OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systems and Environmen 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Energy and time optimization during exit from torpor in vertebrate endotherms	46
Born in the cold: contrasted thermal exchanges and maintenance costs in juvenile and adult snow buntings on their breeding and wintering grounds	32
Investigating nitrogen movement in North Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias suckleyi), with focus on UT, Rhp2, and Rhbg mRNA abundance	23
Significance of variation in basal metabolic rate in laboratory mice for translational experiments	16
Regulation of energy metabolism by non-coding RNAs in livestock species: a review	15
Cellular mechanisms of ion and acid-base regulation in teleost gill ionocytes	14
Mammalian birth versus arousal from hibernation: thyroid hormones, common regulators of metabolic transition?	13
Ammonia excretion by the fish gill: discoveries and ideas that shaped our current understanding	13
Early onset of urea synthesis and ammonia detoxification pathways in three terrestrially developing frogs	11
Similar hibernation physiology in bats across broad geographic ranges	11
Adaptation under constant light or dark: a challenge to the pineal	11
Mitochondrial proteomic adaptations to daily torpor in the Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus)	10
The effect of salt dosing for chytrid mitigation on tadpoles of a threatened frog, Litoria aurea	10
Cardiac mitochondria function in embryonic and 1-year old American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis, is not altered by hypoxic incubation or an acute anoxic challenge	10
Functional interactions between coat structure and colour in the determination of solar heat load on arid living kangaroos in summer: balancing crypsis and thermoregulation	10
Multiple ultradian rhythms of metabolism, body temperature and activity in Djungarian hamsters	10
Management of inorganic elements by overwintering physiology of cold hardy larvae of European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis, Hbn.)	9
Changes in gill neuroepithelial cells and morphology of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) to hypoxia and simulated ocean acidification	9
The rete mirabile: a possible control site for swimbladder function	8
Body fat and circulating leptin levels in the captive short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)	8
Hematology of East Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Southern Gulf of California, Mexico: reference intervals of healthy turtles and intra-population comparisons	8
Structure and function of the larval teleost fish gill	8
The effects of dissolved organic carbon and model compounds (DOC analogues) on diffusive water flux, oxygen consumption, nitrogenous waste excretion rates and gill transepithelial potential in Pacific	8
Hypoxic incubation at 50% of atmospheric levels shifts the cardiovascular response to acute hypoxia in American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis	7
Developing rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) lose branchial plasma accessible carbonic anhydrase expression with hatch and the transition to pH-sensitive, adult hemoglobin polymorphs	7

Sulfakinins influence lipid composition and insulin-like peptides level in oenocytes of Zophobas atratus beetles	7
Mitogen-activated protein kinases contribute to temperature-induced cardiac remodelling in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	7
Evolution of innate immunity: lessons from mammalian models shaping our current view of insect immunity	7
Nutritional state variations in a tropical seabird throughout its breeding season	7
Seasonal patterns of body temperature in response to experimental photoperiod variation in a non-hibernating ground squirrel	7
Ion uptake in naturally acidic water	7
Influence of stimulation frequency on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and cathepsin-B production in healthy young adults	6
Arginine vasotocin affects motivation to call, but not calling plasticity, in Cope’s gray treefrog Hyla chrysoscelis	6
Oxygen consumption and acid secretion in isolated gas gland cells of the European eel Anguilla anguilla	6
Silencing of ultradian rhythms and metabolic depression during spontaneous daily torpor in Djungarian hamsters	6
Disaccharidases and alanyl aminopeptidase activities in intestine of a marine estuarine-dependent fish: differential responses to dopamine and histamine in juveniles of Mugil liza (Actiopterygii: Mugi	6
Changes in CO2 sensitivity during entrance into, and arousal from hibernation in Ictidomys tridecemlineatus	6
Adaptation of AMPK-mTOR-signal pathways and lipid metabolism in response to low- and high-level rapeseed meal diet in Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi)	6
