| Mathematical model for studying genetic variation in terms of restriction endonucleases. M Nei, WH Li Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 76 (10), 5269-5273, 1979 | 14937 | 1979 |
| Statistical tests of neutrality of mutations. YX Fu, WH Li Genetics 133 (3), 693-709, 1993 | 4469 | 1993 |
| The codon adaptation index-a measure of directional synonymous codon usage bias, and its potential applications PM Sharp, WH Li Nucleic acids research 15 (3), 1281-1295, 1987 | 4268 | 1987 |
| Molecular evolution WH Li Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 1997 | 3577* | 1997 |
| Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution DGWH Li Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2000 | 3231* | 2000 |
| Rates of nucleotide substitution vary greatly among plant mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear DNAs. KH Wolfe, WH Li, PM Sharp Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 84 (24), 9054-9058, 1987 | 2582 | 1987 |
| A new method for estimating synonymous and nonsynonymous rates of nucleotide substitution considering the relative likelihood of nucleotide and codon changes. WH Li, CI Wu, CC Luo Molecular biology and evolution 2 (2), 150-174, 1985 | 1295 | 1985 |
| Comparative analysis of the receptor-like kinase family in Arabidopsis and rice SH Shiu, WM Karlowski, R Pan, YH Tzeng, KFX Mayer, WH Li The plant cell 16 (5), 1220-1234, 2004 | 1216 | 2004 |
| Unbiased estimation of the rates of synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution WH Li Journal of molecular evolution 36, 96-99, 1993 | 1213 | 1993 |
| An evolutionary perspective on synonymous codon usage in unicellular organisms PM Sharp, WH Li Journal of molecular evolution 24, 28-38, 1986 | 1068 | 1986 |
| Evidence for higher rates of nucleotide substitution in rodents than in man. CI Wu, WH Li Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 82 (6), 1741-1745, 1985 | 1061 | 1985 |
| Role of duplicate genes in genetic robustness against null mutations Z Gu, LM Steinmetz, X Gu, C Scharfe, RW Davis, WH Li Nature 421 (6918), 63-66, 2003 | 1036 | 2003 |
| Apolipoprotein B-48 is the product of a messenger RNA with an organ-specific in-frame stop codon SH Chen, G Habib, CY Yang, ZW Gu, BR Lee, SA Weng, SR Silberman, ... Science 238 (4825), 363-366, 1987 | 1000 | 1987 |
| Genomic divergences between humans and other hominoids and the effective population size of the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees FC Chen, WH Li The American Journal of Human Genetics 68 (2), 444-456, 2001 | 929 | 2001 |
| Human polymorphism at microRNAs and microRNA target sites MA Saunders, H Liang, WH Li Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (9), 3300-3305, 2007 | 788 | 2007 |
| Uncovering small RNA-mediated responses to phosphate deficiency in Arabidopsis by deep sequencing LC Hsieh, SI Lin, ACC Shih, JW Chen, WY Lin, CY Tseng, WH Li, ... Plant physiology 151 (4), 2120-2132, 2009 | 783 | 2009 |
| Date of the monocot-dicot divergence estimated from chloroplast DNA sequence data PMSWHL K.H. Wolfe, M. Gouy, Y.-W. Yang Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 86 (16), 6201-6205, 1989 | 729* | 1989 |
| Mutation rates differ among regions of the mammalian genome KH Wolfe, PM Sharp, WH Li Nature 337 (6204), 283-285, 1989 | 722 | 1989 |
| Maximum likelihood estimation of the heterogeneity of substitution rate among nucleotide sites. X Gu, YX Fu, WH Li Molecular Biology and evolution 12 (4), 546-557, 1995 | 716 | 1995 |
| Codon usage in regulatory genes in Escherichia coli does not reflect selection for ‘rare’ codons PM Sharp, WH Li Nucleic acids research 14 (19), 7737-7749, 1986 | 679 | 1986 |