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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Defining the speciation continuum91
Fitness benefits to bacteria of carrying prophages and prophage‐encoded antibiotic‐resistance genes peak in different environments57
Ancient tropical extinctions at high latitudes contributed to the latitudinal diversity gradient*53
Comparative studies on speciation: 30 years since Coyne and Orr45
Pollinator shifts, contingent evolution, and evolutionary constraint drive floral disparity in Salvia (Lamiaceae): Evidence from morphometrics and phylogenetic comparati43
The Bogert effect, a factor in evolution40
Incomplete convergence of gliding mammal skeletons*36
Long life evolves in large‐brained bird lineages*35
When and how do sex‐linked regions become sex chromosomes?32
Morphological integration and modularity in the hyperkinetic feeding system of aquatic‐foraging snakes31
The evolution of autotomy in leaf‐footed bugs31
Addressing Darwin's dilemma: Can pseudo‐overdominance explain persistent inbreeding depression and load?30
Patterns of speciation are similar across mountainous and lowland regions for a Neotropical plant radiation (Costaceae:Costus)29
Artificially selecting bacterial communities using propagule strategies†29
Resolving spatial complexities of hybridization in the context of the gray zone of speciation in North American ratsnakes ( Pantherophis obsoletus complex)29
Evolution of multiple postzygotic barriers between species of theMimulus tilingiicomplex*28
Inbreeding shapes the evolution of marine invertebrates27
A multivariate view of parallel evolution27
In a nutshell, a reciprocal transplant experiment reveals local adaptation and fitness trade‐offs in response to urban evolution in an acorn‐dwelling ant27
Evidence for speciation underground in diving beetles (Dytiscidae) from a subterranean archipelago26
Expressed mutational load increases toward the edge of a species’ geographic range26
Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls26
Mitonuclear mismatch alters performance and reproductive success in naturally introgressed populations of a montane leaf beetle*26
A flexible method for estimating tip diversification rates across a range of speciation and extinction scenarios26
Evolutionary integration of the frog cranium25
Rapid adaptive evolution of the diapause program during range expansion of an invasive mosquito25
Nonadaptive molecular evolution of seminal fluid proteins in Drosophila25
Lottery, luck, or legacy. A review of “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA matters for social equality”23
Insights from Fisher's geometric model on the likelihood of speciation under different histories of environmental change23
Speciation rates are correlated with changes in plumage color complexity in the largest family of songbirds23
Gene flow and rapid differentiation characterize a rapid insular radiation in the southwest Pacific (Aves:Zosterops)23
Spatial variation in gene flow across a hybrid zone reveals causes of reproductive isolation and asymmetric introgression in wall lizards*23
Evolution of chain migration in an aerial insectivorous bird, the common swift Apus apus22
The dark side of coloration: Ecogeographical evidence supports Gloger's rule in American marsupials22
The strength of reproductive isolating barriers in seed plants: Insights from studies quantifying premating and postmating reproductive barriers over the past 15 years22
The evolution of coevolution in the study of species interactions22
Postzygotic isolation drives genomic speciation between highly crypticHypocnemisantbirds from Amazonia22
Testing the shared‐pathway hypothesis in the carotenoid‐based coloration of red crossbills21
Relative importance of isolation‐by‐environment and other determinants of gene flow in an alpine amphibian21
Rapid differentiation of plasticity in life history and morphology during invasive range expansion and concurrent local adaptation in the horned beetleOnthophagus taurus21
Phenotypic and genotypic parallel evolution in parapatric ecotypes ofSenecio21
Adaptation across geographic ranges is consistent with strong selection in marginal climates and legacies of range expansion21
Life‐cycle complexity in helminths: What are the benefits?20
Support for faster and more adaptive Z chromosome evolution in two divergent lepidopteran lineages *20
Genomic regions underlying metabolic and neuronal signaling pathways are temporally consistent in a moving avian hybrid zone20
Find the food first: An omnivorous sensory morphotype predates biomechanical specialization for plant based diets in phyllostomid bats*20
Comparing diversification rates in lakes, rivers, and the sea20
Down feather morphology reflects adaptation to habitat and thermal conditions across the avian phylogeny20
