| Evolution and the latitudinal diversity gradient: speciation, extinction and biogeography GG Mittelbach, DW Schemske, HV Cornell, AP Allen, JM Brown, MB Bush, ... Ecology letters 10 (4), 315-331, 2007 | 1416 | 2007 |
| Spread of Diadema mass mortality through the Caribbean HA Lessios, DR Robertson, JD Cubit Science 226 (4672), 335-337, 1984 | 742 | 1984 |
| MASS MORTALITY OF DIADEMA ANTILLARUM IN THE CARIBBEAN: What Have We Learned? HA Lessios Annual review of ecology and systematics 19 (1), 371-393, 1988 | 712 | 1988 |
| POPULATION STRUCTURE AND SPECIATION IN TROPICAL SEAS: GLOBAL PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE SEA URCHIN DIADEMA HA Lessios, BD Kessing, JS Pearse Evolution 55 (5), 955-975, 2001 | 499 | 2001 |
| The great American schism: divergence of marine organisms after the rise of the Central American Isthmus HA Lessios Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 39, 63-91, 2008 | 480 | 2008 |
| Formation of the Isthmus of Panama A O’Dea, HA Lessios, AG Coates, RI Eytan, SA Restrepo-Moreno, ... Science advances 2 (8), e1600883, 2016 | 392 | 2016 |
| Crossing the impassable: genetic connections in 20 reef fishes across the eastern Pacific barrier HA Lessios, DR Robertson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 273 (1598), 2201-2208, 2006 | 265 | 2006 |
| Testing electrophoretic data for agreement with Hardy-Weinberg expectations HA Lessios Marine biology 112 (3), 517-523, 1992 | 265 | 1992 |
| Phylogeography of the pantropical sea urchin Tripneustes: contrasting patterns of population structure between oceans HA Lessios, J Kane, DR Robertson Evolution 57 (9), 2026-2036, 2003 | 255 | 2003 |
| PHYLOGEOGRAPHY OF THE PANTROPICAL SEA URCHIN EUCIDARIS IN RELATION TO LAND BARRIERS AND OCEAN CURRENTS HA Lessios, BD Kessing, DR Robertson, G Paulay Evolution 53 (3), 806-817, 1999 | 245 | 1999 |
| Dispersal barriers in tropical oceans and speciation in Atlantic and eastern Pacific sea urchins of the genus Echinometra MA McCartney, G Keller, HA Lessios Molecular Ecology 9 (9), 1391-1400, 2000 | 240 | 2000 |
| Massive gene flow across the world's most potent marine biogeographic barrier HA Lessios, BD Kessing, DR Robertson Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1998 | 229 | 1998 |
| Specimen collection: An essential tool LA Rocha, A Aleixo, G Allen, F Almeda, CC Baldwin, MVL Barclay, ... Science 344 (6186), 814-815, 2014 | 208 | 2014 |
| Test for simultaneous divergence using approximate Bayesian computation MJ Hickerson, EA Stahl, HA Lessios Evolution 60 (12), 2435-2453, 2006 | 195 | 2006 |
| Mass mortality of Diadema antillarum on the Caribbean coast of Panama HA Lessios, JD Cubit, DR Robertson, MJ Shulman, MR Parker, SD Garrity, ... Coral Reefs 3 (4), 173-182, 1984 | 186 | 1984 |
| Rate variation of protein and mitochondrial DNA evolution as revealed by sea urchins separated by the Isthmus of Panama E Bermingham, HA Lessios Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 90 (7), 2734-2738, 1993 | 171 | 1993 |
| A threat to coral reefs multiplied? Four species of crown-of-thorns starfish C Vogler, J Benzie, H Lessios, P Barber, G Wörheide Biology letters 4 (6), 696-699, 2008 | 142 | 2008 |
| Historical biogeography and speciation in the reef fish genus Haemulon (Teleostei: Haemulidae) LA Rocha, KC Lindeman, CR Rocha, HA Lessios Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 48 (3), 918-928, 2008 | 126 | 2008 |
| Diadema antillarum populations in Panama twenty years following mass mortality HA Lessios Coral Reefs 24 (1), 125-127, 2005 | 125 | 2005 |
| Diadema antillarum 10 years after mass mortality: still rare, despite help from a competitor HA Lessios Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1995 | 125 | 1995 |
D Ross RobertsonScientist Emeritus, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, PanamáVerified email at si.edu
