Journal of Experimental Biology

Article	Citations
What do molecular laws of life mean for species: absolute restrictions or mere suggestions?	162
Correction: Behavioral and physiological evidence that increasing group size ameliorates the impacts of social disturbance	93
Night-light illuminates wasp behaviour	83
ECR Spotlight – Michael Pedersen	76
Grease keeps polar bears ice-free and silent	69
Arduino allows development of a low-cost, high-resolution metabolic and behavioral phenotyping system for birds	58
ECR Spotlight – Brett Culbert	48
Spotted salamanders seek humid habitats to avoid drying out	45
JEB@100: an interview with Monitoring Editor Katie Gilmour	45
ECR Spotlight – Alexis Kazen	43
ECR Spotlight – Jeffrey Spear	41
ECR Spotlight – Racine Rangel	40
Evidence that submerged water anoles breathe oxygen through bubble gill	40
Monarchs that fly long, live long	39
Correction: Intergenerational plasticity to cycling high temperature and hypoxia affects offspring stress responsiveness and tolerance in zebrafish	38
Finches can lose weight without dieting or exercising	37
ECR Spotlight – Derek Campos	36
Monarch migration metabolism soars with rising temperatures	36
ECR Spotlight – Salvatore Lacava	35
Nile tilapia sagitta ear bones play dual role in balance and hearing	33
ECR Spotlight – Kwanho Ki	32
Lovebirds land on a flying trapeze with the greatest of ease	32
Repetitive nociceptive stimulation elicits complex behavioral changes in Hirudo: evidence of arousal and motivational adaptations	31
Barometric pressure decrease induces density-dependent changes in foraging behaviour in a parasitoid fly	31
Evolution, accessibility and community: JEB's journey into 2026	30

Sensitivity of the mystacial vibrissal system of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) to size differences of single vortex rings	30
Shell-shocked: parasite-induced behaviour and development in an invasive dead-end snail host	29
Cardiovascular responses and the role of the neurohumoral cardiac regulation during digestion in the herbivorous lizard Iguana iguana	29
Elytral thickness and hidden species-specific traits shape passive thermal responses in beetles	29
Moving against inertia, friction and gravity: different modalities, same consequences for animal propulsive force capacity	28
Developmental plasticity of the cardiovascular system in oviparous vertebrates: effects of chronic hypoxia and interactive stressors in the context of climate change	28
Hypergravity exposure leads to persistent effects on geotaxis and activity in Drosophila melanogaster	28
Exploring epigenetic inheritance: alternative models and experimental approaches	26
Protein-biased diets enhance immune responses but increase fungal susceptibility in desert locusts	26
Thrust production and chordal flexion of the flukes of bottlenose dolphins performing tail stands at different efforts	26
Ultraviolet vision in anemonefish improves colour discrimination	26
Zebrafish parental progeny investment in response to cycling thermal stress and hypoxia: deposition of heat shock proteins but not cortisol	26
ECR Spotlight – Katherine Malinski and Olivia Madalone	26
Maintained mitochondrial integrity without oxygen in the anoxia-tolerant crucian carp	26
Multi-transmitter characteristics and functional specialization of oxytocin neuron subpopulations in zebrafish	26
First evidence of sex-specific responses to chemical cues in tardigrade mate searching behaviour	26
Functional diversity and behavioural use of fibre-producing silk glands in Pholcus phalangioides	26
Anatomy and mechanisms of vocal production in harvest mice	25
Ice in the intertidal: patterns and processes of freeze tolerance in intertidal invertebrates	25
Field physiology in the aquatic realm: ecological energetics and diving behavior provide context for elucidating patterns and deviations	25
Why the superb physiological capacity of birds matters	24
Chronic bacterial infections exert metabolic costs in Drosophila melanogaster	24
Plasticity in response to mean temperature and temperature variation – from life history to heat tolerance and melanism	23
Tibial strains are sensitive to speed perturbations, but not grade perturbations, during running	23
