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| 2 | Transplanted suprachiasmatic nucleus determines circadian period | Science | 1990 | 1,701 |
| 3 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1 | Autophagy | 2021 | 1,430 |
| 4 | PanTHERIA: a species‐level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals | Ecology | 2009 | 1,322 |
| 5 | Predicting extinction risk in declining species | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2000 | 1,277 |
| 6 | Carp Muscle Calcium-binding Protein | Journal of Biological Chemistry | 1973 | 1,252 |
| 7 | Multiple Causes of High Extinction Risk in Large Mammal Species | Science | 2005 | 1,035 |
| 8 | Structure And Evolution Of Calcium-Modulated Protein | Critical Reviews in Biochemistry | 1980 | 920 |
| 9 | Measuring and using light in the melanopsin age | Trends in Neurosciences | 2014 | 879 |
| 10 | The Meter of Metabolism | Cell | 2008 | 873 |
| 11 | Genome evolution in the allotetraploid frog Xenopus laevis | Nature | 2016 | 849 |
| 12 | Positional Syntenic Cloning and Functional Characterization of the Mammalian Circadian Mutation tau | Science | 2000 | 800 |
| 13 | Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) microscopy imaging of live cell protein localizations | Journal of Cell Biology | 2003 | 750 |
| 14 | Imaging protein molecules using FRET and FLIM microscopy | Current Opinion in Biotechnology | 2005 | 672 |
| 15 | Circadian Rhythms in Cultured Mammalian Retina | Science | 1996 | 671 |
| 16 | Shaping the Vertebrate Body Plan by Polarized Embryonic Cell Movements | Science | 2002 | 659 |
| 17 | Circadian clock mutants in Arabidopsis identified by luciferase imaging | Science | 1995 | 595 |
| 18 | The circadian rhythm of body temperature | Physiology and Behavior | 1992 | 589 |
| 19 | Nonrandom Extinction and the Loss of Evolutionary History | Science | 2000 | 506 |
| 20 | Mechanisms, mechanics and function of epithelial–mesenchymal transitions in early development | Mechanisms of Development | 2003 | 497 |
| 21 | Targeted gene expression inDrosophila dopaminergic cells using regulatory sequences from tyrosine hydroxylase | Journal of Neurobiology | 2003 | 491 |
| 22 | Rapid Evolution of Enormous, Multichromosomal Genomes in Flowering Plant Mitochondria with Exceptionally High Mutation Rates | PLoS Biology | 2012 | 480 |
| 23 | A Common Rule for the Scaling of Carnivore Density | Science | 2002 | 478 |
| 24 | Transgenerational Plasticity Is Adaptive in the Wild | Science | 2007 | 473 |
| 25 | Global distribution and conservation of rare and threatened vertebrates | Nature | 2006 | 462 |
| 26 | Phylogenomic analysis of bacterial and archaeal sequences with AMPHORA2 | Bioinformatics | 2012 | 458 |
| 27 | A Model System for Study of Sex Chromosome Effects on Sexually Dimorphic Neural and Behavioral Traits | Journal of Neuroscience | 2002 | 458 |
| 28 | Human Population Density and Extinction Risk in the World's Carnivores | PLoS Biology | 2004 | 448 |
| 29 | Mechanisms of convergence and extension by cell intercalation | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2000 | 446 |
| 30 | Writing Memories with Light-Addressable Reinforcement Circuitry | Cell | 2009 | 444 |
| 31 | Circadian photoreception in the retinally degenerate mouse (rd/rd) | Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology | 1991 | 441 |
| 32 | The evolution of parasitism in plants | Trends in Plant Science | 2010 | 417 |
| 33 | The Genetics Of Biogenic Amine Metabolism, Sclerotization, And Melanization In Drosophila Melanogaster | Advances in Genetics | 1987 | 416 |
| 34 | How we are shaped: The biomechanics of gastrulation | Differentiation | 2003 | 407 |
| 35 | Evolution of EF-hand calcium-modulated proteins. I. Relationships based on amino acid sequences | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1990 | 401 |
| 36 | Incorporating 16S Gene Copy Number Information Improves Estimates of Microbial Diversity and Abundance | PLoS Computational Biology | 2012 | 400 |
| 37 | Troponin and parvalbumin calcium binding regions predicted in myosin light chain and T4 lysozyme | Science | 1975 | 399 |
| 38 | LONGEVITY CAN BUFFER PLANT AND ANIMAL POPULATIONS AGAINST CHANGING CLIMATIC VARIABILITY | Ecology | 2008 | 386 |
| 39 | Prion-like behaviour and tau-dependent cytotoxicity of pyroglutamylated amyloid-β | Nature | 2012 | 369 |
| 40 | Quantitative Analysis of Drosophila period Gene Transcription in Living Animals | Journal of Biological Rhythms | 1997 | 364 |
| 41 | Chronic jet-lag increases mortality in aged mice | Current Biology | 2006 | 349 |
| 42 | Clock controls circadian period in isolated suprachiasmatic nucleus neurons | Nature Neuroscience | 1998 | 347 |
| 43 | Preserving the Tree of Life | Science | 2003 | 341 |
| 44 | A fused mitochondrial gene associated with cytoplasmic male sterility is developmentally regulated | Cell | 1987 | 336 |
| 45 | Neuronal control of leech behavior | Progress in Neurobiology | 2005 | 336 |
| 46 | History, chance and adaptation during biological invasion: separating stochastic phenotypic evolution from response to selection | Ecology Letters | 2008 | 333 |
| 47 | Antimitotic activity of the potent tumor inhibitor maytansine | Science | 1975 | 319 |
| 48 | Coordinate regulation of contractile protein synthesis during myoblast differentiation | Cell | 1978 | 315 |
| 49 | 5-azacytidine induction of stable mesodermal stem cell lineages from 10T1/2 cells: Evidence for regulatory genes controlling determination | Cell | 1984 | 312 |
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