OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolutionary Biology is 2. 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.)

Article	Citations
Morphological and Genetic Divergence in a Gill Monogenean Parasitizing Distant Cichlid Lineages of Lake Tanganyika: Cichlidogyrus nshomboi (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from Representatives of Boulenger	30
Comparative Quantitative Genetics of the Pelvis in Four-Species of Rodents and the Conservation of Genetic Covariance and Correlation Structure	14
Correction: Interrogating Random and Systematic Measurement Error in Morphometric Data	14
New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era	12
Climatic Niche Divergence and Conservatism Promote Speciation in Snake-Eyed Skinks (Sauria: Scincidae): New Insight into the Evolution and Diversification of Ablepharus Species	11
Shape and Size Variation in Elapid Snake Fangs and the Effects of Phylogeny and Diet	10
The Predictable Complexity of Evolutionary Allometry	9
Procrustes Shape Cannot be Analyzed, Interpreted or Visualized one Landmark at a Time	9
Correction to: The Role of Vicariance and Paleoclimatic Shifts in the Diversification of Uranoscodon superciliosus (Squamata, Tropiduridae) of the Amazonian Floodplains	8
The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus	8
Genes that are Used Together are More Likely to be Fused Together in Evolution by Mutational Mechanisms: A Bioinformatic Test of the Used-Fused Hypothesis	8
Urban Life Affects Differentiation and Phenotypic Variation but not Asymmetry in a Fully Terrestrial Salamander	8
Enhanced Negative Regulation of the DHH Signaling Pathway as a Potential Mechanism of Ascrotal Testes in Laurasiatherians	8
Connectivity Patterns of the Hindlimb Musculoskeletal System in Living and Fossil Diving Birds	7
Ecomorphology of the Locomotor Apparatus in the Genus Cyrtodactylus (Gekkota, Squamata)	7
Integration, Modularity, and Homoplasy in the Forelimbs of Apes	7
Evolutionary Invasion Analysis in Structured Populations	6
Parallel Evolution of Skull Form in Three Rodent Genera Inhabiting Steep Elevational Gradients of Ethiopian Highlands	5
Decoupled Patterns of Diversity and Disparity Characterize an Ecologically Specialized Lineage of Neotropical Cricetids	5
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of the Human-Gut Microbiota Symbiosis in a Changing Nutritional Environment	5
The Functional and Allometric Implications of Hipbone Trabecular Microarchitecture in a Sample of Eutherian and Metatherian Mammals	5
Meta-analysis of Behavioural Research in Lizards Reveals that Viviparity Contributes Better to Animal Personality than Secretory Glands	4
Interrogating Random and Systematic Measurement Error in Morphometric Data	4
Natural Barriers and Internal Sources for the Reproductive Isolation in Sympatric Salmonids from the Lake–River System	4
Mutational Selection: Fragile Sites, Replicative Stress, and Genome Evolution	4

Colonization of a Novel Host Plant Reduces Phenotypic Variation	3
The Dynamic Ontogenetic Shape Patterns of Adaptive Divergence and Sexual Dimorphism	3
Contemporary Body Size Variation of Neotropical Rodents: Environmental and Genetic Effects	3
Correction: Effects of Procrustes Superimposition and Semilandmark Sliding on Modularity and Integration: An Investigation Using Simulations of Biological Data	3
Reworking Geometric Morphometrics into a Methodology of Transformation Grids	3
Can Patterns of Static Allometry be Inferred from Regimes of Sexual Selection in the Japanese Beetle?	3
What if… Sponges Originated 890 Million Years Ago? On the Emergence of Some Precursors of Animal Sentience	3
Key Adaptive Trait Promotes Contrasting Modes of Diversification in a Bivalve Clade	3
Diving into Diversity: The Complex Evolutionary History and Species Richness of the ‘sawfin barbs’ from Lake Edward and Adjacent Systems	3
Model-Based Analyses Suggest Pleistocene Refugia over Ancient Divergence as Main Diversification Driver for a Neotropical Open-Habitat Treefrog	3
Mosaic Evolution of Grasping and Genital Traits in Two Sympatric Scorpion Species with Reproductive Interference	3
Geometric Morphometry of the Breast-Shoulder Apparatus of Greater Antillean Anolis Lizards: In Situ Investigation of a Composite Skeletal Assemblage and Its Relationship to Ecomorphological Categoriza	3
The Evolution of Brain Size in Ectothermic Tetrapods: Large Brain Mass Trades-Off with Lifespan in Reptiles	3
Multiple Paths to a Larger Mouth: Morphological Divergence in Two Island Populations of Australian Tiger Snakes (Notechis scutatus)	3
Cranial Anatomical Integration and Disparity Among Bones Discriminate Between Primates and Non-primate Mammals	2
Quadratic Trends: A Morphometric Tool Both Old and New	2
Can Anyone Climb? The Skills of a Non-specialized Toad and its Bearing on the Evolution of New Niches	2
Evolutionary History of food Withdraw Movements in Primates: Food Withdraw is Mediated by Nonvisual Strategies in 22 Species of Strepsirrhines	2
Consistent Prevalence of Spondyloarthropathy Over 2300 Years: Ancient Egyptians and the Synchronic Baboon Catacomb	2
Assessing the Levels of Functional Adaptation: Finite Element Analysis Reveals Species, Hybrid, and Sexual Variation in the Biomechanics of African Cichlid Mandibles	2
Vipers on the Scene: Assessing the Relationship Between Speciation and Climatic Niche Evolution in Venomous Snakes (Reptilia: Viperidae)	2
Effects of Environmental Variation in Structuring Population Genetic Variation in the False-Water Cobras (Xenodontinae: Hydrodynastes)	2
Antler Allometry, the Irish Elk and Gould Revisited	2
Surface Representation and Morphometric Analysis Based on Discrete Cosine Transform	2
Anatomical Correlates of Cursoriality are Compromised by Body Size and Propensity to Burrow in a Group of Small Mammals (Lagomorpha)	2
Annual Temperatures and Dynamics of Food Availability are Associated with the Pelagic-Benthic Diversification in a Sympatric Pair of Salmonid Fish	2
Ancestral State Reconstruction of Phenotypic Characters	2
Island Tiger Snakes (Notechis scutatus) Gain a ‘Head Start’ in Life: How Both Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution Underlie Skull Shape Differences	2
Exceptional Genetic Differentiation at a Micro-geographic Scale in Apistogramma agassizii (Steindachner, 1875) from the Peruvian Amazon: Sympatric Speciation?	2
Holomorphology, Space, and Time to Shed Light on the Evolution and Distributional Pattern of the Endemic Flowering Plants of Brazil	2
How Aestivation Evolved in Turtles: A Macroevolutionary and Morphological Approach	2