Monophyletic Origins of the Metazoa: an Evolutionary Link with Fungi

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

1987 • 59,130 citations

PHYLIP-Phylogeny inference package (Version 3.2)

1989 • 17,674 citations

Evolutionary trees from DNA sequences: A maximum likelihood approach

1981 • 14,097 citations

Evaluation of the maximum likelihood estimate of the evolutionary tree topologies from DNA sequence data, and the branching order in hominoidea

1989 • 3,380 citations

The characterization of enzymatically amplified eukaryotic 16S-like rRNA-coding regions

1988 • 2,828 citations

Bacterial evolution

1987 • 2,303 citations

Structure and Function of Intercellular Junctions

1974 • 1,339 citations

Direct solid phase sequencing of genomic and plasmid DNA using magnetic beads as solid support

1989 • 747 citations

Molecular Phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom

1988 • 743 citations

The Early Evolution of Eukaryotes: A Geological Perspective

1992 • 673 citations

The small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene sequences from the hypotrichous ciliates Oxytricha nova and Stylonychia pustulata.

1985 • 599 citations

The Invertebrates: Protozoa Through Ctenophora

1940 • 576 citations

Phylogenetic analysis Of Dna sequences

1991 • 521 citations

Early evolution and the origin of eukaryotes

1991 • 506 citations

The origins and relationships of lower invertebrates

1983 • 400 citations

Evolutionary relationships within the fungi: Analyses of nuclear small subunit rRNA sequences

1992 • 316 citations

Evolutionary Biology of the Fungi

1989 • 230 citations

Small subunit ribosomal RNA+ of Hexamita inflata and the quest for the first branch in the eukaryotic tree

1993 • 227 citations

Origin of the Metazoa.

1990 • 216 citations

[53] Phylogenetic analysis using ribosomal RNA

1988 • 167 citations

Early branchings in the evolution of eukaryotes: Ancient divergence of entamoeba that lacks mitochondria revealed by protein sequence data

1993 • 151 citations

Phylogenetic relationships within the invertebrata in relation to the structure of septate junctions and the development of ‘occluding’ junctional types

1982 • 145 citations

On the Broad Classification of Organisms

1959 • 144 citations

Studies on hexactinellid sponges. I. Histology of Rhabdocalyptus dawsoni (Lambe, 1873)

1983 • 139 citations

Animal phylogeny in the light of the trochaea theory

1985 • 134 citations

An analysis of the origin of metazoans, using comparisons of partial sequences of the 28S RNA, reveals an early emergence of triploblasts.

1991 • 129 citations

Observations on the ultrastructure of the choanoflagellate Codosiga botrytis (Ehr.) saville-kent with special reference to the flagellar apparatus

1975 • 121 citations

Life-history and ultrastructure of a new marine species ofProterospongia(Choanoflagellida)

1983 • 116 citations

Biology of Invertebrate and Lower Vertebrate Collagens

1986 • 116 citations

Junctional structures in Hydra

1977 • 97 citations

Invited Review: Structure and Composition of Basement Membranes and Other Basal Matrix Systems in Selected Invertebrates

1991 • 86 citations

Fibronectin-like protein in Porifera: its role in cell aggregation.

1981 • 79 citations

Sequencing errors and molecular evolutionary analysis.

1992 • 77 citations

The ventral epithelium of Trichoplax adhaerens (Placozoa): Cytoskeletal structures, cell contacts and endocytosis

1986 • 76 citations

Memoirs: The Gastraea-Theory, the Phylogenetic Classification of the Animal Kingdom and the Homology of the Germ-Lamellæ

1874 • 68 citations

Cytoskeletal organization and tissue patterns of epithelia in the sponge Ephydatia mülleri

1986 • 55 citations

XXXIII.—On the Spongiæ ciliatæ as Infusoria flagellata; or observations on the structure, animality, and relationship of Leucosolenia botryoides, bowerbank

1868 • 54 citations

An Attempt to Reconstruct the System of Animal Classification

1953 • 52 citations

An Attempt to Reconstruct the System of Animal Classification

1953 • 47 citations

Cloning and sequencing of a Porifera partial cDNA coding for a short‐chain collagen

1990 • 42 citations

Fine structure of sponge cell membranes: Comparative study with freeze-fracture and conventional thin section methods

1983 • 42 citations

XXII.—On the Spongiæ ciliatæ as Infusoria flagellata; or observations on the structure, animality, and relationship of Leucosolenia botryoides, Bowerbank

1868 • 42 citations

Preliminary Observations on the Chemistry and Biology of the Lorica in a Collared Flagellate (Stephanoeca Diplocostata Ellis)

1974 • 39 citations

[40] Statistical tests of molecular phylogenies

1990 • 33 citations

Gap and septate junctions in the excitable endoderm of Polyorchis penicillatus (hydrozoa, anthomedusae)

1979 • 29 citations

Precambrian trace fossils and the rise of bilaterian animals

1990 • 28 citations

IV.—Conclusive proofs of the animality of the ciliate sponges, and of their affinities with the Infusoria flagellata

1867 • 21 citations

XXVII.—On the Spongiæ ciliatæ as Infusoria flagellata; or observations on the structure, animality, and relationship of Leucosolenia botryoides, Bowerbank

1868 • 13 citations