Published in Bioessays on July 30, 2012
Toward consilience in reptile phylogeny: miRNAs support an archosaur, not lepidosaur, affinity for turtles. Evol Dev (2014) 1.02
A Uniform System for the Annotation of Vertebrate microRNA Genes and the Evolution of the Human microRNAome. Annu Rev Genet (2015) 1.02
Human microRNAs originated from two periods at accelerated rates in mammalian evolution. Mol Biol Evol (2012) 0.98
Substantial loss of conserved and gain of novel MicroRNA families in flatworms. Mol Biol Evol (2013) 0.96
MicroRNAs and essential components of the microRNA processing machinery are not encoded in the genome of the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi. BMC Genomics (2012) 0.96
The evolution of microRNA pathway protein components in Cnidaria. Mol Biol Evol (2013) 0.92
Evolution of the miR199-214 cluster and vertebrate skeletal development. RNA Biol (2014) 0.92
Molecular signatures of plastic phenotypes in two eusocial insect species with simple societies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2015) 0.92
Integrating microRNA and mRNA expression profiling in Symbiodinium microadriaticum, a dinoflagellate symbiont of reef-building corals. BMC Genomics (2013) 0.91
miRNA expression profile analysis in kidney of different porcine breeds. PLoS One (2013) 0.89
Computational identification of functional introns: high positional conservation of introns that harbor RNA genes. Nucleic Acids Res (2013) 0.87
Identification of AGO3-associated miRNAs and computational prediction of their targets in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Genetics (2015) 0.85
Identification of microRNAs in the coral Stylophora pistillata. PLoS One (2014) 0.83
Molecular biology: Circles reshape the RNA world. Nature (2013) 0.82
Integration of small RNAs, degradome and transcriptome sequencing in hyperaccumulator Sedum alfredii uncovers a complex regulatory network and provides insights into cadmium phytoremediation. Plant Biotechnol J (2016) 0.82
Peculiar evolutionary history of miR390-guided TAS3-like genes in land plants. ScientificWorldJournal (2013) 0.80
MicroRNAs in the Neural Retina. Int J Genomics (2014) 0.80
The parasite Trichomonas vaginalis expresses thousands of pseudogenes and long non-coding RNAs independently from functional neighbouring genes. BMC Genomics (2014) 0.78
microRNAs and the evolution of complex multicellularity: identification of a large, diverse complement of microRNAs in the brown alga Ectocarpus. Nucleic Acids Res (2015) 0.78
Computational Identification of MicroRNAs from the Expressed Sequence Tags of Toxic Dinoflagellate Alexandrium Tamarense. Evol Bioinform Online (2013) 0.78
Identification of conserved and novel microRNAs in the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas by deep sequencing. PLoS One (2014) 0.78
MicroRNAs in the oriental fruit fly, Bactrocera dorsalis: extending Drosophilid miRNA conservation to the Tephritidae. BMC Genomics (2015) 0.77
The miRNA biogenesis in marine bivalves. PeerJ (2016) 0.76
Function and evolution of microRNAs in eusocial Hymenoptera. Front Genet (2015) 0.76
The evolutionary origin of plant and animal microRNAs. Nat Ecol Evol (2017) 0.76
Rapid Evolution of microRNA Loci in the Brown Algae. Genome Biol Evol (2017) 0.75
Reconsidering the phylogenetic utility of miRNA in animals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 0.75
No Evidence that MicroRNAs Coevolve with Genes Located in Copy Number Regions. Mol Biol Evol (2015) 0.75
Transcriptomic and microRNAomic profiling reveals multi-faceted mechanisms to cope with phosphate stress in a dinoflagellate. ISME J (2017) 0.75
The role of microRNAs in myopia. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol (2016) 0.75
miRNAs in the alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii are not phylogenetically conserved and play a limited role in responses to nutrient deprivation. Sci Rep (2017) 0.75
Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 7.03
Paleontological evidence to date the tree of life. Mol Biol Evol (2006) 6.46
