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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Laplace's demon in biology: Models of evolutionary prediction156
Digest: Sexual selection may shape species’ range limits67
The effects of selfing on multi-step adaptation53
Predictors of individual performance and evolutionary potential of life‐history traits in a hematophagous ectoparasite50
Sexual selection towards a protamine expression ratio optimum in two rodent groups?41
Molecular signatures of resource competition: Clonal interference favors ecological diversification and can lead to incipient speciation*38
Do I build or do I move? Adaptation by habitat construction versus habitat choice*37
A response to estimating hybridization in the wild using community science data: A path forward35
Paternal condition affects offspring reproduction and life history in a sex-specific manner inDrosophila melanogaster33
Philosophical foundations of microevolution31
Single-cell transcriptomics supports presence of cryptic species and reveals low levels of population genetic diversity in two testate amoebae morphospecies with large population sizes31
Elevational divergence in pigmentation plasticity is associated with selection and pigment biochemistry29
Genomic discordance throws a wrench in the parallel speciation hypothesis for scincid lizards28
Phenotypic rate and state are decoupled in response to river-to-lake transitions in cichlid fishes27
Untangling the colonization history of the Australo-Pacific reed warblers, one of the world’s great island radiations27
Unpacking the lifelong secrets of little penguins: individual quality, energy allocation, and stochasticity in defining fitness27
Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems27
Sex wars: a female genital spine forces male damselflies to shorten copulation duration27
Immunity-driven evolution of virulence and diversity in respiratory diseases26
Correction to: Allometric scaling of somatic mutation and epimutation rates in trees26
Weak coupling among barrier loci and waves of neutral and adaptive introgression across an expanding hybrid zone25
Phenotypic evolution of SARS-CoV-2: a statistical inference approach24
Challenges and advances in measuring phenotypic convergence24
Evolvability maps an adaptable research paradigm24
Two new hybrid populations expand the swordtail hybridization model system23
Disentangling the avian altricial‐precocial spectrum: Quantitative assessment of developmental mode, phylogenetic signal, and dimensionality23
Predators drive selection for adaptive plasticity in prey defense behavior23
Polyploidy and mutation in Arabidopsis23
Diversity patterns and speciation processes in a two‐island system with continuous migration22
Thyroid hormone tinkering elicits integrated phenotypic changes potentially explaining rapid adaptation of color vision in cichlid fish21
Issue information ‐ Ed Board21
Why are animals conspicuously colored? Evolution of sexual versus warning signals in land vertebrates21
The efficacy of selection may increase or decrease with selfing depending upon the recombination environment21
Using genome scans to identify genes used repeatedly for adaptation21
Evolutionarily labile dispersal behavior and discontinuous habitats enhance population differentiation in island versus continentally distributed swallows20
Genomic basis and phenotypic manifestation of (non‐)parallel serpentine adaptation in Arabidopsis arenosa20
Disentangling the effects of male age and mating history: Contrasting effects of mating history on precopulatory mating behavior and paternity success20
Ecdysis‐related neuropeptide expression and metamorphosis in a non‐ecdysozoan bilaterian20
Riverine flow rate drives widespread convergence in the shell morphology of imperiled freshwater mussels20
Strong selection is poorly aligned with genetic variation in Ipomoea hederacea: implications for divergence and constraint20
Digest: Population genomics reveals convergence toward melanism in different island populations20
Why do hybrids turn down sex?19
Fitness landscapes reveal context-dependent benefits of oviposition behavior19
Digest: Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution19
The evolution of reproductive leaf dimorphism in two globally distributed fern families is neither stepwise nor irreversible, unless further specialization evolves18
Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes18
Correction to: Making sense of recent models of the “sheltering” hypothesis for recombination arrest between sex chromosomes18
Obituary: Professor Matthew James George Gage (1967–2022)18
