Most cited papers in Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
What are the most cited papers in Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy?
The most cited paper in Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy is "Biological identifications through DNA barcodes" (Paul D. N. Hebert, Alina Cywinska, Shelley L. Ball et al., 2003), with 13,617 citations. Next come "Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation" (3,580) and "Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator" (3,532).
Showing 50 of 99 papers. Every paper with more than 328 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Biological identifications through DNA barcodes Paul D. N. Hebert, Alina Cywinska, Shelley L. Ball et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 7 Feb 2003 | 13,617 |
| 2 | Cryptic species as a window on diversity and conservation David Bickford, David J. Lohman, Navjot S. Sodhi et al. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 29 Nov 2006 | 3,580 |
| 3 | Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator Paul D. N. Hebert, Erin H. Penton, John M. Burns et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Oct 2004 | 3,532 |
| 4 | Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution Bernhard Y. Misof et al. · Science | 6 Nov 2014 | 2,883 |
| 5 | Evolution of the Insects David A. Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel | 2005 | 2,368 |
| 6 | Insect decline in the Anthropocene: Death by a thousand cuts David L. Wagner, Eliza M. Grames, Matthew L. Forister et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 11 Jan 2021 | 1,972 |
| 7 | Rapid morphological radiation and convergence among races of the butterfly Heliconius erato inferred from patterns of mitochondrial DNA evolution. Andrew V. Z. Brower · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 5 Jul 1994 | 1,598 |
| 8 | How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth? Nigel E. Stork · Annual Review of Entomology | 22 Sep 2017 | 1,584 |
| 9 | Insect Mitochondrial Genomics: Implications for Evolution and Phylogeny Stephen L. Cameron · Annual Review of Entomology | 25 Oct 2013 | 1,510 |
| 10 | DNA barcodes distinguish species of tropical Lepidoptera Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Daniel H. Janzen, John M. Burns et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 17 Jan 2006 | 1,458 |
| 11 | A Concern for Evidence and a Phylogenetic Hypothesis of Relationships among Epicrates (Boidae, Serpentes) Arnold G. Kluge · Systematic Biology | Mar 1989 | 1,312 |
| 12 | Butterfly genome reveals promiscuous exchange of mimicry adaptations among species Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra et al. · Nature | 15 May 2012 | 1,312 |
| 13 | Ecological and evolutionary processes at expanding range margins Chris D. Thomas, E. J. Bodsworth, Robert J. Wilson et al. · Nature | May 2001 | 956 |
| 14 | Revisiting the Insect Mitochondrial Molecular Clock: The Mid-Aegean Trench Calibration Anna Papadopoulou, Ioannis P. Anastasiou, Alfried P. Vogler · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 18 Feb 2010 | 878 |
| 15 | Fossiliferous Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma): Its Rediscovery, Biotic Diversity, and Paleontological Significance David A. Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel, Paul C. Nascimbene · American Museum Novitates | Mar 2002 | 801 |
| 16 | Reduction of Lens Reflexion by the “Moth Eye” Principle P B Clapham, M.C. Hutley · Nature | Aug 1973 | 793 |
| 17 | A DNA barcoding framework for taxonomic verification in the Darwin Tree of Life Project Alex D. Twyford et al. · Wellcome Open Research | 24 Jun 2024 | 784 |
| 18 | PLANT DEFENSE SYNDROMES Anurag A. Agrawal, Mark Fishbein · Ecology | Jul 2006 | 774 |
| 19 | Rapid transcriptome characterization for a nonmodel organism using 454 pyrosequencing Juan Cristobal Vera, Christopher West Wheat, Howard W. Fescemyer et al. · Molecular Ecology | 6 Feb 2008 | 742 |
| 20 | Genome-wide evidence for speciation with gene flow in Heliconius butterflies Simon H. Martin, Kanchon K. Dasmahapatra, Nicola J. Nadeau et al. · Genome Research | 17 Sep 2013 | 734 |
| 21 | Insect mitochondrial control region: A review of its structure, evolution and usefulness in evolutionary studies De‐Xing Zhang, Godfrey M. Hewitt · Biochemical Systematics and Ecology | Mar 1997 | 676 |
| 22 | Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation Nathaniel B. Edelman et al. · Science | 31 Oct 2019 | 667 |
| 23 | Chromosomal rearrangements maintain a polymorphic supergene controlling butterfly mimicry Mathieu Joron et al. · Nature | 11 Aug 2011 | 637 |