Control of high-speed jumps in muscle and spring actuated systems: a comparative study of take-off energetics in bush-crickets (Mecopoda elongata) and locusts (Schistocerca gregaria)	6
A 108-h total sleep deprivation did not impair fur seal performance in delayed matching to sample task	6
Prejuveniles of Mugil liza (Actinopterygii; Fam. Mugilidae) show digestive and metabolic flexibility upon different postprandial times and refeeding	6
An exposé of Frappellian Motion	6
Biomineralisation and metal sequestration in a crustacean ectoparasite infecting the gills of a freshwater fish	5
Intraspecific variation in metabolic responses to diverse environmental conditions in the Malagasy bat Triaenops menamena	5
Causes and consequences of gas bubble trauma on fish gill function	5
100 years Journal of Comparative Physiology	5
Steroid hormone-dependent changes in trehalose physiology in the silkworm, Bombyx mori	5
De novo transcriptome assembly of the midgut glands of herbivorous land crabs, Chiromantes haematocheir, and identification of laccase genes involved in lignin degradation	5
Fur removal promotes an earlier expression of involution-related genes in mammary gland of lactating mice	5
Morphologic and physiologic characteristics of green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings in southeastern Florida, USA	5
Effects of structural remodelling on gill physiology	5
Life in the slow lane: low rates of ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis in the heterothermic and heterometabolic tenrec, Tenrec ecaudatus	5
The implications of exercise in Drosophila melanogaster: insights into Akt/p38 MAPK/Nrf2 pathway associated with Hsp70 regulation in redox balance maintenance	5
Electrophysiological evidence for the right atrioventricular pacemaker ring in the reptile heart	5
Critical temperatures and aerobic metabolism in post-larvae of Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931)	5
A thermodynamic-based approach to model the entry into metabolic depression by mammals and birds	5
Effects of low temperature on growth and metabolism of larval green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) across early ontogeny	5
Interactive effects of food deprivation state and hypoxia on the respiratory responses of postprandial rock crabs, Cancer irroratus	5
State dependence of arousal from torpor in brown long-eared bats (Plecotus auritus)	4
Involvement of sodium–glucose cotransporter-1 activities in maintaining oscillatory Cl− currents from mouse submandibular acinar cells	4
Mitochondrial respiration in rats during hypothermia resulting from central drug administration	4
Age-related changes in the gut melatonin levels and its possible role in the regulation of feeding and digestibility, with the development of the gut from fingerling to adult stages of carp, Catla cat	4
The high-altitude bird chronicles: lessons from field work with Frapps	4
Gill surface area allometry does not constrain the body mass scaling of maximum oxygen uptake rate in the tidepool sculpin, Oligocottus maculosus	4
An atlas of plasma-accessible carbonic anhydrase availability in the model teleost, the rainbow trout	4
The roles of plasma accessible and cytosolic carbonic anhydrases in bicarbonate (HCO3−) excretion in Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii)	4
Thermal sensitivity of respiration and ROS emission of muscle mitochondria in deer mice	4
How the green crab Carcinus maenas copes physiologically with a range of salinities	4
Male blue wildebeest increase activity during the rut, but not at the expense of rest	4
Developmental, physiologic and phylogenetic perspectives on the expression and regulation of myosin heavy chains in mammalian skeletal muscles	4
Correction to: Mitochondrial volume density and evidence for its role in adaptive divergence in response to thermal tolerance in threespine stickleback	4
Prolonged 5-week and 12-week chronic stress differentially modulates CNS expression of pro- and anti-neuroinflammatory biomarkers, brain monoamines and affective behavior in adult zebrafish	4
Do extreme postprandial levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and ammonia in the digestive tract equilibrate with the bloodstream in the freshwater rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)?	4
Metabolic differentiation of brushtail possum populations resistant and susceptible to plant toxins revealed via differential gene expression	4
Thermoregulation in the wild boar (Sus scrofa)	3

Housing conditions modify seasonal changes in basal metabolism and body mass of the Siberian hamster, Phodopus sungorus	3
Seasonal patterns in behavior and glucocorticoid secretion of a specialist Holarctic tree squirrel (Sciurus aberti)	3
The physiological significance of plasma-accessible carbonic anhydrase in the respiratory systems of fishes	3
Introduction and reflections on the comparative physiology of sleep and circadian rhythms	3
