| Niche lability in the evolution of a Caribbean lizard community JB Losos, M Leal, RE Glor, K De Queiroz, PE Hertz, ... Nature 424 (6948), 542-545, 2003 | 390 | 2003 |
| Ultraviolet vision in lizards LJ Fleishman, ER Loew, M Leal Nature 365 (6445), 397-397, 1993 | 310 | 1993 |
| Differences in Visual Signal Design and Detectability between Allopatric Populations of Anolis Lizards M Leal, LJ Fleishman The American Naturalist 163 (1), 26-39, 2004 | 284 | 2004 |
| Evidence for habitat partitioning based on adaptation to environmental light in a pair of sympatric lizard species M Leal, LJ Fleishman Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2002 | 222 | 2002 |
| Behavioural flexibility and problem-solving in a tropical lizard M Leal, BJ Powell Biology letters 8 (1), 28-30, 2012 | 189 | 2012 |
| Founder effects persist despite adaptive differentiation: a field experiment with lizards JJ Kolbe, M Leal, TW Schoener, DA Spiller, JB Losos Science 335 (6072), 1086-1089, 2012 | 177 | 2012 |
| Predator-driven natural selection on risk-taking behavior in anole lizards O Lapiedra, TW Schoener, M Leal, JB Losos, JJ Kolbe Science 360 (6392), 1017-1020, 2018 | 160 | 2018 |
| Honest signalling during prey–predator interactions in the lizard Anolis cristatellus M Leal Animal Behaviour 58 (3), 521-526, 1999 | 160 | 1999 |
| Signalling displays during predator–prey interactions in a Puerto Rican anole, Anolis cristatellus M Leal, JA Rodríguez-Robles Animal Behaviour 54 (5), 1147-1154, 1997 | 152 | 1997 |
| Rapid change in the thermal tolerance of a tropical lizard M Leal, AR Gunderson The American Naturalist 180 (6), 815-822, 2012 | 144 | 2012 |
| Geographic variation in vulnerability to climate warming in a tropical Caribbean lizard AR Gunderson, M Leal Functional Ecology 26 (4), 783-793, 2012 | 124 | 2012 |
| A conceptual framework for understanding thermal constraints on ectotherm activity with implications for predicting responses to global change AR Gunderson, M Leal Ecology letters 19 (2), 111-120, 2016 | 116 | 2016 |
| Intraspecific variation in retinal cone distribution in the bluefin killifish, Lucania goodei RC Fuller, LJ Fleishman, M Leal, J Travis, E Loew Journal of Comparative Physiology A 189, 609-616, 2003 | 99 | 2003 |
| Patterns of thermal constraint on ectotherm activity AR Gunderson, M Leal The American Naturalist 185 (5), 653-664, 2015 | 90 | 2015 |
| Antipredator responses of Anolis cristatellus (Sauria: Polychrotidae) M Leal, JA Rodríguez-Robles Copeia, 155-161, 1995 | 73 | 1995 |
| Lack of convergence in aquatic Anolis lizards M Leal, AK Knox, JB Losos Evolution 56 (4), 785-791, 2002 | 72 | 2002 |
| Predation-associated modulation of movement-based signals by a Bahamian lizard DS Steinberg, JB Losos, TW Schoener, DA Spiller, JJ Kolbe, M Leal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (25), 9187-9192, 2014 | 65 | 2014 |
| Habitat light and dewlap color diversity in four species of Puerto Rican anoline lizards LJ Fleishman, M Leal, MH Persons Journal of Comparative Physiology A 195, 1043-1060, 2009 | 60 | 2009 |
| A phylogenetic perspective on foraging mode evolution and habitat use in West Indian Anolis lizards MA Johnson, M Leal, LR Schettino, AC Lara, LJ Revell, JB Losos Animal Behaviour 75 (2), 555-563, 2008 | 60 | 2008 |
| Thermal niche evolution across replicated Anolis lizard adaptive radiations AR Gunderson, DL Mahler, M Leal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 285 (1877), 20172241, 2018 | 52 | 2018 |
