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| 2 | A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity | Nature | 2017 | 1,942 |
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| 4 | Updated Functional Classification of β-Lactamases | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2010 | 1,817 |
| 5 | A Plant miRNA Contributes to Antibacterial Resistance by Repressing Auxin Signaling | Science | 2006 | 1,762 |
| 6 | The Physcomitrella Genome Reveals Evolutionary Insights into the Conquest of Land by Plants | Science | 2008 | 1,712 |
| 7 | The Origins of Genome Complexity | Science | 2003 | 1,436 |
| 8 | The developmental transcriptome of Drosophila melanogaster | Nature | 2011 | 1,379 |
| 9 | Mechanism of auxin perception by the TIR1 ubiquitin ligase | Nature | 2007 | 1,367 |
| 10 | Phylogenetic stains: ribosomal RNA-based probes for the identification of single cells | Science | 1989 | 1,313 |
| 11 | Investigating Deep Phylogenetic Relationships among Cyanobacteria and Plastids by Small Subunit rRNA Sequence Analysis | Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology | 1999 | 1,263 |
| 12 | Plant–soil feedbacks: the past, the present and future challenges | Journal of Ecology | 2013 | 1,259 |
| 13 | Regulation of Gene Expression by Cell-to-Cell Communication: Acyl-Homoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing | Annual Review of Genetics | 2001 | 1,251 |
| 14 | Regional Forest Fragmentation and the Nesting Success of Migratory Birds | Science | 1995 | 1,225 |
| 15 | The frequency of polyploid speciation in vascular plants | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 1,136 |
| 16 | Identification of Functional Elements and Regulatory Circuits by Drosophila modENCODE | Science | 2010 | 1,124 |
| 17 | Horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotic evolution | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2008 | 1,122 |
| 18 | The Ecoresponsive Genome of Daphnia pulex | Science | 2011 | 1,086 |
| 19 | Major Ecological Transitions in Wild Sunflowers Facilitated by Hybridization | Science | 2003 | 1,066 |
| 20 | The Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in Arabidopsis thaliana | Science | 2010 | 1,004 |
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| 22 | Listening in on bacteria: acyl-homoserine lactone signalling | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 2002 | 964 |
| 23 | The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus) | Nature | 2008 | 964 |
| 24 | Transgressive segregation, adaptation and speciation | Heredity | 1999 | 955 |
| 25 | Negative plant–soil feedback predicts tree-species relative abundance in a tropical forest | Nature | 2010 | 942 |
| 26 | Reanalysis suggests that genomic islands of speciation are due to reduced diversity, not reduced gene flow | Molecular Ecology | 2014 | 937 |
| 27 | The drosophila EcR gene encodes an ecdysone receptor, a new member of the steroid receptor superfamily | Cell | 1991 | 927 |
| 28 | GAL4 system indrosophila: A fly geneticist's swiss army knife | Genesis | 2002 | 923 |
| 29 | Systematic generation of high-resolution deletion coverage of the Drosophila melanogaster genome | Nature Genetics | 2004 | 919 |
| 30 | Tackling antibiotic resistance | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2011 | 919 |
| 31 | Sex Determination: Why So Many Ways of Doing It? | PLoS Biology | 2014 | 916 |
| 32 | Redefining fine roots improves understanding of below‐ground contributions to terrestrial biosphere processes | New Phytologist | 2015 | 906 |
| 33 | Functional ecdysone receptor is the product of EcR and Ultraspiracle genes | Nature | 1993 | 888 |
| 34 | Evolution of the mutation rate | Trends in Genetics | 2010 | 885 |
| 35 | Structure of the Arabidopsis RPM1 gene enabling dual specificity disease resistance | Science | 1995 | 874 |
| 36 | Plant Development Is Regulated by a Family of Auxin Receptor F Box Proteins | Developmental Cell | 2005 | 865 |
| 37 | Scaling laws predict global microbial diversity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 857 |
| 38 | Evolutionary Origins and Ecological Consequences of Endophyte Symbiosis with Grasses | American Naturalist | 2002 | 842 |
| 39 | Analysis of a marine picoplankton community by 16S rRNA gene cloning and sequencing | Journal of Bacteriology | 1991 | 819 |
| 40 | Soil pathogens and spatial patterns of seedling mortality in a temperate tree | Nature | 2000 | 793 |
| 41 | Phylogenetic group-specific oligodeoxynucleotide probes for identification of single microbial cells | Journal of Bacteriology | 1988 | 771 |
| 42 | Remarkable archaeal diversity detected in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring environment. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1994 | 771 |
| 43 | MicrobeJ, a tool for high throughput bacterial cell detection and quantitative analysis | Nature Microbiology | 2016 | 761 |
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| 47 | The increasing importance of atmospheric demand for ecosystem water and carbon fluxes | Nature Climate Change | 2016 | 734 |
| 48 | Does evolutionary theory need a rethink? | Nature | 2014 | 727 |
| 49 | The axonal transport of mitochondria | Journal of Cell Science | 2005 | 723 |
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