Molecular Evidence for Deep Precambrian Divergences Among Metazoan Phyla

CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

1994 • 63,397 citations

The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

1979 • 7,965 citations

The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution

1983 • 6,141 citations

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

1953 • 5,543 citations

Atlas of protein sequence and structure

1965 • 4,462 citations

Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods will be Positively Misleading

1978 • 2,881 citations

Evolutionary Divergence and Convergence in Proteins

1965 • 2,780 citations

Homeobox genes and axial patterning

1992 • 2,688 citations

Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure, 1972.

1973 • 2,408 citations

Cases in which Parsimony or Compatibility Methods Will be Positively Misleading

1978 • 2,193 citations

Evolving Genes and Proteins

1965 • 1,314 citations

The causes of molecular evolution

1992 • 1,307 citations

The structural and functional organization of the murine HOX gene family resembles that of Drosophila homeotic genes.

1989 • 912 citations

The Proterozoic Biosphere

1992 • 845 citations

Rates of DNA Sequence Evolution Differ Between Taxonomic Groups

1986 • 793 citations

Molecular Phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom

1988 • 743 citations

Success of Phylogenetic Methods in the Four-Taxon Case

1993 • 737 citations

The fossil record 2

1993 • 683 citations

The Proterozoic biosphere: a multidisciplinary study

1988 • 586 citations

Determining Divergence Times of the Major Kingdoms of Living Organisms with a Protein Clock

1996 • 584 citations

The Causes of Molecular Evolution

1992 • 577 citations

Evidence from 18 S Ribosomal DNA that the Lophophorates Are Protostome Animals

1995 • 557 citations

Continental breakup and the ordinal diversification of birds and mammals

1996 • 536 citations

Calibrating Rates of Early Cambrian Evolution

1993 • 512 citations

Systematics and the Fossil Record

1994 • 447 citations

Details of the evolutionary history from invertebratesto vertebrates, as deduced from the sequences of 18S rDNA.

1994 • 431 citations

Early life on earth

1994 • 399 citations

Guidebook to the homeobox genes

1994 • 399 citations

The fossil record and the early evolution of the Metazoa

1993 • 398 citations

Origin of Bilaterian Body Plans: Evolution of Developmental Regulatory Mechanisms

1995 • 379 citations

Major Evolutionary Radiations

1991 • 355 citations

Generation Time and Genomic Evolution in Primates

1973 • 333 citations

Darwinian evolution in the genealogy of haemoglobin

1975 • 306 citations

Origin and Early Evolution of the Metazoa

1992 • 258 citations

Secular distribution of Burgess‐Shale‐type preservation

1995 • 227 citations

Oxygen requirements, biology and phylogenetic significance of the late Precambrian wormDickinsonia, and the evolution of the burrowing habit

1982 • 207 citations

The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’: decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity

1996 • 200 citations

Systematics and the Fossil Record

1995 • 196 citations

Developmental Evolution: Insights from Studies of Insect Segmentation

1994 • 180 citations

The Early Radiation and Relationships of the Major Arthropod Groups

1989 • 166 citations

Origin and early evolution of the Metazoa

1993 • 154 citations

A molecular‐clock date for the origin of the animal phyla

1982 • 152 citations

Phylogenetic position of phylum Nemertini, inferred from 18S rRNA sequences: molecular data as a test of morphological character homology.

1992 • 150 citations

Developmental Evolution of Metazoan Bodyplans: The Fossil Evidence

1996 • 148 citations

The Dawn of Animal Life

1984 • 138 citations

The Burgess Shale

1985 • 135 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

Intimations of a creature

1994 • 92 citations

Earliest known echinoderm — a new Ediacaran fossil from the Pound Subgroup of South Australia

1987 • 90 citations

Macroscopic worm-like body fossils from the upper precambrian (900-700 Ma), huainan district, anhui, China and their stratigraphic and evolutionary significance

1986 • 70 citations

Meiofauna and the origins of the Metazoa

1989 • 55 citations

Meiofauna and the origins of the Metazoa

1989 • 42 citations

Pellet microfossils: Possible evidence for metazoan life in Early Proterozoic time

1985 • 36 citations

Rates of nucleotide substitution are evidently higher in rodents than in man.

1987 • 34 citations

The homeobox in cell differentiation and evolution

1994 • 31 citations

Some new diplograptids from the Llandovery of Britain and Scandinavia

1968 • 24 citations

Molecular clocks, molecular phylogenies and the origin of phyla

1989 • 14 citations

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1955 • 0 citations