| Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates F Welker, MJ Collins, JA Thomas, M Wadsley, S Brace, E Cappellini, ... Nature 522 (7554), 81-84, 2015 | 314 | 2015 |
| The future of ancient DNA: Technical advances and conceptual shifts M Hofreiter, JLA Paijmans, H Goodchild, CF Speller, A Barlow, GG Fortes, ... BioEssays 37 (3), 284-293, 2015 | 277 | 2015 |
| A generation time effect on the rate of molecular evolution in invertebrates JA Thomas, JJ Welch, R Lanfear, L Bromham Molecular biology and evolution 27 (5), 1173-1180, 2010 | 254 | 2010 |
| Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths T van der Valk, P Pečnerová, D Díez-del-Molino, A Bergström, ... Nature 591 (7849), 265-269, 2021 | 217 | 2021 |
| There is no universal molecular clock for invertebrates, but rate variation does not scale with body size JA Thomas, JJ Welch, M Woolfit, L Bromham Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (19), 7366-7371, 2006 | 133 | 2006 |
| Metabolic rate does not calibrate the molecular clock R Lanfear, JA Thomas, JJ Welch, T Brey, L Bromham Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (39), 15388-15393, 2007 | 117 | 2007 |
| Diversity and ecosystem services of Trichoptera JC Morse, PB Frandsen, W Graf, JA Thomas Insects 10 (5), 125, 2019 | 109 | 2019 |
| Holarctic genetic structure and range dynamics in the woolly mammoth E Palkopoulou, L Dalén, AM Lister, S Vartanyan, M Sablin, A Sher, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 280 (1770), 20131910, 2013 | 105 | 2013 |
| Bayesian estimation of substitution rates from ancient DNA sequences with low information content SYW Ho, R Lanfear, MJ Phillips, I Barnes, JA Thomas, SO Kolokotronis, ... Systematic biology 60 (3), 366-375, 2011 | 104 | 2011 |
| The Trichoptera barcode initiative: a strategy for generating a species-level Tree of Life X Zhou, PB Frandsen, RW Holzenthal, CR Beet, KR Bennett, RJ Blahnik, ... Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 371 …, 2016 | 93 | 2016 |
| A multigene phylogeny and timeline for Trichoptera (Insecta) JA Thomas, PB Frandsen, E Prendini, X Zhou, RW Holzenthal Systematic Entomology 45 (3), 670-686, 2020 | 76 | 2020 |
| Modern and ancient red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Europe show an unusual lack of geographical and temporal structuring, and differing responses within the … AGF Teacher, JA Thomas, I Barnes BMC evolutionary biology 11, 1-10, 2011 | 68 | 2011 |
| Relaxed phylogenetics and the Palaeoptera problem: resolving deep ancestral splits in the insect phylogeny JA Thomas, JWH Trueman, A Rambaut, JJ Welch Systematic biology 62 (2), 285-297, 2013 | 65 | 2013 |
| The influence of body size and net diversification rate on molecular evolution during the radiation of animal phyla E Fontanillas, JJ Welch, JA Thomas, L Bromham BMC evolutionary biology 7, 1-12, 2007 | 53 | 2007 |
| Evolutionary history of the Nesophontidae, the last unplaced recent mammal family S Brace, JA Thomas, L Dalén, J Burger, RDE MacPhee, I Barnes, ... Molecular Biology and Evolution 33 (12), 3095-3103, 2016 | 45 | 2016 |
| Moving toward species-level phylogeny using ribosomal DNA and COI barcodes: an example from the diverse caddisfly genus Chimarra (Trichoptera: Philopotamidae) K Kjer, X Zhou, P Frandsen, J Thomas, R Blahnik Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 72, 345-354, 2014 | 34 | 2014 |
| Progress on the phylogeny of caddisflies (Trichoptera) KM KJER, JA THOMAS, XIN ZHOU, PB FRANDSEN, E PRENDINI, ... Zoosymposia 10, 248–256-248–256, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
| Molecular genetic, life‐history and morphological variation in a coastal warm‐temperate sciaenid fish: evidence for an upwelling‐driven speciation event R Henriques, WM Potts, WH Sauer, CV Santos, J Kruger, JA Thomas, ... Journal of Biogeography 43 (9), 1820-1831, 2016 | 21 | 2016 |
| Molecular and Fossil Dating: A Compatible Match? JA Thomas, JL Ware Entomologica Americana 117 (1), 1-8, 2011 | 3 | 2011 |
| Barcoding the dead: Ancient protein sequencing resolves litoptern and notoungulate superordinal affinities R MacPhee, F Welker, J Thomas, S Brace, E Cappellini, S Turvey, ... | 2 | 2014 |
Ian BarnesProfessor of Molecular Palaeobiology, Natural History MuseumVerified email at nhm.ac.uk
