Published in Evolution on March 01, 1978
Pseudogenes: are they "junk" or functional DNA? Annu Rev Genet (2003) 3.47
Dating the tree of life. Science (2003) 2.76
The origin of malignant malaria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 2.67
African great apes are natural hosts of multiple related malaria species, including Plasmodium falciparum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 2.60
Evolutionary and geographical history of the Leishmania donovani complex with a revision of current taxonomy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 2.41
African apes as reservoirs of Plasmodium falciparum and the origin and diversification of the Laverania subgenus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 2.31
The clonal theory of parasitic protozoa: 12 years on. Trends Parasitol (2002) 1.88
Origins and evolution of spliceosomal introns. Annu Rev Genet (2006) 1.62
African monkeys are infected by Plasmodium falciparum nonhuman primate-specific strains. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.56
Adaptations of Trypanosoma brucei to gradual loss of kinetoplast DNA: Trypanosoma equiperdum and Trypanosoma evansi are petite mutants of T. brucei. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.51
Population genetic structure of Plasmodium falciparum in the two main African vectors, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.40
Response to Rougeron et al.: Leishmania population genetics: clonality, selfing and aneuploidy. Trends Parasitol (2015) 1.39
Population genetics of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, the agent of sleeping sickness in Western Africa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.36
A methodological bias toward overestimation of molecular evolutionary time scales. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 1.36
Extreme inbreeding in Leishmania braziliensis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.29
Sex-related similarities and differences in the neural correlates of beauty. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 1.27
Reproductive clonality of pathogens: a perspective on pathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasitic protozoa. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.26
Unresolved direction of host transfer of Plasmodium vivax v. P. simium and P. malariae v. P. brasilianum. Infect Genet Evol (2010) 1.22
Convergent neofunctionalization by positive Darwinian selection after ancient recurrent duplications of the xanthine dehydrogenase gene. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.17
A new Drosophila spliceosomal intron position is common in plants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.15
Diversity, host switching and evolution of Plasmodium vivax infecting African great apes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 1.13
Molecular evolution of the Est-6 gene in Drosophila melanogaster: contrasting patterns of DNA variability in adjacent functional regions. Gene (2002) 1.13
Progress in malaria research: the case for phylogenetics. Adv Parasitol (2003) 1.11
In the light of evolution VIII: Darwinian thinking in the social sciences. Introduction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2014) 1.09
Patterns of DNA sequence polymorphism at Sod vicinities in Drosophila melanogaster: unraveling the footprint of a recent selective sweep. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.07
Colloquium paper: in the light of evolution II: biodiversity and extinction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.07
Science, evolution, and creationism. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.06
Multiple independent introductions of Plasmodium falciparum in South America. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.06
How clonal are Trypanosoma and Leishmania? Trends Parasitol (2013) 1.05
DNA variation and symbiotic associations in phenotypically diverse sea urchin Strongylocentrotus intermedius. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.05
Aerobic kinetoplastid flagellate Phytomonas does not require heme for viability. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.04
Pseudogene-derived small interference RNAs regulate gene expression in African Trypanosoma brucei. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 1.04
From the Academy: Colloquium Perspective: In the light of evolution I: Adaptation and complex design. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.02
Plasmodium vivax: recent world expansion and genetic identity to Plasmodium simium. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 1.02
Genera of the human lineage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2003) 1.00
Alternative splicing: a missing piece in the puzzle of intron gain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 1.00
Trypanosoma brucei: two steps to spread out from Africa. Trends Parasitol (2010) 0.99
Differences in iNOS and arginase expression and activity in the macrophages of rats are responsible for the resistance against T. gondii infection. PLoS One (2012) 0.99
In the light of evolution III: two centuries of Darwin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2009) 0.98
Is ectopic expression caused by deregulatory mutations or due to gene-regulation leaks with evolutionary potential? Bioessays (2005) 0.95
DNA polymorphism in the beta-Esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2003) 0.95
Mitochondrial localization of human frataxin is necessary but processing is not for rescuing frataxin deficiency in Trypanosoma brucei. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 0.92
