| One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants Nature 574 (7780), 679-685, 2019 | 1382 | 2019 |
| The banana (Musa acuminata) genome and the evolution of monocotyledonous plants A D’hont, F Denoeud, JM Aury, FC Baurens, F Carreel, O Garsmeur, ... Nature 488 (7410), 213-217, 2012 | 1294 | 2012 |
| Origin and evolution of the octoploid strawberry genome PP Edger, TJ Poorten, R VanBuren, MA Hardigan, M Colle, MR McKain, ... Nature genetics 51 (3), 541-547, 2019 | 611 | 2019 |
| The pineapple genome and the evolution of CAM photosynthesis R Ming, R VanBuren, CM Wai, H Tang, MC Schatz, JE Bowers, E Lyons, ... Nature genetics 47 (12), 1435-1442, 2015 | 550 | 2015 |
| A genome triplication associated with early diversification of the core eudicots Y Jiao, J Leebens-Mack, S Ayyampalayam, JE Bowers, MR McKain, ... Genome biology 13, 1-14, 2012 | 445 | 2012 |
| The asparagus genome sheds light on the origin and evolution of a young Y chromosome A Harkess, J Zhou, C Xu, JE Bowers, R Van der Hulst, S Ayyampalayam, ... Nature communications 8 (1), 1279, 2017 | 287 | 2017 |
| Assembling the tree of the monocotyledons: plastome sequence phylogeny and evolution of Poales1 TJ Givnish, M Ames, JR McNeal, MR McKain, PR Steele, ... Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 97 (4), 584-616, 2010 | 281 | 2010 |
| Single-molecule sequencing and optical mapping yields an improved genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) with chromosome-scale contiguity PP Edger, R VanBuren, M Colle, TJ Poorten, CM Wai, CE Niederhuth, ... Gigascience 7 (2), gix124, 2018 | 255 | 2018 |
| Subgenome dominance in an interspecific hybrid, synthetic allopolyploid, and a 140-year-old naturally established neo-allopolyploid monkeyflower PP Edger, R Smith, MR McKain, AM Cooley, M Vallejo-Marin, Y Yuan, ... The Plant Cell 29 (9), 2150-2167, 2017 | 242 | 2017 |
| Multiple polyploidy events in the early radiation of nodulating and nonnodulating legumes SB Cannon, MR McKain, A Harkess, MN Nelson, S Dash, MK Deyholos, ... Molecular biology and evolution 32 (1), 193-210, 2015 | 240 | 2015 |
| Allopolyploidy, diversification, and the Miocene grassland expansion MC Estep, MR McKain, D Vela Diaz, J Zhong, JG Hodge, TR Hodkinson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (42), 15149-15154, 2014 | 227 | 2014 |
| Practical considerations for plant phylogenomics MR McKain, MG Johnson, S Uribe‐Convers, D Eaton, Y Yang Applications in plant sciences 6 (3), e1038, 2018 | 198 | 2018 |
| A phylogenomic assessment of ancient polyploidy and genome evolution across the Poales MR McKain, H Tang, JR McNeal, S Ayyampalayam, JI Davis, ... Genome biology and evolution 8 (4), 1150-1164, 2016 | 155 | 2016 |
| Quality and quantity of data recovered from massively parallel sequencing: examples in Asparagales and Poaceae PR Steele, KL Hertweck, D Mayfield, MR McKain, J Leebens‐Mack, ... American Journal of Botany 99 (2), 330-348, 2012 | 131 | 2012 |
| Diversification times among Brassica (Brassicaceae) crops suggest hybrid formation after 20 million years of divergence T Arias, MA Beilstein, M Tang, MR McKain, JC Pires American journal of botany 101 (1), 86-91, 2014 | 121 | 2014 |
| Evolutionary dynamics of chloroplast genomes in subfamily Aroideae (Araceae) CL Henriquez, I Ahmed, MM Carlsen, A Zuluaga, TB Croat, MR McKain Genomics 112 (3), 2349-2360, 2020 | 118 | 2020 |
| Phylogenomic analysis of transcriptome data elucidates co‐occurrence of a paleopolyploid event and the origin of bimodal karyotypes in Agavoideae (Asparagaceae) MR McKain, N Wickett, Y Zhang, S Ayyampalayam, WR McCombie, ... American journal of botany 99 (2), 397-406, 2012 | 105 | 2012 |
| A well-supported nuclear phylogeny of Poaceae and implications for the evolution of C4 photosynthesis W Huang, L Zhang, JT Columbus, Y Hu, Y Zhao, L Tang, Z Guo, W Chen, ... Molecular Plant 15 (4), 755-777, 2022 | 103 | 2022 |
| Dynamic genome evolution in a model fern DB Marchant, G Chen, S Cai, F Chen, P Schafran, J Jenkins, S Shu, ... Nature Plants 8 (9), 1038-1051, 2022 | 102 | 2022 |
| Evolution of a CAM anatomy predates the origins of Crassulacean acid metabolism in the Agavoideae (Asparagaceae) K Heyduk, MR McKain, F Lalani, J Leebens-Mack Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 105, 102-113, 2016 | 91 | 2016 |
Jim Leebens-MackProfessor of Plant Biology, University of GeorgiaVerified email at uga.edu
