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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Defining the speciation continuum112
Fitness benefits to bacteria of carrying prophages and prophage‐encoded antibiotic‐resistance genes peak in different environments65
Comparative studies on speciation: 30 years since Coyne and Orr50
The Bogert effect, a factor in evolution48
When and how do sex‐linked regions become sex chromosomes?37
Morphological integration and modularity in the hyperkinetic feeding system of aquatic‐foraging snakes34
A flexible method for estimating tip diversification rates across a range of speciation and extinction scenarios34
Resolving spatial complexities of hybridization in the context of the gray zone of speciation in North American ratsnakes (Pantherophis obsoletuscomplex)32
Addressing Darwin's dilemma: Can pseudo‐overdominance explain persistent inbreeding depression and load?31
The strength of reproductive isolating barriers in seed plants: Insights from studies quantifying premating and postmating reproductive barriers over the past 15 years30
Adaptation across geographic ranges is consistent with strong selection in marginal climates and legacies of range expansion29
Global elongation and high shape flexibility as an evolutionary hypothesis of accommodating mammalian brains into skulls29
In a nutshell, a reciprocal transplant experiment reveals local adaptation and fitness trade‐offs in response to urban evolution in an acorn‐dwelling ant29
Nonadaptive molecular evolution of seminal fluid proteins in Drosophila28
Support for faster and more adaptive Z chromosome evolution in two divergent lepidopteran lineages *27
Recombination and selection against introgressed DNA26
System drift and speciation26
Lottery, luck, or legacy. A review of “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA matters for social equality”26
Evidence for speciation underground in diving beetles (Dytiscidae) from a subterranean archipelago26
The evolution of coevolution in the study of species interactions25
The mutation effect reaction norm (mu‐rn) highlights environmentally dependent mutation effects and epistatic interactions24
Polygenic local adaptation in metapopulations: A stochastic eco‐evolutionary model23
Comparing diversification rates in lakes, rivers, and the sea23
The geometry and genetics of hybridization23
Displaced clines in an avian hybrid zone (Thamnophilidae:Rhegmatorhina) within an Amazonian interfluve*23
Phenotypic and genotypic parallel evolution in parapatric ecotypes ofSenecio23
Find the food first: An omnivorous sensory morphotype predates biomechanical specialization for plant based diets in phyllostomid bats*22
Why study plasticity in multiple traits? New hypotheses for how phenotypically plastic traits interact during development and selection22
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties22
Gene expression plasticity and desert adaptation in house mice*22
Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes21
Selection and isolation define a heterogeneous divergence landscape between hybridizingHeliconiusbutterflies21
Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it21
Life‐cycle complexity in helminths: What are the benefits?21
An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations21
Phenotypic integration in feliform carnivores: Covariation patterns and disparity in hypercarnivores versus generalists21
Natural selection mediated by seasonal time constraints increases the alignment between evolvability and developmental plasticity21
Fang evolution in venomous snakes: Adaptation of 3D tooth shape to the biomechanical properties of their prey20
Asymmetric, but opposing reductions in immigrant viability and fecundity promote reproductive isolation among host‐associated populations of an insect herbivore20
Speciation rates are positively correlated with the rate of plumage color evolution in hummingbirds20
Positive selection plays a major role in shaping signatures of differentiation across the genomic landscape of two independent Ficedula flycatcher species pairs*20
Genetics of quantitative traits with dominance under stabilizing and directional selection in partially selfing species19
Branching patterns in phylogenies cannot distinguish diversity‐dependent diversification from time‐dependent diversification19
Genetic architecture of floral traits in bee‐ and hummingbird‐pollinated sister species of Aquilegia (columbine)18
Testing evolutionary explanations for the lifespan benefit of dietary restriction in fruit flies ( Drosophila melanogaster )18
Condition‐dependent interaction between mating success and competitive fertilization success in Drosophila melanogaster*18
Cranial ecomorphology of turtles and neck retraction as a possible trigger of ecological diversification18