Molecular mechanisms behind the temporal dynamics of LPS-induced inflammatory response in splenic phagocytes of the wall lizard Hemidactylus flaviviridis	23
The physiological consequences of a very large natural meal in a voracious marine fish, the staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus)	23
The enzymatic and neurochemical outcomes of a mutation in Mexican cavefish MAO reveal teleost-specific aspects of brain monoamine homeostasis	23
Heatwaves inflict reproductive but not survival costs to male insects	22
The energetics of movement, from exercise to ecology and evolution	22
Ontogenetic exposure to light influences seabird vulnerability to light pollution	22
Temperature and the microbial environment alter brain morphology in a larval amphibian	22
Pulsation waves along the Ciona heart tube reverse by bimodal rhythms expressed by a remote pair of pacemakers	22
Challenges for wildlife seeking sleep in a disturbed world	22
Human muscle–tendon unit mechanobiological responses to consecutive high strain cyclic loading	22
2024: Reflections on a year of supporting and promoting our early-career researchers	22
Daily energetic expenditure and energy consumption of short-finned pilot whales	22
Time-energy budgets outperform dynamic body acceleration in predicting daily energy expenditure in kittiwakes, and estimate a very low cost of gliding flight relative to flapping flight	21
Plasticity of salmonfly (Pteronarcys californica) respiratory phenotypes in response to changes in temperature and oxygen	21
Temperature outweighs diet in shaping developmental performance in two cricket species via growth delays and physiological limits	21
ECR Spotlight – Ingrid Ackermann	21
RNAseK is vital for epithelial function in Drosophila melanogaster	21
Maintaining control: metabolism of molting Arctic seals in water and when hauled out	20
Chronic stress and the development of a depression-like neuroendocrine profile in Atlantic salmon	20
Diurnal hawkmoth opsins evolving faster for greener vision	20
Plasticity and evolved changes in mitochondrial physiology across skeletal muscles of high-altitude deer mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus )	20
Aerial maneuvering by plethodontid salamanders spanning an arboreality gradient	20
Foxes have an advantage for hunting in the snow	20
An early-life perspective is needed to explain the impact of gut microbiota on wild vertebrate phenotypes	20
A clashing colour combination with deadly consequences	20
Dinosaurs weren't so cool	19

Dynamic defence? Intertidal triplefin species show better maintenance of mitochondrial membrane potential than subtidal species at low oxygen pressures	19
ECR Spotlight – Ralph Lacerda de Albuquerque	19
ECR Spotlight – Haneal Pae	19
Unraveling the relationships that keep ecosystems healthy	19
ECR Spotlight – Nicholas Barrett	19
Who said that? Fish compare pressure and motion to localize sound	19
ECR Spotlight – Michael Meece	19
A review of the empirical evidence for costs of plasticity in ectothermic animals	19
Stressed salmon develop hallmarks of depression	18
Dehydration impacts lizard speed, but not as much as heat	18
Extraordinary creatures: mantis shrimp	18
Head movement gives glimpse into where crows gaze	18
Penguin molt revisited: dive performance following the molt of adult king penguins (Aptenodytes patagonicus) and conflicting physiological demands at sea	18
Light environment and seasonal variation in the visual system of the red shiner ( Cyprinella lutrensis )	18
Hypertonic water reabsorption with a parallel-current system via the glandular and saccular renal tubules of Ruditapes philippinarum	18
Infected ants prefer protein-packed diet	18
ECR Spotlight – Jordan Glass	18
Summer famines could be disastrous for sardines	18
Correction: The influence of substrate size upon pulling and gripping forces in parrots (Psittaciformes: Agapornis roseicollis)	18
Hatching: a clever plan	18
A coati conundrum: how variation in levels of arboreality influences gait mechanics among three musteloid species	18
The added costs of winter ocean warming for metabolism, arm regeneration and survival in the brittle star Ophionereis schayeri	17
Sharper, straighter bills give male green hermits the edge in beak arms race	17
