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Jianzhi Zhang

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1 Rapid subfunctionalization accompanied by prolonged and substantial neofunctionalization in duplicate gene evolution. Genetics 2005 3.98
2 Evolutionary conservation of expression profiles between human and mouse orthologous genes. Mol Biol Evol 2005 3.62
3 Gene sequence-based criteria for identification of new rickettsia isolates and description of Rickettsia heilongjiangensis sp. nov. J Clin Microbiol 2003 3.59
4 The pleiotropic structure of the genotype-phenotype map: the evolvability of complex organisms. Nat Rev Genet 2011 3.57
5 Why do hubs tend to be essential in protein networks? PLoS Genet 2006 3.29
6 Gene losses during human origins. PLoS Biol 2006 3.17
7 RNA sequencing shows no dosage compensation of the active X-chromosome. Nat Genet 2010 2.71
8 Null mutations in human and mouse orthologs frequently result in different phenotypes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 2.60
9 Balanced codon usage optimizes eukaryotic translational efficiency. PLoS Genet 2012 2.32
10 Impacts of gene essentiality, expression pattern, and gene compactness on the evolutionary rate of mammalian proteins. Mol Biol Evol 2006 2.22
11 Genomic patterns of pleiotropy and the evolution of complexity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 2.19
12 Prevalent positive epistasis in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae metabolic networks. Nat Genet 2010 2.16
13 Mouse duplicate genes are as essential as singletons. Trends Genet 2007 2.12
14 More genes underwent positive selection in chimpanzee evolution than in human evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 2.00
15 Low rates of expression profile divergence in highly expressed genes and tissue-specific genes during mammalian evolution. Mol Biol Evol 2006 1.97
16 Dramatic variation of the vomeronasal pheromone receptor gene repertoire among five orders of placental and marsupial mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 1.88
17 Toward a molecular understanding of pleiotropy. Genetics 2006 1.88
18 Comparative genomic analysis identifies an evolutionary shift of vomeronasal receptor gene repertoires in the vertebrate transition from water to land. Genome Res 2007 1.85
19 Adaptive diversification of bitter taste receptor genes in Mammalian evolution. Mol Biol Evol 2003 1.82
20 Contrasting modes of evolution between vertebrate sweet/umami receptor genes and bitter receptor genes. Mol Biol Evol 2005 1.77
21 Expression of hiwi gene in human gastric cancer was associated with proliferation of cancer cells. Int J Cancer 2006 1.76
22 The hearing gene Prestin unites echolocating bats and whales. Curr Biol 2010 1.62
23 Higher duplicability of less important genes in yeast genomes. Mol Biol Evol 2005 1.57
24 Pseudogenization of the umami taste receptor gene Tas1r1 in the giant panda coincided with its dietary switch to bamboo. Mol Biol Evol 2010 1.53
25 Maintenance of duplicate genes and their functional redundancy by reduced expression. Trends Genet 2010 1.51
26 Composition and evolution of the V2r vomeronasal receptor gene repertoire in mice and rats. Genomics 2005 1.47
27 Impact of gene expression noise on organismal fitness and the efficacy of natural selection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011 1.46
28 The ribonuclease A superfamily of mammals and birds: identifying new members and tracing evolutionary histories. Genomics 2005 1.43
29 Sex-specific splicing of the honeybee doublesex gene reveals 300 million years of evolution at the bottom of the insect sex-determination pathway. Genetics 2007 1.43
30 Gene complexity and gene duplicability. Curr Biol 2005 1.42
31 In search of the biological significance of modular structures in protein networks. PLoS Comput Biol 2007 1.38
32 Relaxation of selective constraint and loss of function in the evolution of human bitter taste receptor genes. Hum Mol Genet 2004 1.38
33 The genomic landscape and evolutionary resolution of antagonistic pleiotropy in yeast. Cell Rep 2012 1.36
34 Evolution of the sweet taste receptor gene Tas1r2 in bats. Mol Biol Evol 2010 1.36
