| Fitness costs of plasmids: a limit to plasmid transmission A San Millan, RC MacLean Microbiology spectrum 5 (5), 10.1128/microbiolspec. mtbp-0016-2017, 2017 | 516 | 2017 |
| The genetic basis of the fitness costs of antimicrobial resistance: a meta‐analysis approach T Vogwill, RC MacLean Evolutionary applications 8 (3), 284-295, 2015 | 421 | 2015 |
| The evolution of antibiotic resistance RC MacLean, A San Millan Science 365 (6458), 1082-1083, 2019 | 401 | 2019 |
| Beyond horizontal gene transfer: the role of plasmids in bacterial evolution J Rodríguez-Beltrán, J DelaFuente, R Leon-Sampedro, RC MacLean, ... Nature Reviews Microbiology 19 (6), 347-359, 2021 | 361 | 2021 |
| Resource competition and social conflict in experimental populations of yeast RC MacLean, I Gudelj Nature 441 (7092), 498-501, 2006 | 334 | 2006 |
| The ecology and evolution of pangenomes MA Brockhurst, E Harrison, JPJ Hall, T Richards, A McNally, C MacLean Current Biology 29 (20), R1094-R1103, 2019 | 310 | 2019 |
| The Beagle in a bottle A Buckling, R Craig Maclean, MA Brockhurst, N Colegrave Nature 457 (7231), 824-829, 2009 | 299 | 2009 |
| Positive selection and compensatory adaptation interact to stabilize non-transmissible plasmids AS Millan, R Peña-Miller, M Toll-Riera, ZV Halbert, AR McLean, ... Nature communications 5 (1), 5208, 2014 | 285 | 2014 |
| The population genetics of antibiotic resistance: integrating molecular mechanisms and treatment contexts RC MacLean, AR Hall, GG Perron, A Buckling Nature Reviews Genetics 11 (6), 405-414, 2010 | 265 | 2010 |
| Multicopy plasmids potentiate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria A San Millan, JA Escudero, DR Gifford, D Mazel, RC MacLean Nature ecology & evolution 1 (1), 0010, 2016 | 213 | 2016 |
| Positive epistasis between co-infecting plasmids promotes plasmid survival in bacterial populations A San Millan, K Heilbron, RC MacLean The ISME journal 8 (3), 601-612, 2014 | 208 | 2014 |
| Diminishing Returns From Beneficial Mutations and Pervasive Epistasis Shape the Fitness Landscape for Rifampicin Resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa RC MacLean, GG Perron, A Gardner Genetics 186 (4), 1345-1354, 2010 | 200 | 2010 |
| The evolution of a pleiotropic fitness tradeoff in Pseudomonas fluorescens RC MacLean, G Bell, PB Rainey Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (21), 8072-8077, 2004 | 197 | 2004 |
| Balancing mcr-1 expression and bacterial survival is a delicate equilibrium between essential cellular defence mechanisms Q Yang, M Li, OB Spiller, DO Andrey, P Hinchliffe, H Li, C MacLean, ... Nature communications 8 (1), 2054, 2017 | 194* | 2017 |
| Cooperation, competition and antibiotic resistance in bacterial colonies I Frost, WPJ Smith, S Mitri, AS Millan, Y Davit, JM Osborne, JM Pitt-Francis, ... The ISME journal 12 (6), 1582-1593, 2018 | 191 | 2018 |
| Interactions between horizontally acquired genes create a fitness cost in Pseudomonas aeruginosa A San Millan, M Toll-Riera, Q Qi, RC MacLean Nature communications 6 (1), 6845, 2015 | 190 | 2015 |
| Diversity and productivity peak at intermediate dispersal rate in evolving metacommunities PA Venail, RC MacLean, T Bouvier, MA Brockhurst, ME Hochberg, ... Nature 452 (7184), 210-214, 2008 | 188 | 2008 |
| Comparative Analysis of Myxococcus Predation on Soil Bacteria AD Morgan, RC MacLean, KL Hillesland, GJ Velicer Applied and environmental microbiology 76 (20), 6920-6927, 2010 | 162 | 2010 |
| Evaluating evolutionary models of stress-induced mutagenesis in bacteria RC MacLean, C Torres-Barceló, R Moxon Nature Reviews Genetics 14 (3), 221-227, 2013 | 159 | 2013 |
| A mixture of “cheats” and “co-operators” can enable maximal group benefit RC MacLean, A Fuentes-Hernandez, D Greig, LD Hurst, I Gudelj PLoS biology 8 (9), e1000486, 2010 | 159 | 2010 |