Journal of Theoretical Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Theoretical Biology is 5. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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LRBmat: A novel gut microbial interaction and individual heterogeneity inference method for colorectal cancer48
Evolution of mixed mating: Effects of among-parent variation in early-acting inbreeding depression coupled with overproduction of ovules44
Topological early warning signals: Quantifying varying routes to extinction in a spatially distributed population model40
An integrated vertex model of the mesoderm invagination during the embryonic development of Drosophila39
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The effect of oxidative stress on the leading edge of the a-wave in retinitis pigmentosa30
Lewy body radius growth: The hypothesis of the cube root of time dependency29
Modeling the influence of cell–cell contact and TGF-β signaling on the epithelial mesenchymal transition in MCF7 breast carcinoma cells28
A model of tubulin removal and exchange caused by kinesin motor walking on microtubule lattices26
Cell size homeostasis under the circadian regulation of cell division in cyanobacteria25
A framework for relating natural movement to length and quality of life in human and non-human animals24
Stability and reactivity of food webs with trophic interactions23
Inter-city infections and the role of size heterogeneity in containment strategies22
Resource budget model with Duffing oscillator for dynamics of synchronized biennial-bearing olives in the Levant21
Learning to hunt: A data-driven stochastic feedback control model of predator–prey interactions20
Identifiability and inference of phylogenetic birth–death models19
Modeling the response of homogeneous and heterogeneous cerebral capillary networks to local changes in vessel diameters19
Deciphering circulating tumor cells binding in a microfluidic system thanks to a parameterized mathematical model19
Slow and fast dispersers competing in heterogeneous landscapes: a comparative study of modeling perspectives18
Separation of evolutionary timescales in coevolving species18
Social context modulates scale-free movements in a social insect18
Genomic compliance with Chargaff’s second parity rule may have originated non-adaptively, but stem-loops now function adaptively17
Network-based uncertainty quantification for mathematical models in epidemiology17
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Peripheral straightness leads to shape diversification during formations of entire leaves17
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Exploring COVID-19 transmission patterns and key factors during epidemics caused by three major strains in Asia17
A direct comparison of methods for assessing the threat from emerging infectious diseases in seasonally varying environments16
A process-based life cycle model of the cabbage stem flea beetle on winter oilseed rape: Effects of temperature16
Drug-loaded nanoparticles for cancer therapy: A high-throughput multicellular agent-based modeling study16
Synergy between CO2 and water activity in subaerial biofilms in varying environments16
Evaluating the impact of NPC1 single nucleotide polymorphisms on entry efficiency of filoviruses in vitro: Agent-based model approach16
SIRS epidemics with individual heterogeneity of immunity waning15
An approximate solution of the SLIP model under the regime of linear angular dynamics during stance and the stability of symmetric periodic running gaits15
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Computational modeling implicates protein scaffolding in p38 regulation of Akt15
On the dynamics of antigen receptors on the B-cell membrane through a two-dimensional stochastic process15
The relative importance of social information use for population abundance in group-living and non-grouping prey15
Extinctions as a vestige of instability: The geometry of stability and feasibility15
Evolution of hunting efficiency of predator and hiding efficiency of prey in a stage-structured prey-predator model15
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Humeri under external load: Mechanical implications of differing bone curvature in American otter and honey badger14
Multiple cohort study of hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 in-host infection dynamics: Parameter estimates, identifiability, sensitivity and the eclipse phase profile13
Spatial dynamics of inflammation-causing and commensal bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract13
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Pattern formation in marsh ecosystems modeled through the interaction of marsh vegetation, mussels and sediment13
A mathematical model of the within-host kinetics of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies following COVID-19 vaccination13
Spatial sucrose sink profiles shape phloem transport efficiency and xylem-phloem water exchange13
The long term effects of uncoupling interventions as a therapy for dementia in humans13
