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| Sensory ecology, receiver biases and sexual selection | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 1998 | 677 |
| Age and rate of diversification of the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Compositae) | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1998 | 547 |
| Phylogenetic supertrees: Assembling the trees of life | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 1998 | 340 |
| Origin of the metazoan phyla: molecular clocks confirm paleontological estimates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1998 | 275 |
| Life at stable low oxygen levels: adaptations of animals to oceanic oxygen minimum layers. | Journal of Experimental Biology | 1998 | 270 |
| Xa21D encodes a receptor-like molecule with a leucine-rich repeat domain that determines race-specific recognition and is subject to adaptive evolution | Plant Cell | 1998 | 268 |
| A sequence database for the identification of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes by phylogenetic analysis | Molecular Ecology | 1998 | 253 |
| THE RESPONSE OF TUNDRA PLANT BIOMASS, ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION, NITROGEN, AND CO2 FLUX TO EXPERIMENTAL WARMING | Ecology | 1998 | 239 |
| Receptor-like genes in the major resistance locus of lettuce are subject to divergent selection | Plant Cell | 1998 | 239 |
| Sugar Composition of Nectars and Fruits Consumed by Birds and Bats in the Tropics and Subtropics1 | Biotropica | 1998 | 230 |
| Ancient trees in Amazonia | Nature | 1998 | 195 |
| Life at stable low oxygen levels: adaptations of animals to oceanic oxygen minimum layers | Journal of Experimental Biology | 1998 | 193 |
| Genetic polymorphism and natural selection in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum | Genetics | 1998 | 186 |
| Malaria's Eve: evidence of a recent population bottleneck throughout the world populations of Plasmodium falciparum | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1998 | 183 |
| Metabolic reserves and evolved stress resistance in Drosophila melanogaster | Physiological Zoology | 1998 | 175 |
| Nitrospira-like bacteria associated with nitrite oxidation in freshwater aquaria | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 1998 | 167 |
| Population genetic structure of North Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea and Sea of Cortez fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus 1758): analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear loci | Molecular Ecology | 1998 | 162 |
| The Role of Balsam Poplar Secondary Chemicals in Controlling Soil Nutrient Dynamics through Succession in the Alaskan Taiga | Biogeochemistry | 1998 | 159 |
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| The effects of age, education, and ethnicity on verbal fluency | Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society | 1998 | 157 |
| FLOW-DRIVEN VARIATION IN INTERTIDAL COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN A MAINE ESTUARY | Ecology | 1998 | 152 |
| SPECIALIZATION AND RESOURCE TRADE: BIOLOGICAL MARKETS AS A MODEL OF MUTUALISMS | Ecology | 1998 | 150 |
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