Evolution

Papers
(The TQCC of Evolution is 7. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits62
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation59
Philosophical foundations of microevolution41
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm40
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness38
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction37
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration37
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster37
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates36
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems35
Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae34
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations33
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach30
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes28
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards28
Allometry, sexual dimorphism, and sexual trait elaboration in the birds-of-paradise27
The effects of developmental temperature and inbreeding on sexually selected traits of male guppies ( Poecilia reticulata )27
The long and difficult history of the path between Darwinism and Lamarckism27
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases27
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation26
Probabilistic principal component analysis for phylogenetic comparative studies26
Wing length canalisation and behaviour across birds: a phylogenetic meta-analysis of variance26
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence25
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees25
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two-island system with continuous migration24
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment22
Post K-Pg rise in ant and termite prevalence underlies convergent dietary specialization in mammals22
Mutation rate variation as the neutral byproduct of developmental and life-history diversification22
Correction to: Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes21
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes21
Digest: Chance and necessity shape introgression patterns across three replicate avian hybrid zones21
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior21
Why do hybrids turn down sex?21
Digest: Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution21
Allochronic isolation between sympatric populations of an alpine butterfly20
Issue information ‐ Ed Board20
Co-evolution of host dispersal and parasite virulence in complex landscapes20
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior20
Evolutionarily labile dispersal behavior and discontinuous habitats enhance population differentiation in island versus continentally distributed swallows20
Digest: Drift and environmental fluctuations reveal fitness variance under balancing selection20
Digest: Behavioral plasticity under nutritional stress in nursery web spiders ensures equal reproductive success20
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations19
Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?19
The evolution of reproductive leaf dimorphism in two globally distributed fern families is neither stepwise nor irreversible, unless further specialization evolves19
Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes19
Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders18
Coincident transitions across elevation and origins of functional innovations drove the phenotypic and ecological diversity of lungless salamanders18
Convergent rates of protein evolution identify novel targets of sexual selection in primates17
Genetic parallelism underlying repeated bill divergence in the island scrub-jay ( Aphelocoma insularis ) increases at higher genetic levels of organizati17
Hybridization and its impact on the ontogenetic allometry of skulls in macaques17
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa17
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
Strong selection is poorly aligned with genetic variation in Ipomoea hederacea : implications for divergence and constraint17
Digest: Reassortment-based evolution of H1N1 subtype swine influenza virus in China17
Riverine flow rate drives widespread convergence in the shell morphology of imperiled freshwater mussels17
Superorganismal anisogamy: a comparative test of an extended theory17
Morphological integration during postnatal ontogeny: implications for evolutionary biology16
Correction to: Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems16
The change in a mean measurement that is invariant under reshuffling of genes16
Commentary: evidence that sexually antagonistic male coloration factors are clustered in a rarely recombining region near the guppy male-determining locus16
History of divergence and gene flow shaping geographic variation in Andean warblers ( Myioborus )16
Distinct intraspecific diversification dynamics in Neotropical montane versus lowland canopy birds (Thraupidae: Tangara ) revealed by whole-genome compar16
Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits16
Comparative functional analyses of the prostate-specific KLK3 enzyme in primates reveal the impact of sexual selection16
Digest: Mating systems, intragenomic conflict, and speciation16
Correction to: Migration pulsedness alters patterns of allele fixation and local adaptation in a mainland-island model16
Testing for a role of postzygotic incompatibilities in rapidly speciated Lake Victoria cichlids16
Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster16
Environment rather than character displacement explains call evolution in glassfrogs15
Statistical decomposition of passive and active phenotypic plasticity in traits under homeostatic regulation15
Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions15
Aphid male wing polymorphisms are transient and have evolved repeatedly15
Phenotypic plasticity as a function of genetic polymorphism: thermal dominance reversal in Drosophila species with contrasting melanism15
Geometric Insights into evolutionary rescue dynamics in a two-deme model15
Relaxed risk of predation drives parallel evolution of stickleback behavior15
Evidence of landscape-driven repeated adaptation among 13 Eucalyptus species15
Strong habitat-specific phenotypic plasticity but no genome-wide differentiation across a rainforest gradient in an African butterfly15
A pangenomic approach reveals the sources of genetic variation fueling the rapid radiation of Capuchino Seedeaters15
Digest: Thermal selection creates a mosaic of trait evolution15
The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness15
Sexual cannibalism as a female resistance trait: a new hypothesis15
Predicting the prevalence of genetic trade-offs among adaptive substitutions15
Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle15
Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives14
Replicate avian hybrid zones reveal the progression of genetic and trait introgression through time14
Correction to: Asexual male production by ZW recombination in Artemia parthenogenetica14
Selection on an extreme-yet-conserved larval life-history strategy in a tapeworm14
Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution14
An approaching storm in evolutionary theory14
Quantitative genetics of lifetime growth curves in a lizard14
Correction to: Ecological, behavioral, and phylogenetic influences on the evolution of dorsal color pattern in geckos14
Don't ask “when is it coevolution?”—ask “how?”14
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
Digest: Trilobites to vertebrates: how development influences the evolution of segmental patterning14
The robustness and evolvability of continuously varying traits14
Correlated evolution of categorical characters under a simple model13
Evolution under a model of functionally buffered deleterious mutations can lead to positive selection in protein-coding genes13
Digest: Evolution of dragline silk in araneids show super tensile performance in web-building and non-web-building spiders13
Host-associated transmission favors transition of a commensal toward antagonism13
Ultraviolet in swallowtail butterflies: contrasted dorso-ventral evolution highlights a trade-off between natural and sexual selection on visual cues13
Parental care liberates juvenile growth: a common-garden test of the evolutionary benefits of care13
Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients13
Source-sink migration of natural enemies drives maladaptation of victim populations in sink habitats13
Testing cohesive selective paths and evaluating loss of evolutionary information while delimiting species of Brazilian wandering spiders13
Digest: Habitat and competition drive diversification in Gondwanan fish13
Early-warning signals of impending speciation13
Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments12
Mismatch between pollen and pistil size causes asymmetric mechanical reproductive isolation across Phlox species12
Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback12
Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses12
Digest: Large-effect loci involved in maturation timing affect the early survival of Atlantic salmon12
Conservation of sensory pathways implies a localized change in the mushroom bodies is associated with cognitive evolution in Heliconius butterflies12
Thermal adaptation of pelage in desert rodents balances cooling and insulation12
Digest: When sexual selection hits the wall of natural selection12
Comparison of thermal developmental plasticity among seven recently sympatric Anolis species: insights into the evolution of reaction norms12
The evolution of life span and aging in response to dietary macronutrients in male and female decorated crickets12
Self-compatibility in yeast is selected for reproductive assurance not population-level compatibility12
Multi-generation selective landscapes and sub-lethal injuries in stickleback12
Trophic niche drives the evolution of craniofacial shape in Trinidadian guppies12
Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis12
Applications of evolutionary science12
Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus:Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago12
Syntopy promotes song divergence in a Neotropical avian radiation11
Hill-Robertson interference may bias the inference of fitness effects of new mutations in highly selfing species11
The evolution of thermal performance curves and life-history traits in responses to thermal selection11
Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?11
An empirical test of Baker’s law: dispersal favors increased rates of self-fertilization11
Open ecosystems expansion, competition, and predation shaped the evolution of Antilocapridae11
Drift and dispersal hinder the evolution of facultative asexual reproduction11
Correlated evolution between nest architecture and the visual system of Passerine birds11
Tissue and toxin-specific divergent evolution in plant defense Evolución divergente específica de tejido y toxina en defensa de plantas11
Rapid evolution of recombination landscapes during the divergence of cichlid ecotypes in Lake Masoko11
Wolbachia strengthens the match between premating and early postmating isolation in spider mites11
The role of resource defensibility in facilitating sexually selected weapon evolution: an experimental evolution test11
The fundamental theorem of natural selection: the end of a story11
Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the de11
The dose makes the poison and the lesson11
Teosinte populations exhibit weak local adaptation to their rhizosphere biota despite strong effects of biota source on teosinte fitness and traits11
Complex patterns of morphological diversity across multiple populations of an urban bird species11
The “sexual selection hypothesis” for the origin of aposematism11
Proteome allocation and the evolution of metabolic cross-feeding11
Latitude and communal living are associated with the evolution of joint territory defense in New World songbirds11
RETRACTED AND REPLACED: The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata11
Maternal quality, paternal effects, and sibling interactions influence seed size in the eelgrass, Zostera marina11
Digest: Same senses, different minds in Heliconius butterflies10
Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution10
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration10
Evolution of dominance in a Mendelian trait is linked to the evolution of environmental plasticity10
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei10
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments10
Repeated evolution of iridescence and hindwing tails is associated with morphometric flight proxies in skipper butterflies10
Linking fluvial barriers and habitat specialization in the evolution of microendemism in riverine fishes10
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes10
Digest: The impact of egg and sperm proteins on sea urchin reproductive compatibility10
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds10
Allometric constraints and the modulation of weapon evolution by mating system in fiddler crabs10
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace10
Autopolyploid establishment depends on life‐history strategy and the mating outcomes of clonal architecture10
Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone10
Museum genomics links MC1R alleles to adaptive winter coat color polymorphism in the long-tailed weasel10
Issue information ‐ Ed Board10
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable10
Digest: Sexual dimorphism and signs of selection in the dewlaps of female Anolis lizards10
