BioEssays

Papers
(The median citation count of BioEssays 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Spatially Resolved Transcriptomes—Next Generation Tools for Tissue Exploration314
YAP/TAZ: Drivers of Tumor Growth, Metastasis, and Resistance to Therapy144
Adapting with Microbial Help: Microbiome Flexibility Facilitates Rapid Responses to Environmental Change137
DNA topoisomerases: Advances in understanding of cellular roles and multi‐protein complexes via structure‐function analysis83
Emerging High‐Level Tigecycline Resistance: Novel Tetracycline Destructases Spread via the Mobile Tet(X)75
The genetic structure of SARS‐CoV‐2 does not rule out a laboratory origin62
Crosstalk between Cell Adhesion Complexes in Regulation of Mechanotransduction61
Ghost Introgression: Spooky Gene Flow in the Distant Past55
Mechanical and Non‐Mechanical Functions of Filamentous and Non‐Filamentous Vimentin51
Beta‐Adrenergic Blockers as a Potential Treatment for COVID‐19 Patients51
From structure to function: Route to understanding lncRNA mechanism45
Cancer as a prospective sequela of long COVID‐1944
Monitoring Autophagy Flux and Activity: Principles and Applications43
Eustress and Distress: Neither Good Nor Bad, but Rather the Same?43
Paraspeckle nuclear condensates: Global sensors of cell stress?42
Interoception and the origin of feelings: A new synthesis42
Superposition of COVID‐19 waves, anticipating a sustained wave, and lessons for the future40
Activity of PRC1 and Histone H2AK119 Monoubiquitination: Revising Popular Misconceptions39
Bridging the explanatory gaps: What can we learn from a biological agency perspective?38
Trehalose against Alzheimer's Disease: Insights into a Potential Therapy37
Cancer progression as a sequence of atavistic reversions35
Noncanonical functions of the serine‐arginine‐rich splicing factor (SR) family of proteins in development and disease32
Age and Location in Severity of COVID‐19 Pathology: Do Lactoferrin and Pneumococcal Vaccination Explain Low Infant Mortality and Regional Differences?32
Present‐Day DNA Contamination in Ancient DNA Datasets31
mTORC1 and ferroptosis: Regulatory mechanisms and therapeutic potential31
Ubiquitin‐Modulated Phase Separation of Shuttle Proteins: Does Condensate Formation Promote Protein Degradation?31
Scale‐Free Biology: Integrating Evolutionary and Developmental Thinking31
DNA adenine methylation in eukaryotes: Enzymatic mark or a form of DNA damage?30
Reconciling the seemingly irreconcilable: The WHO's ICF system integrates biological and psychosocial environmental determinants of autism and ADHD30
Latest Advances for the Sleeping Beauty Transposon System: 23 Years of Insomnia but Prettier than Ever29
Early life exposure to air pollution impacts neuronal and glial cell function leading to impaired neurodevelopment28
Biogenic Iron Preserves Structures during Fossilization: A Hypothesis28
The Mechanical Role of Microtubules in Tissue Remodeling28
BRD4 in physiology and pathology: ‘‘BET’’ on its partners28
Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Schizophrenia27
Accounting for variation in and overuse of antibiotics among humans26
Commensal Rats and Humans: Integrating Rodent Phylogeography and Zooarchaeology to Highlight Connections between Human Societies26
Neuronal Compartmentalization: A Means to Integrate Sensory Input at the Earliest Stage of Information Processing?25
Temperature‐Dependent Sex Determination in Sea Turtles in the Context of Climate Change: Uncovering the Adaptive Significance24
Transmissible cancers in mammals and bivalves: How many examples are there?24
Lifespan Extension Via Dietary Restriction: Time to Reconsider the Evolutionary Mechanisms?24
How everyday sounds can trigger strong emotions: ASMR, misophonia and the feeling of wellbeing24
Tumor necrosis: A synergistic consequence of metabolic stress and inflammation23
A second Warburg‐like effect in cancer metabolism: The metabolic shift of glutamine‐derived nitrogen23
Single cell RNA‐sequencing: A powerful yet still challenging technology to study cellular heterogeneity23
Phage lysis‐lysogeny switches and programmed cell death: Danse macabre23
Metabolomics meets lipidomics: Assessing the small molecule component of metabolism23
Introducing the 21st Century's New Four Horsemen of the Coronapocalypse23
Pushing Raman spectroscopy over the edge: purported signatures of organic molecules in fossil animals are instrumental artefacts22
Might SARS‐CoV‐2 Have Arisen via Serial Passage through an Animal Host or Cell Culture?21
Strangers look sicker (with implications in times of COVID‐19)21
