Journal of Theoretical Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Theoretical Biology is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
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Theoretical evidence of osteoblast self-inhibition after activation of the genetic regulatory network controlling mineralization107
Pulsatile signaling of bistable switches reveal the distinct nature of pulse processing by mutual activation and mutual inhibition loop60
Multi-timescale analysis of midbrain dopamine neuronal firing activities59
Investigating the synergistic effects of immunotherapy and normalization treatment in modulating tumor microenvironment and enhancing treatment efficacy49
Optimal dormancy strategies in fluctuating environments given delays in phenotypic switching40
The impact of codon choice on translation process in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: folding class, protein function and secondary structure39
Data-driven mathematical modeling of sleep consolidation in early childhood38
Evolutionary emergence of plant and pollinator polymorphisms in consumer-resource mutualisms36
Trade-off between climatic and human population impacts on Aedes aegypti life history shapes its geographic distribution34
A coupled neural field model for the standard consolidation theory33
Evolutionary coexistence in a metacommunity: Competition-colonization trade-off, ownership effects, environmental fluctuations33
Predator avoidance and foraging for food shape synchrony and response to perturbations in trophic metacommunities33
Evolution of mixed mating: Effects of among-parent variation in early-acting inbreeding depression coupled with overproduction of ovules30
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Epidemic dynamics on metapopulation networks with node2vec mobility30
A mathematical model to evaluate the role of memory B and T cells in heterologous secondary dengue infection29
Comment on the article “Spatially-extended nucleation-aggregation-fragmentation models for the dynamics of prion-like neurodegenerative protein-spreading in the brain and its connectome 486 (2020) 11027
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Shrinkage in serial intervals across transmission generations of COVID-1924
A mathematical model for nutrient-limited uniaxial growth of a compressible tissue23
Human movement avoidance decisions during Coronavirus disease 2019 in Japan23
Using geometry to rank evenness measures: Towards a deeper understanding of divergence21
The eco-evolutionary modelling of populations and their traits using a measure of trait differentiation21
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Discrete-state models identify pathway specific B cell states across diseases and infections at single-cell resolution18
Mathematical modeling of calcium homeostasis in female rats: An analysis of sex differences and maternal adaptations18
Evolution of spite in an n-player game with an opting-out option18
A coupled model for the dynamics of gas exchanges in the human lung with Haldane and Bohr’s effects17
A foraging ocean sunfish and the ‘nearest neighbor’ problem17
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Quasi-species evolution maximizes genotypic reproductive value (not fitness or flatness)16
Understanding noise in cell signalling in the prospect of drug-targets16
Multi-scale model of lumen formation via inverse membrane blebbing mechanism during sprouting angiogenesis process16
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Tumour growth control: analysis of alternative approaches15
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Effect of permeability on the initiation of Atherosclerosis modeled as an inflammatory process14
The importance of vaccinated individuals to population-level evolution of pathogens14
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LRBmat: A novel gut microbial interaction and individual heterogeneity inference method for colorectal cancer13
Prevalence estimation and optimal classification methods to account for time dependence in antibody levels13
Evolution of pathogens with cross-immunity in response to healthcare interventions13
Modeling the response of homogeneous and heterogeneous cerebral capillary networks to local changes in vessel diameters13
Optimal foraging strategies for mutually avoiding competitors13
A spatially distributed model of brain metabolism highlights the role of diffusion in brain energy metabolism13
Spatial metapopulation dynamics with local and global colonization13
Modeling the influence of cell–cell contact and TGF-β signaling on the epithelial mesenchymal transition in MCF7 breast carcinoma cells12
Cell size homeostasis under the circadian regulation of cell division in cyanobacteria12
Social context modulates scale-free movements in a social insect12
Topological early warning signals: Quantifying varying routes to extinction in a spatially distributed population model12
Evolution of enzyme levels in metabolic pathways: A theoretical approach. Part 112
The effect of the opting-out strategy on conditions for selection to favor the evolution of cooperation in a finite population12
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Modeling microtubule dynamic instability: Microtubule growth, shortening and pause12
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Cortical depth-dependent modeling of visual hemodynamic responses11
On-off intermittency and irruptions in host-parasitoid dynamics11
A new real-time analog circuit of Ca2+ Li-Rinzel astrocyte model based on analytical method11
The sensitivity of complex dynamic food webs to the loss of top omnivores11
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The origin of the genetic code and origin of ideas11
