| Experimental evolution of an alternating uni- and multicellular life cycle in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii WC Ratcliff, MD Herron, K Howell, JT Pentz, F Rosenzweig, M Travisano Nature communications 4 (1), 2742, 2013 | 191 | 2013 |
| Killing by Type VI secretion drives genetic phase separation and correlates with increased cooperation L McNally, E Bernardy, J Thomas, A Kalziqi, J Pentz, SP Brown, ... Nature communications 8 (1), 14371, 2017 | 145 | 2017 |
| TEMPO AND MODE OF MULTICELLULAR ADAPTATION IN EXPERIMENTALLY EVOLVED SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE WC Ratcliff, JT Pentz, M Travisano Evolution 67 (6), 1573-1581, 2013 | 52 | 2013 |
| Cellular packing, mechanical stress and the evolution of multicellularity S Jacobeen, JT Pentz, EC Graba, CG Brandys, WC Ratcliff, PJ Yunker Nature physics 14 (3), 286-290, 2018 | 45 | 2018 |
| Ecological advantages and evolutionary limitations of aggregative multicellular development JT Pentz, P Márquez-Zacarías, GO Bozdag, A Burnetti, PJ Yunker, E Libby, ... Current Biology 30 (21), 4155-4164. e6, 2020 | 37 | 2020 |
| Why have aggregative multicellular organisms stayed simple? P Márquez-Zacarías, PL Conlin, K Tong, JT Pentz, WC Ratcliff Current Genetics 67 (6), 871-876, 2021 | 23 | 2021 |
| Cellular organization in lab-evolved and extant multicellular species obeys a maximum entropy law TC Day, SS Höhn, SA Zamani-Dahaj, D Yanni, A Burnetti, J Pentz, ... Elife 11, e72707, 2022 | 18 | 2022 |
| Killing by type VI secretion drives genetic phase separation and correlates with increased cooperation. Nat Commun 8: 14371 L McNally, E Bernardy, J Thomas, A Kalziqi, J Pentz, SP Brown, ... | 14 | 2017 |
| Predator escape: an ecologically realistic scenario for the evolutionary origins of multicellularity JT Pentz, T Limberg, N Beermann, WC Ratcliff Evolution: Education and Outreach 8 (1), 1-8, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| Apoptosis in snowflake yeast: novel trait, or side effect of toxic waste? JT Pentz, BP Taylor, WC Ratcliff Journal of The Royal Society Interface 13 (118), 20160121, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| Forecasting of phenotypic and genetic outcomes of experimental evolution in Pseudomonas protegens JT Pentz, PA Lind PLoS Genetics 17 (8), e1009722, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Clonal development is evolutionarily superior to aggregation in wild-collected Saccharomyces cerevisiae J Pentz, M Travisano, W Ratcliff Artificial Life Conference Proceedings, 550-554, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
| Copper oxide nanoparticles promote the evolution of multicellularity in yeast J Tan, Q He, JT Pentz, C Peng, X Yang, MH Tsai, Y Chen, WC Ratcliff, ... Nanotoxicology 13 (5), 597-605, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Evolutionary consequences of nascent multicellular life cycles JT Pentz, K MacGillivray, JG DuBose, PL Conlin, E Reinhardt, E Libby, ... Elife 12, e84336, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
| Clonal development, not aggregation, drives the transition to multicellularity in an isogenic model system JT Pentz, K MacGillivray, JG DuBose, PL Conlin, E Reinhardt, E Libby, ... bioRxiv, 2022.07. 21.500805, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