Antho-RFamide effect on light production in the bioluminescent sea pen Pennatula phosphorea (Octocorallia, Pennatulacea)	17
Neuromuscular coordination of movement and breathing forges a hammer-like mechanism for woodpecker drilling	17
Get a grip: evaluating the importance of different beetle tarsal structures in landing attachment	17
No detectable evidence for metabolic costs of long-term memory formation in honeybees, despite increased energy intake	17
Integrated response of the zebrafish ( Danio rerio ) cardiovascular system to hypoxia acclimation	17
Unlocking the mysteries of biosonar use and foraging behaviour in wild bats with on-board acoustic recording tags	17
Co-regulated plasticity between limits to energy budget in Dromiciops gliroides : a model for ancestral endothermy	17
ECR Spotlight – Pedro Julião Jimenez	17
ECR Spotlight – Sushmita Arumugam Amogh	17
Artificial light at night enhances defensive behaviour in aquatic shredders under predation risk	17
Evolution and divergence of teleost adrenergic receptors: why sometimes ‘the drugs don't work’ in fish	17
Emergence from torpor rapidly elevates suppressed blood immune parameters in a bat species hibernating in a moderate climate	17
Dynamics and energetics of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) fluke-and-glide gait	16
Building bridges: allyship as a catalyst for gender diversity and inclusion in experimental biology communities	16
Use of videos to measure dynamic body acceleration as a proxy for metabolic costs in coral reef damselfish (Chromis viridis)	16
Plasticity in Na+/K+-ATPase thermal kinetics drives variation in the temperature of cold-induced neural shutdown of adult Drosophila melanogaster	16
Importance of environmental signals for cardiac morphological development in Atlantic salmon	16
Consistent changes in muscle phenotype and mitochondrial abundance underlie dive performance across multiple lineages of diving ducks	16
The roles of brain lipids and polar metabolites in the hypoxia tolerance of deep-diving pinnipeds	16
A novel perspective on the evolutionary loss of plasma-accessible carbonic anhydrase at the teleost gill	16
Metabolic rate and climate change across latitudes: evidence of mass-dependent responses in aquatic amphipods	16
Torque limitations on cantilevering in Dendrelaphis snakes	16
Energy availability influences the dynamics of thermal phenotypic plasticity	16
Physiological and behavioral evidence for multiple spectral channels in the larval stomatopod visual system	16
Mitochondrial respiration capacity impacts gill tissue regeneration in Atlantic salmon	16
A fundamental propulsive mechanism employed by swimmers and flyers throughout the animal kingdom	16
Disruption of the sea turtle magnetic map sense by a magnetic pulse	15
ECR Spotlight – Talia Moore	15
ECR Spotlight – Kelton Verble and Ellen Keaveny	15
Tired fish just keep swimming	15
ECR Spotlight – Bharath Kumar A. K.	15
Three-toed sloths walk differently from their cousins	15
The microbiome buffers tadpole hosts from heat stress: a hologenomic approach to understand host–microbe interactions under warming	15
ECR Spotlight – Agnès Lewden	15
Warmer waters make sturgeon think they're sick	15
Mayflies struggle to stay salty when oxygen levels dip	15
Foraging task specialization in honey bees ( Apis mellifera ): the contribution of floral rewards to the learning performance of pollen and nectar forage	15
Shift in distribution of division of labour in chronically stressed honeybee colonies after perturbation	15
Microrheology of haemolymph plasma of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris	15
A birds’ eye view is made possible by… sugar?	15
ECR Spotlight – Rachel Thayer	15
ECR Spotlight – Camille Morgaint	14
Energy expenditure of southern right whales varies with body size, reproductive state and activity level	14
Dining fin whales must keep baleen clear for fast gulps	14
ECR Spotlight – Glenna Clifton	14
ECR Spotlight – William Joyce	14
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel metabolism changes profoundly during first year	14
Measuring maximum heart rate to study cardiac thermal performance and heat tolerance in fishes	14
The buzz within: the role of the gut microbiome in honeybee social behavior	14