Branching architecture affects genetic diversity within an individual tree13
Estimating survival in continuous space from mark-dead-recovery data — Towards a continuous version of the multinomial dead recovery model13
A model of time-dependent macromolecular and elemental composition of phytoplankton13
The influence of prey availability on behavioral decisions and reproductive success of a central-place forager during lactation13
Bidirectional, unlike unidirectional transport, allows transporting axonal cargos against their concentration gradient13
Vaccination strategies in a pair formation model for human papillomavirus infection: An optimal control approach12
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Evaluation of innate and adaptive immune system interactions in the tumor microenvironment via a 3D continuum model12
Cargo transport properties are enhanced by cylindrical microtubule geometry and elliptical contact zone on cargo surface12
Drug mode of action and resource constraints modulate antimicrobial resistance evolution12
Data-informed model reduction for inference and prediction from non-identifiable models12
Bounded environmental stochasticity generates secondary Allee thresholds12
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Rate-dependent effects of state-specific sodium channel blockers in cardiac tissue: Insights from idealized models11
Use of 3D chaos game representation to quantify DNA sequence similarity with applications for hierarchical clustering11
Mechanism of carbachol-induced 40 Hz gamma oscillations and the effects of NMDA activation on oscillatory dynamics in a model of the CA3 subfield of the hippocampus11
A letter to the editor about the article “The modularity codes”11
Interrelating neuronal morphology by coincidence similarity networks11
Uncertainty quantification for the random HIV dynamical model driven by drug adherence11
Artificial selection of communities drives the emergence of structured interactions10
The non-pharmaceutical interventions may affect the advantage in transmission of mutated variants during epidemics: A conceptual model for COVID-1910
The effect of heterogeneity of relative vaccine costs on the mean population vaccination rate with mpox as an example10
The nasal cavity of the bearded seal: An effective and robust organ for retaining body heat and water10
Evolution of labor division in reproduction and multiple group tasks10
The series of a four-node motif and coherent type-1 feed-forward loop can provide sensitive detection over arbitrary range of input signal, thereby explain Weber’s law in higher-order sensory processe10
Bridging short- and long-distance dispersal in individual animal movement10
Life history and deleterious mutation rate coevolution10
Pillars of biology: Boolean modeling of gene-regulatory networks10
Computational model of articular cartilage regeneration induced by scaffold implantation in vivo10
Large connected components in sexual networks and their role in HIV transmission in Sub-Saharan Africa: A model-based analysis of HPTN 071(PopART) data10
Chemotaxis in heterogeneous environments: A multi-agent model of decentralized gathering past obstacles9
On minimising tumoural growth under treatment resistance9
Cell population growth kinetics in the presence of stochastic heterogeneity of cell phenotype9
Dynamics and risk sharing in groups of selfish individuals9
Phenomenological modeling of gene transcription by approximating cooperativity of transcription factors improves prediction and reduces complexity in gene regulatory network models9
Kinetics, thresholds, and a comparison of mechanisms underlying systemic infection by Listeria monocytogenes9
Optimization of antitumor radiotherapy fractionation via mathematical modeling with account of 4 R’s of radiobiology9
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Network reciprocity turns cheap talk into a force for cooperation9
Noise-induced entrainment of the circadian clock by thermoperiods in tomato: A computational approach9
Bone fracture healing with magnesium: a computational model of immune modulation and regenerative dynamics in union and non-union cases9
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Role of coupling distances in a coupled thalamocortical network in the treatment of epilepsy9
Stochastic eco-evolutionary dynamics of multivariate traits: A framework for modeling population processes illustrated by the study of drifting 9
Revisiting a demographic model of pest infestation in farming9
Dynamics of disease spread in evolving susceptible networks9
Modeling the effects of air pollutants and meteorological factors on scarlet fever in five provinces, Northwest China, 2013–20189
HIV transactivation: Stochastic modeling for studying the effects of BET inhibitors on the modulation of P-TEFb levels9
Modeling transit time distributions in microvascular networks9
Mathematical modeling of tumor-immune interactions in breast cancer must model tumor-immune interactions in breast cancer8
