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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits72
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation63
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards50
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees47
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations34
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm33
Philosophical foundations of microevolution33
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes32
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish32
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases31
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration31
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness28
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates28
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration28
A response to estimating hybridization in the wild using community science data: A path forward28
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior28
Historical effects during experimental evolution of multicellularity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae27
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems27
Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry27
Post K-Pg rise in ant and termite prevalence underlies convergent dietary specialization in mammals26
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction26
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes26
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster25
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach25
Allometry, sexual dimorphism, and sexual trait elaboration in the birds of paradise24
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment24
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence24
Correction to: Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes23
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation23
Digest: Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution23
Why do hybrids turn down sex?23
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite23
Obituary: Professor Matthew James George Gage (1967–2022)22
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations22
Issue information ‐ Ed Board22
Digest: Behavioral plasticity under nutritional stress in nursery web spiders ensures equal reproductive success21
Coincident transitions across elevation and origins of functional innovations drove the phenotypic and ecological diversity of lungless salamanders20
Hybridization and its impact on the ontogenetic allometry of skulls in macaques20
Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders20
Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes20
Co-evolution of host dispersal and parasite virulence in complex landscapes20
Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?20
The evolution of reproductive leaf dimorphism in two globally distributed fern families is neither stepwise nor irreversible, unless further specialization evolves19
Riverine flow rate drives widespread convergence in the shell morphology of imperiled freshwater mussels19
Comparative functional analyses of the prostate-specific KLK3 enzyme in primates reveal the impact of sexual selection18
Strong selection is poorly aligned with genetic variation in Ipomoea hederacea : implications for divergence and constraint18
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior18
Convergent rates of protein evolution identify novel targets of sexual selection in primates18
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa18
Digest: Nature and nurture: Influences of parental care and rearing environment on phenotypic plasticity in Nicrophorus vespilloides18
Evolutionarily labile dispersal behavior and discontinuous habitats enhance population differentiation in island versus continentally distributed swallows18
Genetic parallelism underlying repeated bill divergence in the Island Scrub-jay ( Aphelocoma insularis ) increases at higher genetic levels of organizati17
Quantitative genetics of microbiome-mediated traits17
Digest: Detecting genomic adaptation to sexual selection at scale using available data17
Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks17
Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both17
Digest: Reassortment-based evolution of H1N1 subtype Swine Influenza Virus in China17
Commentary: Evidence that sexually antagonistic male coloration factors are clustered in a rarely recombining region near the guppy male-determining locus17
Hitting rock bottom: exaptation, ecological filtering, and the benthopelagic divergence of percid fishes16
Morphological integration during postnatal ontogeny: implications for evolutionary biology16
Testing for a role of postzygotic incompatibilities in rapidly speciated Lake Victoria cichlids16
Distinct intraspecific diversification dynamics in Neotropical montane versus lowland canopy birds (Thraupidae: Tangara ) revealed by whole-genome compar16
The change in a mean measurement that is invariant under reshuffling of genes16
Selection bias in mutation accumulation16
Extensive pollinator sharing does not promote character displacement in two orchid congeners16
Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster16
Possible link between brain size and flight mode in birds: Does soaring ease the energetic limitation of the brain?15
Strong habitat-specific phenotypic plasticity but no genome-wide differentiation across a rainforest gradient in an African butterfly15
Correction to: Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems15
Predicting the prevalence of genetic trade-offs among adaptive substitutions15
Evolution of class‐structured populations in periodic environments15
Geometric Insights into evolutionary rescue dynamics in a two-deme model15
Selection on an extreme-yet-conserved larval life-history strategy in a tapeworm15
Digest: Mating systems, intragenomic conflict, and speciation15
Correction to: Migration pulsedness alters patterns of allele fixation and local adaptation in a mainland-island model15
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
Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions14
Sexual cannibalism as a female resistance trait: a new hypothesis14
Environment rather than character displacement explains call evolution in glassfrogs14
A pangenomic approach reveals the sources of genetic variation fueling the rapid radiation of Capuchino Seedeaters14
Don't ask “when is it coevolution?”—ask “how?”14
CORRIGENDUM14
Evidence of landscape-driven repeated adaptation among 13 Eucalyptus species14
Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution14
Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers14
