Genetic Identification and Phylogeny of Three Species of the Genus Trachurus Based on Mitochondrial DNA Analysis

DNA sequencing with chain-terminating inhibitors

Frederick Sanger, S. Nicklen, Alan Coulson · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1977 · 69.3K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +10

CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

Julie Thompson, Desmond G. Higgins, Toby J. Gibson · Nucleic Acids Research · 1994 · 64.9K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Sequence Analysis +14

The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.

Naruya Saitou, M Nei · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 1987 · 60.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Bioinformatics, Evolutionary Biology +17

CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

Joseph Felsenstein · Evolution · 1985 · 41.5K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biostatistics, Evolutionary Biology +10

A simple method for estimating evolutionary rates of base substitutions through comparative studies of nucleotide sequences

Journal of Molecular Evolution · 1980 · 29.8K citations

Life Sciences, Biology, Evolutionary Biology +15