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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mitonuclear dynamics in unisexual vertebrates143
Modelling morbidity for neglected tropical diseases: the long and winding road from cumulative exposure to long-term pathology128
Impact of population size on early adaptation in rugged fitness landscapes127
Diet- and salinity-induced modifications of the gut microbiota are associated with differential physiological responses to ranavirus infection in Rana sylvatica125
Comments from the departing Editor101
Preface97
Tracking the spatial and longitudinal dynamics of mixed infections of urogenital and intestinal schistosomiasis, inclusive of Schistosoma mattheei , in t80
Evolution of the cardiac dyad79
Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions74
The growing methodological toolkit for identifying and studying social learning and culture in non-human animals74
Sex differences in the impact of social relationships on individual vocal signatures in grey mouse lemurs ( Microcebus murinus )71
Spatial–social familiarity complements the spatial–social interface: evidence from Yellowstone bison70
Pragmatic comprehension and inferential ability: interplay with executive functions and Theory of Mind70
A perspective on Notch signalling in progression and arrhythmogenesis in familial hypertrophic and dilated cardiomyopathies69
Pregnancy at high altitude: evolutionary and historical perspectives69
Extraembryonic tissue in chelicerates: a review and outlook68
The development of a silage-based biorefinery to deliver the maximum nutritional benefit for human consumption from UK grasslands68
Base structures across lexical and notational numeral modalities68
Modelling exo-biospheres for biosignature predictions65
Peripersonal space: why so last-second?65
Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children62
Dynamics of collective motion across time and species62
Distinct Anthropocene biosphere recorded by the rise of green algae and chrysophytes in varved sediments of Crawford Lake (Ontario, Canada)61
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system61
Symbol ungrounding: what the successes (and failures) of large language models reveal about human cognition61
Spatial food webs in the Barents Sea: atlantification and the reorganization of the trophic structure60
Nonlinear phenomena in mammalian vocal communication: an introduction and scoping review59
The urgent search for predictive biomarkers in the emerging era of universal congenital cytomegalovirus screening56
The relation between children’s shyness and their contingent dialogical actions when reacting to a social robot’s instructions55
DNA methylation is associated with genomic architecture, genetic variation and dispersal-related traits in an expanding invasion54
Tissue-specific epigenetic and genetic regulation of sexual dimorphism54
Scaling approaches and macroecology provide a foundation for assessing ecological resilience in the Anthropocene54
Continuities and discontinuities in the cultural evolution of global consciousness53
Temporal and spatial variation in temperature and oxygen at the microscale: key niche axes for aquatic life53
Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead53
Honey-hunting with honeyguides in northern Ghana: cultural continuity amid change51
The utility of the Living Planet Index as a policy tool and for measuring nature recovery51
Evolution of nest architecture in tyrant flycatchers and allies50
Evolutionary game theory and the adaptive dynamics approach: adaptation where individuals interact49
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change49
The framework species method: harnessing natural regeneration to restore tropical forest ecosystems48
Social structure as a form of collective intelligence: a new framework48
Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective48
Energy homeostasis from Lavoisier to control theory47
Thermal variability during development facilitates enduring physiological tolerance47
Aligned bodies, united hearts: embodied emotional dynamics of an Islamic ritual45
Antimicrobial pharmacodynamics: defining regimens of antibiotics that are safe, effective and prevent the emergence of resistance45
Systematic review of global historical marine ecology reveals geographical and taxonomic research gaps and biases44
Spread of the cycles: a feedback perspective on the Anthropocene44
Alpha-secretase inhibition impairs Group I metabotropic glutamate receptor-mediated protein synthesis, long-term potentiation and long-term depression43
Evolution of diverse (and advanced) cognitive abilities through adaptive fine-tuning of learning and chunking mechanisms43
Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions43
A vector representation for phylogenetic trees43
The concept of critical age group for density dependence: bridging the gap between demographers, evolutionary biologists and behavioural ecologists43
Cage effects on synaptic plasticity and its modulation in a mouse model of fragile X syndrome43
Temperature and nutrition do not interact to shape the evolution of metabolic rate42
Of popsicles and crackers: when spatio-temporal memory is not integrated into children’s decision-making42
Local and regional factors influencing historical forest fires in eastern Fennoscandia42
Human cooperation and evolutionary transitions in individuality41
Vaccines against antimicrobial resistance40
Natural microcosms are bellwether model systems in ecology and evolutionary biology especially under climate change39
Cardiomyocyte electrophysiology and its modulation: current views and future prospects39
Neural mechanisms for emotional contagion and spontaneous mimicry of live facial expressions39
Innovation for sustainability: how actors are myopically caught in processes of co-evolution39
The interplay of social identity and norm psychology in the evolution of human groups38
Pragmatics partially segregated from Theory of Mind: evidence from resting-state functional connectivity38
Nearby night lighting, rather than sky glow, is associated with habitat selection by a top predator in human-dominated landscapes38
