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 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Life in fluctuating environments102
Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics101
Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19): early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic size estimates91
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies90
How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?89
Citizen science and marine conservation: a global review83
Challenges in control of COVID-19: short doubling time and long delay to effect of interventions81
Separating vascular and neuronal effects of age on fMRI BOLD signals81
Neural versus alternative integrative systems: molecular insights into origins of neurotransmitters78
Epigenetics and the success of invasive plants78
The role of soil in regulation of climate73
Evolution of master sex determiners: TGF-β signalling pathways at regulatory crossroads71
Molluscan mitochondrial genomes break the rules71
The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach69
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality65
The chemical brain hypothesis for the origin of nervous systems64
Selfish, promiscuous and sometimes useful: how mobile genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer in microbial populations64
Earth as construction material in the circular economy context: practitioner perspectives on barriers to overcome63
The impact of testing and infection prevention and control strategies on within-hospital transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in English hospitals62
Real-time nowcasting and forecasting of COVID-19 dynamics in England: the first wave60
Rhythm and timing as vulnerabilities in neurodevelopmental disorders59
Novel control strategies for mosquito-borne diseases57
The future of zoonotic risk prediction57
Continuous decisions57
Modelling that shaped the early COVID-19 pandemic response in the UK56
A neutral model for the loss of recombination on sex chromosomes56
The whole prefrontal cortex is premotor cortex54
The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems54
WolbachiastrainwAlbB maintains high density and dengue inhibition following introduction into a field population ofAedes aegypti53
Origins of eukaryotic excitability52
Multiple sex chromosomes in teleost fishes from a cytogenetic perspective: state of the art and future challenges51
Empirical evidence for epigenetic inheritance driving evolutionary adaptation51
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes50
Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology50
Expanding the classical paradigm: what we have learnt from vertebrates about sex chromosome evolution49
The role of soils in regulation and provision of blue and green water49
What makes a megaplasmid?49
Circling the drain: the extinction crisis and the future of humanity49
Vocal production learning in mammals revisited49
Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects48
Involuntary autobiographical memories and their relation to other forms of spontaneous thoughts48
A roadmap towards predicting species interaction networks (across space and time)48
Refocusing neuroscience: moving away from mental categories and towards complex behaviours47
The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities47
Understanding and combating misperceived polarization46
Behavioural and physiological plasticity in social hierarchies46
The ecology and evolution of synchronized reproduction in long-lived plants46
Sex chromosomes in meiotic, hemiclonal, clonal and polyploid hybrid vertebrates: along the ‘extended speciation continuum'45
Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change44
How is epigenetics predicted to contribute to climate change adaptation? What evidence do we need?44
The benefits of being seen to help others: indirect reciprocity and reputation-based partner choice44
Cross-species neuroscience: closing the explanatory gap43
The epiallelic potential of transposable elements and its evolutionary significance in plants43
Individual variation and interactions explain food web responses to global warming42
The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies42
Inversion invasions: when the genetic basis of local adaptation is concentrated within inversions in the face of gene flow41
Reafference and the origin of the self in early nervous system evolution41
The male breadwinner nuclear family is not the ‘traditional’ human family, and promotion of this myth may have adverse health consequences41
The multi-dimensional nature of vocal learning41
A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards ‘sexomics41
Adaptive behaviour and learning in slime moulds: the role of oscillations41
The impact of school reopening on the spread of COVID-19 in England40
Rude mechanicals in brain haemodynamics: non-neural actors that influence blood flow40
Heart rate as a measure of emotional arousal in evolutionary biology40
Unconscious mental imagery40
Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank40
More than just summed neuronal activity: how multiple cell types shape the BOLD response40
The thermodynamics of thinking: connections between neural activity, energy metabolism and blood flow39
Small RNAs and chromatin in the multigenerational epigenetic landscape ofCaenorhabditis elegans39
The role of soil in the contribution of food and feed39
As soon as there was life, there was danger: the deep history of survival behaviours and the shallower history of consciousness39
Collective minds: social network topology shapes collective cognition39
Evolution of behavioural control from chordates to primates38
Neuroscience needs evolution37
Control of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes using gene drives37
Role of soil in the regulation of human and plant pathogens: soils' contributions to people36
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses36
Population differentiation of polygenic score predictions under stabilizing selection35
Postzygotic reproductive isolation established in the endosperm: mechanisms, drivers and relevance35
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species35
Evolutionary transitions in learning and cognition35
The origins of human cumulative culture: from the foraging niche to collective intelligence35
Towards a phylogenetic ecology of plant pests and pathogens35
Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering35
Why do imagery and perception look and feel so different?35
