Evolution

Papers
(The TQCC of Evolution is 6. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Co‐evolution of dormancy and dispersal in spatially autocorrelated landscapes130
Ecological outcomes of hybridization vary extensively in Catostomus fishes55
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits38
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The evolution of host specialization in an insect pathogen31
Sexual selection towards a protamine expression ratio optimum in two rodent groups?29
Digest: Taxonomically inclusive and quantitative tests for convergence*28
Issue information ‐ Ed Board26
Digest: Recurrence of sexually dimorphic neurological structure in neotropical butterflies *26
Digest: Extensive pollinator sharing does not promote character displacement in two orchid congeners26
Digest: More than just a pretty fin: The evolution of sexual ornaments in killifish *26
Digest: Exploring the interplay between migration and speciation in the barn swallow *25
Digest: Sperm metabolism links sperm length and female mating frequency*24
Digest: The non-redundancy of non-ephemeral reproductive isolation23
Correction to: How development affects evolution23
Evolutionary drivers of sexual signal variation in Amazon Slender Anoles23
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration23
Feather Evolution Following Flight Loss In Crown Group Birds: Relaxed Selection And Developmental Constraints22
Digest: Evolution of redirected help in a viscous population22
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior22
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases22
Infection phenotypes of a coevolving parasite are highly diverse, structured, and specific21
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees21
Polyploidy and mutation in Arabidopsis21
Ehrlich and Raven escape and radiate coevolution hypothesis at different levels of organization: Past and future perspectives21
Decoupled evolution of the cranium and mandible in carnivoran mammals20
Eco‐evolutionary feedbacks among pollinators, herbivores, and their plant resources20
Evolutionary history of sexual selection affects microRNA profiles in Drosophila sperm19
Growth‐defense trade‐offs masked in unadmixed populations are revealed by hybridization18
Termite nest evolution fostered social parasitism by termitophilous rove beetles18
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation18
Early diversification of avian limb morphology and the role of modularity in the locomotor evolution of crown birds18
A response to estimating hybridization in the wild using community science data: A path forward17
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction17
Why and how to apply Weber's Law to coevolution and mimicry17
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems17
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Correction to: Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach16
Nonadaptive molecular evolution of seminal fluid proteins in Drosophila16
The synthesis and the two scenarios16
The emergence of group fitness16
The evolutionary history and mechanistic basis of female ornamentation in a tropical songbird16
Thermal adaptation in a holobiont accompanied by phenotypic changes in an endosymbiont16
Do I build or do I move? Adaptation by habitat construction versus habitat choice*16
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite16
Most published selection gradients are underestimated: Why this is and how to fix it16
Mapping the evolution of accurate Batesian mimicry of social wasps in hoverflies16
Disentangling the avian altricial‐precocial spectrum: Quantitative assessment of developmental mode, phylogenetic signal, and dimensionality16
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments15
Gene pseudogenization in fertility-associated genes in cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), a species with long-term low effective population size15
Macroevolutionary foundations of a recently evolved innate immune defense15
Testing the occurrence of convergence in the craniomandibular shape evolution of living carnivorans*15
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks15
Weak coupling among barrier loci and waves of neutral and adaptive introgression across an expanding hybrid zone15
Male‐biased sexual selection, but not sexual dichromatism, predicts speciation in birds14
Two new hybrid populations expand the swordtail hybridization model system14
Rapid microgeographic evolution in response to climate change14
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates14
Molecular signatures of resource competition: Clonal interference favors ecological diversification and can lead to incipient speciation*14
Complex interactions underlie the correlated evolution of floral traits and their association with pollinators in a clade with diverse pollination systems14
The effects of costly telomere maintenance on lifespan - reproductive tradeoffs in sand lizards14
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production14
Luck, lottery, or legacy? The problem of confounding. A reply to Harden14
