Current Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Biology is 4. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?754
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators390
My bird248
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise232
Lost knowledge225
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species214
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent175
Anthropocene at altitude174
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin164
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone161
How to know whales, and ourselves155
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters142
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL137
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes134
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites131
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex129
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons128
Australian magpies125
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts122
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos120
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila116
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation115
Lipocalins111
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates106
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery102
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation102
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe100
North Atlantic tipping point ahead98
Iberian ribbed newts97
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!96
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on96
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin95
Mistletoes93
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise91
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos91
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse88
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past87
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity86
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks86
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs85
The geologic history of primary productivity85
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition84
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods84
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content82
The biomechanics of turgor pressure82
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation78
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction78
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements77
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion77
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes76
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons76
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha73
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees73
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand73
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning73
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor73
Yeast domestication72
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals72
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle72
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation72
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum71
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs71
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly71
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice70
Ancient Australia70
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition70
Gonzalo Giribet69
Erin Saupe69
Rolling back public health66
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex66
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self66
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe66
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus64
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward64
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up63
Cephalopod behaviour63
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone62
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease62
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts62
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum62
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing61
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock61
Daniel J.C. Kronauer61
MICOS61
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits61
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator60
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys60
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom59
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila59
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish59
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor59
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry58
The origins of the killer whale ecomorph58
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice58
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap58
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea58
Conservation genetics58
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition58
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends57
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes57
Animal medication57
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia56
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root55
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets55
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations55
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean55
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy55
Real-time processes in the development of action planning54
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance54
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior54
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test53
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants52
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi52
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis52
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges52
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly52
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants52
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes51
The oral microbiota of wild bears in Sweden reflects the history of antibiotic use by humans51
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches51
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa51
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List50
Invertebrate biodiversity and conservation50
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health50
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy50
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction49
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding49
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research49
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection49
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks49
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings49
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs49
Neuroscience: Turbulent times for brain information processing48
Wetland worries48
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus48
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors48
Reinforcement learning: Dopamine ramps with fuzzy value estimates48
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?48
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex48
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers48
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae48
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons47
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion47
Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate46
Body ownership: A cephalopod has a sense of self46
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs46
Morphospace46
Voice-mediated interactions in a megaherbivore46
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females46
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression45
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans45
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance45
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period45
Behavioral signatures of structured feature detection during courtship in Drosophila45
Male alternative reproductive tactics45
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair44
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish44
Historical body temperature records as a population-level ‘thermometer’ of physical activity in the United States44
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila44
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China44
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey44
Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period44
Architectural shift to epiphytism fuels exotic bryophyte invasiveness44
Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects44
Neural population dynamics of human working memory44
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird44
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation43
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation43
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport43
Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling43
Neurons of rat motor cortex become active during both grasping execution and grasping observation42
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive42
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input42
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod42
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis42
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees42
Visual loom caused by self-movement or object-movement elicits distinct responses in mouse superior colliculus42
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape42
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation42
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex41
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations41
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores41
Mediterranean movements41
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition41
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus41
Is our retina really upside down?41
From Jakarta to the jungle41
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes41
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis41
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae41
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes41
Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose41
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities41
Fungi in peril40
Sharks and how to save them40
Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres40
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones40
Parasitology: Novel cytoskeletal features anchor Leishmania parasites to surfaces40
Bird genitalia40
Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration40
KANK proteins40
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila40
Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic40
Diverse operant control of different motor cortex populations during learning40
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion39
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits39
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses39
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila39
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii39
Cultivate biodiversity to harvest food security and sustainability39
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits39
Allied male dolphins use vocal exchanges to “bond at a distance”39
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life39
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size38
Nautilus sex determination is unique among cephalopods38
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs38
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees38
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry38
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex38
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid38
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation38
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily38
Ecological niche modelling38
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks38
Powerful peatlands37
Targeted memory reactivation to augment treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder37
The genetic basis of spatial cognitive variation in a food-caching bird37
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation37
Jingfeng Zhou37
Regulation of outer kinetochore assembly during meiosis I and II by CENP-A and KNL-2/M18BP1 in C. elegans oocytes37
On the highway to climate hell37
Noradrenaline: Can we now directly measure in humans?37
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem37
Åke Lindström37
Diversity and ecology of protists revealed by metabarcoding37
Plant physiology: The overturning of assumed functional relevance of ‘salt’ bladders37
Polyploid cyanobacterial genomes provide a reservoir of mutations, allowing rapid evolution of herbicide resistance37
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch37
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms37
Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic6037
Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants37
Grid cell disruption in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease reflects reduced integration of self-motion cues36
A pheromone receptor in cichlid fish mediates attraction to females but inhibits male parental care36
Seasonal shifts in insect ephemerality drive bat foraging effort36
Categorical representation of abstract spatial magnitudes in the executive telencephalon of crows36
Animal flight: Fly gyros get a new spin36
Temperature and precipitation mismatches increase infection risk in amphibians36
Culture in birds36
Velocity as an overlooked driver in the echolocation behavior of aerial hawking vespertilionid bats36
A GH81-type β-glucan-binding protein enhances colonization by mutualistic fungi in barley36
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