| Development of bat flight: morphologic and molecular evolution of bat wing digits KE Sears, RR Behringer, JJ Rasweiler IV, LA Niswander Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (17), 6581-6586, 2006 | 245 | 2006 |
| Limb development: a paradigm of gene regulation F Petit, KE Sears, N Ahituv Nature Reviews Genetics 18 (4), 245-258, 2017 | 198 | 2017 |
| Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues AT Lu, Z Fei, A Haghani, TR Robeck, JA Zoller, CZ Li, R Lowe, Q Yan, ... Nature aging 3 (9), 1144-1166, 2023 | 195 | 2023 |
| Patterning and post-patterning modes of evolutionary digit loss in mammals KL Cooper, KE Sears, A Uygur, J Maier, KS Baczkowski, M Brosnahan, ... Nature 511 (7507), 41-45, 2014 | 164 | 2014 |
| A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: implications for geology, geochronology, and tectonics JJ Flynn, MJ Novacek, HE Dodson, D Frassinetti, MC McKenna, ... Journal of South American Earth Sciences 15 (3), 285-302, 2002 | 136 | 2002 |
| A milieu of regulatory elements in the epidermal differentiation complex syntenic block: implications for atopic dermatitis and psoriasis C de Guzman Strong, S Conlan, CB Deming, J Cheng, KE Sears, ... Human molecular genetics 19 (8), 1453-1460, 2010 | 127 | 2010 |
| The significance and scope of evolutionary developmental biology: a vision for the 21st century AP Moczek, KE Sears, A Stollewerk, PJ Wittkopp, P Diggle, I Dworkin, ... Evolution & development 17 (3), 198-219, 2015 | 125 | 2015 |
| The correlated evolution of Runx2 tandem repeats, transcriptional activity, and facial length in Carnivora KE Sears, A Goswami, JJ Flynn, LA Niswander Evolution & development 9 (6), 555-565, 2007 | 125 | 2007 |
| Constraints on the morphological evolution of marsupial houlder girdles KE Sears Evolution 58 (10), 2353-2370, 2004 | 122 | 2004 |
| Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues AT Lu, Z Fei, A Haghani, TR Robeck, JA Zoller, CZ Li, R Lowe, Q Yan, ... BioRxiv, 2021.01. 18.426733, 2021 | 109 | 2021 |
| DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits A Haghani, CZ Li, TR Robeck, J Zhang, AT Lu, J Ablaeva, ... Science 381 (6658), eabq5693, 2023 | 98* | 2023 |
| Incomplete lineage sorting and phenotypic evolution in marsupials S Feng, M Bai, I Rivas-González, C Li, S Liu, Y Tong, H Yang, G Chen, ... Cell 185 (10), 1646-1660. e18, 2022 | 82 | 2022 |
| Differences in the timing of prechondrogenic limb development in mammals: the marsupial–placental dichotomy resolved KE Sears Evolution 63 (8), 2193-2200, 2009 | 77 | 2009 |
| Morphological diversification under high integration in a hyper diverse mammal clade BP Hedrick, GL Mutumi, VD Munteanu, A Sadier, KTJ Davies, SJ Rossiter, ... Journal of Mammalian Evolution 27, 563-575, 2020 | 72 | 2020 |
| Castration delays epigenetic aging and feminizes DNA methylation at androgen-regulated loci VJ Sugrue, JA Zoller, P Narayan, AT Lu, OJ Ortega-Recalde, MJ Grant, ... Elife 10, e64932, 2021 | 65 | 2021 |
| A new developmental mechanism for the separation of the mammalian middle ear ossicles from the jaw DJ Urban, N Anthwal, ZX Luo, JA Maier, A Sadier, AS Tucker, KE Sears Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 284 (1848), 20162416, 2017 | 65 | 2017 |
| Molecular determinants of bat wing development KE Sears Cells Tissues Organs 187 (1), 6-12, 2007 | 65 | 2007 |
| Assessing soft-tissue shrinkage estimates in museum specimens imaged with diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced computed tomography (diceCT) BP Hedrick, L Yohe, A Vander Linden, LM Dávalos, K Sears, A Sadier, ... Microscopy and Microanalysis 24 (3), 284-291, 2018 | 61 | 2018 |
| Meckel’s cartilage breakdown offers clues to mammalian middle ear evolution N Anthwal, DJ Urban, ZX Luo, KE Sears, AS Tucker Nature ecology & evolution 1 (4), 0093, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| On the serial homology of the pectoral and pelvic girdles of tetrapods KE Sears, TD Capellini, R Diogo Evolution 69 (10), 2543-2555, 2015 | 51 | 2015 |
