Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 15. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Impact of extreme weather conditions on European crop production in 2018135
Childhood as a solution to explore–exploit tensions114
The importance of intrinsic postzygotic barriers throughout the speciation process110
A historical, geographical and ecological perspective on the 2018 European summer drought89
How sperm competition shapes the evolution of testes and sperm: a meta-analysis86
Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics83
Life in fluctuating environments80
Ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying patterns of phylosymbiosis in host-associated microbial communities79
Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19): early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic size estimates78
Roles of the gut microbiota in the adaptive evolution of mammalian species77
TheDrosophilaseminal proteome and its role in postcopulatory sexual selection74
Towards the completion of speciation: the evolution of reproductive isolation beyond the first barriers73
Challenges in control of COVID-19: short doubling time and long delay to effect of interventions73
The ecology of heterogeneity: soil bacterial communities and C dynamics72
Speciation through chromosomal fusion and fission in Lepidoptera72
Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe69
How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?68
Separating vascular and neuronal effects of age on fMRI BOLD signals68
The study of host–microbiome (co)evolution across levels of selection68
Understanding the evolution of interspecies interactions in microbial communities68
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies66
Impacts of extreme summers on European ecosystems: a comparative analysis of 2003, 2010 and 201864
Citizen science and marine conservation: a global review64
Multiple global change stressor effects on phytoplankton nutrient acquisition in a future ocean63
Microbiome-mediated plasticity directs host evolution along several distinct time scales61
The impact of testing and infection prevention and control strategies on within-hospital transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in English hospitals60
The emergence of emotionally modern humans: implications for language and learning60
Stable isotopes of fatty acids: current and future perspectives for advancing trophic ecology60
Neural versus alternative integrative systems: molecular insights into origins of neurotransmitters59
Evolution of master sex determiners: TGF-β signalling pathways at regulatory crossroads58
Epigenetics and the success of invasive plants58
Pathogen resistance may be the principal evolutionary advantage provided by the microbiome58
The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach57
Community coalescence: an eco-evolutionary perspective56
Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing55
The microbial exometabolome: ecological resource and architect of microbial communities55
Molluscan mitochondrial genomes break the rules55
Olfaction scaffolds the developing human from neonate to adolescent and beyond55
The role of soil in regulation of climate55
Life-history theory in psychology and evolutionary biology: one research programme or two?54
Compartmentalization drives the evolution of symbiotic cooperation52
Real-time nowcasting and forecasting of COVID-19 dynamics in England: the first wave52
The chemical brain hypothesis for the origin of nervous systems51
Continuous decisions51
A mechanism for learning with sleep spindles50
Linking mitochondrial and chloroplast retrograde signalling in plants50
Spatial chloroplast-to-nucleus signalling involving plastid–nuclear complexes and stromules49
A neutral model for the loss of recombination on sex chromosomes48
Dormancy dampens the microbial distance–decay relationship47
Conceptual developments in sperm competition: a very brief synopsis47
Social bonds, social status and survival in wild baboons: a tale of two sexes47
The future of zoonotic risk prediction46
Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects46
Novel control strategies for mosquito-borne diseases45
Phylogenetic conservation of soil bacterial responses to simulated global changes45
WolbachiastrainwAlbB maintains high density and dengue inhibition following introduction into a field population ofAedes aegypti45
The role of female reproductive fluid in sperm competition44
The role of soils in regulation and provision of blue and green water44
What makes a megaplasmid?44
Origins of eukaryotic excitability44
Modelling that shaped the early COVID-19 pandemic response in the UK44
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality44
Empirical evidence for epigenetic inheritance driving evolutionary adaptation44
Integration of new information in memory: new insights from a complementary learning systems perspective43
Rhythm and timing as vulnerabilities in neurodevelopmental disorders43
Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology43
