OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Comparative Physiology B-Biochemical Systems and Environmen 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Energy and time optimization during exit from torpor in vertebrate endotherms	73
Investigating nitrogen movement in North Pacific spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias suckleyi), with focus on UT, Rhp2, and Rhbg mRNA abundance	34
Adaptation under constant light or dark: a challenge to the pineal	29
Mammalian birth versus arousal from hibernation: thyroid hormones, common regulators of metabolic transition?	19
Born in the cold: contrasted thermal exchanges and maintenance costs in juvenile and adult snow buntings on their breeding and wintering grounds	17
Ammonia excretion by the fish gill: discoveries and ideas that shaped our current understanding	16
Cellular mechanisms of ion and acid-base regulation in teleost gill ionocytes	14
Regulation of energy metabolism by non-coding RNAs in livestock species: a review	13
Cardiac mitochondria function in embryonic and 1-year old American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis, is not altered by hypoxic incubation or an acute anoxic challenge	13
Early onset of urea synthesis and ammonia detoxification pathways in three terrestrially developing frogs	12
Mitochondrial proteomic adaptations to daily torpor in the Djungarian hamster (Phodopus sungorus)	12
The rete mirabile: a possible control site for swimbladder function	12
Changes in gill neuroepithelial cells and morphology of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) to hypoxia and simulated ocean acidification	11
Management of inorganic elements by overwintering physiology of cold hardy larvae of European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis, Hbn.)	11
Hematology of East Pacific green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Southern Gulf of California, Mexico: reference intervals of healthy turtles and intra-population comparisons	11
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	10
Body fat and circulating leptin levels in the captive short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus)	10
The effect of salt dosing for chytrid mitigation on tadpoles of a threatened frog, Litoria aurea	10
Structure and function of the larval teleost fish gill	9
Functional interactions between coat structure and colour in the determination of solar heat load on arid living kangaroos in summer: balancing crypsis and thermoregulation	9
Evolution of innate immunity: lessons from mammalian models shaping our current view of insect immunity	9
Multiple ultradian rhythms of metabolism, body temperature and activity in Djungarian hamsters	9
Seasonal patterns of body temperature in response to experimental photoperiod variation in a non-hibernating ground squirrel	9
Respiration rates and inferred mass-specific field metabolic rates decline with body size among five sympatric cetaceans	9
Hypoxic incubation at 50% of atmospheric levels shifts the cardiovascular response to acute hypoxia in American alligators, Alligator mississippiensis	8

Silencing of ultradian rhythms and metabolic depression during spontaneous daily torpor in Djungarian hamsters	7
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	7
Nutritional state variations in a tropical seabird throughout its breeding season	7
Influence of stimulation frequency on brain-derived neurotrophic factor and cathepsin-B production in healthy young adults	7
Prejuveniles of Mugil liza (Actinopterygii; Fam. Mugilidae) show digestive and metabolic flexibility upon different postprandial times and refeeding	7
Ion uptake in naturally acidic water	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
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)	7
Effects of natural deep hypothermia on cognitive abilities in mammals: hibernators and neonates	6
Fur removal promotes an earlier expression of involution-related genes in mammary gland of lactating mice	6
Linking digestive efficiency and climate to basal metabolic rate in bats of the family vespertilionidae	6
Life in the slow lane: low rates of ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis in the heterothermic and heterometabolic tenrec, Tenrec ecaudatus	6
Glomerular filtration by the kidney nearly arrests during torpor and is rapidly restored as hibernating ground squirrels begin to arouse	6
A 108-h total sleep deprivation did not impair fur seal performance in delayed matching to sample task	6
A thermodynamic-based approach to model the entry into metabolic depression by mammals and birds	6
Intraspecific variation in metabolic responses to diverse environmental conditions in the Malagasy bat Triaenops menamena	6
100 years Journal of Comparative Physiology	6
Growth and physio-biochemical responses of genetically improved farmed tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) exposed to hyper-osmotic and hyper-thermal challenges in inland saline waters	6
Causes and consequences of gas bubble trauma on fish gill function	6
Critical temperatures and aerobic metabolism in post-larvae of Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931)	6
Effects of low temperature on growth and metabolism of larval green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris) across early ontogeny	6
Morphologic and physiologic characteristics of green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings in southeastern Florida, USA	5
Steroid hormone-dependent changes in trehalose physiology in the silkworm, Bombyx mori	5
Dynamic regulation of histone arginine methylation in anoxic freshwater turtles	5
Interactive effects of food deprivation state and hypoxia on the respiratory responses of postprandial rock crabs, Cancer irroratus	5
Biomineralisation and metal sequestration in a crustacean ectoparasite infecting the gills of a freshwater fish	5
The implications of exercise in Drosophila melanogaster: insights into Akt/p38 MAPK/Nrf2 pathway associated with Hsp70 regulation in redox balance maintenance	5
Involvement of sodium–glucose cotransporter-1 activities in maintaining oscillatory Cl− currents from mouse submandibular acinar cells	5
Electrophysiological evidence for the right atrioventricular pacemaker ring in the reptile heart	5
Effects of structural remodelling on gill physiology	5
State dependence of arousal from torpor in brown long-eared bats (Plecotus auritus)	5
Gill surface area allometry does not constrain the body mass scaling of maximum oxygen uptake rate in the tidepool sculpin, Oligocottus maculosus	5