| The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity M Srivastava, O Simakov, J Chapman, B Fahey, MEA Gauthier, T Mitros, ... Nature 466 (7307), 720-726, 2010 | 1025 | 2010 |
| Comparative validation of the D. melanogaster modENCODE transcriptome annotation ZX Chen, D Sturgill, J Qu, H Jiang, S Park, N Boley, AM Suzuki, ... Genome research 24 (7), 1209-1223, 2014 | 153 | 2014 |
| Extracting phylogenetic signal and accounting for bias in whole-genome data sets supports the Ctenophora as sister to remaining Metazoa ML Borowiec, EK Lee, JC Chiu, DC Plachetzki BMC genomics 16 (1), 1-15, 2015 | 146 | 2015 |
| The origins of novel protein interactions during animal opsin evolution DC Plachetzki, BM Degnan, TH Oakley PloS one 2 (10), e1054, 2007 | 140 | 2007 |
| Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits E Kayal, B Bentlage, M Sabrina Pankey, AH Ohdera, M Medina, ... BMC evolutionary biology 18 (1), 1-18, 2018 | 137 | 2018 |
| Recruitment of rod photoreceptors from short-wavelength-sensitive cones during the evolution of nocturnal vision in mammals JW Kim, HJ Yang, AP Oel, MJ Brooks, L Jia, DC Plachetzki, W Li, ... Developmental cell 37 (6), 520-532, 2016 | 107 | 2016 |
| Blue-light-receptive cryptochrome is expressed in a sponge eye lacking neurons and opsin AS Rivera, N Ozturk, B Fahey, DC Plachetzki, BM Degnan, A Sancar, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 215 (8), 1278-1286, 2012 | 90 | 2012 |
| The evolution of phototransduction from an ancestral cyclic nucleotide gated pathway DC Plachetzki, CR Fong, TH Oakley Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1690), 1963-1969, 2010 | 82 | 2010 |
| Cnidocyte discharge is regulated by light and opsin-mediated phototransduction DC Plachetzki, CR Fong, TH Oakley BMC biology 10 (1), 1-10, 2012 | 74 | 2012 |
| A critical appraisal of the use of microRNA data in phylogenetics RC Thomson, DC Plachetzki, DL Mahler, BR Moore Proceedings of the national academy of sciences 111 (35), E3659-E3668, 2014 | 68 | 2014 |
| The importance of tissue specificity for RNA-seq: highlighting the errors of composite structure extractions BR Johnson, J Atallah, DC Plachetzki BMC genomics 14 (1), 1-8, 2013 | 56 | 2013 |
| Pan-metazoan phylogeny of the DMRT gene family: a framework for functional studies JR Wexler, DC Plachetzki, A Kopp Development Genes and Evolution 224 (3), 175-181, 2014 | 54 | 2014 |
| Key transitions during the evolution of animal phototransduction: novelty,“tree-thinking,” co-option, and co-duplication DC Plachetzki, TH Oakley Integrative and Comparative Biology 47 (5), 759-769, 2007 | 52 | 2007 |
| Gene duplication and the origins of morphological complexity in pancrustacean eyes, a genomic approach AS Rivera, MS Pankey, DC Plachetzki, C Villacorta, AE Syme, JM Serb, ... BMC evolutionary biology 10 (1), 1-16, 2010 | 48 | 2010 |
| New insights into the evolutionary history of photoreceptor cells DC Plachetzki, JM Serb, TH Oakley Trends in ecology & evolution 20 (9), 465-467, 2005 | 48 | 2005 |
| Adaptation to heat stress reduces phenotypic and transcriptional plasticity in a marine copepod MW Kelly, MS Pankey, MB DeBiasse, DC Plachetzki Functional Ecology 31 (2), 398-406, 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| Isolation and expression of Pax6 and atonal homologues in the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus DC Blackburn, KW Conley, DC Plachetzki, K Kempler, BA Battelle, ... Developmental dynamics: an official publication of the American Association …, 2008 | 38 | 2008 |
| Furcation, field-splitting, and the evolutionary origins of novelty in arthropod photoreceptors TH Oakley, DC Plachetzki, AS Rivera Arthropod structure & development 36 (4), 386-400, 2007 | 31 | 2007 |
| Ancient origins of metazoan gonadotropin-releasing hormone and their receptors revealed by phylogenomic analyses DC Plachetzki, PS Tsai, SI Kavanaugh, SA Sower General and comparative endocrinology 234, 10-19, 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Distinct Expression Patterns of Glycoprotein Hormone Subunits in the Lophotrochozoan Aplysia: Implications for the Evolution of Neuroendocrine Systems in Animals A Heyland, D Plachetzki, E Donelly, D Gunaratne, Y Bobkova, J Jacobson, ... Endocrinology 153 (11), 5440-5451, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
Todd OakleyProfessor of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa BarbaraVerified email at ucsb.edu
