| Why prokaryotes have pangenomes JO McInerney, A McNally, MJ O'connell Nature microbiology 2 (4), 1-5, 2017 | 403 | 2017 |
| Population genomics reveal recent speciation and rapid evolutionary adaptation in polar bears S Liu, ED Lorenzen, M Fumagalli, B Li, K Harris, Z Xiong, L Zhou, ... Cell 157 (4), 785-794, 2014 | 393 | 2014 |
| Insights into the evolution of longevity from the bowhead whale genome M Keane, J Semeiks, AE Webb, YI Li, V Quesada, T Craig, LB Madsen, ... Cell reports 10 (1), 112-122, 2015 | 378 | 2015 |
| The interrelationships of placental mammals and the limits of phylogenetic inference JE Tarver, M Dos Reis, S Mirarab, RJ Moran, S Parker, JE O’Reilly, ... Genome biology and evolution 8 (2), 330-344, 2016 | 232 | 2016 |
| Evolution of sweet taste perception in hummingbirds by transformation of the ancestral umami receptor MW Baldwin, Y Toda, T Nakagita, MJ O'Connell, KC Klasing, T Misaka, ... Science 345 (6199), 929-933, 2014 | 215 | 2014 |
| A Role for TLR4 in Clostridium difficile Infection and the Recognition of Surface Layer Proteins A Ryan, M Lynch, SM Smith, S Amu, HJ Nel, CE McCoy, JK Dowling, ... PLoS pathogens 7 (6), e1002076, 2011 | 204 | 2011 |
| Growing old, yet staying young: the role of telomeres in bats’ exceptional longevity NM Foley, GM Hughes, Z Huang, M Clarke, D Jebb, CV Whelan, EJ Petit, ... Science Advances 4 (2), eaao0926, 2018 | 168 | 2018 |
| The hybrid nature of the Eukaryota and a consilient view of life on Earth JO McInerney, MJ O'connell, D Pisani Nature Reviews Microbiology 12 (6), 449-455, 2014 | 152 | 2014 |
| Does a tree–like phylogeny only exist at the tips in the prokaryotes? CJ Creevey, DA Fitzpatrick, GK Philip, RJ Kinsella, MJ O'Connell, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2004 | 148 | 2004 |
| Heterogeneous models place the root of the placental mammal phylogeny CC Morgan, PG Foster, AE Webb, D Pisani, JO McInerney, MJ O’Connell Molecular biology and evolution 30 (9), 2145-2156, 2013 | 129 | 2013 |
| Genomic imprinting, methylation and molecular evolution of maize Enhancer of zeste (Mez) homologs WJ Haun, S Laoueillé‐Duprat, MJ O'connell, C Spillane, U Grossniklaus, ... The Plant Journal 49 (2), 325-337, 2007 | 121 | 2007 |
| Return to the Sea, Get Huge, Beat Cancer: An Analysis of Cetacean Genomes Including an Assembly for the Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) M Tollis, J Robbins, AE Webb, LFK Kuderna, AF Caulin, JD Garcia, ... Molecular biology and evolution 36 (8), 1746-1763, 2019 | 114 | 2019 |
| Simultaneous miRNA and mRNA transcriptome profiling of human myoblasts reveals a novel set of myogenic differentiation-associated miRNAs and their target genes P Dmitriev, A Barat, A Polesskaya, MJ O’Connell, T Robert, P Dessen, ... BMC genomics 14, 1-20, 2013 | 111 | 2013 |
| Strigolactone synthesis is ancestral in land plants, but canonical strigolactone signalling is a flowering plant innovation CH Walker, K Siu-Ting, A Taylor, MJ O’Connell, T Bennett BMC biology 17, 1-19, 2019 | 105 | 2019 |
| The public goods hypothesis for the evolution of life on Earth JO McInerney, D Pisani, E Bapteste, MJ O'Connell Biology direct 6, 1-17, 2011 | 99 | 2011 |
| Inadvertent paralog inclusion drives artifactual topologies and timetree estimates in phylogenomics K Siu-Ting, M Torres-Sánchez, D San Mauro, D Wilcockson, M Wilkinson, ... Molecular Biology and Evolution 36 (6), 1344-1356, 2019 | 61 | 2019 |
| Insights into kinesin-1 activation from the crystal structure of KLC2 bound to JIP3 JJB Cockburn, SJ Hesketh, P Mulhair, M Thomsen, MJ O'Connell, M Way Structure 26 (11), 1486-1498. e6, 2018 | 56 | 2018 |
| A pluralistic account of homology: adapting the models to the data LS Haggerty, PA Jachiet, WP Hanage, DA Fitzpatrick, P Lopez, ... Molecular biology and evolution 31 (3), 501-516, 2014 | 52 | 2014 |
| Positive selection neighboring functionally essential sites and disease-implicated regions of mammalian reproductive proteins CC Morgan, NB Loughran, TA Walsh, AJ Harrison, MJ O'Connell BMC evolutionary biology 10, 1-17, 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| The phylogeny of the mammalian heme peroxidases and the evolution of their diverse functions NB Loughran, B O'Connor, C Ó'Fágáin, MJ O'Connell BMC evolutionary biology 8, 1-15, 2008 | 47 | 2008 |