| 24 | The industrial melanism mutation in British peppered moths is a transposable element Arjèn E. van’t Hof, Pascal Campagne, Daniel John Rigden et al. · Nature | Jun 2016 | 617 |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines Simon J. O’Hanlon et al. · Science | 10 May 2018 | 604 |
| 27 | Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness Erik J. Van Nieukerken et al. · Zootaxa | 23 Dec 2011 | 602 |
| 28 | Light on the moth-eye corneal nipple array of butterflies Doekele G. Stavenga, S Foletti, G. Palasantzas et al. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences | 6 Dec 2005 | 583 |
| 29 | Phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary timing and pattern of butterflies and moths Akito Y. Kawahara, David M. Plotkin, Marianne Espeland et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 21 Oct 2019 | 581 |
| 30 | New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): Molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation S. Blair Hedges, William Edward Duellman, Matthew P. Heinicke · Zootaxa | 31 Mar 2008 | 577 |
| 31 | The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna between Two Continents, between Two Seas Raymond B. Huey · Integrative and Comparative Biology | Nov 2002 | 577 |
| 32 | Acoustically Orienting Parasitoids: Fly Phonotaxis to Cricket Song William H. Cade · Science | 26 Dec 1975 | 569 |
| 33 | A minimalist barcode can identify a specimen whose DNA is degraded Mehrdad Hajibabaei, M. Alex Smith, Daniel H. Janzen et al. · Molecular Ecology Notes | 7 Jul 2006 | 567 |
| 34 | Upper thermal limits of Drosophila are linked to species distributions and strongly constrained phylogenetically Vanessa Kellermann, Johannes Overgaard, Ary A. Hoffmann et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 17 Sep 2012 | 564 |
| 35 | Development, plasticity and evolution of butterfly eyespot patterns Paul Martin Brakefield, Julie Gates, Dave Keys et al. · Nature | Nov 1996 | 555 |
| 36 | THE EVOLUTION OF WING DIMORPHISM IN INSECTS Derek A. Roff · Evolution | Sep 1986 | 552 |
| 37 | The Current State Of Insect Molecular Systematics: A Thriving Tower of Babel Michael S. Caterino, Soowon Cho, Felix A. H. Sperling · Annual Review of Entomology | 2000 | 549 |
| 38 | Does the DNA barcoding gap exist? – a case study in blue butterflies (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Martin Wiemers, Konrad Fiedler · Frontiers in Zoology | 2007 | 536 |
| 39 | Evolutionary history of Coleoptera revealed by extensive sampling of genes and species Shao‐Qian Zhang, Liheng Che, Yun Li et al. · Nature Communications | 9 Jan 2018 | 531 |
| 40 | Conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of a recent species radiation: What mtDNA reveals and conceals about modes of speciation in Hawaiian crickets Kerry L. Shaw · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 25 Nov 2002 | 528 |
| 41 | Water relations of terrestrial arthropods Pat G. Willmer · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | Apr 1995 | 526 |
| 42 | The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling Ward C. Wheeler et al. · Cladistics | 12 Dec 2016 | 523 |
| 43 | A northward shift of range margins in British Odonata R. A. O. Hickling, David B. Roy, Jane K. Hill et al. · Global Change Biology | 13 Jan 2005 | 517 |
| 44 | The Ecology and Evolution of Ant Association in the Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera) Naomi E. Pierce, Michael F. Braby, Alan G. Heath et al. · Annual Review of Entomology | 2002 | 515 |
| 45 | Host specificity of Lepidoptera in tropical and temperate forests Lee A. Dyer, Michael S. Singer, John T. Lill et al. · Nature | Aug 2007 | 515 |
| 46 | optix Drives the Repeated Convergent Evolution of Butterfly Wing Pattern Mimicry Robert D. Reed, Riccardo Papa, Arnaud Martin et al. · Science | 21 Jul 2011 | 502 |
| 47 | Frugivorous Bird Guild Seasonal Patterns in Semiarid Chaco Forests are Linked to Habitat Seasonality but Reveal Phylogenetic Signature Diana E. Marco, Sergio A. Páez, Gabriel Ivan Boaglio · Journal of Scientific Research and Reports | 3 Jan 2015 | 488 |
| 48 | Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies Jesús Mavárez, Camilo A. Salazar, Eldredge Bermingham et al. · Nature | 14 Jun 2006 | 479 |
| 49 | Species Delimitation: New Approaches for Discovering Diversity John J. Wiens · Systematic Biology | 16 Nov 2007 | 475 |
| 50 | Range retractions and extinction in the face of climate warming Chris D. Thomas, Aldina M. A. Franco, Jonathan R. Hill · Trends in Ecology & Evolution | 16 Jun 2006 | 472 |
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