Paternal genome elimination promotes altruism in viscous populations18
Effects of body size divergence on male mating tactics in the ground beetle Carabus japonicus18
Is adaptation associated with long-term persistence beyond a geographic range limit?18
CANCER AND EVOLUTION: A STORY OF CHEATERS AND REBELS17
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Genomic resolution of cryptic species diversity in chipmunks17
Digest: Nature and nurture: Influences of parental care and rearing environment on phenotypic plasticity in Nicrophorus vespilloides17
Hybridization and its impact on the ontogenetic allometry of skulls in macaques17
Digest: Macroevolutionary pattern from microevolutionary processes *17
Digest: Detecting genomic adaptation to sexual selection at scale using available data17
Convergent rates of protein evolution identify novel targets of sexual selection in primates17
Digest: No conflict of interest between the sexes for optimal immune response in threespine stickleback *17
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Comparative functional analyses of the prostate-specific KLK3 enzyme in primates reveal the impact of sexual selection17
Wolbachia and host intrinsic reproductive barriers contribute additively to postmating isolation in spider mites17
Speciation in Nearctic oak gall wasps is frequently correlated with changes in host plant, host organ, or both16
Shifts in eggshell thickness are related to changes in locomotor ecology in dinosaurs16
Testing for a role of postzygotic incompatibilities in rapidly speciated Lake Victoria cichlids16
Sick of eating: Eco‐evo‐immuno dynamics of predators and their trophically acquired parasites16
Sperm depletion in relation to developmental nutrition and genotype in Drosophila melanogaster16
Selection bias in mutation accumulation16
Sex-specific viability effects of mutations in Drosophila melanogaster16
Extensive pollinator sharing does not promote character displacement in two orchid congeners16
Evolution of class‐structured populations in periodic environments16
Identity signaling, identity reception, and the evolution of social recognition in a Neotropical frog16
Morphological integration during postnatal ontogeny: implications for evolutionary biology16
CORRIGENDUM15
Digest: Mating systems, intragenomic conflict, and speciation15
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Correction to: Migration pulsedness alters patterns of allele fixation and local adaptation in a mainland-island model15
Parthenogenesis in Darevskia lizards: A rare outcome of common hybridization, not a common outcome of rare hybridization15
Variance partitioning of nest provisioning rates in blue tits: individual repeatability, heritability, and partner interactions15
Selection on an extreme-yet-conserved larval life-history strategy in a tapeworm14
Improving inference and avoiding overinterpretation of hidden‐state diversification models: Specialized plant breeding has no effect on diversification in frogs14
Correction to: Got rhythm? Rhythmicity differences reflect different optimality criteria in feeding and locomotor systems14
Three sex phenotypes in a haploid algal species give insights into the evolutionary transition to a self‐compatible mating system*14
Geometric Insights into Evolutionary Rescue Dynamics in a Two-Deme Model14
Evolutionary innovation accelerates morphological diversification in pufferfishes and their relatives14
Strong habitat-specific phenotypic plasticity but no genome-wide differentiation across a rainforest gradient in an African butterfly14
Competition and geography underlie speciation and morphological evolution in Indo‐Australasian monitor lizards14
Fitness as the organismal performance measure guiding adaptive evolution14
Aphid male wing polymorphisms are transient and have evolved repeatedly14
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
Sexual cannibalism as a female resistance trait: a new hypothesis14
The diverse effects of phenotypic dominance on hybrid fitness14
Possible link between brain size and flight mode in birds: Does soaring ease the energetic limitation of the brain?14
Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers13
Evidence of landscape-driven repeated adaptation among 13 Eucalyptus species13
Society for the study of evolution at 75 years: Introduction to the symposium papers13
Thermal adaptation of pelage in desert rodents balances cooling and insulation13
Allometric plasticity and the evolution of environment-by-environment (E×E) interactions during a rapid range expansion of a dung beetle13