Evolution and genetic architecture of disassortative mating at a locus under heterozygote advantage18
Quantifying selection on standard metabolic rate and body mass in Drosophila melanogaster18
Homage to Felsenstein 1981, or why are there so few/many species?17
Balancing selection in self‐fertilizing populations17
Genetic and species‐level biodiversity patterns are linked by demography and ecological opportunity17
Genetic diversity and disease: The past, present, and future of an old idea17
Molecular signatures of resource competition: Clonal interference favors ecological diversification and can lead to incipient speciation*17
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence16
Statistics of eigenvalue dispersion indices: Quantifying the magnitude of phenotypic integration16
Allen Orr and the genetics of adaptation16
The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata16
Using ecological context to interpret spatiotemporal variation in natural selection16
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection16
Multidimensional divergent selection, local adaptation, and speciation16
Constraint and divergence in the evolution of male and female recombination rates in fishes16
Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers15
Early evolution of reproductive isolation: A case of weak inbreeder/strong outbreeder leads to an intraspecific hybridization barrier in Arabidopsis lyrata15
Two new hybrid populations expand the swordtail hybridization model system15
A shift in ontogenetic timing produced the unique sauropod skull15
Artificial mosaic brain evolution of relative telencephalon size improves inhibitory control abilities in the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata )15
Fitness effects of mutation in natural populations of Arabidopsis thaliana reveal a complex influence of local adaptation15
Looking at the past to infer into the future: Thermal traits track environmental change in Liolaemidae*15
Infection phenotypes of a coevolving parasite are highly diverse, structured, and specific15
The balance model of honest sexual signaling14
Analytical results for directional and quadratic selection gradients for log‐linear models of fitness functions14
Interacting phenotypes and the coevolutionary process: Interspecific indirect genetic effects alter coevolutionary dynamics14
Revisiting a classic hybrid zone: Movement of the northern flicker hybrid zone in contemporary times14
Sex, males, and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi *14
An effect size for comparing the strength of morphological integration across studies14
Invasion and maintenance of meiotic drivers in populations of ascomycete fungi14
The scaling of diversification rates with age is likely explained by sampling bias14
No evidence for short‐term evolutionary response to a warming environment in Drosophila14
Ecological constraints on highly evolvable olfactory receptor genes and morphology in neotropical bats14
Male and female reproductive fitness costs of an immune response in natural populations *14
Life history and environment predict variation in testosterone across vertebrates14
Who are we now? A demographic assessment of three evolution societies14
Mating and fitness consequences of variation in male allocation in a wind‐pollinated plant14
Social information use shapes the coevolution of sociality and virulence14
Unraveling patterns of disrupted gene expression across a complex tissue14
How is adaptive potential distributed within species ranges?14
Selection favors adaptive plasticity in a long‐term reciprocal transplant experiment14
On the impermanence of species: The collapse of genetic incompatibilities in hybridizing populations14
Male‐biased sexual selection, but not sexual dichromatism, predicts speciation in birds14
Stamen dimorphism in bird‐pollinated flowers: Investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery13
Disentangling the avian altricial‐precocial spectrum: Quantitative assessment of developmental mode, phylogenetic signal, and dimensionality13
Weak coupling among barrier loci and waves of neutral and adaptive introgression across an expanding hybrid zone13
Autopolyploid establishment depends on life‐history strategy and the mating outcomes of clonal architecture13
Evolutionary and morphological patterns underlying carnivoran body shape diversity13
Testing for adaptive radiation: A new approach applied to Madagascar frogs*13
Adaptive divergence generates distinct plastic responses in two closely related Senecio species13
Testing the occurrence of convergence in the craniomandibular shape evolution of living carnivorans*13
Properties of phenotypic plasticity in discrete threshold traits13
Sexual conflict in protandrous flowers and the evolution of gynodioecy*13
Sperm depletion in relation to developmental nutrition and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster13
