Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Comments from the departing Editor120
Children's fingernail cortisol among BaYaka foragers of the Congo Basin: associations with fathers' roles118
Shaping birth: variation in the birth canal and the importance of inclusive obstetric care108
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning106
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies90
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group87
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness83
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs82
Engagement and adherence trade-offs for SARS-CoV-2 contact tracing75
Cross-frequency coupling explains the preference for simple ratios in rhythmic behaviour and the relative stability across non-synchronous patterns72
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology71
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies67
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure67
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model67
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children67
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon66
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis66
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game65
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’62
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective61
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook61
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition61
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery61
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )61
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene60
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes59
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact57
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica57
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?57
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison57
Evolution of the cardiac dyad55
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands55
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity55
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review55
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language54
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems54
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion53
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations53
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species53
The role of soils in the regulation of hazards and extreme events52
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes52
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture51
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions51
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective51
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead50
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system50
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change50
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species50
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees49
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions49
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes48
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality48
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests46
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory46
Mapping between sound, brain and behaviour: four-level framework for understanding rhythm processing in humans and non-human primates45
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making45
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions45
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia45
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene44
Vocal modulation in human mating and competition44
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual44
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations44
By wind or wing: pollination syndromes and alternate bearing in horticultural systems43
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution43
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family43
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression41
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists40
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research40
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals40
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate39
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics39
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment39
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus syndactylus 39
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species39
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome39
Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups38
Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components37
A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals37
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes37
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert36
Gene sharing among plasmids and chromosomes reveals barriers for antibiotic resistance gene transfer36
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates36
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups36
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects36
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions35
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena35
Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization35
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies35
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?35
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence35
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes35
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis35
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa34
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research34
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation34
The effects of ENSO and the North American monsoon on mast seeding in two Rocky Mountain conifer species34
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 333
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction33
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity33
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study33
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis33
A metastable attractor model of self–other integration (MEAMSO) in rhythmic synchronization32
The history of episodic memory32
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods32
Colour vision in nocturnal insects32
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art32
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?32
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today32
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull32
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species31
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views31
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals31
Introduction to the Special Issue—Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems31
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function31
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations31
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle31
A non-invasive system to measure heart rate in hard-shelled sea turtles: potential for field applications31
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making31
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change31
Understanding age and society using natural populations30
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets30
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans30
Relatively speaking? Partners' and family members’ views and experiences of supporting breastfeeding: a systematic review of qualitative evidence30
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language30
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes29
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection29
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions29
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )29
Emergence of size-structured dominance hierarchies through size-dependent feedback29
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities29
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method28
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests28
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales28
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?28
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization28
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands28
Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities28
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)28
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers27
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca2+27
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability27
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences27
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language27
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids27
Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity27
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability27
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning27
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory27
How methodological changes have influenced our understanding of population structure in threatened species: insights from tiger populations across India27
Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa26
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists26
Beak shape and nest material use in birds26
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions26
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations26
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures26
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence26
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)26
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing26
Cities in nature26
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space26
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum25
FKBP12 binds to the cardiac ryanodine receptor with negative cooperativity: implications for heart muscle physiology in health and disease25
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change25
Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes25
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer25
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition25
Modelling cultural systems and selective filters25
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation25
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy25
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies25
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline25
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world25
Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?25
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account25
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells25
The super wicked problem of ocean health: a socio-ecological and behavioural perspective25
Interaction between sex-determining genes from two species: clues fromXenopushybrids25
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based25
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities24
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts24
Niche breadth and elevational range size: a comparative study on Middle-European Brassicaceae species24
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales24
A synthetic synthesis to explore animal evolution and development24
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms24
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity24
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence24
The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa24
How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage disequilibrium24
Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena24
Sex-biased gene expression and recent sex chromosome turnover24
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size24
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle24
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea23
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity23
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses23
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and potential suscep23
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides23
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality23
Parochial cooperation and the emergence of signalling norms23
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?23
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups23
Drivers and outcomes of between-group conflict in vervet monkeys23
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song23
Transposable elements promote the evolution of genome streamlining23
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes23
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients23
Neuroscience needs evolution23
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?23
Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees23
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction23
The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution22
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture22
The impact of school reopening on the spread of COVID-19 in England22
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore22
The dynamic connectome of speech control22
Operant control and call usage learning in African elephants22
Three-dimensional remodelling of the cellular energy distribution system during postnatal heart development22
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions22
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory22
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation ofStrongyloidesgenome annotations22
Progresses and challenges in Strongyloides spp. proteomics22
Correction to ‘The role of soil in regulation of climate’22
Interaction between mutation type and gene pleiotropy drives parallel evolution in the laboratory22
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )22
More than a colour; how pigment influences colourblind microbes22
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century22
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals22
The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes22
The life history of harvester ant colonies22
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies22
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia22
Household bubbles and COVID-19 transmission: insights from percolation theory22
Evolutionarily stable strategy analysis and its links to demography and genetics through invasion fitness22
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus21
The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration21
Counterfactual curiosity: motivated thinking about what might have been21
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics21
Correction: ‘Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage’ (2021), by Grawunder et al.21
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins21
Restoration success in former Amazonian mines is driven by soil amendment and forest proximity21
Late sodium current in synergism with Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to β-adrenergic activation-induced atrial fibrillation21
Heart rate as a measure of emotional arousal in evolutionary biology21
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers21
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging reveals distinct vocal tract configurations during spontaneous and volitional laughter21
How cytoskeletal proteins regulate mitochondrial energetics in cell physiology and diseases21
Introduction to the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments’21
Aggression, rank and power: why hens (and other animals) do not always peck according to their strength21
Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate21
The benefits of being seen to help others: indirect reciprocity and reputation-based partner choice21
Transient mutation bias increases the predictability of evolution on an empirical genotype–phenotype landscape20
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