| Genomic data do not support comb jellies as the sister group to all other animals D Pisani, W Pett, M Dohrmann, R Feuda, O Rota-Stabelli, H Philippe, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (50), 15402-15407, 2015 | 363 | 2015 |
| Improved Modeling of Compositional Heterogeneity Supports Sponges as Sister to All Other Animals R Feuda, M Dohrmann, W Pett, H Philippe, O Rota-Stabelli, N Lartillot, ... Current Biology 27 (24), 3864-3870. e4, 2017 | 323 | 2017 |
| Animal Mitochondrial DNA as We Do Not Know It: mt-Genome Organization and Evolution in Nonbilaterian Lineages DV Lavrov, W Pett Genome Biology and Evolution 8 (9), 2896-2913, 2016 | 195 | 2016 |
| Extreme mitochondrial evolution in the ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi: insight from mtDNA and the nuclear genome W Pett, JF Ryan, K Pang, JC Mullikin, MQ Martindale, AD Baxevanis, ... Mitochondrial DNA 22 (4), 130-142, 2011 | 115 | 2011 |
| Mitochondrial DNA of Clathrina clathrus (Calcarea, Calcinea): six linear chromosomes, fragmented rRNAs, tRNA editing, and a novel genetic code DV Lavrov, W Pett, O Voigt, G Wörheide, L Forget, BF Lang, E Kayal Molecular biology and evolution 30 (4), 865-880, 2013 | 98 | 2013 |
| The role of homology and orthology in the phylogenomic analysis of metazoan gene content W Pett, M Adamski, M Adamska, WR Francis, M Eitel, D Pisani, ... Molecular biology and evolution 36 (4), 643-649, 2019 | 58 | 2019 |
| Extensive and evolutionarily persistent mitochondrial tRNA editing in velvet worms (phylum Onychophora) R Segovia, W Pett, S Trewick, DV Lavrov Molecular biology and evolution 28 (10), 2873-2881, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| Cytonuclear interactions in the evolution of animal mitochondrial tRNA metabolism W Pett, D Lavrov Genome Biology and Evolution 7 (8), 2089-2101, 2015 | 48 | 2015 |
| Well-annotated microRNAomes do not evidence pervasive miRNA loss JE Tarver, RS Taylor, MN Puttick, GT Lloyd, W Pett, B Fromm, ... Genome biology and evolution 10 (6), 1457-1470, 2018 | 45 | 2018 |
| Parallel loss of nuclear-encoded mitochondrial aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases and mtDNA-encoded tRNAs in Cnidaria KM Haen, W Pett, DV Lavrov Molecular biology and evolution 27 (10), 2216-2219, 2010 | 42 | 2010 |
| Massive colonization of protein-coding exons by selfish genetic elements in Paramecium germline genomes D Sellis, F Guerin, O Arnaiz, W Pett, E Lerat, N Boggetto, S Krenek, ... bioRxiv, 2020.12. 23.424184, 2021 | 39 | 2021 |
| Small inverted repeats drive mitochondrial genome evolution in Lake Baikal sponges DV Lavrov, OO Maikova, W Pett, SI Belikov Gene 505 (1), 91-99, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| FOSSILSIM: an R package for simulating fossil occurrence data under mechanistic models of preservation and recovery J Barido‐Sottani, W Pett, JE O'Reilly, RCM Warnock Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 0 | 34 | |
| Eight new mtDNA sequences of glass sponges reveal an extensive usage of+ 1 frameshifting in mitochondrial translation KM Haen, W Pett, DV Lavrov Gene 535 (2), 336-344, 2014 | 30 | 2014 |
| Reply to Halanych et al.: Ctenophore misplacement is corroborated by independent datasets D Pisani, W Pett, M Dohrmann, R Feuda, O Rota-Stabelli, H Philippe, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (8), E948-E949, 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| The Twin-Arginine Subunit C in Oscarella : Origin, Evolution, and Potential Functional Significance W Pett, DV Lavrov Integrative and comparative biology 53 (3), 495-502, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| Ancient crested penguin constrains timing of recruitment into seabird hotspot DB Thomas, AJD Tennyson, RP Scofield, TA Heath, W Pett, DT Ksepka Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287 (1932), 20201497, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| Inferring the timescale of phylogenetic trees from fossil data W Pett, TA Heath Phylogenetics in the Genomic Era, 5.1, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Largest-known fossil penguin provides insight into the early evolution of sphenisciform body size and flipper anatomy DT Ksepka, DJ Field, TA Heath, W Pett, DB Thomas, S Giovanardi, ... Journal of Paleontology 97 (2), 434-453, 2023 | 7 | 2023 |