35 Impact of translational error-induced and error-free misfolding on the rate of protein evolution. Mol Syst Biol 2010 1.35
36 Origin of the genetic components of the vomeronasal system in the common ancestor of all extant vertebrates. Mol Biol Evol 2008 1.33
37 Measuring the evolutionary rate of protein-protein interaction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011 1.32
38 MicroRNA let-7c inhibits migration and invasion of human non-small cell lung cancer by targeting ITGB3 and MAP4K3. Cancer Lett 2013 1.31
39 Positive selection for elevated gene expression noise in yeast. Mol Syst Biol 2009 1.30
40 Protein misinteraction avoidance causes highly expressed proteins to evolve slowly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 1.29
41 Genomic and genetic evidence for the loss of umami taste in bats. Genome Biol Evol 2011 1.27
42 Did brain-specific genes evolve faster in humans than in chimpanzees? Trends Genet 2006 1.26
43 Positive selection on protein-length in the evolution of a primate sperm ion channel. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003 1.26
44 Gene dosage and gene duplicability. Genetics 2008 1.23
45 Abundant indispensable redundancies in cellular metabolic networks. Genome Biol Evol 2009 1.23
46 Expression reduction in mammalian X chromosome evolution refutes Ohno's hypothesis of dosage compensation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 1.22
47 Rapid turnover and species-specificity of vomeronasal pheromone receptor genes in mice and rats. Gene 2004 1.21
48 p37 from Mycoplasma hyorhinis promotes cancer cell invasiveness and metastasis through activation of MMP-2 and followed by phosphorylation of EGFR. Mol Cancer Ther 2008 1.21
49 Genomic evidence for elevated mutation rates in highly expressed genes. EMBO Rep 2012 1.19
50 Largest vertebrate vomeronasal type 1 receptor gene repertoire in the semiaquatic platypus. Mol Biol Evol 2007 1.19
51 Why are some human disease-associated mutations fixed in mice? Trends Genet 2003 1.19
52 Why is the correlation between gene importance and gene evolutionary rate so weak? PLoS Genet 2009 1.16
53 On the definition and measurement of pleiotropy. Trends Genet 2013 1.14
54 Distinct evolutionary patterns between chemoreceptors of 2 vertebrate olfactory systems and the differential tuning hypothesis. Mol Biol Evol 2008 1.13
55 No gene-specific optimization of mutation rate in Escherichia coli. Mol Biol Evol 2013 1.13
56 Coexpression of linked genes in Mammalian genomes is generally disadvantageous. Mol Biol Evol 2008 1.12
57 Nonneutral evolution of the transcribed pseudogene Makorin1-p1 in mice. Mol Biol Evol 2004 1.11
58 Neuronal protein synuclein gamma predicts poor clinical outcome in breast cancer. Int J Cancer 2007 1.10
59 Differential requirements for mRNA folding partially explain why highly expressed proteins evolve slowly. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013 1.09
60 Diet shapes the evolution of the vertebrate bitter taste receptor gene repertoire. Mol Biol Evol 2013 1.08
61 Positive selection for indel substitutions in the rodent sperm protein catsper1. Mol Biol Evol 2005 1.07
62 Contrasting genetic paths to morphological and physiological evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2010 1.05
63 Evolution of the complementary sex-determination gene of honey bees: balancing selection and trans-species polymorphisms. Genome Res 2006 1.04
64 Impact of extracellularity on the evolutionary rate of mammalian proteins. Genome Biol Evol 2010 1.02
65 Generation of novel monoclonal antibodies and their application for detecting ARD1 expression in colorectal cancer. Cancer Lett 2008 1.02
66 The ortholog conjecture is untestable by the current gene ontology but is supported by RNA sequencing data. PLoS Comput Biol 2012 1.02
67 High expression hampers horizontal gene transfer. Genome Biol Evol 2012 1.01
68 Evaluation of transovarial transmission and transmissibility of Ehrlichia chaffeensis (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae) in Amblyomma americanum (Acari: Ixodidae). J Med Entomol 2003 1.01
69 Suppression of tumor growth and metastasis by a VEGFR-1 antagonizing peptide identified from a phage display library. Int J Cancer 2004 1.01
70 Remarkable expansions of an X-linked reproductive homeobox gene cluster in rodent evolution. Genomics 2006 1.00
