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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mitonuclear dynamics in unisexual vertebrates135
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children119
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species119
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology117
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes96
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica92
Comments from the departing Editor89
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands87
Honey-hunting with honeyguides in northern Ghana: cultural continuity amid change77
Preface74
Tracking the spatial and longitudinal dynamics of mixed infections of urogenital and intestinal schistosomiasis, inclusive of Schistosoma mattheei , in t70
The relation between children’s shyness and their contingent dialogical actions when reacting to a social robot’s instructions69
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion68
Evolution of the cardiac dyad67
The urgent search for predictive biomarkers in the emerging era of universal congenital cytomegalovirus screening66
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure66
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies66
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery64
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions63
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals63
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness62
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )61
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective61
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison58
Pragmatic comprehension and inferential ability: interplay with executive functions and Theory of Mind56
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives56
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies55
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands55
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities55
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review54
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?54
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook54
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions52
Distinct Anthropocene biosphere recorded by the rise of green algae and chrysophytes in varved sediments of Crawford Lake (Ontario, Canada)52
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model51
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact51
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene48
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition47
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system46
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems45
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change45
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language45
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead45
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups44
Social structure as a form of collective intelligence: a new framework43
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory43
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions42
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia42
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes42
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution42
Thermal variability during development facilitates enduring physiological tolerance42
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus synd42
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene41
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment41
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate41
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making41
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes41
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family40
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome40
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert40
Antimicrobial pharmacodynamics: defining regimens of antibiotics that are safe, effective and prevent the emergence of resistance39
The integrative biology of marmoset monkey vocal learning39
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics38
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests38
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation38
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates38
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression38
Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms37
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees37
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists37
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual36
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions36
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases36
Pragmatics partially segregated from Theory of Mind: evidence from resting-state functional connectivity36
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects36
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality35
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations35
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions35
Vaccines against antimicrobial resistance35
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals34
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull34
Long-term field survey reveals salinity as key determinant of estuarine host infection by a non-native castrating parasite34
The social origins of vocal sequences in songbirds and human infants34
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?34
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities34
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis34
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making33
Shedding of OsHV-1 from infected Pacific oysters depends on viral variant33
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation33
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals33
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection33
Phenomenal consciousness as an efficiency amplifier of agency: insights from time perception32
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets32
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions32
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language32
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species32
The coevolution of cognition and sociality32
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function32
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?32
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods32
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )32
Understanding age and society using natural populations31
Colour vision in nocturnal insects31
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa31
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis31
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes30
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today30
Schistosomiasis and stunting: microbial and metabolic mechanisms in early childhood30
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art30
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations30
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 330
Fishy culture in a changing world29
Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification29
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity29
The history of episodic memory29
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans29
Sequences and animal intelligence29
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle28
Land rights institutions and the scope of cooperation28
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views28
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics28
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence28
The timing and magnitude of historical exploitation in the ocean28
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study28
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change28
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research28
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids28
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes28
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction28
Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems28
Clinical morbidity of single or mixed schistosome species infection in two communities of southern Malawi27
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales27
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language27
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method27
Exploring the transformative potential of multi-trophic strategies to enhance coral restoration and mitigate disease27
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations27
Cities in nature27
Stochastic within-host dynamics and climate-sensitive traits generate predictable patterns of variation in disease outcomes27
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers27
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests27
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology26
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing26
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists26
The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution26
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability26
Comparing point counts, passive acoustic monitoring, citizen science and machine learning for bird species monitoring in the Mount Kenya ecosystem26
Affective Theory of Mind and linguistic intimacy in irony production: a developmental perspective26
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 Ca 2+26
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands26
Science of the gaps26
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning26
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)25
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory25
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures25
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences25
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space25
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer25
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability25
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)25
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline25
Beak shape and nest material use in birds25
Towards a universal definition of ‘domestication’. A Comment on: ‘Seeking consensus on the domestication concept’ (2025), by Spengler et al .24
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions24
Joining the dots: maternal cytomegalovirus, HIV and the placenta24
Modelling the emergence of open-ended cultural evolution24
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea24
Public health challenge of hybridization in urogenital schistosomiasis: New insights and one health perspectives from Malawi24
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies24
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy24
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization24
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?24
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account24
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change24
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?24
Do plant pathogens prefer seedlings? Variation in age-specific infectivity across pathogen genotypes24
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based24
Unpredictability and adaptive responses to dietary variability in Japanese quail24
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients24
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?23
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence23
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups23
The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond23
Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward23
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and 23
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction23
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities23
Conserving avian vocal culture23
Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?23
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle22
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size22
Origins of life: the possible and the actual22
FKBP12 binds to the cardiac ryanodine receptor with negative cooperativity: implications for heart muscle physiology in health and disease22
Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions22
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes22
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum22
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells22
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world22
Altitude and risk of pre-eclampsia: insights from a large-scale epidemiological study in Ecuador22
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity22
Nematode mind: exploring the role of the RNA interference pathway in learning, memory and beyond22
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition22
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms21
How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage21
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts21
Neonatal auditory input affects vocal development in harbour seals21
Interaction between mutation type and gene pleiotropy drives parallel evolution in the laboratory21
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation of Strongyloides genome annotations21
Correction: ‘Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage’ (2021), by Grawunder et al.21
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?21
Selection shapes diverse animal minds21
Fetal growth and congenital heart disease at high altitude21
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers21
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions21
Progresses and challenges in Strongyloides spp. proteomics21
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging reveals distinct vocal tract configurations during spontaneous and volitional laughter21
Circadian rhythms and the use of transfer learning for critically endangered crested argus Rheinardia ocellata in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: the i21
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity21
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales21
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation21
Unresponsive to change: Ectotherms fail to adjust physiology to daily temperature variation21
Counterfactual curiosity: motivated thinking about what might have been21
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory21
Dengue virus non-structural protein 1 as a surrogate biomarker of antiviral efficacy in early phase clinical trials20
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia20
Late sodium current in synergism with Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to β-adrenergic activation-induced atrial fibrillatio20
Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants20
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals20
The life history of harvester ant colonies20
Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate20
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century20
Evolutionarily stable strategy analysis and its links to demography and genetics through invasion fitness20
More than a colour; how pigment influences colourblind microbes20
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )20
Restoration success in former Amazonian mines is driven by soil amendment and forest proximity20
The evolutionary functions of consciousness20
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore20
Invited reply: Response to: Towards a universal definition of ‘domestication’20
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins20
A glossary for the cross-disciplinary study of numerals20
Ten years of using the APACS test: a multistudy cross-diagnostic analysis of pragmatic profiles and their relationship with Theory of Mind20
Three-dimensional remodelling of the cellular energy distribution system during postnatal heart development20
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies20
Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue20
Learning from others is good, with others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition o19
Crystal structures of ‘ALternative Isoinformational ENgineered’ DNA in B-form19
Success probability of high-affinity DNA aptamer generation by genetic alphabet expansion19
A meta-analysis of gut microbiome research in malnourished African populations: a natural language processing approach19
Cultural specialization as a double-edged sword: division into specialized guilds might promote cultural complexity at the cost of higher susceptibility to cultural loss19
Epistasis decreases with increasing antibiotic pressure but not temperature19
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