Cytoplasmic incompatibility between Old and New World populations of a tramp ant13
A multivariate view of the speciation continuum13
How development affects evolution13
Evolution of large males is associated with female‐skewed adult sex ratios in amniotes13
Limited evidence for a positive relationship between hybridization and diversification across seed plant families12
How should functional relationships be evaluated using phylogenetic comparative methods? A case study using metabolic rate and body temperature12
Evolution of diel activity patterns in skinks (Squamata: Scincidae), the world's second‐largest family of terrestrial vertebrates12
Evolution in alternating environments with tunable interlandscape correlations12
The evolutionary history and mechanistic basis of female ornamentation in a tropical songbird12
Genetic architecture of repeated phenotypic divergence in Littorina saxatilis ecotype evolution12
Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo‐Australasian monitor lizards12
Assortative mating and epistatic mating‐trait architecture induce complex movement of the crow hybrid zone12
Trade‐offs in expressed major histocompatibility complex diversity seen on a macroevolutionary scale among songbirds12
Complex interactions underlie the correlated evolution of floral traits and their association with pollinators in a clade with diverse pollination systems12
The expression of care: Alloparental care frequency predicts neural control of facial muscles in primates12
The effects of migration load, selfing, inbreeding depression, and the genetics of adaptation on autotetraploid versus diploid establishment in peripheral habitats12
Repeatability and heritability of social reaction norms in a wild agamid lizard12
Wolbachia and host intrinsic reproductive barriers contribute additively to postmating isolation in spider mites12
Age‐ and sex‐dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids12
Fish out of water: Genomic insights into persistence of rainbowfish populations in the desert12
Independent and adaptive evolution of phenotypic novelties driven by coral symbiosis in barnacle larvae11
Evolution of specialization in a plant‐microbial mutualism is explained by the oscillation theory of speciation11
The evolution of sex along an environmental gradient11
Ecology and behavior predict an evolutionary trade‐off between song complexity and elaborate plumages in antwrens (Aves, Thamnophilidae)11
Epigenetic induction may speed up or slow down speciation with gene flow11
Dominance shifts increase the likelihood of soft selective sweeps11
Long‐term cloud forest response to climate warming revealed by insect speciation history*11
Fast life‐histories are associated with larger brain size in killifishes11
Selection bias in mutation accumulation11
G-matrix stability in clinally diverging populations of an annual weed11
Macroevolutionary foundations of a recently evolved innate immune defense11
Constrained flexibility of parental cooperation limits adaptive responses to harsh conditions11
Re‐evaluating the morphological evidence for the re‐evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs11
Nonadditive genetic effects induce novel phenotypic distributions in male mating traits of F1 hybrids11
Pollinator loss causes rapid adaptive evolution of selfing and dramatically reduces genome‐wide genetic variability11
Selective ancestral sorting and de novo evolution in the agricultural invasion of Amaranthus tuberculatus11
Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both11
Exploring adaptive landscapes across deep time: A case study using echinoid body size11
Evolutionary implications of dental anomalies in bats11
Haldane's rule in the placenta: Sex‐biased misregulation of the Kcnq1 imprinting cluster in hybrid mice11
Neo‐darwinism still haunts evolutionary theory: A modern perspective on Charlesworth, Lande, and Slatkin (1982)11
Evolutionary rescue in host‐pathogen systems*11
Phenotypic selection in natural populations: what have we learned in 40 years?10
Systematic review reveals multiple sexually antagonistic polymorphisms affecting human disease and complex traits10
Indirect genetic and environmental effects on behaviors, morphology, and life‐history traits in a wild Eastern chipmunk population10
Adaptation to herbivory and detritivory drives the convergent evolution of large abdominal cavities in a diverse freshwater fish radiation (Otophysi: Characiformes)10
Genetic differences in the temporal and environmental stability of transgenerational environmental effects10
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation10
The evolution of habitat construction with and without phenotypic plasticity*10
Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback10
The evolution of wood warbler flight calls: Species with similar migrations produce acoustically similar calls10
