Current Biology

Papers
(The TQCC of Current Biology is 12. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
How to avoid a post-antibiotic age543
Cell motility: Bioelectrical control of behavior without neurons272
Neuroscience: Therapy modulates decision-making in Parkinson’s disease215
Evolution: ‘Millefoglie’ origin of mitochondrial cristae208
Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin193
Sleep: Giving it up to get it on179
North Atlantic tipping point ahead169
Seeing polarization of light with the naked eye159
Genetic admixture and language shift in the medieval Volga-Oka interfluve155
Spinosaurus154
Lucy Aplin129
Ramesh Boonratana123
Army ants take the stage117
The rate of glucose metabolism sets the cell morphology across yeast strains and species114
Iberian ribbed newts114
Ectopic reconstitution of a spine-apparatus-like structure provides insight into mechanisms underlying its formation113
Identification of a tetrahedral apical cell preserved within a fossilized fern fiddlehead110
Multiple mechanisms of action for an extremely painful venom109
Tubulin sequence divergence is associated with the use of distinct microtubule regulators102
A recurrent neural circuit in Drosophila temporally sharpens visual inputs102
Improved cost-effectiveness of species monitoring programs through data integration99
Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases99
Salmonid fishes97
The rise and fall of whales91
Serotonergic modulation of swallowing in a complete fly vagus nerve connectome90
An LRH-RSL4 feedback regulatory loop controls the determinate growth of root hairs in Arabidopsis90
Evolution: No end in sight for novel incredible (heterotrophic) protists89
Cryptic female choice in response to male pheromones in Drosophila melanogaster88
Evolutionarily diverse fungal zoospores show contrasting swimming patterns specific to ultrastructure88
Paleozoic cave system preserves oldest-known evidence of amniote skin87
Brain and body: Implanting a placebo in the brain to alleviate pain86
Reindeer in the Arctic reduce sleep need during rumination83
Cingulate to septal circuitry facilitates the preference to affiliate with large peer groups83
Lungfishes83
Cellular cognition: How single cells learn using non-neural networks82
Palaeontology: Walking with pterosaurs80
Social insects: The waxy wonder of symmetry80
Evolution: Morphological complexity fuels rapid species turnover79
How to survive in the desert78
Sleep need-dependent changes in functional connectivity facilitate transmission of homeostatic sleep drive77
Circadian rhythm disruption linked to skeletal muscle dysfunction in the Mexican Cavefish77
Small and Large Bumblebees Invest Differently when Learning about Flowers74
Post-ER degradation of misfolded GPI-anchored proteins is linked with microautophagy73
Middle Pleistocene genome calibrates a revised evolutionary history of extinct cave bears72
Ancient and modern stickleback genomes reveal the demographic constraints on adaptation72
Life underground72
EGFR signaling activates intestinal stem cells by promoting mitochondrial biogenesis and β-oxidation71
Behavioral neuroscience: Computation in individual neurons69
Circabidian rhythm of sex pheromone reception in a scarab beetle69
Losing, preserving, and restoring vision from neurodegeneration in the eye68
Nilay Yapici67
Cep104 is a component of the centriole distal tip complex that regulates centriole growth and contributes to Drosophila spermiogenesis67
Developmental biology: A hole in the matrix67
Collective action in birds66
Plant biology: Phylogenomics of mustards and their relatives66
Differential coding of absolute and relative aversive value in the Drosophila brain64
Fear dynamically structures the ocean’s pelagic zone64
Molecular basis of (E)-β-farnesene-mediated aphid location in the predator Eupeodes corollae64
Disparate insults relevant to schizophrenia converge on impaired spike synchrony and weaker synaptic interactions in prefrontal local circuits64
Conservation genetics63
Multisensory spatial perception in visually impaired infants61
Mechanisms of lactic acid gustatory attraction in Drosophila60
Social behavior: Using visual cues to guide dancing on the fly59
Response to Kratochvíl and Rovatsos59