Hypoxic and hypercapnic burrow conditions lead to downregulation of free triiodothyronine and hematocrit in Ansell’s mole-rats (Fukomys anselli)	3
Structure and permeability of the egg capsule of the placental Australian sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon taylori	3
Seasonal variation in sleep time: jackdaws sleep when it is dark, but do they really need it?	3
Effects of temperature on the locomotor performance and contraction properties of skeletal muscle from two Phrynocephalus lizards at high and low altitude	3
Oxidative stress across multiple tissues in house sparrows (Passer domesticus) acclimated to warm, stable cold, and unpredictable cold thermal treatments	3
The intersection of sleep and synaptic translation in synaptic plasticity deficits in neurodevelopmental disorders	3
Survivable hypothermia or torpor in a wild-living rat: rare insights broaden our understanding of endothermic physiology	3
Transcriptomic insights into the low-salinity tolerance of the sea louse Caligus elongatus	3
Adult male Xenopus laevis can tolerate months of fasting by catabolizing carbohydrates and lipids	3
Impact of absolute food deprivation on the reproductive system in male goldfish exposed to sex steroids	3
An investigation of gill and blood carbonic anhydrase characteristics in three basal actinopterygian species: alligator gar (Atractosteus spatula), white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus) and Senegal	3
Unique properties of prothrombin in the bullhead shark Heterodontus japonicus: the first report of purification and characterization of a blood coagulation factor in Chondrichthyes	3
Phenotypic plasticity to chronic cold exposure in two species of Peromyscus from different environments	3
Changing lanes: seasonal differences in cellular metabolism of adipocytes in grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis)	3
Ontogeny and social context regulate the circadian activity patterns of Lake Malawi cichlids	2
Ultrasonic vocalisation rate tracks the diurnal pattern of activity in winter phenotype Djungarian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus)	2
Leaf-cutting ants’ critical and voluntary thermal limits show complex responses to size, heating rates, hydration level, and humidity	2
Comparative mechanisms for O2 storage and metabolism in two Florida diving birds: the anhinga (Anhinga anhinga) and the double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum)	2
Habitat aridity as a determinant of the trade-off between water conservation and evaporative heat loss in bats	2
The growth performance in different seasons of Homatula variegata (Dabry de Thiersant, 1874) in Northern Guizhou, China	2
The evolution of human fatigue resistance	2
Proteostasis in ice: the role of heat shock proteins and ubiquitin in the freeze tolerance of the intertidal mussel, Mytilus trossulus	2
Peculiar sleep features in sympatric species may contribute to the temporal segregation	2
Retention of larval skin traits in adult amphibious killifishes: a cross-species investigation	2
Platelets from 13-lined ground squirrels are resistant to cold storage lesions	2
Continuous gastric saline perfusion elicits cardiovascular responses in freshwater rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)	2
Metabolic effects of physical exercise on zebrafish (Danio rerio) fed a high-fat diet	2
Cardiorespiratory patterns of male South American sea lions (Otaria flavescens) resting on land	2
Flexible energy-saving strategies in female temperate-zone bats	2
Expression patterns of heat-shock genes during stopover and the trade-off between refueling and stress response in a passerine migrant	2
Mass scaling of standard metabolic rate within and among individuals in Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)	2
Evidence for transporter-mediated uptake of environmental l-glutamate in a freshwater sponge, Ephydatia muelleri	2
Function of left ventricle mitochondria in highland deer mice and lowland mice	2
Comparative metabolomics analysis investigating the impact of melatonin-enriched diet on energy metabolism in the crayfish, Cherax destructor	2
Oxidative damages and antioxidant defences after feeding a single meal in rainbow trout	2
Prenatal caloric restriction adjusts the energy homeostasis and behavior in response to acute and chronic variations in food availability in adulthood	2
Fish gill chemosensing: knowledge gaps and inconsistencies	2
Correction to: Impacts of low salinity exposure and antibiotic application on gut transport activity in the Pacific spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias suckleyi	2
Torpid 13-lined ground squirrel liver mitochondria resist anoxia-reoxygenation despite high levels of protein damage	2
Circadian gene transcription plays a role in cellular metabolism in hibernating brown bears, Ursus arctos	2
A review of the effects of incubation conditions on hatchling phenotypes in non-squamate reptiles	2