Published in Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci on June 29, 2006
The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2006) 3.19
The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2008) 2.25
On the origins of arrestin and rhodopsin. BMC Evol Biol (2008) 2.11
Evolution of the vertebrate eye: opsins, photoreceptors, retina and eye cup. Nat Rev Neurosci (2007) 1.89
Cell evolution and Earth history: stasis and revolution. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2006) 1.59
The Biological Big Bang model for the major transitions in evolution. Biol Direct (2007) 1.25
Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes. PLoS One (2010) 1.24
Cambrian stalked echinoderms show unexpected plasticity of arm construction. Proc Biol Sci (2011) 1.05
The earliest history of the deuterostomes: the importance of the Chengjiang Fossil-Lagerstatte. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 1.01
Distinguishing geology from biology in the Ediacaran Doushantuo biota relaxes constraints on the timing of the origin of bilaterians. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 0.99
The chromatin insulator CTCF and the emergence of metazoan diversity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 0.90
Mitochondrial DNA, chloroplast DNA and the origins of development in eukaryotic organisms. Biol Direct (2010) 0.88
Introduction: How and when did microbes change the world? Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2006) 0.88
Molecular clocks and the early evolution of metazoan nervous systems. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2015) 0.87
Characterization of cardiolipins and their oxidation products by LC-MS analysis. Chem Phys Lipids (2013) 0.82
Form and function remixed: developmental physiology in the evolution of vertebrate body plans. J Physiol (2014) 0.78
Characterization of small HSPs from Anemonia viridis reveals insights into molecular evolution of alpha crystallin genes among cnidarians. PLoS One (2014) 0.77
Maintenance of a Protein Structure in the Dynamic Evolution of TIMPs over 600 Million Years. Genome Biol Evol (2016) 0.76
Microevolutionary, macroevolutionary, ecological and taxonomical implications of punctuational theories of adaptive evolution. Biol Direct (2013) 0.76
The evolution of an ancient metazoan biomineralization strategy was supported by a horizontal gene transfer. Mob Genet Elements (2011) 0.75
Evidence for a clade of nematodes, arthropods and other moulting animals. Nature (1997) 7.28
On the generality of the latitudinal diversity gradient. Am Nat (2004) 6.10
Evolutionary rates analysis of Leguminosae implicates a rapid diversification of lineages during the tertiary. Syst Biol (2005) 5.95
Molecular evidence for the early colonization of land by fungi and plants. Science (2001) 5.49
Multigene analyses of bilaterian animals corroborate the monophyly of Ecdysozoa, Lophotrochozoa, and Protostomia. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 3.74
Conodont affinity and chordate phylogeny. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc (2000) 3.62
The rate of DNA evolution: effects of body size and temperature on the molecular clock. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 3.62
Hox genes in brachiopods and priapulids and protostome evolution. Nature (1999) 3.58
A critical reappraisal of the fossil record of the bilaterian phyla. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc (2000) 3.33
The origin of allometric scaling laws in biology from genomes to ecosystems: towards a quantitative unifying theory of biological structure and organization. J Exp Biol (2005) 3.30
Separate evolutionary origins of teeth from evidence in fossil jawed vertebrates. Science (2003) 3.21
Rodent phylogeny and a timescale for the evolution of Glires: evidence from an extensive taxon sampling using three nuclear genes. Mol Biol Evol (2002) 3.12
U-Pb ages from the neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China. Science (2005) 2.71
Hox cluster disintegration with persistent anteroposterior order of expression in Oikopleura dioica. Nature (2004) 2.54
Coelomata and not Ecdysozoa: evidence from genome-wide phylogenetic analysis. Genome Res (2004) 2.42
Molecular phylogeny and divergence time estimates for major rodent groups: evidence from multiple genes. Mol Biol Evol (2001) 2.42
Modular construction of early Ediacaran complex life forms. Science (2004) 2.33
Primitive deuterostomes from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte (Lower Cambrian, China). Nature (2001) 2.31
Exceptional fossil preservation and the cambrian explosion. Integr Comp Biol (2003) 2.29
Late Proterozoic rise in atmospheric oxygen concentration inferred from phylogenetic and sulphur-isotope studies. Nature (1996) 2.26
Small bilaterian fossils from 40 to 55 million years before the cambrian. Science (2004) 2.25
Definitive fossil evidence for the extant avian radiation in the Cretaceous. Nature (2005) 2.13
Cosmopolitan metapopulations of free-living microbial eukaryotes. Protist (2004) 2.13
Palaeoanatomy and biological affinities of a Cambrian deuterostome (Stylophora). Nature (2005) 2.11
Origin of the Eumetazoa: testing ecological predictions of molecular clocks against the Proterozoic fossil record. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 2.11
A palaeontological solution to the arthropod head problem. Nature (2002) 2.05
Angiosperm divergence times: the effect of genes, codon positions, and time constraints. Evolution (2005) 2.04
Ecdysozoan phylogeny and Bayesian inference: first use of nearly complete 28S and 18S rRNA gene sequences to classify the arthropods and their kin. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2004) 1.95
A possible Lower Cambrian chaetognath (arrow worm). Science (2002) 1.93
Fossil embryos from the Middle and Late Cambrian period of Hunan, south China. Nature (2004) 1.87
