| The Cambrian conundrum: early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals DH Erwin, M Laflamme, SM Tweedt, EA Sperling, D Pisani, KJ Peterson science 334 (6059), 1091-1097, 2011 | 767 | 2011 |
| The Ediacaran emergence of bilaterians: congruence between the genetic and the geological fossil records KJ Peterson, JA Cotton, JG Gehling, D Pisani Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 363 …, 2008 | 279 | 2008 |
| Dinosaurs and the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution GT Lloyd, KE Davis, D Pisani, JE Tarver, M Ruta, M Sakamoto, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 275 (1650), 2483-2490, 2008 | 233 | 2008 |
| The colonization of land by animals: molecular phylogeny and divergence times among arthropods D Pisani, LL Poling, M Lyons-Weiler, SB Hedges BMC biology 2 (1), 1, 2004 | 232 | 2004 |
| Molecular timetrees reveal a Cambrian colonization of land and a new scenario for ecdysozoan evolution O Rota-Stabelli, AC Daley, D Pisani Current Biology 23 (5), 392-398, 2013 | 215 | 2013 |
| A congruent solution to arthropod phylogeny: phylogenomics, microRNAs and morphology support monophyletic Mandibulata O Rota-Stabelli, L Campbell, H Brinkmann, GD Edgecombe, SJ Longhorn, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278 (1703), 298-306, 2010 | 214 | 2010 |
| Supertrees disentangle the chimerical origin of eukaryotic genomes D Pisani, JA Cotton, JO McInerney Molecular Biology and Evolution 24 (8), 1752-1760, 2007 | 188 | 2007 |
| MicroRNAs and phylogenomics resolve the relationships of Tardigrada and suggest that velvet worms are the sister group of Arthropoda LI Campbell, O Rota-Stabelli, GD Edgecombe, T Marchioro, SJ Longhorn, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (38), 15920-15924, 2011 | 186 | 2011 |
| Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals D Pisani, W Pett, M Dohrmann, R Feuda, O Rota-Stabelli, H Philippe, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (50), 15402-15407, 2015 | 184 | 2015 |
| Phylogenetic-signal dissection of nuclear housekeeping genes supports the paraphyly of sponges and the monophyly of Eumetazoa EA Sperling, KJ Peterson, D Pisani Molecular biology and evolution 26 (10), 2261-2274, 2009 | 170 | 2009 |
| Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian palaeobiology EA Sperling, D Pisani, KJ Peterson Geological Society, London, Special Publications 286 (1), 355-368, 2007 | 170 | 2007 |
| Testing the molecular clock: molecular and paleontological estimates of divergence times in the Echinoidea (Echinodermata) AB Smith, D Pisani, JA Mackenzie-Dodds, B Stockley, BL Webster, ... Molecular biology and evolution 23 (10), 1832-1851, 2006 | 159 | 2006 |
| Where's the glass? Biomarkers, molecular clocks, and microRNAs suggest a 200‐Myr missing Precambrian fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules EA Sperling, JM Robinson, D Pisani, KJ Peterson Geobiology 8 (1), 24-36, 2010 | 153 | 2010 |
| Ecdysozoan mitogenomics: evidence for a common origin of the legged invertebrates, the Panarthropoda O Rota-Stabelli, E Kayal, D Gleeson, J Daub, JL Boore, MJ Telford, ... Genome biology and evolution 2, 425-440, 2010 | 136 | 2010 |
| Metazoan opsin evolution reveals a simple route to animal vision R Feuda, SC Hamilton, JO McInerney, D Pisani Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (46), 18868-18872, 2012 | 116 | 2012 |
| A genus-level supertree of the Dinosauria D Pisani, AM Yates, MC Langer, MJ Benton Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2002 | 109 | 2002 |
| The shape of supertrees to come: tree shape related properties of fourteen supertree methods M Wilkinson, JA Cotton, C Creevey, O Eulenstein, SR Harris, FJ Lapointe, ... Systematic biology 54 (3), 419-431, 2005 | 108 | 2005 |
| Matrix representation with parsimony, taxonomic congruence, and total evidence D Pisani, M Wilkinson Systematic Biology 51 (1), 151-155, 2002 | 104 | 2002 |
| The hybrid nature of the Eukaryota and a consilient view of life on Earth JO McInerney, MJ O'connell, D Pisani Nature Reviews Microbiology 12 (6), 449, 2014 | 102 | 2014 |
| The interrelationships of placental mammals and the limits of phylogenetic inference JE Tarver, M Dos Reis, S Mirarab, RJ Moran, S Parker, JE O’Reilly, ... Genome Biology and Evolution 8 (2), 330-344, 2016 | 100 | 2016 |