Richard Owen: revolutionary comparative anatomy, or “antiquarian business?”14
Additive and non‐additive effects of day and night temperatures on thermally plastic traits in a model for adaptive seasonal plasticity14
Age‐ and sex‐dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids14
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish14
Evidence that genomic incompatibilities and other multilocus processes impact hybrid fitness in a rattlesnake hybrid zone14
Baby makes three: Maternal, paternal, and zygotic genetic effects shape larval phenotypic evolution14
Salamanders reveal novel trajectories of amphibian MHC evolution14
Digest: Selection for staggered pollen release as a driver of heteranthery*14
Variation and heritability of retinal cone ratios in a free‐ranging population of rhesus macaques14
Secondary contact rather than coexistence— Erebia butterflies in the Alps14
Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure14
Fish out of water: Genomic insights into persistence of rainbowfish populations in the desert13
Herbivory and water availability interact to shape the adaptive landscape in the perennial forb, Boechera stricta13
Rapid evolution of sex role specialization in a hermaphrodite under sex-limited selection13
Is Mendelism wrong?13
Plastic responses of males and females interact to determine mating behavior13
Novel host unmasks heritable variation in plant preference within an insect population13
Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry13
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei13
Heterozygote advantage and pleiotropy contribute to intraspecific color trait variability13
An effect size for comparing the strength of morphological integration across studies13
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration13
Erratum to “Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry”13
Genome-wide DNA methylation predicts environmentally driven life history variation in a marine fish13
From micro to macroevolution: drivers of shape variation in an island radiation ofPodarcislizards*13
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster12
Early origin and diverse phenotypic implementation of iridescent UV patterns for sexual signaling in pierid butterflies12
Digest: Salamanders reveal novel trajectories of amphibian MHC evolution12
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume12
Feeding biomechanics reveals niche differentiation related to insular gigantism12
Seasonality and competition select for variable germination behavior in perennials12
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta12
Heritability and preadult survivorship costs of ectoparasite resistance in the naturally occurring DrosophilaGamasodes mite system12
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)12
Transgressive segregation in mating traits drives hybrid speciation12
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation12
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus12
Hybridization in the absence of an ecotone favors hybrid success in woodrats (Neotomaspp.)12
Engaging the public in the science of evolution12
Macroevolution of floral scent chemistry across radiations of male euglossine bee-pollinated plants12
Sexually antagonistic coevolution can explain female display signals and male sensory adaptations11
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures11
Digest: Rare male offspring highlight an alternative pathway to obligate asexuality11
The effect of miniaturization on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in geckos11
Selection drives divergence of eye morphology in sympatric Heliconius butterflies11
Philosophical foundations of microevolution11
Ecological character displacement among Nothobranchius annual killifishes in Tanzania11
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness11
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach11
Extreme range in adult body size reveals hidden trade-offs among sexually selected traits11
Selection on sporulation strategies in a metapopulation can lead to coexistence11
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster11
An experimental test of the evolutionary consequences of sympatry in Drosophila subquinaria11
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes11
Ultraviolet signaling in a butterfly is preferred by females and conveys male genetic quality11
Digest: A sex chromosome driver without a sperm deficit11
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes11
The eco-evolutionary origins of life11
Tracing evolutionary trajectories in the presence of gene flow in South American temperate lizards (Squamata: Liolaemus kingii group)11
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence11
RADseq data reveal widespread historical introgression in four familiar North American songbirds11
Intermittent migration can induce pulses of speciation in a two-island system11
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes11
Effects of selfing on the evolution of sexual reproduction11
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace11
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs10