Impacts of hunting cooperation among predators on predator-prey dynamics8
Doubling time of infectious diseases8
A stochastic model for topographically influenced cell migration8
Ancestral process for infectious disease outbreaks with superspreading8
Evaluating the impact of human flow on the spread of infectious diseases8
Crick’s “Frozen accident theory” of the genetic code explored by Ising models8
Hormonal regulation of ovarian follicle growth in humans: Model-based exploration of cycle variability and parameter sensitivities8
Modelling how increased Cathepsin B/L and decreased TMPRSS2 usage for cell entry by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant may affect the efficacy and synergy of TMPRSS2 and Cathepsin B/L inhibitors8
Spreading speed of chronic wasting disease across deer groups with overlapping home ranges8
Characterisation of conserved and reacting moieties in chemical reaction networks8
On the onset of multicellular invasive behavior in hierarchical lineage: The role of inhibitory feedback and local fluctuations8
A simplified longitudinal model for the development of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus8
A cell model about symmetric and asymmetric stem cell division8
Rankings of tuberculosis antibiotic treatment regimens are sensitive to spatial scale, detection limit, and initial host bacterial burden8
Short-term Bayesian influenza forecasting in a hospital environment using a linear Kalman filter8
Exploring the role of the potential surface in the behaviour of early warning signals8
Effect of permeability on the initiation of Atherosclerosis modeled as an inflammatory process7
Multi-scale model of lumen formation via inverse membrane blebbing mechanism during sprouting angiogenesis process7
Using registry data to identify individual dairy cows with abnormal patterns in routinely recorded somatic cell counts7
A new real-time analog circuit of Ca2+ Li-Rinzel astrocyte model based on analytical method7
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Modelling the spread and management of Varroa destructor in naive european honeybee populations7
Behavioral flexibility reshapes prosocial punishment under spatial reciprocity7
A resource-based mechanistic framework for castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)7
Mathematical modeling of the feather follicle morphogenetic wave in birds7
An adaptive numerical method for multi-cellular simulations of tissue development and maintenance7
Multi-timescale analysis of midbrain dopamine neuronal firing activities7
Age-dependence of food allergy due to decreased supply of naïve T cells7
The heterogeneous mixing model of COVID-19 with interventions7
An extensive study of two-node McCulloch-pitts networks7
Adaptive dynamic resource allocation can cause tragedy of the commons in plants with nutrient competition7
Direct reciprocity in multi-action repeated games7
Passive electrolocation in terrestrial arthropods: Theoretical modelling of location detection7
Temperature variability regulates the interactive effects of warming and pharmaceutical on aquatic ecosystem dynamics7
Disentangling the growth curve of microbial culture7
Evolutionary emergence of plant and pollinator polymorphisms in consumer-resource mutualisms7
Stochasticity-induced persistence in coupled social-ecological systems6
Modeling long COVID dynamics: Impact of underlying health conditions6
Social mixing and time use throughout the year: Potential changes in disease transmission and age distribution of cases6
Computational model of the cancer necrotic core formation in a tumor-on-a-chip device6
Choice of spatial discretisation influences the progression of viral infection within multicellular tissues6
Corrigendum to “Multiscale numerical workflow describing microalgae motion and light pattern incidence towards population growth in a photobioreactor” [J. Theoret. Biol. 498 (2020) 110293]6
Propagation of an idealized infection in an airway tree, consequences of the inflammation on the oxygen transfer to blood6
Effects of a differentiating therapy on cancer-stem-cell-driven tumors6
Predicting pathways for old and new metabolites through clustering6
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A PID controller for synchronization between master-slave neurons in fractional-order of neocortical network model6
Optimal control applied to Zika virus epidemics in Colombia and Puerto Rico6
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Estimating the basic reproduction number from noisy daily data6
Analysis of phenotype-genotype associations using genomic informational field theory (GIFT)6
Optic flow enrichment via Drosophila head and retina motions to support inflight position regulation6
Identifying critical regulatory interactions in cell fate decision and transition by systematic perturbation analysis6
On the misuse of evolutionary theory to bolster the ‘scientific’ case for intelligent design: A cautionary note6
