| The amphibian tree of life DR Frost, T Grant, J Faivovich, RH Bain, A Haas, CFB Haddad, RO De Sa, ... Bulletin of the American Museum of natural History, 1-291, 2006 | 2046 | 2006 |
| 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 |
| Systematic review of the frog family Hylidae, with special reference to Hylinae: phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision J Faivovich, CFB Haddad, PCA Garcia, DR Frost, JA Campbell, ... Bulletin of the American Museum of natural History, 1-240, 2005 | 935 | 2005 |
| The Strepsiptera problem: phylogeny of the holometabolous insect orders inferred from 18S and 28S ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology MF Whiting, JC Carpenter, QD Wheeler, WC Wheeler Systematic Biology 46 (1), 1-68, 1997 | 749 | 1997 |
| Optimization alignment: the end of multiple sequence alignment in phylogenetics? W Wheeler Cladistics 12 (1), 1-9, 1996 | 631 | 1996 |
| Arthropod phylogeny based on eight molecular loci and morphology G Giribet, GD Edgecombe, WC Wheeler Nature 413 (6852), 157, 2001 | 559 | 2001 |
| 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 |
| Phylogenetic systematics of dart-poison frogs and their relatives (Amphibia: Athesphatanura: Dendrobatidae) T Grant, DR Frost, JP Caldwell, RON Gagliardo, CFB Haddad, PJR Kok, ... Bulletin of the American Museum of natural History, 1-262, 2006 | 518 | 2006 |
| The phylogeny of the extant hexapod orders WC Wheeler, M Whiting, QD Wheeler, JM Carpenter Cladistics 17 (2), 113-169, 2001 | 499 | 2001 |
| Sequence alignment, parameter sensitivity, and the phylogenetic analysis of molecular data WC Wheeler Systematic Biology 44 (3), 321-331, 1995 | 467 | 1995 |
| Triploblastic relationships with emphasis on the acoelomates and the position of Gnathostomulida, Cycliophora, Plathelminthes, and Chaetognatha: a combined approach of 18S rDNA sequences and morphology G Giribet, DL Distel, M Polz, W Sterrer, WC Wheeler Systematic Biology 49 (3), 539-562, 2000 | 397 | 2000 |
| DNA Sequences from a Fossil Termite in Oligo-Miocene Amber and Their Phylogenetic R DeSalle, J Gatesy, W Wheeler, D Grimaldi Am. J. Phys. Anthropol 87, 291, 1992 | 346 | 1992 |
| Alignment-ambiguous nucleotide sites and the exclusion of systematic data J Gatesy, R DeSalle, W Wheeler Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 2 (2), 152-157, 1993 | 340 | 1993 |
| On gaps G Giribet, WC Wheeler Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 13 (1), 132-143, 1999 | 336 | 1999 |
| Arthropod phylogeny: a combined approach WC Wheeler, P Cartwright, CY Hayashi Cladistics 9 (1), 1-39, 1993 | 319 | 1993 |
| The phylogeny of the extant chelicerate orders WC Wheeler, CY Hayashi Cladistics 14 (2), 173-192, 1998 | 305 | 1998 |
| On bivalve phylogeny: a high‐level analysis of the Bivalvia (Mollusca) based on combined morphology and DNA sequence data G Giribet, W Wheeler Invertebrate Biology 121 (4), 271-324, 2002 | 274 | 2002 |
| Paired sequence difference in ribosomal RNAs: evolutionary and phylogenetic implications. WC Wheeler, RL Honeycutt Molecular Biology and Evolution 5 (1), 90-96, 1988 | 258 | 1988 |
| Multiple sequence alignment in phylogenetic analysis A Phillips, D Janies, W Wheeler Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 16 (3), 317-330, 2000 | 257 | 2000 |
| Phylogeny and systematic position of Opiliones: a combined analysis of chelicerate relationships using morphological and molecular data G Giribet, GD Edgecombe, WC Wheeler, C Babbitt Cladistics 18 (1), 5-70, 2002 | 255 | 2002 |