Limitations of Molecular Methods for Establishing the Phylogeny of Mammals, with Special Reference to the Position of Elephants

CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

1985 • 39,646 citations

Confidence Limits on Phylogenies: An Approach Using the Bootstrap

1985 • 18,213 citations

Molecular Evolutionary Genetics

1987 • 15,266 citations

Sequence and organization of the human mitochondrial genome

1981 • 9,348 citations

Dynamics of mitochondrial DNA evolution in animals: amplification and sequencing with conserved primers.

1989 • 4,904 citations

Evolution of the cytochromeb gene of mammals

1991 • 2,289 citations

PHYLOGENIES FROM MOLECULAR SEQUENCES: INFERENCE AND RELIABILITY

1988 • 2,143 citations

Sequence and gene organization of mouse mitochondrial DNA

1981 • 1,712 citations

Molecular drive: a cohesive mode of species evolution

1982 • 1,579 citations

Complete sequence of bovine mitochondrial DNA conserved features of the mammalian mitochondrial genome

1982 • 1,491 citations

Biochemical Evolution

1977 • 1,283 citations

Mitochondrial DNA and two perspectives on evolutionary genetics

1985 • 1,260 citations

Sequence and gene organization of the chicken mitochondrial genome

1990 • 1,086 citations

Evolutionary relationship of archaebacteria, eubacteria, and eukaryotes inferred from phylogenetic trees of duplicated genes.

1989 • 906 citations

The Mosaic Genome of Warm-Blooded Vertebrates

1985 • 887 citations

Mitochondrial DNA sequences in single hairs from a southern African population.

1989 • 576 citations

The Mitochondrial Genome of Animals

1985 • 559 citations

Rapid duplication and loss of genes coding for the alpha chains of hemoglobin.

1980 • 531 citations

The complete nucleotide sequence of theRattus norvegicus mitochondrial genome: Cryptic signals revealed by comparative analysis between vertebrates

1989 • 523 citations

Tempo and mode of sequence evolution in mitochondrial DNA of HawaiianDrosophila

1987 • 478 citations

Ancient DNA and the polymerase chain reaction

1989 • 461 citations

A rate-independent technique for analysis of nucleic acid sequences: evolutionary parsimony.

1987 • 389 citations

Adaptive evolution in the stomach lysozymes of foregut fermenters

1987 • 376 citations

Molecules and morphology in evolution: Conflict or compromise?

1988 • 326 citations

Ancient origin of lactalbumin from lysozyme: Analysis of DNA and amino acid sequences

1988 • 242 citations

DNA phylogeny of the extinct marsupial wolf

1989 • 240 citations

Phylogeny of the major tetrapod groups: Morphological data and divergence dates

1990 • 239 citations

Molecular time scale for evolution

1987 • 215 citations

Origin of tetrapods inferred from their mitochondrial DNA affiliation to lungfish

1990 • 214 citations

Molecular evolution of the ribonuclease superfamily

1988 • 205 citations

The Polymerase Chain Reaction

1995 • 200 citations

Spatial and temporal continuity of kangaroo rat populations shown by sequencing mitochondrial DNA from museum specimens

1990 • 198 citations

The evolutionary relationships among known life forms

1988 • 180 citations

Ancient roots for polymorphism at the HLA-DQ alpha locus in primates.

1989 • 149 citations

Rearrangements of mitochondrial transfer RNA genes in marsupials

1991 • 143 citations

[34] Converting distance to time: Application to human evolution

1990 • 138 citations

Phylogeny of nitrogenase sequences inFrankia and other nitrogen-fixing microorganisms

1989 • 122 citations

Allelic diversification at the class II DQB locus of the mammalian major histocompatibility complex.

1990 • 121 citations

Sequence Convergence and Functional Adaptation of Stomach Lysozymes from Foregut Fermenters

1987 • 106 citations

Mode and tempo of molecular evolution in the nematode caenorhabditis: cytochrome oxidase II and calmodulin sequences.

1991 • 100 citations

Mitochondrial DNA of the extinct quagga: Relatedness and extent of postmortem change

1987 • 96 citations

Concerted evolution of ruminant stomach lysozymes. Characterization of lysozyme cDNA clones from sheep and deer.

1990 • 96 citations

VARIABILITY OF EVOLUTIONARY RATES OF DNA

1986 • 91 citations

The pattern of mammalian evolution and the relative rate of molecular evolution.

1990 • 85 citations

Phylogenetic calibration of the 5′ terminal domain of large rRNA achieved by determining twenty eucaryotic sequences

1988 • 85 citations

MINI-REVIEW

1987 • 83 citations

Primary structures of the α‐crystallin A chains of twenty‐eight mammalian species, chicken and frog

1984 • 77 citations

Rise and fall of the delta globin gene

1983 • 66 citations

Compositional statistics: An improvement of evolutionary parsimony and its application to deep branches in the tree of life

1990 • 64 citations

[37] Maximum parsimony approach to construction of evolutionary trees from aligned homologous sequences

1990 • 52 citations

[36] Maximum likelihood methods

1990 • 49 citations

New ideas in ungulate phylogeny and evolution

1988 • 34 citations

[40] Statistical tests of molecular phylogenies

1990 • 33 citations

Superordinal Affinities of Rodentia Studied by Sequence Analysis of Eye Lens Protein

1985 • 30 citations

Evolution and transcription of Old World monkey globin genes

1989 • 13 citations