Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 5. 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
Interdisciplinary approaches to predicting evolutionary biology97
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica92
Life expectancy, family constellation and stress in giant mole-rats ( Fukomys mechowii )89
Photosynthesis and other factors affecting the establishment and maintenance of cnidarian–dinoflagellate symbiosis88
Patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cell properties implicate Ca 2+ -homeostasis in clinical arrhythmia associated with combined heterozygous RY81
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model80
Three-dimensional visualization of the cardiac ryanodine receptor clusters and the molecular-scale fraying of dyads80
Nutrients and flow shape the cyclic dominance games between Escherichia coli strains78
Estimating the relationship between fitness and metabolic rate: which rate should we use?71
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies71
Real-time monitoring of COVID-19 dynamics using automated trend fitting and anomaly detection70
Using a household-structured branching process to analyse contact tracing in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic69
Ageing in a collective: the impact of ageing individuals on social network structure69
Evolution of the cardiac dyad64
Monitoring recovery of tree diversity during tropical forest restoration: lessons from long-term trajectories of natural regeneration62
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis61
The contributions of Nettie Stevens to the field of sex chromosome biology61
Spatial variation in species' roles in host–helminth networks59
Towards a phylogenetic ecology of plant pests and pathogens59
Understanding mast seeding for conservation and land management57
The extended analogy of extraembryonic development in insects and amniotes56
The ecology and evolution of synchronized reproduction in long-lived plants56
Alternative mammalian strategies leading towards gastrulation: losing polar trophoblast (Rauber's layer) or gaining an epiblast cavity54
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook54
Journey of the mouse primitive endoderm: from specification to maturation54
Empirical evidence for epigenetic inheritance driving evolutionary adaptation51
Circling the drain: the extinction crisis and the future of humanity51
The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities51
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact50
Acoustic similarity of flight calls corresponds with the composition and structure of mixed-species flocks of migrating birds: evidence from a three-dimensional microphone array49
Peer audience effects on children's vocal masculinity and femininity49
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species49
Understanding the factors regulating host–microbiome interactions using Caenorhabditis elegans49
How does genetic architecture affect eco-evolutionary dynamics? A theoretical perspective48
The many functions of vocal learning48
A model for colour preference behaviour of spring migrant aphids48
Different types of uncertainty in multisensory perceptual decision making47
Crystal structures of ‘ALternative Isoinformational ENgineered’ DNA in B-form47
Remodelling and dysfunction of the sinus node in pulmonary arterial hypertension47
Apportioning archaic variants among modern populations46
Shaping birth: variation in the birth canal and the importance of inclusive obstetric care45
Self-motion perception and sequential decision-making: where are we heading?45
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game44
Conditions that favour cumulative cultural evolution44
Honesty and dishonesty in gossip strategies: a fitness interdependence analysis44
The evolution of biramous appendages revealed by a carapace-bearing Cambrian arthropod43
A social cognition perspective on misophonia43
Towards an integrated understanding of dietary phenotypes42
Is degree of sociality associated with reproductive senescence? A comparative analysis across birds and mammals41
ARR17 controls dioecy in Populus by repressing B-class MADS-box gene expression41
Sex chromosome degeneration, turnover, and sex-biased expression of sex-linked transcripts in African clawed frogs ( Xenopus )41
Multilevel rhythms in multimodal communication41
The impacts of climate change, energy policy and traditional ecological practices on future firewood availability for Diné (Navajo) People40
Artificial light at night (ALAN) causes shifts in soil communities and functions40
Inspecting the interaction between human immunodeficiency virus and the immune system through genetic turnover40
Even violins can cry: specifically vocal emotional behaviours also drive the perception of emotions in non-vocal music39
Identifying co-phylogenetic hotspots for zoonotic disease39
Form, function, foam: evolutionary ecology of anuran nests and nesting behaviour39
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness38
Epistasis decreases with increasing antibiotic pressure but not temperature38
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective37
Incremental induction of NMDAR-STP and NMDAR-LTP in the CA1 area of ventral hippocampal slices relies on graded activation of discrete NMDA receptors37
