| Concatenated analysis sheds light on early metazoan evolution and fuels a modern “urmetazoon” hypothesis B Schierwater, M Eitel, W Jakob, HJ Osigus, H Hadrys, SL Dellaporta, ... PLoS biology 7 (1), e1000020, 2009 | 327 | 2009 |
| Deep metazoan phylogeny: when different genes tell different stories T Nosenko, F Schreiber, M Adamska, M Adamski, M Eitel, J Hammel, ... Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 67 (1), 223-233, 2013 | 301 | 2013 |
| Novel cell types, neurosecretory cells, and body plan of the early-diverging metazoan Trichoplax adhaerens CL Smith, F Varoqueaux, M Kittelmann, RN Azzam, B Cooper, CA Winters, ... Current Biology 24 (14), 1565-1572, 2014 | 276 | 2014 |
| Global diversity of the Placozoa M Eitel, HJ Osigus, R DeSalle, B Schierwater PloS one 8 (4), e57131, 2013 | 114 | 2013 |
| 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 | 103 | 2018 |
| New insights into placozoan sexual reproduction and development M Eitel, L Guidi, H Hadrys, M Balsamo, B Schierwater PloS one 6 (5), e19639, 2011 | 100 | 2011 |
| Mitogenomics at the base of Metazoa HJ Osigus, M Eitel, M Bernt, A Donath, B Schierwater Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 69 (2), 339-351, 2013 | 89 | 2013 |
| Phylogenetic, genomic, and biogeographic characterization of a novel and ubiquitous marine invertebrate-associated Rickettsiales parasite, Candidatus Aquarickettsia rohweri … JG Klinges, SM Rosales, R McMinds, EC Shaver, AA Shantz, EC Peters, ... The ISME journal 13 (12), 2938-2953, 2019 | 87 | 2019 |
| The phylogeography of the Placozoa suggests a taxon‐rich phylum in tropical and subtropical waters M Eitel, B Schierwater Molecular Ecology 19 (11), 2315-2327, 2010 | 81 | 2010 |
| Multiple Dicer Genes in the Early-Diverging Metazoa D de Jong, M Eitel, W Jakob, HJ Osigus, H Hadrys, R DeSalle, ... Molecular Biology and Evolution 26 (6), 1333-1340, 2009 | 70 | 2009 |
| 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 | 67 | 2017 |
| Evolutionarily ancient association of the FoxJ1 transcription factor with the motile ciliogenic program S Vij, JC Rink, HK Ho, D Babu, M Eitel, V Narasimhan, V Tiku, ... PLoS genetics 8 (11), e1003019, 2012 | 66 | 2012 |
| Deep proteome profiling of Trichoplax adhaerens reveals remarkable features at the origin of metazoan multicellularity JH Ringrose, HW Van Den Toorn, M Eitel, H Post, P Neerincx, ... Nature communications 4 (1), 1408, 2013 | 63 | 2013 |
| Ultrastructural analyses support different morphological lineages in the phylum Placozoa Grell, 1971 L Guidi, M Eitel, E Cesarini, B Schierwater, M Balsamo Journal of Morphology 272 (3), 371-378, 2011 | 61 | 2011 |
| 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 | 56 | 2019 |
| Anaerobic metabolism of Foraminifera thriving below the seafloor WD Orsi, R Morard, A Vuillemin, M Eitel, G Wörheide, J Milucka, M Kucera The ISME journal 14 (10), 2580-2594, 2020 | 41 | 2020 |
| Hidden cell diversity in Placozoa: ultrastructural insights from Hoilungia hongkongensis DY Romanova, FÚÚ Varoqueaux, J Daraspe, MA Nikitin, M Eitel, ... Cell and tissue research 385, 623-637, 2021 | 32 | 2021 |
| TransPi—a comprehensive TRanscriptome ANalysiS PIpeline for de novo transcriptome assembly RE Rivera‐Vicéns, CA Garcia‐Escudero, N Conci, M Eitel, G Wörheide Molecular Ecology Resources 22 (5), 2070-2086, 2022 | 31 | 2022 |
| Trichoplax and Placozoa: one of the crucial keys to understanding metazoan evolution B Schierwater, M Eitel, HJ Osigus, K von der Chevallerie, T Bergmann, ... Key transitions in animal evolution 289, 326, 2010 | 31 | 2010 |
| The Diploblast-Bilateria sister hypothesis: parallel evolution of a nervous systems in animals B Schierwater, SO Kolokotronis, M Eitel, R DeSalle Communicative & integrative biology 2 (5), 403-405, 2009 | 29 | 2009 |
