| Review of the systematics and global diversity of freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionoida) DL Graf, KS Cummings Journal of Molluscan Studies 73 (4), 291-314, 2007 | 525 | 2007 |
| Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life–an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters R Bieler, PM Mikkelsen, TM Collins, EA Glover, VL González, DL Graf, ... Invertebrate Systematics 28 (1), 32-115, 2014 | 279 | 2014 |
| Palaeoheterodont diversity (Mollusca: Trigonioida+ Unionoida): what we know and what we wish we knew about freshwater mussel evolution DL GRAF, KS CUMMINGS Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 148 (3), 343-394, 2006 | 221 | 2006 |
| Palearctic freshwater mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) diversity and the Comparatory Method as a species concept DL Graf Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 156 (1), 71-88, 2007 | 162 | 2007 |
| Patterns of freshwater bivalve global diversity and the state of phylogenetic studies on the Unionoida, Sphaeriidae, and Cyrenidae DL Graf American Malacological Bulletin 31 (1), 135-153, 2013 | 158 | 2013 |
| A family-level tree of life for bivalves based on a Sanger-sequencing approach DJ Combosch, TM Collins, EA Glover, DL Graf, EM Harper, JM Healy, ... Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107, 191-208, 2017 | 152 | 2017 |
| The evolution of brooding characters among the freshwater pearly mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoidea) of North America DL Graf, DÓ FOIGHIL Journal of Molluscan Studies 66 (2), 157-170, 2000 | 136 | 2000 |
| The conservation status of the world’s freshwater molluscs M Böhm, NI Dewhurst-Richman, M Seddon, SEH Ledger, C Albrecht, ... Hydrobiologia 848 (12), 3231-3254, 2021 | 134 | 2021 |
| A ‘big data’approach to global freshwater mussel diversity (Bivalvia: Unionoida), with an updated checklist of genera and species DL Graf, KS Cummings Journal of Molluscan Studies 87 (1), eyaa034, 2021 | 132 | 2021 |
| The freshwater mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves), updated 5 August 2015. MUSSEL Project Web Site DL Graf, KS Cummings | 91* | 2015 |
| Mollusca: Bivalvia KS Cummings, DL Graf Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd …, 2009 | 91 | 2009 |
| Molecular phylogenetic analysis of tropical freshwater mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) resolves the position of Coelatura and supports a monophyletic Unionidae NV Whelan, AJ Geneva, DL Graf Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| Molecular phylogenetic analysis of two problematic freshwater mussel genera (Unio and Gonidea) and a re-evaluation of the classification of Nearctic Unionidae (Bivalvia … DL GRAF Journal of Molluscan Studies 68 (1), 65, 2002 | 68 | 2002 |
| The Etherioidea revisited: a phylogenetic analysis of hyriid relationships (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Paleoheterodonta: Unionoida) DL Graf Occasional Papers of the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 1-21, 2000 | 66 | 2000 |
| Evolution of bilaterally asymmetrical larvae in freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionoida: Unionidae) JM Pfeiffer III, DL Graf Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175 (2), 307-318, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Molecular phylogenetic analysis of 28S rDNA supports a Gondwanan origin for Australasian Hyriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) DL Graf, DO Foighil Vie et milieu 50 (4), 245-254, 2000 | 61 | 2000 |
| Molecular phylogenetic analysis supports a Gondwanan origin of the Hyriidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionida) and the paraphyly of Australasian taxa DL Graf, H Jones, AJ Geneva, JM Pfeiffer III, MW Klunzinger Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 85, 1-9, 2015 | 60 | 2015 |
| Historical biogeography and late glacial origin of the freshwater pearly mussel (Bivalvia: Unionidae) faunas of Lake Erie, North America DL Graf Occasional Papers On Mollusks 6, 175-211, 2002 | 55 | 2002 |
| Taxonomic revision of a radiation of South-east Asian freshwater mussels (Unionidae: Gonideinae: Contradentini+ Rectidentini) JM Pfeiffer, DL Graf, KS Cummings, LM Page Invertebrate Systematics 35 (4), 394-470, 2021 | 44 | 2021 |
| Freshwater mussel (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida) richness and endemism in the ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar based on comprehensive museum sampling DL Graf, KS Cummings Hydrobiologia, 1-20, 2011 | 43 | 2011 |
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