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 7. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions157
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery151
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure111
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica97
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes88
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs85
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review84
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model80
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion80
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system78
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective71
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children70
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison69
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations69
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands65
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies64
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies64
Comments from the departing Editor63
Evolution of the cardiac dyad63
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook62
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition60
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )59
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?59
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives58
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon56
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene55
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture55
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species54
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language53
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’53
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species52
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness52
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology52
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions51
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity50
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals49
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact47
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands46
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities46
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis45
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change45
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems45
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective45
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome44
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making44
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead44
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists44
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia44
Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms43
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence42
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment42
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes41
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests41
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus syndactylus 41
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals40
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family40
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research40
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes39
Vocal modulation in human mating and competition38
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert38
A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals38
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects38
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species38
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates38
Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups38
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions38
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual37
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory37
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression37
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions37
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene37
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate37
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees37
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality36
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution36
Gene sharing among plasmids and chromosomes reveals barriers for antibiotic resistance gene transfer36
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups36
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation36
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions36
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases36
Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components35
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies35
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations35
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics35
The history of episodic memory34
Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification34
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today34
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection34
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )33
Understanding age and society using natural populations33
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle33
Introduction to the Special Issue—Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems33
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis33
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language32
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function32
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods32
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions32
Sequences and animal intelligence32
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 331
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa31
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes30
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views30
Colour vision in nocturnal insects30
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change30
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction30
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?29
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity29
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena29
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets29
The coevolution of cognition and sociality29
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals29
Emergence of size-structured dominance hierarchies through size-dependent feedback29
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis29
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species29
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans29
Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems29
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research28
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes28
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation28
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making28
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art28
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities28
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations28
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics28
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study27
Fishy culture in a changing world27
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability27
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands27
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull27
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language27
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization27
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?27
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability27
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)27
The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis26
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca2+26
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids26
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?26
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)26
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence26
Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity26
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences26
Comparing point counts, passive acoustic monitoring, citizen science and machine learning for bird species monitoring in the Mount Kenya ecosystem26
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline26
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers26
Cities in nature26
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory26
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change25
Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities25
Science of the gaps25
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing25
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures25
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer25
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales25
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests25
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method25
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists25
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning25
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions25
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations25
How methodological changes have influenced our understanding of population structure in threatened species: insights from tiger populations across India24
The super wicked problem of ocean health: a socio-ecological and behavioural perspective24
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities24
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy24
The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution24
Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa24
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space24
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based24
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum24
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology24
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies24
Beak shape and nest material use in birds24
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?24
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction24
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?23
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells23
Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?23
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and potential suscep23
FKBP12 binds to the cardiac ryanodine receptor with negative cooperativity: implications for heart muscle physiology in health and disease23
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence23
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups23
Nematode mind: exploring the role of the RNA interference pathway in learning, memory and beyond23
A synthetic synthesis to explore animal evolution and development23
Origins of life: the possible and the actual23
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition23
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size23
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account23
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity23
Conserving avian vocal culture23
Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes22
The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa22
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle22
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts22
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes22
How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage disequilibrium22
Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions22
Neuroscience needs evolution22
Selection shapes diverse animal minds22
Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees22
Niche breadth and elevational range size: a comparative study on Middle-European Brassicaceae species22
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation22
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms22
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song22
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides21
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients21
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales21
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world21
Drivers and outcomes of between-group conflict in vervet monkeys21
Fetal growth and congenital heart disease at high altitude21
The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond21
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea21
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?21
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity21
Altitude and risk of pre-eclampsia: insights from a large-scale epidemiological study in Ecuador21
Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward21
Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena21
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses21
Introduction to the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments’20
Evolutionarily stable strategy analysis and its links to demography and genetics through invasion fitness20
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions20
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins20
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies20
Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate20
Three-dimensional remodelling of the cellular energy distribution system during postnatal heart development20
The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes20
Interaction between mutation type and gene pleiotropy drives parallel evolution in the laboratory20
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture20
The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration20
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore20
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century20
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )20
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation ofStrongyloidesgenome annotations20
Late sodium current in synergism with Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to β-adrenergic activation-induced atrial fibrillation20
Correction: ‘Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage’ (2021), by Grawunder et al.20
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality20
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals20
Circadian rhythms and the use of transfer learning for critically endangered crested argus Rheinardia ocellata in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: the implications for 20
Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue20
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus19
The life history of harvester ant colonies19
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics19
Crops under stress: can we mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture and launch the ‘Resilience Revolution’?19
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia19
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory19
A glossary for the cross-disciplinary study of numerals19
Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering19
The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems19
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers19
Counterfactual curiosity: motivated thinking about what might have been19
Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology19
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