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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social evolution: Diverse divisions of labor in trematode parasites554
Mammalian evolution: Digging for lower extinction rates375
Insect acoustics: Listening in on the deep past233
Kleptoplasty: Solar-powered sea slugs house stolen plastids in kleptosomes199
Social bonding: Without oxytocin, voles are not-so-fast friends189
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators154
A blinking focal pattern of re-entrant activity in the avian tectum138
North Atlantic tipping point ahead137
Human evolution: Neanderthal footprints in African genomes129
Gonzalo Giribet126
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse121
Mistletoes119
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy118
Metabolism: Secretory autophagy balances nutrient supply and demand113
Paleontology: Ediacaran ecology drove ocean ventilation109
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise108
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise104
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons102
My bird101
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin99
Short-term memory: How oscillatory networks preserve sensory history93
Telomere inheritance: Why the parent matters, not just the genes93
Object learning: Ball games for flies93
Animal behavior: Capuchin gang abducts infant howler monkeys91
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe91
Photobiology: Fish eggs go sunny side up90
Whale evolution: Ancient toothed relative of baleen whales breaches northward88
Ancient Australia87
Daniel J.C. Kronauer84
Homeostasis: Stay cool but keep on breathing82
Tube morphogenesis: A developing valve squeezes into shape around a transient cell80
Cerebellar-cortical beta oscillations emerge as a predictive signal facilitating the stability of behavioral performance80
Basal ganglia: Appreciating the ‘value’ of the GPe79
Wound repair: Two distinct Rap1 pathways close the gap78
Q & A77
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks77
Evo–devo: Ferns flourished due to developmental covariance between leaves and vasculature76
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?75
Neural Correlates of the Conscious Perception of Visual Location Lie Outside Visual Cortex75
Self-recognition: From touching the body to knowing the self74
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on73
Incorporating global change reveals extinction risk beyond the current Red List72
Iberian ribbed newts70
Dynamic BMP signaling mediates notochord segmentation in zebrafish67
Causal oscillations in the visual thalamo-cortical network in sustained attention in ferrets67
MICOS67
Australian magpies65
Stealth echolocation in aerial hawking bats reflects a substrate gleaning ancestry65
Plant–microbe interactions: A transcriptional switch governing fungal lifestyle shifts65
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches65
Organization of an ascending circuit that conveys flight motor state in Drosophila64
Centromere-specifying nucleosomes persist in aging mouse oocytes in the absence of nascent assembly63
Excitatory and inhibitory neural dynamics jointly tune motion detection63
Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain62
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin62
A circuit from the basolateral amygdala to hippocampal CA3 regulates social behavior61
Erin Saupe61
Rolling back public health61
High-fat food reinforces risk taking by suppressing defensive neurons60
Plant–microbe interactions: Plant-exuded myo-inositol attracts specific bacterial taxa60
Evidence for a selective link between cooperation and individual recognition59
An insular cortical circuit required for itch sensation and aversion58
Coalitionary intra-group aggression by wild female bonobos57
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants57
Bats resolve conflicting sensory information for individual recognition57
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea56
Dopamine neurons drive spatiotemporally heterogeneous striatal dopamine signals during learning56
Yeast domestication56
Predictive saccades and decision making in the beetle-predating saffron robber fly55
Microtubule end-on attachment maturation regulates Mps1 association with its kinetochore receptor55
RDH12 allows cone photoreceptors to regenerate opsin visual pigments from a chromophore precursor to escape competition with rods55
Dynamic antennal positioning allows honeybee followers to decode the dance55
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy54
Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health54
Cognitive influences on fixational eye movements54
Two distinct compartments of a ctenophore comb plate provide structural and functional integrity for the motility of giant multicilia53
A common molecular mechanism underlying Cornelia de Lange and CHOPS syndromes53
Control of stem cell behavior by CLE-JINGASA signaling in the shoot apical meristem in Marchantia polymorpha53
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos53
Stimulation of caudal inferior and middle frontal gyri disrupts planning during spoken interaction52
Pervasive gaps in Amazonian ecological research52
Experience-dependent reconfiguration of thermoreceptors regulates neuronal response plasticity52
Oxytocin-mediated social preference and socially reinforced reward learning in the miniature fish Danionella cerebrum52
A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice52
Probabilistically constrained vector summation of motion direction in the mouse superior colliculus51
Rapid turnover of top predators in African terrestrial faunas around the Permian-Triassic mass extinction51
Modulation of sweet preference by neurosteroid-sensitive, δ-GABAA receptors in adult mouse gustatory insular cortex51
Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean51