The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems42
Age-related decline in executive function as a hallmark of cognitive ageing in primates: an overview of cognitive and neurobiological studies42
Individual vocal recognition across taxa: a review of the literature and a look into the future42
Electrophysiological signatures of memory reactivation in humans42
Selfish, promiscuous and sometimes useful: how mobile genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer in microbial populations42
Consequences of undetected olfactory loss for human chemosensory communication and well-being42
The adaptive origins of uniquely human sociality42
Physiological response of Swiss ecosystems to 2018 drought across plant types and elevation41
Understanding and combating misperceived polarization41
Vocal production learning in mammals revisited40
Expanding the classical paradigm: what we have learnt from vertebrates about sex chromosome evolution40
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes40
Multiple sex chromosomes in teleost fishes from a cytogenetic perspective: state of the art and future challenges40
Earth as construction material in the circular economy context: practitioner perspectives on barriers to overcome40
The benefits of being seen to help others: indirect reciprocity and reputation-based partner choice39
Mathematical models for cell migration: a non-local perspective39
The cultural evolutionary trade-off of ritualistic synchrony39
The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities39
Evolution of animal immunity in the light of beneficial symbioses39
A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards ‘sexomics38
Refocusing neuroscience: moving away from mental categories and towards complex behaviours38
The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies38
Cross-species neuroscience: closing the explanatory gap37
Spring enhancement and summer reduction in carbon uptake during the 2018 drought in northwestern Europe37
A sleep spindle framework for motor memory consolidation37
Individual variation and interactions explain food web responses to global warming37
Unlocking the power of fatty acids as dietary tracers and metabolic signals in fishes and aquatic invertebrates37
Sex chromosomes in meiotic, hemiclonal, clonal and polyploid hybrid vertebrates: along the ‘extended speciation continuum'37
Dormancy dynamics and dispersal contribute to soil microbiome resilience36
Involuntary autobiographical memories and their relation to other forms of spontaneous thoughts36
Putting science back into microbial ecology: a question of approach36
Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition36
The epiallelic potential of transposable elements and its evolutionary significance in plants36
Sperm competition and fertilization mode in fishes36
How is epigenetics predicted to contribute to climate change adaptation? What evidence do we need?36
The impact of school reopening on the spread of COVID-19 in England35
Genome communication in plants mediated by organelle–n­ucleus-located proteins35
The critical importance of experimentation in biomarker-based trophic ecology35
Rude mechanicals in brain haemodynamics: non-neural actors that influence blood flow35
Behavioural and physiological plasticity in social hierarchies35
Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 201835
Coral evolutionary responses to microbial symbioses35
Symbiosis and stress: how plant microbiomes affect host evolution35
Linking microbial communities to ecosystem functions: what we can learn from genotype–phenotype mapping in organisms35
In the beginning: egg–microbe interactions and consequences for animal hosts35
People expressing olfactory and visual cues of disease are less liked34
Control of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes using gene drives34
The ecology and evolution of synchronized reproduction in long-lived plants34
The human life history is adapted to exploit the adaptive advantages of culture34
Photosynthetic signalling during high light stress and recovery: targets and dynamics34
The whole prefrontal cortex is premotor cortex34
Seminal fluid and accessory male investment in sperm competition34
Metabolically cohesive microbial consortia and ecosystem functioning34
Effects of drought and meteorological forcing on carbon and water fluxes in Nordic forests during the dry summer of 201834
Effect of the 2018 European drought on methane and carbon dioxide exchange of northern mire ecosystems33
Ancient RNA virus epidemics through the lens of recent adaptation in human genomes33
Rules of collective migration: from the wildebeest to the neural crest33
Heart rate as a measure of emotional arousal in evolutionary biology32
Human olfactory communication: current challenges and future prospects32
More than just summed neuronal activity: how multiple cell types shape the BOLD response32
The multi-dimensional nature of vocal learning32
Evolutionary transitions in learning and cognition32
The thermodynamics of thinking: connections between neural activity, energy metabolism and blood flow32
Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change32
A roadmap towards predicting species interaction networks (across space and time)32
Changes in net ecosystem exchange over Europe during the 2018 drought based on atmospheric observations32
Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank32
Unconscious mental imagery32
The male breadwinner nuclear family is not the ‘traditional’ human family, and promotion of this myth may have adverse health consequences32
Shifting sociality during primate ageing32
The role of the microbiome in host evolution31
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species31
Effects of sleep and waking on the synaptic ultrastructure31
The evolution of competitive ability for essential resources31
Genome-wide patterns of divergence and introgression after secondary contact betweenPungitiussticklebacks31
Circling the drain: the extinction crisis and the future of humanity31
The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2measurements31
Collective minds: social network topology shapes collective cognition31
Adaptive behaviour and learning in slime moulds: the role of oscillations31
The role of ritual behaviour in anxiety reduction: an investigation of Marathi religious practices in Mauritius30
Inversion invasions: when the genetic basis of local adaptation is concentrated within inversions in the face of gene flow30
Major histocompatibility complex-associated odour preferences and human mate choice: near and far horizons30
Multi-locus interactions and the build-up of reproductive isolation30
The description–experience gap: a challenge for the neuroeconomics of decision-making under uncertainty30
A spatial model of COVID-19 transmission in England and Wales: early spread, peak timing and the impact of seasonality30
Price's equation made clear30
Multi-omic detection ofMycobacterium lepraein archaeological human dental calculus30
Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 with waning immunity in the UK population29
The timing of genetic degeneration of sex chromosomes29
Reafference and the origin of the self in early nervous system evolution29
As soon as there was life, there was danger: the deep history of survival behaviours and the shallower history of consciousness29
Role of soil in the regulation of human and plant pathogens: soils' contributions to people29
Elementary nervous systems29
Small RNAs and chromatin in the multigenerational epigenetic landscape ofCaenorhabditis elegans29
A data-driven method for reconstructing and modelling social interactions in moving animal groups29
A review on trade-offs at the warm and cold ends of geographical distributions28
Exploring surveillance data biases when estimating the reproduction number: with insights into subpopulation transmission of COVID-19 in England28
Epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity: emerging parallels between tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis28
Uncovering cognitive similarities and differences, conservation and innovation28
Chloroplast-associated molecular patterns as concept for fine-tuned operational retrograde signalling28
Sex chromosome evolution among amniotes: is the origin of sex chromosomes non-random?28
Evolution of behavioural control from chordates to primates28
The role of soil in the contribution of food and feed27
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses27
A consensus statement: defining terms for reactivation analysis27
Analysis of floodplain forest sensitivity to drought27
Bio-sensing technologies in aquaculture: how remote monitoring can bring us closer to our farm animals27
Anthropogenic hybridization at sea: three evolutionary questions relevant to invasive species management27
Drought and heatwave impacts on semi-arid ecosystems' carbon fluxes along a precipitation gradient27
Why do imagery and perception look and feel so different?27
Linking regional shifts in microbial genome adaptation with surface ocean biogeochemistry27
Postzygotic reproductive isolation established in the endosperm: mechanisms, drivers and relevance26
Modern models of trophic meta-communities26
Sperm and alternative reproductive tactics: a review of existing theory and empirical data26
The Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Central Balkans: population dynamics reconstruction based on new radiocarbon evidence26
Prospects for probiotics in social bees26
Church attendance and alloparenting: an analysis of fertility, social support and child development among English mothers26
The plastid transcription machinery and its coordination with the expression of nuclear genome: Plastid-Encoded Polymerase, Nuclear-Encoded Polymerase and the Genomes Uncoupled 1-mediated retrograde c26
Social hierarchies and social networks in humans26
Potential effects of nectar microbes on pollinator health26
The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies26
Using a household-structured branching process to analyse contact tracing in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic26
