| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Rise and Fall of the Beringian Steppe Bison | Science | 2004 | 601 |
| 2 | The Ecology and Evolutionary Dynamics of Meiotic Drive | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2016 | 305 |
| 3 | Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth | Nature | 2008 | 283 |
| 4 | The genomics of selection in dogs and the parallel evolution between dogs and humans | Nature Communications | 2013 | 275 |
| 5 | Out of southern East Asia: the natural history of domestic dogs across the world | Cell Research | 2016 | 271 |
| 6 | Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing of Mitochondria from Ancient Hair Shafts | Science | 2007 | 220 |
| 7 | Inferring the history of speciation in house mice from autosomal, X‐linked, Y‐linked and mitochondrial genes | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 219 |
| 8 | Ancient DNA analyses exclude humans as the driving force behind late Pleistocene musk ox ( Ovibos moschatus ) population dynamics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 208 |
| 9 | Paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic records from permafrost deposits in the Arctic region of Northern Siberia | Quaternary International | 2002 | 202 |
| 10 | Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in soil ecological studies | Biology Bulletin | 2007 | 181 |
| 11 | Evaporation from an eastern Siberian larch forest | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 1997 | 158 |
| 12 | Pollen-based biomes for Beringia 18,000, 6000 and 0 14C yr bp + | Journal of Biogeography | 2000 | 151 |
| 13 | Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 149 |
| 14 | Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity | Molecular Ecology | 2009 | 142 |
| 15 | The Origin and Evolution of the Woolly Mammoth | Science | 2001 | 141 |
| 16 | Mitochondrial Phylogeography of Moose (Alces alces): Late Pleistocene Divergence and Population Expansion | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2002 | 129 |
| 17 | Evaporation from a central Siberian pine forest | Journal of Hydrology | 1998 | 125 |
| 18 | Rest and activity states in a gray whale | Journal of Sleep Research | 2000 | 115 |
| 19 | Adaptive features of aquatic mammals' eye | Anatomical Record | 2007 | 103 |
| 20 | Non-Destructive Sampling of Ancient Insect DNA | PLoS ONE | 2009 | 99 |
| 21 | Dioxin exposure and public health in Chapaevsk, Russia | Chemosphere | 2001 | 94 |
| 22 | Analysis of complete mitochondrial genomes from extinct and extant rhinoceroses reveals lack of phylogenetic resolution | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 2009 | 92 |
| 23 | First DNA sequences from Asian cave bear fossils reveal deep divergences and complex phylogeographic patterns | Molecular Ecology | 2009 | 80 |
| 24 | Characteristics of lipid fractions of larvae of the black soldier fly Hermetia illucens | Doklady Biochemistry and Biophysics | 2016 | 78 |
| 25 | Parallelism in eco-morphology and gene expression despite variable evolutionary and genomic backgrounds in a Holarctic fish | PLoS Genetics | 2020 | 73 |
| 26 | Effect of nanoparticles on aquatic organisms | Biology Bulletin | 2010 | 68 |
| 27 | Carbon dioxide efflux density from the floor of a central Siberian pine forest | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | 1999 | 66 |
| 28 | Molecular phylogeny of the cyprinid tribe Labeonini (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2012 | 66 |
| 29 | Keratin 17 Gene Expression during the Murine Hair Cycle | Journal of Investigative Dermatology | 1997 | 64 |
| 30 | Multiple origins of viviparity, or reversal from viviparity to oviparity? The European common lizard (Zootoca vivipara, Lacertidae) and the evolution of parity | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2006 | 64 |
| 31 | Leaf conductance and CO2 assimilation of Larix gmelinii growing in an eastern Siberian boreal forest | Tree Physiology | 1997 | 61 |
| 32 | Patterns of karyotype evolution in complexes of sibling species within three genera of African murid rodents inferred from the comparison of cytogenetic and molecular data | Cytogenetic and Genome Research | 2002 | 60 |
| 33 | CHROMOSOMAL REARRANGEMENTS DO NOT SEEM TO AFFECT THE GENE FLOW IN HYBRID ZONES BETWEEN KARYOTYPIC RACES OF THE COMMON SHREW (SOREX ARANEUS) | Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution | 2012 | 60 |
| 34 | Ancient DNA sequences point to a large loss of mitochondrial genetic diversity in the saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) since the Pleistocene | Molecular Ecology | 2010 | 59 |
| 35 | Pups crying bass: vocal adaptation for avoidance of age-dependent predation risk in ground squirrels? | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2007 | 55 |
| 36 | Morphological classification of loaches (Nemacheilinae) | Journal of Ichthyology | 2010 | 54 |
| 37 | Invasions of alien species in Holarctic: Some results and perspective of investigations | Russian Journal of Biological Invasions | 2014 | 49 |
| 38 | Biodegradation of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in the South China Sea and identification of PHA-degrading bacteria | Microbiology | 2011 | 46 |
| 39 | Phylogenetic inference and peristome evolution in haplolepideous mosses, focusing on Pseudoditrichaceae and Ditrichaceaes. l. | Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society | 2016 | 46 |
| 40 | Soil bioassay: Problems and approaches | Eurasian Soil Science | 2011 | 45 |
| 41 | Muskox status, recent variation, and uncertain future | Ambio | 2020 | 45 |
| 42 | 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) Affects Keratin 1 and Keratin 17 Gene Expression and Differentially Induces Keratinization in Hairless Mouse Skin | Journal of Investigative Dermatology | 1997 | 42 |
| 43 | Nanocrystalline ceria based materials—Perspectives for biomedical application | Biophysics (Russian Federation) | 2011 | 41 |
| 44 | Invasions of alien fishes in the basins of the largest rivers of the Ponto-Caspian Basin: Composition, vectors, invasion routes, and rates | Russian Journal of Biological Invasions | 2011 | 41 |
| 45 | Genetic analysis of sable (Martes zibellina) and pine marten (M. martes) populations in sympatric part of distribution area in the northern Urals | Russian Journal of Genetics | 2010 | 40 |
| 46 | Testate Amoeba Functional Traits and Their Use in Paleoecology | Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution | 2020 | 40 |
| 47 | Management of anadromous lampreys: Common threats, different approaches | Journal of Great Lakes Research | 2021 | 40 |
| 48 | The effect of natural disturbances on forest biodiversity: an ecological synthesis | Biological Reviews | 2022 | 40 |
| 49 | Ice cores and mammoth extinction | Nature | 1995 | 38 |
| 50 | Ecological-geochemical state of soils in Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) | Eurasian Soil Science | 2011 | 38 |
