Current Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Biology is 14. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites407
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past251
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes223
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends213
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators158
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum147
North Atlantic tipping point ahead144
Gonzalo Giribet133
Mistletoes128
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy127
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise126
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise125
My bird112
Short-term memory: How oscillatory networks preserve sensory history109
Object learning: Ball games for flies105
Telomere inheritance: Why the parent matters, not just the genes104
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up102
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe102
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward97
Ancient Australia94
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe90
Tube morphogenesis: A developing valve squeezes into shape around a transient cell90
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks85
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap85
Q & A82
Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature81
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex80
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self79
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on78
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish77
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus75
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction75
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations74
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test73
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs71
Cephalopod behaviour71
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts70
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry69
Australian magpies69
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin68
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly68
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection68
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior66
Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain66
High-fat food reinforces risk taking by suppressing defensive neurons65
Erin Saupe65
Rolling back public health65
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea64
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum63
Experience-dependent reconfiguration of thermoreceptors regulates neuronal response plasticity63
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor62
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants62
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters61
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock61
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse60
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice60
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates60
Photosymbiosis: When heterotrophs turn green59
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor59
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance59
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom59
Animal medication58
Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts58
Lipocalins57
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia57
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL57
The geologic history of primary productivity56
Hindbrain neurons that underlie water discrimination and consumption56
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health56
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila56
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition56
Jill Harrison56
Yeast domestication55
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons55
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand55
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets55
Electric fishes: How electric eel predators and their prey avoid detection55
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa54
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods54
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes54
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?54
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys54
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease54
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation54
Genomic evidence of a complex supergene system linking dispersal to social polymorphism53
MICOS53
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing53
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice53
Daniel J.C. Kronauer53
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis53
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition52
The biomechanics of turgor pressure52
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges52
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance52
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha52
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes51
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition51
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion51
A note of caution on tone language advantages for music50
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes50
Proprioceptive cortical neurons implement optimal state estimation50
Distinct developmental trajectories of externally and internally generated hippocampal sequences and assemblies50
Reading the fossil record of coral resilience50
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation50
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements49
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction49
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List49
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding49
The enteric nervous system49
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees49
Fungal endophytes49
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex49
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos49
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly49
A signaling hub in the mosquito rectum coordinates reproductive investment after blood feeding49
External mechanical force drives axonal cytoskeletal rearrangements49
Iberian ribbed newts48
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos48
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning48
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean48
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research48
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy48
Skill learning: Motor expertise may bloom across moments of rest48
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery47
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila47
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae47
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings47
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle47
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation47
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator47
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period46
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?46
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons46
Architectural shift to epiphytism fuels exotic bryophyte invasiveness46
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion46
Body ownership: A cephalopod has a sense of self46
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila46
Learning and memory: Forgetting to remember45
From Jakarta to the jungle45
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry45
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape45
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores45
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport45
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex45
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition45
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females45
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs44
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex44
Sharks and how to save them44
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis44
Male alternative reproductive tactics44
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive44
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird44
Mediterranean movements43
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus43
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs43
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors43
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex43
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees43
Drosophila learn to prefer immobile spherical objects through repeated physical interaction43
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs43
Divergent nectar-feeding mechanisms evidenced by intralingual suction in sunbirds43
Rats replay episodic memories in context42
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey42
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance42
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life42
Natalia Jagielska42
Soybean maintained immunodiversity during domestication despite a significant loss in genetic diversity42
KANK proteins42
Navigation circuits: Calcium spikes know which way the wind blows42
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees42
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input42
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis42
Biological timing: The dark side of light around the clock41
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses41
Neuronal degeneration: Axons bend without breaking by controlling microtubule motion41
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii41
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China41
Nautilus sex determination is unique among cephalopods41
Sexual selection: Fruit first, signals second40
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression40
Myosin II-driven contractions of supporting cap cells promote sensory adaptation of Drosophila proprioceptors40
Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose40
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem40
Visual experience exerts an instructive role on cortical feedback inputs to the primary visual cortex40
Parasitology: Novel cytoskeletal features anchor Leishmania parasites to surfaces40
Molecular evidence reveals unsustainable harvest of wild orchids39
The Great American Biotic Interchange39
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus39
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks39
Multi-sensor tracking reveals the extent of nocturnal migration in landbirds39
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae39
Plant evolution: Coleochaetophyceae fill the sequence-availability gap of the plant kingdom39
Fungi in peril39
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid38
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations38
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation38
Response to Creel38
Bird genitalia38
Visual loom caused by self-movement or object-movement elicits distinct responses in mouse superior colliculus38
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms38
Evolutionary radiation of Polaromonas from mountain glaciers downstream38
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation38
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation37
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod37
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities37
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish37
Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic37
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes37
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes37
Neural population dynamics of human working memory37
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones37
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits37
Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres37
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila37
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila37
Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration37
Animal flight: Fly gyros get a new spin36
Resolving the associative learning paradox by category learning in pigeons36
Spontaneous supra-modal encoding of number in the infant brain36
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair36
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks36
Jingfeng Zhou36
Assembly rules of coral reef fish communities along the depth gradient36
Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow36
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers36
Ecological niche modelling36
Convergent reduction of olfactory genes and olfactory bulb size in mammalian species at altitude36
Reprogramming the topology of the nociceptive circuit in C. elegans reshapes sexual behavior36
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size36
A Hyperkinetic-dependent redox-sensing mechanism operates specifically in dorsal fan-shaped body neurons to promote sleep36
A pheromone receptor in cichlid fish mediates attraction to females but inhibits male parental care35
Human–wildlife conflict35
A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response35
Polyploid cyanobacterial genomes provide a reservoir of mutations, allowing rapid evolution of herbicide resistance35
Ghrelin35
Octopus bimaculoides can learn to utilize a mirror to localize a reward outside the line of sight35
A sustained calcium response mediated by IP3 receptor anchoring to the desmosome is essential for apoptotic cell elimination35
Mitochondria-derived reactive oxygen species are the likely primary trigger of mitochondrial retrograde signaling in Arabidopsis35
Fungal biomineralization of toxic metals accelerates organic pollutant removal35
Queen bees offload pesticide burden to eggs when social buffering is overwhelmed35
Meristem dormancy in Marchantia polymorpha is regulated by a liverwort-specific miRNA and a clade III SPL gene35
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch35
Evolutionary basis of male same-sex sexual behavior by multiple pheromone switches in Drosophila35
Mitosis: Augmin-based bridges keep kinetochores in line34
A mechanism for differential control of axonal and dendritic spiking underlying learning in a cerebellum-like circuit34
Wing regeneration: Single-cell analysis sheds new light34
Kevin J. Verstrepen34
Åke Lindström34
Killer whales34
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