The timing of genetic degeneration of sex chromosomes34
Prospects for probiotics in social bees34
The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference34
Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 with waning immunity in the UK population33
Gossip and reputation in everyday life33
Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization33
Sex chromosome evolution among amniotes: is the origin of sex chromosomes non-random?33
A review on trade-offs at the warm and cold ends of geographical distributions33
The description–experience gap: a challenge for the neuroeconomics of decision-making under uncertainty33
Elementary nervous systems33
Why are rhizobial symbiosis genes mobile?33
Exploring surveillance data biases when estimating the reproduction number: with insights into subpopulation transmission of COVID-19 in England33
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change32
Why do plasmids manipulate the expression of bacterial phenotypes?32
Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: a significant but inconsistent link?32
The role of soils in the disposition, sequestration and decontamination of environmental contaminants32
The role of soils in habitat creation, maintenance and restoration32
Bio-sensing technologies in aquaculture: how remote monitoring can bring us closer to our farm animals31
The gender-binary cycle: the perpetual relations between a biological-essentialist view of gender, gender ideology, and gender-labelling and sorting31
Uncovering cognitive similarities and differences, conservation and innovation31
Modern models of trophic meta-communities31
Costs dictate strategic investment in dominance interactions31
Potential effects of nectar microbes on pollinator health31
The future of theoretical evolutionary game theory30
Gene sharing among plasmids and chromosomes reveals barriers for antibiotic resistance gene transfer30
A spatial model of COVID-19 transmission in England and Wales: early spread, peak timing and the impact of seasonality30
The territories of governance : unpacking the ontologies and geophilosophies of fixed to flexible ocean management, and beyond30
Sex-chromosome evolution in frogs: what role for sex-antagonistic genes?30
Spontaneous electrical low-frequency oscillations: a possible role inHydraand all living systems30
The Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Central Balkans: population dynamics reconstruction based on new radiocarbon evidence30
Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus30
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture29
Some people just want to watch the world burn: the prevalence, psychology and politics of the ‘Need for Chaos’29
Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review29
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion29
Children are important too: juvenile playgroups and maternal childcare in a foraging population, the Agta29
CRISPR-Cas is associated with fewer antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial pathogens29
Lessons from an unusual vertebrate sex-determining gene29
A brief history of masting research29
Directly modelling population dynamics in the South American Arid Diagonal using 14 C dates29
Approaching prehistoric demography: proxies, scales and scope of the Cologne Protocol in European contexts29
Did pre-Columbian populations of the Amazonian biome reach carrying capacity during the Late Holocene?28
The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies28
The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests28
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song28
Protophones, the precursors to speech, dominate the human infant vocal landscape28
When does cultural evolution become cumulative culture? A case study of humpback whale song28
Regional variation in neurovascular coupling and why we still lack a Rosetta Stone28
Understanding mast seeding for conservation and land management28
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species27
Oxytocin—a social peptide? Deconstructing the evidence27
Molecular regulation of lifespan extension in fertile ant workers27
Acoustic indexes for marine biodiversity trends and ecosystem health27
Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession27
An assessment of temporal variability in mast seeding of North American Pinaceae27
Using a household-structured branching process to analyse contact tracing in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic27
Differential attraction in mosquito–human interactions and implications for disease control27
Individuality, self and sociality of vascular plants27
Characteristics of the 100 largest modern zoonotic disease outbreaks26
Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?26
The language of cooperation: reputation and honest signalling26
Global epistasis on fitness landscapes26
EnteroBase: hierarchical clustering of 100 000s of bacterial genomes into species/subspecies and populations26
Shut and re-open: the role of schools in the spread of COVID-19 in Europe26
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies26
Learning from others is good, with others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition of new knowledge26
Recommendations for building out mosquito-transmitted diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: the DELIVER mnemonic25
Social synchronization of circadian rhythms with a focus on honeybees25
Attention driven phantom vision: measuring the sensory strength of attentional templates and their relation to visual mental imagery and aphantasia25
Bistability of somatic pattern memories: stochastic outcomes in bioelectric circuits underlying regeneration25
The role of soils in the regulation of hazards and extreme events25
Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology25
The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution25
Association mapping of colour variation in a butterfly provides evidence that a supergene locks together a cluster of adaptive loci25
Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology25
Epigenetic mechanisms in sex determination and in the evolutionary transitions between sexual systems25
The impact of epigenetic information on genome evolution25
Animal tag technology keeps coming of age: an engineering perspective25
Neuromodulation of the mind-wandering brain state: the interaction between neuromodulatory tone, sharp wave-ripples and spontaneous thought25
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena25
The complexity of human cooperation under indirect reciprocity25
