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

A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences

1980 • 28,067 citations

PHYLOGENIES FROM MOLECULAR SEQUENCES: INFERENCE AND RELIABILITY

1988 • 2,143 citations

Molecular Phylogeny of the Animal Kingdom

1988 • 743 citations

Evolutionary diversity of eukaryotic small-subunit rRNA genes.

1986 • 493 citations

Origin of the Metazoa.

1990 • 216 citations

Burgess Shale Faunas and the Cambrian Explosion

1989 • 202 citations

Protist classification and the kingdoms of organisms

1978 • 185 citations

Improved methods for structure probing in large RNAs: a rapid ‘heterologous’ sequencing approach is coupled to the direct mapping of nudease accessible sites. Application to the 5′nal domain of eukaryotic 28S rRNA

1983 • 180 citations

Origin of the algae

1989 • 148 citations

Partial phylogeny of the unicellular eukaryotes based on rapid sequencing of a portion of 28S ribosomal RNA.

1988 • 145 citations

Estimating the reliability of evolutionary trees.

1986 • 143 citations

The Ediacarian Period and System: Metazoa Inherit the Earth

1982 • 138 citations

Molecular phylogeny of the kingdoms Animalia, Plantae, and Fungi.

1989 • 89 citations

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

1988 • 85 citations