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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits88
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation69
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards61
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach45
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees44
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations40
Philosophical foundations of microevolution33
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm32
Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae31
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes31
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness31
Post K-Pg rise in ant and termite prevalence underlies convergent dietary specialization in mammals31
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation31
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes30
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior28
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases28
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration26
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment26
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration25
Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry25
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite24
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems24
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction24
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates24
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish23
A response to estimating hybridization in the wild using community science data: A path forward23
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior23
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster23
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence23
Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders22
Why do hybrids turn down sex?22
Correction to: Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes22
Strong selection is poorly aligned with genetic variation in Ipomoea hederacea: implications for divergence and constraint22
Digest: Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution22
Issue information ‐ Ed Board21
Riverine flow rate drives widespread convergence in the shell morphology of imperiled freshwater mussels21
Obituary: Professor Matthew James George Gage (1967–2022)21
Hybridization and its impact on the ontogenetic allometry of skulls in macaques21
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations21
Digest: Behavioral plasticity under nutritional stress in nursery web spiders ensures equal reproductive success20
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa20
Evolutionarily labile dispersal behavior and discontinuous habitats enhance population differentiation in island versus continentally distributed swallows19
The evolution of reproductive leaf dimorphism in two globally distributed fern families is neither stepwise nor irreversible, unless further specialization evolves19
Extensive pollinator sharing does not promote character displacement in two orchid congeners18
Selection bias in mutation accumulation18
Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?18
Morphological integration during postnatal ontogeny: implications for evolutionary biology18
Testing for a role of postzygotic incompatibilities in rapidly speciated Lake Victoria cichlids18
Identity signaling, identity reception, and the evolution of social recognition in a Neotropical frog18
Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes18
The change in a mean measurement that is invariant under reshuffling of genes18
Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both18
Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks18
Comparative functional analyses of the prostate-specific KLK3 enzyme in primates reveal the impact of sexual selection17
Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits17
Digest: Nature and nurture: Influences of parental care and rearing environment on phenotypic plasticity in Nicrophorus vespilloides17
Convergent rates of protein evolution identify novel targets of sexual selection in primates17
Evolution of class‐structured populations in periodic environments17
Digest: Detecting genomic adaptation to sexual selection at scale using available data17
Hitting rock bottom: exaptation, ecological filtering, and the benthopelagic divergence of percid fishes17
Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster17
Evidence of landscape-driven repeated adaptation among 13 Eucalyptus species16
Correction to: Migration pulsedness alters patterns of allele fixation and local adaptation in a mainland-island model16
Geometric Insights into evolutionary rescue dynamics in a two-deme model16
Aphid male wing polymorphisms are transient and have evolved repeatedly16
Strong habitat-specific phenotypic plasticity but no genome-wide differentiation across a rainforest gradient in an African butterfly16
Correction to: Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems16
Selection on an extreme-yet-conserved larval life-history strategy in a tapeworm15
Sexual cannibalism as a female resistance trait: a new hypothesis15
Environment rather than character displacement explains call evolution in glassfrogs15
Predicting the prevalence of genetic trade-offs among adaptive substitutions15
Relaxed risk of predation drives parallel evolution of stickleback behavior15
Comparing the hermaphroditic mating system of a parasitic flatworm between populations with an ancestral, three-host life cycle and a derived, facultative precocious life cycle15
Digest: Mating systems, intragenomic conflict, and speciation15
Improving inference and avoiding overinterpretation of hidden‐state diversification models: Specialized plant breeding has no effect on diversification in frogs15
Correction to: Asexual male production by ZW recombination in Artemia parthenogenetica14
Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle14
The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness14
Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives14
Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers14
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Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo‐Australasian monitor lizards14
Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions14
Digest: Trilobites to vertebrates: how development influences the evolution of segmental patterning14
Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards: A rare outcome of common hybridization, not a common outcome of rare hybridization14
Early-warning signals of impending speciation14
Trophic niche drives the evolution of craniofacial shape in Trinidadian guppies14
Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution14
Possible link between brain size and flight mode in birds: Does soaring ease the energetic limitation of the brain?14
Self-compatibility in yeast is selected for reproductive assurance not population-level compatibility14
Don't ask “when is it coevolution?”—ask “how?”14
Pollinator loss causes rapid adaptive evolution of selfing and dramatically reduces genome‐wide genetic variability14
Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments14
An approaching storm in evolutionary theory14
A pangenomic approach reveals the sources of genetic variation fueling the rapid radiation of Capuchino Seedeaters14
CORRIGENDUM14
Digest: Habitat and competition drive diversification in Gondwanan fish13
Ultraviolet in swallowtail butterflies: contrasted dorso-ventral evolution highlights a trade-off between natural and sexual selection on visual cues13
Source-sink migration of natural enemies drives maladaptation of victim populations in sink habitats13
Does genome size increase with water depth in marine fishes?13
Digest: Evolution of dragline silk in araneids show super tensile performance in web-building and non-web-building spiders13
Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients13
Multi-generation selective landscapes and sub-lethal injuries in stickleback13
Thermal adaptation of pelage in desert rodents balances cooling and insulation13
Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses13
Host-associated transmission favors transition of a commensal toward antagonism13
Evolution under a model of functionally buffered deleterious mutations can lead to positive selection in protein-coding genes13
Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback13
Society for the study of evolution at 75 years: Introduction to the symposium papers12
Comparison of thermal developmental plasticity among seven recently sympatric Anolis species: insights into the evolution of reaction norms12
Protein folds as synapomorphies of the tree of life12
Unraveling patterns of disrupted gene expression across a complex tissue12
Parental care liberates juvenile growth: a common-garden test of the evolutionary benefits of care12
The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong12
Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers ( Helianthus )12
Applications of evolutionary science12
Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis12
William G. Hill (August 7, 1940 – December 17, 2021)12
CamoEvo: An open access toolbox for artificial camouflage evolution experiments12
Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus:Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago12
Mismatch between pollen and pistil size causes asymmetric mechanical reproductive isolation across Phlox species12
Correlated evolution of categorical characters under a simple model12
Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the de11
The role of resource defensibility in facilitating sexually selected weapon evolution: an experimental evolution test11
Proteome allocation and the evolution of metabolic cross-feeding11
The dose makes the poison and the lesson11
Sperm metabolic rate predicts female mating frequency acrossDrosophilaspecies11
Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone11
Digest: Large-effect loci involved in maturation timing affect the early survival of Atlantic salmon11
The evolution of life span and aging in response to dietary macronutrients in male and female decorated crickets11
An empirical test of Baker’s law: dispersal favors increased rates of self-fertilization11
Issue information ‐ Ed Board11
Drift and dispersal hinder the evolution of facultative asexual reproduction11
Digest: When sexual selection hits the wall of natural selection11
Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?11
Correlated evolution between nest architecture and the visual system of Passerine birds11
Open ecosystems expansion, competition, and predation shaped the evolution of Antilocapridae11
Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution10
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes10
Digest: Sexual dimorphism and signs of selection in the dewlaps of female Anolis lizards10
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species10
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)10
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable10
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
Autopolyploid establishment depends on life‐history strategy and the mating outcomes of clonal architecture10
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration10
Syntopy promotes song divergence in a Neotropical avian radiation10
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace10
Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush10
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei10
Mixed network structure in a coevolving host–parasite system10
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments10
RNA interference reveals that male nuptial gift proteins affect female behavior to increase male paternity share in decorated crickets10
Tissue and toxin-specific divergent evolution in plant defense Evolución divergente específica de tejido y toxina en defensa de plantas10
The fundamental theorem of natural selection: the end of a story10
Hill-Robertson interference may bias the inference of fitness effects of new mutations in highly selfing species10
Complex patterns of morphological diversity across multiple populations of an urban bird species10
Modeling how population size drives the evolution of birdsong, a functional cultural trait10
The “sexual selection hypothesis” for the origin of aposematism10
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks10
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes10
Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes10
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume10
Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment10
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
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
