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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Evolvability and Macroevolution: Overview and Synthesis	21
On the Misidentification of Species: Sampling Error in Primates and Other Mammals Using Geometric Morphometrics in More Than 4000 Individuals	21
How Changes in Functional Demands Associated with Captivity Affect the Skull Shape of a Wild Boar (Sus scrofa)	18
Overcoming the Spurious Groups Problem in Between-Group PCA	12
Evolvability and Constraint in the Primate Basicranium, Shoulder, and Hip and the Importance of Multi-trait Evolution	11
A Cautionary Note on Phylogenetic Signal Estimation from Imputed Databases	11
Centric Allometry: Studying Growth Using Landmark Data	10
The Predictable Complexity of Evolutionary Allometry	9
Evolution of Cranial Ontogeny in South American Canids (Carnivora: Canidae)	9
Body Plan Identity: A Mechanistic Model	9
Can Anyone Climb? The Skills of a Non-specialized Toad and its Bearing on the Evolution of New Niches	9
The Network Ontogeny of the Parrot: Altriciality, Dynamic Skeletal Assemblages, and the Avian Body Plan	8
Unlinking the Speciation Steps: Geographical Factors Drive Changes in Sexual Signals of an Amazonian Nurse-Frog Through Body Size Variation	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	7
Is There More to Within-plant Variation in Seed Size than Developmental Noise?	7
Is Allometric Variation in the Cephalic Horn on Male Rhinoceros Beetles Discontinuously Dimorphic?	7
The Evolution of Brain Size in Ectothermic Tetrapods: Large Brain Mass Trades-Off with Lifespan in Reptiles	6
Repeatability and Validity of Phenotypic Trait Measurements in Birds	6
Genetic Divergence Across Glacial Refugia Despite Interglacial Gene Flow in a Crested Newt	6
Misconceptions About Historical Sciences in Evolutionary Biology	5
Insufficient Evidence for Multiple Species of Tyrannosaurus in the Latest Cretaceous of North America: A Comment on “The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stra	5
Can we Restore Balance to Geometric Morphometrics? A Theoretical Evaluation of how Sample Imbalance Conditions Ordination and Classification	5
Procrustes Shape Cannot be Analyzed, Interpreted or Visualized one Landmark at a Time	5
Natural Barriers and Internal Sources for the Reproductive Isolation in Sympatric Salmonids from the Lake–River System	5
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	5

Morphological and Genetic Divergence in a Gill Monogenean Parasitizing Distant Cichlid Lineages of Lake Tanganyika: Cichlidogyrus nshomboi (Monogenea: Dactylogyridae) from Representatives of Boulenger	5
Reworking Geometric Morphometrics into a Methodology of Transformation Grids	4
Effects of Procrustes Superimposition and Semilandmark Sliding on Modularity and Integration: An Investigation Using Simulations of Biological Data	4
Lack of Female Preference for Nuptial Gifts May Have Led to Loss of the Male Sexual Trait	4
Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of the Human-Gut Microbiota Symbiosis in a Changing Nutritional Environment	4
Cranial Anatomical Integration and Disparity Among Bones Discriminate Between Primates and Non-primate Mammals	4
Comparative Quantitative Genetics of the Pelvis in Four-Species of Rodents and the Conservation of Genetic Covariance and Correlation Structure	3
Predictive Factors of Chemical and Visual Sensory Organ Size: The Roles of Sex, Environment, and Evolution	3
Microinvertebrate Colonization of New Zealand’s Thermally Extreme Environments	3
A Giant Eocene Whale from Ukraine Uncovers Early Cetacean Adaptations to the Fully Aquatic Life	3
Do Longevity and Fecundity Change by Selection on Mating Success at Elevated Temperature? Correlated Selection Responses in Drosophila buzzatii	3
A Pre-registered Meta-analysis Based on Three Empirical Studies Reveals No Association Between Prenatal (Amniotic) Cortisol Exposure and Fluctuating Asymmetry in Human Infants	3
Ecomorphology of the Locomotor Apparatus in the Genus Cyrtodactylus (Gekkota, Squamata)	3
Patterns of Performance Variation Between Animal Hybrids and their Parents: A Meta-analysis	3
The Dynamic Ontogenetic Shape Patterns of Adaptive Divergence and Sexual Dimorphism	3
Do Geographic Range Sizes Evolve Faster in Endotherms?	3
Evidence of Morphological Divergence and Reproductive Isolation in a Narrow Elevation Gradient	3
Evolution of Reproductive Efficiency in Caenorhabditis elegans Under Obligatory Outcrossing	3
Decoupling in Diversification and Body Size Rates During the Radiation of Phyllodactylus: Evidence Suggests Minor Role of Ecology in Shaping Phenotypes	3
Dimensions of Morphological Integration	3
Quadratic Trends: A Morphometric Tool Both Old and New	3
Parallel Evolution of Skull Form in Three Rodent Genera Inhabiting Steep Elevational Gradients of Ethiopian Highlands	2
On the Trail of Spatial Patterns of Genetic Variation	2
High-Density Three-Dimensional Morphometric Analyses Reveal Predation-Based Disparity and Evolutionary Modularity in Spider ‘Jaws’	2
Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Ocular Patterns as a Species Identifier in the South African Endemic Trapdoor Spider Genus Stasimopus Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Stasimopidae)	2
New Avenues for Old Travellers: Phenotypic Evolutionary Trends Meet Morphodynamics, and Both Enter the Global Change Biology Era	2
Decoupled Patterns of Diversity and Disparity Characterize an Ecologically Specialized Lineage of Neotropical Cricetids	2
Interrogating Random and Systematic Measurement Error in Morphometric Data	2
Evolutionary Invasion Analysis in Structured Populations	2
Morphological and Genetic Variation Among Callithrix Hybrids in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	2
Evolutionary History of food Withdraw Movements in Primates: Food Withdraw is Mediated by Nonvisual Strategies in 22 Species of Strepsirrhines	2
Geographic Drivers of Genetic and Plumage Color Diversity in the Blue-Crowned Manakin	2
Climatic Niche Divergence and Conservatism Promote Speciation in Snake-Eyed Skinks (Sauria: Scincidae): New Insight into the Evolution and Diversification of Ablepharus Species	2
A New Method for Landmark-Based Studies of the Dynamic Stability of Growth, with Implications for Evolutionary Analyses	2
Anatomical Correlates of Cursoriality are Compromised by Body Size and Propensity to Burrow in a Group of Small Mammals (Lagomorpha)	2
Island Tiger Snakes (Notechis scutatus) Gain a ‘Head Start’ in Life: How Both Phenotypic Plasticity and Evolution Underlie Skull Shape Differences	2
Evidence for a Parabasalian Gut Symbiote in Egg-Feeding Poison Frog Tadpoles in Peru	2
Tadpoles Develop Elevated Heat Tolerance in Urban Heat Islands Regardless of Sex	2
Is the Shape of Turtle Claws Driven by Locomotor Modes?	2
The Functional and Allometric Implications of Hipbone Trabecular Microarchitecture in a Sample of Eutherian and Metatherian Mammals	2