| Multilocus sequence typing for characterization of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible clones of Staphylococcus aureus | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2000 | 2.5K |
| Ancient DNA: do it right or not at all | Science | 2000 | 826 |
| Mosaic evolution of brain structure in mammals | Nature | 2000 | 696 |
| Complete DNA sequence of a serogroup A strain of Neisseria meningitidis Z2491 | Nature | 2000 | 649 |
| Testing macro-evolutionary models using incomplete molecular phylogenies | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2000 | 623 |
| Microsatellite markers reveal a spectrum of population structures in the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2000 | 603 |
| The global spread of malaria in a future, warmer world | Science | 2000 | 483 |
| Fatal attraction in rats infected with Toxoplasma gondii | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2000 | 461 |
| Insect population control using a dominant, repressible, lethal genetic system | Science | 2000 | 417 |
| Membrane heredity and early chloroplast evolution | Trends in Plant Science | 2000 | 395 |
| 515 million years of structural colour | Journal of Optics | 2000 | 363 |
| Estimating the rate of molecular evolution: incorporating non-contemporaneous sequences into maximum likelihood phylogenies | Bioinformatics | 2000 | 327 |
| Somatic support cells restrict germline stem cell self-renewal and promote differentiation | Nature | 2000 | 306 |
| ANALYSIS OF POPULATION TRENDS FOR FARMLAND BIRDS USING GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODELS | Ecology | 2000 | 299 |
| An integrated framework for the inference of viral population history from reconstructed genealogies | Genetics | 2000 | 277 |
| Unprecedented degree of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) group M genetic diversity in the Democratic Republic of Congo suggests that the HIV-1 pandemic originated in Central Africa | Journal of Virology | 2000 | 249 |
| Population genetics of ice age brown bears | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2000 | 247 |
| Genetic susceptibility to tuberculosis in Africans: a genome-wide scan | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2000 | 241 |
| Estimating recombinational parameters in Streptococcus pneumoniae from multilocus sequence typing data | Genetics | 2000 | 204 |
| Annual Plasmodium falciparum entomological inoculation rates (EIR) across Africa: literature survey, Internet access and review | Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene | 2000 | 197 |
| How do insects use path integration for their navigation? | Biological Cybernetics | 2000 | 193 |
| Seasonal synchrony: the key to tick-borne encephalitis foci identified by satellite data | Parasitology | 2000 | 172 |
| Production of resistant HIV mutants during antiretroviral therapy | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2000 | 171 |
| Cross-species interactions between malaria parasites in humans | Science | 2000 | 165 |
| Plastid genome phylogeny and a model of amino acid substitution for proteins encoded by chloroplast DNA | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 2000 | 157 |