A mechanistic model captures livestock trading, disease dynamics, and compensatory behaviour in response to control measures11
Downstream resource leakage a necessary condition for the stress-gradient hypothesis in processing chain commensalisms11
Modeling anthrax-rabies interactions in zebra-jackal cycles10
Global analysis of a cancer model with drug resistance due to Lamarckian induction and microvesicle transfer10
Application of growth rate from kinetic model to calculate stochastic growth of a bacteria population at low contamination level10
Parasite evolution in an age-structured population10
Application of a novel mathematical model to identify intermediate hosts of SARS-CoV-210
Modelling uniaxial non-uniform yeast colony growth: Comparing an agent-based model and continuum approximations10
Exponential dynamics of DNA methylation with age10
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In Remembrance: Professor Lewis Wolpert10
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A 3D mathematical model of coupled stem cell-nutrient dynamics in myocardial regeneration therapy9
Network models to evaluate vaccine strategies towards herd immunity in COVID-199
Nonlinear thermodynamics of biological signal transduction for predicting conservation of entropy production rate9
Identifiability and inference of phylogenetic birth–death models9
First passage time properties of miRNA-mediated protein translation9
Evolution of cooperation in social dilemmas with assortment in finite populations9
Optimal vaccination strategies for imperfect vaccines and variable host susceptibility9
Quantifying robustness of the gap gene network9
A mathematical model of competition between fiber and mucin degraders in the gut provides a possible explanation for mucus thinning9
Differential impacts of contact tracing and lockdowns on outbreak size in COVID-19 model applied to China9
A Josephson junction-coupled neuron with double capacitive membranes9
Passive electrolocation in terrestrial arthropods: Theoretical modelling of location detection9
A multi-strain epidemic model for COVID-19 with infected and asymptomatic cases: Application to French data9
The role of alcohol consumption on acetaminophen induced liver injury: Implications from a mathematical model9
An integrated vertex model of the mesoderm invagination during the embryonic development of Drosophila9
The heterogeneous mixing model of COVID-19 with interventions9
Peripheral structures in unlabelled trees and the accumulation of subgenomes in the evolution of polyploids9
A broader context for understanding amino acid alphabet optimality8
Assessing the impact of insecticide-treated nets in the face of insecticide resistance on malaria control8
How optimal allocation of limited testing capacity changes epidemic dynamics8
A Tale of two receptors8
Second compartment widens plasmid invasion conditions: Two-compartment pair-formation model of conjugation in the gut8
A novel COVID-19 epidemiological model with explicit susceptible and asymptomatic isolation compartments reveals unexpected consequences of timing social distancing8
Molecular mechanism of interaction between kinesin motors affecting their residence times on microtubule lattice and end8
Mathematical modelling of the hematopoietic stem cell-niche system: Clonal dominance based on stem cell fitness.8
Two linked loci under mutation-selection balance and Muller’s ratchet8
Sterile males and females can synergistically suppress wild pests targeted by sterile insect technique8
Replicator dynamics for the game theoretic selection models based on state8
Vaccine hesitancy promotes emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants8
Sharp boundary formation and invasion between spatially adjacent periodical cicada broods8
Patterns of reported infection and reinfection of SARS-CoV-2 in England8
Individual specialization and generalization in predator-prey dynamics: The determinant role of predation efficiency and prey reproductive rates8
Investigation of phase synchronization in functional brain networks of children with ADHD using nonlinear recurrence measure8
Coexistence of Hopf-born rotation and heteroclinic cycling in a time-delayed three-gene auto-regulated and mutually-repressed core genetic regulation network8
Diffusion approximations in population genetics and the rate of Muller’s ratchet8
The circulation stage of the metastatic cascade: A mathematical description and its clinical implications8
Nonlinear multi-objective flux balance analysis of the Warburg Effect8
The voltage-depolarization performance vs the free energy cost of a single nACh receptor8
Matrix adhesion and remodeling diversifies modes of cancer invasion across spatial scales7
How best can finite-time social distancing reduce epidemic final size?7
Agelessness is possible under the disposable soma theory but system complexity makes it unlikely7
Modelling strategies to organize healthcare workforce during pandemics: Application to COVID-197
An investigation of the effect of brain atrophy on brain injury in multiple sclerosis7
Critical observation of WHO recommended multidrug therapy on the disease leprosy through mathematical study7
T cell therapy against cancer: A predictive diffuse-interface mathematical model informed by pre-clinical studies7
The eco-evolutionary dynamics of two strategic species: From the predator-prey to the innocent-spreader rumor model7
Linking the disease transmission to information dissemination dynamics: An insight from a multi-scale model study7
Weak selection and stochastic evolutionary stability in a stochastic replicator dynamics7
Lewy body radius growth: The hypothesis of the cube root of time dependency7
Optimal strategies for social distancing and testing to control COVID-197
An adaptive numerical method for multi-cellular simulations of tissue development and maintenance7