A resurrection study reveals limited evolution of thermal performance in response to recent climate change across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower20
Assortative mating, sexual selection, and their consequences for gene flow inLittorina20
System drift and speciation20
Gene expression plasticity and desert adaptation in house mice*20
The geometry and genetics of hybridization20
Natural selection mediated by seasonal time constraints increases the alignment between evolvability and developmental plasticity20
Population differences in the strength of sexual selection match relative weapon size in the Japanese rhinoceros beetle, Trypoxylus dichotomus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)19
Imposed mutational meltdown as an antiviral strategy19
Pathways to social evolution and their evolutionary feedbacks19
Genotypic variation in the persistence of transgenerational responses to seasonal cues*19
Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it19
The complex effects of mass extinctions on morphological disparity19
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties19
Asymmetric, but opposing reductions in immigrant viability and fecundity promote reproductive isolation among host‐associated populations of an insect herbivore18
Convergent evolution of seasonal camouflage in response to reduced snow cover across the snowshoe hare range*18
Speciation rates are positively correlated with the rate of plumage color evolution in hummingbirds18
Fang evolution in venomous snakes: Adaptation of 3D tooth shape to the biomechanical properties of their prey18
Polygenic local adaptation in metapopulations: A stochastic eco‐evolutionary model18
Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes18
Evolution and genetic architecture of disassortative mating at a locus under heterozygote advantage18
Genomic and chemical evidence for local adaptation in resistance to different herbivores in Datura stramonium18
Selection and isolation define a heterogeneous divergence landscape between hybridizing Heliconius butterflies18
Multiple routes to interspecific territoriality in sister species of North American perching birds17
Branching patterns in phylogenies cannot distinguish diversity‐dependent diversification from time‐dependent diversification17
Distinct cold tolerance traits independently vary across genotypes inDrosophila melanogaster17
Quantifying the causal pathways contributing to natural selection17
Phenotypic evolution in stochastic environments: The contribution of frequency‐ and density‐dependent selection16
Displaced clines in an avian hybrid zone (Thamnophilidae:Rhegmatorhina) within an Amazonian interfluve*16
An estimator of the Opportunity for Selection that is independent of mean fitness16
It takes two: Heritable male effects on reproductive timing but not clutch size in a wild bird population*16
Decoupled jaws promote trophic diversity in cichlid fishes16
Phenotypic integration in feliform carnivores: Covariation patterns and disparity in hypercarnivores versus generalists16
Quantifying selection on standard metabolic rate and body mass in Drosophila melanogaster16
Scaling between macro‐ to microscale climatic data reveals strong phylogenetic inertia in niche evolution in plethodontid salamanders16
When does gene flow facilitate evolutionary rescue?16
Disease swamps molecular signatures of genetic‐environmental associations to abiotic factors in Tasmanian devil ( Sarcophilus harrisii ) populations16
Anuran limbs reflect microhabitat and distal, later‐developing bones are more evolutionarily labile*15
Molecular signatures of resource competition: Clonal interference favors ecological diversification and can lead to incipient speciation*15
Does migration promote or inhibit diversification? A case study involving the dominant radiation of temperate Southern Hemisphere freshwater fishes15
Testing evolutionary explanations for the lifespan benefit of dietary restriction in fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster )15
Multimodal mimicry of hosts in a radiation of parasitic finches*15
Genetics of quantitative traits with dominance under stabilizing and directional selection in partially selfing species15
A shift in ontogenetic timing produced the unique sauropod skull15
Positive selection plays a major role in shaping signatures of differentiation across the genomic landscape of two independent Ficedula flycatcher species pairs*15
Balancing selection in self‐fertilizing populations15
Condition‐dependent interaction between mating success and competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster*15
Recombination and selection against introgressed DNA15
The genetic architecture of maternal effects across ontogeny in the red deer14
An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations14
Can dominance genetic variance be ignored in evolutionary quantitative genetic analyses of wild populations?14