Pollinator loss causes rapid adaptive evolution of selfing and dramatically reduces genome‐wide genetic variability13
Predicting the prevalence of genetic trade-offs among adaptive substitutions13
The evidence for divergent sexual selection among closely related barn swallow populations is strong13
Environment rather than character displacement explains call evolution in glassfrogs13
Relaxed risk of predation drives parallel evolution of stickleback behavior13
Diverge and Conquer: Phylogenomics of southern Wallacean forest skinks (Genus:Sphenomorphus) and their colonization of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago13
William G. Hill (August 7, 1940 – December 17, 2021)13
Source-sink migration of natural enemies drives maladaptation of victim populations in sink habitats12
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Mismatch between pollen and pistil size causes asymmetric mechanical reproductive isolation across Phlox species12
Digest: Trilobites to vertebrates: how development influences the evolution of segmental patterning12
Multi-generation selective landscapes and sub-lethal injuries in stickleback12
Early-warning signals of impending speciation12
Comparing diversification rates in lakes, rivers, and the sea12
Self-compatibility in yeast is selected for reproductive assurance not population-level compatibility12
Host-associated transmission favors transition of a commensal toward antagonism12
Testing the adaptive value of sporulation in budding yeast using experimental evolution12
Correlated evolution of categorical characters under a simple model12
Digest: Habitat and competition drive diversification in Gondwanan fish12
Trophic niche drives the evolution of craniofacial shape in Trinidadian guppies12
Testing the predictability of morphological evolution in contrasting thermal environments12
Repeated genetic divergence plays a minor role in repeated phenotypic divergence of lake-stream stickleback11
Unraveling patterns of disrupted gene expression across a complex tissue11
Issue information ‐ Ed Board11
Ecological and life-history drivers of avian skull evolution11
Syntopy promotes song divergence in a Neotropical avian radiation11
Rapid evolution of recombination landscapes during the divergence of cichlid ecotypes in Lake Masoko11
The ‘sexual selection hypothesis’ for the origin of aposematism11
Ultraviolet in swallowtail butterflies: contrasted dorso-ventral evolution highlights a trade-off between natural and sexual selection on visual cues11
Digest: Evolution of dragline silk in araneids show super tensile performance in web-building and non-web-building spiders11
An approaching storm in evolutionary theory11
Correction to: Asexual male production by ZW recombination in Artemia parthenogenetica11
Issue information ‐ Ed Board11
Complex patterns of morphological diversity across multiple populations of an urban bird species11
Wolbachia strengthens the match between premating and early postmating isolation in spider mites11
An empirical test of Baker’s law: dispersal favors increased rates of self-fertilization11
Does genome size increase with water depth in marine fishes?11
Hybrid evolution repeats itself across environmental contexts in Texas sunflowers ( Helianthus )11
CamoEvo: An open access toolbox for artificial camouflage evolution experiments11
Genetics of quantitative traits with dominance under stabilizing and directional selection in partially selfing species11
Evolution under a model of functionally buffered deleterious mutations can lead to positive selection in protein-coding genes11
Multigenerational downregulation of insulin/IGF‐1 signaling in adulthood improves lineage survival, reproduction, and fitness in Caenorhabditis elegans supporting the de11
The evolution of suppressed recombination between sex chromosomes and the lengths of evolutionary strata11
Hill-Robertson interference may bias the inference of fitness effects of new mutations in highly selfing species11
Tissue and toxin-specific divergent evolution in plant defense Evolución divergente específica de tejido y toxina en defensa de plantas11
Protein folds as synapomorphies of the tree of life11
Drought tolerance as an evolutionary precursor to frost and winter tolerance in grasses11
Applications of evolutionary science10
Teosinte populations exhibit weak local adaptation to their rhizosphere biota despite strong effects of biota source on teosinte fitness and traits10
Digest: Large-effect loci involved in maturation timing affect the early survival of Atlantic salmon10
Speciation rates are positively correlated with the rate of plumage color evolution in hummingbirds10