Polyphenisms in the reproductive response of male quail to short days are driven by testosterone-independent uncoupling in the photoperiodic TSH-DIO2/DIO3 pathway	14
ECR Spotlight – Brendan Gibbs	14
Turning a page: remaining a top competitor in an evolving publication ecosystem	14
ECR Spotlight – Ian Bouyoucos	14
Heat increment of feeding in the common bottlenose dolphin ( Tursiops truncatus ) contributes moderately to field metabolic rate estimates	14
The effect of hypoxia and hyperoxia on the growth and metabolic rate of Rhinella marina tadpoles	14
Behavior and neural activation patterns of non-redundant visual and acoustic signaling during courtship in an African cichlid fish	14
ECR Spotlight – Patrícia Ferreira	14

ECR Spotlight – Kyle Emerson	14
ECR Spotlight – Luke Flewwelling	14
Body temperature flexibility in Temminck's pangolins helps beat the heat	14
Relationship between joint shape and function as revealed through ex vivo XROMM	14
From lab to ocean: bridging swimming energetics and wild movements to understand red drum ( Sciaenops ocellatus ) behavior in a tidal estuary	14
Age-dependent perfume development in male orchid bees, Euglossa imperialis	13
Otsuchi Coastal Research Center: a remote but vital marine science hub for the Northwest Pacific Ocean	13
Transgenerational plasticity and climate change: phenotypic responses across ectothermic animals	13
Towards a standard application of the Reynolds number in studies of aquatic animal locomotion	13
Fatty acid oxidation: a neglected factor in understanding the adjustment of mitochondrial function to cold temperatures	13
Beyond ecology: the importance of gut motility in predicting the responses of species to climate change	13
Of corpses, ghosts and mirages: biomechanical consequences of morphology depend on the environment	13
Ontogenetic growth and size-at-age shape metabolic scaling	13
The response of grey mouse lemurs to acute caloric restriction before reproduction supports the ‘thrifty female hypothesis’	13
Temperature dependence of regional heterothermy in a diminutive ectotherm	13
ECR Spotlight – Martin Dessart	13
The role of haltere campaniform sensilla in equilibrium reflexes of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster	13
Halocline boundary layer restricts the vertical distribution of the box jellyfish Tripedalia cystophora	13
ECR Spotlight – Paula Iturralde-Pólit	13
Socially responsive yolk steroids correlate with gene expression in early extra-embryonic membranes	13
House sparrow hormones tell their eggs about the outside world	13
State-dependent dynamics of cuttlefish mantle activity	13
Understanding the influence of context on real-world walking energetics	13
Generating extra body heat helped mammals conquer the globe	13
Dynamic gap crossing in Dendrelaphis, the sister taxon of flying snakes	13
Gaze tracking of large-billed crows ( Corvus macrorhynchos ) in a motion capture system	13
ECR Spotlight – William Bugg	13
Effects of insect pursuit on the Doppler shift compensation in a hipposiderid bat	13
c-fos expression in the olfactory epithelium of the East African cichlid (Haplochromis chilotes) in response to odorant exposure	13
Variation in behavioural maturation in tropical honey bees corresponds with hormonal and molecular differences	13
ECR Spotlight – Mylène Vonderscher	13
Innate visual attraction before, during and after escape from adverse substrates in carpenter ants	13
Metabolomic signatures associated with cold adaptation and seasonal acclimation of Drosophila: profiling of 43 species	12
Long-term stress induced cortisol downregulation, growth reduction and cardiac remodeling in Atlantic salmon	12
Combined effects of salinity and intermittent hypoxia on mitochondrial capacity and reactive oxygen species efflux in the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas	12
Biomechanical properties of non-flight vibrations produced by bees	12
Odor tracking in insects: a multisensory behavior	12
Damselfish in distress after consuming plastic	12
Climate change leaves urchins on a rock in a hard place to live	12
ECR Spotlight – Sarah Little-Letsinger	12
Feeling the burn: young fish struggle in acidic water	12
Drink safely: common swifts (Apus apus) dissipate mechanical energy to decrease flight speed before touch-and-go drinking	12