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease51
Feature representation under crowding in macaque V1 and V4 neuronal populations50
Discovery of additional ancient genome duplications in yeasts50
Reconstitution of Arp2/3-nucleated actin assembly with proteins CP, V-1, and CARMIL50
Animal medication50
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test50
A signaling hub in the mosquito rectum coordinates reproductive investment after blood feeding50
Lipocalins49
Cephalopod behaviour49
Jill Harrison49
Comparative transcriptomics reveals the molecular toolkit used by an algivorous protist for cell wall perforation49
Hindbrain neurons that underlie water discrimination and consumption49
Change in RhoGAP and RhoGEF availability drives transitions in cortical patterning and excitability in Drosophila49
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator48
A BORC-dependent molecular pathway for vesiculation of cell corpse phagolysosomes48
Photosymbiosis: When heterotrophs turn green48
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle48
Electric fishes: How electric eel predators and their prey avoid detection48
Deficient synaptic neurotransmission results in a persistent sleep-like cortical activity across vigilance states in mice48
External mechanical force drives axonal cytoskeletal rearrangements48
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor48
Spastin locally amplifies microtubule dynamics to pattern the axon for presynaptic cargo delivery48
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs48
Genomic evidence of a complex supergene system linking dispersal to social polymorphism48
Distinct developmental trajectories of externally and internally generated hippocampal sequences and assemblies48
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom48
Sociality is a key driver of foraging ranges in bees47
Imageless imagery in aphantasia revealed by early visual cortex decoding47
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock47
Photosynthetic sucrose drives the lateral root clock in Arabidopsis seedlings47
Interommatidial cells build a tensile collagen network during Drosophila retinal morphogenesis47
Marine heat waves drive bleaching and necrosis of temperate sponges47
The enteric nervous system47
Sleep spindles track cortical learning patterns for memory consolidation47
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals47
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition47
Fungal endophytes47
Soil carbon as a blind spot in tropical rainforest restoration46
The biomechanics of turgor pressure46
Axial asymmetry organizes division plane orthogonality in Neisseria gonorrhoeae46
The geologic history of primary productivity46
Organogenesis: Cell death matters in size and shape regulation46
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters46
Ancient genomes reveal demographic trajectories during the Classic Maya period45
Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey45
Local translation provides the asymmetric distribution of CaMKII required for associative memory formation45
Architectural shift to epiphytism fuels exotic bryophyte invasiveness45
Body ownership: A cephalopod has a sense of self44
Neural population dynamics of human working memory44
Macroevolutionary coupling of marine biomass and biodiversity across the Phanerozoic44
Conversion of anterograde into retrograde trains is an intrinsic property of intraflagellar transport44
Force-activated zyxin assemblies coordinate actin nucleation and crosslinking to orchestrate stress fiber repair44
Evolution: A quantity–quality trade-off constrains the evolution of immortality in bacterial endospores44
Animal physiology: How do tardigrades survive intense radiation?44
Stretch triggers microtubule stabilization and MARCKS-dependent membrane incorporation in the shaft of embryonic axons44
Avian photoreceptor homologies and the origin of double cones44
Magnetic actuation of otoliths allows behavioral and brain-wide neuronal exploration of vestibulo-motor processing in larval zebrafish44
Modulation and neural correlates of postmating sleep plasticity in Drosophila females44
From Jakarta to the jungle44
Skin mycobiota-mediated antagonism against Staphylococcus aureus through a modified fatty acid44
Paleobiology: Drilling for the drivers of the Cambrian explosion44
The conserved RNA-binding protein Imp is required for the specification and function of olfactory navigation circuitry in Drosophila44
The genetic history of the Southern Andes from present-day Mapuche ancestry44
Fungi in peril44
Sensory systems: Geckos shake up our understanding of vertebrate audition44
Climate fluctuations influence variation in group size in a cooperative bird43
Image-dependence of the detectability of optogenetic stimulation in macaque inferotemporal cortex43
The eyes anticipate where objects will move based on their shape43
Ethylene plays a dual role in sex determination and fruit shape in cucurbits43
Learning and memory: Forgetting to remember43
Seabird morphology determines operational wind speeds, tolerable maxima, and responses to extremes43
Input-timing-dependent plasticity at incoming synapses of the mushroom body facilitates olfactory learning in Drosophila43
A pyritized Ordovician leanchoiliid arthropod42
Parasitology: Novel cytoskeletal features anchor Leishmania parasites to surfaces42
Male alternative reproductive tactics42
Respiration: The circuit for hypoxia-induced sighs42
Plant reproduction: Stigma receptors regulate reactive oxygen species to establish pollination barriers42
Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits42
Neuroscience: Action history and the orbitofrontal cortex42
Sharks and how to save them42
The histone H3.3 K27M mutation suppresses Ser31phosphorylation and mitotic fidelity, which can directly drive gliomagenesis42
Climate-induced shifts in crocodile body temperature impact behavior and performance42
