| The ITS region of nuclear ribosomal DNA: a valuable source of evidence on angiosperm phylogeny BG Baldwin, MJ Sanderson, JM Porter, MF Wojciechowski, CS Campbell, ... Annals of the Missouri botanical garden, 247-277, 1995 | 2265 | 1995 |
| Estimating absolute rates of molecular evolution and divergence times: a penalized likelihood approach MJ Sanderson Molecular biology and evolution 19 (1), 101-109, 2002 | 1771 | 2002 |
| r8s: inferring absolute rates of molecular evolution and divergence times in the absence of a molecular clock MJ Sanderson Bioinformatics 19 (2), 301-302, 2003 | 1411 | 2003 |
| A nonparametric approach to estimating divergence times in the absence of rate constancy MJ Sanderson | 1179 | 1997 |
| Absolute diversification rates in angiosperm clades S Magallon, MJ Sanderson Evolution 55 (9), 1762-1780, 2001 | 809 | 2001 |
| A phylogeny of legumes (Leguminosae) based on analysis of the plastid matK gene resolves many well‐supported subclades within the family MF Wojciechowski, M Lavin, MJ Sanderson American journal of botany 91 (11), 1846-1862, 2004 | 725 | 2004 |
| Patterns of variation in levels of homoplasy MJ Sanderson, MJ Donoghue Evolution 43 (8), 1781-1795, 1989 | 655 | 1989 |
| Age and rate of diversification of the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Compositae) BG Baldwin, MJ Sanderson Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (16), 9402-9406, 1998 | 637 | 1998 |
| Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa DE Soltis, SA Smith, N Cellinese, KJ Wurdack, DC Tank, SF Brockington, ... American journal of botany 98 (4), 704-730, 2011 | 560 | 2011 |
| Testing for different rates of continuous trait evolution using likelihood BC O'Meara, C Ané, MJ Sanderson, PC Wainwright Evolution 60 (5), 922-933, 2006 | 542 | 2006 |
| Phylogenetic supertrees: assembling the trees of life MJ Sanderson, A Purvis, C Henze Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13 (3), 105-109, 1998 | 433 | 1998 |
| The iPlant collaborative: cyberinfrastructure for plant biology SA Goff, M Vaughn, S McKay, E Lyons, AE Stapleton, D Gessler, ... Frontiers in plant science 2, 34, 2011 | 383 | 2011 |
| Confidence limits on phylogenies: the bootstrap revisited MJ Sanderson1 Cladistics 5 (2), 113-129, 1989 | 352 | 1989 |
| Troubleshooting molecular phylogenetic analyses MJ Sanderson, HB Shaffer Annual review of ecology and Systematics 33 (1), 49-72, 2002 | 324 | 2002 |
| Molecular evidence on plant divergence times MJ Sanderson, JL Thorne, N Wikström, K Bremer American journal of botany 91 (10), 1656-1665, 2004 | 313 | 2004 |
| Sources of error and confidence intervals in estimating the age of angiosperms from rbcL and 18S rDNA data MJ Sanderson, JA Doyle American Journal of Botany 88 (8), 1499-1516, 2001 | 259 | 2001 |
| Prospects for building the tree of life from large sequence databases AC Driskell, C Ané, JG Burleigh, MM McMahon, BC O'Meara, ... Science 306 (5699), 1172-1174, 2004 | 253 | 2004 |
| The suitability of molecular and morphological evidence in reconstructing plant phylogeny MJ Donoghue, MJ Sanderson Molecular systematics of plants, 340-368, 1992 | 245 | 1992 |
| Shifts in diversification rate with the origin of angiosperms MJ Sanderson, MJ Donoghue Science 264 (5165), 1590-1593, 1994 | 234 | 1994 |
| Monophyly of aneuploid Astragalus (Fabaceae): evidence from nuclear ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer sequences MF Wojciechowski, MJ Sanderson, BG Baldwin, MJ Donoghue American Journal of Botany 80 (6), 711-722, 1993 | 234 | 1993 |
