| Stable isotopes in animal ecology: assumptions, caveats, and a call for more laboratory experiments LZ Gannes, DM O’Brien, CM Del Rio Ecology 78 (4), 1271-1276, 1997 | 1294 | 1997 |
| Renewable and nonrenewable resources: amino acid turnover and allocation to reproduction in Lepidoptera DM O'Brien, ML Fogel, CL Boggs Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99 (7), 4413-4418, 2002 | 325 | 2002 |
| Tracing carbon sources through aquatic and terrestrial food webs using amino acid stable isotope fingerprinting T Larsen, M Ventura, N Andersen, DM O’Brien, U Piatkowski, ... PloS one 8 (9), e73441, 2013 | 301 | 2013 |
| Stable isotope fingerprinting: a novel method for identifying plant, fungal, or bacterial origins of amino acids T Larsen, DL Taylor, MB Leigh, DM O'Brien Ecology 90 (12), 3526-3535, 2009 | 258 | 2009 |
| Stable isotope ratios as biomarkers of diet for health research DM O'Brien Annual review of nutrition 35 (1), 565-594, 2015 | 200 | 2015 |
| Energy metabolism in orchid bee flight muscles: carbohydrate fuels all RK Suarez, CA Darveau, KC Welch Jr, DM O'Brien, DW Roubik, ... Journal of Experimental Biology 208 (18), 3573-3579, 2005 | 167 | 2005 |
| Pollen feeding in the butterfly Heliconius charitonia: isotopic evidence for essential amino acid transfer from pollen to eggs DM O'Brien, CL Boggs, ML Fogel Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2003 | 164 | 2003 |
| Making eggs from nectar: the role of life history and dietary carbon turnover in butterfly reproductive resource allocation DM O'Brien, CL Boggs, ML Fogel Oikos 105 (2), 279-291, 2004 | 162 | 2004 |
| Tracking human travel using stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope analyses of hair and urine DM O'Brien, MJ Wooller Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 21 (15), 2422-2430, 2007 | 157 | 2007 |
| Allocation to reproduction in a hawkmoth: a quantitative analysis using stable carbon isotopes DM O'Brien, DP Schrag, CM Del Rio Ecology 81 (10), 2822-2831, 2000 | 147 | 2000 |
| Disentangling effects of growth and nutritional status on seabird stable isotope ratios J Sears, SA Hatch, DM O’Brien Oecologia 159, 41-48, 2009 | 133 | 2009 |
| Allocation of larval and adult resources to reproduction in a fruit-feeding butterfly K Fischer, DM O'brien, CL Boggs Functional Ecology, 656-663, 2004 | 131 | 2004 |
| An examination of the carbon isotope effects associated with amino acid biosynthesis JH Scott, DM O'Brien, D Emerson, H Sun, GD McDonald, A Salgado, ... Astrobiology 6 (6), 867-880, 2006 | 122 | 2006 |
| The amino acids used in reproduction by butterflies: a comparative study of dietary sources using compound-specific stable isotope analysis DM O’Brien, CL Boggs, ML Fogel Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 78 (5), 819-827, 2005 | 113 | 2005 |
| Perspective: dietary biomarkers of intake and exposure—exploration with omics approaches P Maruvada, JW Lampe, DS Wishart, D Barupal, DN Chester, D Dodd, ... Advances in nutrition 11 (2), 200-215, 2020 | 112 | 2020 |
| Use of stable isotopes to examine how dietary restriction extends Drosophila lifespan DM O'Brien, KJ Min, T Larsen, M Tatar Current Biology 18 (4), R155-R156, 2008 | 96 | 2008 |
| Stable Nitrogen and Carbon Isotope Ratios Indicate Traditional and Market Food Intake in an Indigenous Circumpolar Population3 SH Nash, A Bersamin, AR Kristal, SE Hopkins, RS Church, RL Pasker, ... The Journal of nutrition 142 (1), 84-90, 2012 | 86 | 2012 |
| Associations of obesity with triglycerides and C-reactive protein are attenuated in adults with high red blood cell eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids Z Makhoul, AR Kristal, R Gulati, B Luick, A Bersamin, D O'Brien, ... European journal of clinical nutrition 65 (7), 808-817, 2011 | 84 | 2011 |
| The influence of diet and water on the stable oxygen and hydrogen isotope composition of Chironomidae (Diptera) with paleoecological implications YV Wang, DM O’brien, J Jenson, D Francis, MJ Wooller Oecologia 160, 225-233, 2009 | 84 | 2009 |
| Using stable isotopes to assess carbon and nitrogen turnover in the Arctic sympagic amphipod Onisimus litoralis MR Kaufman, RR Gradinger, BA Bluhm, DM O’Brien Oecologia 158, 11-22, 2008 | 84 | 2008 |
