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|---|
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| 2 | Inositol trisphosphate, a novel second messenger in cellular signal transduction | Nature | 1984 | 6,124 |
| 3 | Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines | Science | 2010 | 3,642 |
| 4 | Control of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate-induced Ca2+ release by cytosolic Ca2+ | Biochemical Journal | 1995 | 3,508 |
| 5 | An Energy Budget for Signaling in the Grey Matter of the Brain | Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism | 2001 | 2,708 |
| 6 | Release of Ca2+ from a nonmitochondrial intracellular store in pancreatic acinar cells by inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate | Nature | 1983 | 2,623 |
| 7 | A General Empirical Model of Protein Evolution Derived from Multiple Protein Families Using a Maximum-Likelihood Approach | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 2001 | 2,599 |
| 8 | Antigenic and Genetic Characteristics of Swine-Origin 2009 A(H1N1) Influenza Viruses Circulating in Humans | Science | 2009 | 2,127 |
| 9 | DNA double-strand breaks: signaling, repair and the cancer connection | Nature Genetics | 2001 | 2,116 |
| 10 | Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs | Water Research | 2015 | 1,836 |
| 11 | Global Biodiversity Conservation Priorities | Science | 2006 | 1,762 |
| 12 | Hybridization and speciation | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 2013 | 1,735 |
| 13 | Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature | Science | 2005 | 1,648 |
| 14 | Primary forests are irreplaceable for sustaining tropical biodiversity | Nature | 2011 | 1,600 |
| 15 | Leading-edge vortices in insect flight | Nature | 1996 | 1,532 |
| 16 | Developmental plasticity and human health | Nature | 2004 | 1,529 |
| 17 | Mapping the Antigenic and Genetic Evolution of Influenza Virus | Science | 2004 | 1,527 |
| 18 | Airborne Transmission of Influenza A/H5N1 Virus Between Ferrets | Science | 2012 | 1,416 |
| 19 | Early development and fitness in birds and mammals | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 1999 | 1,361 |
| 20 | Ecological Meltdown in Predator-Free Forest Fragments | Science | 2001 | 1,288 |
| 21 | Reconciling Food Production and Biodiversity Conservation: Land Sharing and Land Sparing Compared | Science | 2011 | 1,284 |
| 22 | The Status of the World's Land and Marine Mammals: Diversity, Threat, and Knowledge | Science | 2008 | 1,215 |
| 23 | Economic Reasons for Conserving Wild Nature | Science | 2002 | 1,190 |
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| 25 | Unifying the Epidemiological and Evolutionary Dynamics of Pathogens | Science | 2004 | 1,159 |
| 26 | Human CtIP promotes DNA end resection | Nature | 2007 | 1,158 |
| 27 | Conserved modes of recruitment of ATM, ATR and DNA-PKcs to sites of DNA damage | Nature | 2005 | 1,099 |
| 28 | Capacitative calcium entry | Biochemical Journal | 1995 | 1,096 |
| 29 | The use of focus group discussion methodology: Insights from two decades of application in conservation | Methods in Ecology and Evolution | 2018 | 1,056 |
| 30 | How will oil palm expansion affect biodiversity? | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2008 | 1,052 |
| 31 | Likelihood-Based Tests of Topologies in Phylogenetics | Systematic Biology | 2000 | 1,032 |
| 32 | Social intelligence, innovation, and enhanced brain size in primates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2002 | 1,029 |
| 33 | The metabolic cost of neural information | Nature Neuroscience | 1998 | 949 |
| 34 | ATM- and cell cycle-dependent regulation of ATR in response to DNA double-strand breaks | Nature Cell Biology | 2006 | 942 |
| 35 | The Propulsion of Sea-Urchin Spermatozoa | Journal of Experimental Biology | 1955 | 942 |
| 36 | Estimating the pattern of nucleotide substitution | Journal of Molecular Evolution | 1994 | 939 |
| 37 | Understanding and managing conservation conflicts | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2013 | 934 |
| 38 | Punishment in animal societies | Nature | 1995 | 923 |
| 39 | Integrating economic costs into conservation planning | Trends in Ecology and Evolution | 2006 | 868 |
| 40 | Breeding Together: Kin Selection and Mutualism in Cooperative Vertebrates | Science | 2002 | 861 |
| 41 | Genomics and the origin of species | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2014 | 850 |
| 42 | Communication in Neuronal Networks | Science | 2003 | 842 |
| 43 | Energy limitation as a selective pressure on the evolution of sensory systems | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2008 | 841 |
| 44 | Biodiversity Conservation: Challenges Beyond 2010 | Science | 2010 | 832 |
| 45 | An African origin for the intimate association between humans and Helicobacter pylori | Nature | 2007 | 826 |
| 46 | Global mapping of ecosystem services and conservation priorities | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 823 |
| 47 | Age, Sex, Density, Winter Weather, and Population Crashes in Soay Sheep | Science | 2001 | 820 |
| 48 | Orchestration of the DNA-Damage Response by the RNF8 Ubiquitin Ligase | Science | 2007 | 800 |
| 49 | Preserving the evolutionary potential of floras in biodiversity hotspots | Nature | 2007 | 787 |
| 50 | The MRE11 complex: at the crossroads of DNA repair and checkpoint signalling | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 2002 | 778 |
