| Microbiome evolution along divergent branches of the vertebrate tree of life: what is known and unknown TJ Colston, CR Jackson Molecular ecology 25 (16), 3776-3800, 2016 | 493 | 2016 |
| Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences A CERÍACO, L. M. P., GUTIÉRREZ, E. E., DUBOIS Zootaxa 4193 (3), 435-445, 2016 | 142* | 2016 |
| Large‐scale DNA‐based survey of frogs in Amazonia suggests a vast underestimation of species richness and endemism JP Vacher, J Chave, FG Ficetola, G Sommeria‐Klein, S Tao, C Thébaud, ... Journal of Biogeography 47 (8), 1781-1791, 2020 | 140 | 2020 |
| Phylogenetically diverse diets favor more complex venoms in North American pitvipers ML Holding, JL Strickland, RM Rautsaw, EP Hofmann, AJ Mason, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (17), e2015579118, 2021 | 98 | 2021 |
| Phylogenetic analysis of bacterial communities in different regions of the gastrointestinal tract of Agkistrodon piscivorus, the cottonmouth snake TJ Colston, BP Noonan, CR Jackson PLoS One 10 (6), e0128793, 2015 | 92 | 2015 |
| Snake diets and the deep history hypothesis TJ Colston, GC Costa, LJ Vitt Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 101 (2), 476-486, 2010 | 87 | 2010 |
| Phylogenetic and spatial distribution of evolutionary diversification, isolation, and threat in turtles and crocodilians (non-avian archosauromorphs) TJ Colston, P Kulkarni, W Jetz, RA Pyron BMC Evolutionary Biology 20 (1), 81, 2020 | 81 | 2020 |
| The Tiger Rattlesnake genome reveals a complex genotype underlying a simple venom phenotype MJ Margres, RM Rautsaw, JL Strickland, AJ Mason, TD Schramer, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (4), e2014634118, 2021 | 80 | 2021 |
| Sexual dichromatism drives diversification within a major radiation of African amphibians DM Portik, RC Bell, DC Blackburn, AM Bauer, CD Barratt, WR Branch, ... Systematic Biology 68 (6), 859-875, 2019 | 79 | 2019 |
| The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes PO Title, S Singhal, MC Grundler, GC Costa, RA Pyron, TJ Colston, ... Science 383 (6685), 918-923, 2024 | 69 | 2024 |
| Systematics of South American snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Ecuador and Peru A Arteaga, D Salazar-Valenzuela, K Mebert, N Peñafiel, G Aguiar, ... ZooKeys, 79, 2018 | 63 | 2018 |
| Congruence and conflict in the higher-level phylogenetics of squamate reptiles: an expanded phylogenomic perspective S Singhal, TJ Colston, MR Grundler, SA Smith, GC Costa, GR Colli, ... Systematic Biology 70 (3), 542-557, 2021 | 62 | 2021 |
| Molecular phylogeny of Panaspis and Afroablepharus skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa MF Medina, AM Bauer, WR Branch, A Schmitz, W Conradie, ZT Nagy, ... Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100, 409-423, 2016 | 60 | 2016 |
| Molecular systematics and historical biogeography of tree boas (Corallus spp.) TJ Colston, FG Grazziotin, DB Shepard, LJ Vitt, GR Colli, RW Henderson, ... Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66 (3), 953-959, 2013 | 56 | 2013 |
| Gut microbiome transmission in lizards TJ Colston Molecular ecology 26 (4), 972-974, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Amphibians and reptiles of the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, México, with new records TJ Colston, JAL Barão-Nóbrega, R Manders, A Lett, J Wilmott, G Cameron, ... Check List 11 (5), http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/11.5.1759, 2015 | 48* | 2015 |
| On the congruence of morphology, trophic ecology, and phylogeny in Neotropical treeboas (Squamata: Boidae: Corallus) RW Henderson, MJ Pauers, TJ Colston Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 109 (2), 466-475, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| The emerging field of venom-microbiomics for exploring venom as a microenvironment, and the corresponding Initiative for Venom Associated Microbes and Parasites (iVAMP) S Ul-Hasan, E Rodríguez-Román, AM Reitzel, RMM Adams, V Herzig, ... Toxicon: X 4, 100016, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Venomous snakes reveal ecological and phylogenetic factors influencing variation in gut and oral microbiomes SN Smith, TJ Colston, CD Siler Frontiers in microbiology 12, 657754, 2021 | 36 | 2021 |
| A species-level phylogeny of Trachylepis (Scincidae: Mabuyinae) provides insight into their reproductive mode evolution JL Weinell, WR Branch, TJ Colston, TR Jackman, A Kuhn, W Conradie, ... Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 136, 183-195, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
R. Alexander PyronThe George Washington UniversityVerified email at gwu.edu
