Evolution

Papers
(The median citation count of Evolution is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits80
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation61
Philosophical foundations of microevolution58
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations44
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes39
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm39
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees37
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior36
A response to estimating hybridization in the wild using community science data: A path forward30
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite29
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems29
Do I build or do I move? Adaptation by habitat construction versus habitat choice*28
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment28
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration28
Two new hybrid populations expand the swordtail hybridization model system28
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases27
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration27
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach25
Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry25
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes25
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction25
Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae25
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation24
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards24
Post K-Pg rise in ant and termite prevalence underlies convergent dietary specialization in mammals24
Weak coupling among barrier loci and waves of neutral and adaptive introgression across an expanding hybrid zone23
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates23
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish23
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence22
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster22
Disentangling the avian altricial‐precocial spectrum: Quantitative assessment of developmental mode, phylogenetic signal, and dimensionality22
Hybridization and its impact on the ontogenetic allometry of skulls in macaques22
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness22
Issue information ‐ Ed Board22
Strong selection is poorly aligned with genetic variation in Ipomoea hederacea: implications for divergence and constraint21
Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders21
Digest: Behavioral plasticity under nutritional stress in nursery web spiders ensures equal reproductive success21
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa21
Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes21
Disentangling the effects of male age and mating history: Contrasting effects of mating history on precopulatory mating behavior and paternity success21
Why do hybrids turn down sex?20
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior20
Digest: Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution20
Obituary: Professor Matthew James George Gage (1967–2022)19
Correction to: Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes19
Riverine flow rate drives widespread convergence in the shell morphology of imperiled freshwater mussels19
Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?19
Convergent rates of protein evolution identify novel targets of sexual selection in primates18
Digest: Macroevolutionary pattern from microevolutionary processes *18
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations18
Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster18
The evolution of reproductive leaf dimorphism in two globally distributed fern families is neither stepwise nor irreversible, unless further specialization evolves18
Sick of eating: Eco‐evo‐immuno dynamics of predators and their trophically acquired parasites18
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Evolutionarily labile dispersal behavior and discontinuous habitats enhance population differentiation in island versus continentally distributed swallows18
Digest: Detecting genomic adaptation to sexual selection at scale using available data17
Comparative functional analyses of the prostate-specific KLK3 enzyme in primates reveal the impact of sexual selection17
Testing for a role of postzygotic incompatibilities in rapidly speciated Lake Victoria cichlids17
Sperm depletion in relation to developmental nutrition and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster17
Evolution of class‐structured populations in periodic environments17
Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both16
Selection bias in mutation accumulation16
Morphological integration during postnatal ontogeny: implications for evolutionary biology16
Quantitative Genetics of Microbiome Mediated Traits16
Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks16
Extensive pollinator sharing does not promote character displacement in two orchid congeners16
Hitting rock bottom: exaptation, ecological filtering, and the benthopelagic divergence of percid fishes16
Identity signaling, identity reception, and the evolution of social recognition in a Neotropical frog16
Digest: Nature and nurture: Influences of parental care and rearing environment on phenotypic plasticity in Nicrophorus vespilloides16
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Selection on an extreme-yet-conserved larval life-history strategy in a tapeworm15
Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions15
Improving inference and avoiding overinterpretation of hidden‐state diversification models: Specialized plant breeding has no effect on diversification in frogs15
CORRIGENDUM15
Strong habitat-specific phenotypic plasticity but no genome-wide differentiation across a rainforest gradient in an African butterfly15
Aphid male wing polymorphisms are transient and have evolved repeatedly15
Correction to: Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems15
Digest: Mating systems, intragenomic conflict, and speciation15
Correction to: Migration pulsedness alters patterns of allele fixation and local adaptation in a mainland-island model15
Possible link between brain size and flight mode in birds: Does soaring ease the energetic limitation of the brain?15
Relaxed risk of predation drives parallel evolution of stickleback behavior14
Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards: A rare outcome of common hybridization, not a common outcome of rare hybridization14
Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution14
Evidence of landscape-driven repeated adaptation among 13 Eucalyptus species14
Pollinator loss causes rapid adaptive evolution of selfing and dramatically reduces genome‐wide genetic variability14