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead24
Forecasting parasite sharing under climate change24
A manifesto for palaeodemography in the twenty-first century24
Re-evaluating vocal production learning in non-oscine birds24
Ecological limits to evolutionary rescue24
The dynamics of dominance: open questions, challenges and solutions24
Effects of species interactions on the potential for evolution at species' range limits24
Confirmation bias is adaptive when coupled with efficient metacognition24
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes24
Active perception during angiogenesis: filopodia speed up Notch selection of tip cells in silico and in vivo 24
Competitive gossip: the impact of domain, resource value, resource scarcity and coalitions24
Interpersonal attunement in social interactions: from collective psychophysiology to inter- personalized psychiatry and24
Sex-biased gene expression and recent sex chromosome turnover24
Future trends in measuring physiology in free-living animals24
Reputation and punishment sustain cooperation in the optional public goods game24
Sex determination without sex chromosomes23
Sarcomere maturation: function acquisition, molecular mechanism, and interplay with other organelles23
The selfing syndrome and beyond: diverse evolutionary consequences of mating system transitions in plants23
Temperature variability alters the stability and thresholds for collapse of interacting species23
Genetic pest management and the background genetics of release strains23
Political ideology, cooperation and national parochialism across 42 nations23
The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines23
Sticky problems: extraction of nucleic acids from molluscs23
Potential of genomic technologies to improve disease resistance in molluscan aquaculture23
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides23
Evaluating refugia in recent human evolution in Africa23
Preventing postnatal depression: a causal mediation analysis of a 20-year preconception cohort23
The psychological foundations of reputation-based cooperation23
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis23
A geometric relationship of F 2 , F 3 and F 4 23
Exploring the neural basis of fear produced by mental imagery: imaginal exposure in individuals fearful of spiders23
Ecological complexity and the biosphere: the next 30 years22
Rhythmic abilities in humans and non-human animals: a review and recommendations from a methodological perspective22
Phylogenetic signal in the vocalizations of vocal learning and vocal non-learning birds22
Inversions and parallel evolution22
Ideology, communication and polarization22
Reputation and socio-ecology in humans22
Benchmarking Oxford Nanopore read assemblers for high-quality molluscan genomes22
Mapping between sound, brain and behaviour: four-level framework for understanding rhythm processing in humans and non-human primates22
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence22
The cultural evolution of cultural evolution22
To catch a hijacker: abundance, evolution and genetic diversity of P4-like bacteriophage satellites22
Why and how do termite kings and queens live so long?22
Molluscan phylogenomics requires strategically selected genomes22
Economic factors underlying biodiversity loss22
MolluscDB: a genome and transcriptome database for molluscs21
Molecular advances to study the function, evolution and spectral tuning of arthropod visual opsins21
The cultural evolution and ecology of institutions21
Mapping social distancing measures to the reproduction number for COVID-1921
Speleological and environmental history of Lida Ajer cave, western Sumatra21
Extensive genome-wide duplications in the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica)21
Social information use and social information waste21
How does genetic architecture affect eco-evolutionary dynamics? A theoretical perspective21
Variation in primate decision-making under uncertainty and the roots of human economic behaviour21
The crossover from microscopy to genes in marine diversity: from species to assemblages in marine pelagic copepods21
Archaeology, demography and life history theory together can help us explain past and present population patterns21
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact21
The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration20
Exploring connections between pollinator health and human health20
Why are population growth rate estimates of past and present hunter–gatherers so different?20
Thermosensitive sex chromosome dosage compensation in ZZ/ZW softshell turtles,Apalone spinifera20
The role of soils in the regulation of air quality20
Hallucinations as intensified forms of mind-wandering20
Phanerozoic parasitism and marine metazoan diversity: dilution versus amplification20
The neuroecology of the water-to-land transition and the evolution of the vertebrate brain20
Pollinator nutrition and its role in merging the dual objectives of pollinator health and optimal crop production20
The role of phenotypic plasticity in the establishment of range margins20
Rhythm in dyadic interactions20
Social learning in swarm robotics20
Forging a path to mesoscopic imaging success with ultra-high field functional magnetic resonance imaging20
Synchrony and rhythm interaction: from the brain to behavioural ecology20
Before trilobite legs:Pygmaclypeatus daziensisreconsidered and the ancestral appendicular organization of Cambrian artiopods20
Land-use change and rodent-borne diseases: hazards on the shared socioeconomic pathways20
Genetic sexing strains for the population suppression of the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti20
The role of soils in the regulation of ocean acidification20
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research19
How deep is the rift between conscious states in sleep and wakefulness? Spontaneous experience over the sleep–wake cycle19
Multilevel rhythms in multimodal communication19
When the human brain goes diving: using near-infrared spectroscopy to measure cerebral and systemic cardiovascular responses to deep, breath-hold diving in elite freedivers19
Obesity and psychological distress19
Single individual structural variant detection uncovers widespread hemizygosity in molluscs19
The role of soils in delivering Nature's Contributions to People19
Rhythm interaction in animal groups: selective attention in communication networks19
ARR17 controls dioecy in Populus by repressing B-class MADS-box gene expression19
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