| Uniparental inheritance of mitochondrial and chloroplast genes: mechanisms and evolution. CW Birky Jr Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 92 (25), 11331-11338, 1995 | 1131 | 1995 |
| The inheritance of genes in mitochondria and chloroplasts: laws, mechanisms, and models CW Birky Jr Annual review of genetics 35 (1), 125-148, 2001 | 997 | 2001 |
| Organelle gene diversity under migration, mutation, and drift: equilibrium expectations, approach to equilibrium, effects of heteroplasmic cells, and comparison to nuclear genes. CW Birky Jr, P Fuerst, T Maruyama Genetics 121 (3), 613-627, 1989 | 879 | 1989 |
| An approach to population and evolutionary genetic theory for genes in mitochondria and chloroplasts, and some results CW Birky Jr, T Maruyama, P Fuerst Genetics 103 (3), 513-527, 1983 | 871 | 1983 |
| Heterozygosity, heteromorphy, and phylogenetic trees in asexual eukaryotes CW Birky Jr Genetics 144 (1), 427-437, 1996 | 339 | 1996 |
| Effects of linkage on rates of molecular evolution. CW Birky Jr, JB Walsh Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 85 (17), 6414-6418, 1988 | 326 | 1988 |
| Transmission genetics of mitochondria and chloroplasts CW Birky Jr Annual review of genetics 12 (1), 471-512, 1978 | 290 | 1978 |
| Relaxed cellular controls and organelle heredity CW Birky Jr Science 222 (4623), 468-475, 1983 | 268 | 1983 |
| Diversification in sexual and asexual organisms TG Barraclough, CW Birky Jr, A Burt Evolution 57 (9), 2166-2172, 2003 | 234 | 2003 |
| Parthenogenesis in rotifers: the control of sexual and asexual reproduction CW Birky Jr, JJ Gilbert American Zoologist 11 (2), 245-266, 1971 | 165 | 1971 |
| Speciation and selection without sex CW Birky Jr, C Wolf, H Maughan, L Herbertson, E Henry Hydrobiologia 546 (1), 29-45, 2005 | 160 | 2005 |
| Relaxed and stringent genomes: why cytoplasmic genes don't obey Mendel's laws CW Birky Jr Journal of Heredity 85 (5), 355-365, 1994 | 159 | 1994 |
| The partitioning of cytoplasmic organelles at cell division. CW Birky Jr International review of cytology. Supplement 15, 49-89, 1983 | 156 | 1983 |
| Using population genetic theory and DNA sequences for species detection and identification in asexual organisms CW Birky Jr, J Adams, M Gemmel, J Perry PLoS one 5 (5), e10609, 2010 | 155 | 2010 |
| The Two Nuclei of Giardia Each Have Complete Copies of the Genome and Are Partitioned Equationally at Cytokinesis LZ Yu, CW Birky Jr, RD Adam Eukaryotic Cell 1 (2), 191-199, 2002 | 146 | 2002 |
| Evolution and variation in plant chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes CW Birky Jr Plant evolutionary biology, 23-53, 1988 | 146 | 1988 |
| Chloroplast DNA diversity is low in a wild plant, Lupinus texensis. JA Banks, CW Birky Jr Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 82 (20), 6950-6954, 1985 | 130 | 1985 |
| Evolution and population genetics of organelle genes: Mechanism and models. CW Birky Jr Evolution at the molecular level, 112-134, 1991 | 101 | 1991 |
| Asexual speciation C William Birky Jr, TG Barraclough Lost sex: The evolutionary biology of parthenogenesis, 201-216, 2009 | 99 | 2009 |
| The Roles of Mutation Accumulation and Selection in Loss of Sporulation in Experimental Populations of Bacillus subtilis H Maughan, J Masel, CW Birky Jr, WL Nicholson Genetics 177 (2), 937-948, 2007 | 98 | 2007 |
