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| 2 | Global imprint of climate change on marine life | Nature Climate Change | 2013 | 1,602 |
| 3 | Impacts of biodiversity on the emergence and transmission of infectious diseases | Nature | 2010 | 1,481 |
| 4 | Soft Robotics: Biological Inspiration, State of the Art, and Future Research | Applied Bionics and Biomechanics | 2008 | 1,168 |
| 5 | The DNA-encoded nucleosome organization of a eukaryotic genome | Nature | 2009 | 1,063 |
| 6 | Software techniques for two- and three-dimensional kinematic measurements of biological and biomimetic systems | Bioinspiration and Biomimetics | 2008 | 1,062 |
| 7 | The Pace of Shifting Climate in Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems | Science | 2011 | 1,062 |
| 8 | Destabilization of tracts of simple repetitive DNA in yeast by mutations affecting DNA mismatch repair | Nature | 1993 | 1,061 |
| 9 | Dynamic instability of individual microtubules analyzed by video light microscopy: rate constants and transition frequencies. | Journal of Cell Biology | 1988 | 922 |
| 10 | Engineering the Caenorhabditis elegans genome using Cas9-triggered homologous recombination | Nature Methods | 2013 | 905 |
| 11 | Intracellular innate immune surveillance devices in plants and animals | Science | 2016 | 834 |
| 12 | Independently Evolved Virulence Effectors Converge onto Hubs in a Plant Immune System Network | Science | 2011 | 776 |
| 13 | The PAR Proteins: Fundamental Players in Animal Cell Polarization | Developmental Cell | 2007 | 702 |
| 14 | The p65 (RelA) Subunit of NF-κB Interacts with the Histone Deacetylase (HDAC) Corepressors HDAC1 and HDAC2 To Negatively Regulate Gene Expression | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 2001 | 675 |
| 15 | Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation | Nature | 2014 | 669 |
| 16 | Kinetochore Microtubule Dynamics and Attachment Stability Are Regulated by Hec1 | Cell | 2006 | 663 |
| 17 | Drosophila Tcf and Groucho interact to repress Wingless signalling activity | Nature | 1998 | 654 |
| 18 | Evidence for nucleosome depletion at active regulatory regions genome-wide | Nature Genetics | 2004 | 644 |
| 19 | Arabidopsis microRNA167 controls patterns of ARF6 and ARF8 expression, and regulates both female and male reproduction | Development (Cambridge) | 2006 | 642 |
| 20 | Identification of the gene for vitamin K epoxide reductase | Nature | 2004 | 640 |
| 21 | Microbiota and Host Nutrition across Plant and Animal Kingdoms | Cell Host and Microbe | 2015 | 628 |
| 22 | Involvement of the Jak-3 Janus kinase in signalling by interleukins 2 and 4 in lymphoid and myeloid cells | Nature | 1994 | 618 |
| 23 | Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide | Ecology Letters | 2015 | 612 |
| 24 | Auxin response factors ARF6 and ARF8 promote jasmonic acid production and flower maturation | Development (Cambridge) | 2005 | 608 |
| 25 | Reactive oxygen species and hormonal control of cell death | Trends in Plant Science | 2003 | 599 |
| 26 | Genetics of Aux/IAA and ARF action in plant growth and development | Plant Molecular Biology | 2002 | 587 |
| 27 | Can we predict ectotherm responses to climate change using thermal performance curves and body temperatures? | Ecology Letters | 2016 | 587 |
| 28 | AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR1 and AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR2regulate senescence and floral organ abscission in Arabidopsis thaliana | Development (Cambridge) | 2005 | 531 |
| 29 | Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 523 |
| 30 | A map of open chromatin in human pancreatic islets | Nature Genetics | 2010 | 515 |
| 31 | Merotelic Kinetochore Orientation Is a Major Mechanism of Aneuploidy in Mitotic Mammalian Tissue Cells | Journal of Cell Biology | 2001 | 498 |
| 32 | Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness | Science | 2011 | 463 |
| 33 | Plant disease resistance protein signaling: NBS–LRR proteins and their partners | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 2004 | 462 |
| 34 | Control and Biochemical Nature of the Ecdysteroidogenic Pathway | Annual Review of Entomology | 2002 | 458 |
| 35 | Cell Surface- and Rho GTPase-Based Auxin Signaling Controls Cellular Interdigitation in Arabidopsis | Cell | 2010 | 454 |
| 36 | Approximating Nature's Variation: Selecting and Using Reference Information in Restoration Ecology | Restoration Ecology | 1997 | 442 |
| 37 | Geographical limits to species-range shifts are suggested by climate velocity | Nature | 2014 | 436 |
| 38 | Primer and platform effects on 16S rRNA tag sequencing | Frontiers in Microbiology | 2015 | 435 |
| 39 | AXR2 Encodes a Member of the Aux/IAA Protein Family | Plant Physiology | 2000 | 432 |
| 40 | Control of auxin-regulated root development by the Arabidopsis thaliana SHY2/IAA3 gene | Development (Cambridge) | 1999 | 425 |
| 41 | mRNA structure determines specificity of a polyQ-driven phase separation | Science | 2018 | 421 |
| 42 | The Search for Generality in Studies of Disturbance and Ecosystem Dynamics | Progress in Botany Fortschritte Der Botanik | 2001 | 419 |
| 43 | Two Pseudomonas syringae Type III Effectors Inhibit RIN4-Regulated Basal Defense in Arabidopsis | Cell | 2005 | 416 |
| 44 | NPH4/ARF7 and ARF19 promote leaf expansion and auxin-induced lateral root formation | Plant Journal | 2005 | 415 |
| 45 | A Library of Yeast Transcription Factor Motifs Reveals a Widespread Function for Rsc3 in Targeting Nucleosome Exclusion at Promoters | Molecular Cell | 2008 | 415 |
| 46 | Dynamic Evolution of Pathogenicity Revealed by Sequencing and Comparative Genomics of 19 Pseudomonas syringae Isolates | PLoS Pathogens | 2011 | 413 |
| 47 | Chromosomes Can Congress to the Metaphase Plate Before Biorientation | Science | 2006 | 405 |
| 48 | Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients | Nature Plants | 2015 | 403 |
| 49 | Apical constriction: themes and variations on a cellular mechanism driving morphogenesis | Development (Cambridge) | 2014 | 402 |
| 50 | Can mechanism inform species’ distribution models? | Ecology Letters | 2010 | 400 |
