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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes148
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity145
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective104
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions97
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?82
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery79
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children79
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems79
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion78
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs76
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model71
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives67
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure67
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness66
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook65
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’64
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies64
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies63
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language61
Evolution of the cardiac dyad61
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology59
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene58
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands58
Comments from the departing Editor58
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations57
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands56
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison54
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )54
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact54
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon53
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals53
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective53
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species52
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition51
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review51
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system51
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture50
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions50
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica49
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game47
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species45
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change45
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis44
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead44
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups43
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions43
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees43
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions42
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality42
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases42
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution42
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects42
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics41
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus syndactylus 41
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory41
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia41
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research41
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes40
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists40
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making40
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome39
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert38
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression38
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual38
Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components38
Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms37
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions37
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment37
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates37
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene37
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation37
A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals37
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family36
By wind or wing: pollination syndromes and alternate bearing in horticultural systems36
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations36
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate36
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests36
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes36
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies35
Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups35
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals35
Vocal modulation in human mating and competition35
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species35
Gene sharing among plasmids and chromosomes reveals barriers for antibiotic resistance gene transfer35
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence35
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today34
The history of episodic memory34
Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification34
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection34
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study34
Introduction to the Special Issue—Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems33
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle33
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals33
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views33
Understanding age and society using natural populations33
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )33
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis32
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language32
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity32
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes32
Sequences and animal intelligence32
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function32
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities32
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods32
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art31
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa31
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species31
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions31
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research30
The coevolution of cognition and sociality30
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 330
Emergence of size-structured dominance hierarchies through size-dependent feedback30
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena30
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?29
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans29
Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems29
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making29
The effects of ENSO and the North American monsoon on mast seeding in two Rocky Mountain conifer species29
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations29
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?29
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation29
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change29
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes28
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull28
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets28
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics28
Fishy culture in a changing world28
Colour vision in nocturnal insects28
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology27
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language27
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis27
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space27
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies27
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline27
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions27
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction27
Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity26
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing26
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands26
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales26
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids26
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences26
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability26
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization26
Cities in nature26
The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis26
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory26
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method26
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability26
Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa26
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)26
Comparing point counts, passive acoustic monitoring, citizen science and machine learning for bird species monitoring in the Mount Kenya ecosystem26
How methodological changes have influenced our understanding of population structure in threatened species: insights from tiger populations across India26
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)25
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca2+25
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer25
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers25
The super wicked problem of ocean health: a socio-ecological and behavioural perspective25
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests25
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence25
Beak shape and nest material use in birds25
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations25
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?25
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures25
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change24
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists24
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and potential suscep24
How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage disequilibrium24
Selection shapes diverse animal minds24
The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution24
Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities24
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world24
Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?24
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity24
Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes24
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning24
Conserving avian vocal culture24
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account24
Nematode mind: exploring the role of the RNA interference pathway in learning, memory and beyond24
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition24
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size23
Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees23
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based23
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities23
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction23
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells23
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum23
A synthetic synthesis to explore animal evolution and development23
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?23
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy23
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence23
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups23
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts23
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes23
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?23
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides22
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales22
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea22
Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions22
Niche breadth and elevational range size: a comparative study on Middle-European Brassicaceae species22
Drivers and outcomes of between-group conflict in vervet monkeys22
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients22
Altitude and risk of pre-eclampsia: insights from a large-scale epidemiological study in Ecuador22
Fetal growth and congenital heart disease at high altitude22
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity22
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?22
The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa22
The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond22
FKBP12 binds to the cardiac ryanodine receptor with negative cooperativity: implications for heart muscle physiology in health and disease21
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality21
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals21
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses21
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle21
Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward21
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture21
Parochial cooperation and the emergence of signalling norms21
Neuroscience needs evolution21
Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena21
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song21
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms21
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation21
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging reveals distinct vocal tract configurations during spontaneous and volitional laughter20
The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration20
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics20
Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue20
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies20
Late sodium current in synergism with Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to β-adrenergic activation-induced atrial fibrillation20
Three-dimensional remodelling of the cellular energy distribution system during postnatal heart development20
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
The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes20
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )20
Correction to ‘The role of soil in regulation of climate’20
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers20
Progresses and challenges in Strongyloides spp. proteomics20
Aggression, rank and power: why hens (and other animals) do not always peck according to their strength20
Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate20
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus20
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation ofStrongyloidesgenome annotations20
More than a colour; how pigment influences colourblind microbes20
Introduction to the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments’20
Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants20
Correction: ‘Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage’ (2021), by Grawunder et al.19
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore19
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory19
The benefits of being seen to help others: indirect reciprocity and reputation-based partner choice19
Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology19
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins19
The life history of harvester ant colonies19
How cytoskeletal proteins regulate mitochondrial energetics in cell physiology and diseases19
Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering19
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