Phenotypic plasticity in tropical butterflies is linked to climatic seasonality on a macroevolutionary scale10
Shared environmental similarity between relatives influences heritability of reproductive timing in wild great tits10
Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush10
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds10
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable10
Go west, young bunting: recent climate change drives rapid movement of a Great Plains hybrid zone10
Optimal polyandry in fruit flies10
Placental evolution from a three-dimensional and multiscale structural perspective10
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm10
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes10
Suture zones, speciation, and evolution10
Digest: Urbanization shapes selection altering food webs10
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations10
Sequential trait evolution did not drive deep-time diversification in sharks10
Niches for neglected ideas?10
Digest: Evaluating sexual conflict in the genome10
Exploring adaptive landscapes across deep time: A case study using echinoid body size9
Shared patterns of segment size development in trilobites and vertebrates9
A multivariate view of the speciation continuum9
Sex matters: predator presence induces sexual dimorphism in a monomorphic prey, from stress genes to morphological defences9
From individual behaviors to collective outcomes: fruiting body formation inDictyosteliumas a group-level phenotype9
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration9
Spatial heterogeneity in resources alters selective dynamics in Drosophila melanogaster9
Topographically distinct adaptive landscapes for teeth, skeletons, and size explain the adaptive radiation of Carnivora (Mammalia)9
Sexual conflict over phenological traits: selection for protandry can lock populations into temporally mismatched reproduction9
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem9
Sex, amitosis, and evolvability in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila9
Within-generation and transgenerational social plasticity interact during rapid adaptive evolution9
Can we ignore trait-dependent colonization and diversification in island biogeography?9
Body size and substrate use affect ventral, but not dorsal, brightness evolution in lizards9
Constraints to speciation despite divergence in an old haplochromine cichlid lineage9
Evidence for an evo‐devo‐derived hypothesis on three‐dimensional flower shape modularity in a tropical orchid clade9
Digest: Population genomics reveals convergence toward melanism in different island populations9
Asexual male production by ZW recombination inArtemia parthenogenetica9
Decoupling of height growth and drought or pest resistance tradeoffs is revealed through multiple common-garden experiments of lodgepole pine9
Geographic variability of hybridization between red-breasted and red-naped sapsuckers9
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment9
Correlated evolution of parental care with dichromatism, colors, and patterns in anurans9
Population bottleneck has only marginal effect on fitness evolution and its repeatability in dioecious Caenorhabditis elegans9
Digest: Drivers of diversification in Indo‐Australian monitor lizards*8
Quantifying male harm and its divergence8
Issue information ‐ Ed Board8
Positive selection plays a major role in shaping signatures of differentiation across the genomic landscape of two independent Ficedula flycatcher species pairs*8
Phylogenetic patterns of trait and trait plasticity evolution: Insights from tadpoles8
Digest: Stable phenotypes, fluid genotypes: how stochasticity impacts network evolution and speciation8
Artificial mosaic brain evolution of relative telencephalon size improves inhibitory control abilities in the guppy ( Poecilia reticulata )8
Eco‐evolutionary extinction and recolonization dynamics reduce genetic load and increase time to extinction in highly inbred populations8
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Digest: Social context underlies subordinate status in a primitively social bee8
Partial paternity does not always select for female‐biased care8
Digest: Evolutionary rescue following the introduction of a pathogen *8
Josh Van Buskirk (1959–2021)8
Experimental manipulation of sexual traits in barn swallow populations—No evidence for divergent sexual selection8
G-matrix stability in clinally diverging populations of an annual weed8
Re‐emergence and diversification of a specialized antennal lobe morphology in ithomiine butterflies*8
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Sewall Wright's criticism of the gene's‐eye view of evolution8
Digest: Evolution of plasticity and its potential role in the decline of specialists8
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties8
Digest: Parallel rather than unique local adaptation along a steep elevation gradient*8
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations8
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
Issue information ‐ Ed Board8
Effects of body size divergence on male mating tactics in the ground beetle Carabus japonicus8