Using ecological context to interpret spatiotemporal variation in natural selection14
Evaluating the contributions of purifying selection and progeny‐skew in dictating within‐hostMycobacterium tuberculosisevolution14
Who are we now? A demographic assessment of three evolution societies14
Why study plasticity in multiple traits? New hypotheses for how phenotypically plastic traits interact during development and selection14
Early evolution of reproductive isolation: A case of weak inbreeder/strong outbreeder leads to an intraspecific hybridization barrier in Arabidopsis lyrata14
Fitness effects of mutation in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana reveal a complex influence of local adaptation13
Hard to get, easy to lose: Evolution of mantle photoreceptor organs in bivalves (Bivalvia, Pteriomorphia)13
Body mass variation is negatively associated with brain size: Evidence for the fat‐brain trade‐off in anurans13
Genetic architecture of floral traits in bee‐ and hummingbird‐pollinated sister species of Aquilegia (columbine)13
Allen Orr and the genetics of adaptation13
Changes in gene expression during female reproductive development in a color polymorphic insect13
Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species?13
Statistics of eigenvalue dispersion indices: Quantifying the magnitude of phenotypic integration13
Constraint and divergence in the evolution of male and female recombination rates in fishes13
Cranial ecomorphology of turtles and neck retraction as a possible trigger of ecological diversification13
Relationships of song structure to phylogenetic history, habitat, and morphology in the vireos, greenlets, and allies (Passeriformes: Vireonidae)13
Heterogeneity in the rate of molecular sequence evolution substantially impacts the accuracy of detecting shifts in diversification rates12
Plastic male mating behavior evolves in response to the competitive environment*12
Multidimensional divergent selection, local adaptation, and speciation12
Interacting phenotypes and the coevolutionary process: Interspecific indirect genetic effects alter coevolutionary dynamics12
More than one way to be a giant: Convergence and disparity in the hip joints of saurischian dinosaurs12
How is adaptive potential distributed within species ranges?12
Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo‐Australasian monitor lizards12
Floral density and co‐occurring congeners alter patterns of selection in annual plant communities*12
Artificial mosaic brain evolution of relative telencephalon size improves inhibitory control abilities in the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata )12
Cytoplasmic incompatibility between Old and New World populations of a tramp ant12
The balance model of honest sexual signaling12
The mutation effect reaction norm (mu‐rn) highlights environmentally dependent mutation effects and epistatic interactions12
Geographic variation in adult and embryonic desiccation tolerance in a terrestrial‐breeding frog12
Unraveling patterns of disrupted gene expression across a complex tissue12
No evidence for short‐term evolutionary response to a warming environment in Drosophila12
Cooperation can promote rescue or lead to evolutionary suicide during environmental change12
Repeatability and heritability of social reaction norms in a wild agamid lizard12
Cave‐adapted evolution in the North American amblyopsid fishes inferred using phylogenomics and geometric morphometrics12
Sex, males, and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi *12
Male‐biased sexual selection, but not sexual dichromatism, predicts speciation in birds12
Selection favors adaptive plasticity in a long‐term reciprocal transplant experiment12
Adaptation to elevation but limited local adaptation in an amphibian*12
Stasis of functionally versatile specialists12
Genetic diversity and disease: The past, present, and future of an old idea12
Evolution of large males is associated with female‐skewed adult sex ratios in amniotes12
Specialized breeding in plants affects diversification trajectories in Neotropical frogs12
Feminization of complex traits inDrosophila melanogastervia female‐limited X chromosome evolution*12
Fly wing evolution explained by a neutral model with mutational pleiotropy12
Adaptive divergence generates distinct plastic responses in two closely related Senecio species12
The cancellation effect at the group level11
Two new hybrid populations expand the swordtail hybridization model system11
Limited evidence for a positive relationship between hybridization and diversification across seed plant families11
Invasion and maintenance of meiotic drivers in populations of ascomycete fungi11
Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers11
Fast life‐histories are associated with larger brain size in killifishes11
Evolution in alternating environments with tunable interlandscape correlations11