Multi-scale analysis and modelling of collective migration in biological systems26
Children are important too: juvenile playgroups and maternal childcare in a foraging population, the Agta26
The gender-binary cycle: the perpetual relations between a biological-essentialist view of gender, gender ideology, and gender-labelling and sorting26
Lessons from an unusual vertebrate sex-determining gene26
Differential attraction in mosquito–human interactions and implications for disease control26
Why do plasmids manipulate the expression of bacterial phenotypes?26
How can microbial population genomics inform community ecology?26
Costs of reproduction and ageing in the human female25
The optimal timing of teaching and learning across the life course25
Costs dictate strategic investment in dominance interactions25
Three decades of sperm competition in birds25
Did pre-Columbian populations of the Amazonian biome reach carrying capacity during the Late Holocene?25
Spontaneous electrical low-frequency oscillations: a possible role inHydraand all living systems25
Microbiota–host interactions shape ageing dynamics25
Towards a phylogenetic ecology of plant pests and pathogens25
Housing microbial symbionts: evolutionary origins and diversification of symbiotic organs in animals25
Why are rhizobial symbiosis genes mobile?25
The impact of occasional drought periods on vegetation spread and greenhouse gas exchange in rewetted fens25
Fatty acid bioconversion in harpacticoid copepods in a changing environment: a transcriptomic approach24
Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review24
Collective dynamics of sperm cells24
Going with the flow: insights fromCaenorhabditis eleganszygote polarization24
The specific biochemistry of human axilla odour formation viewed in an evolutionary context24
The origins of human cumulative culture: from the foraging niche to collective intelligence24
Gossip and reputation in everyday life24
Regional variation in neurovascular coupling and why we still lack a Rosetta Stone24
Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization24
Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: a significant but inconsistent link?24
Shut and re-open: the role of schools in the spread of COVID-19 in Europe24
Neuroscience needs evolution24
On the completion of speciation24
Directly modelling population dynamics in the South American Arid Diagonal using 14 C dates23
The evolution of strong reproductive isolation between sympatric intertidal snails23
Mesoderm patterning by a dynamic gradient of retinoic acid signalling23
Design, delivery and perception of condition-dependent chemical signals in strepsirrhine primates: implications for human olfactory communication23
The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference23
Non-stomatal processes reduce gross primary productivity in temperate forest ecosystems during severe edaphic drought23
CRISPR-Cas is associated with fewer antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial pathogens23
Future trends in measuring physiology in free-living animals23
Bistability of somatic pattern memories: stochastic outcomes in bioelectric circuits underlying regeneration23
The role of soils in the disposition, sequestration and decontamination of environmental contaminants23
Animal tag technology keeps coming of age: an engineering perspective23
Ritual explained: interdisciplinary answers to Tinbergen's four questions23
Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology23
Ecological limits to evolutionary rescue23
Dominance in humans23
Body odours as a chemosignal in the mother–child relationship: new insights based on an human leucocyte antigen-genotyped family cohort22
The genomes uncoupled -dependent signalling pathway coordinates plastid biogenesis with the synthesis of anthocyanins22
The role of soils in habitat creation, maintenance and restoration22
A brief history of masting research22
An assessment of temporal variability in mast seeding of North American Pinaceae22
Preventing postnatal depression: a causal mediation analysis of a 20-year preconception cohort22
The transcription factor ANAC017 is a key regulator of mitochondrial proteotoxic stress responses in plants22
Retrograde signals from endosymbiotic organelles: a common control principle in eukaryotic cells22
When does cultural evolution become cumulative culture? A case study of humpback whale song22
Molecular regulation of lifespan extension in fertile ant workers22
Optimal integration between host physiology and functions of the gut microbiome22
Unique fatty acid desaturase capacities uncovered in Hediste diversicolor illustrate the roles of aquatic invertebrates in trophic upgrading22
Variola virus genome sequenced from an eighteenth-century museum specimen supports the recent origin of smallpox22
Recommendations for building out mosquito-transmitted diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: the DELIVER mnemonic22
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song22
On the methods for reactivation and replay analysis22
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