The Cambrian conundrum: early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals. Science (2011) 5.15
The dynamic genome of Hydra. Nature (2010) 4.00
The deep evolution of metazoan microRNAs. Evol Dev (2009) 3.56
Fossilized nuclei and germination structures identify Ediacaran "animal embryos" as encysting protists. Science (2011) 3.13
Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella. Nature (2011) 3.06
The impact of the representation of fossil calibrations on Bayesian estimation of species divergence times. Syst Biol (2009) 3.04
MicroRNAs and the advent of vertebrate morphological complexity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 3.00
Establishing a time-scale for plant evolution. New Phytol (2011) 2.84
Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 2.68
The phylogenetic distribution of metazoan microRNAs: insights into evolutionary complexity and constraint. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol (2006) 2.63
Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations. Syst Biol (2011) 2.51
Phylogenetic analysis of the formin homology 2 domain. Mol Biol Cell (2004) 2.30
microRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 2.25
A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata. Proc Biol Sci (2010) 2.20
Phylogenetic-signal dissection of nuclear housekeeping genes supports the paraphyly of sponges and the monophyly of Eumetazoa. Mol Biol Evol (2009) 1.95
Phase-contrast X-ray microtomography links Cretaceous seeds with Gnetales and Bennettitales. Nature (2007) 1.92
MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.87
Fossil embryos from the Middle and Late Cambrian period of Hunan, south China. Nature (2004) 1.87
Exploring uncertainty in the calibration of the molecular clock. Biol Lett (2011) 1.74
Fossil jawless fish from China foreshadows early jawed vertebrate anatomy. Nature (2011) 1.73
Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales. Curr Biol (2015) 1.66
Normalization and standardization of electronic health records for high-throughput phenotyping: the SHARPn consortium. J Am Med Inform Assoc (2013) 1.64
MicroRNAs support a turtle + lizard clade. Biol Lett (2011) 1.62
Development of teeth and jaws in the earliest jawed vertebrates. Nature (2012) 1.42
microRNA complements in deuterostomes: origin and evolution of microRNAs. Evol Dev (2011) 1.41
Embryo fossilization is a biological process mediated by microbial biofilms. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.38
Unusual gene order and organization of the sea urchin hox cluster. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol (2006) 1.34
Embryos, polyps and medusae of the Early Cambrian scyphozoan Olivooides. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 1.34
Paleogenomics of echinoderms. Science (2006) 1.32
Teeth before jaws? Comparative analysis of the structure and development of the external and internal scales in the extinct jawless vertebrate Loganellia scotica. Evol Dev (2012) 1.28
Phylogenetic distribution of microRNAs supports the basal position of acoel flatworms and the polyphyly of Platyhelminthes. Evol Dev (2007) 1.27
Cellular and subcellular structure of neoproterozoic animal embryos. Science (2006) 1.24
Origin and evolution of the integumentary skeleton in non-tetrapod vertebrates. J Anat (2009) 1.24
A molecular palaeobiological hypothesis for the origin of aplacophoran molluscs and their derivation from chiton-like ancestors. Proc Biol Sci (2011) 1.23
A daily-updated tree of (sequenced) life as a reference for genome research. Sci Rep (2013) 1.22
Resolving phylogenetic signal from noise when divergence is rapid: a new look at the old problem of echinoderm class relationships. Mol Phylogenet Evol (2011) 1.18
Histology of "placoderm" dermal skeletons: Implications for the nature of the ancestral gnathostome. J Morphol (2013) 1.16
Experimental taphonomy shows the feasibility of fossil embryos. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 1.14
miRNAs: small genes with big potential in metazoan phylogenetics. Mol Biol Evol (2013) 1.13
Histology and affinity of the earliest armoured vertebrate. Biol Lett (2005) 1.09
