Leo W. Buss

Leo W. Buss publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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Leo W. Buss D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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Research.com Recognitions

• 1989 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
• 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Best Publications

• The evolution of individuality

  Leo W. Buss

  1973
  Citations

• Population biology and evolution of clonal organisms

  Jeremy Bradford Cook Jackson;Leo W. Buss;Robert E. Cook;Jeffrey W. Ashmun

  1083
  Citations

• The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans

  Mansi Srivastava;Emina Begovic;Emina Begovic;Jarrod Chapman;Nicholas H. Putnam;Nicholas H. Putnam

  966
  Citations

• Somatic cell parasitism and the evolution of somatic tissue compatibility.

  Leo W. Buss

  542
  Citations

• “The arrival of the fittest”: Toward a theory of biological organization

  Walter Fontana;Leo W. Buss

  533
  Citations

• Class-level relationships in the phylum Cnidaria: evidence from mitochondrial genome structure.

  Diane Bridge;Clifford W. Cunningham;Bernd Schierwater;Rob Desalle

  411
  Citations

• Evolution of king crabs from hermit crab ancestors

  C. W. Cunningham;C. W. Cunningham;N. W. Blackstone;L. W. Buss

  342
  Citations

• Class-level relationships in the phylum Cnidaria: molecular and morphological evidence.

  D Bridge;C W Cunningham;R DeSalle;L W Buss

  340
  Citations

• Mitochondrial genome of Trichoplax adhaerens supports Placozoa as the basal lower metazoan phylum

  Stephen L. Dellaporta;Anthony Xu;Sven Sagasser;Wolfgang Jakob

  325
  Citations

• Evolution, development, and the units of selection.

  Leo W. Buss

  315
  Citations

• Molecular evidence for multiple episodes of paedomorphosis in the family Hydractiniidae

  Clifford W. Cunningham;Leo W. Buss

  239
  Citations

• Group Living, Competition, and the Evolution of Cooperation in a Sessile Invertebrate

  Leo W. Buss

  203
  Citations

• Planktonic food availability and suspension-feeder abundance: Evidence of in situ depletion

  Leo W. Buss;Jeremy B.C. Jackson

  197
  Citations

• Competition within and between encrusting clonal invertebrates

  Leo W. Buss

  185
  Citations

• The Barrier of Objects: From Dynamical Systems to Bounded Organizations

  W. Fontana;L.W. Buss

  165
  Citations

• Comparative Genomics of Large Mitochondria in Placozoans

  Ana Y Signorovitch;Leo W Buss;Stephen L Dellaporta

  160
  Citations

• The Phylum Vendobionta: a sister group of the Eumetazoa?

  Leo W. Buss;Adolf Seilacher

  156
  Citations

• Biology of Hydractiniid Hydroids. 2. Histocompatibility Effector System/Competitive Mechanism Mediated by Nematocyst Discharge

  Leo W. Buss;Catherine S. Mcfadden;Douglas R. Keene

  135
  Citations

• A Sibling Species Group of Hydractinia in the North-Eastern United States

  Leo W. Buss;Philip O. Yund

  128
  Citations

• A hypervariable invertebrate allodeterminant.

  Matthew L. Nicotra;Anahid E. Powell;Rafael D. Rosengarten;Maria Moreno

  117
  Citations