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The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

1979 • 7,965 citations

Escherichia Coli and Salmonella: Typhimurium Cellular and Molecular Biology

1987 • 4,385 citations

Bacterial evolution

1987 • 2,303 citations

THE EVOLUTIONARY ADVANTAGE OF RECOMBINATION

1974 • 1,737 citations

MOLECULAR CHAPERONE FUNCTIONS OF HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS

1993 • 1,591 citations

The ribosomal database project.

1993 • 1,574 citations

Deleterious mutations and the evolution of sexual reproduction

1988 • 1,130 citations

16S rRNA phylogenetic analysis of the bacterial endosymbionts associated with cytoplasmic incompatibility in insects.

1992 • 1,127 citations

Evidence for higher rates of nucleotide substitution in rodents than in man.

1985 • 933 citations

An evolutionary perspective on synonymous codon usage in unicellular organisms

1986 • 874 citations

Directional mutation pressure and neutral molecular evolution.

1988 • 872 citations

Evolution in bacteria: Evidence for a universal substitution rate in cellular genomes

1987 • 777 citations

The Mutational Meltdown in Asexual Populations

1993 • 630 citations

The guanine and cytosine content of genomic DNA and bacterial evolution.

1987 • 587 citations

Heat‐shock proteins as molecular chaperones

1994 • 551 citations

GENETICS, PHYSIOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIPS OF THE GENUS BUCHNERA: Intracellular Symbionts of Aphids

1995 • 491 citations

Codon preferences in free-living microorganisms

1990 • 452 citations

Recombination in Escherichia coli and the definition of biological species

1991 • 402 citations

Clonal Divergence in Escherichia coli as a Result of Recombination, Not Mutation

1994 • 388 citations

Evidence for the establishment of aphid-eubacterium endosymbiosis in an ancestor of four aphid families

1991 • 267 citations

Testing for equality of evolutionary rates.

1992 • 257 citations

CORRELATION BETWEEN BASE COMPOSITION OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID AND AMINO ACID COMPOSITION OF PROTEIN

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Organelle Genes and Genomes

1994 • 239 citations

Phylogeny of cytoplasmic incompatibility microorganisms in the parasitoid wasp genus Nasonia (Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae) based on 16S ribosomal DNA sequences

1992 • 179 citations

Amplification of trpEG: adaptation of Buchnera aphidicola to an endosymbiotic association with aphids.

1994 • 159 citations

Extraordinary divergence and positive Darwinian selection in a fusagenic protein coating the acrosomal process of abalone spermatozoa.

1995 • 130 citations

Biochemical and Molecular Aspects of Endosymbiosis in Insects

1989 • 113 citations

Heat-shock proteins as molecular chaperones

1994 • 98 citations

The advance of Muller's ratchet in a haploid asexual population: approximate solutions based on diffusion theory

1993 • 95 citations

Analysis of directional mutation pressure and nucleotide content in mitochondrial cytochrome b genes

1994 • 93 citations

Mycetome endosymbionts of tsetse flies constitute a distinct lineage related to Enterobacteriaceae

1995 • 89 citations

Molecular analysis of the endosymbionts of tsetse flies: 16S rDNA locus and over‐expression of a chaperonin

1995 • 87 citations

Molecular evolution of the Escherichia coli chromosome. IV. Sequence comparisons.

1993 • 83 citations

Transduction, restriction and recombination patterns in Escherichia coli.

1995 • 78 citations

Phylogenetic relationships of the endosymbionts of mealybugs (Homoptera: Pseudococcidae) based on 165 rDNA sequences

1992 • 77 citations

Episodic evolution in the stomach lysozymes of ruminants

1989 • 71 citations

Adaptive evolution in the rat olfactory receptor gene family

1993 • 54 citations

Genetic analysis of an aphid endosymbiont DNA fragment homologous to the rnpA-rpmH-dnaA-dnaN-gyrB region of eubacteria

1992 • 53 citations

Mutation load under vegetative reproduction and cytoplasmic inheritance.

1994 • 44 citations

Buchnera aphidicola (a prokaryotic endosymbiont of aphids) contains a putative 16S rRNA operon unlinked to the 23S rRNA-encoding gene: sequence determination, and promoter and terminator analysis

1993 • 41 citations

Codon usage in selected AT-rich bacteria

1988 • 39 citations

of the aphid Schlechtendalia chinensis

1995 • 36 citations

Sequence analysis of a DNA fragment from Buchnera aphidicola (an endosymbiont of aphids) containing genes homologous to dnaG, rpoD, cysE, and secB

1992 • 35 citations

Sex in the soil

1992 • 33 citations

Accumulation of adenine and thymine in agroE-homologous operon of an intracellular symbiont

1993 • 32 citations

Contrasting evolutionary rates in the duplicate chaperonin genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. leprae.

1993 • 30 citations

Sequence analysis of an aphid endosymbiont DNA fragment containingrpoB (β-subunit of RNA polymerase) and portions ofrplL andrpoC

1992 • 20 citations