| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Neuroanatomy of Magnetoreception: The Superior Colliculus Involved in Magnetic Orientation in a Mammal | Science | 2001 | 151 |
| 2 | Magnetic alignment in grazing and resting cattle and deer | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 132 |
| 3 | Being Attractive Brings Advantages: The Case of Parrot Species in Captivity | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 96 |
| 4 | Extremely low-frequency electromagnetic fields disrupt magnetic alignment of ruminants | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 94 |
| 5 | Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomy of the African mole-rats, genus Cryptomys and the new genus Coetomys Gray, 1864 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | 2004 | 85 |
| 6 | Sexual activity and reproduction delay ageing in a mammal | Current Biology | 2006 | 83 |
| 7 | Magnetic alignment in mammals and other animals | Mammalian Biology | 2013 | 80 |
| 8 | Unusual cone and rod properties in subterranean African mole-rats (Rodentia, Bathyergidae) | European Journal of Neuroscience | 2004 | 70 |
| 9 | Directional preference may enhance hunting accuracy in foraging foxes | Biology Letters | 2011 | 66 |
| 10 | The visual system in subterranean African mole-rats (Rodentia, Bathyergidae): Retina, subcortical visual nuclei and primary visual cortex | Brain Research Bulletin | 2008 | 63 |
| 11 | Extended Longevity of Reproductives Appears to be Common in Fukomys Mole-Rats (Rodentia, Bathyergidae) | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 62 |
| 12 | Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field | Frontiers in Zoology | 2013 | 62 |
| 13 | Living in a “stethoscope”: burrow-acoustics promote auditory specializations in subterranean rodents | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2007 | 59 |
| 14 | Spalacopus cyanus (Rodentia: Octodontidae): an extremist in tunnel constructing and food storing among subterranean mammals | Journal of Zoology | 2000 | 56 |
| 15 | Alternative Animal Models of Aging Research | Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences | 2021 | 56 |
| 16 | Magnetoreception in the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus): influence of weak frequency-modulated radio frequency fields | Scientific Reports | 2015 | 55 |
| 17 | Cost of digging is determined by intrinsic factors rather than by substrate quality in two subterranean rodent species | Physiology and Behavior | 2010 | 54 |
| 18 | On the nomenclature of Bathyergidae and Fukomys n. gen. (Mammalia: Rodentia) | Zootaxa | 2006 | 53 |
| 19 | Subcortical visual system of the African mole-rat Cryptomys anselli: to see or not to see? | European Journal of Neuroscience | 2004 | 52 |
| 20 | Magnetic compass in the cornea: local anaesthesia impairs orientation in a mammal | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2006 | 52 |
| 21 | Cryptochrome 1 in Retinal Cone Photoreceptors Suggests a Novel Functional Role in Mammals | Scientific Reports | 2016 | 49 |
| 22 | Burrow architecture, family composition and habitat characteristics of the largest social African mole-rat: the giant mole-rat constructs really giant burrow systems | Acta Theriologica | 2012 | 47 |
| 23 | Patterns of surface temperatures in two mole-rats (Bathyergidae) with different social systems as revealed by IR-thermography | Physiology and Behavior | 2007 | 46 |
| 24 | Chromosomal diversity in mole-rats of the genus Cryptomys (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) from the Zambezian region: with descriptions of new karyotypes | Journal of Zoology | 2004 | 45 |
| 25 | Natural history and burrow system architecture of the silvery mole‐rat fromBrachystegiawoodland | Journal of Zoology | 2008 | 45 |
| 26 | Changing and shielded magnetic fields suppress c-Fos expression in the navigation circuit: input from the magnetosensory system contributes to the internal representation of space in a subterranean rodent | Journal of the Royal Society Interface | 2010 | 41 |
| 27 | EyeCi: Optical clearing and imaging of immunolabeled mouse eyes using light-sheet fluorescence microscopy | Experimental Eye Research | 2019 | 41 |
| 28 | Long-lived rodents reveal signatures of positive selection in genes associated with lifespan | PLoS Genetics | 2018 | 39 |
| 29 | Energetics in a solitary subterranean rodent, the silvery mole-rat, Heliophobius argenteocinereus, and allometry of RMR in African mole-rats (Bathyergidae) | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology | 2007 | 38 |
| 30 | Magnetic Alignment in Carps: Evidence from the Czech Christmas Fish Market | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 38 |
| 31 | Home‐Range Dynamics in a Solitary Subterranean Rodent | Ethology | 2009 | 37 |
| 32 | Sociality does not drive the evolution of large brains in eusocial African mole-rats | Scientific Reports | 2018 | 36 |
| 33 | Determinants of Daily Activity Patterns in a Free-Living Afrotropical Solitary Subterranean Rodent | Journal of Mammalogy | 2007 | 33 |
| 34 | Surprisingly long survival of premature conclusions about naked mole‐rat biology | Biological Reviews | 2021 | 33 |
| 35 | Vocalizations of the giant mole-rat (Fukomys mechowii), a subterranean rodent with the richest vocal repertoire | Bioacoustics | 2013 | 32 |
| 36 | Reproduction, Postnatal Development, and Growth of Social Coruros, Spalacopus cyanus (Rodentia: Octodontidae), from Chile | Journal of Mammalogy | 1999 | 31 |
| 37 | Towards the neural basis of magnetoreception: a neuroanatomical approach | Die Naturwissenschaften | 2005 | 29 |
| 38 | Acoustic communication and burrow acoustics are reflected in the ear morphology of the coruro (Spalacopus cyanus, Octodontidae), a social fossorial rodent | Journal of Morphology | 2006 | 29 |
| 39 | What did the “Unossified zone” of the non‐mammalian therapsid braincase house? | Journal of Morphology | 2017 | 28 |
| 40 | Virtual reconstruction and description of the cranial endocast of Pristerodon mackayi (Therapsida, Anomodontia) | Journal of Morphology | 2015 | 27 |
| 41 | Neuron numbers link innovativeness with both absolute and relative brain size in birds | Nature Ecology and Evolution | 2022 | 27 |
| 42 | INDIVIDUAL ODOR SIMILARITIES WITHIN COLONIES AND ACROSS SPECIES OF CRYPTOMYS MOLE RATS | Journal of Mammalogy | 2002 | 26 |
| 43 | Further support for the alignment of cattle along magnetic field lines: reply to Hert et al. | Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology | 2011 | 26 |
| 44 | Evidence for convergent evolution of a neocortex‐like structure in a late Permian therapsid | Journal of Morphology | 2017 | 26 |
| 45 | Ocular pigmentation in humans, great apes, and gibbons is not suggestive of communicative functions | Scientific Reports | 2021 | 26 |
| 46 | Parasites in social subterranean Zambian mole‐rats (Cryptomys spp., Bathyergidae, Rodentia) | Journal of Zoology | 1997 | 25 |
| 47 | Chemical restraint of African mole-rats (Fukomys sp.) with a combination of ketamine and xylazine | Veterinary Anaesthesia and Analgesia | 2015 | 25 |
| 48 | Activity of free-living subterranean blind mole ratsSpalax galili(Rodentia: Spalacidae) in an area of supposed sympatric speciation | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society | 2016 | 25 |
| 49 | Compass-controlled escape behavior in roe deer | Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | 2016 | 24 |
| 50 | Neutron Imaging in Cultural Heritage Research at the FRM II Reactor of the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Center | Journal of Imaging | 2018 | 24 |
