| 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 | 890 | 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 | 290 | 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 | 267 | 2008 |
| 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 | 249 | 2013 |
| 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 | 236 | 2004 |
| 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, 2011 | 229 | 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 | 222 | 2015 |
| 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 | 207 | 2011 |
| Supertrees disentangle the chimerical origin of eukaryotic genomes D Pisani, JA Cotton, JO McInerney Molecular Biology and Evolution 24 (8), 1752-1760, 2007 | 201 | 2007 |
| Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian palaeobiology EA Sperling, D Pisani, KJ Peterson Geological Society, London, Special Publications 286 (1), 355-368, 2007 | 180* | 2007 |
| 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 | 176 | 2009 |
| 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 | 169 | 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 | 167 | 2010 |
| The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte MN Puttick, JL Morris, TA Williams, CJ Cox, D Edwards, P Kenrick, ... Current Biology 28 (5), 733-745. e2, 2018 | 155 | 2018 |
| 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 | 146 | 2010 |
| 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 | 142 | 2016 |
| Improved modeling of compositional heterogeneity supports sponges as sister to all other animals R Feuda, M Dohrmann, W Pett, H Philippe, O Rota-Stabelli, N Lartillot, ... Current Biology 27 (24), 3864-3870. e4, 2017 | 138 | 2017 |
| 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 | 136 | 2012 |
| Bayesian methods outperform parsimony but at the expense of precision in the estimation of phylogeny from discrete morphological data JE O'Reilly, MN Puttick, L Parry, AR Tanner, JE Tarver, J Fleming, ... Biology letters 12 (4), 20160081, 2016 | 124 | 2016 |
| Integrated genomic and fossil evidence illuminates life’s early evolution and eukaryote origin HC Betts, MN Puttick, JW Clark, TA Williams, PCJ Donoghue, D Pisani Nature ecology & evolution 2 (10), 1556-1562, 2018 | 120 | 2018 |
