Topic · Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
Most cited papers in Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
What are the most cited papers in Evolution and Genetic Dynamics?
The most cited paper in Evolution and Genetic Dynamics is "MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0" (Koichiro Tamura, Glen Stecher, Daniel S. Peterson et al., 2013), with 48,154 citations. Next come "CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP" (41,763) and "MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods" (40,453).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 2,104 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0 Koichiro Tamura, Glen Stecher, Daniel S. Peterson et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 16 Oct 2013 | 48,154 |
| 2 | CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP Joseph Felsenstein · Evolution | Jul 1985 | 41,763 |
| 3 | MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods Koichiro Tamura, Daniel Gunnar Peterson, Nora Peterson et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 4 May 2011 | 40,453 |
| 4 | MEGA X: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis across Computing Platforms Sudhir Kumar, Glen Stecher, Michael M. Li et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | May 2018 | 39,563 |
| 5 | A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences Motoo Kimura · Journal of Molecular Evolution | Jun 1980 | 30,129 |
| 6 | MEGA11: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 11 Koichiro Tamura, Glen Stecher, Sudhir Kumar · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 22 Apr 2021 | 23,365 |
| 7 | MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution. David Posada, Keith A. Crandall · Bioinformatics | 1998 | 20,136 |
| 8 | genalex 6: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research Rod Peakall, Peter E. Smouse · Molecular Ecology Notes | 29 Sep 2005 | 16,827 |
| 9 | The genetical evolution of social behaviour. I William D. O. Hamilton · Journal of Theoretical Biology | Jul 1964 | 15,968 |
| 10 | Statistical method for testing the neutral mutation hypothesis by DNA polymorphism. Fumio Tajima · Genetics | Nov 1989 | 14,372 |
| 11 | MEGA3: Integrated software for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis and sequence alignment Sudhir Kumar · Briefings in Bioinformatics | 2004 | 11,822 |
| 12 | jModelTest: Phylogenetic Model Averaging David Posada · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 3 Apr 2008 | 10,650 |
| 13 | micro ‐ checker : software for identifying and correcting genotyping errors in microsatellite data Cock van Oosterhout, William F. Hutchinson, D. P. M. Wills et al. · Molecular Ecology Notes | 8 Jun 2004 | 10,424 |
| 14 | Reproduction numbers and sub-threshold endemic equilibria for compartmental models of disease transmission Pauline Van den Driessche, James Watmough · Mathematical Biosciences | Nov 2002 | 10,191 |
| 15 | TCS: a computer program to estimate gene genealogies Mark Clement, David Posada, Keith A. Crandall · Molecular Ecology | Oct 2000 | 10,026 |
| 16 | Evolution and the Theory of Games John Maynard Smith | 1988 | 8,017 |
| 17 | TOWARD A METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY James H. Brown, James F. Gillooly, Andrew P. Allen et al. · Ecology | Jul 2004 | 7,970 |
| 18 | Mutation and Cancer: Statistical Study of Retinoblastoma Alfred G. Knudson · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Apr 1971 | 7,700 |
| 19 | Statistical Tests of Neutrality of Mutations Against Population Growth, Hitchhiking and Background Selection Yun‐Xin Fu · Genetics | Oct 1997 | 7,294 |
| 20 | Simple mathematical models with very complicated dynamics Robert Mccredie May · Nature | 10 Jun 1976 | 7,029 |
| 21 | The Mathematics of Infectious Diseases Herbert W. Hethcote · SIAM Review | 2000 | 6,988 |
| 22 | Toward Defining the Course of Evolution: Minimum Change for a Specific Tree Topology W. M. Fitch · Systematic Biology | Dec 1971 | 6,571 |
