| The population genetics of ecological specialization in evolving Escherichia coli populations VS Cooper, RE Lenski Nature 407 (6805), 736-739, 2000 | 540 | 2000 |
| Punctuated evolution caused by selection of rare beneficial mutations SF Elena, VS Cooper, RE Lenski Science 272 (5269), 1802-1804, 1996 | 371 | 1996 |
| Mechanisms causing rapid and parallel losses of ribose catabolism in evolving populations of Escherichia coli B VS Cooper, D Schneider, M Blot, RE Lenski Journal of Bacteriology 183 (9), 2834-2841, 2001 | 293 | 2001 |
| Tradeoff between horizontal and vertical modes of transmission in bacterial plasmids PE Turner, VS Cooper, RE Lenski Evolution 52 (2), 315-329, 1998 | 185 | 1998 |
| EVOLUTION OF THERMAL DEPENDENCE OF GROWTH RATE OF ESCHERICHIA COLI POPULATIONS DURING 20,000 GENERATIONS IN A CONSTANT … VS Cooper, AF Bennett, RE Lenski Evolution 55 (5), 889-896, 2001 | 171 | 2001 |
| Ceftolozane-tazobactam for the treatment of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections: clinical effectiveness and evolution of resistance G Haidar, NJ Philips, RK Shields, D Snyder, S Cheng, BA Potoski, B Hao, ... Clinical Infectious Diseases 65 (1), 110-120, 2017 | 150 | 2017 |
| Tangled bank of experimentally evolved Burkholderia biofilms reflects selection during chronic infections CC Traverse, LM Mayo-Smith, SR Poltak, VS Cooper Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (3), E250-E259, 2013 | 141 | 2013 |
| Ecological succession in long-term experimentally evolved biofilms produces synergistic communities SR Poltak, VS Cooper The ISME journal 5 (3), 369-378, 2011 | 130 | 2011 |
| Why genes evolve faster on secondary chromosomes in bacteria VS Cooper, SH Vohr, SC Wrocklage, PJ Hatcher PLoS Comput Biol 6 (4), e1000732, 2010 | 113 | 2010 |
| Rapid phenotypic change and diversification of a soil bacterium during 1000 generations of experimental evolution MS Riley, VS Cooper, RE Lenski, LJ Forney, TL Marsh Microbiology 147 (4), 995-1006, 2001 | 85 | 2001 |
| The environment affects epistatic interactions to alter the topology of an empirical fitness landscape KM Flynn, TF Cooper, FBG Moore, VS Cooper PLoS Genet 9 (4), e1003426, 2013 | 71 | 2013 |
| The Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in the GC-Rich Multichromosome Genome of Burkholderia cenocepacia MM Dillon, W Sung, M Lynch, VS Cooper Genetics 200 (3), 935-946, 2015 | 61 | 2015 |
| Timing of transmission and the evolution of virulence of an insect virus VS Cooper, MH Reiskind, JA Miller, KA Shelton, BA Walther, JS Elkinton, ... Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2002 | 57 | 2002 |
| Long-term evolution of Burkholderia multivorans during a chronic cystic fibrosis infection reveals shifting forces of selection IN Silva, PM Santos, MR Santos, JEA Zlosnik, DP Speert, SW Buskirk, ... Msystems 1 (3), 2016 | 54* | 2016 |
| Evolution of the insertion-deletion mutation rate across the tree of life W Sung, MS Ackerman, MM Dillon, TG Platt, C Fuqua, VS Cooper, ... G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics 6 (8), 2583-2591, 2016 | 53 | 2016 |
| Genome-wide analysis of influenza viral RNA and nucleoprotein association N Lee, V Le Sage, AV Nanni, DJ Snyder, VS Cooper, SS Lakdawala Nucleic acids research 45 (15), 8968-8977, 2017 | 51 | 2017 |
| Genome-Wide Biases in the Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio fischeri MM Dillon, W Sung, R Sebra, M Lynch, VS Cooper Molecular biology and evolution 34 (1), 93-109, 2017 | 47 | 2017 |
| Laboratory evolution of microbial interactions in bacterial biofilms M Martin, T Hölscher, A Dragoš, VS Cooper, ÁT Kovács Journal of bacteriology 198 (19), 2564-2571, 2016 | 45 | 2016 |
| RelA mutant Enterococcus faecium with multiantibiotic tolerance arising in an immunocompromised host ES Honsa, VS Cooper, MN Mhaissen, M Frank, J Shaker, A Iverson, ... MBio 8 (1), 2017 | 44 | 2017 |
| Phylogenomic study of Burkholderia glathei-like organisms, proposal of 13 novel Burkholderia species and emended descriptions of Burkholderia sordidicola, Burkholderia … C Peeters, JP Meier-Kolthoff, B Verheyde, E De Brandt, VS Cooper, ... Frontiers in microbiology 7, 877, 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
Richard LenskiMicrobiology Evolution Ecology BEACON, Michigan State UniversityVerified email at msu.edu