Sex differences in cooperative coalitions: a mammalian perspective37
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology36
Quantifying and estimating ecological network diversity based on incomplete sampling data36
Evolving the capacity for socially guided vocal learning in songbirds: a preliminary study36
When norm change hurts35
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children35
Metaphors or mechanism? Predictive coding and a (brief) history of empirical study of the arts35
Cis -regulatory landscapes in the evolution and development of the mammalian skull35
Metaphors: the evolutionary journey from bidirectionality to unidirectionality34
Molecular patterns and processes in evolving sociality: lessons from insects34
An ecological approach to measuring synchronization abilities across the animal kingdom34
Engagement and adherence trade-offs for SARS-CoV-2 contact tracing34
Vocal plasticity in harbour seal pups33
Parent–infant affect synchrony during social and solo play33
Transcriptomic analysis of PADI4 target genes during multi-lineage differentiation of embryonic stem cells33
Endocrine–circadian interactions in birds: implications when nights are no longer dark33
Comments from the departing Editor33
Impacts of artificial light at night on the early life history of two ecosystem engineers33
Selective selfishness in alarm calling behaviour by some members of wintering mixed-species groups of crested tits and willow tits33
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective33
The fructose survival hypothesis for obesity32
The evolution of passive dispersal versus habitat selection have differing emergent consequences in metacommunities32
The web of conflict-related interactions in Colombia: exploring causal linkages between ecological and social variables by the qualitative loop analysis32
Multi-dimensional sensorimotor grounding of concrete and abstract categories32
Early life adversity has sex-dependent effects on survival across the lifespan in rhesus macaques32
A positive consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic: how the counterfactual experience of school closures is accelerating a multisectoral response to the treatment of neglected tropical diseases32
Rethinking the role of language in embodied cognition32
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition31
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?31
Negative density dependence characterizes mutualistic interactions between birds and fruiting plants across latitudes31
Shaping new norms for AI30
Do you hear what I see? How do early blind individuals experience object motion?30
Variation in nest-building behaviour in birds: a multi-species approach30
Artificial light at night decreases plant diversity and performance in experimental grassland communities30
Introduction: food processing and nutritional assimilation in animals30
Cross-frequency coupling explains the preference for simple ratios in rhythmic behaviour and the relative stability across non-synchronous patterns29
The complexity of human cooperation under indirect reciprocity29
Sex-specific and social experience-dependent oxytocin–endocannabinoid interactions in the nucleus accumbens: implications for social behaviour29
Ideology, communication and polarization29
Connecting human behaviour, meaning and nature29
A songbird adjusts its heart rate and body temperature in response to season and fluctuating daily conditions29
Strongyloides : omics to worm-free populations29
Epigenetic inheritance and evolution: a historian's perspective29
The economic superorganism in the complexity of evolution28
Reframing social categorization as latent structure learning for understanding political behaviour28
Realizing the potential of restoration science28
Testing for fitness epistasis in a transplant experiment identifies a candidate adaptive locus inTimemastick insects28
A new mammal from the Lower Cretaceous Jehol Biota and implications for eutherian evolution28
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs28
The transmission dynamics of Strongyloides stercoralis and the impact of mass drug administration27
Social tolerance and interactional opportunities as drivers of gestural redoings in orang-utans27
Social support, nutrition and health among women in rural Bangladesh: complex tradeoffs in allocare, kin proximity and support network size27
Mechanistic models to meet the challenge of climate change in plant–pathogen systems27
Variation in communicative complexity in relation to social structure and organization in non-human primates27
Fat-free mass and resting metabolic rate are determinants of energy intake: implications for a theory of appetite control27
Reactivity and mechanism in chemical and synthetic biology27
Nurturing future leaders for nature: the example of the UK's National Education Nature Park27
Preface to 'Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems'27
Evolution of master sex determiners: TGF-β signalling pathways at regulatory crossroads27
Transient mutation bias increases the predictability of evolution on an empirical genotype–phenotype landscape27
Conscious awareness is necessary to assess trust and mimic facial expressions, while pupils impact trust unconsciously26
Pantomimic fossils in modern human communication26
Toward an evolutionary ecology of (in)equality26
