological Traits | Systematic Biology | 2009 | 581 |
| 34 | An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes | Nature | 2018 | 579 |
| 35 | The pleiotropic structure of the genotype–phenotype map: the evolvability of complex organisms | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2011 | 577 |
| 36 | The ecological importance of intraspecific variation | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 570 |
| 37 | Phyutility: a phyloinformatics tool for trees, alignments and molecular data | Bioinformatics | 2008 | 562 |
| 38 | MODELING STABILIZING SELECTION: EXPANDING THE ORNSTEIN-UHLENBECK MODEL OF ADAPTIVE EVOLUTION | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2012 | 537 |
| 39 | Genome-Wide Transcript Profiles in Aging and Calorically Restricted Drosophila melanogaster | Current Biology | 2002 | 528 |
| 40 | A Brief History of Seed Size | Science | 2005 | 513 |
| 41 | The biology of color | Science | 2017 | 509 |
| 42 | PERSPECTIVE: EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2003 | 504 |
| 43 | Additive threats from pathogens, climate and land-use change for global amphibian diversity | Nature | 2011 | 504 |
| 44 | Eco-evolutionary feedbacks in community and ecosystem ecology: interactions between the ecological theatre and the evolutionary play | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2009 | 485 |
| 45 | Phage selection restores antibiotic sensitivity in MDR Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 479 |
| 46 | The Birc1e cytosolic pattern-recognition receptor contributes to the detection and control of Legionella pneumophila infection | Nature Immunology | 2006 | 468 |
| 47 | PERSPECTIVE:EVOLUTION AND DETECTION OF GENETIC ROBUSTNESS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2003 | 467 |
| 48 | Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness | Science | 2011 | 463 |
| 49 | A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change | Ecology | 2009 | 458 |
| 50 | Antibiotic-mediated antagonism leads to a bacterial game of rock–paper–scissors in vivo | Nature | 2004 | 457 |
