Most cited papers in Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny
What are the most cited papers in Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny?
The most cited paper in Hymenoptera taxonomy and phylogeny is "Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera" (Ralph S. Peters et al., 2017), with 964 citations. Next come "The Strepsiptera Problem: Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insect Orders Inferred from 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequences and Morphology" (928) and "The adaptive significance of insect gall morphology" (862).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 185 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera Ralph S. Peters et al. · Current Biology | 23 Mar 2017 | 964 |
| 2 | The Strepsiptera Problem: Phylogeny of the Holometabolous Insect Orders Inferred from 18S and 28S Ribosomal DNA Sequences and Morphology Michael F. Whiting, James C. Carpenter, Quentin D. Wheeler et al. · Systematic Biology | Mar 1997 | 928 |
| 3 | The adaptive significance of insect gall morphology Graham N. Stone, Karsten Schönrogge · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 12 Sep 2003 | 862 |
| 4 | Refined Global Analysis of Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodoidea: Aleyrodidae) Mitochondrial Cytochrome Oxidase 1 to Identify Species Level Genetic Boundaries A. Dinsdale, Lyn G. Cook, Cynthia Riginos et al. · Annals of the Entomological Society of America | Mar 2010 | 685 |
| 5 | Extreme diversity of tropical parasitoid wasps exposed by iterative integration of natural history, DNA barcoding, morphology, and collections M. Alex Smith, JOSEPHINE J. RODRIGUEZ, James B. Whitfield et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 20 Aug 2008 | 615 |
| 6 | Adaptive Nature of Insect Galls Peter W. Price, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Gwendolyn L. Waring · Environmental Entomology | Feb 1987 | 596 |
| 7 | DNA barcodes reveal cryptic host-specificity within the presumed polyphagous members of a genus of parasitoid flies (Diptera: Tachinidae) M. Alex Smith, Norman E. Woodley, Daniel H. Janzen et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 27 Feb 2006 | 588 |
| 8 | The Population Biology of Oak Gall Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) Graham N. Stone, Karsten Schönrogge, Rachel Atkinson et al. · Annual Review of Entomology | 2002 | 518 |
| 9 | Flies and flowers: taxonomic diversity of anthophiles and pollinators Brendon M. H. Larson, Peter G. Kevan, David W. Inouye · The Canadian Entomologist | Aug 2001 | 464 |
| 10 | Collecting and preserving chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) John S. Noyes · Journal of Natural History | Jun 1982 | 458 |
| 11 | Hymenoptera and Biodiversity Scott Richard Shaw · Annals of the Entomological Society of America | May 1994 | 422 |
| 12 | Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects Kevin P. Johnson et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 26 Nov 2018 | 420 |
| 13 | Jane: a new tool for the cophylogeny reconstruction problem Chris Conow, Daniel C. Fielder, Yaniv Ovadia et al. · Algorithms for Molecular Biology | 3 Feb 2010 | 420 |
| 14 | Manual of the New World Genera of the Family Braconidae (Hymenoptera) Richard S. Zack · Annals of the Entomological Society of America | Jul 1999 | 413 |
| 15 | An estimated 400–800 million tons of prey are annually killed by the global spider community Martin Nyffeler, Klaus Birkhofer · Die Naturwissenschaften | 13 Mar 2017 | 400 |
| 16 | DNA barcodes affirm that 16 species of apparently generalist tropical parasitoid flies (Diptera, Tachinidae) are not all generalists M. Alex Smith, David M. Wood, Daniel H. Janzen et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 14 Mar 2007 | 396 |
| 17 | Biogeographical gradients in galling species richness Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Peter W. Price · Oecologia | Jul 1988 | 374 |
| 18 | Integration of DNA barcoding into an ongoing inventory of complex tropical biodiversity Daniel H. Janzen et al. · Molecular Ecology Resources | 16 Apr 2009 | 366 |
| 19 | ADAPTATIONS IN SCALE INSECTS Penny J. Gullan, Michael Kosztarab · Annual Review of Entomology | 1997 | 364 |
| 20 | Target enrichment of ultraconserved elements from arthropods provides a genomic perspective on relationships among H ymenoptera Brant C. Faircloth, Michael G. Branstetter, Noor D. White et al. · Molecular Ecology Resources | 10 Sep 2014 | 364 |
| 21 | Phylogeny of the Nasonia species complex (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) inferred from an internal transcribed spacer (ITS2) and 28S rDNA sequences Bruce C.V. Campbell, J. D. Steffen‐Campbell, John H. Werren · Insect Molecular Biology | 1994 | 353 |
| 22 | From micropterism to hyperpterism: recognition strategy and standardized homology-driven terminology of the forewing venation patterns in planthoppers (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha) Thierry Bourgoin, Rongrong Wang, Manfred Asche et al. · Zoomorphology | 20 Sep 2014 | 343 |
| 23 | Quantifying the unquantifiable: why Hymenoptera, not Coleoptera, is the most speciose animal order Andrew A. Forbes, Robin K. Bagley, Marc A. Beer et al. · BMC Ecology | 12 Jul 2018 | 338 |