Persistence of the persistent9
RNA interference reveals that male nuptial gift proteins affect female behavior to increase male paternity share in decorated crickets9
Lungless tadpoles breathe fresh air into hypotheses for tetrapod lung loss and trait regain9
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem9
Association with dynamic habitats disrupts speciation and reduces the efficacy of purifying selection in flightless beetles9
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta9
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume9
Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes9
Monogamy is necessary but not sufficient for eusociality in African mole-rats (Rodentia: Bathyergidae)9
Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment9
Distinct pathways for diversification of craniofacial morphology driven by size-related constraints in Madagascar primates9
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species9
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production9
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models9
Digest: Experimental evidence of gene flow impacts on host adaptation to a parasite9
Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush9
RADseq data reveal widespread historical introgression in four familiar North American songbirds9
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs9
Behavior evolves as a correlated response to selection on cuticle color in Drosophila melanogaster and D. simulans9
Taking fear back into the marginal value theorem: the rMVT and optimal boldness9
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks9
Pollinator assemblage composition predicts trait divergence in a pollination-generalized plant9
Mixed network structure in a coevolving host–parasite system9
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)9
Suppression of sex-ratio drive in Drosophila subobscura9
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures9
Effects of deleterious mutations on the fixation of chromosomal inversions on autosomes and sex chromosomes9
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus9
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes9
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster9
Retraction and Replacement of: ‘Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes.’8
Insights from the “Women in Evolutionary Biology Workshop” on gender equality in science8
Directional epistasis is common in morphological divergence8
Correction to: Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration8
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles8
Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside8
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
Female reed warblers in social pairs with low MHC dissimilarity achieve higher MHC dissimilarity through random extra-pair mating8
Eco‐evolutionary extinction and recolonization dynamics reduce genetic load and increase time to extinction in highly inbred populations8
Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning8
Both nuclear and cytoplasmic polymorphisms are involved in genetic conflicts over male fertility in the gynodioecious snail, Physa acuta8
The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants8
Cumulative effects of mutation and selection on susceptibility to bacterial pathogens in Caenorhabditis elegans8
Divergent organelle allocation in the evolution of sperm gigantism revealed from subcellular quantification of nematode sperm with electron microscopy8
Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators8
Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation8
Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”8
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations8
Phenotypic and developmental dissection of an instance of the island rule8
Rapid decline of prenatal maternal effects with age is independent of postnatal environment in a precocial bird8
Prezygotic reproductive barriers in precopulatory behavior of tidepool copepod species8
Loss of pair formation predates the evolution of male-less society in termites8
Evolutionary history of delayed plumage maturation in manakins (Aves: Pipridae)8
Genetic evidence of female philopatry in a socially polyandrous shorebird8
Autopolyploid establishment through polygenic adaptation8
A gene copy number arms race in action: X,Y-chromosome transmission distortion across a species barrier8
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
Revisiting the evolution of wing dimorphisms in the genomics era7
The ratio versus difference optimization and its implications for optimality theory7
Parallel and non-parallel phenotypic responses to environmental variation across Lesser Antillean anoles7
First unraveling of the hidden and intricate evolutionary history of a bacterial group II intron family7
Meiotic drive is associated with sexual incompatibility in Neurospora7
Digest: Scarce pollen resources and asymmetric reproductive isolation7
A junk-filled genome7
Ecological theater, evolutionary play, and collective behavior7
Strongly exclusive distribution with putative character displacement in two flying stag beetles7
An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations7
Juvenile and total reproductive values for sexual reproduction under any genetic system7
The rate of chromosomal inversion fixation in plant genomes is highly variable7
The DNA of bias: science, identity, and the fight for belonging7
Expression of Concern: The relationship between sexual dimorphism and androgen response element proliferation in primate genomes7
Genetic drift drives faster-Z evolution in the salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis7
Digest: Few new mutations are recessive lethal7
Correction to: Plasticity cannot fully compensate evolutionary differences in heat tolerance across fish species7
Correction to: Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?7
Digest: Incipient hybrid speciation in the Black-cheeked Gnateater?7
Caenorhabditis diversity on Pohnpei, Micronesia, provides evidence that the Elegans Supergroup has its roots in the Americas and diversified in the Pacific 7
Functional modularity and mechanical stress shape plastic responses during fish development7
Convergent evolution in shape in European lineages of gobies7
Evolutionary potential and constraints in an aposematic species: genetic correlations between warning coloration and fitness components in wood tiger moths7
Remating opportunities and low costs underlie maternal desertion7
Correction to: Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes7
Technical comment on “Negative-assortative mating for color in wolves”7
Digest: Phenotypic plasticity and the genomic signature of novel castes: insights from soldier evolution in Cephalotes7
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