| The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage HB Shaffer, P Minx, DE Warren, AM Shedlock, RC Thomson, ... Genome biology 14 (3), 1-23, 2013 | 366 | 2013 |
| Delimiting species in recent radiations HB Shaffer, RC Thomson Systematic Biology 56 (6), 896-906, 2007 | 241 | 2007 |
| Sparse supermatrices for phylogenetic inference: taxonomy, alignment, rogue taxa, and the phylogeny of living turtles RC Thomson, HB Shaffer Systematic biology 59 (1), 42-58, 2010 | 196 | 2010 |
| Genome‐enabled development of DNA markers for ecology, evolution and conservation RC Thomson, IJ Wang, JR Johnson Molecular Ecology 19 (11), 2184-2195, 2010 | 175 | 2010 |
| Phylogenomics reveals ancient gene tree discordance in the amphibian tree of life PM Hime, AR Lemmon, ECM Lemmon, E Prendini, JM Brown, ... Systematic biology 70 (1), 49-66, 2021 | 157 | 2021 |
| Bayes factors unmask highly variable information content, bias, and extreme influence in phylogenomic analyses JM Brown, RC Thomson Systematic biology 66 (4), 517-530, 2017 | 157 | 2017 |
| California Amphibian and Reptile Species of Special Concern RC Thomson, AN Wright, HB Shaffer University of California Press, 2016 | 131 | 2016 |
| A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins RC Thomson, PQ Spinks, HB Shaffer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (7), 2021 | 129 | 2021 |
| Fourteen nuclear genes provide phylogenetic resolution for difficult nodes in the turtle tree of life AJ Barley, PQ Spinks, RC Thomson, HB Shaffer Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55 (3), 1189-1194, 2010 | 118 | 2010 |
| The advantages of going large: genome‐wide SNPs clarify the complex population history and systematics of the threatened western pond turtle PQ Spinks, RC Thomson, HB Shaffer Molecular ecology 23 (9), 2228-2241, 2014 | 94 | 2014 |
| Impact of Model Violations on the Inference of Species Boundaries Under the Multispecies Coalescent AJ Barley, JM Brown, RC Thomson Systematic Biology 67 (2), 269-284, 2018 | 93 | 2018 |
| Phylogenomics and species delimitation in the knob-scaled lizards of the genus Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) using ddRADseq data reveal a substantial underestimation of … ANM de Oca, AJ Barley, RN Meza-Lázaro, UO García-Vázquez, ... Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106, 241-253, 2017 | 84 | 2017 |
| 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 | 78 | 2014 |
| Developing markers for multilocus phylogenetics in non-model organisms: A test case with turtles RC Thomson, AM Shedlock, SV Edwards, HB Shaffer Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49 (2), 514-525, 2008 | 78 | 2008 |
| Assessing what is needed to resolve a molecular phylogeny: simulations and empirical data from emydid turtles PQ Spinks, RC Thomson, GA Lovely, HB Shaffer BMC Evolutionary Biology 9, 1-17, 2009 | 73 | 2009 |
| Biomechanical trade-offs bias rates of evolution in the feeding apparatus of fishes R Holzman, DC Collar, SA Price, CD Hulsey, RC Thomson, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 279 (1732 …, 2012 | 71 | 2012 |
| Nuclear gene phylogeography reveals the historical legacy of an ancient inland sea on lineages of the western pond turtle, Emys marmorata in California PQ SPINKS, RC THOMSON, H BRADLEY SHAFFER Molecular Ecology 19 (3), 542-556, 2010 | 65 | 2010 |
| Misleading phylogenetic inferences based on single-exemplar sampling in the turtle genus Pseudemys PQ Spinks, RC Thomson, GB Pauly, CE Newman, G Mount, HB Shaffer Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68 (2), 269-281, 2013 | 61 | 2013 |
| In search of the tree of life for turtles JB Iverson, RM Brown, TS Akre, TJ Near, M Le, RC Thomson, DE Starkey Definiting turtle diversity: proceedings of a workshop on genetics, ethics …, 2007 | 61 | 2007 |
| Variation across mitochondrial gene trees provides evidence for systematic error: How much gene tree variation is biological? EJ Richards, JM Brown, AJ Barley, RA Chong, RC Thomson Systematic biology 67 (5), 847-860, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