Predicting the prevalence of genetic trade-offs among adaptive substitutions14
Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers14
Geometric Insights into evolutionary rescue dynamics in a two-deme model14
Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo‐Australasian monitor lizards14
The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness14
Environment rather than character displacement explains call evolution in glassfrogs14
Comparing the hermaphroditic mating system of a parasitic flatworm between populations with an ancestral, three-host life cycle and a derived, facultative precocious life cycle14
Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle13
Early-warning signals of impending speciation13
Comparison of thermal developmental plasticity among seven recently sympatric Anolis species: insights into the evolution of reaction norms13
An approaching storm in evolutionary theory13
Sexual cannibalism as a female resistance trait: a new hypothesis13
Trophic niche drives the evolution of craniofacial shape in Trinidadian guppies13
Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients13
Correction to: Asexual male production by ZW recombination in Artemia parthenogenetica13
Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives13
Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments13
Thermal adaptation of pelage in desert rodents balances cooling and insulation13
Digest: Trilobites to vertebrates: how development influences the evolution of segmental patterning13
William G. Hill (August 7, 1940 – December 17, 2021)12
Digest: Evolution of dragline silk in araneids show super tensile performance in web-building and non-web-building spiders12
The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong12
Host-associated transmission favors transition of a commensal toward antagonism12
Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis12
Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers ( Helianthus )12
Self-compatibility in yeast is selected for reproductive assurance not population-level compatibility12
CamoEvo: An open access toolbox for artificial camouflage evolution experiments12
Protein folds as synapomorphies of the tree of life12
Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback12
Unraveling patterns of disrupted gene expression across a complex tissue12
Source-sink migration of natural enemies drives maladaptation of victim populations in sink habitats12
Digest: Habitat and competition drive diversification in Gondwanan fish12
Society for the study of evolution at 75 years: Introduction to the symposium papers12
Mismatch between pollen and pistil size causes asymmetric mechanical reproductive isolation across Phlox species12
Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses12
Multi-generation selective landscapes and sub-lethal injuries in stickleback12
Evolution under a model of functionally buffered deleterious mutations can lead to positive selection in protein-coding genes12
Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus:Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago11
Issue information ‐ Ed Board11
Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?11
Applications of evolutionary science11
Aberrant RNA splicing due to genetic incompatibilities in sunflower hybrids11
Digest: Large-effect loci involved in maturation timing affect the early survival of Atlantic salmon11
Ultraviolet in swallowtail butterflies: contrasted dorso-ventral evolution highlights a trade-off between natural and sexual selection on visual cues11
Issue information ‐ Ed Board11
The evolution of life span and aging in response to dietary macronutrients in male and female decorated crickets11
Modeling how population size drives the evolution of birdsong, a functional cultural trait11
Proteome allocation and the evolution of metabolic cross-feeding11
Does genome size increase with water depth in marine fishes?11
Correlated evolution of categorical characters under a simple model11
Digest: When sexual selection hits the wall of natural selection11
The dose makes the poison and the lesson11
Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone11
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes10
Open ecosystems expansion, competition, and predation shaped the evolution of Antilocapridae10
Issue information ‐ Ed Board10
Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the de10
Hill-Robertson interference may bias the inference of fitness effects of new mutations in highly selfing species10
Sperm metabolic rate predicts female mating frequency acrossDrosophilaspecies10
The role of resource defensibility in facilitating sexually selected weapon evolution: an experimental evolution test10
An empirical test of Baker’s law: dispersal favors increased rates of self-fertilization10
Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure10
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace10
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration10
Drift and dispersal hinder the evolution of facultative asexual reproduction10
Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution10
Maternal quality, paternal effects, and sibling interactions influence seed size in the eelgrass, Zostera marina10
Re‐evaluating the morphological evidence for the re‐evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs10
Syntopy promotes song divergence in a Neotropical avian radiation10
Tissue and toxin-specific divergent evolution in plant defense Evolución divergente específica de tejido y toxina en defensa de plantas10
Autopolyploid establishment depends on life‐history strategy and the mating outcomes of clonal architecture10
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus10
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes10
RETRACTED AND REPLACED: The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata10
Wolbachia strengthens the match between premating and early postmating isolation in spider mites10
Complex patterns of morphological diversity across multiple populations of an urban bird species10
The fundamental theorem of natural selection: the end of a story10
Rapid evolution of recombination landscapes during the divergence of cichlid ecotypes in Lake Masoko10
Teosinte populations exhibit weak local adaptation to their rhizosphere biota despite strong effects of biota source on teosinte fitness and traits10
The “sexual selection hypothesis” for the origin of aposematism10
Correlated evolution between nest architecture and the visual system of Passerine birds10
Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush10
Digest: Sperm metabolism links sperm length and female mating frequency*9