On the impermanence of species: The collapse of genetic incompatibilities in hybridizing populations11
Genetic and species‐level biodiversity patterns are linked by demography and ecological opportunity11
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence11
The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata11
Social information use shapes the coevolution of sociality and virulence11
Morphological innovation and biomechanical diversity in plunge‐diving birds11
Wolbachia and host intrinsic reproductive barriers contribute additively to postmating isolation in spider mites11
Revisiting a classic hybrid zone: Movement of the northern flicker hybrid zone in contemporary times11
Life history and environment predict variation in testosterone across vertebrates11
Trade‐offs in expressed major histocompatibility complex diversity seen on a macroevolutionary scale among songbirds11
The evolutionary history and mechanistic basis of female ornamentation in a tropical songbird11
Properties of phenotypic plasticity in discrete threshold traits11
Analytical results for directional and quadratic selection gradients for log‐linear models of fitness functions11
Testing for adaptive radiation: A new approach applied to Madagascar frogs*11
Sperm depletion in relation to developmental nutrition and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster11
Exploring adaptive landscapes across deep time: A case study using echinoid body size11
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection11
Looking at the past to infer into the future: Thermal traits track environmental change in Liolaemidae*10
Re‐evaluating the morphological evidence for the re‐evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs10
The evolution of sex along an environmental gradient10
Ecology and behavior predict an evolutionary trade‐off between song complexity and elaborate plumages in antwrens (Aves, Thamnophilidae)10
Infection phenotypes of a coevolving parasite are highly diverse, structured, and specific10
Nonadditive genetic effects induce novel phenotypic distributions in male mating traits of F1 hybrids10
Variation and multilevel selection of SARS‐CoV‐210
How should functional relationships be evaluated using phylogenetic comparative methods? A case study using metabolic rate and body temperature10
Selection bias in mutation accumulation10
Evolution of specialization in a plant‐microbial mutualism is explained by the oscillation theory of speciation10
Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats10
The effectiveness of pseudomagic traits in promoting divergence and enhancing local adaptation*10
Haldane's rule in the placenta: Sex‐biased misregulation of the Kcnq1 imprinting cluster in hybrid mice10
Complex interactions underlie the correlated evolution of floral traits and their association with pollinators in a clade with diverse pollination systems10
The scaling of diversification rates with age is likely explained by sampling bias10
Testing the occurrence of convergence in the craniomandibular shape evolution of living carnivorans*10
Insights from a general, full‐likelihood Bayesian approach to inferring shared evolutionary events from genomic data: Inferring shared demographic events is challenging*10
Sexual conflict in protandrous flowers and the evolution of gynodioecy*10
Divergent sexual signals reflect costs of local parasites*10
Independent and adaptive evolution of phenotypic novelties driven by coral symbiosis in barnacle larvae10
Phenotypic noise and the cost of complexity10
Stamen dimorphism in bird‐pollinated flowers: Investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery10
Constrained flexibility of parental cooperation limits adaptive responses to harsh conditions10
Weak coupling among barrier loci and waves of neutral and adaptive introgression across an expanding hybrid zone10
Genetic architecture of repeated phenotypic divergence in Littorina saxatilis ecotype evolution10
Fish out of water: Genomic insights into persistence of rainbowfish populations in the desert10
Neo‐darwinism still haunts evolutionary theory: A modern perspective on Charlesworth, Lande, and Slatkin (1982)10
Contributions of genetic and nongenetic sources to variation in cooperative behavior in a cooperative mammal10
Interspecific allometry for sexual shape dimorphism: Macroevolution of multivariate sexual phenotypes with application to Rensch's rule10
Genetic differences in the temporal and environmental stability of transgenerational environmental effects10
An effect size for comparing the strength of morphological integration across studies9
Age‐ and sex‐dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids9
Mating and fitness consequences of variation in male allocation in a wind‐pollinated plant9
Strength in numbers? Cytotype frequency mediates effect of reproductive barriers in mixed‐ploidy arrays9
