| The Genome of the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi and Its Implications for Cell Type Evolution JF Ryan, K Pang, CE Schnitzler, AD Nguyen, RT Moreland, DK Simmons, ... Science 342 (6164), 1242592, 2013 | 709 | 2013 |
| Profiling cellular diversity in sponges informs animal cell type and nervous system evolution JM Musser, KJ Schippers, M Nickel, G Mizzon, AB Kohn, C Pape, ... Science 374 (6568), 717-723, 2021 | 134 | 2021 |
| A comparison across non-model animals suggests an optimal sequencing depth for de novotranscriptome assembly WR Francis, LM Christianson, R Kiko, ML Powers, NC Shaner, ... BMC genomics 14 (1), 1-12, 2013 | 108 | 2013 |
| The last common ancestor of animals lacked the HIF pathway and respired in low-oxygen environments DB Mills, WR Francis, S Vargas, M Larsen, CPH Elemans, DE Canfield, ... Elife 7, e31176, 2018 | 93 | 2018 |
| Comparative genomics and the nature of placozoan species M Eitel, WR Francis, F Varoqueaux, J Daraspe, HJ Osigus, S Krebs, ... PLoS biology 16 (7), e2005359, 2018 | 83 | 2018 |
| Predicted microbial secretomes and their target substrates in marine sediment WD Orsi, TA Richards, WR Francis Nature microbiology 3 (1), 32-37, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| Tracing animal genomic evolution with the chromosomal-level assembly of the freshwater sponge Ephydatia muelleri NJ Kenny, WR Francis, RE Rivera-Vicéns, K Juravel, A de Mendoza, ... Nature communications 11 (1), 3676, 2020 | 67 | 2020 |
| The genome of the contractile demosponge Tethya wilhelma and the evolution of metazoan neural signalling pathways WR Francis, M Eitel, S Vargas, M Adamski, SHD Haddock, S Krebs, ... BioRxiv, 120998, 2017 | 54 | 2017 |
| The role of homology and orthology in the phylogenomic analysis of metazoan gene content W Pett, M Adamski, M Adamska, WR Francis, M Eitel, D Pisani, ... Molecular biology and evolution 36 (4), 643-649, 2019 | 53 | 2019 |
| Similar ratios of introns to intergenic sequence across animal genomes WR Francis, G Wörheide Genome biology and evolution 9 (6), 1582-1598, 2017 | 51 | 2017 |
| A hybrid de novo assembly of the sea pansy (Renilla muelleri) genome JB Jiang, AM Quattrini, WR Francis, JF Ryan, E Rodríguez, CS McFadden GigaScience 8 (4), giz026, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Integrating embryonic development and evolutionary history to characterize tentacle-specific cell types in a ctenophore LS Babonis, MB DeBiasse, WR Francis, LM Christianson, AG Moss, ... Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 (12), 2940-2956, 2018 | 33 | 2018 |
| Occurrence of isopenicillin-N-synthase homologs in bioluminescent ctenophores and implications for coelenterazine biosynthesis WR Francis, NC Shaner, LM Christianson, ML Powers, SHD Haddock PLoS One 10 (6), e0128742, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Characterization of an anthraquinone fluor from the bioluminescent, pelagic polychaete Tomopteris WR Francis, ML Powers, SHD Haddock Luminescence 29 (8), 1135-1140, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
| Fungi in deep subsurface environments M Ivarsson, S Bengtson, H Drake, W Francis Advances in applied microbiology 102, 83-116, 2018 | 25 | 2018 |
| Biochemical characterization of diverse deep-sea anthozoan bioluminescence systems M Bessho-Uehara, WR Francis, SHD Haddock Marine Biology 167 (8), 114, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
| Bioluminescence spectra from three deep-sea polychaete worms WR Francis, ML Powers, SHD Haddock Marine biology 163 (12), 255, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Insights Into the Biodiversity, Behavior, and Bioluminescence of Deep-Sea Organisms: Using Molecular and Maritime Technology SHD Haddock, LM Christianson, WR Francis, S Martini, CW Dunn, ... Oceanography 30 (4), 38-47, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| Transcriptomic resilience of the Montipora digitata holobiont to low pH RA González-Pech, S Vargas, WR Francis, G Wörheide Frontiers in Marine Science, 403, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| Very few sites can reshape the inferred phylogenetic tree WR Francis, DE Canfield PeerJ 8, e8865, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
