| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Generation of large numbers of dendritic cells from mouse bone marrow cultures supplemented with granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor. | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1992 | 3,473 |
| 2 | The Draft Genome of Ciona intestinalis : Insights into Chordate and Vertebrate Origins | Science | 2002 | 1,539 |
| 3 | The amphioxus genome and the evolution of the chordate karyotype | Nature | 2008 | 1,496 |
| 4 | Guidelines and definitions for research on epithelial–mesenchymal transition | Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology | 2020 | 1,195 |
| 5 | Efficient Presentation of Phagocytosed Cellular Fragments on the Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II Products of Dendritic Cells | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1998 | 583 |
| 6 | The CD8+ Dendritic Cell Subset Selectively Endocytoses Dying Cells in Culture and In Vivo | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 2002 | 581 |
| 7 | The tissue distribution of the B7-2 costimulator in mice: abundant expression on dendritic cells in situ and during maturation in vitro. | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1994 | 568 |
| 8 | Cell lineage analysis in ascidian embryos by intracellular injection of a tracer enzyme | Developmental Biology | 1987 | 537 |
| 9 | Dendritic cells in the T-cell areas of lymphoid organs | Immunological Reviews | 1997 | 533 |
| 10 | Identification of proliferating dendritic cell precursors in mouse blood. | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1992 | 449 |
| 11 | Dendritic cell progenitors phagocytose particulates, including bacillus Calmette-Guerin organisms, and sensitize mice to mycobacterial antigens in vivo. | Journal of Experimental Medicine | 1993 | 443 |
| 12 | Details of the evolutionary history from invertebrates to vertebrates, as deduced from the sequences of 18S rDNA. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1994 | 434 |
| 13 | Dendritic Cell Function in Vivo during the Steady State: A Role in Peripheral Tolerance | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | 2003 | 426 |
| 14 | Granulocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells arise from a common major histocompatibility complex class II-negative progenitor in mouse bone marrow. | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1993 | 386 |
| 15 | Gene expression profiles of transcription factors and signaling molecules in the ascidian embryo: towards a comprehensive understanding of gene networks | Development (Cambridge) | 2004 | 371 |
| 16 | Regulatory Blueprint for a Chordate Embryo | Science | 2006 | 368 |
| 17 | Demography, female life history, and reproductive profiles among the chimpanzees of Mahale | American Journal of Primatology | 2003 | 319 |
| 18 | Genomic analysis of immunity in a Urochordate and the emergence of the vertebrate immune system: “waiting for Godot” | Immunogenetics | 2003 | 278 |
| 19 | Axial patterning in cephalochordates and the evolution of the organizer | Nature | 2007 | 242 |
| 20 | A cDNA resource from the basal chordateCiona intestinalis | Genesis | 2002 | 233 |
| 21 | Destruction of fisheries in Africa's lakes | Nature | 1985 | 210 |
| 22 | The ascidian tadpole larva: comparative molecular development and genomics | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2003 | 210 |
| 23 | Contrasting Effects of TGF‐β1 and TNF‐α on the Development of Dendritic Cells from Progenitors in Mouse Bone Marrow | Stem Cells | 1997 | 205 |
| 24 | β-catenin mediates the specification of endoderm cells in ascidian embryos | Development (Cambridge) | 2000 | 203 |
| 25 | Function of vertebrate T gene | Nature | 1993 | 198 |
| 26 | Improved genome assembly and evidence-based global gene model set for the chordate Ciona intestinalis: new insight into intron and operon populations | Genome Biology | 2008 | 192 |
| 27 | Ciona intestinalis: an emerging model for whole-genome analyses | Trends in Genetics | 2003 | 187 |
| 28 | Cell lineage analysis in ascidian embryos by intracellular injection of a tracer enzyme | Developmental Biology | 1983 | 186 |
| 29 | A new technique for monitoring the behaviour of free-ranging Adelie penguins | Journal of Experimental Biology | 2001 | 186 |
| 30 | Brachyury downstream notochord differentiation in the ascidian embryo | Genes and Development | 1999 | 181 |
| 31 | Tissue Distribution of the DEC-205 Protein That Is Detected by the Monoclonal Antibody NLDC-145 | Cellular Immunology | 1995 | 179 |
| 32 | Incongruence of Mitochondrial and Nuclear Gene Trees in the Carabid Beetles Ohomopterus | Systematic Biology | 2001 | 179 |
| 33 | Identification and expression of the lampreyPax6gene: evolutionary origin of the segmented brain of vertebrates | Development (Cambridge) | 2001 | 176 |
| 34 | An Integrated Database of the Ascidian, Ciona intestinalis: Towards Functional Genomics | Zoological Science | 2005 | 173 |
| 35 | Myeloid dendritic cells | Journal of Leukocyte Biology | 1999 | 171 |
| 36 | Gene expression profiles inCiona intestinalistailbud embryos | Development (Cambridge) | 2001 | 159 |
| 37 | An Ascidian Homolog of the Mouse Brachyury (T) Gene is Expressed Exclusively in Notochord Cells at the Fate Restricted Stage. (Ascidians/T (Brachyury) gene/sequence conservation/notochord cells/transient expression) | Development Growth and Differentiation | 1994 | 152 |
| 38 | A novel cold-tolerant insect found in a Himalayan glacier | Nature | 1984 | 150 |
| 39 | Chasing tails in ascidians: developmental insights into the origin and evolution of chordates | Trends in Genetics | 1995 | 150 |
| 40 | Efficient genetic modification and germ-line transmission of primordial germ cells using piggyBac and Tol2 transposons | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 150 |
| 41 | Imbalance of Predator and Prey Armament: Geographic Clines in Phenotypic Interface and Natural Selection | American Naturalist | 2006 | 149 |
| 42 | Free calcium wave upon activation in Xenopus eggs | Developmental Biology | 1987 | 145 |
| 43 | Mechanism of Self-Sterility in a Hermaphroditic Chordate | Science | 2008 | 144 |
| 44 | Gene regulatory networks underlying the compartmentalization of theCionacentral nervous system | Development (Cambridge) | 2009 | 144 |
| 45 | The evolutionary origin of animal cellulose synthase | Development Genes and Evolution | 2004 | 142 |
| 46 | Characterization of Brachyury-Downstream Notochord Genes in the Ciona intestinalis Embryo | Developmental Biology | 2000 | 140 |
| 47 | Predation by killer whales (Orcinus orca) and the evolution of whistle loss and narrow‐band high frequency clicks in odontocetes | Journal of Evolutionary Biology | 2007 | 140 |
| 48 | Accommodating Heterogenous Rates of Evolution in Molecular Divergence Dating Methods: An Example Using Intercontinental Dispersal of Plestiodon (Eumeces) Lizards | Systematic Biology | 2011 | 139 |
| 49 | A genomewide survey of developmentally relevant genes in Ciona intestinalis | Development Genes and Evolution | 2003 | 138 |
| 50 | Action of morpholinos inCiona embryos | Genesis | 2001 | 136 |