Negative density‐dependent dispersal emerges from the joint evolution of density‐ and body condition‐dependent dispersal strategies9
Long‐term cloud forest response to climate warming revealed by insect speciation history*9
Patterns of genetic divergence and demographic history shed light on island‐mainland population dynamics and melanic plumage evolution in the white‐winged Fairywren*9
Female prereproductive coloration reduces mating harassment in damselflies9
Male and female reproductive fitness costs of an immune response in natural populations *9
Developmental life history is associated with variation in rates of climatic niche evolution in a salamander adaptive radiation*9
Aposematism in mammals9
The expression of care: Alloparental care frequency predicts neural control of facial muscles in primates9
Evolutionary and morphological patterns underlying carnivoran body shape diversity9
The effects of migration load, selfing, inbreeding depression, and the genetics of adaptation on autotetraploid versus diploid establishment in peripheral habitats9
Assortative mating and epistatic mating‐trait architecture induce complex movement of the crow hybrid zone9
Looks can be deceiving: speciation dynamics of co‐distributedAngophora(Myrtaceae) species in a varying landscape9
A multivariate view of the speciation continuum9
Disentangling the avian altricial‐precocial spectrum: Quantitative assessment of developmental mode, phylogenetic signal, and dimensionality9
Epigenetic induction may speed up or slow down speciation with gene flow9
Does local adaptation along a latitudinal cline shape plastic responses to combined thermal and nutritional stress?9
Indirect genetic and environmental effects on behaviors, morphology, and life‐history traits in a wild Eastern chipmunk population9
Evolutionary rescue in host‐pathogen systems*9
Declining amphibians might be evolving increased reproductive effort in the face of devastating disease9
Decreased coevolutionary potential and increased symbiont fecundity during the biological invasion of a legume‐rhizobium mutualism9
Softness of selection and mating system interact to shape trait evolution under sexual conflict9
A courtship behavior that makes monandrous females polyandrous8
Cis ‐regulatory variation in the shavenbaby gene underlies intraspecific phenotypic variation, mirroring interspecific divergence in the same trait8
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
Macroevolutionary foundations of a recently evolved innate immune defense8
Idiosyncratic variation in the fitness costs of tetracycline‐resistance mutations in Escherichia coli8
Quantitative assessment of observed versus predicted responses to selection8
Dominance shifts increase the likelihood of soft selective sweeps8
Evolution of bone cortical compactness in slow arboreal mammals8
The relative effects of pace of life‐history and habitat characteristics on the evolution of sexual ornaments: A comparative assessment8
Adaptation to herbivory and detritivory drives the convergent evolution of large abdominal cavities in a diverse freshwater fish radiation (Otophysi: Characiformes)8
Re‐evaluation of the “law of constant extinction” for ruminants at different taxonomical scales8
G-matrix stability in clinally diverging populations of an annual weed8
How common is avian hybridization on an individual level?*8
Modeling colonization rates over time: Generating null models and testing model adequacy in phylogenetic analyses of species assemblages*8
Pushing the boundary? Testing the “functional elongation hypothesis” of the giraffe's neck8
Climatic effects on niche evolution in a passerine bird clade depend on paleoclimate reconstruction method8
Woe is the loner: Female treefrogs prefer clusters of displaying males over single “hotshot” males8
Consequences of coupled barriers to gene flow for the build‐up of genomic differentiation8
Pollinator loss causes rapid adaptive evolution of selfing and dramatically reduces genome‐wide genetic variability8
Clinal and seasonal changes are correlated in Drosophila melanogaster natural populations8
Selective ancestral sorting and de novo evolution in the agricultural invasion of Amaranthus tuberculatus8
Natural selection fluctuates at an extremely fine spatial scale inside a wild population of snapdragon plants8
Effects of body size divergence on male mating tactics in the ground beetle Carabus japonicus8
Colonize, radiate, decline: Unraveling the dynamics of island community assembly with Fijian trap‐jaw ants8
Evolutionary implications of dental anomalies in bats8
Comparative phylogeographic inference with genome‐wide data from aggregated population pairs8
The evolution of wood warbler flight calls: Species with similar migrations produce acoustically similar calls8
Wing plasticity and associated gene expression varies across the pea aphid biotype complex8
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