Disparity as an evolutionary index: a comparison of Cambrian and Recent arthropods MA Wills, DEG Briggs, RA Fortey Paleobiology, 93-130, 1994 | 345 | 1994 |
Morphological disparity in the Cambrian DEG Briggs, RA Fortey, MA Wills Science 256 (5064), 1670-1673, 1992 | 264 | 1992 |
Quality of the fossil record through time MJ Benton, MA Wills, R Hitchin Nature 403 (6769), 534-537, 2000 | 233 | 2000 |
Pancrustacean phylogeny in the light of new phylogenomic data: support for Remipedia as the possible sister group of Hexapoda BM von Reumont, RA Jenner, MA Wills, E Dell’Ampio, G Pass, ... Molecular biology and evolution 29 (3), 1031-1045, 2012 | 215 | 2012 |
The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’: decoupling cladogenesis from morphological disparity RA Fortey, DEG Briggs, MA Wills Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 57 (1), 13-33, 1996 | 211 | 1996 |
A supertree approach to shorebird phylogeny GH Thomas, MA Wills, T Székely BMC Evolutionary Biology 4 (1), 1-18, 2004 | 166 | 2004 |
The choice of model organisms in evo–devo RA Jenner, MA Wills Nature Reviews Genetics 8 (4), 311-314, 2007 | 157 | 2007 |
Clades reach highest morphological disparity early in their evolution M Hughes, S Gerber, MA Wills Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (34), 13875-13879, 2013 | 148 | 2013 |
An arthropod phylogeny based on fossil and recent taxa MA Wills, DEG Briggs, RA Fortey, M Wilkinson, PHA Sneath, ... Arthropod fossils and phylogeny. Columbia University Press, New York, 33-105, 1998 | 139 | 1998 |
Cambrian and recent disparity: the picture from priapulids MA Wills Paleobiology, 177-199, 1998 | 131 | 1998 |
Congruence between phylogeny and stratigraphy: randomization tests and the gap excess ratio MA Wills Systematic Biology 48 (3), 559-580, 1999 | 124 | 1999 |
Adaptation limits diversification of experimental bacterial populations A Buckling, MA Wills, N Colegrave Science 302 (5653), 2107-2109, 2003 | 122 | 2003 |
The Cambrian evolutionary ‘explosion’recalibrated RA Fortey, DEG Briggs, MA Wills BioEssays 19 (5), 429-434, 1997 | 115 | 1997 |
Evolutionary paleobiology DH Erwin, JH Lipps | 110 | 1996 |
A phylogeny of recent and fossil Crustacea derived from morphological characters MA Wills Arthropod relationships, 189-209, 1998 | 108 | 1998 |
Fossils impact as hard as living taxa in parsimony analyses of morphology A Cobbett, M Wilkinson, MA Wills Systematic Biology 56 (5), 753-766, 2007 | 101 | 2007 |
The significance of fossils in understanding arthropod evolution MA Wills, DEG Briggs, RA Fortey, M Wilkinson VERHANDLUNGEN-DEUTSCHEN ZOOLOGISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT 88, 203-216, 1995 | 95 | 1995 |
Crustacean disparity through the Phanerozoic: comparing morphological and stratigraphic data MA Wills Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 65 (4), 455-500, 1998 | 94 | 1998 |
Cambrian and Recent morphological disparity M Foote, SJ Gould, MSY Lee, DEG Briggs, RA Fortey, MA Wills Science, 1816-1818, 1992 | 88 | 1992 |
Morphological disparity: a primer MA Wills Fossils, phylogeny, and form, 55-144, 2001 | 83 | 2001 |