| Somatic selection and adaptive evolution: on the inheritance of acquired characters EJ Steele University of Chicago Press, 1981 | 271 | 1981 |
| Lamarck's Signature: How retrogenes are changing the natural selection paradigm EJ Steele, RA Lindley, RV Blanden | 267 | 2000 |
| High proportion of Ig-producing cells making autoantibody in normal mice EJ Steele, AJ Cunningham Nature 274 (5670), 483-484, 1978 | 182 | 1978 |
| Distribution of mutations around rearranged heavy-chain antibody variable-region genes GW Both, L Taylor, JW Pollard, EJ Steele Molecular and cellular biology, 1990 | 172 | 1990 |
| Inheritance of acquired immunological tolerance to foreign histocompatibility antigens in mice. RM Gorczynski, EJ Steele Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 77 (5), 2871-2875, 1980 | 108 | 1980 |
| Hypothesis: somatic hypermutation by gene conversion via the error prone DNA→ RNA→ DNA information loop EJ Steele, JW Pollard Molecular immunology 24 (6), 667-673, 1987 | 106 | 1987 |
| Cause of Cambrian explosion-terrestrial or cosmic? EJ Steele, S Al-Mufti, KA Augustyn, R Chandrajith, JP Coghlan, ... Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 136, 3-23, 2018 | 99 | 2018 |
| PCR amplification of murine immunoglobulin germline V genes: strategies for minimization of recombination artefacts P Zylstra, HS Rothenfluh, GF Weiller, RV Blanden, EJ Steele Immunology and cell biology 76 (5), 395-405, 1998 | 97 | 1998 |
| Human DNA polymerase‐η, an A‐T mutator in somatic hypermutation of rearranged immunoglobulin genes, is a reverse transcriptase A Franklin, PJ Milburn, RV Blanden, EJ Steele Immunology and cell biology 82 (2), 219-225, 2004 | 84 | 2004 |
| Simultaneous yet independent inheritance of somatically acquired tolerance to two distinct H–2 antigenic haplotype determinants in mice RM Gorczynski, EJ Steele Nature 289 (5799), 678-681, 1981 | 84 | 1981 |
| Somatic hypermutation in 5′ flanking regions of heavy chain antibody variable regions HS Rothenfluh, L Taylor, ALM Bothwell, GW Both, EJ Steele European journal of immunology 23 (9), 2152-2159, 1993 | 83 | 1993 |
| The adjuvanticity of gamma inulin PD Cooper, EJ Steele Immunology and cell biology 66 (5-6), 345-352, 1988 | 77 | 1988 |
| The adjuvanticity of Algammulin, a new vaccine adjuvant PD Cooper, C McComb, EJ Steele Vaccine 9 (6), 408-415, 1991 | 71 | 1991 |
| Isolation and Biological Properties of Three Classes of Rabbit Antibody to Vibrio cholerae EJ Steele, W Chaicumpa, D Rowley Journal of Infectious Diseases 130 (2), 93-103, 1974 | 63 | 1974 |
| Mechanism of somatic hypermutation: critical analysis of strand biased mutation signatures at A: T and G: C base pairs EJ Steele Molecular immunology 46 (3), 305-320, 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
| Evolution of V genes: DNA sequence structure of functional germline genes and pseudogenes HS Rothenfluh, RV Blanden, EJ Steele Immunogenetics 42, 159-171, 1995 | 59 | 1995 |
| Algammulin, a new vaccine adjuvant comprising gamma inulin particles containing alum: preparation and in vitro properties PD Cooper, EJ Steele Vaccine 9 (5), 351-357, 1991 | 54 | 1991 |
| Lamarck and Panspermia-On the efficient spread of living systems throughout the cosmos EJ Steele, RM Gorczynski, RA Lindley, Y Liu, R Temple, G Tokoro, ... Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 149, 10-32, 2019 | 50 | 2019 |
| Computational analyses show A-to-G mutations correlate with nascent mRNA hairpins at somatic hypermutation hotspots EJ Steele, RA Lindley, J Wen, GF Weiller dna repair 5 (11), 1346-1363, 2006 | 50 | 2006 |
| Growing evidence against global infection-driven by person-to-person transfer of COVID-19 NC Wickramasinghe, EJ Steele, RM Gorczynski, R Temple, G Tokoro, ... | 46 | 2020 |