Persistence of the persistent9
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem9
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei9
The emergence of group fitness9
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production9
Mixed network structure in a coevolving host–parasite system9
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures9
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)9
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles9
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta9
RNA interference reveals that male nuptial gift proteins affect female behavior to increase male paternity share in decorated crickets9
Digest: Experimental evidence of gene flow impacts on host adaptation to a parasite9
Digest: The impact of egg and sperm proteins on sea urchin reproductive compatibility9
Suppression of sex-ratio drive in Drosophila subobscura9
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks9
Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment9
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume9
Digest: Sexual dimorphism and signs of selection in the dewlaps of female Anolis lizards9
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations9
Age‐ and sex‐dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids9
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds9
Ehrlich and Raven escape and radiate coevolution hypothesis at different levels of organization: Past and future perspectives9
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments9
RADseq data reveal widespread historical introgression in four familiar North American songbirds9
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable9
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster9
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs9
Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes9
Taking fear back into the marginal value theorem: the rMVT and optimal boldness9
Autopolyploid establishment through polygenic adaptation8
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
Correction to: Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration8
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models8
Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside8
Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation8
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties8
Sewall Wright's criticism of the gene's‐eye view of evolution8
A gene copy number arms race in action: X,Y-chromosome transmission distortion across a species barrier8
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection8
Digest: Better constructing the future than choosing a new habitat8
The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants8
Sex ratio theory for facultative parthenogens: from fortuitously optimal stick insects to the origin of haplodiploidy in Hymenoptera8
Model selection, hummingbird natural history, and biological hypotheses: a response to Sazatornil et al.8
Both nuclear and cytoplasmic polymorphisms are involved in genetic conflicts over male fertility in the gynodioecious snail, Physa acuta8
Cumulative effects of mutation and selection on susceptibility to bacterial pathogens in Caenorhabditis elegans8
Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators8
Phenotypic and developmental dissection of an instance of the island rule8
Digest: Evolutionary rescue following the introduction of a pathogen *8
Eco‐evolutionary extinction and recolonization dynamics reduce genetic load and increase time to extinction in highly inbred populations8
Prezygotic reproductive barriers in precopulatory behavior of tidepool copepod species8
Retraction and Replacement of: ‘Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes.’8
Genetic evidence of female philopatry in a socially polyandrous shorebird8
Rapid decline of prenatal maternal effects with age is independent of postnatal environment in a precocial bird8
Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”8
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematodePristionchus pacificus8
An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations7
The genetic basis of a novel reproductive strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes: How modularity and a low number of loci shape pelvic brooding7
How to tuna fish: constraint, convergence, and integration in the neurocranium of pelagiarian fishes7
Digest: Parks aren’t just for us: city parks as archipelagos for the study of rapid evolution7
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence7
Genotype‐by‐environment interactions modulate the rate of microevolution in reproductive timing in humans7
Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation landscapes of the Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of huanglongbing pathogens7
A junk-filled genome7
Microgeographic diversity does not drive macroevolutionary divergence in bite force of the Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis pityusensis7
Digest: Repeated body size evolution in island bats7
The problem of interaction7
Strongly exclusive distribution with putative character displacement in two flying stag beetles7
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Rapid, parallel evolution of field mustard ( Brassica rapa ) under experimental drought7
Multiple metrics of trichome diversity support independent evolutionary hypotheses in blazingstars (Mentzelia: Loasaceae)7
Digest: Scarce pollen resources and asymmetric reproductive isolation7
Life history and chemical defense interact to drive patterns of adaptation in an annual monkeyflower7
Can sexual selection promote within-species divergence of male genitalia? A study case with a male-dimorphic arachnid7
Juvenile and total reproductive values for sexual reproduction under any genetic system7
Population genomic consequences of life‐history and mating system adaptation to a geothermal soil mosaic in yellow monkeyflowers7
Convergence or redundancy: alternative views about the evolutionary genomics of character displacement7
Directional epistasis is common in morphological divergence7
Divergent organelle allocation in the evolution of sperm gigantism revealed from subcellular quantification of nematode sperm with electron microscopy7
When the neighborhood matters: contextual selection on seedling traits in native and non-native California grasses7
Convergent evolution in shape in European lineages of gobies7
Correction to: Plasticity cannot fully compensate evolutionary differences in heat tolerance across fish species7
Distinct signals of clinal and seasonal allele frequency change at eQTLs in Drosophila melanogaster7
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