Sediment archives reveal irreversible shifts in plankton communities after World War II and agricultural pollution59
Colors58
Evolutionary genetics: Inversions — Do not quail but go big!58
An expedition to a tropical Arctic58
Aggression: The dark side of mirror neurons sheds light on their functions58
Evolution: Stress fans the flames of innovation58
A Causal Role for Gastric Rhythm in Human Disgust Avoidance57
Perceptual learning as a result of concerted changes in prefrontal and visual cortex57
Cell-size control56
Microbial protection favors parasite tolerance and alters host-parasite coevolutionary dynamics56
A causal role for the human subthalamic nucleus in non-selective cortico-motor inhibition56
Active space garnering by leaves of a rosette plant55
Climate adaptation around the world55
A family tree of everything alive55
TES-1/Tes and ZYX-1/Zyxin protect junctional actin networks under tension during epidermal morphogenesis in the C. elegans embryo55
Efference copies: Side-eyeing across species55
Active sensing: How to eliminate self-generated noise54
Financing ecosystem restoration54
Development: Sea anemone segments polarise54
A novel period mutation implicating nuclear export in temperature compensation of the Drosophila circadian clock54
Animal behavior: A tale of two apes54
Using eDNA to find Micrognathozoa53
A tree full of primate genomes53
Ground squirrels initiate sexual maturation during hibernation53
Neuromodulation: A model for dopamine in salience encoding53
Phage biology: Stuck with dU52
Cancer cell invasion: Caveolae and invadosomes are partners in crime52
Ecological variation in adult social play reveals a hidden cost of motherhood for wild chimpanzees52
Tactile localization promotes infant self-recognition in the mirror-mark test51
Plant biology: Managing age-related bursts during leaf development51
Pauses during communication release behavioral habituation through recovery from synaptic depression51
Drosophila flight: How flies control casts and surges50
Independent origins of powered flight in paravian dinosaurs?49
Wine on the move49
CLOCKWORK ORANGE promotes CLOCK-CYCLE activation via the putative Drosophila ortholog of CLOCK INTERACTING PROTEIN CIRCADIAN49
Cross-modal modulation gates nociceptive inputs in Drosophila49
Neuroscience: Moving thoughts control insulin release49
Neurobiology: Resetting the axon’s batteries49
Claustral neurons projecting to frontal cortex restrict opioid consumption48
Repeated evolution of a reproductive polyphenism in plants is strongly associated with bilateral flower symmetry48
Drosophila Tubulin-Specific Chaperone E Recruits Tubulin around Chromatin to Promote Mitotic Spindle Assembly48
A single residue confers selective loss of sugar sensing in wrynecks48
Coordination between growth and stress responses by DELLA in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha48
Real-time processes in the development of action planning47
Xyloglucan deficiency leads to a reduction in turgor pressure and changes in cell wall properties, affecting early seedling establishment47
How to know whales, and ourselves47
The neural representation of an auditory spatial cue in the primate cortex47
Mechanosensory and command contributions to the Drosophila grooming sequence47
Development: Keeping Time with Transcription47
Centromere pairing enables correct segregation of meiotic chromosomes47
Evolution of endosymbiosis-mediated nuclear calcium signaling in land plants47
Neuroscience: Hedonic worms gorge on high-energy foods46
Anesthesia disrupts distance, but not direction, of path integration memory46
Plant physiology: ARSK1, a regulator of TOR1 and mediator of P-adaptive root growth46
Microstimulation of sensory cortex engages natural sensory representations46
Wilderness46
Bird migration: Flying high to avoid overheating?45
All about Allium45
The nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio drives cellularization in the close animal relative Sphaeroforma arctica45
Melatonin targets the paraventricular thalamus to promote non-rapid eye movement sleep in C3H/HeJ mice45
Viral infection disrupts intestinal homeostasis via Sting-dependent NF-κB signaling in Drosophila45
The heterochronic LIN-14 protein is a BEN domain transcription factor45