Ongoing introgression of a secondary sexual plumage trait in a stable avian hybrid zone10
Cytogenomic analysis unveils mixed molecular evolution and recurrent chromosomal rearrangements shaping the multigene families onSchistocercagrasshopper genomes10
Modeling how population size drives the evolution of birdsong, a functional cultural trait10
The dose makes the poison and the lesson10
Proteome allocation and the evolution of metabolic cross-feeding10
The evolution of life span and aging in response to dietary macronutrients in male and female decorated crickets10
Aberrant RNA splicing due to genetic incompatibilities in sunflower hybrids10
Re‐evaluating the morphological evidence for the re‐evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs10
Correlated evolution between nest architecture and the visual system of Passerine birds10
The fundamental theorem of natural selection: the end of a story10
Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?10
Digest: When sexual selection hits the wall of natural selection10
The role of resource defensibility in facilitating sexually-selected weapon evolution: An experimental evolution test10
Autopolyploid establishment depends on life‐history strategy and the mating outcomes of clonal architecture10
Sperm metabolic rate predicts female mating frequency acrossDrosophilaspecies10
Multidimensional divergent selection, local adaptation, and speciation10
Experimental evolution reveals differential evolutionary trajectories in male and female activity levels in response to sexual selection and metapopulation structure9
The influence of temperature on courtship and mate choice in a wolf spider: implications for mating success in variable environments9
The cichlid pharyngeal jaw novelty enhances evolutionary integration in the feeding apparatus9
Ehrlich and Raven escape and radiate coevolution hypothesis at different levels of organization: Past and future perspectives9
Age‐ and sex‐dependent variation in relatedness corresponds to reproductive skew, territory inheritance, and workload in cooperatively breeding cichlids9
The evolution of multi-component weapons in the superfamily of leaf-footed bugs9
The emergence of group fitness9
A radiation of Psylliodes flea beetles on Brassicaceae is associated with the evolution of specific detoxification enzymes9
Gigantic animal cells suggest organellar scaling mechanisms across a 50-fold range in cell volume9
Digest: Sperm metabolism links sperm length and female mating frequency*9
Evidence for stronger sexual selection in males than in females using an adapted method of Bateman’s classic study of Drosophila melanogaster9
Sperm as a speciation phenotype in promiscuous songbirds9
Weak integration allows novel fin shapes and spurs locomotor diversity in reef fishes9
Correction to: Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, or gall morphospace9
Digest: Extremes of the mating system continuum are the most evolutionarily stable9
Issue information ‐ Ed Board9
Sexual selection buffers the negative consequences of population fragmentation on adaptive plastic responses to increasing temperatures9
RADseq data reveal widespread historical introgression in four familiar North American songbirds9
The X chromosome of insects likely predates the origin of class Insecta9
Digest: A new tool will illuminate patterns of morphological integration9
Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush9
The evolution of female-biased genital diversity in bedbugs (Cimicidae)9
Multiple mechanisms contribute to isolation-by-environment in the redheaded pine sawfly, Neodiprion lecontei9
Digest: Liolaemus lizards as an emerging model system to study hybridization as a driver of rapid radiations8
Infection phenotypes of a coevolving parasite are highly diverse, structured, and specific8
Island biogeography and competition drive rapid venom complexity evolution across rattlesnakes8
Digest: Complex dynamics of speciation and implications for macroevolutionary models8
Prezygotic reproductive barriers in precopulatory behavior of tidepool copepod species8
Directional epistasis is common in morphological divergence8
The quantitative genetics of fitness in a wild seabird8
The evolution of sex along an environmental gradient8
Correction to: Charting the course of pinniped evolution: insights from molecular phylogeny and fossil record integration8
Model selection, hummingbird natural history, and biological hypotheses: a response to Sazatornil et al.8
Inversions shape the divergence ofDrosophila pseudoobscuraandDrosophila persimilison multiple timescales8