Evaluation of entropy and fractal dimension as biomarkers for tumor growth and treatment response using cellular automata6
Cell orientation under stretch: A review of experimental findings and mathematical modelling6
Pandemic modelling for regions implementing an elimination strategy6
Theoretical investigation of the dependence of population parameters on initial population size6
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PD-based ADRC using time-varying gains: An application to microalgal-based bioprocess6
Modeling identifies variability in SARS-CoV-2 uptake and eclipse phase by infected cells as principal drivers of extreme variability in nasal viral load in the 48 h post infection6
Modeling phyllotaxis: From the inhibition potential to the real plant6
Multiple colonies of cancer involved in mutual suppression with the immune system6
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Human papillomavirus driving cervical cancer: A mathematical model with persistent infection, cancer progression, and spontaneous remission6
Geometrically balanced model of cell growth6
Optimal control of combination immunotherapy for a virtual murine cohort in a glioblastoma-immune dynamics model6
Conformity and anti-conformity in a finite population6
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The mechanism of pattern transitions between formation and dispersion6
Data-driven models for the risk of infection and hospitalization during a pandemic: Case study on COVID-19 in Nepal6
Biomechanics of transduction by mechanosensory cilia for prey detection in aquatic organisms5
Bridging Wright–Fisher and Moran models5
Mathematical model suggests current CAR-macrophage dosage is efficient to low pre-infusion tumour burden but refractory to high tumour burden5
Numerical modeling of senile plaque development under conditions of limited diffusivity of amyloid-β monomers5
Spatially-dependent model for rods and cones in the retina5
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Modelling count data with partial differential equation models in biology5
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Local and systemic factors in the resolution of inflammation5
Flow modeling and structural characterization in fungal pellets5
Costly punishment sustains indirect reciprocity under low defection detectability5
Effects of insecticides and awareness on the dynamics of a delayed malaria model: A real-data calibration5
Revisiting the exclusion principle in epidemiology at the limit of a large competitive advantage5
Establishment of risk classification index for animal brucellosis by stochastic models5
Flock2: A model for orientation-based social flocking5
A single-locus quantitative genetic model incorporating DNA methylation5
Optimal targeted therapy for multiple cancers based on contrastive Notch signaling networks5
Super-resolution ultrasound imaging of ischaemia flow: An in silico study5
Mutant emergence timing and population immunisation status impact epidemiological dynamics5
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Hot-topics cross-propagation and opinion-transfer dynamics in the Chinese Sina-microblog social media: A modeling study5
Comparing the biomechanics of triangular and cylindrical plant stems: When are triangular hollow structures mechanically superior to cylindrical ones?5
A note on metapopulation models5
Cell position-based evaluation of mechanical features of cells in multicellular systems5
A multi-strain model with asymptomatic transmission: Application to COVID-19 in the US5
Emergent stable tissue shapes from the regulatory feedback between morphogens and cell growth5
Corrigendum to “An optimal network that promotes the spread of an advantageous variant in an SIR epidemic”. [J. Theor. Biol. 605 (2025) 112095]5
Inferring absolute cell numbers from relative proportion in stochastic models with cell plasticity5
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Probability of extinction and peak time for multi-type epidemics with application to COVID-19 variants of concern5
“Normal” phylogenetic networks may be emerging as the leading class5
Synchronization transition in networks of Fractional-Order memristive Hindmarsh-Rose neurons5
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Pillars of Theoretical Biology: Airway stability and heterogeneity in the constricted lung5
Distributions of 4-subtree patterns for uniform random unrooted phylogenetic trees5
Tradeoffs in the energetic value of neuromodulation in a closed-loop neuromechanical system5
Circulating renin-angiotensin systems mediated feedback controls over the mean-arterial pressure5
Timing the initiation of sex: Delay mechanisms alter fitness outcomes in a rotifer population model5
Enhanced precision of circadian rhythm by output system5
Uncertainty and error in SARS-CoV-2 epidemiological parameters inferred from population-level epidemic models5
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Pillars of theoretical biology: “Biochemical systems analysis, I, II and III”5
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