Dopamine in the songbird auditory cortex shapes auditory preference45
The NAergic locus coeruleus-ventrolateral preoptic area neural circuit mediates rapid arousal from sleep45
Stable transfection in protist Corallochytrium limacisporum identifies novel cellular features among unicellular animals relatives45
Seasonal fishery facilitates a novel transmission pathway in an emerging animal reservoir of Guinea worm45
Efficiency and prioritization of inference-based credit assignment45
The chirality of the mitotic spindle provides a mechanical response to forces and depends on microtubule motors and augmin45
Discovering the role of Patagonian birds in the dispersal of truffles and other mycorrhizal fungi45
Intrinsically disordered sequences can tune fungal growth and the cell cycle for specific temperatures44
Avian navigation: Head direction cells in the quail hippocampus44
Biodiversity, resilience and the stability of evolutionary systems44
Nathan Morehouse44
Frequency modulation of rattlesnake acoustic display affects acoustic distance perception in humans44
Transient perceptual enhancements resulting from selective shifts of exogenous attention in the central fovea44
Sensory Neurobiology: A New Crossroads Deep in the Cortex44
Mouse vision: Variability and stability across the visual processing hierarchy44
Hybrid zones44
Enhanced reinstatement of naturalistic event memories due to hippocampal-network-targeted stimulation43
The BES1/BZR1-family transcription factor MpBES1 regulates cell division and differentiation in Marchantia polymorpha43
Sleep regulation: The gut sets the threshold43
Nesting at extreme polar latitudes by non-avian dinosaurs43
Brain-wide bidirectional neuropeptide modulation of individual neuron classes regulates a developmental decision43
Ancient genome of the Chinese Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou42
Spd-2 gene duplication reveals cell-type-specific pericentriolar material regulation42
Phased polyploid genomes provide deeper insight into the multiple origins of domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae beer yeasts42
Brain rhythms: How control gets into working memory42
Anomalous binocular vision in African Harrier-Hawks42
Neuroscience: Memory modification without catastrophe42
Inter-organ steroid hormone signaling promotes myoblast fusion via direct transcriptional regulation of a single key effector gene42
Adaptations for gas exchange enabled the elongation of lepidopteran proboscises42
Brood parasitism risk drives birds to breed near humans42
My bird42
Eviatar Yemini42
Seamount mining test provides evidence of ecological impacts beyond deposition42
Floral bullseyes and stratospheric ozone42
Functional convergence of on-off direction-selective ganglion cells in the visual thalamus42
Climate canaries42
Calpain-2 regulates hypoxia/HIF-induced plasticity toward amoeboid cancer cell migration and metastasis41
The Hoatzin41
Visual ecology: How glossy colours shine and confuse41
Convergent evolution of cardiac-glycoside resistance in predators and parasites of milkweed herbivores41
Cytokinin promotes growth cessation in the Arabidopsis root41
Surface flow for colonial integration in reef-building corals41
Late Pleistocene stickleback environmental genomes reveal the chronology of freshwater adaptation40
Wastewater warnings40
Noah Whiteman40
Structural changes in cell wall pectic polymers contribute to freezing tolerance induced by cold acclimation in plants40
Ets21C sustains a pro-regenerative transcriptional program in blastema cells of Drosophila imaginal discs40
How to restore ocean biodiversity39
Juliet A. Gerrard39
Domestic dogs: Born human whisperers39
Evolution and development: From the pet shop to the pelagic zone39
Elliot M. Meyerowitz39
Fly navigation: Yet another ring39
Collective behaviour: When avoidance becomes a deterrent39
Evolution: How to evolve a thick skin38
Neuroscience: Flies and grits38
Population temporal structure supplements the rate code during sensorimotor transformations38
Evolution: Ant trail pheromones promote ant–aphid mutualisms38
Evolution: Cleistogamy to the rescue of zygomorphic flowers38
Specialized predation by deep-sea Solenogastres revealed by sequencing of gut contents38
Auditory neuroethology: What the frog’s lungs tell the frog’s ear38