Genetic Causation in Complex Regulatory Systems: An Integrative Dynamic Perspective21
Competitive and Coordinative Interactions between Body Parts Produce Adaptive Developmental Outcomes20
Understanding Human Lung Development through In Vitro Model Systems20
Positive allometry of sexually selected traits: Do metabolic maintenance costs play an important role?20
Polycomb Repressive Complexes in Hox Gene Regulation: Silencing and Beyond20
CRISPR/Cas technology as a promising weapon to combat viral infections20
Epigenetic editing: Dissecting chromatin function in context20
Evolution of Sex Determination and Sex Chromosomes: A Novel Alternative Paradigm19
Microscopy‐based assay for semi‐quantitative detection of SARS‐CoV‐2 specific antibodies in human sera19
Dosage Sensing, Threshold Responses, and Epigenetic Memory: A Systems Biology Perspective on Random X‐Chromosome Inactivation19
How to become a crab: Phenotypic constraints on a recurring body plan18
How potassium came to be the dominant biological cation: of metabolism, chemiosmosis, and cation selectivity since the beginnings of life18
How immune‐cell fate and function are determined by metabolic pathway choice18
Developmental Transcriptional Enhancers: A Subtle Interplay between Accessibility and Activity18
Methods for enzyme library creation: Which one will you choose?18
Sequencing Strategies for Fusion Gene Detection18
The chaperone Clusterin in neurodegeneration−friend or foe?17
Ocean carbon sequestration: Particle fragmentation by copepods as a significant unrecognised factor?17
SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and cancer17
RNA‐protein interactions: Central players in coordination of regulatory networks17
Processed pseudogenes: A substrate for evolutionary innovation17
Protein disulfide isomerase is regulated in multiple ways: Consequences for conformation, activities, and pathophysiological functions17
Prime editing in plants and mammalian cells: Mechanism, achievements, limitations, and future prospects17
Evolution of Sex Determination in Amniotes: Did Stress and Sequential Hermaphroditism Produce Environmental Determination?16
Did Acidic Stress Resistance in Vertebrates Evolve as Na+/H+ Exchanger‐Mediated Ammonia Excretion in Fish?16
Brain wiring with composite instructions16
Peptidylprolylisomerases, Protein Folders, or Scaffolders? The Example of FKBP51 and FKBP5216
Neural stem cell pools in the vertebrate adult brain: Homeostasis from cell‐autonomous decisions or community rules?16
Dimensional reduction in complex living systems: Where, why, and how16
Host under epigenetic control: A novel perspective on the interaction between microorganisms and corals15
GWAS for genetics of complex quantitative traits: Genome to pangenome and SNPs to SVs and k‐mers15
The fine‐tuning of cell membrane lipid bilayers accentuates their compositional complexity15
Speculating on the Roles of Nuclear Speckles: How RNA‐Protein Nuclear Assemblies Affect Gene Expression15
SARS‐CoV‐2′s claimed natural origin is undermined by issues with genome sequences of its relative strains15
Gene mutations impede oocyte maturation, fertilization, and early embryonic development15
COVID‐19 coagulopathies: Human blood proteins mimic SARS‐CoV‐2 virus, vaccine proteins and bacterial co‐infections inducing autoimmunity14
Chromatin behavior in living cells: Lessons from single‐nucleosome imaging and tracking14
The HPA Axis under Stress and Aging: Individual Vulnerability is Associated with Behavioral Patterns and Exposure Time14
SNP‐based heritability and selection analyses: Improved models and new results14
The enigmatic Placozoa part 1: Exploring evolutionary controversies and poor ecological knowledge14
Circalunar clocks—Old experiments for a new era14
Revisiting poly(A)‐binding proteins: Multifaceted regulators during gametogenesis and early embryogenesis14
Rebuilding relationships on coral reefs: Coral bleaching knowledge‐sharing to aid adaptation planning for reef users14
Soft repression: Subtle transcriptional regulation with global impact13
Amyloid fibrils act as a reservoir of soluble oligomers, the main culprits in protein deposition diseases13
Degeneracy in the nervous system: from neuronal excitability to neural coding13
How does early‐life adversity shape telomere dynamics during adulthood? Problems and paradigms13
Bone regeneration via skeletal cell lineage plasticity: All hands mobilized for emergencies13
CRISPR/Cas9: A new tool for the study and control of helminth parasites13