Optimal resource allocation in micro-organisms under periodic nutrient fluctuations7
The evolutionary dynamics of hyperparasites7
Epidemic dynamics with time-varying transmission risk reveal the role of disease stage-dependent infectiousness7
Disentangling the growth curve of microbial culture7
Patient-specific parameter estimation: Coupling a heart model and experimental data7
Resource budget model with Duffing oscillator for dynamics of synchronized biennial-bearing olives in the Levant7
A framework for relating natural movement to length and quality of life in human and non-human animals7
Cell-center-based model for simulating three-dimensional monolayer tissue deformation7
Population dynamics and games of variable size7
Temperature variability regulates the interactive effects of warming and pharmaceutical on aquatic ecosystem dynamics7
Sensitivity assessment of optimal control strategies and cost-effectiveness analysis of a novel Candida Auris environmental transmission model in intensive care facilities7
Multisolitons-like patterns in a one-dimensional MARCKS protein cyclic model7
The impact of contact-network structure on important epidemiological quantities of infectious disease transmission and the identification of the extremes7
Using registry data to identify individual dairy cows with abnormal patterns in routinely recorded somatic cell counts7
Evolutionary dynamics of zero-determinant strategies in repeated multiplayer games7
Workplace absenteeism due to COVID-19 and influenza across Canada: A mathematical model6
A kin-selection model of fairness in heterogeneous populations6
Comparative analysis of kinetic realizations of insulin signaling6
A time series representation of protein sequences for similarity comparison6
Cooperative success in epithelial public goods games6
Subsistence of sib altruism in different mating systems and Haldane’s arithmetic6
Corrigendum to “Stationary moments, diffusion limits, and extinction times for logistic growth with random catastrophes” [J. Theor. Biol. 454 (2018) 154–163]6
An RNA-based theory of natural universal computation6
Phenotype-structured model of intra-clonal heterogeneity and drug resistance in multiple myeloma6
A resource-based mechanistic framework for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)6
A dynamical model for the origin of anisogamy6
Intelligent phenotype-detection and gene expression profile generation with generative adversarial networks6
Perceived risk induced multiscale model: Coupled within-host and between-host dynamics and behavioral dynamics6
Learning to hunt: A data-driven stochastic feedback control model of predator–prey interactions6
Corrigendum to “From the Price equation to the selection gradient in class-structured populations: A quasi-equilibrium route” [J. Theor. Biol. 447 (2018) 178–189]6
A direct comparison of methods for assessing the threat from emerging infectious diseases in seasonally varying environments6
How do biases in sex ratio and disease characteristics affect the spread of sexually transmitted infections?6
Optimisation of gene expression noise for cellular persistence against lethal events6
Poacher-population dynamics when legal trade of naturally deceased organisms funds anti-poaching enforcement6
Indirect reciprocity with abductive reasoning6
Social relationship adjustments within the same sex promote marital bliss6
On the limits to invasion prediction using coexistence outcomes6
From Bayes to Darwin: Evolutionary search as an exaptation from sampling-based Bayesian inference6
The effectiveness of various control strategies: An insight from a comparison modelling study6
Internal phosphorus recycling promotes rich and complex dynamics in an algae-phosphorus model: Implications for eutrophication management6
A mathematical model of microglia glucose metabolism and lactylation with positive feedback6
Statistical inference and neural network training based on stochastic difference model for air pollution and associated disease transmission6
A hybrid approach to study and forecast climate-sensitive norovirus infections in the USA6
PULSAR Effect: Revealing potential synergies in combined radiation therapy and immunotherapy via differential equations6
Chaos in memory function of sleep: A nonlinear dynamical analysis in thalamocortical study5
Optimal heat transport induced by magnetic nanoparticle delivery in vascularised tumours5
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The central role of host reproduction in determining the evolution of virulence in spatially structured populations5
Temperate and chronic virus competition leads to low lysogen frequency5
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Network structural metrics as early warning signals of widespread vaccine refusal in social-epidemiological networks5
Spatial distribution of gut microbes along the intestinal duct5
Peripheral straightness leads to shape diversification during formations of entire leaves5
A mathematical framework for the emergence of winners and losers in cell competition5
Mathematical modelling of autoimmune myocarditis and the effects of immune checkpoint inhibitors5
Modeling the heterogeneous apoptotic response of caspase-mediated signaling in tumor cells5
Channel noise induced stochastic effect of Hodgkin–Huxley neurons in a real classification task5
Counting unique molecular identifiers in sequencing using a multi-type branching process with immigration5
Computational model of the cancer necrotic core formation in a tumor-on-a-chip device5
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Modeling the synergistic properties of drugs in hormonal treatment for prostate cancer5
Lockhart with a twist: Modelling cellulose microfibril deposition and reorientation reveals twisting plant cell growth mechanisms5