Distinct pathways for diversification of craniofacial morphology driven by size-related constraints in Madagascar primates9
Ehrlich and Raven escape and radiate coevolution hypothesis at different levels of organization: Past and future perspectives9
The emergence of group fitness9
Taking fear back into the marginal value theorem: the rMVT and optimal boldness9
Evolution of dominance in a Mendelian trait is linked to the evolution of environmental plasticity9
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus9
Suppression of sex-ratio drive in Drosophila subobscura9
Digest: Sperm metabolism links sperm length and female mating frequency*9
Digest: The impact of egg and sperm proteins on sea urchin reproductive compatibility9
Persistence of the persistent9
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster9
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem9
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures9
Issue information ‐ Ed Board9
Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure9
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds9
Allometric constraints and the modulation of weapon evolution by mating system in fiddler crabs9
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs9
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta9
Lungless tadpoles breathe fresh air into hypotheses for tetrapod lung loss and trait regain9
Autopolyploid establishment through polygenic adaptation8
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties8
Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside8
RADseq data reveal widespread historical introgression in four familiar North American songbirds8
Retraction and Replacement of: ‘Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes.’8
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
Rapid decline of prenatal maternal effects with age is independent of postnatal environment in a precocial bird8
Cumulative effects of mutation and selection on susceptibility to bacterial pathogens in Caenorhabditis elegans8
Directional epistasis is common in morphological divergence8
Genetic evidence of female philopatry in a socially polyandrous shorebird8
Correction to: Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration8
Both nuclear and cytoplasmic polymorphisms are involved in genetic conflicts over male fertility in the gynodioecious snail, Physa acuta8
Phenotypic and developmental dissection of an instance of the island rule8
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles8
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models8
Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation8
Prezygotic reproductive barriers in precopulatory behavior of tidepool copepod species8
Eco‐evolutionary extinction and recolonization dynamics reduce genetic load and increase time to extinction in highly inbred populations8
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematodePristionchus pacificus8
Divergent organelle allocation in the evolution of sperm gigantism revealed from subcellular quantification of nematode sperm with electron microscopy8
Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”8
Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators8
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations8
The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants8
Digest: Experimental evidence of gene flow impacts on host adaptation to a parasite8
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production8
Digest: Better constructing the future than choosing a new habitat8
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence8
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection8
Rapid, parallel evolution of field mustard ( Brassica rapa ) under experimental drought8
A gene copy number arms race in action: X,Y-chromosome transmission distortion across a species barrier8
Expression of Concern: The relationship between sexual dimorphism and androgen response element proliferation in primate genomes7
Digest: Parks aren’t just for us: city parks as archipelagos for the study of rapid evolution7
Ecological theater, evolutionary play, and collective behavior7
Strongly exclusive distribution with putative character displacement in two flying stag beetles7
Evolutionary Adaptation in Heterogeneous and Changing Environments7
Juvenile and total reproductive values for sexual reproduction under any genetic system7
The city and forest bird flock together in a common garden: genetic and environmental effects drive urban phenotypic divergence7
Technical comment on “Negative-assortative mating for color in wolves”7
Correction to: Plasticity cannot fully compensate evolutionary differences in heat tolerance across fish species7
Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation landscapes of the Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of huanglongbing pathogens7
Multiple metrics of trichome diversity support independent evolutionary hypotheses in blazingstars (Mentzelia: Loasaceae)7
Correction to: Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?7
Can sexual selection promote within-species divergence of male genitalia? A study case with a male-dimorphic arachnid7
Convergent evolution in shape in European lineages of gobies7
The rate of chromosomal inversion fixation in plant genomes is highly variable7
First unraveling of the hidden and intricate evolutionary history of a bacterial group II intron family7
Digest: Scarce pollen resources and asymmetric reproductive isolation7
An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations7
How to tuna fish: constraint, convergence, and integration in the neurocranium of pelagiarian fishes7
Comprehensive phylogenetic trait estimations support ancestral omnivory in the ecologically diverse bat family Phyllostomidae7
Life history and chemical defense interact to drive patterns of adaptation in an annual monkeyflower7
Convergence or redundancy: alternative views about the evolutionary genomics of character displacement7
When the neighborhood matters: contextual selection on seedling traits in native and non-native California grasses7
Digest: Repeated body size evolution in island bats7
Correction to: Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes7
Digest: Few new mutations are recessive lethal7
A junk-filled genome7
Population genomic consequences of life‐history and mating system adaptation to a geothermal soil mosaic in yellow monkeyflowers7
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