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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions162
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children156
Two emetolite-pterosaur associations from the Late Jurassic of China: showing the first evidence for antiperistalsis in pterosaurs114
The urgent search for predictive biomarkers in the emerging era of universal congenital cytomegalovirus screening94
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals88
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective88
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison83
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands80
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies74
Evolution of the cardiac dyad73
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook70
Comments from the departing Editor70
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?68
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition68
The interaction engine: cuteness selection and the evolution of the interactional base for language67
Ecological clusters of soil taxa within bipartite networks are highly sensitive to climatic conditions in global drylands64
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica64
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives63
In situ-produced10Be and26Al indirect dating of Elarmékora Earlier Stone Age artefacts: first attempt in a savannah forest mosaic in the middle Ogooué valley, Gabon63
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species61
Correction to ‘The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines’60
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system59
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery59
Comparing management strategies for conserving communities of climate-threatened species with a stochastic metacommunity model56
The costs and benefits of dispersal in small populations56
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes55
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions55
Genome-wide association mapping within a local Arabidopsis thaliana population more fully reveals the genetic architecture for defensive metabolite diversity55
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies54
Flower sharing and pollinator health: a behavioural perspective54
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology54
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )53
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities52
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species50
A global and regional view of the opportunity for climate-smart mariculture49
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact49
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion49
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene47
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review47
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure46
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead46
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change45
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis45
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness45
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome45
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems45
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia44
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family42
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists42
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus syndactylus 42
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making42
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes41
Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms41
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests41
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression40
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert40
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes40
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory39
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees39
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate39
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual39
Complex foraging behaviours in wild birds emerge from social learning and recombination of components38
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution38
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality38
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment38
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases38
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects38
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation38
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene37
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions37
My Deep Sea, My Backyard: a pilot study to build capacity for global deep-ocean exploration and research37
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics37
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions37
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations37
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups37
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species37
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions36
Key individuals catalyse intergroup violence36
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies36
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals36
Introduction to the Special Issue—Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems35
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today35
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection35
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates35
The history of episodic memory35
Are strangers just enemies you have not yet met? Group homogeneity, not intergroup relations, shapes ingroup bias in three natural groups35
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )34
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle34
Understanding age and society using natural populations34
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function33
Sequences and animal intelligence33
Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems33
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views32
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets32
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes31
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity31
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations31
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa31
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull31
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species30
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 330
Colour vision in nocturnal insects30
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?30
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study30
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research30
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis30
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions30
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena30
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making30
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction29
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans29
Fishy culture in a changing world29
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals29
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language29
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation29
Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification29
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes29
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics29
Emergence of size-structured dominance hierarchies through size-dependent feedback29
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change28
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities28
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art28
The cultural evolution of distortion in music (and other norms of mixed appeal)28
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)28
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods28
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis28
The coevolution of cognition and sociality28
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands28
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language28
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?28
Phenomenal consciousness as an efficiency amplifier of agency: insights from time perception28
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization28
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests28
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences27
Comparing point counts, passive acoustic monitoring, citizen science and machine learning for bird species monitoring in the Mount Kenya ecosystem27
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change27
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer27
The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis27
Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa27
How methodological changes have influenced our understanding of population structure in threatened species: insights from tiger populations across India27
When and how do non-human great apes communicate to support cooperation?27
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory27
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method27
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline26
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids26
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing26
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales26
Celebrating 50 years since Lewontin's apportionment of human diversity26
Science of the gaps26
The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution26
Cities in nature26
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence26
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures26
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions26
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability25
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space25
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca2+25
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning25
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists25
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers25
Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities25
Joining the dots: maternal cytomegalovirus, HIV and the placenta25
The super wicked problem of ocean health: a socio-ecological and behavioural perspective25
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology25
Beak shape and nest material use in birds25
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability25
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy24
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells24
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based24
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size24
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum24
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies24
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?24
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence24
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations24
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account23
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity23
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?23
Niche breadth and elevational range size: a comparative study on Middle-European Brassicaceae species23
The climate and vegetation backdrop to hominin evolution in Africa23
Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions23
Closed-loop fMRI at the mesoscopic scale of columns and layers: Can we do it and why would we want to?23
Conserving avian vocal culture23
Drivers and outcomes of between-group conflict in vervet monkeys23
Potential distributions of pre-Columbian people in Tropical Andean landscapes23
Serial block face scanning electron microscopy reveals region-dependent remodelling of transverse tubules post-myocardial infarction23
Nonlinear phenomena in pinnipeds: a preliminary investigation in the contact calls of northern elephant seal pups23
Nematode mind: exploring the role of the RNA interference pathway in learning, memory and beyond23
Origins of life: the possible and the actual23
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities23
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides23
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses23
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song22
The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond22
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity22
Dynamic finite element modelling of the macaque mandible during a complete mastication gape cycle22
How predictable is adaptation from standing genetic variation? Experimental evolution in Drosophila highlights the central role of redundancy and linkage disequilibrium22
A synthetic synthesis to explore animal evolution and development22
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?22
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients22
Fetal growth and congenital heart disease at high altitude22
Neuroscience needs evolution22
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes22
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world22
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation22
Altitude and risk of pre-eclampsia: insights from a large-scale epidemiological study in Ecuador22
Selection shapes diverse animal minds22
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts21
Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees21
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales21
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory21
Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward21
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms21
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition21
FKBP12 binds to the cardiac ryanodine receptor with negative cooperativity: implications for heart muscle physiology in health and disease21
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers21
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea21
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and potential suscep21
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality21
Correction: ‘Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage’ (2021), by Grawunder et al.21
Evolutionarily stable strategy analysis and its links to demography and genetics through invasion fitness20
Introduction to the theme issue ‘Species' ranges in the face of changing environments’20
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
Three-dimensional remodelling of the cellular energy distribution system during postnatal heart development20
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century20
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation ofStrongyloidesgenome annotations20
Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue20
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions20
How cytoskeletal proteins regulate mitochondrial energetics in cell physiology and diseases20
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins20
Call combination production is linked to the social environment in Western Australian magpies ( Gymnorhina tibicen dorsalis )20
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies20
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture20
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia19
The evolutionary functions of consciousness19
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus19
Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering19
The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration19
The uteroplacental circulation at high altitude: adaptation and maladaptation19
Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants19
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals19
Interaction between mutation type and gene pleiotropy drives parallel evolution in the laboratory19
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore19
Restoration success in former Amazonian mines is driven by soil amendment and forest proximity19
The life history of harvester ant colonies19
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging reveals distinct vocal tract configurations during spontaneous and volitional laughter19
Counterfactual curiosity: motivated thinking about what might have been19
Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology19
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics19
Crops under stress: can we mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture and launch the ‘Resilience Revolution’?19
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