| Epigenetic mechanisms of gene regulation VEA Russo, RA Martienssen, AD Riggs Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 1996 | 1105* | 1996 |
| The origin and early evolution of life: prebiotic chemistry, the pre-RNA world, and time A Lazcano, SL Miller Cell 85 (6), 793-798, 1996 | 379 | 1996 |
| The Miller volcanic spark discharge experiment AP Johnson, HJ Cleaves, JP Dworkin, DP Glavin, A Lazcano, JL Bada Science 322 (5900), 404-404, 2008 | 347 | 2008 |
| Histidine biosynthetic pathway and genes: structure, regulation, and evolution. P Alifano, R Fani, P Liò, A Lazcano, M Bazzicalupo, MS Carlomagno, ... Microbiological reviews 60 (1), 44, 1996 | 325 | 1996 |
| The genomic tree as revealed from whole proteome comparisons F Tekaia, A Lazcano, B Dujon Genome Research 9 (6), 550-557, 1999 | 305 | 1999 |
| Astrophysical and astrochemical insights into the origin of life P Ehrenfreund, W Irvine, L Becker, J Blank, JR Brucato, L Colangeli, ... Reports on progress in physics 65 (10), 1427, 2002 | 291 | 2002 |
| Some like it hot, but not the first biomolecules JL Bada, A Lazcano Science 296 (5575), 1982-1983, 2002 | 247 | 2002 |
| A reassessment of prebiotic organic synthesis in neutral planetary atmospheres HJ Cleaves, JH Chalmers, A Lazcano, SL Miller, JL Bada Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres 38 (2), 105-115, 2008 | 238 | 2008 |
| The origin of life—did it occur at high temperatures? SL Miller, A Lazcano Journal of Molecular Evolution 41 (6), 689-692, 1995 | 214 | 1995 |
| Primordial synthesis of amines and amino acids in a 1958 Miller H2S-rich spark discharge experiment ET Parker, HJ Cleaves, JP Dworkin, DP Glavin, M Callahan, A Aubrey, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (14), 5526-5531, 2011 | 213 | 2011 |
| On the origin of metabolic pathways A Lazcano, SL Miller Journal of Molecular Evolution 49 (4), 424-431, 1999 | 161 | 1999 |
| Prebiotic soup--revisiting the miller experiment JL Bada, A Lazcano Science 300 (5620), 745-746, 2003 | 158 | 2003 |
| How long did it take for life to begin and evolve to cyanobacteria? A Lazcano, SL Miller Journal of Molecular Evolution 39 (6), 546-554, 1994 | 156 | 1994 |
| The origin and early evolution of life on Earth J Oró, SL Miller, A Lazcano Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 18 (1), 317-356, 1990 | 153 | 1990 |
| Molecular evolution of the lysine biosynthetic pathways AM Velasco, JI Leguina, A Lazcano Journal of Molecular Evolution 55 (4), 445-449, 2002 | 145 | 2002 |
| The roads to and from the RNA world JP Dworkin, A Lazcano, SL Miller Journal of Theoretical Biology 222 (1), 127-134, 2003 | 138 | 2003 |
| The evolutionary transition from RNA to DNA in early cells A Lazcano, R Guerrero, L Margulis, J Oro Journal of molecular evolution 27 (4), 283-290, 1988 | 131 | 1988 |
| The 1953 Stanley L. Miller experiment: fifty years of prebiotic organic chemistry A Lazcano, JL Bada Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 33 (3), 235-242, 2003 | 94 | 2003 |
| Charles Darwin and the origin of life J Peretó, JL Bada, A Lazcano Origins of life and evolution of biospheres 39 (5), 395-406, 2009 | 93 | 2009 |
| The very early stages of biological evolution and the nature of the last common ancestor of the three major cell domains A Becerra, L Delaye, S Islas, A Lazcano Annu. Rev. Ecol. Evol. Syst. 38, 361-379, 2007 | 76 | 2007 |
