| Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life CW Dunn, A Hejnol, DQ Matus, K Pang, WE Browne, SA Smith, E Seaver, ... Nature 452 (7188), 745-749, 2008 | 1488 | 2008 |
| Polychaetes G Rouse, F Pleijel Oxford university press, 2001 | 701 | 2001 |
| Cladistics and polychaetes GW Rouse, K Fauchald Zoologica Scripta 26 (2), 139-204, 1997 | 622 | 1997 |
| Assessing the root of bilaterian animals with scalable phylogenomic methods A Hejnol, M Obst, A Stamatakis, M Ott, GW Rouse, GD Edgecombe, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 276 (1677 ..., 2009 | 541 | 2009 |
| Polychaete systematics: past and present K Fauchald, G Rouse Zoologica Scripta 26 (2), 71-138, 1997 | 317 | 1997 |
| Osedax: bone-eating marine worms with dwarf males GW Rouse, SK Goffredi, RC Vrijenhoek Science 305 (5684), 668-671, 2004 | 258 | 2004 |
| Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools SA Smith, NG Wilson, FE Goetz, C Feehery, SCS Andrade, GW Rouse, ... Nature 480 (7377), 364, 2011 | 251 | 2011 |
| Higher-level metazoan relationships: recent progress and remaining questions GD Edgecombe, G Giribet, CW Dunn, A Hejnol, RM Kristensen, ... Organisms Diversity & Evolution 11 (2), 151-172, 2011 | 237 | 2011 |
| A molecular phylogeny of annelids V Rousset, F Pleijel, GW Rouse, C Erséus, ME Siddall Cladistics 23 (1), 41-63, 2007 | 209 | 2007 |
| The articulation of annelids GW Rouse, K Fauchald Zoologica Scripta 24 (4), 269-301, 1995 | 163 | 1995 |
| Broadcasting fables: is external fertilization really primitive? Sex, size, and larvae in sabellid polychaetes G Rouse, K Fitzhugh Zoologica Scripta 23 (4), 271-312, 1994 | 160 | 1994 |
| Trochophore concepts: ciliary bands and the evolution of larvae in spiralian Metazoa GW Rouse Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 66 (4), 411-464, 1999 | 151 | 1999 |
| The spermatozoa of the Polychaeta (Annelida): an ultrastructural review BGM Jamieson, GW Rouse Biological Reviews 64 (2), 93-157, 1989 | 150 | 1989 |
| An ultrastructural study of the spermatozoa of the polychaetes Eurythoe complanata (Amphinomidae), Clymenella sp. and Micromaldane sp.(Maldanidae), with definition of sperm types in relation to reproductive biology GW Rouse, BGM Jamieson Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology 19 (4), 573-584, 1987 | 143 | 1987 |
| A cladistic analysis of Siboglinidae Caullery, 1914 (Polychaeta, Annelida): formerly the phyla Pogonophora and Vestimentifera GW Rouse Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 132 (1), 55-80, 2001 | 126 | 2001 |
| Assembling the lophotrochozoan (= spiralian) tree of life G Giribet Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B: Biological ..., 2008 | 121 | 2008 |
| Evolutionary innovation: a bone‐eating marine symbiosis SK Goffredi, VJ Orphan, GW Rouse, L Jahnke, T Embaye, K Turk, R Lee, ... Environmental Microbiology 7 (9), 1369-1378, 2005 | 121 | 2005 |
| Bathymetric and temporal variation among Osedax boneworms and associated megafauna on whale-falls in Monterey Bay, California CE Braby, GW Rouse, SB Johnson, WJ Jones, RC Vrijenhoek Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 54 (10), 1773-1791, 2007 | 116 | 2007 |
| Taxonomic surrogacy in biodiversity assessments, and the meaning of Linnaean ranks Y Bertrand, F Pleijel, GW Rouse Systematics and Biodiversity 4 (2), 149-159, 2006 | 105 | 2006 |
| Endogenous green fluorescent protein (GFP) in amphioxus DD Deheyn, K Kubokawa, JK McCarthy, A Murakami, M Porrachia, ... The Biological Bulletin 213 (2), 95-100, 2007 | 96 | 2007 |