| 23 | DnaSP, DNA polymorphism analyses by the coalescent and other methods Julio Rozas, Juan Carlos Sánchez-DelBarrio, Xavier Messeguer et al. · Bioinformatics | 10 Dec 2003 | 6,211 |
| 24 | Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation Martin A. Nowak · Science | 7 Dec 2006 | 5,999 |
| 25 | Population Structure and Eigenanalysis Nick J. Patterson, Alkes L. Price, David Emil Reich · PLoS Genetics | 2006 | 5,810 |
| 26 | Stochastic Gene Expression in a Single Cell Michael B. Elowitz, Arnold J. Levine, Eric D. Siggia et al. · Science | 16 Aug 2002 | 5,801 |
| 27 | The Evolutionary Fate and Consequences of Duplicate Genes Michael F. Lynch, John S. Conery · Science | 10 Nov 2000 | 5,336 |
| 28 | Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form Stephen Jay Gould, Elisabeth S. Vrba · Paleobiology | 1982 | 5,178 |
| 29 | Performing the Exact Test of Hardy-Weinberg Proportion for Multiple Alleles Sun‐Wei Guo, Elizabeth A. Thompson · Biometrics | Jun 1992 | 4,943 |
| 30 | Population growth makes waves in the distribution of pairwise genetic differences. Alan R. Rogers, Henry C Harpending · Molecular Biology and Evolution | May 1992 | 4,653 |
| 31 | Evolutionary games and spatial chaos Martin A. Nowak, Robert Mccredie May · Nature | Oct 1992 | 4,563 |
| 32 | NCBI BLAST: a better web interface Margaret E. Johnson, Irena Zaretskaya, Y. Raytselis et al. · Nucleic Acids Research | 25 Apr 2008 | 4,541 |
| 33 | Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli Timothy S. Gardner, Charles R. Cantor, James J. Collins · Nature | 2000 | 4,468 |
| 34 | Controlling the false discovery rate in behavior genetics research Yoav Benjamini, Dan Drai, Gregory I. Elmer et al. · Behavioural Brain Research | Nov 2001 | 4,264 |
| 35 | Statistical tests of neutrality of mutations. Yun Fu, Wen‐Hsiung Li · Genetics | Mar 1993 | 4,151 |
| 36 | On the number of segregating sites in genetical models without recombination G. A. Watterson · Theoretical Population Biology | Apr 1975 | 4,138 |
| 37 | Nucleic acid detection with CRISPR-Cas13a/C2c2 Jonathan S. Gootenberg, Omar O. Abudayyeh, Jeong Wook Lee et al. · Science | 13 Apr 2017 | 3,997 |
| 38 | Conceptual issues in local adaptation Tadeusz J. Kawecki, Dieter Ebert · Ecology Letters | 12 Nov 2004 | 3,874 |
| 39 | The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer Ludmil B. Alexandrov et al. · Nature | 5 Feb 2020 | 3,854 |
| 40 | Evolutionary Rate at the Molecular Level MOTOO KIMURA · Nature | Feb 1968 | 3,850 |
| 41 | Heritable True Fitness and Bright Birds: A Role for Parasites? William D. O. Hamilton, Marlene Zuk · Science | 22 Oct 1982 | 3,797 |
| 42 | Adaptive versus non‐adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments Cameron K. Ghalambor, JOHN K. McKAY, Scott P. Carroll et al. · Functional Ecology | 27 Apr 2007 | 3,767 |
| 43 | The hitch-hiking effect of a favourable gene John Maynard Smith, John Haigh · Genetics Research | Feb 1974 | 3,625 |
| 44 | MEGA: A biologist-centric software for evolutionary analysis of DNA and protein sequences Sudhir Kumar, M Nei, Joel T. Dudley et al. · Briefings in Bioinformatics | 27 Mar 2008 | 3,605 |
| 45 | Theory of Feeding Strategies Thomas W. Schoener · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 1971 | 3,592 |
| 46 | Species Richness of Parasite Assemblages: Evolution and Patterns Robert Poulin · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics | Nov 1997 | 3,502 |
| 47 | Adaptive protein evolution at the Adh locus in Drosophila John H. McDonald, Martin Kreitman · Nature | Jun 1991 | 3,461 |
| 48 | Optimal Foraging: A Selective Review of Theory and Tests Graham H. Pyke, H. Ronald Pulliam, Eric L. Charnov · The Quarterly Review of Biology | Jun 1977 | 3,409 |
| 49 | Towards complete and error-free genome assemblies of all vertebrate species Arang Rhie et al. · Nature | 28 Apr 2021 | 3,311 |
| 50 | Clonal evolution in cancer Mel F Greaves, Carlo C. Maley · Nature | 2012 | 3,278 |
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