Glutamine synthetase evolutionary history revisited: Tracing back beyond the Last Universal Common Ancestor10
Declining amphibians might be evolving increased reproductive effort in the face of devastating disease10
Decreased coevolutionary potential and increased symbiont fecundity during the biological invasion of a legume‐rhizobium mutualism10
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish10
Aposematism in mammals10
Consequences of coupled barriers to gene flow for the build‐up of genomic differentiation10
Woe is the loner: Female treefrogs prefer clusters of displaying males over single “hotshot” males10
Contributions of genetic and nongenetic sources to variation in cooperative behavior in a cooperative mammal10
Softness of selection and mating system interact to shape trait evolution under sexual conflict10
Natural selection fluctuates at an extremely fine spatial scale inside a wild population of snapdragon plants10
Additive and non‐additive effects of day and night temperatures on thermally plastic traits in a model for adaptive seasonal plasticity10
Interspecific introgression reveals a role of male genital morphology during the evolution of reproductive isolation in Drosophila9
Climatic effects on niche evolution in a passerine bird clade depend on paleoclimate reconstruction method9
Community diversity determines the evolution of synthetic bacterial communities under artificial selection9
The relative effects of pace of life‐history and habitat characteristics on the evolution of sexual ornaments: A comparative assessment9
Genomic analyses overturn two long‐standing homoploid hybrid speciation hypotheses9
Re‐evaluation of the “law of constant extinction” for ruminants at different taxonomical scales9
No evidence for the evolution of mating behavior in spider mites due toWolbachia‐induced cytoplasmic incompatibility9
Cis ‐regulatory variation in the shavenbaby gene underlies intraspecific phenotypic variation, mirroring interspecific divergence in the same trait9
Heterozygote advantage and pleiotropy contribute to intraspecific color trait variability9
Inversions and genomic differentiation after secondary contact: When drift contributes to maintenance, not loss, of differentiation9
Quantitative assessment of observed versus predicted responses to selection9
Evaluating evidence of mitonuclear incompatibilities with the sex chromosomes in an avian hybrid zone9
Maintenance of local adaptation despite gene flow in a coastal songbird9
Selection for functional performance in the evolution of cuticle hardening mechanisms in insects9
Looks can be deceiving: speciation dynamics of co‐distributedAngophora(Myrtaceae) species in a varying landscape9
Temperature predicts the rate of molecular evolution in Australian Eugongylinae skinks9
From leaves to seeds? The dietary shift in late Miocene colobine monkeys of southeastern Europe9
Copy number variations and young duplicate genes have high methylation levels in sticklebacks9
Pushing the boundary? Testing the “functional elongation hypothesis” of the giraffe's neck9
Sexual antagonism in haplodiploids9
Demographic consequences of dispersal‐related trait shift in two recently diverged taxa of montane grasshoppers*9
Wing plasticity and associated gene expression varies across the pea aphid biotype complex9
Clinal and seasonal changes are correlated in Drosophila melanogaster natural populations9
Patterns of genetic divergence and demographic history shed light on island‐mainland population dynamics and melanic plumage evolution in the white‐winged Fairywren*9
Rapid, parallel evolution of field mustard ( Brassica rapa ) under experimental drought9
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration9
Mapping the evolution of accurate Batesian mimicry of social wasps in hoverflies9
From micro to macroevolution: drivers of shape variation in an island radiation ofPodarcislizards*8
The distribution of the Lansing Effect across animal species8
Rugged relief and climate promote isolation and divergence between two neotropical cold‐associated birds8
What do orange spots reveal about male (and female) guppies? A test using correlated responses to selection8
Idiosyncratic variation in the fitness costs of tetracycline‐resistance mutations in Escherichia coli8
Changing allometric relationships among fossil and Recent populations in two colonial species8
The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness8
Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards: A rare outcome of common hybridization, not a common outcome of rare hybridization8
Evolution of class‐structured populations in periodic environments8
Testing for genetic assimilation with phylogenetic comparative analysis: Conceptual, methodological, and statistical considerations8
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
