| The western painted turtle genome, a model for the evolution of extreme physiological adaptations in a slowly evolving lineage H Bradley Shaffer, P Minx, DE Warren, AM Shedlock, RC Thomson, ... Genome biology 14, 1-23, 2013 | 377 | 2013 |
| Phylogenetic hypotheses for the turtle family Geoemydidae PQ Spinks, HB Shaffer, JB Iverson, WP McCord Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 32 (1), 164-182, 2004 | 328 | 2004 |
| Survival of the western pond turtle (Emys marmorata) in an urban California environment PQ Spinks, GB Pauly, JJ Crayon, HB Shaffer Biological Conservation 113 (2), 257-267, 2003 | 200 | 2003 |
| Multigene phylogeny of the Old World mice, Murinae, reveals distinct geographic lineages and the declining utility of mitochondrial genes compared to nuclear genes SJ Steppan, RM Adkins, PQ Spinks, C Hale Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 37 (2), 370-388, 2005 | 186 | 2005 |
| 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), e2012215118, 2021 | 158 | 2021 |
| Moraxella bovoculi sp. nov., isolated from calves with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis JA Angelos, PQ Spinks, LM Ball, LW George International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 57 (4 …, 2007 | 144 | 2007 |
| Range‐wide molecular analysis of the western pond turtle (Emys marmorata): cryptic variation, isolation by distance, and their conservation implications PQ Spinks, HB Shaffer Molecular Ecology 14 (7), 2047-2064, 2005 | 139 | 2005 |
| Conflicting Mitochondrial and Nuclear Phylogenies for the Widely Disjunct Emys (Testudines: Emydidae) Species Complex, and What They Tell Us about … PQ Spinks, HB Shaffer Systematic biology 58 (1), 1-20, 2009 | 136 | 2009 |
| 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 | 121 | 2010 |
| Conservation phylogenetics of the Asian box turtles (Geoemydidae, Cuora): mitochondrial introgression, numts, and inferences from multiple nuclear loci PQ Spinks, HB Shaffer Conservation Genetics 8, 641-657, 2007 | 101 | 2007 |
| The advantages of going large: genome‐wide SNP s 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 | 98 | 2014 |
| Phylogenomic analyses of 539 highly informative loci dates a fully resolved time tree for the major clades of living turtles (Testudines) HB Shaffer, E McCartney-Melstad, TJ Near, GG Mount, PQ Spinks Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 115, 7-15, 2017 | 75 | 2017 |
| 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 | 74 | 2009 |
| A new genus of geoemydid turtle from Asia WP McCord, JB Iverson, PQ Spinks, HB Shaffer HAMADRYAD-MADRAS- 25, 86-90, 2000 | 69 | 2000 |
| 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 | 64 | 2013 |
| Phylogeny and temporal diversification of the New World pond turtles (Emydidae) PQ Spinks, RC Thomson, E McCartney-Melstad, HB Shaffer Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103, 85-97, 2016 | 51 | 2016 |
| Species boundaries and phylogenetic relationships in the critically endangered Asian box turtle genus Cuora PQ Spinks, RC Thomson, YP Zhang, J Che, Y Wu, HB Shaffer Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63 (3), 656-667, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
| Rangewide phylogeography and landscape genetics of the Western U.S. endemic frog Rana boylii (Ranidae): implications for the conservation of frogs and rivers AJ Lind, PQ Spinks, GM Fellers, HB Shaffer Conservation Genetics 12, 269-284, 2011 | 44 | 2011 |
| Distribution and Abundance of Invasive Red-Eared Sliders (Trachemys scripta elegans) in California's Sacramento River Basin and Possible Impacts on Native Western Pond … RC Thomson, PQ Spinks, HB Shaffer Chelonian Conservation and biology 9 (2), 297-302, 2010 | 43 | 2010 |