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Phenotypic plasticity as a function of genetic polymorphism: thermal dominance reversal in Drosophila species with contrasting melanism14
Relaxed risk of predation drives parallel evolution of stickleback behavior14
Pollinator loss causes rapid adaptive evolution of selfing and dramatically reduces genome‐wide genetic variability14
Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle14
Aphid male wing polymorphisms are transient and have evolved repeatedly13
An approaching storm in evolutionary theory13
Digest: Trilobites to vertebrates: how development influences the evolution of segmental patterning13
Protein folds as synapomorphies of the tree of life13
Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments13
Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards: A rare outcome of common hybridization, not a common outcome of rare hybridization13
Early-warning signals of impending speciation13
Correction to: Asexual male production by ZW recombination in Artemia parthenogenetica13
The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong13
Self-compatibility in yeast is selected for reproductive assurance not population-level compatibility13
The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness13
Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives13
Trophic niche drives the evolution of craniofacial shape in Trinidadian guppies13
Evolution under a model of functionally buffered deleterious mutations can lead to positive selection in protein-coding genes13
Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses13
Unraveling patterns of disrupted gene expression across a complex tissue12
Source-sink migration of natural enemies drives maladaptation of victim populations in sink habitats12
Diagnosing confounded Bateman gradients12
William G. Hill (August 7, 1940 – December 17, 2021)12
Correlated evolution of categorical characters under a simple model12
Mismatch between pollen and pistil size causes asymmetric mechanical reproductive isolation across Phlox species12
Comparison of thermal developmental plasticity among seven recently sympatric Anolis species: insights into the evolution of reaction norms12
CamoEvo: An open access toolbox for artificial camouflage evolution experiments12
Ultraviolet in swallowtail butterflies: contrasted dorso-ventral evolution highlights a trade-off between natural and sexual selection on visual cues12
Host-associated transmission favors transition of a commensal toward antagonism12
Phenotypic plasticity drives the development of laterality in the scale-eating cichlid fish Perissodus microlepis12
Parental care liberates juvenile growth: a common-garden test of the evolutionary benefits of care12
Thermal adaptation of pelage in desert rodents balances cooling and insulation12
Digest: Evolution of dragline silk in araneids show super tensile performance in web-building and non-web-building spiders12
Digest: Habitat and competition drive diversification in Gondwanan fish12
Society for the study of evolution at 75 years: Introduction to the symposium papers12
Does genome size increase with water depth in marine fishes?12
Multi-generation selective landscapes and sub-lethal injuries in stickleback12
Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback11
Open ecosystems expansion, competition, and predation shaped the evolution of Antilocapridae11
Drift and dispersal hinder the evolution of facultative asexual reproduction11
Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone11
Syntopy promotes song divergence in a Neotropical avian radiation11
Modeling how population size drives the evolution of birdsong, a functional cultural trait11
Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the de11
Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?11
Digest: Large-effect loci involved in maturation timing affect the early survival of Atlantic salmon11
Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers ( Helianthus )11
Issue information ‐ Ed Board11
Hill-Robertson interference may bias the inference of fitness effects of new mutations in highly selfing species11
The role of resource defensibility in facilitating sexually selected weapon evolution: an experimental evolution test11
Teosinte populations exhibit weak local adaptation to their rhizosphere biota despite strong effects of biota source on teosinte fitness and traits11
An empirical test of Baker’s law: dispersal favors increased rates of self-fertilization11
The evolution of life span and aging in response to dietary macronutrients in male and female decorated crickets11
Applications of evolutionary science11
Digest: When sexual selection hits the wall of natural selection11
Autopolyploid establishment depends on life‐history strategy and the mating outcomes of clonal architecture11
Proteome allocation and the evolution of metabolic cross-feeding11
Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution11
Maternal quality, paternal effects, and sibling interactions influence seed size in the eelgrass, Zostera marina11
The dose makes the poison and the lesson11
Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus:Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago11
Tissue and toxin-specific divergent evolution in plant defense Evolución divergente específica de tejido y toxina en defensa de plantas10
Sperm metabolic rate predicts female mating frequency acrossDrosophilaspecies10
Correlated evolution between nest architecture and the visual system of Passerine birds10
The fundamental theorem of natural selection: the end of a story10
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments10
Digest: The impact of egg and sperm proteins on sea urchin reproductive compatibility10
The “sexual selection hypothesis” for the origin of aposematism10
Complex patterns of morphological diversity across multiple populations of an urban bird species10
Rapid evolution of recombination landscapes during the divergence of cichlid ecotypes in Lake Masoko10
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes10
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)10
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures10
Wolbachia strengthens the match between premating and early postmating isolation in spider mites10
RETRACTED AND REPLACED: The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata10
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration10
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable10
Mixed network structure in a coevolving host–parasite system10
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace10
Allometric constraints and the modulation of weapon evolution by mating system in fiddler crabs9
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes9