The role of soils on pollination and seed dispersal26
From inter-group conflict to inter-group cooperation: insights from social insects26
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change26
Diversity and its causes: Lewontin on racism, biological determinism and the adaptationist programme26
Environmental variation and biotic interactions limit adaptation at ecological margins: lessons from rainforestDrosophilaand European butterflies26
Experimental evolution of the megaplasmid pMPPla107 in Pseudomonas stutzeri enables identification of genes contributing to sensitivity to an inhibitory agent26
The human side of biodiversity: coevolution of the human niche, palaeo-synanthropy and ecosystem complexity in the deep human past25
Mitigating the impacts of street lighting on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning25
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion25
Evolutionarily stable preferences25
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems25
Unravelling the functional and phylogenetic dimensions of novel ecosystem assemblages25
Identifying the social context of single- and mixed-species group formation in large African herbivores25
Lamin A precursor localizes to the Z-disc of sarcomeres in the heart and is dynamically regulated in muscle cell differentiation25
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations24
Navigating the normativity of behaviour settings: an observational case study24
Gene surfing of underdominant alleles promotes formation of hybrid zones24
Was Cinderella just a fairy tale? Survival differences between stepchildren and their half-siblings24
Persuasive conversation as a new form of communication inHomo sapiens24
Measuring the state of aquatic environments using eDNA—upscaling spatial resolution of biotic indices24
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group24
Convergent copy number increase of genes associated with freshwater colonization in fishes24
Recent advances in biomedical, biosensor and clinical measurement devices for use in humans and the potential application of these technologies for the study of physiology and disease in wild animals24
Linking the genomic signatures of human beat synchronization and learned song in birds24
Rewilding psychology24
With a little help from my friends: the roles of microbial symbionts in insect populations and communities24
Kidnapping intergroup young: an alternative strategy to maintain group size in the group-living pied babbler (Turdoides bicolor)23
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system23
Cultural specialization as a double-edged sword: division into specialized guilds might promote cultural complexity at the cost of higher susceptibility to cultural loss23
The role of soils in the regulation of ocean acidification23
The early rise and spread of evolutionary game theory: perspectives based on recollections of early workers23
Reproductive inequality among males in the genusPan23
Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania23
Success probability of high-affinity DNA aptamer generation by genetic alphabet expansion23
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes23
The role of animal hosts in shaping gut microbiome variation23
The mammalian skull: development, structure and function22
Amphibian infection tolerance to chytridiomycosis22
Functional biogeography of parasite traits: hypotheses and evidence22
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions22
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon22
Groundfish biodiversity change in northeastern Pacific waters under projected warming and deoxygenation22
Understanding 3D vision as a policy network22
From dearth to excess: the rise of obesity in an ultra-processed food system22
Can nesting behaviour allow reptiles to adapt to climate change?22
Signals of belonging: emergence of signalling norms as facilitators of trust and parochial cooperation22
Elements of episodic memory: insights from artificial agents22
Need for shared internal mound conditions by fungus-growing Macrotermes does not predict their species distributions, in current or future climates22
The role of cognition in nesting22
Parent-of-origin effects, allele-specific expression, genomic imprinting and paternal manipulation in social insects22
Does eating less or exercising more to reduce energy availability produce distinct metabolic responses?22
Efficiency traps beyond the climate crisis: exploration–exploitation trade-offs and rebound effects22
The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference22
Self-tuition as an essential design feature of the brain22
Recurrent allopolyploidization, Y-chromosome introgression and the evolution of sexual systems in the plant genus Mercurialis21
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure21
Learning from others is good, with others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition of new knowledge21
Behavioural regulation of mineral salt intake in honeybees: a self-selection approach21
Computational and neurocognitive approaches to the political brain: key insights and future avenues for political neuroscience21
The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies21
