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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Drivers of parasite β-diversity among anuran hosts depend on scale, realm and parasite group146
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery137
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook102
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion93
A researcher's guide to the comparative assessment of vocal production learning79
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals79
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )76
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies76
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition75
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review75
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective74
Gossip and competitive altruism support cooperation in a Public Good game73
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’70
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations67
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis66
Evolution of the cardiac dyad64
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies64
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language63
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology62
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon62
Comments from the departing Editor61
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison60
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands60
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children60
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene57
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions57
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes57
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity55
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective54
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions53
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species52
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species52
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead52
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure52
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture52
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives51
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica51
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system51
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems50
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness50
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact49
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs48
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?47
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model47
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus syndactylus 44
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases44
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change44
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees43
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups43
Gene sharing among plasmids and chromosomes reveals barriers for antibiotic resistance gene transfer43
Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups43
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals43
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations42
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate42
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests41
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions41
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory41
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia40
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
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects40
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics40
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family40
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making38
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence38
By wind or wing: pollination syndromes and alternate bearing in horticultural systems38
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome38
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 depression37
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene36
Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components36
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates36
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions36
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual36
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions36
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution36
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes36
A cross-species framework to identify vocal learning abilities in mammals36
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species36
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality35
Vocal modulation in human mating and competition35
Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms35
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment35
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study35
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation35
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies35
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research35
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today34
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans34
The history of episodic memory34
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making33
Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification33
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change33
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection33
Fishy culture in a changing world33
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )32
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets32
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art32
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics32
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions32
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation32
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle32
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull32
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals32
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views32
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?31
Understanding age and society using natural populations31
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes31
Introduction to the Special Issue—Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems31
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis31
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa31
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities31
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function30
The effects of ENSO and the North American monsoon on mast seeding in two Rocky Mountain conifer species30
Colour vision in nocturnal insects30
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language29
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods29
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes29
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 329
The coevolution of cognition and sociality29
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena29
Sequences and animal intelligence29
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity29
Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems29
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species29
Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity28
Emergence of size-structured dominance hierarchies through size-dependent feedback28
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research28
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline28
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis28
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations28
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction28
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?28
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space27
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca2+27
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing27
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands27
The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution27
Cities in nature27
Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa27
The super wicked problem of ocean health: a socio-ecological and behavioural perspective27
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability26
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)26
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences26
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?26
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language26
Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities26
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method26
How methodological changes have influenced our understanding of population structure in threatened species: insights from tiger populations across India26
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability26
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization26
Comparing point counts, passive acoustic monitoring, citizen science and machine learning for bird species monitoring in the Mount Kenya ecosystem26
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales26
The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis26
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids25
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests25
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations25
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies25
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence25
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers25
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions25
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer25
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
Beak shape and nest material use in birds25
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology25
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change24
Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions24
Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes24
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition24
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
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world24
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning24
Conserving avian vocal culture24
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms24
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle24
Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?24
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)24
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists24
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?24
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and potential suscep24
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account24
Nematode mind: exploring the role of the RNA interference pathway in learning, memory and beyond24
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?23
A synthetic synthesis to explore animal evolution and development23
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based23
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities23
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity23
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts23
Niche breadth and elevational range size: a comparative study on Middle-European Brassicaceae species23
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy23
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity23
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?23
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes23
Neuroscience needs evolution22
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size22
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song22
Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees22
Parochial cooperation and the emergence of signalling norms22
The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond22
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum22
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells22
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients22
Fetal growth and congenital heart disease at high altitude22
The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa22
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence22
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups22
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction22
Altitude and risk of pre-eclampsia: insights from a large-scale epidemiological study in Ecuador22
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation22
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals21
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions21
Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward21
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales21
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses21
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture21
The life history of harvester ant colonies21
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation ofStrongyloidesgenome annotations21
Drivers and outcomes of between-group conflict in vervet monkeys21
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
Evolutionarily stable strategy analysis and its links to demography and genetics through invasion fitness21
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century21
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore21
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides21
Rethinking the frequency code: a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena21
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea21
Counterfactual curiosity: motivated thinking about what might have been20
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers20
Introduction to the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments’20
Restoration success in former Amazonian mines is driven by soil amendment and forest proximity20
Aggression, rank and power: why hens (and other animals) do not always peck according to their strength20
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics20
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia20
Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants20
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies20
Correction to ‘The role of soil in regulation of climate’20
Operant control and call usage learning in African elephants20
Three-dimensional remodelling of the cellular energy distribution system during postnatal heart development20
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins20
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus20
The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes20
More than a colour; how pigment influences colourblind microbes20
Progresses and challenges in Strongyloides spp. proteomics20
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )20
Gene surfing of underdominant alleles promotes formation of hybrid zones19
Bones, shells and baselines—how the past can inform modern marine management, protection and restoration19
The evolutionarily stable strategy, animal contests, parasitoids, pest control and sociality19
Crops under stress: can we mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture and launch the ‘Resilience Revolution’?19
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