| On the paradigm of altruistic suicide in the unicellular world AM Nedelcu, WW Driscoll, PM Durand, MD Herron, A Rashidi Evolution 65 (1), 3-20, 2011 | 158 | 2011 |
| The Gonium pectorale genome demonstrates co-option of cell cycle regulation during the evolution of multicellularity ER Hanschen, TN Marriage, PJ Ferris, T Hamaji, A Toyoda, A Fujiyama, ... Nature communications 7 (1), 11370, 2016 | 157 | 2016 |
| How an organism dies affects the fitness of its neighbors PM Durand, A Rashidi, RE Michod The American Naturalist 177 (2), 224-232, 2011 | 86 | 2011 |
| A role for programmed cell death in the microbial loop MV Orellana, WL Pang, PM Durand, K Whitehead, NS Baliga PLoS One 8 (5), e62595, 2013 | 81 | 2013 |
| Programmed cell death and complexity in microbial systems PM Durand, S Sym, RE Michod Current Biology 26 (13), R587-R593, 2016 | 79 | 2016 |
| Organelle genome complexity scales positively with organism size in volvocine green algae DR Smith, T Hamaji, BJSC Olson, PM Durand, P Ferris, RE Michod, ... Molecular biology and evolution 30 (4), 793-797, 2013 | 53 | 2013 |
| Cellular aggregation in Chlamydomonas (Chlorophyceae) is chimaeric and depends on traits like cell size and motility S Sathe, PM Durand European Journal of Phycology 51 (2), 129-138, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| The nature of programmed cell death PM Durand, G Ramsey Biological Theory 14, 30-41, 2019 | 47 | 2019 |
| The 4-Celled Tetrabaena socialis Nuclear Genome Reveals the Essential Components for Genetic Control of Cell Number at the Origin of Multicellularity in the … J Featherston, Y Arakaki, ER Hanschen, PJ Ferris, RE Michod, ... Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 (4), 855-870, 2018 | 47 | 2018 |
| Pyruvate kinase deficiency protects against malaria in humans PM Durand, TL Coetzer Haematologica 93 (6), 939-940, 2008 | 47 | 2008 |
| Programmed death in a unicellular organism has species-specific fitness effects PM Durand, R Choudhury, A Rashidi, RE Michod Biology letters 10 (2), 20131088, 2014 | 44 | 2014 |
| Massive and Widespread Organelle Genomic Expansion in the Green Algal Genus Dunaliella M Del Vasto, F Figueroa-Martinez, J Featherston, MA Gonzalez, ... Genome biology and evolution 7 (3), 656-663, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| On programmed cell death in Plasmodium falciparum: status quo D Engelbrecht, PM Durand, TL Coetzer Journal of tropical medicine 2012, 2012 | 33 | 2012 |
| Genomics in the light of evolutionary transitions PM Durand, RE Michod Evolution 64 (6), 1533-1540, 2010 | 28 | 2010 |
| Hereditary red cell disorders and malaria resistance PM Durand, TL Coetzer Haematologica 93 (7), 961-963, 2008 | 26 | 2008 |
| An analysis of mobile genetic elements in three Plasmodium species and their potential impact on the nucleotide composition of the P. falciparum genome PM Durand, AJ Oelofse, TL Coetzer BMC genomics 7, 1-10, 2006 | 26 | 2006 |
| 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 |
| The evolutionary origins of life and death PM Durand University of Chicago Press, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
| Focus: Death: Cell Death in Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality PM Durand, MM Barreto Filho, RE Michod The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 92 (4), 651, 2019 | 20 | 2019 |
| Inflated organelle genomes and a circular-mapping mtDNA probably existed at the origin of coloniality in volvocine green algae J Featherston, Y Arakaki, H Nozaki, PM Durand, DR Smith European Journal of Phycology 51 (4), 369-377, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
