| The evolution of RNAi as a defence against viruses and transposable elements DJ Obbard, KHJ Gordon, AH Buck, FM Jiggins Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364 …, 2009 | 638 | 2009 |
| Natural selection drives extremely rapid evolution in antiviral RNAi genes DJ Obbard, FM Jiggins, DL Halligan, TJ Little Current biology 16 (6), 580-585, 2006 | 332 | 2006 |
| The discovery, distribution, and evolution of viruses associated with Drosophila melanogaster CL Webster, FM Waldron, S Robertson, D Crowson, G Ferrari, ... PLoS biology 13 (7), e1002210, 2015 | 307 | 2015 |
| Quantifying adaptive evolution in the Drosophila immune system DJ Obbard, JJ Welch, KW Kim, FM Jiggins PLoS Genetics 5 (10), e1000698, 2009 | 268 | 2009 |
| Estimating divergence dates and substitution rates in the Drosophila phylogeny DJ Obbard, J Maclennan, KW Kim, A Rambaut, PM O’Grady, FM Jiggins Molecular Biology and Evolution 29 (11), 3459-3473, 2012 | 258 | 2012 |
| Host Phylogeny Determines Viral Persistence and Replication in Novel Hosts B Longdon, JD Hadfield, CL Webster, DJ Obbard, FM Jiggins PLoS Pathogens 7 (9), e1002260, 2011 | 195 | 2011 |
| Induction and suppression of tick cell antiviral RNAi responses by tick-borne flaviviruses E Schnettler, H Tykalová, M Watson, M Sharma, MG Sterken, DJ Obbard, ... Nucleic acids research 42 (14), 9436-9446, 2014 | 158 | 2014 |
| Polyploidy and the sexual system: what can we learn from Mercurialis annua? JR Pannell, DJ OBBARD, RJA BUGGS Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 82 (4), 547-560, 2004 | 138 | 2004 |
| Simple allelic-phenotype diversity and differentiation statistics for allopolyploids DJ Obbard, SA Harris, JR Pannell Heredity 97 (4), 296-303, 2006 | 126 | 2006 |
| Duplication and diversification of Dipteran Argonaute genes, and the evolutionary divergence of Piwi and Aubergine SH Lewis, H Salmela, DJ Obbard Genome biology and evolution 8 (3), 507-518, 2016 | 117 | 2016 |
| Genomic analysis of European Drosophila melanogaster populations reveals longitudinal structure, continent-wide selection, and previously unknown DNA viruses M Kapun, MG Barrón, F Staubach, DJ Obbard, RAW Wiberg, J Vieira, ... Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2020 | 116 | 2020 |
| Twenty-five new viruses associated with the Drosophilidae (Diptera) CL Webster, B Longdon, SH Lewis, DJ Obbard Evolutionary Bioinformatics Online 12 (Suppl 2), 13, 2016 | 108 | 2016 |
| Hybridization, polyploidy, and the evolution of sexual systems in Mercurialis (Euphorbiaceae) DJ Obbard, SA Harris, RJA Buggs, JR Pannell Evolution 60 (9), 1801-1815, 2006 | 108 | 2006 |
| Sexual systems and population genetic structure in an annual plant: testing the metapopulation model DJ Obbard, SA Harris, JR Pannell The American Naturalist 167 (3), 354-366, 2006 | 104 | 2006 |
| Metagenomic sequencing suggests a diversity of RNA interference-like responses to viruses across multicellular eukaryotes FM Waldron, GN Stone, DJ Obbard PLoS genetics 14 (7), e1007533, 2018 | 93 | 2018 |
| The evolution, diversity, and host associations of rhabdoviruses B Longdon, GGR Murray, WJ Palmer, JP Day, DJ Parker, JJ Welch, ... Virus Evolution 1 (1), vev014, 2015 | 87 | 2015 |
| Novel Drosophila Viruses Encode Host-Specific Suppressors of RNAi JT van Mierlo, GJ Overheul, B Obadia, KWR van Cleef, CL Webster, ... PLOS Pathogens 10 (7), e1004256, 2014 | 85 | 2014 |
| Sigma viruses from three species of Drosophila form a major new clade in the rhabdovirus phylogeny B Longdon, DJ Obbard, FM Jiggins Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1678), 35-44, 2010 | 84 | 2010 |
| The recent spread of a vertically transmitted virus through populations of Drosophila melanogaster JA CARPENTER, DJ OBBARD, X Maside, FM JIGGINS Molecular Ecology 16 (18), 3947-3954, 2007 | 76 | 2007 |
| RNA-Interference Pathways Display High Rates of Adaptive Protein Evolution in Multiple Invertebrates WH Palmer, JD Hadfield, DJ Obbard Genetics 208 (4), 1585-1599, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
Francis M JigginsDepartment of Genetics, University of CambridgeVerified email at gen.cam.ac.uk