| Complete Genome Sequence and Comparative Genomics of Shigella flexneri Serotype 2a Strain 2457T J Wei, MB Goldberg, V Burland, MM Venkatesan, W Deng, G Fournier, ... Infection and immunity 71 (5), 2775-2786, 2003 | 527 | 2003 |
| On the chimeric nature, thermophilic origin, and phylogenetic placement of the Thermotogales O Zhaxybayeva, KS Swithers, P Lapierre, GP Fournier, DM Bickhart, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (14), 5865-5870, 2009 | 256 | 2009 |
| Methanogenic burst in the end-Permian carbon cycle DH Rothman, GP Fournier, KL French, EJ Alm, EA Boyle, C Cao, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (15), 5462-5467, 2014 | 199 | 2014 |
| Evolution of Acetoclastic Methanogenesis in Methanosarcina via Horizontal Gene Transfer from Cellulolytic Clostridia GP Fournier, JP Gogarten Journal of bacteriology 190 (3), 1124-1127, 2008 | 167 | 2008 |
| Horizontal gene transfer constrains the timing of methanogen evolution JM Wolfe, GP Fournier Nature ecology & evolution 2 (5), 897-903, 2018 | 161 | 2018 |
| The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages GP Fournier, KR Moore, LT Rangel, JG Payette, L Momper, T Bosak Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288 (1959), 20210675, 2021 | 147 | 2021 |
| Light-driven anaerobic microbial oxidation of manganese M Daye, V Klepac-Ceraj, M Pajusalu, S Rowland, A Farrell-Sherman, ... Nature 576 (7786), 311-314, 2019 | 144 | 2019 |
| Multilevel populations and the evolution of antibiotic resistance through horizontal gene transfer CP Andam, GP Fournier, JP Gogarten FEMS microbiology reviews 35 (5), 756-767, 2011 | 144 | 2011 |
| Paleoproterozoic sterol biosynthesis and the rise of oxygen DA Gold, A Caron, GP Fournier, RE Summons Nature 543 (7645), 420-423, 2017 | 128 | 2017 |
| Dating phototrophic microbial lineages with reticulate gene histories C Magnabosco, KR Moore, JM Wolfe, GP Fournier Geobiology 16 (2), 179-189, 2018 | 96 | 2018 |
| Horizontal gene transfer from extinct and extant lineages: biological innovation and the coral of life GP Fournier, J Huang, JP Gogarten Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364 …, 2009 | 92 | 2009 |
| Co‐evolution of early Earth environments and microbial life TW Lyons, CJ Tino, GP Fournier, RE Anderson, WD Leavitt, ... Nature reviews microbiology 22 (9), 572-586, 2024 | 91 | 2024 |
| Rooting the ribosomal tree of life GP Fournier, JP Gogarten Molecular biology and evolution 27 (8), 1792-1801, 2010 | 87 | 2010 |
| An expanded ribosomal phylogeny of cyanobacteria supports a deep placement of plastids KR Moore, C Magnabosco, L Momper, DA Gold, T Bosak, GP Fournier Frontiers in Microbiology 10, 1612, 2019 | 84 | 2019 |
| Molecular evolution of aminoacyl tRNA synthetase proteins in the early history of life GP Fournier, CP Andam, EJ Alm, JP Gogarten Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 41 (6), 621-632, 2011 | 84 | 2011 |
| Ancient horizontal gene transfer and the last common ancestors GP Fournier, CP Andam, JP Gogarten BMC evolutionary biology 15 (1), 70, 2015 | 80 | 2015 |
| Ancestral reconstruction of a pre-LUCA aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase ancestor supports the late addition of Trp to the genetic code GP Fournier, EJ Alm Journal of molecular evolution 80 (3), 171-185, 2015 | 72 | 2015 |
| Conservation of intron and intein insertion sites: implications for life histories of parasitic genetic elements KS Swithers, AG Senejani, GP Fournier, JP Gogarten BMC evolutionary biology 9 (1), 303, 2009 | 72 | 2009 |
| Environmental adaptation from the origin of life to the last universal common ancestor MD Cantine, GP Fournier Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 48 (1), 35-54, 2018 | 59 | 2018 |
| A rooted net of life D Williams, GP Fournier, P Lapierre, KS Swithers, AG Green, CP Andam, ... Biology direct 6 (1), 45, 2011 | 56 | 2011 |