| The dynamics of molecular evolution over 60,000 generations BH Good, MJ McDonald, JE Barrick, RE Lenski, MM Desai Nature 551 (7678), 45-50, 2017 | 287 | 2017 |
| Sex speeds adaptation by altering the dynamics of molecular evolution MJ McDonald, DP Rice, MM Desai Nature 531 (7593), 233-236, 2016 | 212 | 2016 |
| Adaptive divergence in experimental populations of Pseudomonas fluorescens. IV. Genetic constraints guide evolutionary trajectories in a parallel adaptive radiation MJ McDonald, SM Gehrig, PL Meintjes, XX Zhang, PB Rainey Genetics 183 (3), 1041-1053, 2009 | 126 | 2009 |
| Clusters of nucleotide substitutions and insertion/deletion mutations are associated with repeat sequences MJ McDonald, WC Wang, HD Huang, JY Leu PLoS Biol 9 (6), e1000622, 2011 | 84 | 2011 |
| The evolution of low mutation rates in experimental mutator populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae MJ McDonald, YY Hsieh, YH Yu, SL Chang, JY Leu Current Biology 22 (13), 1235-1240, 2012 | 51 | 2012 |
| The distribution of fitness effects of new beneficial mutations in Pseudomonas fluorescens MJ McDonald, TF Cooper, HJE Beaumont, PB Rainey Biology letters 7 (1), 98-100, 2011 | 44 | 2011 |
| Adaptive evolution of genomically recoded Escherichia coli TM Wannier, AM Kunjapur, DP Rice, MJ McDonald, MM Desai, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (12), 3090-3095, 2018 | 42 | 2018 |
| Crowded growth leads to the spontaneous evolution of semistable coexistence in laboratory yeast populations EM Frenkel, MJ McDonald, JD Van Dyken, K Kosheleva, GI Lang, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (36), 11306-11311, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| Diverse hydrogen production and consumption pathways influence methane production in ruminants C Greening, R Geier, C Wang, LC Woods, SE Morales, MJ McDonald, ... The ISME journal 13 (10), 2617-2632, 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| Fitness cost of mcr-1-mediated polymyxin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae SC Nang, FC Morris, MJ McDonald, ML Han, J Wang, RA Strugnell, ... Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 73 (6), 1604-1610, 2018 | 22 | 2018 |
| Coevolution with bacteria drives the evolution of aerobic fermentation in Lachancea kluyveri N Zhou, KBS Swamy, JY Leu, MJ McDonald, S Galafassi, C Compagno, ... PloS one 12 (3), e0173318, 2017 | 20 | 2017 |
| The evolutionary dynamics of tRNA-gene copy number and codon-use in E. coli. MJ McDonald, CH Chou, KBS Swamy, HD Huang, JY Leu BMC evolutionary biology 15 (1), 163, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| Microbial Experimental Evolution–a proving ground for evolutionary theory and a tool for discovery MJ McDonald EMBO reports 20 (8), e46992, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Bismuth phosphinate incorporated nanocellulose sheets with antimicrobial and barrier properties for packaging applications M Maliha, M Herdman, R Brammananth, M McDonald, R Coppel, ... Journal of Cleaner Production 246, 119016, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Sex alters molecular evolution in diploid experimental populations of S. cerevisiae JY Leu, SL Chang, JC Chao, LC Woods, MJ McDonald Nature Ecology & Evolution 4 (3), 453-460, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| Beneficial mutations from evolution experiments increase rates of growth and fermentation AL Sezmis, ME Malerba, DJ Marshall, MJ McDonald Journal of Molecular Evolution 86 (2), 111-117, 2018 | 3 | 2018 |
| Mutation at a distance caused by homopolymeric guanine repeats in Saccharomyces cerevisiae MJ McDonald, YH Yu, JF Guo, SY Chong, CF Kao, JY Leu Science advances 2 (5), e1501033, 2016 | 2 | 2016 |
| The genetics of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25: adaptation to a spatially structured environment: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of … MJ McDonald Massey University, 2009 | 2 | 2009 |
| Horizontal gene transfer potentiates adaptation by reducing selective constraints on the spread of genetic variation LC Woods, RJ Gorrell, F Taylor, T Connallon, T Kwok, MJ McDonald Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (43), 26868-26875, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| The evolution of coexistence from competition in experimental co-cultures of Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae JN Barber, AL Sezmis, LC Woods, TD Anderson, JM Voss, MJ McDonald The ISME Journal, 1-16, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
Michael DesaiProfessor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Physics, Harvard UniversityVerified email at oeb.harvard.edu