Impact of acute and chronic hypoxia on the heme oxygenase/carbon monoxide pathway in naked mole-rats ( Heterocephalus glaber )	12
Effects of sublethal methylmercury and food stress on songbird energetic performance: metabolic rates, molt and feather quality	12
Dynamics of horizontal walking and vertical climbing in the Australian green tree frog (Ranoidea caerulea)	12
A Drosophila overgrowth model reveals extracellular matrix crosslinking limits cardiovascular scaling	12
Accelerated abdominal lipid depletion from pesticide treatment alters honey bee pollen foraging strategy, but not onset, in worker honey bees	12
Correction: Vocal tract allometry in a mammalian vocal learner	12
Dinosaurs break the rules anywhere not anytime	12
Motion-sensitive neurons help mudflat crabs decide to freeze or flee	12
ECR Spotlight – David Matthews	12
Superinvasive Argentine ants’ size fends off dehydration	12
Linking whole-body angular momentum and step placement during perturbed human walking	12
Gut microbial contributions to thermogenesis	12
Effects of hypoxia and hyperoxia on exercise-induced metabolomic and transcriptomic profiles in equine skeletal muscle	12
Eye-specific detection and a multi-eye integration model of biological motion perception	12
Personality and running don't mix in wild mice	12
The (virtual) flight of the fruit fly	12
Directional web strikes are performed by ray spiders in response to airborne prey vibrations	12
High-carb diet gives migrating locusts a head start	12
ECR Spotlight – Danilo Giacometti	12
Subtractive colour mixing with bile pigments creates the rich wing palette of Graphium weiskei butterflies	11
A novel comparison of southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) fur buoyancy across ontogeny	11
ECR Spotlight – Hailey Parry	11
Telomeres could tell the tale of longer lizard lifespan	11
In the field: an interview with Sönke Johnsen	11
Pacu's teeth just right for fruit crushing	11
European common frogs determine migratory direction by inclination magnetic compass and show diurnal variation in orientation	11
Extraordinary creatures: jumping spiders	11
Soft skeletons transmit force with variable gearing	11
Chemical cues and molecular mechanisms suspected in abiotic stress communication	11
ECR Spotlight – Laura Quinche	11
ECR Spotlight – Maitry Jani	11
Biomechanics of the jaws of spotted ratfish	11
Visualization of the chemical defense molecule formoside binding to sensory structures in a model fish predator	11
The active space of sperm whale codas allows for communication within and between social units	11
The role of plumage and heat dissipation areas in thermoregulation in doves	11
Daily activity rhythms, sleep and pregnancy are fundamentally related in the Pacific beetle mimic cockroach, Diploptera punctata	11
Looking beyond the mean: quantile regression for comparative physiologists	11
ECR Spotlight – Bella Xu-Ying	11
Spider egg sacs reveal how pockets of air can be used to conserve water	11
ECR Spotlight – Ayelén Nally	11
Protective role of trehalose in the Namib desert ant, Ocymyrmex robustior	11
Some honeybees make fast decisions, but at a cost	11
How Cape fur seal mums and pups reunite by ear	11
Evidence for multi-scale power amplification in skeletal muscle	11
Deficiency of vital organic nutrients in ecosystems limits brain development and fitness in wild fish	11
New method for ramping up the heat could help scientists save salmon	11
Conspecific proximity alters crabs' attention to novel visual stimuli	11
Time-compensated sun compass in juvenile sprat (Sprattus sprattus) reveals the onset of migratory readiness	11
High latitude northern bats (Eptesicus nilssonii) reveal adaptations to both high and low ambient temperatures	11
Correction: Critical thermal maxima and oxygen uptake in Elysia viridis, a sea slug that steals chloroplasts to photosynthesize	10
Freshwater adaptation in prickly sculpin (Pisces: Cottidae): intraspecific comparisons reveal evidence for water pH and Na+ concentration driving diversity in gill H+-ATPase and ion regulation	10
Exploring value learning in pigeons: the role of dual pathways in the basal ganglia and synaptic plasticity	10
ECR Spotlight – Juan Zuluaga	10