David C. Plachetzki

Phylogenomics provides a robust topology of the major cnidarian lineages and insights on the origins of key organismal traits

Ehsan Kayal, Bastian Bentlage, M. Sabrina Pankey et al. · BMC Evolutionary Biology · 2018 · 275 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +16

Comparative validation of the <i>D. melanogaster</i> modENCODE transcriptome annotation

Zhen‐Xia Chen, David Sturgill, Jiaxin Qu et al. · Genome Research · 2014 · 191 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Genetics +17

Extracting phylogenetic signal and accounting for bias in whole-genome data sets supports the Ctenophora as sister to remaining Metazoa

Marek L. Borowiec, Ernest K. Lee, Joanna C. Chiu et al. · BMC Genomics · 2015 · 178 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +14

Recruitment of Rod Photoreceptors from Short-Wavelength-Sensitive Cones during the Evolution of Nocturnal Vision in Mammals

Jung-Woong Kim, Hyun‐Jin Yang, A. Phillip Oel et al. · Developmental Cell · 2016 · 141 citations · Full text

Medicine, Evolutionary Biology, Vision Science +16

The Origins of Novel Protein Interactions during Animal Opsin Evolution

David C. Plachetzki, Bernard M. Degnan, Todd H. Oakley · PLoS ONE · 2007 · 126 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Genetics +16