Erosion of fish trophic position: an indirect effect of fishing on food webs elucidated by stable isotopes37
PADI6: What we know about the elusive fifth member of the peptidyl arginine deiminase family37
Cultural influences on the effects of social norm appeals37
Amygdala self-neuromodulation capacity as a window for process-related network recruitment37
Evolution at the arid extreme: the influence of climate on sand termite colonies and fairy circles of the Namib Desert37
Evolutionary divergence of embryo implantation in primates37
A dynamical perspective: moving towards mechanism in single-cell transcriptomics36
The social dynamics of complex gestural communication in great and lesser apes ( Pan troglodytes , Pongo abelii, Symphalangus synd36
Social learning and culture in birds: emerging patterns and relevance to conservation36
Post-fire spectral recovery and driving factors across the boreal and temperate forests36
The integrative biology of marmoset monkey vocal learning35
Crested macaque facial movements are more intense and stereotyped in potentially risky social interactions35
The Anthropocene condition: evolving through social–ecological transformations34
Division of labour during honeybee colony defence: poetic and scientific views34
Cooperation and coordination in heterogeneous populations34
Monitoring biodiversity loss in rapidly changing Afrotropical ecosystems: an emerging imperative for governance and research33
Nonlinear phenomena in marmot alarm calls: a mechanism encoding fear?33
The social origins of vocal sequences in songbirds and human infants33
Conservation measures or hotspots of disease transmission? Agri-environment schemes can reduce disease prevalence in pollinator communities33
Adaptation and conservation of CL-10/11 in avian lungs: implications for their role in pulmonary innate immune protection33
Long-term field survey reveals salinity as key determinant of estuarine host infection by a non-native castrating parasite33
Teeth and the gastrointestinal tract in mammals: when 1 + 1 = 333
Demography–environment relationships improve mechanistic understanding of range dynamics under climate change33
The origins and spread of the opium poppy ( Papaver somniferum L.) revealed by genomics and seed morphometrics33
Shedding of OsHV-1 from infected Pacific oysters depends on viral variant33
Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species32
The history of episodic memory32
Understanding age and society using natural populations32
Extensive data engineering to the rescue: building a multi-species katydid detector from unbalanced, atypical training datasets32
Delivering on a promise: futureproofing automated insect monitoring methods32
Schistosomiasis and stunting: microbial and metabolic mechanisms in early childhood32
Ages, sizes and (trees within) trees of taxa and of urns, from Yule to today32
Phenomenal consciousness as an efficiency amplifier of agency: insights from time perception32
The lungs of the finch: three-dimensional pulmonary anatomy of the zebra finch ( Taeniopygia castanotis )32
Sequences and animal intelligence32
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes31
Characterization of extracellular vesicles released from Prochlorococcus MED4 at the steady state and under a light–dark cycle31
Optimal feature selection and model explanation for reef fish sound classification31
Beyond the here and now: hunter–gatherer socio-spatial complexity and the evolution of language31
Interoceptive attention and mood in daily life: an experience-sampling study31
Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making31
The aesthetic valve: how aesthetic appreciation may switch emotional states from anxiety to curiosity31
Exploring negative frequency-dependent selection across levels: from genetics to ecology and back again30
Fishy culture in a changing world30
Language as a tool for social bonding: evidence from wild chimpanzee gestural, vocal and bimodal signals30
Colour vision in nocturnal insects30
Species interactions affect dispersal: a meta-analysis30
Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?30
Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction30
Orthoester formation in fungal meroterpenoid austalide F biosynthesis30
Developmental origin underlies evolutionary rate variation across the placental skull29
Respiratory contributions to birdsong—evolutionary considerations and open questions29
The coevolution of cognition and sociality29
Evolution of plant metabolism: the state-of-the-art29
PROTAX-GPU: a scalable probabilistic taxonomic classification system for DNA barcodes29
Shifting seas: understanding deep-time human impacts on marine ecosystems29
Stochasticity in genetics and gene regulation29
Climate micro-mobilities as adaptation practice in the Pacific: the case of Samoa29
Endocrine and molecular regulation of seasonal avian immune function29
Colour vision in stomatopod crustaceans29
Mixed-species flock composition matters: interspecific influences on finding novel food in North American parids28
Do plant pathogens prefer seedlings? Variation in age-specific infectivity across pathogen genotypes28
Can ancient DNA and other forms of time-sampled data aid in the inference of negative frequency-dependent selection?28
Land rights institutions and the scope of cooperation28
The sleeping crops of eastern North America: a new synthesis28
Citrullination and the protein code: crosstalk between post-translational modifications in cancer28
CardioVinci: building blocks for virtual cardiac cells using deep learning28
Heat stress and amphibian immunity in a time of climate change28
Agentic processes in cultural evolution: relevance to Anthropocene sustainability27
Towards a universal definition of ‘domestication’. A Comment on: ‘Seeking consensus on the domestication concept’ (2025), by Spengler et al .27
A practitioner’s field guide to the behaviour settings method27
Stochastic within-host dynamics and climate-sensitive traits generate predictable patterns of variation in disease outcomes27