Neuroanatomy of sea spiders implies an appendicular origin of the protocerebral segment. Nature (2005) 1.87
Ancestral echinoderms from the Chengjiang deposits of China. Nature (2004) 1.85
Molecular phylogeny of Demospongiae: implications for classification and scenarios of character evolution. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2004) 1.85
A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution. Science (2003) 1.82
Head and backbone of the Early Cambrian vertebrate Haikouichthys. Nature (2003) 1.73
The Opisthokonta and the Ecdysozoa may not be clades: stronger support for the grouping of plant and animal than for animal and fungi and stronger support for the Coelomata than Ecdysozoa. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 1.66
Discoidal impressions and trace-like fossils more than 1200 million years old. Science (2002) 1.63
Triploblastic animals more than 1 billion years ago: trace fossil evidence from india Science (1998) 1.61
The evolutionary position of nematodes. BMC Evol Biol (2002) 1.60
Molecular dates for the "cambrian explosion": the influence of prior assumptions. Syst Biol (2005) 1.53
Ciona intestinalis Hox gene cluster: Its dispersed structure and residual colinear expression in development. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 1.49
The dawn of bilaterian animals: the case of acoelomorph flatworms. Bioessays (2004) 1.42
The mitochondrial genome of the sperm whale and a new molecular reference for estimating eutherian divergence dates. J Mol Evol (2000) 1.40
New insights into polychaete phylogeny (Annelida) inferred from 18S rDNA sequences. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2003) 1.39
Birds in a bush: five genes indicate explosive evolution of avian orders. Evolution (2004) 1.38
Early Cambrian sipunculan worms from southwest China. Proc Biol Sci (2004) 1.37
An evaluation of support for order-level monophyly and interrelationships within the class Demospongiae using partial data from the large subunit rDNA and cytochrome oxidase subunit I. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2005) 1.36
Fossil sister group of craniates: predicted and found. J Morphol (2003) 1.31
Identification of chaetognaths as protostomes is supported by the analysis of their mitochondrial genome. Mol Biol Evol (2004) 1.30
The mitochondrial genome of Paraspadella gotoi is highly reduced and reveals that chaetognaths are a sister group to protostomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 1.28
The chordate amphioxus: an emerging model organism for developmental biology. Cell Mol Life Sci (2004) 1.26
Molecular clocks do not support the Cambrian explosion. Mol Biol Evol (2004) 1.24
Evidence for a single median fin-fold and tail in the Lower Cambrian vertebrate, Haikouichthys ercaicunensis. J Evol Biol (2004) 1.24
Resolution of a deep animal divergence by the pattern of intron conservation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.23
Molecular data from 27 proteins do not support a Precambrian origin of land plants. Am J Bot (2003) 1.22
Articulated Palaeozoic fossil with 17 plates greatly expands disparity of early chitons. Nature (2004) 1.21
An Early Cambrian tunicate from China. Nature (2001) 1.21
The origin of crustaceans: new evidence from the Early Cambrian of China. Proc Biol Sci (2001) 1.21
The first tunicate from the Early Cambrian of South China. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.19
Precambrian animal life: probable developmental and adult cnidarian forms from Southwest China. Dev Biol (2002) 1.17
A fungal analog for newfoundland ediacaran fossils? Integr Comp Biol (2003) 1.17
Dating the Dipsacales: comparing models, genes, and evolutionary implications. Am J Bot (2005) 1.17
A uniquely preserved Ediacaran fossil with direct evidence for a quilted bodyplan. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.15
Evolution: bringing molecules into the fold. Cell (2000) 1.14
The quality of the fossil record of Mesozoic birds. Proc Biol Sci (2005) 1.14
On the evolutionary history of Ephedra: Cretaceous fossils and extant molecules. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 1.11
Reconstructing early sponge relationships by using the Burgess Shale fossil Eiffelia globosa, Walcott. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.05
Complete mtDNA of Ciona intestinalis reveals extensive gene rearrangement and the presence of an atp8 and an extra trnM gene in ascidians. J Mol Evol (2004) 1.03
New evidence on the anatomy and phylogeny of the earliest vertebrates. Proc Biol Sci (2002) 1.02
Systematic searches for molecular synapomorphies in model metazoan genomes give some support for Ecdysozoa after accounting for the idiosyncrasies of Caenorhabditis elegans. Evol Dev (2004) 1.01
The anatomy, affinity, and phylogenetic significance of Markuelia. Evol Dev (2005) 1.00
A tissue-specific marker of Ecdysozoa. Dev Genes Evol (2001) 0.97
Bilaterian phylogeny based on analyses of a region of the sodium-potassium ATPase beta-subunit gene. J Mol Evol (2004) 0.96
An Early Cambrian problematic fossil: Vetustovermis and its possible affinities. Proc Biol Sci (2005) 0.96
The Hox gene complement of acoel flatworms, a basal bilaterian clade. Evol Dev (2004) 0.93
The Cambrian "explosion" of metazoans and molecular biology: would Darwin be satisfied? Int J Dev Biol (2003) 0.91
Animal phylogeny: back to the coelomata? Curr Biol (2004) 0.89
Hypervariable and highly divergent intron-exon organizations in the chordate Oikopleura dioica. J Mol Evol (2004) 0.86
Calibration and error in placental molecular clocks: a conservative approach using the cetartiodactyl fossil record. J Hered (2004) 0.83
Eggs and embryos in Xenoturbella (phylum uncertain) are not ingested prey. Dev Genes Evol (2005) 0.83
Nipping the Cambrian "explosion" in the bud? Bioessays (2000) 0.78