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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea631
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?301
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators285
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy230
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice195
My bird194
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator184
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise179
Lost knowledge152
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species150
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent143
Anthropocene at altitude140
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin138
How to survive in the desert132
Lucy Aplin132
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone123
How to know whales, and ourselves119
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap119
Mammals, wildlife trade, and the next global pandemic118
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters116
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL115
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone113
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes108
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites107
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex103
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum102
Australian magpies101
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons101
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets100
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease99
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi99
Gonzalo Giribet98
A skeleton from the Middle Jurassic of Scotland illuminates an earlier origin of large pterosaurs96
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe95
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction95
North Atlantic tipping point ahead92
Synaptic inhibition in the lateral habenula shapes reward anticipation91
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs87
Iberian ribbed newts86
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on85
The oral microbiota of wild bears in Sweden reflects the history of antibiotic use by humans83
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!81
The biomechanics of turgor pressure80
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches80
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health80
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin79
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts78
Animal medication78
Mistletoes78
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly76
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos74
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise73
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse72
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past70
Real-time processes in the development of action planning70
Specialized predation by deep-sea Solenogastres revealed by sequencing of gut contents69
Human gaze is systematically offset from the center of cone topography69
Cell biology: How does the nucleus get its membrane?68
Colors68
Floral bullseyes and stratospheric ozone68
Sleep: The great adaptive diversity68
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition68
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks68
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly67
Neuroscience: Flies and grits67
Ancient Australia67
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish67
Ant behavioral maturation is mediated by a stochastic transition between two fundamental states65
Explaining face representation in the primate brain using different computational models65
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila64
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements64
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry64
Invertebrate biodiversity and conservation64
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle64
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion63
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex62
Lipocalins62
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe62
Erin Saupe62
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes61
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand61
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test60
Salp fecal pellets release more bioavailable iron to Southern Ocean phytoplankton than krill fecal pellets60
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation60
Rolling back public health60
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum60
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self60
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes60
The genetic history of Greenlandic-European contact60
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation59
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection59
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List59
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation59
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction59
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia58
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus58
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila58
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy57
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance57
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees57
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition57
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits56
Hormone-controlled changes in the differentiation state of post-mitotic neurons56
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals56
The geologic history of primary productivity56
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates56
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor56
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition56
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research55
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants55
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward55
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up54
Cephalopod behaviour54
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa54
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha54
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis54
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges53
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean53
Selective responses to faces, scenes, and bodies in the ventral visual pathway of infants52
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding52
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock52
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root52
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations52
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom52
Conservation genetics52
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning52
The origins of the killer whale ecomorph51
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings51
Natural binocular depth discrimination behavior in mice explained by visual cortical activity51
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content51
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods51
Centriole-less pericentriolar material serves as a microtubule organizing center at the base of C. elegans sensory cilia51
Population turnover facilitates cultural selection for efficiency in birds51
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs50
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice50
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod50
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks50
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos50
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses50
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor50
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery50
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors49
Sharks and how to save them49
Neuroscience: Turbulent times for brain information processing49
Decision making: Making sense of non-sensory neurons49
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs49
Bird migration: Clock and compass facilitate hemisphere switching49
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex49
Plant biology: Environmental extremes induce a jump in peach fitness49
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life48
Historical body temperature records as a population-level ‘thermometer’ of physical activity in the United States48
Masting48
Wetland worries48
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird47
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair47
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila47
Correlation between ranges of leg walking angles and passive rest angles among leg types in stick insects47
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks47
Plant cell biology: PIN polarity maintained47
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila47
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees46
KANK proteins46
Dietary ecology of the scimitar-toothed cat Homotherium serum46
Protist diversity: Novel groups enrich the algal tree of life46
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii46
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation46
Bird genitalia46
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs46
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus46
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers46
Visual processing: Systematic variation in light–dark bias across visual space46
Reinforcement learning: Dopamine ramps with fuzzy value estimates46
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex46
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation46
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China46
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey45
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression45
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?45
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes45
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores45
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance44
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae44
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities44
From Jakarta to the jungle44
The connectome predicts resting-state functional connectivity across the Drosophila brain43
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae43
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion43
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations43
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis43
Allied male dolphins use vocal exchanges to “bond at a distance”43
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons43
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid43
Early Alpine occupation backdates westward human migration in Late Glacial Europe42
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits42
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport42
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones42
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex42
Hallstatt miners consumed blue cheese and beer during the Iron Age and retained a non-Westernized gut microbiome until the Baroque period42
Retinal horizontal cells use different synaptic sites for global feedforward and local feedback signaling42
Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate41
Diverse operant control of different motor cortex populations during learning41
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms41
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry41
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily40
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition40
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees40
Voice-mediated interactions in a megaherbivore40
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive40
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females40
Behavioral signatures of structured feature detection during courtship in Drosophila40
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation40
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans40
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation40
Neurons of rat motor cortex become active during both grasping execution and grasping observation39
Diversity and ecology of protists revealed by metabarcoding39
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus39
Differential encoding of place value between the dorsal and intermediate hippocampus39
Cultivate biodiversity to harvest food security and sustainability39
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila39
An acentriolar centrosome at the C. elegans ciliary base39
Is our retina really upside down?39
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input39
Morphospace39
An ammonium transporter is a non-canonical olfactory receptor for ammonia39
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape39
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis39
The genetic basis of spatial cognitive variation in a food-caching bird39
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits39
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion38
Threats to reptiles at global and regional scales38
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size38
Neural population dynamics of human working memory38
Ecological niche modelling38
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes38
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch38
Rain harvesting by plants38
Retrofusion of intralumenal MVB membranes parallels viral infection and coexists with exosome release38
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem38
Åke Lindström38
Intracytoplasmic-membrane development in alphaproteobacteria involves the homolog of the mitochondrial crista-developing protein Mic6038
Alteration in information flow through a pair of feeding command neurons underlies a form of Pavlovian conditioning in the Drosophila brain38
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish38
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation38
A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response37
Reprogramming the topology of the nociceptive circuit in C. elegans reshapes sexual behavior37
ELF3 coordinates temperature and photoperiodic control of seasonal growth in hybrid aspen37
Nucleus accumbens neurons expressing dopamine D1 receptors modulate states of consciousness in sevoflurane anesthesia37
Powerful peatlands37
Cultural evolution: Conserved patterns of melodic evolution across musical cultures37
Hippocampal signals modify orbitofrontal representations to learn new paths37
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