Small mitochondrial RNAs as mediators of nuclear gene regulation, and potential implications for human health13
Biodynamic Interfaces Are Essential for Human–Environment Interactions13
Metabolic Reprogramming is a Hallmark of Metabolism Itself12
Managing enzyme promiscuity in plant specialized metabolism: A lesson from flavonoid biosynthesis12
The Tissue Clock Network: Driver and Gatekeeper of Circadian Physiology12
Designer nanoparticles for plant cell culture systems: Mechanisms of elicitation and harnessing of specialized metabolites12
The Vertebrate Tooth Row: Is It Initiated by a Single Organizing Tooth?12
The SARS‐CoV‐2 origin dilemma: Zoonotic transfer or laboratory leak?12
TRPV4: A trigger of pathological RhoA activation in neurological disease12
Did doubly uniparental inheritance (DUI) of mtDNA originate as a cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) system?12
Palmitoylated Proteins in Plasmodium falciparum‐Infected Erythrocytes: Investigation with Click Chemistry and Metabolic Labeling12
Males can adjust offspring sex ratio in an adaptive fashion through different mechanisms12
Cancer's second genome: Microbial cancer diagnostics and redefining clonal evolution as a multispecies process12
Structural Basis of Nucleosome Recognition and Modulation12
Physiological mediators of prenatal environmental influences in autism spectrum disorder11
Is mitochondrial reactive oxygen species production proportional to oxygen consumption? A theoretical consideration11
Rhes Tunnels: A Radical New Way of Communication in the Brain's Striatum?11
Stress Responses Co‐Opted for Specialized Cell Types During the Early Evolution of Multicellularity11
“Minimal metabolism”: A key concept to investigate the origins and nature of biological systems11
Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: Can the Australian bushfires and global COVID‐19 pandemic of 2020 convince us to change our ways?11
Challenging endings: How telomeres prevent fragility11
The Fluidity of the Bacterial Outer Membrane Is Species Specific11
Eggshell Biliverdin as an Antioxidant Maternal Effect11
Mammalian D‐cysteine: A novel regulator of neural progenitor cell proliferation11
The complex web of canonical and non‐canonical Hedgehog signaling10
Endothelial ontogeny and the establishment of vascular heterogeneity10
Why Is AUG the Start Codon?10
Paneth cells: Maintaining dynamic microbiome‐host homeostasis, protecting against inflammation and cancer10
Beyond genotype‐phenotype maps: Toward a phenotype‐centered perspective on evolution10
Tissue‐disruption‐induced cellular stochasticity and epigenetic drift: Common origins of aging and cancer?10
The glow of the night: The tapetum lucidum as a co‐adaptation for the inverted retina10
The solid tumor microenvironment—Breaking the barrier for T cells10
Solving the conundrum of intra‐specific variation in metabolic rate: A multidisciplinary conceptual and methodological toolkit10
Post‐translational Wnt receptor regulation: Is the fog slowly clearing?10
Taming fitness: Organism‐environment interdependencies preclude long‐term fitness forecasting10
Metabolism and chromatin: A dynamic duo that regulates development and ageing10
Structural basis of the conformational and functional regulation of human SERCA2b, the ubiquitous endoplasmic reticulum calcium pump10
The molecular tug of war between immunity and fertility: Emergence of conserved signaling pathways and regulatory mechanisms10
NIPSNAP protein family emerges as a sensor of mitochondrial health10
Cross‐Generational Effects of Parental Age on Offspring Longevity: Are Telomeres an Important Underlying Mechanism?10
Why do cancer cells break from host circadian rhythm? Insights from unicellular organisms9
Endolysosomal cholesterol export: More than just NPC19
Nutrient Sensing by Histone Marks: Reading the Metabolic Histone Code Using Tracing, Omics, and Modeling9
Population modification strategies for malaria vector control are uniquely resilient to observed levels of gene drive resistance alleles9
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) constitute an additional player in regulating epithelial development9
The promises of lysine polyphosphorylation as a regulatory modification in mammals are tempered by conceptual and technical challenges9
Why the Outcome of Anti‐Tumor Immune Responses is Heterogeneous: A Novel Idea in the Context of Immunological Heterogeneity in Cancers9
Afadin (AF6) in cancer progression: A multidomain scaffold protein with complex and contradictory roles9
Modeling the evolution of interconnected processes: It is the song and the singers9
