| Tracheal respiration in insects visualized with synchrotron X-ray imaging MW Westneat, O Betz, RW Blob, K Fezzaa, WJ Cooper, WK Lee science 299 (5606), 558-560, 2003 | 306 | 2003 |
| Bentho-pelagic divergence of cichlid feeding architecture was prodigious and consistent during multiple adaptive radiations within African rift-lakes WJ Cooper, K Parsons, A McIntyre, B Kern, A McGee-Moore, ... PloS one 5 (3), e9551, 2010 | 214 | 2010 |
| Form and function of damselfish skulls: rapid and repeated evolution into a limited number of trophic niches WJ Cooper, MW Westneat BMC evolutionary biology 9, 1-17, 2009 | 186 | 2009 |
| Exploring the radiation of a diverse reef fish family: phylogenetics of the damselfishes (Pomacentridae), with new classifications based on molecular analyses of all genera WJ Cooper, LL Smith, MW Westneat Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (1), 1-16, 2009 | 161 | 2009 |
| Functional and genetic integration in the skulls of Lake Malawi cichlids WJ Cooper, J Wernle, K Mann, RC Albertson Evolutionary Biology 38, 316-334, 2011 | 80 | 2011 |
| Modularity of the oral jaws is linked to repeated changes in the craniofacial shape of African cichlids KJ Parsons, WJ Cooper, RC Albertson International journal of evolutionary biology 2011 (1), 641501, 2011 | 66 | 2011 |
| Phylogeny of the damselfishes (Pomacentridae) and patterns of asymmetrical diversification in body size and feeding ecology CL McCord, CM Nash, WJ Cooper, MW Westneat PLoS One 16 (10), e0258889, 2021 | 42 | 2021 |
| The evolution of jaw protrusion mechanics is tightly coupled to bentho-pelagic divergence in damselfishes (Pomacentridae) WJ Cooper, CB Carter, AJ Conith, AN Rice, MW Westneat Journal of Experimental Biology 220 (4), 652-666, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
| Thyroid hormone stimulates the onset of adult feeding kinematics in zebrafish S McMenamin, C Carter, WJ Cooper Zebrafish 14 (6), 517-525, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Quantification and variation in experimental studies of morphogenesis WJ Cooper, RC Albertson Developmental biology 321 (2), 295-302, 2008 | 33 | 2008 |
| Thyroid hormone modulation during zebrafish development recapitulates evolved diversity in danionin jaw protrusion mechanics D Galindo, E Sweet, Z DeLeon, M Wagner, A DeLeon, C Carter, ... Evolution & development 21 (5), 231-246, 2019 | 32 | 2019 |
| Limits of principal components analysis for producing a common trait space: implications for inferring selection, contingency, and chance in evolution KJ Parsons, WJ Cooper, RC Albertson PLoS One 4 (11), e7957, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| Body shape evolution in sunfishes: divergent paths to accelerated rates of speciation in the Centrarchidae AJ Smith, N Nelson-Maney, KJ Parsons, W James Cooper, ... Evolutionary Biology 42, 283-295, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| Developmental basis of phenotypic integration in two Lake Malawi cichlids P Le Pabic, WJ Cooper, TF Schilling EvoDevo 7, 1-26, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Deficiency of zebrafish fgf20a results in aberrant skull remodeling that mimics both human cranial disease and evolutionarily important fish skull morphologies WJ Cooper, RM Wirgau, EM Sweet, RC Albertson Evolution & development 15 (6), 426-441, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| Diversification of coordination patterns during feeding behaviour in cheiline wrasses AN Rice, WJ Cooper, MW Westneat Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 93 (2), 289-308, 2008 | 22 | 2008 |
| A revised damselfish taxonomy with a description of the tribe Microspathodontini (Giant damselfishes) WJ Cooper, F Santini Biology of damselfishes, 13-30, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| Morphogenesis of the zebrafish jaw: development beyond the embryo KJ Parsons, V Andreeva, WJ Cooper, PC Yelick, RC Albertson Methods in cell biology 101, 225-248, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Ecomorphology and iterative ecological radiation of damselfishes B Frédérich, WJ Cooper, R Aguilar-Medrano Biology of damselfishes, 183-203, 2016 | 13 | 2016 |
| Re-description and Reassignment of the Damselfish Abudefduf luridus (Cuvier, 1830) Using Both Traditional and Geometric Morphometric Approaches WJ Cooper, RC Albertson, RE Jacob, MW Westneat Copeia 2014 (3), 473-480, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
