| The genome of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus E Sodergren, GM Weinstock, EH Davidson, RA Cameron, RA Gibbs, ... Science 314 (5801), 941-952, 2006 | 993 | 2006 |
| 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 dynamic genome of Hydra JA Chapman, EF Kirkness, O Simakov, SE Hampson, T Mitros, ... Nature 464 (7288), 592, 2010 | 609 | 2010 |
| Episodic radiations in the fly tree of life BM Wiegmann, MD Trautwein, IS Winkler, NB Barr, JW Kim, C Lambkin, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (14), 5690-5695, 2011 | 574 | 2011 |
| Animal phylogeny and the ancestry of bilaterians: inferences from morphology and 18S rDNA gene sequences KJ Peterson, DJ Eernisse Evolution & development 3 (3), 170-205, 2001 | 533 | 2001 |
| The Ascomycota tree of life: a phylum-wide phylogeny clarifies the origin and evolution of fundamental reproductive and ecological traits CL Schoch, GH Sung, F López-Giráldez, JP Townsend, J Miadlikowska, ... Systematic biology 58 (2), 224-239, 2009 | 482 | 2009 |
| The deep evolution of metazoan microRNAs BM Wheeler, AM Heimberg, VN Moy, EA Sperling, TW Holstein, S Heber, ... Evolution & development 11 (1), 50-68, 2009 | 445 | 2009 |
| Origin of bilaterian body plans: evolution of developmental regulatory mechanisms EH Davidson, KJ Peterson, RA Cameron Science 270 (5240), 1319-1325, 1995 | 419 | 1995 |
| Estimating metazoan divergence times with a molecular clock KJ Peterson, JB Lyons, KS Nowak, CM Takacs, MJ Wargo, MA McPeek Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (17), 6536-6541, 2004 | 399 | 2004 |
| Acoelomorph flatworms are deuterostomes related to Xenoturbella H Philippe, H Brinkmann, RR Copley, LL Moroz, H Nakano, AJ Poustka, ... Nature 470 (7333), 255, 2011 | 377 | 2011 |
| MicroRNAs and the advent of vertebrate morphological complexity AM Heimberg, LF Sempere, VN Moy, PCJ Donoghue, KJ Peterson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (8), 2946-2950, 2008 | 354 | 2008 |
| Origin of the Eumetazoa: testing ecological predictions of molecular clocks against the Proterozoic fossil record KJ Peterson, NJ Butterfield Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (27), 9547-9552, 2005 | 317 | 2005 |
| The phylogenetic distribution of metazoan microRNAs: insights into evolutionary complexity and constraint LF Sempere, CN Cole, MA Mcpeek, KJ Peterson Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental …, 2006 | 281 | 2006 |
| 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 |
| Phylogenetic analysis of the formin homology 2 domain HN Higgs, KJ Peterson Molecular biology of the cell 16 (1), 1-13, 2005 | 259 | 2005 |
| microRNAs reveal the interrelationships of hagfish, lampreys, and gnathostomes and the nature of the ancestral vertebrate AM Heimberg, R Cowper-Sal, M Sémon, PCJ Donoghue, KJ Peterson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (45), 19379-19383, 2010 | 225 | 2010 |
| 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 |
| A uniform system for the annotation of vertebrate microRNA genes and the evolution of the human microRNAome B Fromm, T Billipp, LE Peck, M Johansen, JE Tarver, BL King, ... Annual review of genetics 49, 213-242, 2015 | 213 | 2015 |
| MicroRNAs and metazoan macroevolution: insights into canalization, complexity, and the Cambrian explosion KJ Peterson, MR Dietrich, MA McPeek Bioessays 31 (7), 736-747, 2009 | 206 | 2009 |
| Precambrian animal diversity: putative phosphatized embryos from the Doushantuo Formation of China JY Chen, P Oliveri, CW Li, GQ Zhou, F Gao, JW Hagadorn, KJ Peterson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97 (9), 4457-4462, 2000 | 201 | 2000 |
Erik SperlingAssistant Professor, Stanford UniversityVerified email at stanford.edu