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| 2 | ENERGY, WATER, AND BROAD-SCALE GEOGRAPHIC PATTERNS OF SPECIES RICHNESS | Ecology | 2003 | 1,868 |
| 3 | A highly sensitive silver stain for detecting proteins and peptides in polyacrylamide gels | Analytical Biochemistry | 1979 | 1,104 |
| 4 | Trait-Based Community Ecology of Phytoplankton | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2008 | 943 |
| 5 | Peer Reviewed: Perfluorochemical Surfactants in the Environment | Environmental Science & Technology | 2002 | 913 |
| 6 | Genomics and the origin of species | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2014 | 850 |
| 7 | Measuring stress in wildlife: techniques for quantifying glucocorticoids | Oecologia | 2011 | 679 |
| 8 | Using neural networks and GIS to forecast land use changes: a Land Transformation Model | Computers, Environment and Urban Systems | 2002 | 591 |
| 9 | Spatial species‐richness gradients across scales: a meta‐analysis | Journal of Biogeography | 2009 | 573 |
| 10 | AN EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH TO THE PRODUCTION DYNAMICS AND STRUCTURE OF FRESHWATER ANIMAL COMMUNITIES1 | Limnology and Oceanography | 1970 | 524 |
| 11 | BINDING OF PERFLUORINATED FATTY ACIDS TO SERUM PROTEINS | Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | 2003 | 505 |
| 12 | Accumulation of Perfluorooctane Sulfonate in Marine Mammals | Environmental Science & Technology | 2001 | 454 |
| 13 | Long-Term Dynamics of Adaptation in Asexual Populations | Science | 2013 | 447 |
| 14 | Perfluorinated Compounds in Aquatic Organisms at Various Trophic Levels in a Great Lakes Food Chain | Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 2005 | 432 |
| 15 | The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2011 | 432 |
| 16 | Masculinized Finger Length Patterns in Human Males and Females with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia | Hormones and Behavior | 2002 | 424 |
| 17 | Distinguishing Nitrous Oxide Production from Nitrification and Denitrification on the Basis of Isotopomer Abundances | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 411 |
| 18 | Genetic differentiation between sympatric host races of the apple maggot fly Rhagoletis pomonella | Nature | 1988 | 410 |
| 19 | Dioxin-Like and Non-Dioxin-Like Toxic Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs): Implications For Risk Assessment | Critical Reviews in Toxicology | 1998 | 401 |
| 20 | Repeatability and Contingency in the Evolution of a Key Innovation in Phage Lambda | Science | 2012 | 401 |
| 21 | Rapid iterative negative geotaxis (RING): a new method for assessing age-related locomotor decline in | Experimental Gerontology | 2005 | 400 |
| 22 | A Mechanism of Extreme Growth and Reliable Signaling in Sexually Selected Ornaments and Weapons | Science | 2012 | 394 |
| 23 | Perfluorooctanesulfonate and Related Fluorinated Hydrocarbons in Marine Mammals, Fishes, and Birds from Coasts of the Baltic and the Mediterranean Seas | Environmental Science & Technology | 2002 | 380 |
| 24 | Collaboration encourages equal sharing in children but not in chimpanzees | Nature | 2011 | 373 |
| 25 | The ecology of stress: effects of the social environment | Functional Ecology | 2013 | 372 |
| 26 | The Biology of the Dance Language | Annual Review of Entomology | 2002 | 346 |
| 27 | Ecological and Behavioural Comparisons of Three Genera of Argentine Cavies | Animal Behaviour Monographs | 1972 | 345 |
| 28 | Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality | Nature | 2011 | 339 |
| 29 | Density Triggers Maternal Hormones That Increase Adaptive Offspring Growth in a Wild Mammal | Science | 2013 | 336 |
| 30 | Memory use in insect visual navigation | Nature Reviews Neuroscience | 2002 | 329 |
| 31 | Identification and Quantification of Estrogen Receptor Agonists in Wastewater Effluents | Environmental Science & Technology | 2001 | 326 |
| 32 | Size and shape: the developmental regulation of static allometry in insects | BioEssays | 2007 | 304 |
| 33 | Tests of parallel molecular evolution in a long-term experiment with Escherichia coli | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2006 | 302 |
| 34 | Second-Order Selection for Evolvability in a Large Escherichia coli Population | Science | 2011 | 300 |
| 35 | Toxicity Reference Values for the Toxic Effects of Polychlorinated Biphenyls to Aquatic Mammals | Human and Ecological Risk Assessment (HERA) | 2000 | 291 |
| 36 | Perfluorooctane Sulfonate in Fish-Eating Water Birds Including Bald Eagles and Albatrosses | Environmental Science & Technology | 2001 | 275 |
| 37 | Statistical structure of host–phage interactions | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 275 |
| 38 | Predator Avoidance and Community Structure: Interactions among Piscivores, Planktivores, and Plankton | Ecology | 1990 | 272 |
| 39 | THE PACE OF ECOSYSTEM DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTRUCTED SPARTINA ALTERNIFLORA MARSHES | | 2003 | 251 |
| 40 | Derivation and application of relative potency estimates based on in vitro bioassay results | Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry | 2000 | 248 |
| 41 | Bees acquire route-based memories but not cognitive maps in a familiar landscape | Animal Behaviour | 1991 | 245 |
| 42 | Occurrence of Butyltin Compounds in Human Blood | Environmental Science & Technology | 1999 | 241 |
| 43 | Conserving large carnivores: dollars and fence | Ecology Letters | 2013 | 241 |
| 44 | The developmental control of size in insects | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology | 2014 | 239 |
| 45 | Evaluation of the use of landscape classifications for the prediction of freshwater biota: synthesis and recommendations | Journal of the North American Benthological Society | 2000 | 235 |
| 46 | Reproductive impairment and induction of alkaline-labile phosphate, a biomarker of estrogen exposure, in fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) exposed to waterborne 17β-estradiol | Aquatic Toxicology | 1998 | 230 |
| 47 | Spatial, temporal, and physical characteristics of livestock depredations by large carnivores along a Kenyan reserve border | Biological Conservation | 2006 | 230 |
| 48 | Rank and reproduction in the female spotted hyaena | Reproduction | 1996 | 229 |
| 49 | A gene for congenital, recessive deafness DFNB3 maps to the pericentromeric region of chromosome 17 | Nature Genetics | 1995 | 222 |
| 50 | Intrahypothalamic Implants of Testosterone or Estradiol and Resumption of Masculine Sexual Behavior in Long-term Castrated Male Rats | Endocrinology | 1974 | 217 |