71 Evolutionary dynamics of nematode operons: easy come, slow go. Genome Res 2008 1.00
72 Protein subcellular relocalization in the evolution of yeast singleton and duplicate genes. Genome Biol Evol 2009 0.99
73 Human coding RNA editing is generally nonadaptive. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014 0.96
74 Zebrafish ribonucleases are bactericidal: implications for the origin of the vertebrate RNase A superfamily. Mol Biol Evol 2007 0.95
75 Rapid evolution of mammalian X-linked testis-expressed homeobox genes. Genetics 2004 0.93
76 Evidence for escape from adaptive conflict? Nature 2009 0.91
77 Diagnosis of gastric cancer using decision tree classification of mass spectral data. Cancer Sci 2007 0.90
78 Origin and evolution of the vertebrate vomeronasal system viewed through system-specific genes. Bioessays 2006 0.90
79 A big world inside small-world networks. PLoS One 2009 0.90
80 Widespread losses of vomeronasal signal transduction in bats. Mol Biol Evol 2010 0.89
81 Processed pseudogenes: the 'fossilized footprints' of past gene expression. Trends Genet 2009 0.89
82 Ancient expansion of the ribonuclease A superfamily revealed by genomic analysis of placental and marsupial mammals. Gene 2006 0.88
83 Genetic evidence for the coexistence of pheromone perception and full trichromatic vision in howler monkeys. Mol Biol Evol 2004 0.85
84 Mismatches between feeding ecology and taste receptor evolution: an inconvenient truth. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2012 0.85
85 Transcriptional reprogramming and backup between duplicate genes: is it a genomewide phenomenon? Genetics 2005 0.84
86 Obligate intracellular bacterium Ehrlichia inhibiting mitochondrial activity. Microbes Infect 2010 0.84
87 Elevated maspin expression is associated with better overall survival in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). PLoS One 2013 0.84
88 Genome-wide evolutionary conservation of N-glycosylation sites. Mol Biol Evol 2011 0.84
89 Isolation, characterization, and evolutionary divergence of mouse RNase 6: evidence for unusual evolution in rodents. J Mol Evol 2004 0.83
90 Positive selection, not negative selection, in the pseudogenization of rcsA in Yersinia pestis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 0.83
91 IL1 receptor antagonist gene IL1-RN variable number of tandem repeats polymorphism and cancer risk: a literature review and meta-analysis. PLoS One 2012 0.82
92 Rapid evolution of primate ESX1, an X-linked placenta- and testis-expressed homeobox gene. Hum Mol Genet 2007 0.82
93 Preparation and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against nucleostemin, a protein that controls cell proliferation in stem cells and cancer cells. Hybridoma (Larchmt) 2005 0.81
94 Accelerated evolution and loss of a domain of the sperm-egg-binding protein SED1 in ancestral primates. Mol Biol Evol 2006 0.80
95 Phylogenetic evidence for parallel adaptive origins of digestive RNases in Asian and African leaf monkeys: a response to Xu et al. (2009). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2009 0.79
96 Why are genes encoded on the lagging strand of the bacterial genome? Genome Biol Evol 2013 0.79
97 Toward genome-wide identification of Bateson-Dobzhansky-Muller incompatibilities in yeast: a simulation study. Genome Biol Evol 2013 0.78
98 On the growth of scientific knowledge: yeast biology as a case study. PLoS Comput Biol 2009 0.78
99 The microevolution of V1r vomeronasal receptor genes in mice. Genome Biol Evol 2011 0.77
100 Accuracy and application of the motif expression decomposition method in dissecting transcriptional regulation. Nucleic Acids Res 2008 0.76
101 Phylostratigraphic Bias Creates Spurious Patterns of Genome Evolution. Mol Biol Evol 2016 0.76
102 Erratic evolution of SRY in higher primates. Mol Biol Evol 2002 0.76
103 A panorama of mammalian gene expression evolution. Mol Syst Biol 2011 0.76
104 Testicular orphan nuclear receptor 4-associated protein 16 promotes non-small cell lung carcinoma by activating estrogen receptor β and blocking testicular orphan nuclear receptor 2. Oncol Rep 2012 0.75
105 Important genomic regions mutate less often than do other regions. Nature 2022 0.75