Persistence of the persistent9
Evolution of dominance in a Mendelian trait is linked to the evolution of environmental plasticity9
Digest: Sperm metabolism links sperm length and female mating frequency*9
Taking fear back into the marginal value theorem: the rMVT and optimal boldness9
Lungless tadpoles breathe fresh air into hypotheses for tetrapod lung loss and trait regain9
Issue information ‐ Ed Board9
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem9
Retraction and Replacement of: ‘Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes.’9
Suppression of sex-ratio drive in Drosophila subobscura9
Ehrlich and Raven escape and radiate coevolution hypothesis at different levels of organization: Past and future perspectives9
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus9
Digest: Sexual dimorphism and signs of selection in the dewlaps of female Anolis lizards9
Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure9
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei9
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
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production9
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster9
Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment9
The emergence of group fitness9
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs9
RNA interference reveals that male nuptial gift proteins affect female behavior to increase male paternity share in decorated crickets9
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks9
Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes9
Digest: Postzygotic isolation barriers stabilize a hybrid zone between two grosbeak species9
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta9
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds9
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume9
Distinct pathways for diversification of craniofacial morphology driven by size-related constraints in Madagascar primates9
Autopolyploid establishment through polygenic adaptation8
Both nuclear and cytoplasmic polymorphisms are involved in genetic conflicts over male fertility in the gynodioecious snail, Physa acuta8
Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”8
Sex ratio theory for facultative parthenogens: from fortuitously optimal stick insects to the origin of haplodiploidy in Hymenoptera8
Cumulative effects of mutation and selection on susceptibility to bacterial pathogens in Caenorhabditis elegans8
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
Genetic evidence of female philopatry in a socially polyandrous shorebird8
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models8
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations8
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles8
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence8
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
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection8
Eco‐evolutionary extinction and recolonization dynamics reduce genetic load and increase time to extinction in highly inbred populations8
Prezygotic reproductive barriers in precopulatory behavior of tidepool copepod species8
Digest: Experimental evidence of gene flow impacts on host adaptation to a parasite8
Digest: Better constructing the future than choosing a new habitat8
Model selection, hummingbird natural history, and biological hypotheses: a response to Sazatornil et al.8
Ancient stickleback genomes reveal the early stages of parallel adaptation8
Phenotypic and developmental dissection of an instance of the island rule8
Insights from the “Women in Evolutionary Biology Workshop” on Gender Equality in Science8
Correction to: Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration8
A gene copy number arms race in action: X,Y-chromosome transmission distortion across a species barrier8
The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants8
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematodePristionchus pacificus8
Genotype‐by‐environment interactions modulate the rate of microevolution in reproductive timing in humans7
Can sexual selection promote within-species divergence of male genitalia? A study case with a male-dimorphic arachnid7
Digest: Few new mutations are recessive lethal7
Correction to: Plasticity cannot fully compensate evolutionary differences in heat tolerance across fish species7
An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations7
Life history and chemical defense interact to drive patterns of adaptation in an annual monkeyflower7
Microgeographic diversity does not drive macroevolutionary divergence in bite force of the Ibiza wall lizard, Podarcis pityusensis7
Strongly exclusive distribution with putative character displacement in two flying stag beetles7
Loss of pair formation predates the evolution of male-less society in termites7
Distinct signals of clinal and seasonal allele frequency change at eQTLs in Drosophila melanogaster7
Technical comment on “Negative-assortative mating for color in wolves”7
Convergent evolution in shape in European lineages of gobies7
Expression of Concern: The relationship between sexual dimorphism and androgen response element proliferation in primate genomes7
How to tuna fish: constraint, convergence, and integration in the neurocranium of pelagiarian fishes7
Population genomic consequences of life‐history and mating system adaptation to a geothermal soil mosaic in yellow monkeyflowers7
The genetic basis of a novel reproductive strategy in Sulawesi ricefishes: How modularity and a low number of loci shape pelvic brooding7
Digest: Parks aren’t just for us: city parks as archipelagos for the study of rapid evolution7
Rapid decline of prenatal maternal effects with age is independent of postnatal environment in a precocial bird7
Convergence or redundancy: alternative views about the evolutionary genomics of character displacement7
Comprehensive phylogenetic trait estimations support ancestral omnivory in the ecologically diverse bat family Phyllostomidae7
First unraveling of the hidden and intricate evolutionary history of a bacterial group II intron family7
A junk-filled genome7
Digest: Scarce pollen resources and asymmetric reproductive isolation7
When the neighborhood matters: contextual selection on seedling traits in native and non-native California grasses7
Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation landscapes of the Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of huanglongbing pathogens7
Directional epistasis is common in morphological divergence7
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties7
Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside7
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