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|---|
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| 2 | Relaxed Phylogenetics and Dating with Confidence | PLoS Biology | 2006 | 5,566 |
| 3 | Evolutionary games and spatial chaos | Nature | 1992 | 3,483 |
| 4 | Viral dynamics in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection | Nature | 1995 | 3,369 |
| 5 | Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1998 | 3,333 |
| 6 | On aims and methods of Ethology | Zeitschrift Für Tierpsychologie | 1963 | 3,142 |
| 7 | Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers | Science | 2018 | 2,808 |
| 8 | Bayesian Coalescent Inference of Past Population Dynamics from Molecular Sequences | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2005 | 2,782 |
| 9 | Multilocus Sequence Typing for Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Susceptible Clones of Staphylococcus aureus | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2000 | 2,746 |
| 10 | BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis | PLoS Computational Biology | 2019 | 2,484 |
| 11 | The global distribution of clinical episodes of Plasmodium falciparum malaria | Nature | 2005 | 2,336 |
| 12 | A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology | Nature Microbiology | 2020 | 2,291 |
| 13 | Phylogenetic Analysis and Comparative Data: A Test and Review of Evidence | American Naturalist | 2002 | 2,270 |
| 14 | Habitat destruction and the extinction debt | Nature | 1994 | 2,236 |
| 15 | The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China | Science | 2020 | 2,168 |
| 16 | The effect of malaria control on Plasmodium falciparum in Africa between 2000 and 2015 | Nature | 2015 | 2,140 |
| 17 | Evolution of indirect reciprocity by image scoring | Nature | 1998 | 2,098 |
| 18 | BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level | BMC Bioinformatics | 2010 | 2,074 |
| 19 | New cell lines from mouse epiblast share defining features with human embryonic stem cells | Nature | 2007 | 1,975 |
| 20 | The oyster genome reveals stress adaptation and complexity of shell formation | Nature | 2012 | 1,966 |
| 21 | Estimating the asymptomatic proportion of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship, Yokohama, Japan, 2020 | Eurosurveillance | 2020 | 1,890 |
| 22 | Origins and evolutionary genomics of the 2009 swine-origin H1N1 influenza A epidemic | Nature | 2009 | 1,870 |
| 23 | Fast folding and comparison of RNA secondary structures | Monatshefte Für Chemie | 1994 | 1,862 |
| 24 | The phylogenetic regression | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences | 1989 | 1,798 |
| 25 | Water capture by a desert beetle | Nature | 2001 | 1,754 |
| 26 | Open-access bacterial population genomics: BIGSdb software, the PubMLST.org website and their applications | Wellcome Open Research | 2018 | 1,710 |
| 27 | Pandemic Potential of a Strain of Influenza A (H1N1): Early Findings | Science | 2009 | 1,665 |
| 28 | Nonlinear forecasting as a way of distinguishing chaos from measurement error in time series | Nature | 1990 | 1,649 |
| 29 | Exploring the temporal structure of heterochronous sequences using TempEst (formerly Path-O-Gen) | Virus Evolution | 2016 | 1,638 |
| 30 | A strategy of win-stay, lose-shift that outperforms tit-for-tat in the Prisoner's Dilemma game | Nature | 1993 | 1,593 |
| 31 | An investigation of transmission control measures during the first 50 days of the COVID-19 epidemic in China | Science | 2020 | 1,554 |
| 32 | Detecting Causality in Complex Ecosystems | Science | 2012 | 1,545 |
| 33 | The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype | Nature | 2008 | 1,496 |
| 34 | Changing potency by spontaneous fusion | Nature | 2002 | 1,452 |
| 35 | The global distribution of the arbovirus vectors Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus | ELife | 2015 | 1,428 |
| 36 | Detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern in South Africa | Nature | 2021 | 1,381 |
| 37 | Reciprocal Rewards Stabilize Cooperation in the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis | Science | 2011 | 1,373 |
| 38 | Global distribution and prevalence of hepatitis C virus genotypes | Hepatology | 2015 | 1,293 |
| 39 | Human contribution to the European heatwave of 2003 | Nature | 2004 | 1,283 |
| 40 | The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris | Royal Society Open Science | 2014 | 1,278 |
| 41 | Refining the Global Spatial Limits of Dengue Virus Transmission by Evidence-Based Consensus | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2012 | 1,276 |
| 42 | Extra pair paternity in birds: a review of interspecific variation and adaptive function | Molecular Ecology | 2008 | 1,223 |
| 43 | The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations | Nature | 2016 | 1,216 |
| 44 | The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge | Science | 2008 | 1,215 |
| 45 | Rapid epidemic expansion of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in southern Africa | Nature | 2022 | 1,210 |
| 46 | The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates | Science | 2010 | 1,209 |
| 47 | Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans | Nature | 2014 | 1,179 |
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| 49 | Genomics and epidemiology of the P.1 SARS-CoV-2 lineage in Manaus, Brazil | Science | 2021 | 1,125 |
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