S Blair Hedges

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Top papers

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1 TimeTree2: species divergence times on the iPhone. Bioinformatics 2011 14.23
2 The impact of conservation on the status of the world's vertebrates. Science 2010 6.71
3 Performance of relaxed-clock methods in estimating evolutionary divergence times and their credibility intervals. Mol Biol Evol 2010 5.13
4 Molecular phylogeny and divergence times of deuterostome animals. Mol Biol Evol 2005 2.57
5 A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land. BMC Evol Biol 2004 2.51
6 The phylogeny of squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) inferred from nine nuclear protein-coding genes. C R Biol 2005 2.48
7 Early evolution of the venom system in lizards and snakes. Nature 2005 2.40
8 Placing confidence limits on the molecular age of the human-chimpanzee divergence. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005 2.18
9 Major Caribbean and Central American frog faunas originated by ancient oceanic dispersal. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 2.03
10 The platypus is in its place: nuclear genes and indels confirm the sister group relation of monotremes and Therians. Mol Biol Evol 2005 1.94
11 The molecular evolutionary tree of lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians. C R Biol 2008 1.65
12 The evolutionary position of nematodes. BMC Evol Biol 2002 1.60
13 Origin of tropical American burrowing reptiles by transatlantic rafting. Biol Lett 2008 1.57
14 A major clade of prokaryotes with ancient adaptations to life on land. Mol Biol Evol 2008 1.56
15 The colonization of land by animals: molecular phylogeny and divergence times among arthropods. BMC Biol 2004 1.53
16 Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana. Biol Lett 2010 1.53
17 Biogeography: the coelacanth of frogs. Nature 2003 1.41
18 Molecular evidence for a terrestrial origin of snakes. Proc Biol Sci 2004 1.39
19 The phylogeny and classification of caenophidian snakes inferred from seven nuclear protein-coding genes. C R Biol 2006 1.37
20 Higher-level relationships of snakes inferred from four nuclear and mitochondrial genes. C R Biol 2002 1.28
21 Molecular clocks do not support the Cambrian explosion. Mol Biol Evol 2004 1.24
22 Higher-level relationships of caenophidian snakes inferred from four nuclear and mitochondrial genes. C R Biol 2002 1.18
23 Evolutionary sequence analysis of complete eukaryote genomes. BMC Bioinformatics 2005 0.97
24 The NASA Astrobiology Roadmap. Astrobiology 2003 0.93
25 Molecular evidence for an Asian origin of monitor lizards followed by Tertiary dispersals to Africa and Australasia. Biol Lett 2012 0.91
26 Third Report on Chicken Genes and Chromosomes 2015. Cytogenet Genome Res 2015 0.88
27 Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Antillean geckos Phyllodactylus wirshingi, Tarentola americana, and Hemidactylus haitianus (Reptilia, Squamata). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2007 0.86
28 Constraining fossil calibrations for molecular clocks. Bioessays 2006 0.85
29 Making the impossible possible: rooting the tree of placental mammals. Mol Biol Evol 2013 0.84
30 Pushing back the expansion of introns in animal genomes. Cell 2005 0.81
31 Origin of invasive Florida frogs traced to Cuba. Biol Lett 2011 0.80
32 Revision shock in taxonomy. Zootaxa 2013 0.76
33 Cytogenetic studies on Gonatodes (Reptilia, Squamata, Sphaerodactylidae). Cytogenet Genome Res 2014 0.75
34 A review of the Cnemidophorus lemniscatus group in Central America (Squamata: Teiidae), with comments on other species in the group. Zootaxa 2013 0.75
35 Discovery of a Giant Chameleon-Like Lizard (Anolis) on Hispaniola and Its Significance to Understanding Replicated Adaptive Radiations. Am Nat 2016 0.75
36 Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of West Indian boid snakes (Chilabothrus). Mol Phylogenet Evol 2013 0.75
37 Two additional new species of Sphaerodactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonoidea, Sphaerodactylidae) from the Honduran Bay Islands. Zootaxa 2013 0.75
38 A new species of Phyllodactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonoidea, Phyllodactylidae) from Isla de Guanaja in the Honduran Bay Islands. Zootaxa 2013 0.75