Into the wild—a field study on the evolutionary and ecological importance of thermal plasticity in ectotherms across temperate and tropical regions21
Your turn, my turn. Neural synchrony in mother–infant proto-conversation21
Measuring dominance certainty and assessing its impact on individual and societal health in a nonhuman primate model: a network approach21
Great ape communication as contextual social inference: a computational modelling perspective21
Familiar size affects perception differently in virtual reality and the real world21
Rhythm in dyadic interactions20
Protein citrullination: inhibition, identification and insertion20
Sex-chromosome evolution in frogs: what role for sex-antagonistic genes?20
Modelling social norms: an integration of the norm-utility approach with beliefs dynamics20
Continental-scale patterns in diel flight timing of high-altitude migratory insects20
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene20
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture20
Recent progress on methods for estimating and updating large phylogenies20
Embryonic and extraembryonic tissues during mammalian development: shifting boundaries in time and space20
Cereal weevils' antimicrobial peptides: at the crosstalk between development, endosymbiosis and immune response20
Order and change in art: towards an active inference account of aesthetic experience20
Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: a significant but inconsistent link?20
Relationship among vegetation structure and mixed-species flocks composition along the latitudinal gradient of the subtropical montane forest of the Yungas, Argentina20
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands20
EnteroBase: hierarchical clustering of 100 000s of bacterial genomes into species/subspecies and populations20
Rhythm and timing as vulnerabilities in neurodevelopmental disorders19
Skill building in freediving as an example of embodied culture19
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )19
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead19
Impacts of limits to adaptation on population and community persistence in a changing environment19
Iterative evolution of supergene-based social polymorphism in ants19
Children's fingernail cortisol among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: associations with fathers' roles19
A classification scheme for mixed-species bird flocks19
Anthropogenic disturbance affects calling and collective behaviour in corvid roosts19
Integrating evolutionary theory and social–ecological systems research to address the sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene19
How should we bend the curve of biodiversity loss to build a just and sustainable future?19
The evolutionarily stable strategy, animal contests, parasitoids, pest control and sociality19
Landscape configuration can flip species–area relationships in dynamic meta-food-webs19
Gestures can help children learn mathematics: how researchers can work with teachers to make gesture studies applicable to classrooms19
The whole prefrontal cortex is premotor cortex19
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery19
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language19
How do fluctuating ecological dynamics impact the evolution of hosts and parasites?19
Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus18
The neural basis of ideological differences in race categorization18
How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?18
The experimental emergence of convention in a non-human primate18
Walking humans and running mice: perception and neural encoding of optic flow during self-motion18
Reafference and the origin of the self in early nervous system evolution18
Interactions between neural representations of the social and spatial environment18
The influence of social and spatial processes on the epidemiology of environmentally transmitted pathogens in wildlife: implications for management18
Outbreaks in care homes may lead to substantial disease burden if not mitigated18
Pollinator selection against toxic nectar as a key facilitator of a plant invasion18
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species18
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning18
Anthropogenic impacts at the interface of animal spatial and social behaviour18
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison18
The constructive nature of memories in insects: bumblebees as a case study18
Expanding theory, methodology and empirical systems at the spatial–social interface18
The role of soils in habitat creation, maintenance and restoration18
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity18
Social learning in swarm robotics18
Measuring episodic memory and mental time travel: crossing the species gap18
Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny18
The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach17
Reactive oxygen species: role in obesity and mitochondrial energy efficiency17
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies17
Predicting strength from aggressive vocalizations versus speech in African bushland and urban communities17
The role of binocular vision in the control and development of visually guided upper limb movements17
Compartmentalized cAMP signalling and control of cardiac rhythm17
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