| Biogenesis and function of tRNA fragments during sperm maturation and fertilization in mammals U Sharma, CC Conine, JM Shea, A Boskovic, AG Derr, XY Bing, ... Science 351 (6271), 391-396, 2016 | 1153 | 2016 |
| An ancient transcription factor initiates the burst of piRNA production during early meiosis in mouse testes XZ Li, CK Roy, X Dong, E Bolcun-Filas, J Wang, BW Han, J Xu, MJ Moore, ... Molecular cell 50 (1), 67-81, 2013 | 408 | 2013 |
| Mouse Pachytene Checkpoint 2 (Trip13) Is Required for Completing Meiotic Recombination but Not Synapsis X Li, JC Schimenti PLoS genetics 3 (8), e130, 2007 | 225 | 2007 |
| Meiosis-specific cohesin mediates homolog recognition in mouse spermatocytes K Ishiguro, J Kim, H Shibuya, A Hernández-Hernández, A Suzuki, ... Genes & development 28 (6), 594-607, 2014 | 157 | 2014 |
| Cnidarian microRNAs frequently regulate targets by cleavage Y Moran, D Fredman, D Praher, XZ Li, LM Wee, F Rentzsch, PD Zamore, ... Genome research 24 (4), 651-663, 2014 | 128 | 2014 |
| The pachytene checkpoint and its relationship to evolutionary patterns of polyploidization and hybrid sterility XC Li, BC Barringer, DA Barbash Heredity 102 (1), 24-30, 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
| Single-molecule long-read sequencing reveals a conserved intact long RNA profile in sperm YH Sun, A Wang, C Song, G Shankar, RK Srivastava, KF Au, XZ Li Nature communications 12 (1), 1361, 2021 | 53 | 2021 |
| Genetic evidence that synaptonemal complex axial elements govern recombination pathway choice in mice XC Li, E Bolcun-Filas, JC Schimenti Genetics 189 (1), 71-82, 2011 | 53 | 2011 |
| Domestic chickens activate a piRNA defense against avian leukosis virus YH Sun, LH Xie, X Zhuo, Q Chen, D Ghoneim, B Zhang, J Jagne, C Yang, ... Elife 6, e24695, 2017 | 52 | 2017 |
| Aneuploidy and improved growth are coincident but not causal in a yeast cancer model XC Li, JC Schimenti, BK Tye PLoS biology 7 (7), e1000161, 2009 | 34 | 2009 |
| The birth of piRNAs: how mammalian piRNAs are produced, originated, and evolved YH Sun, B Lee, XZ Li Mammalian Genome 33 (2), 293-311, 2022 | 32 | 2022 |
| Defining piRNA primary transcripts XZ Li, CK Roy, MJ Moore, PD Zamore Cell Cycle 12 (11), 1657-1658, 2013 | 29 | 2013 |
| Ribosomes guide pachytene piRNA formation on long intergenic piRNA precursors YH Sun, J Zhu, LH Xie, Z Li, R Meduri, X Zhu, C Song, C Chen, EP Ricci, ... Nature cell biology 22 (2), 200-212, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
| Coupled protein synthesis and ribosome-guided piRNA processing on mRNAs YH Sun, RH Wang, K Du, J Zhu, J Zheng, LH Xie, AA Pereira, C Zhang, ... Nature Communications 12 (1), 5970, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Ploidy dictates repair pathway choice under DNA replication stress XC Li, BK Tye Genetics 187 (4), 1031-1040, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
| Novel rRNA-depletion methods for total RNA sequencing and ribosome profiling developed for avian species H Gu, YH Sun, XZ Li Poultry Science 100 (9), 101321, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Disruption of Tdrd5 decouples the stepwise processing of long precursor transcripts during pachytene PIWI-interacting RNA biogenesis YH Sun, F Jiang, XZ Li Biology of Reproduction 99 (4), 684-685, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| sperm differentiation and spermatozoa function: mechanisms, diagnostics, and treatment T Avidor-Reiss, Z Zhang, XZ Li Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 8, 219, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| Osdof28: A new member of the DOF transcription factor family from rice F Chen, Y Chen, Y Dong, X Li, M Xu, C Zhang, Y Yan, G Zhang Tsinghua Science and Technology 10 (4), 454-460, 2005 | 5 | 2005 |
| Amniotes co-opt intrinsic genetic instability to protect germ-line genome integrity YH Sun, H Cui, C Song, JT Shen, X Zhuo, RH Wang, X Yu, R Ndamba, ... Nature communications 14 (1), 812, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
