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|---|
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| 2 | Commensal bacteria play a role in mating preference of Drosophila melanogaster | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 752 |
| 3 | Partitioning of Time as an Ecological Resource | Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics | 2003 | 697 |
| 4 | On the validity of Bergmann's rule | Journal of Biogeography | 2003 | 662 |
| 5 | Genome-wide SNP and haplotype analyses reveal a rich history underlying dog domestication | Nature | 2010 | 635 |
| 6 | Early evolution of the venom system in lizards and snakes | Nature | 2006 | 531 |
| 7 | Assessing the complex sponge microbiota: core, variable and species-specific bacterial communities in marine sponges | ISME Journal | 2012 | 508 |
| 8 | Genome Sequencing Highlights the Dynamic Early History of Dogs | PLoS Genetics | 2014 | 481 |
| 9 | Ecotypic variation in the context of global climate change: revisiting the rules | Ecology Letters | 2006 | 472 |
| 10 | ConSurf: an algorithmic tool for the identification of functional regions in proteins by surface mapping of phylogenetic information | Journal of Molecular Biology | 2001 | 451 |
| 11 | Alu-Containing Exons are Alternatively Spliced | Genome Research | 2002 | 443 |
| 12 | The Near Eastern Origin of Cat Domestication | Science | 2007 | 414 |
| 13 | Toxicopathological Effects of the Sunscreen UV Filter, Oxybenzone (Benzophenone-3), on Coral Planulae and Cultured Primary Cells and Its Environmental Contamination in Hawaii and the U.S. Virgin Islands | Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology | 2016 | 404 |
| 14 | Middle Paleolithic Shell Beads in Israel and Algeria | Science | 2006 | 389 |
| 15 | Community ecology of mesophotic coral reef ecosystems | Coral Reefs | 2010 | 386 |
| 16 | The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2017 | 378 |
| 17 | Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral transfer in prokaryote genome evolution | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 366 |
| 18 | Primer Pheromones in Social Hymenoptera | Annual Review of Entomology | 2008 | 358 |
| 19 | Regulation of fish gonadotropins | International Review of Cytology | 2003 | 353 |
| 20 | Home base behavior of rats (Rattus norvegicus) exploring a novel environment | Behavioural Brain Research | 1989 | 340 |
| 21 | A Fast Algorithm for Joint Reconstruction of Ancestral Amino Acid Sequences | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2000 | 329 |
| 22 | Is the guinea-pig a rodent? | Nature | 1991 | 318 |
| 23 | RRTree: Relative-Rate Tests between groups of sequences on a phylogenetic tree | Bioinformatics | 2000 | 317 |
| 24 | Constraints on egg discrimination and cuckoo-host co-evolution | Animal Behaviour | 1995 | 315 |
| 25 | Low-Level Laser Irradiation Promotes Proliferation and Differentiation of Human Osteoblasts in Vitro | Photomedicine and Laser Surgery | 2005 | 311 |
| 26 | Phenotypic plasticity and the handicap principle | Journal of Theoretical Biology | 1984 | 307 |
| 27 | Evidence that hyporheic zones increase heterotrophic metabolism and phosphorus uptake in forest streams | Limnology and Oceanography | 1997 | 293 |
| 28 | Direct Behavioral Evidence for Hydrocarbons as Ant Recognition Discriminators | Die Naturwissenschaften | 1999 | 292 |
| 29 | Specialization of Mutualistic Interaction Networks Decreases toward Tropical Latitudes | Current Biology | 2012 | 290 |
| 30 | Seaweed-microbial interactions: key functions of seaweed-associated bacteria | FEMS Microbiology Ecology | 2014 | 281 |
| 31 | Identification and Localization of a Rickettsia sp. in Bemisia tabaci (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 273 |
| 32 | Phylogenetic position of the order Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares and allies) | Nature | 1996 | 261 |
| 33 | Fibre-optical features of a glass sponge | Nature | 2003 | 259 |
| 34 | The Evolution of Maximum Body Size of Terrestrial Mammals | Science | 2010 | 252 |
| 35 | Water in the Avian Egg Overall Budget of Incubation | American Zoologist | 1980 | 251 |
| 36 | An updated list and some comments on the occurrence of intraspecific nest parasitism in birds | Ibis | 2001 | 250 |
| 37 | Global Human Footprint on the Linkage between Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning in Reef Fishes | PLoS Biology | 2011 | 249 |
| 38 | Rodent phylogeny revised: analysis of six nuclear genes from all major rodent clades | BMC Evolutionary Biology | 2009 | 242 |
| 39 | Natural enemies of the South American moth, Tuta absoluta, in Europe, North Africa and Middle East, and their potential use in pest control strategies | Journal of Pest Science | 2013 | 241 |
| 40 | Limitations of mitochondrial gene barcoding in Octocorallia | Molecular Ecology Resources | 2011 | 236 |
| 41 | Seasonal dynamics of recurrent epidemics | Nature | 2007 | 233 |
| 42 | Correlates of group size in a cooperatively breeding cichlid fish ( Neolamprologus pulcher ) | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2001 | 225 |
| 43 | Endocrine control of gametogenesis and spawning induction in the carp | Aquaculture | 1995 | 218 |
| 44 | Theoretical examination of the pulse vaccination policy in the SIR epidemic model | Mathematical and Computer Modelling | 2000 | 215 |
| 45 | Plant-Mediated Interactions Between Whiteflies, Herbivores, and Natural Enemies | Annual Review of Entomology | 2008 | 202 |
| 46 | Latitudinal clines: an evolutionary view on biological rhythms, | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2013 | 202 |
| 47 | Endolithic algae: an alternative source of photoassimilates during coral bleaching | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2002 | 199 |
| 48 | Die hard: A blend of freezing and fleeing as a dynamic defense—implications for the control of defensive behavior | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews | 2005 | 198 |
| 49 | Gall-inducing insects – Nature's most sophisticated herbivores | Basic and Applied Ecology | 2005 | 196 |
| 50 | Low-level laser irradiation (LLLI) promotes proliferation of mesenchymal and cardiac stem cells in culture | Lasers in Surgery and Medicine | 2007 | 196 |
