| Genome sequence of the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum International Aphid Genomics Consortium PLoS biology 8 (2), e1000313, 2010 | 688 | 2010 |
| Facultative symbionts in aphids and the horizontal transfer of ecologically important traits KM Oliver, PH Degnan, GR Burke, NA Moran Annual review of entomology 55, 247-266, 2010 | 618 | 2010 |
| Immunoglobulin A coating identifies colitogenic bacteria in inflammatory bowel disease NW Palm, MR De Zoete, TW Cullen, NA Barry, J Stefanowski, L Hao, ... Cell 158 (5), 1000-1010, 2014 | 493 | 2014 |
| Bacteriophages encode factors required for protection in a symbiotic mutualism KM Oliver, PH Degnan, MS Hunter, NA Moran Science 325 (5943), 992-994, 2009 | 365 | 2009 |
| The players in a mutualistic symbiosis: insects, bacteria, viruses, and virulence genes NA Moran, PH Degnan, SR Santos, HE Dunbar, H Ochman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (47), 16919-16926, 2005 | 318 | 2005 |
| Illumina-based analysis of microbial community diversity PH Degnan, H Ochman The ISME journal 6 (1), 183, 2012 | 301 | 2012 |
| Hamiltonella defensa, genome evolution of protective bacterial endosymbiont from pathogenic ancestors PH Degnan, Y Yu, N Sisneros, RA Wing, NA Moran Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (22), 9063-9068, 2009 | 212 | 2009 |
| Antimicrobial peptide resistance mediates resilience of prominent gut commensals during inflammation TW Cullen, WB Schofield, NA Barry, EE Putnam, EA Rundell, MS Trent, ... Science 347 (6218), 170-175, 2015 | 211 | 2015 |
| Diverse phage-encoded toxins in a protective insect endosymbiont PH Degnan, NA Moran Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 74 (21), 6782-6791, 2008 | 167 | 2008 |
| Genome sequence of Blochmannia pennsylvanicus indicates parallel evolutionary trends among bacterial mutualists of insects PH Degnan, AB Lazarus, JJ Wernegreen Genome research 15 (8), 1023-1033, 2005 | 167 | 2005 |
| Host–symbiont stability and fast evolutionary rates in an ant–bacterium association: cospeciation of Camponotus species and their endosymbionts, Candidatus blochmannia PH Degnan, AB Lazarus, CD Brock, JJ Wernegreen Systematic biology 53 (1), 95-110, 2004 | 138 | 2004 |
| Evolutionary genetics of a defensive facultative symbiont of insects: exchange of toxin‐encoding bacteriophage PH Degnan, NA Moran Molecular Ecology 17 (3), 916-929, 2008 | 127 | 2008 |
| Factors associated with the diversification of the gut microbial communities within chimpanzees from Gombe National Park PH Degnan, AE Pusey, EV Lonsdorf, J Goodall, EE Wroblewski, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (32), 13034-13039, 2012 | 125 | 2012 |
| Vitamin B12 as a modulator of gut microbial ecology PH Degnan, ME Taga, AL Goodman Cell metabolism 20 (5), 769-778, 2014 | 124 | 2014 |
| Human gut microbes use multiple transporters to distinguish vitamin B12 analogs and compete in the gut PH Degnan, NA Barry, KC Mok, ME Taga, AL Goodman Cell host & microbe 15 (1), 47-57, 2014 | 107 | 2014 |
| Chimpanzees and humans harbour compositionally similar gut enterotypes AH Moeller, PH Degnan, AE Pusey, ML Wilson, BH Hahn, H Ochman Nature communications 3, 1179, 2012 | 92 | 2012 |
| Functional genomics of Buchnera and the ecology of aphid hosts NA Moran, PH Degnan Molecular Ecology 15 (5), 1251-1261, 2006 | 80 | 2006 |
| Dynamics of genome evolution in facultative symbionts of aphids PH Degnan, TE Leonardo, BN Cass, B Hurwitz, D Stern, RA Gibbs, ... Environmental microbiology 12 (8), 2060-2069, 2010 | 79 | 2010 |
| Nonhomogeneous model of sequence evolution indicates independent origins of primary endosymbionts within the Enterobacteriales (γ-Proteobacteria) JT Herbeck, PH Degnan, JJ Wernegreen Molecular biology and evolution 22 (3), 520-532, 2004 | 75 | 2004 |
| A conservative test of genetic drift in the endosymbiotic bacterium Buchnera: slightly deleterious mutations in the chaperonin groEL JT Herbeck, DJ Funk, PH Degnan, JJ Wernegreen Genetics 165 (4), 1651-1660, 2003 | 56 | 2003 |