Olfactory encoding within the insect antennal lobe: The emergence and role of higher order temporal correlations in the dynamics of antennal lobe spiking activity5
MMM – The molecular model of memory5
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An analytical, numerical and experimental study of in-vitro SARS-CoV-2 evolution in Vero B4 cells5
Population-level heterogeneity as a reflection of mixed strategy: A computational perspective on the Crabtree effect5
Emergence of broad cytosolic Ca2+ oscillations in the absence of CRAC channels: A model for CRAC-mediated negative feedback on PLC and Ca2+ oscillations through PKC5
Identifying critical regulatory interactions in cell fate decision and transition by systematic perturbation analysis5
Mathematical models of long term evolution of blue whale song types’ frequencies5
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Selection by differential survival among marine animals in the Phanerozoic5
Competitive evolution of H1N1 and H3N2 influenza viruses in the United States: A mathematical modeling study5
Dynamics of a ratio-dependent population model for Green Sea Turtle with age structure5
Maintaining the proliferative cell niche in multicellular models of epithelia5
Cooperative SIR dynamics as a model for spontaneous blood clot initiation5
Pólya-splitting distributions as stationary solutions of multivariate birth–death processes under extended neutral theory5
Modelling aspects of consciousness: A topological perspective5
Mathematical modeling of tumor-immune system interactions: the effect of rituximab on breast cancer immune response5
A mechanistic systems pharmacology modeling platform to investigate the effect of PD-L1 expression heterogeneity and dynamics on the efficacy of PD-1 and PD-L1 blocking antibodies in cancer5
Resource allocation in tragedy of the commons game in plants for belowground competition5
A data-driven method to learn a jump diffusion process from aggregate biological gene expression data5
Phase synchronization analysis of EEG functional connectivity in Parkinson’s disease5
Fluid dynamic simulation suggests hopping locomotion in the Ordovician trilobite Placoparia5
Long-term effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on total disease burden in parsimonious epidemiological models5
Network-based uncertainty quantification for mathematical models in epidemiology5
Evaluation of entropy and fractal dimension as biomarkers for tumor growth and treatment response using cellular automata5
Modeling phyllotaxis: From the inhibition potential to the real plant5
Dynamics of cell-type transition mediated by epigenetic modifications5
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The effect of variability in payoffs on average abundance in two-player linear games under symmetric mutation5
Exploring COVID-19 transmission patterns and key factors during epidemics caused by three major strains in Asia4
Rules of nature’s Formula Run: Muscle mechanics during late stance is the key to explaining maximum running speed4
Optic flow enrichment via Drosophila head and retina motions to support inflight position regulation4
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Application of a count data model to evaluate the anti-metastatic efficacy of QAP14 in 4T1 breast cancer allografts4
Antibody protection from SARS-CoV-2 respiratory tract exposure and infection4
What explains the poor contraction of the viral load during paediatric HIV infection?4
Perivascular pumping in the mouse brain: Improved boundary conditions reconcile theory, simulation, and experiment4
Modeling transposable elements dynamics during polyploidization in plants4
A mathematical model of cell movement and clustering due to chemotaxis4
Hamilton’s rule, gradual evolution, and the optimal (feedback) control of phenotypically plastic traits4
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Excitable dynamics in a molecularly-explicit model of cell motility: Mixed-mode oscillations and beyond4
Propagation of an idealized infection in an airway tree, consequences of the inflammation on the oxygen transfer to blood4
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Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold4
Weak selection helps cheap but harms expensive cooperation in spatial threshold dilemmas4
The dynamics of relapses during treatment switch in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis4
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The relative importance of social information use for population abundance in group-living and non-grouping prey4
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Structural patterns of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern (alpha, beta, gamma, delta) spike protein are influenced by variant-specific amino acid mutations: A computational study with implications on vira4
Modelling the impact of repeat asymptomatic testing policies for staff on SARS-CoV-2 transmission potential4
Novel type of coagulation equation and its application to DNA repeat expansion process4
Stochastic diffusion characterises early colony formation in Mediterranean coral Corallium rubrum4
Modelling the epidemiological implications for SARS-CoV-2 of Christmas household bubbles in England4
Co-adaptive behavior of interacting populations in a habitat selection game significantly impacts ecosystem functions4
Algorithmic asymptotic analysis: Extending the arsenal of cancer immunology modeling4
Stoichiometric microplastics models in natural and laboratory environments4
The optimal controlling strategy on a dispersing population in a two-patch system: Experimental and theoretical perspectives4
Stochasticity-induced persistence in coupled social-ecological systems4
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