| Animal eyes MF Land, DE Nilsson OUP Oxford, 2012 | 2016 | 2012 |
| A pessimistic estimate of the time required for an eye to evolve DE Nilsson, S Pelger Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1994 | 501 | 1994 |
| Insect orientation to polarized moonlight M Dacke, DE Nilsson, CH Scholtz, M Byrne, EJ Warrant Nature 424 (6944), 33-33, 2003 | 284 | 2003 |
| Optics and evolution of the compound eye DE Nilsson Facets of vision, 30-73, 1989 | 252 | 1989 |
| Advanced optics in a jellyfish eye DE Nilsson, L Gislén, MM Coates, C Skogh, A Garm Nature 435 (7039), 201-205, 2005 | 233 | 2005 |
| Absorption of white light in photoreceptors EJ Warrant, DE Nilsson Vision research 38 (2), 195-207, 1998 | 222 | 1998 |
| The evolution of eyes and visually guided behaviour DE Nilsson Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364 …, 2009 | 199 | 2009 |
| Eye evolution and its functional basis DE Nilsson Visual neuroscience 30 (1-2), 5-20, 2013 | 188 | 2013 |
| Invertebrate vision E Warrant, DE Nilsson Cambridge University Press, 2006 | 184 | 2006 |
| Molecular preservation of the pigment melanin in fossil melanosomes J Lindgren, P Uvdal, P Sjövall, DE Nilsson, A Engdahl, BP Schultz, V Thiel Nature communications 3 (1), 1-7, 2012 | 132 | 2012 |
| A simple visual system without neurons in jellyfish larvae K Nordström, Wallén, J Seymour, D Nilsson Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2003 | 121 | 2003 |
| Eyes as optical alarm systems in fan worms and ark clams DE Nilsson Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 1994 | 114 | 1994 |
| Zebrafish differentially process color across visual space to match natural scenes MJY Zimmermann, NE Nevala, T Yoshimatsu, D Osorio, DE Nilsson, ... Current Biology 28 (13), 2018 | 109 | 2018 |
| The dorsal eye of the dragonfly Sympetrum: specializations for prey detection against the blue sky T Labhart, DE Nilsson Journal of comparative physiology A 176 (4), 437-453, 1995 | 109 | 1995 |
| Box jellyfish use terrestrial visual cues for navigation A Garm, M Oskarsson, DE Nilsson Current Biology 21 (9), 798-803, 2011 | 107 | 2011 |
| Built-in polarizers form part of a compass organ in spiders M Dacke, DE Nilsson, EJ Warrant, AD Blest, MF Land, DC O'carroll Nature 401 (6752), 470-473, 1999 | 107 | 1999 |
| Visually guided obstacle avoidance in the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora and Chiropsella bronzie A Garm, M O'Connor, L Parkefelt, DE Nilsson Journal of Experimental Biology 210 (20), 3616-3623, 2007 | 105 | 2007 |
| Optics of the butterfly eye DE Nilsson, MF Land, J Howard Journal of Comparative Physiology A 162 (3), 341-366, 1988 | 103 | 1988 |
| Eye ancestry: old genes for new eyes DE Nilsson Current Biology 6 (1), 39-42, 1996 | 102 | 1996 |
| Homology and parallelism in arthropod sensory processing DE Nilsson, D Osorio Arthropod relationships, 333-347, 1998 | 93 | 1998 |