| 24 | Annotated Keys to the Genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) Andrew D. Austin · Annals of the Entomological Society of America | May 1998 | 335 |
| 25 | Insect grazing on Eucalyptus in response to variation in leaf tannins and nitrogen Laurel R. Fox, Barry J. Macauley · Oecologia | Jun 1977 | 328 |
| 26 | Species Concepts as Applied to the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci Systematics: How Many Species Are There? Shu‐Sheng Liu, John Colvin, Paul J. De Barro · Journal of Integrative Agriculture | Feb 2012 | 320 |
| 27 | Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life Nicole L. Garrison, Juanita Rodríguez, Ingi Agnarsson et al. · PeerJ | 23 Feb 2016 | 317 |
| 28 | The chemical composition of plant galls: are levels of nutrients and secondary compounds controlled by the gall-former? Susan E. Hartley · Oecologia | 13 Feb 1998 | 317 |
| 29 | A Strong Relationship Between Oviposition Preference and Larval Performance in a Shoot-Galling Sawfly Timothy P. Craig, Joanne K. Itami, Peter W. Price · Ecology | Dec 1989 | 315 |
| 30 | Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea) Charles E. Griswold, Jonathan A. Coddington, Gustavo Hormiga et al. · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | May 1998 | 309 |
| 31 | The adaptive significance of insect gall distribution: survivorship of species in xeric and mesic habitats Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Peter W. Price · Oecologia | Apr 1992 | 303 |
| 32 | Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae) Ingi Agnarsson · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | Aug 2004 | 303 |
| 33 | A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae) Nikolaj Scharff, Jonathan A. Coddington · Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society | Aug 1997 | 301 |
| 34 | New light shed on the oldest insect Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi · Nature | Feb 2004 | 295 |
| 35 | Phylogenetic relevance of the genital sclerites of Neuropterida (Insecta: Holometabola) Ulrike Aspöck, Horst Aspöck · Systematic Entomology | 2008 | 292 |
| 36 | A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of Diptera: whole genome sequence data accurately resolve relationships over broad timescales with high precision Stephen L. Cameron, Christine L. Lambkin, Stephen C. Barker et al. · Systematic Entomology | 15 Sep 2006 | 288 |
| 37 | CONGRUENCE AND CONTROVERSY: Toward a Higher-Level Phylogeny of Diptera David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann · Annual Review of Entomology | 1999 | 285 |
| 38 | Single-copy nuclear genes resolve the phylogeny of the holometabolous insects Brian M. Wiegmann, Michelle Trautwein, Jung‐Wook Kim et al. · BMC Biology | 24 Jun 2009 | 285 |
| 39 | Insect-induced effects on plants and possible effectors used by galling and leaf-mining insects to manipulate their host-plant David Giron, Elisabeth Huguet, Graham N. Stone et al. · Journal of Insect Physiology | 23 Dec 2015 | 281 |
| 40 | Global patterns in local number of insect galling species Peter W. Price, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, Angela Christina F. Lara et al. · Journal of Biogeography | May 1998 | 279 |
| 41 | The whiteflies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) of Europe and the Mediterranean Basin John H. Martin, David Mifsud, Carmelo Rapisarda · Bulletin of Entomological Research | Oct 2000 | 274 |
| 42 | Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera* Michael J. A. Sharkey · Zootaxa | 21 Dec 2007 | 271 |
| 43 | Insect parasitoids: an evolutionary overview Paul Eggleton, Robert D. Belshaw · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 29 Jul 1992 | 271 |
| 44 | A phylogenetic analysis of the megadiverse C halcidoidea ( H ymenoptera) John M. Heraty et al. · Cladistics | 4 Jan 2013 | 270 |
| 45 | Rapidly Evolving Mitochondrial Genome and Directional Selection in Mitochondrial Genes in the Parasitic Wasp Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) Deodoro C. S. G. Oliveira, Rhitoban Raychoudhury, Dennis V. Lavrov et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 18 Jul 2008 | 266 |
| 46 | A Molecular Phylogeny of the Aphidiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) Robert D. Belshaw, Donаld L. J. Quicke · Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution | Jun 1997 | 264 |
| 47 | An Extensive Field Survey Combined with a Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals Rapid and Widespread Invasion of Two Alien Whiteflies in China Hu Jian, Paul De Barro, Hua Zhao et al. · PLoS ONE | 21 Jan 2011 | 262 |
| 48 | Species-wide homogeneity of nuclear ribosomal ITS2 sequences in the spider mite Tetranychus urticae contrasts with extensive mitochondrial COI polymorphism Maria Navajas, Jacques Lagnel, J. Gutierrez et al. · Heredity | Jun 1998 | 257 |
| 49 | Phylogeny, classification and evolution of the Cynipoidea Fredrik Ronquist · Zoologica Scripta | 1999 | 254 |
| 50 | Phylogenomic analysis reveals bees and wasps (Hymenoptera) at the base of the radiation of Holometabolous insects Joël Savard, Diethard Tautz, Stephen M. Richards et al. · Genome Research | 25 Oct 2006 | 252 |
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