| Cellular differentiation and individuality in the ‘minor’multicellular taxa MD Herron, A Rashidi, DE Shelton, WW Driscoll Biological Reviews 88 (4), 844-861, 2013 | 105 | 2013 |
| Dusky dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obscurus) feeding tactics and multi‐species associations RL Vaughn, DE Shelton, LL Timm, LA Watson, B Würsig New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 41 (4), 391-400, 2007 | 73 | 2007 |
| Dusky dolphins influence prey accessibility for seabirds in Admiralty Bay, New Zealand RL Vaughn, B Würsig, DS Shelton, LL Timm, LA Watson Journal of Mammalogy 89 (4), 1051-1058, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| Group selection and group adaptation during a major evolutionary transition: insights from the evolution of multicellularity in the volvocine algae DE Shelton, RE Michod Biological Theory, 452-469, 2014 | 47 | 2014 |
| Evolutionary transitions in individuality and recent models of multicellularity ER Hanschen, DE Shelton, RE Michod Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life: Principles and mechanisms …, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
| Group and individual selection during evolutionary transitions in individuality: meanings and partitions DE Shelton, RE Michod Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375 (1797), 20190364, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| Are internal, death-promoting mechanisms ever adaptive JW Pepper, DE Shelton, A Rashidi, PM Durand Journal of Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Biology 1 (3), 113, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| Distributions of reproductive and somatic cell numbers in diverse Volvox (Chlorophyta) species DE Shelton, AG Desnitskiy, RE Michod Evolutionary ecology research 14, 707, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| A model for the origin of group reproduction during the evolutionary transition to multicellularity O Maliet, DE Shelton, RE Michod Biology letters 11 (6), 20150157, 2015 | 22 | 2015 |
| Philosophical foundations for the hierarchy of life DE Shelton, RE Michod Biology & Philosophy 25, 391-403, 2010 | 21 | 2010 |
| Generation time and fitness tradeoffs during the evolution of multicellularity MP Leslie, DE Shelton, RE Michod Journal of theoretical biology 430, 92-102, 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| Cells acting as lenses: a possible role for light in the evolution of morphological asymmetry in multicellular volvocine algae JO Kessler, AM Nedelcu, CA Solari, DE Shelton Evolutionary Transitions to Multicellular Life: Principles and Mechanisms …, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| A large-brained social animal HC Pearson, DE Shelton The Dusky Dolphin, 333-353, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
| Levels of selection and the formal Darwinism project DE Shelton, RE Michod Biology & Philosophy 29, 217-224, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
| A Darwinian approach to the origin of life cycles with group properties A Rashidi, DE Shelton, RE Michod Theoretical Population Biology 102, 76-84, 2015 | 6 | 2015 |
| Sexual segregation and genetic relatedness in New Zealand DE Shelton, AD Harlin-Cognato, RL Honeycutt, TM Markowitz The Dusky Dolphin, 195-209, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| Dusky dolphins in New Zealand: group structure by sex and relatedness DE Shelton Texas A&M University, 2007 | 5 | 2007 |
| Models of cell division initiation in Chlamydomonas: A challenge to the consensus view DE Shelton, MP Leslie, RE Michod Journal of Theoretical Biology 412, 186-197, 2017 | 3 | 2017 |
| The shifting role of cell division during an evolutionary transition to multicellular-level individuality D Shelton The University of Arizona., 2013 | 3 | 2013 |
| Group Adaptations: Insights from Consideration of Small, Colonial Volvocine Algae D Shelton Cooperation and Major Evolutionary Transitions, 20, 2013 | | 2013 |
