| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Ribosomal DNA: Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Inference | Quarterly Review of Biology | 1991 | 2,150 |
| 2 | The sampling theory of selectively neutral alleles | Theoretical Population Biology | 1972 | 1,860 |
| 3 | The evolution of mating preferences and the paradox of the lek | Nature | 1991 | 1,324 |
| 4 | Signal, Noise, and Reliability in Molecular Phylogenetic Analyses | Journal of Heredity | 1992 | 1,257 |
| 5 | Evolution of a Species' Range | American Naturalist | 1997 | 1,202 |
| 6 | Niche Overlap and Diffuse Competition | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1974 | 892 |
| 7 | NUTRITION AND GROWTH OF SEVERAL BLUE‐GREEN ALGAE | American Journal of Botany | 1955 | 861 |
| 8 | Ecological Consequences of Foraging Mode | Ecology | 1981 | 841 |
| 9 | Combining data in phylogenetic analysis | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 1996 | 772 |
| 10 | Is It Better to Add Taxa or Characters to a Difficult Phylogenetic Problem? | Systematic Biology | 1998 | 703 |
| 11 | Fluorescence and oxygen evolution from Chlorella pyrenoidosa | Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics | 1969 | 640 |
| 12 | Sexual selection for sensory exploitation in the frog Physalaemus pustulosus | Nature | 1990 | 612 |
| 13 | Directional selection and the evolution of breeding date in birds | Science | 1988 | 597 |
| 14 | Acoustically Orienting Parasitoids: Fly Phonotaxis to Cricket Song | Science | 1975 | 539 |
| 15 | Evidence from 18 S Ribosomal DNA that the Lophophorates Are Protostome Animals | Science | 1995 | 534 |
| 16 | Analysis of the inheritance, selection and evolution of growth trajectories. | Genetics | 1990 | 533 |
| 17 | Rate of Fixation of Nucleotide Substitutions in Evolution | Nature | 1969 | 522 |
| 18 | Invasion of Polygyne Fire Ants Decimates Native Ants and Disrupts Arthropod Community | Ecology | 1990 | 513 |
| 19 | Delayed germination and dispersal in desert annuals: Escape in space and time | Oecologia | 1980 | 510 |
| 20 | Patterns of variation in life history among South American fishes in seasonal environments | Oecologia | 1989 | 510 |
| 21 | Inferring complex phytogenies | Nature | 1996 | 509 |
| 22 | Application and accuracy of molecular phylogenies | Science | 1994 | 504 |
| 23 | GENETIC MODELS OF ADAPTATION AND GENE FLOW IN PERIPHERAL POPULATIONS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1997 | 504 |
| 24 | THE EVOLUTION OF MATERNAL CHARACTERS | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1989 | 502 |
| 25 | Molecular Versus Morphological Approaches to Systematics | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 1987 | 491 |
| 26 | SYMPATRIC HOST RACE FORMATION AND SPECIATION IN FRUGIVOROUS FLIES OF THE GENUSRHAGOLETIS(DIPTERA, TEPHRITIDAE) | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1969 | 487 |
| 27 | Taxonomic Sampling, Phylogenetic Accuracy, and Investigator Bias | Systematic Biology | 1998 | 482 |
| 28 | Male Contribution to Egg Production in Butterflies: Evidence for Transfer of Nutrients at Mating | Science | 1979 | 477 |
| 29 | Distinguishing mechanisms for the evolution of co-operation | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 1991 | 463 |
| 30 | Elephant Seals: Genetic Variation and Near Extinction | Science | 1974 | 461 |
| 31 | Nutrition and Growth of Several Blue-Green Algae | American Journal of Botany | 1955 | 450 |
| 32 | A novel coenzyme from bacterial primary alcohol dehydrogenases | Nature | 1979 | 434 |
| 33 | THE ANATOMY AND FUNCTION OF A SEGMENT OF THE X CHROMOSOME OF DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER | Genetics | 1972 | 419 |
| 34 | SPECIES RECOGNITION AND SEXUAL SELECTION AS A UNITARY PROBLEM IN ANIMAL COMMUNICATION | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1993 | 414 |
| 35 | Social Rank in House Mice: Differentiation Revealed by Ultraviolet Visualization of Urinary Marking Patterns | Science | 1973 | 403 |
| 36 | Sexual characteristics of adult female mice are correlated with their blood testosterone levels during prenatal development | Science | 1980 | 367 |
| 37 | Evidence for Biased Gene Conversion in Concerted Evolution of Ribosomal DNA | Science | 1991 | 364 |
| 38 | Pollen Feeding and Reproductive Biology of Heliconius Butterflies | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1972 | 361 |
| 39 | The strength of indirect selection on female mating preferences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1997 | 356 |
| 40 | Pineal Function: The Biological Clock in the Sparrow? | Science | 1968 | 352 |
| 41 | A quantitative genetic model for growth, shape, reaction norms, and other infinite-dimensional characters | Journal of Mathematical Biology | 1989 | 350 |
| 42 | Sexual Selection, Receiver Biases, and the Evolution of Sex Differences | Science | 1998 | 347 |
| 43 | Photoperiodic Control of Hamster Testis | Science | 1967 | 342 |
| 44 | Competition Between Seed-Eating Rodents and Ants in Desert Ecosystems | Science | 1977 | 335 |
| 45 | Different Trajectories of Parallel Evolution During Viral Adaptation | Science | 1999 | 335 |
| 46 | RELATIONS BETWEEN PIGMENT CONTENT AND PHOTOSYNTHETIC CHARACTERISTICS IN A BLUE-GREEN ALGA | Journal of General Physiology | 1955 | 325 |
| 47 | VIRULENCE | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 1994 | 325 |
| 48 | A comparative analysis of clinging ability among pad-bearing lizards | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 1996 | 325 |
| 49 | Adaptive plasticity in hatching age: a response to predation risk trade-offs. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1995 | 324 |
| 50 | The quaking gene product necessary in embryogenesis and myelination combines features of RNA binding and signal transduction proteins | Nature Genetics | 1996 | 320 |
