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1 Cost of mating in Drosophila melanogaster females is mediated by male accessory gland products. Nature 1995 10.68
2 Extension of life-span by loss of CHICO, a Drosophila insulin receptor substrate protein. Science 2001 7.85
3 Female fitness in Drosophila melanogaster: an interaction between the effect of nutrition and of encounter rate with males. Proc Biol Sci 1996 4.44
4 Sexual conflict and speciation. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1998 3.90
5 A delayed wave of death from reproduction in Drosophila. Science 1999 3.33
6 Interactions of mating, egg production and death rates in females of the Mediterranean fruit fly, Ceratitis capitata. Proc Biol Sci 1998 2.22
7 Cellular basis and developmental timing in a size cline of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 1995 2.14
8 Separating cause from effect: how does insulin/IGF signalling control lifespan in worms, flies and mice? J Intern Med 2008 2.12
9 Temperature modulates epidermal cell size in Drosophila melanogaster. J Insect Physiol 2002 2.10
10 The ecological context of life history evolution. Science 1988 2.08
11 The role of male accessory gland protein Acp36DE in sperm competition in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Biol Sci 2000 1.86
12 Genetic and environmental responses to temperature of Drosophila melanogaster from a latitudinal cline. Genetics 1997 1.75
13 Ageing: levelling of the grim reaper. Curr Biol 1997 1.64
14 On the use of tester stocks to predict the competitive ability of genotypes. Heredity (Edinb) 1992 1.57
15 Rapid loss of stress resistance in Drosophila melanogaster under adaptation to laboratory culture. Evolution 2001 1.56
16 Sexual conflict as fuel for evolution. Nature 1996 1.52
17 The Acp26Aa seminal fluid protein is a modulator of early egg hatchability in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Biol Sci 2001 1.48
18 No reduction in the cost of mating for Drosophila melanogaster females mating with spermless males. Proc Biol Sci 1993 1.48
19 Evolving evolvability. Nature 2000 1.44
20 Why it is difficult to model sperm displacement in Drosophila melanogaster: the relation between sperm transfer and copulation duration. Evolution 2000 1.42
21 Cell-mediated immunity in calves experimentally infected with BHV-1. Vet Rec 1990 1.39
22 Genetic variation for total fitness in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Biol Sci 1997 1.37
23 Limits to natural selection. Bioessays 2000 1.34
24 A comparison of the genetic basis of wing size divergence in three parallel body size clines of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 1999 1.30
25 Nonclinality of molecular variation implicates selection in maintaining a morphological cline of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics 2001 1.29
26 Adaptation and constraint in the evolution of Drosophila melanogaster wing shape. Evol Dev 2001 1.28
27 Quantitative genetic analysis of natural variation in body size in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 2002 1.25
28 Heritability of pre-adult viability differences can explain apparent heritability of sperm displacement ability in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Biol Sci 1997 1.21
29 Body size and cell size in Drosophila: the developmental response to temperature. J Insect Physiol 1998 1.15
30 The contrasting genetic architecture of wing size and shape in Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 2001 1.15
31 Insulin/IGF signalling and ageing: seeing the bigger picture. Curr Opin Genet Dev 2001 1.13
32 Mating and hormonal triggers regulate accessory gland gene expression in male Drosophila. J Insect Physiol 1997 1.13
33 Cellular basis of wing size variation in Drosophila melanogaster: a comparison of latitudinal clines on two continents. Heredity (Edinb) 2000 1.12
34 Life-history consequences of egg size in Drosophila melanogaster. Am Nat 1997 1.08
35 Influence of temperature and activity on the metabolic rate of adult Drosophila melanogaster. Comp Biochem Physiol A Physiol 1997 1.06
36 Sex peptide of Drosophila melanogaster males is a global regulator of reproductive processes in females. Proc Biol Sci 2012 0.98
37 The genetic bases of divergence in desiccation and starvation resistance among tropical and temperate populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Heredity (Edinb) 2001 0.98
38 Thermal sensitivity of Drosophila melanogaster: evolutionary responses of adults and eggs to laboratory natural selection at different temperatures. Physiol Zool 1997 0.96
39 Selection on age at reproduction in Drosophila melanogaster: female mating frequency as a correlated response. Evolution 2000 0.96
40 Overwintering in Drosophila melanogaster: outdoor field cage experiments on clinal and laboratory selected populations help to elucidate traits under selection. J Evol Biol 2003 0.94
41 Gene-environment interaction for body size and larval density in Drosophila melanogaster: an investigation of effects on development time, thorax length and adult sex ratio. Heredity (Edinb) 1994 0.93
42 Joint regulation of cell size and cell number in the wing blade of Drosophila melanogaster. Genet Res 1997 0.93
43 Laboratory adaptation of life history in Drosophila. Am Nat 2001 0.92
44 Dietary restriction delays aging, but not neuronal dysfunction, in Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease. Neurobiol Aging 2009 0.92
45 Mating-induced inhibition of remating in female Mediterranean fruit flies Ceratitis capitata. J Insect Physiol 1999 0.91
46 Geographic variation in competitive ability in Drosophila melanogaster. Am Nat 1998 0.90
47 Thermal evolution of growth efficiency in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Biol Sci 1995 0.88
48 Regulation of gene expression is preserved in aging Drosophila melanogaster. Curr Biol 1998 0.87
49 Gerontology. Methuselah among nematodes. Nature 1993 0.86
50 Female sensitivity to diet and irradiation treatments underlies sex-mortality differentials in the Mediterranean fruit fly. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2001 0.84
51 The identification of endothelial cell autoantigens. J Autoimmun 2000 0.83
52 Influence of female reproductive anatomy on the outcome of sperm competition in Drosophila melanogaster. Proc Biol Sci 2003 0.82
53 Genetic variation for preadult viability in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 2001 0.82
54 Subclasses of IgG on the surface of human lymphocytes: a study with monoclonal antibodies. Clin Exp Immunol 1984 0.81
55 Tissue rejection: the price of sexual acceptance? Nature 1983 0.80
56 Starvation resistance and adult body composition in a latitudinal cline of Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 2000 0.80
57 Water-independent effects of dietary restriction in Drosophila. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 0.79
58 Measuring fitness by means of balancer chromosomes. Genet Res 2000 0.78
59 Evolutionary biology. What the sperm count costs. Nature 1992 0.78
60 Isoprenaline-induced and constitutive members of a proline-rich protein sub-group from mouse parotid glands studied with monoclonal antibody NAL1. J Mol Endocrinol 1989 0.77
61 Population biology. A crash course in survival. Nature 1994 0.75
62 Pervasive effects of P element mutagenesis on body size in Drosophila melanogaster. Genet Res 1998 0.75
63 Erratum to "Dietary restriction delays aging, but not neuronal dysfunction, in Drosophila models of Alzheimer's disease." [Neurobiol. Aging 32 (2011) 1977-1989]. Neurobiol Aging 2015 0.75
64 A paradox for biology. Science 1991 0.75
65 When deviants are favoured: evolution of sex determination. Nature 1984 0.75
66 Frequency-dependent mating preferences in female fruitflies? Behav Genet 1989 0.75
67 Evolutionary biology. Menopause for thought. Nature 1993 0.75