Neuroscience: Connecting the dots in memory38
Vision: Space and colour meet in the fly optic lobes38
Plant development: How competing modes of growth coexist in close proximity38
Ligation of newly replicated DNA controls the timing of DNA mismatch repair37
Endocrine signals fine-tune daily activity patterns in Drosophila37
Cytoskeleton: The many flavors of cilia transition fibers37
Historical human migrations: From the steppe to the basin37
Increasing interhemispheric connectivity between human visual motion areas uncovers asymmetric sensitivity to horizontal motion37
Neuroepithelial progenitors generate and propagate non-neuronal action potentials across the spinal cord37
Genetics: A cross-kingdom evolutionary handoff37
Phagocytosis: Phagolysosome vesiculation promotes cell corpse degradation37
Neurobiology: From genome and connectome to understanding behavior37
Social behavior: Closing the gap for close encounters37
Hunter-gatherer admixture facilitated natural selection in Neolithic European farmers37
Lost knowledge37
From genes to shape in leaf development and evolution37
Acetylcholine potentiates glutamate transmission from the habenula to the interpeduncular nucleus in losers of social conflict37
Worm development: Push not pull in gonad morphogenesis36
Sensory biology: Thirsty glia motivate water consumption36
Evolution: The evolutionary rat race in New Guinea and Australia36
Motor control: Ready, steady, go!36
Aversive conditioning: Principles of memory storage in sensory cortex36
Vitellogenesis: The evolutionary origins of nutrient uptake in animals36
Emotional states: Sweet relief for depressed flies36
Evolution: Unveiling a hidden tripartite relationship36
Genome evolution: On the nature of trade-offs with polyploidy and endopolyploidy36
Biological rhythms: Hormones under moon control36
The economy of terrestrial locomotion36
Evolution: The great photosynthesis heist36
Active vision gates ocular dominance plasticity in human adults36
Ancient DNA: Pathogens caught in the Minoan labyrinth36
Developmental biology: A dinosaur in a quail egg36
Cytoplasmic incompatibility: A Wolbachia toxin–antidote mechanism comes into view36
Neural coding: Looking up and down the visual thalamus36
Natural selection: Fair weather cooperators36
Face and voice perception: Monkey see, monkey hear35
A Wnt11 and Dishevelled signaling pathway acts prior to injury to control wound polarization for the onset of planarian regeneration35
Ant queens cannibalise infected brood to contain disease spread and recycle nutrients35
Toby Kiers35
Immortal orexin cell transplants restore motor-arousal synchrony during cataplexy35
Birdsong: Not all contest but also cooperation?35
Macropinna35
NuMA deficiency causes micronuclei via checkpoint-insensitive k-fiber minus-end detachment from mitotic spindle poles35
Gamma-protocadherins regulate dendrite self-recognition and dynamics to drive self-avoidance35
Nanog organizes transcription bodies35
Cetaceans balancing on the brink35
Iron and manganese availability drives primary production and carbon export in the Weddell Sea35
Peter Sterling35
The way of the dodo35
Microtubule nucleation from the fibrous corona by LIC1-pericentrin promotes chromosome congression35
Programmed DNA elimination35
Evolution: Was the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio a key factor in the origin of animal multicellularity?35
Apical PAR protein caps orient the mitotic spindle in C. elegans early embryos35
Phosphate acquisition and metabolism in plants34
Performance errors during rodent learning reflect a dynamic choice strategy34
Martin Giurfa34
FGF21 Induced by the ASK1-p38 Pathway Promotes Mechanical Cell Competition by Attracting Cells34
Specializations in optic flow encoding in the pretectum of hummingbirds and zebra finches34
Grouping behavior in a Triassic marine apex predator34
Mechano-chemical enforcement of tendon apical ECM into nano-filaments during Drosophila flight muscle development34
Meiotic sister chromatid exchanges are rare in C. elegans34
Salp fecal pellets release more bioavailable iron to Southern Ocean phytoplankton than krill fecal pellets34
Effects of a seismic survey on movement of free-ranging Atlantic cod34
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