Global climate change, diet, and the complex relationship between human host and microbiome: Towards an integrated picture9
Rho GTPases: Non‐canonical regulation by cysteine oxidation9
Lipophilic Environmental Chemical Mixtures Released During Weight‐Loss: The Need to Consider Dynamics9
MiRNAs in early brain development and pediatric cancer9
How do boreal forest soils store carbon?9
The CAR group of Ig cell adhesion proteins–Regulators of gap junctions?9
New tools suggest a middle Jurassic origin for mammalian endothermy9
Cas9 Cuts and Consequences; Detecting, Predicting, and Mitigating CRISPR/Cas9 On‐ and Off‐Target Damage9
Biomarkers for Early Cancer Diagnosis: Prospects for Success through the Lens of Tumor Genetics9
Repair and Reconstruction of Telomeric and Subtelomeric Regions and Genesis of New Telomeres: Implications for Chromosome Evolution9
Switching DCAFs: Beyond substrate receptors9
Can BCG vaccine protect against COVID‐19 via trained immunity and tolerogenesis?9
The PINK1 repertoire: Not just a one trick pony9
Fine‐tuning ER‐phagy by post‐translational modifications9
Tolerogenic and immunogenic states of Langerhans cells are orchestrated by epidermal signals acting on a core maturation gene module9
The gamma‐tubulin ring complex: Deciphering the molecular organization and assembly mechanism of a major vertebrate microtubule nucleator8
Do some viruses use growth hormone, prolactin and their receptors to facilitate entry into cells?8
The tree of life describes a tripartite cellular world8
Evaluation of 92 cardiovascular proteins in dried blood spots collected under field‐conditions8
Molecular dynamics studies reveal structural and functional features of the SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein8
A Cryptic Alternative for the Evolution of Hyphae8
Environmental Oxygen is a Key Modulator of Development and Evolution: From Molecules to Ecology8
The tyranny of phylogeny—A plea for a less dogmatic stance on two‐species comparisons8
The cell cycle and differentiation as integrated processes: Cyclins and CDKs reciprocally regulate Sox and Notch to balance stem cell maintenance8
CBC‐Clock Theory of Life – Integration of cellular circadian clocks and cellular sentience is essential for cognitive basis of life8
Skipping sex: A nonrecombinant genomic assemblage of complementary reproductive modules8
Evolutionary Views of Tuberculosis: Indoleamine 2,3‐Dioxygenase Catalyzed Nicotinamide Synthesis Reflects Shifts in Macrophage Metabolism8
Do microenvironmental changes disrupt multicellular organisation with ageing, enacting and favouring the cancer cell phenotype?8
Active genetics comes alive8
Cancer and the breakdown of multicellularity: What Dictyostelium discoideum, a social amoeba, can teach us8
Desynchronized circadian clock and exposures to xenobiotics are associated with differentiated disease phenotypes8
Importin α/β and the tug of war to keep TDP‐43 in solution: quo vadis?8
Ribosomal protein uS3 in cell biology and human disease: Latest insights and prospects7
MicroRNAs play regulatory roles in genomic balance7
Estrogen receptor α revised: Expression, structure, function, and stability7
Big Baby, Little Mother: Tsetse Flies Are Exceptions to the Juvenile Small Size Principle7
Subtelomeres as Specialized Chromatin Domains7
Neuron‐glia crosstalk in neuronal remodeling and degeneration: Neuronal signals inducing glial cell phagocytic transformation in Drosophila7
SAC during early cell divisions: Sacrificing fidelity over timely division, regulated differently across organisms7
BTB domains: A structural view of evolution, multimerization, and protein–protein interactions7
Genotoxic stress response: What is the role of cytoplasmic mRNA fate?7
Longitudinal observations call into question the scientific consensus that humans are unaffected by lunar cycles7
Trade‐offs between the instantaneous growth rate and long‐term fitness: Consequences for microbial physiology and predictive computational models7
Copulation Song in Drosophila: Do Females Sing to Change Male Ejaculate Allocation and Incite Postcopulatory Mate Choice?7
No neonates without adults7
Epigenetic rejuvenation by partial reprogramming7
Co‐translational folding of nascent polypeptides: Multi‐layered mechanisms for the efficient biogenesis of functional proteins7
Predatory Preprint Servers Join Predatory Journals in the Paper Mill Industry…7
Do seasonal microbiome changes affect infection susceptibility, contributing to seasonal disease outbreaks?7
Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool in molecular paleobiology: An analytical response to Alleon et al. (https://doi.org/10.1002/bies.202000295)7
How does the early life environment influence the oral microbiome and determine oral health outcomes in childhood?7
Inheritance and maintenance of small RNA‐mediated epigenetic effects7
Liquid–liquid phase separation drives the β‐catenin destruction complex formation7
Does transcriptional heterogeneity facilitate the development of genetic drug resistance?7
Heritable Epigenetic Changes Alter Transgenerational Waveforms Maintained by Cycling Stores of Information7
Personalized health and the coronavirus vaccines—Do individual genetics matter?7
Meiosis I Kinase Regulators: Conserved Orchestrators of Reductional Chromosome Segregation7
Perirhinal cortex area 35 controls the functional link between the perirhinal and entorhinal‐hippocampal circuitry7
The Sexual Ancestor of all Eukaryotes: A Defense of the “Meiosis Toolkit”6
Teeth reveal juvenile diet, health and neurotoxicant exposure retrospectively: What biological rhythms and chemical records tell us6
Apoptotic mitochondrial poration by a growing list of pore‐forming BCL‐2 family proteins6
Assay technologies facilitating drug discovery for ADP‐ribosyl writers, readers and erasers6
Models for human porphyrias: Have animals in the wild been overlooked?6
Why does COVID‐19 pathology have several clinical forms?6
The cap epitranscriptome: Early directions to a complex life as mRNA6
Collective cell migration driven by filopodia—New insights from the social behavior of myotubes6
Modulation of H3.3 chromatin assembly by PML: A way to regulate epigenetic inheritance6
Potential of the CRISPR‐Cas system for improved parasite diagnosis6
KCTD10 Biology: An Adaptor for the Ubiquitin E3 Complex Meets Multiple Substrates6
Nucleosomes and flipons exchange energy to alter chromatin conformation, the readout of genomic information, and cell fate6
The XK plasma membrane scramblase and the VPS13A cytosolic lipid transporter for ATP‐induced cell death6
Beyond the GTP‐cap: Elucidating the molecular mechanisms of microtubule catastrophe6
Mitochondrially localized MPZL3 emerges as a signaling hub of mammalian physiology6
Foraminifera as a model of the extensive variability in genome dynamics among eukaryotes6
Flipping and other astonishing transporter dance moves in fungal drug resistance6
Sorting of cargo in the tubular endosomal network6
Distinguishing serial homologs from novel traits: Experimental limitations and ideas for improvements6
The circle of Willis revisited: Forebrain dehydration sensing facilitated by the anterior communicating artery6
The strange case of Drp1 in autophagy: Jekyll and Hyde?6
Function moves biomolecular condensates in phase space6
Bayes and Darwin: How replicator populations implement Bayesian computations6
Microbiome Structure and Function: A New Framework for Interpreting Data6
There is no evidence of SARS‐CoV‐2 laboratory origin: Response to Segreto and Deigin (DOI: 10.1002/bies.202000240)6
Embryonic movement stimulates joint formation and development: Implications in arthrogryposis multiplex congenita6
Anillin: The First Proofreading‐like Scaffold?6
Using primary teeth and archived dried spots for exposomic studies in children: Exploring new paths in the environmental epidemiology of pediatric cancer6
Skin aging: Dermal adipocytes metabolically reprogram dermal fibroblasts6
A Novel Eukaryote‐Like CRISPR Activation Tool in Bacteria: Features and Capabilities6
Rebirth of the translational machinery: The importance of recycling ribosomes6
Broad H3K4me3 domains: Maintaining cellular identity and their implication in super‐enhancer hijacking5
A Contemporary Message from Mendel's Logical Empiricism5
Functional interplay within the epitranscriptome: Reality or fiction?5
The Study That Made Rats Jump for Joy, and Then Killed Them5
Transcription factors regulate early T cell development via redeployment of other factors5
Keeping the balance: The noncoding RNA 7SK as a master regulator for neuron development and function5
Biological sex is binary, even though there is a rainbow of sex roles5
The axonal radial contractility: Structural basis underlying a new form of neural plasticity5
Proteolytic control in ciliogenesis: Temporal restriction or early initiation?5
Amphibian regeneration and mammalian cancer: Similarities and contrasts from an evolutionary biology perspective5
Why PGD2 has different functions from PGE25
CHRONOCRISIS: When Cell Cycle Asynchrony Generates DNA Damage in Polyploid Cells5
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