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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?732
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators367
My bird238
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise219
Lost knowledge217
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species210
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent173
Anthropocene at altitude170
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin161
How to survive in the desert158
Lucy Aplin145
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone139
How to know whales, and ourselves133
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters127
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL126
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes125
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites122
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex120
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons119
Australian magpies117
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos112
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts112
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe106
North Atlantic tipping point ahead103
Iberian ribbed newts102
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on99
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches96
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!96
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin94
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos92
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise92
Mistletoes92
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse90
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past89
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks88
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity88
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice84
Ancient Australia84
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition84
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry83
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets81
Gonzalo Giribet81
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion80
Erin Saupe79
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self76
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe76
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex76
Rolling back public health75
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up74
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test74
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward74
Cephalopod behaviour74
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus74
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons72
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction71
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone71
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts71
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum70
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia70
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance70
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease70
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock69
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits68
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing68
Daniel J.C. Kronauer68
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish67
MICOS67
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator67
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys67
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila66
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor66
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs65
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis64
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements64
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap63
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition63
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom63
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice62
Conservation genetics62
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning62
The origins of the killer whale ecomorph62
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations61
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila61
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection60
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly60
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy60
Real-time processes in the development of action planning60
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation59
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods59
Lipocalins59
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates59
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor59
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery58
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root58
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants58
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand58
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation58
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes57
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior57
Yeast domestication57
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding57
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings57
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy56
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation55
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content54
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants54
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals54
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle54
The oral microbiota of wild bears in Sweden reflects the history of antibiotic use by humans54
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction54
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research53
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs53
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea53
Invertebrate biodiversity and conservation53
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum52
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly52
Animal medication52
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi51
The geologic history of primary productivity51
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees51
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List51
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health51
Cell biology: How does the nucleus get its membrane?51
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition50
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean50
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation50
Human gaze is systematically offset from the center of cone topography49
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa49
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks48
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha48
Plant biology: Environmental extremes induce a jump in peach fitness48
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes48
The biomechanics of turgor pressure48
Neuroscience: Turbulent times for brain information processing48
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges48
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs48
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex47
Wetland worries47
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors47
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers47
Historical body temperature records as a population-level ‘thermometer’ of physical activity in the United States47
Bird migration: Clock and compass facilitate hemisphere switching47
Reinforcement learning: Dopamine ramps with fuzzy value estimates47
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus46
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?46
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey46
Visual processing: Systematic variation in light–dark bias across visual space46
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae46
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs45
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons45
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish45
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion45
Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling45
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair45
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex44
Morphospace44
Voice-mediated interactions in a megaherbivore44
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size44
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks44
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses43
Male alternative reproductive tactics43
Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate43
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life43
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females43
Visual loom caused by self-movement or object-movement elicits distinct responses in mouse superior colliculus43
Neural population dynamics of human working memory43
Nautilus sex determination is unique among cephalopods43
Body ownership: A cephalopod has a sense of self43
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period43
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape43
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila43
Behavioral signatures of structured feature detection during courtship in Drosophila42
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird42
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry42
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression42
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms42
The genetic basis of spatial cognitive variation in a food-caching bird42
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance42
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans42
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation41
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition41
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus41
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis41
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis41
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees41
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits41
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae41
Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period41
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive41
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex41
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations41
Allied male dolphins use vocal exchanges to “bond at a distance”40
From Jakarta to the jungle40
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores40
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion40
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities40
Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose40
Is our retina really upside down?40
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes40
Mediterranean movements40
Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects39
Bird genitalia39
Diverse operant control of different motor cortex populations during learning39
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes39
Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration39
Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres39
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones39
Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic39
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem39
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation39
Sharks and how to save them39
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation39
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs38
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport38
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii38
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input38
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China38
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila38
Parasitology: Novel cytoskeletal features anchor Leishmania parasites to surfaces38
KANK proteins38
Cultivate biodiversity to harvest food security and sustainability38
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees38
Fungi in peril38
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila38
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits38
Retrofusion of intralumenal MVB membranes parallels viral infection and coexists with exosome release38
Neurons of rat motor cortex become active during both grasping execution and grasping observation37
Ecological niche modelling37
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid37
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod37
Alteration in information flow through a pair of feeding command neurons underlies a form of Pavlovian conditioning in the Drosophila brain37
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily37
Diversity and ecology of protists revealed by metabarcoding37
Åke Lindström37
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation37
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation37
Categorical representation of abstract spatial magnitudes in the executive telencephalon of crows36
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch36
Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic6036
Plant physiology: The overturning of assumed functional relevance of ‘salt’ bladders36
Regulation of outer kinetochore assembly during meiosis I and II by CENP-A and KNL-2/M18BP1 in C. elegans oocytes36
Grid cell disruption in a mouse model of early Alzheimer’s disease reflects reduced integration of self-motion cues36
Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants36
A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response36
On the highway to climate hell36
Noradrenaline: Can we now directly measure in humans?36
Jingfeng Zhou36
Powerful peatlands36
Hydrogen metabolism: A eukaryote taps into the electron sink35
Elevated sleep quota in a stress-resilient Drosophila species35
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