Evolution of cis-regulatory regions versus codifying regions. Int J Dev Biol (2003) 0.91
Clonal population structure and genetic diversity of Candida albicans in AIDS patients from Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 0.91
Polymorphism patterns in two tightly linked developmental genes, Idgf1 and Idgf3, of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2002) 0.89
Phylogenetic character mapping of proteomic diversity shows high correlation with subspecific phylogenetic diversity in Trypanosoma cruzi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 0.89
Colloquium paper: in the light of evolution IV: the human condition. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2010) 0.88
Pseudogenes are not pseudo any more. RNA Biol (2012) 0.87
Models of spliceosomal intron proliferation in the face of widespread ectopic expression. Gene (2005) 0.86
Comparative transcriptome analysis of small noncoding RNAs in different stages of Trypanosoma brucei. RNA (2013) 0.86
In the light of evolution V: cooperation and conflict. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 0.84
Positive and negative selection in the beta-esterase gene cluster of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. J Mol Evol (2006) 0.84
In the light of evolution VI: brain and behavior. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 0.84
In the light of evolution VII: The human mental machinery. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2013) 0.83
Remembrances of Walter M. Fitch. Mol Biol Evol (2011) 0.83
Nucleotide variation of the Est-6 gene region in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2003) 0.82
Sequence variation in the dihydrofolate reductase-thymidylate synthase (DHFR-TS) and trypanothione reductase (TR) genes of Trypanosoma cruzi. Mol Biochem Parasitol (2002) 0.82
Complex interplay of evolutionary forces in the ladybird homeobox genes of Drosophila melanogaster. PLoS One (2011) 0.82
Evidence of diversifying selection in human papillomavirus type 16 E6 but not E7 oncogenes. J Mol Evol (2002) 0.82
The Vein Patterning 1 (VEP1) gene family laterally spread through an ecological network. PLoS One (2011) 0.81
Reply to Sharp et al.: Host species sampling bias and Plasmodium falciparum origin paradigm shifts. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2011) 0.81
Theodosius Dobzhansky's role in the emergence and institutionalization of genetics in Mexico. Genetics (2005) 0.81
Emergence of new alleles of the MSP-3alpha gene in Plasmodium vivax isolates from Korea. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2010) 0.80
The beta-esterase gene cluster of drosophila melanogaster: is psiEst-6 a pseudogene, a functional gene, or both? Genetica (2004) 0.80
Taeniid history, natural selection and antigenic diversity: evolutionary theory meets helminthology. Trends Parasitol (2008) 0.80
Nucleotide variation in the tinman and bagpipe homeobox genes of Drosophila melanogaster. Genetics (2004) 0.80
DNA variation in the phenotypically-diverse brown alga Saccharina japonica. BMC Plant Biol (2012) 0.79
Molecular population genetics of the beta-esterase gene cluster of Drosophila melanogaster. J Genet (2003) 0.79
Null allele, allelic dropouts or rare sex detection in clonal organisms: simulations and application to real data sets of pathogenic microbes. Parasit Vectors (2014) 0.79
Genetic polymorphism of Plasmodium vivax msp1p, a paralog of merozoite surface protein 1, from worldwide isolates. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2011) 0.78
Absence of linkage disequilibria between chromosomal arrangements and mtDNA haplotypes in natural populations of Drosophila subobscura from the Balkan Peninsula. Genome (2012) 0.78
The emergence and development of genetics in Mexico. Nat Rev Genet (2005) 0.77
Nucleotide variation at the dopa decarboxylase (Ddc) gene in natural populations of Drosophila melanogaster. J Genet (2007) 0.77
The effect of royal sun agaricus, Agaricus brasiliensis S. Wasser et al., extract on methyl methanesulfonate caused genotoxicity in Drosophila melanogaster. Int J Med Mushrooms (2011) 0.77
Entropy and GC Content in the beta-esterase gene cluster of the Drosophila melanogaster subgroup. Mol Biol Evol (2005) 0.77
Systematics and the origin of species: an introduction. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2005) 0.76
Mitochondrial DNA variation and introgression in Siberian taimen Hucho taimen. PLoS One (2013) 0.76
Symbiotic associations in the phenotypically-diverse brown alga Saccharina japonica. PLoS One (2012) 0.75
John C. Avise--recipient of 2006 Molecular Ecology prize. Mol Ecol (2007) 0.75
Computational methods of identification of pseudogenes based on functionality: entropy and GC content. Methods Mol Biol (2014) 0.75
[Heritability of bipolar affective disorder--family study]. Vojnosanit Pregl (2011) 0.75
Science, evolution and natural selection: in praise of Darwin at the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples. Hist Philos Life Sci (2015) 0.75
Patterns of selection on Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte-binding antigens after the colonization of the New World. Mol Ecol (2014) 0.75
Effect of microhabitat variability on body size in Drosophila subobscura. Folia Biol (Krakow) (2008) 0.75
The rhetorical construction of Eldredge and Gould's article on the theory of punctuated equilibria in 1972. Hist Philos Life Sci (2008) 0.75
Treatment of obstructive sleep apnea patients using oral appliances--our experiences. Vojnosanit Pregl (2014) 0.75