Neither phylogenomic nor palaeontological data support a Palaeogene origin of placental mammals. Biol Lett (2014) 1.08
Molecular paleobiological insights into the origin of the Brachiopoda. Evol Dev (2011) 1.05
Scanning electron microscopy and synchrotron radiation x-ray tomographic microscopy of 330 million year old charcoalified seed fern fertile organs. Microsc Microanal (2009) 1.04
MicroRNAs resolve an apparent conflict between annelid systematics and their fossil record. Proc Biol Sci (2009) 1.03
Skeletal histology of Bothriolepis canadensis (Placodermi, Antiarchi) and evolution of the skeleton at the origin of jawed vertebrates. J Morphol (2009) 1.03
Toward consilience in reptile phylogeny: miRNAs support an archosaur, not lepidosaur, affinity for turtles. Evol Dev (2014) 1.02
The origin of conodonts and of vertebrate mineralized skeletons. Nature (2013) 1.02
Testing models of dental development in the earliest bony vertebrates, Andreolepis and Lophosteus. Biol Lett (2012) 1.01
Molecular paleoecology: using gene regulatory analysis to address the origins of complex life cycles in the late Precambrian. Evol Dev (2007) 1.01
The anatomy, affinity, and phylogenetic significance of Markuelia. Evol Dev (2005) 1.00
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
Evolutionary origins of animal skeletal biomineralization. Cells Tissues Organs (2011) 0.99
The sharpest tools in the box? Quantitative analysis of conodont element functional morphology. Proc Biol Sci (2012) 0.99
Spdeadringer, a sea urchin embryo gene required separately in skeletogenic and oral ectoderm gene regulatory networks. Dev Biol (2003) 0.98
Genetic organization and embryonic expression of the ParaHox genes in the sea urchin S. purpuratus: insights into the relationship between clustering and colinearity. Dev Biol (2006) 0.98
Are palaeoscolecids ancestral ecdysozoans? Evol Dev (2010) 0.98
Reconstruction of family-level phylogenetic relationships within Demospongiae (Porifera) using nuclear encoded housekeeping genes. PLoS One (2013) 0.98
The homology and phylogeny of chondrichthyan tooth enameloid. J Morphol (2007) 0.97
Deciphering the fossil record of early bilaterian embryonic development in light of experimental taphonomy. Evol Dev (2008) 0.94
Expression of an NK2 homeodomain gene in the apical ectoderm defines a new territory in the early sea urchin embryo. Dev Biol (2004) 0.93
The trouble with topology: phylogenies without fossils provide a revisionist perspective of evolutionary history in topological analyses of diversity. Syst Biol (2011) 0.93
Developmental expression of COE across the Metazoa supports a conserved role in neuronal cell-type specification and mesodermal development. Dev Genes Evol (2010) 0.89
A merciful death for the "earliest bilaterian," Vernanimalcula. Evol Dev (2012) 0.88
Evaluating scenarios for the evolutionary assembly of the brachiopod body plan. Evol Dev (2014) 0.88
Testing putative hemichordate homologues of the chordate dorsal nervous system and endostyle: expression of NK2.1 (TTF-1) in the acorn worm Ptychodera flava (Hemichordata, Ptychoderidae). Evol Dev (2002) 0.86
CD2AP regulates SUMOylation of CIN85 in podocytes. Mol Cell Biol (2011) 0.81
The identification of microRNAs in calcisponges: independent evolution of microRNAs in basal metazoans. J Exp Zool B Mol Dev Evol (2013) 0.81
Incorporating expert terminology and disease risk factors into consumer health vocabularies. Pac Symp Biocomput (2013) 0.80
Palaeontology: embryonic identity crisis. Nature (2007) 0.79
The earliest fossil embryos begin to mature. Evol Dev (2007) 0.78
Early life: Origins of multicellularity. Nature (2010) 0.75
Testing microstructural adaptation in the earliest dental tools. Biol Lett (2012) 0.75
Cutting the first 'teeth': a new approach to functional analysis of conodont elements. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 0.75
Functional adaptation underpinned the evolutionary assembly of the earliest vertebrate skeleton. Evol Dev (2014) 0.75
Representing the ClaML-based ICD10 in LexGrid terminology model. AMIA Annu Symp Proc (2008) 0.75