Digest: Better constructing the future than choosing a new habitat8
An age‐related decline in the expression of a red carotenoid‐based ornament in wild birds8
Tattersall’s take on human evolution8
Digest: Recurrent evolution of worker production by interspecific hybridization in harvester ants: Parasitism or kludge? *8
Deborah Charlesworth, winner of the society for the study of evolution's inaugural lifetime achievement award: Evolutionary biology for the genomics era8
Digest: Positive selection and recombination shape the genomic landscape in flycatchers*8
Response to technical comment by Muir (2022) on “Negative-assortative mating for color in wolves”8
Issue information ‐ Ed Board8
Trade‐offs in expressed major histocompatibility complex diversity seen on a macroevolutionary scale among songbirds7
Male and female reproductive fitness costs of an immune response in natural populations *7
Inversions shape the divergence ofDrosophila pseudoobscuraandDrosophila persimilison multiple timescales7
Ecdysis‐related neuropeptide expression and metamorphosis in a non‐ecdysozoan bilaterian7
Rapid evolution of trait correlation networks during bacterial adaptation to the rhizosphere7
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence7
Estimation of the strength of mate preference from mated pairs observed in the wild7
A flexible method for estimating tip diversification rates across a range of speciation and extinction scenarios7
Sex, males, and hermaphrodites in the scale insect Icerya purchasi *7
Disentangling the effects of male age and mating history: Contrasting effects of mating history on precopulatory mating behavior and paternity success7
Rapid, parallel evolution of field mustard ( Brassica rapa ) under experimental drought7
Digest: Morphological diversity in urban dark-eyed juncos7
From leaves to seeds? The dietary shift in late Miocene colobine monkeys of southeastern Europe7
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematodePristionchus pacificus7
Dawkins or Lewontin or both? Review of The Gene's‐Eye View of Evolution, by J.Arvid Ågren, Oxford, U.K: Oxford University Press.7
Temperature predicts the rate of molecular evolution in Australian Eugongylinae skinks7
On the origin of patterns of temperature-dependent sex determination7
Find the food first: An omnivorous sensory morphotype predates biomechanical specialization for plant based diets in phyllostomid bats*7
Natural selection fluctuates at an extremely fine spatial scale inside a wild population of snapdragon plants7
Obituary: Professor Matthew James George Gage (1967–2022)7
Stamen dimorphism in bird‐pollinated flowers: Investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery7
Cytoplasmic incompatibility between Old and New World populations of a tramp ant7
Life history and environment predict variation in testosterone across vertebrates7
On the impermanence of species: The collapse of genetic incompatibilities in hybridizing populations7
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles7
Strong selection is poorly aligned with genetic variation in Ipomoea hederacea: implications for divergence and constraint7
The contribution of extra‐pair paternity to the variation in lifetime and age‐specific male reproductive success in a socially monogamous species7
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior6
Metabolic remodeling and de novo mutations transcend cryptic variation as drivers of adaptation in yeast6
Expression of concern: Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes6
Both selection and drift drive the spatial pattern of adaptive genetic variation in a wild mammal6
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations6
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection6
Quantifying the phenome-wide response to sex-specific selection in Drosophila melanogaster6
The Climatic Variability Hypothesis and trade-offs in thermal performance in coastal and inland populations ofMimulus guttatus6
Widespread reticulate evolution in an adaptive radiation6
Kin-discriminating partner choice promotes the evolution of helping6
The evolution of reproductive leaf dimorphism in two globally distributed fern families is neither stepwise nor irreversible, unless further specialization evolves6
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa6
Digest: Whole genomes delimit multiple species of Galapagos giant tortoises6
Age-specific effects of deletions: implications for aging theories6
Genetic variance and indirect genetic effects for affiliative social behavior in a wild primate6
Short-term fitness consequences of parasitism depend on host genotype and within-host parasite community6
Retraction and Replacement of: ‘Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes.’6
Inference of symbiotic adaptations in nature using experimental evolution6
Evolution in response to climate in the native and introduced ranges of a globally distributed plant6
Small-scale genetic differentiation in mean flowering time, but not in plasticity, along a geothermal heating gradient6
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models6
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