Evidence that genomic incompatibilities and other multilocus processes impact hybrid fitness in a rattlesnake hybrid zone8
Secondary contact rather than coexistence— Erebia butterflies in the Alps8
P ‐elements strengthen reproductive isolation within the Drosophila simulans species complex8
Cytogenomic analysis unveils mixed molecular evolution and recurrent chromosomal rearrangements shaping the multigene families onSchistocercagrasshopper genomes8
Aberrant RNA splicing due to genetic incompatibilities in sunflower hybrids8
Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments8
Effects of developmental and adult environments on ageing8
Hybrid zone or hybrid lineage: a genomic reevaluation of Sibley’s classic species conundrum inPipilotowhees8
Quantifying the fraction of new mutations that are recessive lethal8
Evolution of sociability by artificial selection *8
Disentangling the effects of male age and mating history: Contrasting effects of mating history on precopulatory mating behavior and paternity success8
Dysregulation of host‐control causes interspecific conflict over host investment into symbiotic organs8
Rapid microgeographic evolution in response to climate change8
Genome-wide DNA methylation predicts environmentally driven life history variation in a marine fish8
Estimating the capacity of Chamaecrista fasciculata for adaptation to change in precipitation8
Estimating the distribution of carotenoid coloration in skin and integumentary structures of birds and extinct dinosaurs8
Distinct suites of pre‐ and post‐adaptations indicate independent evolutionary pathways of snapping claws in the shrimp family Alpheidae (Decapoda: Caridea)8
Neuroanatomical shifts mirror patterns of ecological divergence in three diverse clades of mimetic butterflies8
Evolution of bone cortical compactness in slow arboreal mammals8
Beaks promote rapid morphological diversification along distinct evolutionary trajectories in labrid fishes (Eupercaria: Labridae)8
Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation landscapes of the Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of huanglongbing pathogens8
Population genomic consequences of life‐history and mating system adaptation to a geothermal soil mosaic in yellow monkeyflowers8
Effects of body size divergence on male mating tactics in the ground beetle Carabus japonicus8
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta8
The impact of mistranslation on phenotypic variability and fitness7
Does genome size increase with water depth in marine fishes?7
From generalist to specialists: Variation in the host range and performance of anther‐smut pathogens on Dianthus *7
Shifts in eggshell thickness are related to changes in locomotor ecology in dinosaurs7
Evidence for ecological processes driving speciation among endemic lizards of Madagascar7
Evolution in response to climate in the native and introduced ranges of a globally distributed plant7
Re‐emergence and diversification of a specialized antennal lobe morphology in ithomiine butterflies*7
Baby makes three: Maternal, paternal, and zygotic genetic effects shape larval phenotypic evolution7
Testing which axes of species differentiation underlie covariance of phylogeographic similarity among montane sedge species7
Integrative genomic phylogeography reveals signs of mitonuclear incompatibility in a natural hybrid goby population7
Karyotypic diversity: a neglected trait to explain angiosperm diversification?7
Identity signaling, identity reception, and the evolution of social recognition in a Neotropical frog7
A region of the sex chromosome associated with population differences in diapause induction contains highly divergent alleles at clock genes7
Allometry constrains the evolution of sexual dimorphism inDrosophilaacross 33 million years of divergence7
The contribution of extra‐pair paternity to the variation in lifetime and age‐specific male reproductive success in a socially monogamous species7
P-element invasion fuels molecular adaptation in laboratory populations of Drosophila melanogaster7
Ehrlich and Raven escape and radiate coevolution hypothesis at different levels of organization: Past and future perspectives7
Experimental disruption of social structure reveals totipotency in the orchid bee, Euglossa dilemma7
Do sexually selected weapons drive diversification?7
Remating opportunities and low costs underlie maternal desertion7
A novel method for jointly modeling the evolution of discrete and continuous traits7
Life histories as mosaics: Plastic and genetic components differ among traits that underpin life‐history strategies7
Developmental plasticity reveals hidden fish phenotypes and enables morphospace diversification7
An age‐related decline in the expression of a red carotenoid‐based ornament in wild birds7
Decoupled evolution of the cranium and mandible in carnivoran mammals7
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