| Occupation of bare habitats, an evolutionary precursor to soil specialization in plants NI Cacho, SY Strauss Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (42), 15132-15137, 2014 | 82 | 2014 |
| Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: the importance of enemies and apparency in adaptation to harsh soil environments SY Strauss, NI Cacho The American Naturalist 182 (1), E1-E14, 2013 | 74 | 2013 |
| Apparency revisited SY Strauss, NI Cacho, MW Schwartz, AC Schwartz, KC Burns Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 157 (1), 74-85, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Macroevolutionary patterns of glucosinolate defense and tests of defense‐escalation and resource availability hypotheses NI Cacho, DJ Kliebenstein, SY Strauss New Phytologist 208 (3), 915-927, 2015 | 50 | 2015 |
| Novel nuclear markers inform the systematics and the evolution of serpentine use in Streptanthus and allies (Thelypodieae, Brassicaceae) NI Cacho, AM Burrell, AE Pepper, SY Strauss Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 72, 71-81, 2014 | 47 | 2014 |
| The Caribbean slipper spurge Euphorbia tithymaloides: the first example of a ring species in plants NI Cacho, DA Baum Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279 (1742), 3377-3383, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Are spurred cyathia a key innovation? Molecular systematics and trait evolution in the slipper spurges (Pedilanthus clade: Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae) NI Cacho, PE Berry, ME Olson, VW Steinmann, DA Baum American Journal of Botany 97 (3), 493-510, 2010 | 37 | 2010 |
| The evolution of floral signals in relation to range overlap in a clade of California Jewelflowers (Streptanthus s.l.) MG Weber, NI Cacho, MJQ Phan, C Disbrow, SR Ramírez, SY Strauss Evolution 72 (4), 798-807, 2018 | 29 | 2018 |
| Is LEAFY a useful marker gene for the flower–inflorescence boundary in the Euphorbia cyathium? G Prenner, NI Cacho, D Baum, PJ Rudall Journal of experimental botany 62 (1), 345-350, 2011 | 28 | 2011 |
| Extinction threat in the Pedilanthus clade (Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae), with special reference to the recently rediscovered E. conzattii (P. pulchellus) ME Olson, JA Lomelí S, NI Cacho American Journal of Botany 92 (4), 634-641, 2005 | 26 | 2005 |
| Convergent vessel diameter–stem diameter scaling across five clades of New and Old World eudicots from desert to rain forest ME Olson, JA Rosell, C León, S Zamora, A Weeks, ... International Journal of Plant Sciences 174 (7), 1062-1078, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| Replicated radiation of a plant clade along a cloud forest archipelago MJ Donoghue, DAR Eaton, CA Maya-Lastra, MJ Landis, PW Sweeney, ... Nature Ecology & Evolution 6 (9), 1318-1329, 2022 | 23 | 2022 |
| The transfer of two rare monotypic genera, Neoeplingia and Chaunostoma, to Lepechinia (Lamiaceae), and notes on their conservation BT Drew, NI Cacho, KJ Sytsma Taxon 63 (4), 831-842, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Genome size evolution is associated with climate seasonality and glucosinolates, but not life history, soil nutrients or range size, across a clade of mustards NI Cacho, PJ McIntyre, DJ Kliebenstein, SY Strauss Annals of Botany 127 (7), 887-902, 2021 | 20 | 2021 |
| Nonlinear selection and a blend of convergent, divergent and parallel evolution shapes natural variation in glucosinolates DJ Kliebenstein, NI Cacho Advances in Botanical Research 80, 31-55, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Use of herbarium data to evaluate weediness in five congeners AM Hanan-A, H Vibrans, NI Cacho, JL Villaseñor, E Ortiz, VA Gómez-G AOB plants 8, plv144, 2016 | 17 | 2016 |
| Euphorbia PE Berry, JA Peirson, JJ Morawetz, VW Steinmann, R Riina, Y Yang, ... Flora of North America north of Mexico 12, 237-324, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Plant size, latitude, and phylogeny explain within-population variability in herbivory Herbivory Variability Network*†, ML Robinson, PG Hahn, BD Inouye, ... Science 382 (6671), 679-683, 2023 | 9 | 2023 |
| Convergent evolution in floral morphology in a plant ring species, the Caribbean Euphorbia tithymaloides NI Cacho, MJ Monteverde‐Suárez, PJ McIntyre American Journal of Botany 106 (7), 1032-1045, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| IAPT chromosome data 30 K Marhold, J Kučera, EM de Almeida, LIF Alves, C Araneda‐Beltrán, ... Taxon 68 (5), 1124-1130, 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