Evolution of plasticity and character displacement in a fluctuating environment8
Comparing rates of molecular and morphological evolution identifies multiple speciation trajectories in a diverse radiation of skinks8
Digest: Experimental evidence of gene flow impacts on host adaptation to a parasite8
Phenotypic and Developmental Dissection of an Instance of the Island Rule8
Both nuclear and cytoplasmic polymorphisms are involved in genetic conflicts over male fertility in the gynodioecious snail, Physa acuta8
Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection8
Genetic evidence of female philopatry in a socially polyandrous shorebird8
Cytoplasmic incompatibility between Old and New World populations of a tramp ant8
Retraction and Replacement of: ‘Consequences of partially recessive deleterious genetic variation for the evolution of inversions suppressing recombination between sex chromosomes.’8
Adaptation to environmental temperature in divergent clades of the nematodePristionchus pacificus8
Digest: Better constructing the future than choosing a new habitat8
Comparative genomics of two Empidonax flycatchers reveal candidate genes for bird song production8
Mixed network structure in a coevolving host – parasite system8
Complex hybridization between deeply diverged fish species in a disturbed ecosystem8
The evolution of ontogenetic “decision-making” in the wood of a clade of tropical plants8
Eco‐evolutionary extinction and recolonization dynamics reduce genetic load and increase time to extinction in highly inbred populations8
A gene copy number arms race in action: X,Y-chromosome transmission distortion across a species barrier8
Rapid, parallel evolution of field mustard ( Brassica rapa ) under experimental drought8
Brain-body coevolution in incipient versus established primate species—evaluating Simpson’s “most important distinction”8
Digest: Evolutionary rescue following the introduction of a pathogen *8
Female preferences between incipient species ofDrosophila athabascareveal divergent closed functions, epistasis, and segregation of veiled preference alleles8
The problem of interaction7
Family living and cooperative breeding in birds are associated with the number of avian predators7
Sewall Wright's criticism of the gene's‐eye view of evolution7
How to tuna fish: constraint, convergence, and integration in the neurocranium of pelagiarian fishes7
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Sex-specific transcription and DNA methylation landscapes of the Asian citrus psyllid, a vector of huanglongbing pathogens7
Distinct signals of clinal and seasonal allele frequency change at eQTLs in Drosophila melanogaster7
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Digest: Repeated body size evolution in island bats7
A response to Justen et al. 2020: Estimating hybridization rates in the wild: Easier said than done?7
Co‐option of stress mechanisms in the origin of evolutionary novelties7
A migratory divide spanning two continents is associated with genomic and ecological divergence7
Strongly exclusive distribution with putative character displacement in two flying stag beetles7
Convergence or redundancy: alternative views about the evolutionary genomics of character displacement7
Defining the speciation continuum7
Multiple metrics of trichome diversity support independent evolutionary hypotheses in blazingstars (Mentzelia: Loasaceae)7
An evolutionary perspective on genetic load in small, isolated populations as informed by whole genome resequencing and forward-time simulations7
Ecological theater, evolutionary play, and collective behavior7
When the neighborhood matters: contextual selection on seedling traits in native and non-native California grasses7
2020 Hindsight: Should evolutionary virologists have expected the unexpected during a pandemic?7
Rapid decline of prenatal maternal effects with age is independent of postnatal environment in a precocial bird7
Temperature-dependent gene regulatory divergence underlies local adaptation with gene flow in the Atlantic silverside7
Issue information ‐ Ed Board7
Correction to: Digest: Does the insertion preference of a transposable element represent a strategy for the mitigation of genetic conflicts with the host?7
Population genomic consequences of life‐history and mating system adaptation to a geothermal soil mosaic in yellow monkeyflowers7
The evolution of coevolution in the study of species interactions7
Juvenile and total reproductive values for sexual reproduction under any genetic system7
Evolutionary Adaptation in Heterogeneous and Changing Environments7
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