Evolution: Mislabeling marsupial development as primitive42
Wetland worries42
Plant evolution: Coleochaetophyceae fill the sequence-availability gap of the plant kingdom41
Drosophila learn to prefer immobile spherical objects through repeated physical interaction41
Mediterranean movements41
Seed dispersal: Hungry hornets are unexpected and effective vectors41
Nasal breathing: Reading the mind through the nose41
Maintaining symmetry during body axis elongation40
Patterns of Genomic Variation in the Opportunistic Pathogen Candida glabrata Suggest the Existence of Mating and a Secondary Association with Humans40
The dynamic adaptive landscape of cetacean body size40
A Hyperkinetic-dependent redox-sensing mechanism operates specifically in dorsal fan-shaped body neurons to promote sleep40
Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees40
Distinct neural adaptations to time demand in the striatum and the hippocampus40
A cell-based model for size control in the multiple fission alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii40
Neuronal degeneration: Axons bend without breaking by controlling microtubule motion39
A neural mechanism for optic flow parsing in macaque visual cortex39
Healthy aging delays and dedifferentiates high-level visual representations39
Visual loom caused by self-movement or object-movement elicits distinct responses in mouse superior colliculus39
A new and large monofenestratan reveals the evolutionary transition to the pterodactyloid pterosaurs39
Biological timing: The dark side of light around the clock39
Molecular evidence reveals unsustainable harvest of wild orchids39
A conserved GRAS-domain transcriptional regulator links meristem indeterminacy to sex determination in Ceratopteris gametophytes39
Identification of an a-factor-like pheromone secreted by the heterothallic ascomycete Aspergillus fumigatus39
Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes for dedifferentiation in later life39
Myosin II-driven contractions of supporting cap cells promote sensory adaptation of Drosophila proprioceptors39
A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation39
Stem cell-specific ecdysone signaling regulates the development of dorsal fan-shaped body neurons and sleep homeostasis39
Nautilus sex determination is unique among cephalopods38
Evolution at multiple processing levels underlies odor-guided behavior in the genus Drosophila38
Whi5 hypo- and hyper-phosphorylation dynamics control cell-cycle entry and progression38
Phylogenomics defines Streptofilum as a novel deep branch of streptophyte algae38
Natalia Jagielska38
Bacteria grow swiftly and live thriftily38
Domestic cat larynges can produce purring frequencies without neural input38
Bird genitalia38
Navigation circuits: Calcium spikes know which way the wind blows38
Visual experience exerts an instructive role on cortical feedback inputs to the primary visual cortex38
Soybean maintained immunodiversity during domestication despite a significant loss in genetic diversity38
Spindle checkpoint can secure additional cheating time for selfish expanded centromeres38
Tracking widespread climate-driven change on temperate and tropical reefs38
Mosquitoes integrate visual and acoustic cues to mediate conspecific interactions in swarms38
Rats replay episodic memories in context38
KANK proteins37
Divergent nectar-feeding mechanisms evidenced by intralingual suction in sunbirds37
Inter-individual coordination in walking chimpanzees37
Recruitment of grid-like responses in human entorhinal and piriform cortices by odor landmark-based navigation37
Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks37
Social media unveils the hidden but high magnitude of human-mediated biological invasions in China37
Ecosystem condition emerges from an ecological equation of state applied to North American tree communities37
A robust receptive field code for optic flow detection and decomposition during self-motion37
Strong winds reduce foraging success in albatrosses37
On the highway to climate hell36
Jingfeng Zhou36
Resolving the associative learning paradox by category learning in pigeons36
Measuring air metagenomic diversity in an agricultural ecosystem36
Absence of visual cues motivates desert ants to build their own landmarks36
Animal flight: Fly gyros get a new spin36
Ecological niche modelling36
Polyploid cyanobacterial genomes provide a reservoir of mutations, allowing rapid evolution of herbicide resistance36
Cryo-electron tomography of the onion cell wall shows bimodally oriented cellulose fibers and reticulated homogalacturonan networks35
A Silurian pseudocolonial pterobranch35
Evolutionary basis of male same-sex sexual behavior by multiple pheromone switches in Drosophila35
A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response35
Hippocampal signals modify orbitofrontal representations to learn new paths35
Water-hose tool use and showering behavior by Asian elephants34
Human–wildlife conflict34
Reptilian cognition34
Mining noise set to rock the oceans34
Biological clocks: Hungry on time34
Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow34
Evolution of far-red light photoacclimation in cyanobacteria34
Åke Lindström34
Neuroscience: Visual restoration with optogenetics34
Convergent reduction of olfactory genes and olfactory bulb size in mammalian species at altitude34
Simultaneous path-integration recalibration in head direction and place cells34
Spread of yellow-bill-color alleles favored by selection in the long-tailed finch hybrid system34
Light-sensitive short hypocotyl genes confer symbiotic nodule identity in the legume Medicago truncatula34
Wing regeneration: Single-cell analysis sheds new light34
Targeted memory reactivation to augment treatment in post-traumatic stress disorder34
Pollinator conservation: Where will bees go in the Anthropocene future?34
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