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| 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 |
| The first metazoa living in permanently anoxic conditions R Danovaro, A Dell'Anno, A Pusceddu, C Gambi, I Heiner, RM Kristensen BMC biology 8 (1), 30, 2010 | 175 | 2010 |
| Loricifera, a new phylum with Aschelminthes characters from the meiobenthos RM Kristensen Zeitschrift für zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 21 (3), 163-180, 1983 | 160 | 1983 |
| Generic revision of the Echiniscidae (Heterotardigrada), with a discussion of the origin of the family RM Kristensen Biology of tardigrades. Selected symposia and monographs UZI 1 (261), C335, 1987 | 123 | 1987 |
| Micrognathozoa: a new class with complicated jaws like those of Rotifera and Gnathostomulida R Møbjerg Kristensen, P Funch Journal of Morphology 246 (1), 1-49, 2000 | 121 | 2000 |
| Kinorhyncha RM Kristensen Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (vol 10), 576-578, 2002 | 100 | 2002 |
| Investigations into the phylogenetic position of Micrognathozoa using four molecular loci G Giribet, MV Sørensen, P Funch, RM Kristensen, W Sterrer Cladistics 20 (1), 1-13, 2004 | 99 | 2004 |
| A new genus and species of Dorvilleidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from Bermuda, with a phylogenetic analysis of Dorvilleidae, Iphitimidae and Dinophilidae D EIBYE‐JACOBSEN, RM KRISTENSEN Zoologica Scripta 23 (2), 107-131, 1994 | 83 | 1994 |
| Submarine columns of ikaite tufa B Buchardt, P Seaman, G Stockmann, M Vous, U Wilken, L Düwel, ... Nature 390 (6656), 129, 1997 | 76 | 1997 |
| Spiralian phylogeny informs the evolution of microscopic lineages CE Laumer, N Bekkouche, A Kerbl, F Goetz, RC Neves, MV Sørensen, ... Current Biology 25 (15), 2000-2006, 2015 | 74 | 2015 |
| Relations of the new phylum Cycliophora BMH Winnepenninckx, T Backeljau, RM Kristensen Nature 393 (6686), 636, 1998 | 74 | 1998 |
| Survival in extreme environments–on the current knowledge of adaptations in tardigrades N Møbjerg, KA Halberg, A Jørgensen, D Persson, M Bjørn, H Ramløv, ... Acta Physiologica 202 (3), 409-420, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| Loricifera RM Kristensen Microscopic anatomy of invertebrates 4, 351-375, 1991 | 72 | 1991 |
| The first record of cyclomorphosis in Tardigrada based on a new genus and species from Arctic meiobenthos RM Kristensen Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 20 (4), 249-270, 1983 | 72 | 1983 |
| The Tidal Genus Echiniscoides and Its Variability, with Erection of Echiniscoididae fam. n.(Tardigrada) 1 RM KRISTENSEN, TE HALLAS Zoologica Scripta 9 (1‐4), 113-127, 1980 | 72 | 1980 |
| Revision of Styraconyx (Tardigrada: Halechiniscidae), with description of two new species from Disko Bay, West Greenland RM Kristensen, RP Higgins Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 391, 1-40, 1984 | 70 | 1984 |
| New Loricifera from South-eastern United States Coastal Waters RP Higgins, RM Kristensen Smithsonian Contribution to Zoology 438, 1-70, 1986 | 69 | 1986 |
| An introduction to loricifera, cycliophora, and micrognathozoa RM Kristensen Integrative and Comparative Biology 42 (3), 641-651, 2002 | 65 | 2002 |