Timing mechanisms to control heart rhythm and initiate arrhythmias: roles for intracellular organelles, signalling pathways and subsarcolemmal Ca 2+27
Foraging behaviour affects nest architecture in a cross-species comparison of ant nests27
Clinical morbidity of single or mixed schistosome species infection in two communities of southern Malawi27
Limited function of road verges as habitat for species connecting plant–bee networks in remnant semi-natural grasslands26
A mindful body approach to creating architecture: movement, models and spatial experiences26
Enhanced efficiency in visually guided online motor control for actions redirected towards the body midline26
Science of the gaps26
Affective Theory of Mind and linguistic intimacy in irony production: a developmental perspective26
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
Symmetries and asymmetries in the neural encoding of 3D space26
Assessing impacts of bycatch policies and fishers’ heterogeneous information on food webs and fishery sustainability26
Joining the dots: maternal cytomegalovirus, HIV and the placenta25
Impact of climate-driven changes in temperature on stomatal anatomy and physiology25
Mutational scans reveal differential evolvability of Drosophila promoters and enhancers25
Gesture, spatial cognition and the evolution of language25
Wild capuchin monkeys as a model system for investigating the social and ecological determinants of ageing25
Female cooperative labour networks in hunter–gatherers and horticulturalists25
Trapped in a hot microcosm: how flower microclimate contributes to pollination syndrome in a thermogenic system25
Inferring social influence in animal groups across multiple timescales25
Ribosomal protein paralogues in ribosome specialization25
Exploring the transformative potential of multi-trophic strategies to enhance coral restoration and mitigate disease24
The emergence of metabolisms through Earth history and implications for biospheric evolution24
Synthesizing the temporal self: robotic models of episodic and autobiographical memory24
The evolution of cooperative breeding in family groups: when should parents tolerate unhelpful helpers?24
Group size and labour demands determine division of labour as a consequence of demographic stochasticity24
Genome mining of cryptic bisabolenes that were biosynthesized by intramembrane terpene synthases from Antrodia cinnamomea24
Beak shape and nest material use in birds24
Infection burdens and virulence under heat stress: ecological and evolutionary considerations24
Colour vision in ants (Formicidae, Hymenoptera)24
Leveraging natural capital accounting to support businesses with nature-related risk assessments and disclosures24
Cities in nature24
A modelling analysis of a new multi-stage pathway for classifying achievement of public health milestones for leprosy24
Modelling the emergence of open-ended cultural evolution24
Understanding and optimizing plant growth in water-limited environments: ‘growth versus defence’ or ‘growth versus risk mitigation’?24
Physiological protection against weight gain: evidence from overfeeding studies and future directions24
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies24
The timing and magnitude of historical exploitation in the ocean24
Public health challenge of hybridization in urogenital schistosomiasis: New insights and one health perspectives from Malawi24
Unpredictability and adaptive responses to dietary variability in Japanese quail24
Enabling spaces for (varied) co-existence24
Causal models and causal modelling in obesity: foundations, methods and evidence24
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
Nematode mind: exploring the role of the RNA interference pathway in learning, memory and beyond23
Worlds that collide: conservation applications of behaviour and culture in human–wildlife interactions23
Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes23
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
Origins of life: the possible and the actual23
Altitude and risk of pre-eclampsia: insights from a large-scale epidemiological study in Ecuador23
FKBP12 binds to the cardiac ryanodine receptor with negative cooperativity: implications for heart muscle physiology in health and disease23
First characterization of the nuclear receptor superfamily in the Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis : developmental expression dynamics and 23
Characterization of a β-carotene isomerase from the cyanobacterium Cyanobacteria aponinum23
Inhibiting MEK1 R189 citrullination enhances the chemosensitivity of docetaxel to multiple tumour cells23
Multiple merger coalescent inference of effective population size23
Multisensory causal inference is feature-specific, not object-based22
New perspectives on the evolution of women's cooperation22
Individual variation in thermally induced plasticity of metabolic rates: ecological and evolutionary implications for a warming world22
Selection shapes diverse animal minds22
Why did the human brain size evolve? A way forward22
Language as a mechanism for reasoning about possibilities22
Social concepts and the cerebellum: behavioural and functional connectivity signatures in cerebellar ataxic patients22
Fetal growth and congenital heart disease at high altitude22
Mutualism and division of labour: a mutual expansion of concepts22
Using salamanders as model taxa to understand vertebrate feeding constraints during the late Devonian water-to-land transition22
Mechanisms of collective learning: how can animal groups improve collective performance when repeating a task?22
The expressive function of public policy: renewable energy mandates signal social norms22
The flexibility of social learning and its conservation implications in mammals and beyond22
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 linkage22
Olfactory abstraction: a communicative and metacognitive account22
Climate, vegetation, people: disentangling the controls of fire at different timescales22
Ribosomes: from conserved origin to functional/medical mobility and heterogeneity22
A standard workflow for community-driven manual curation of Strongyloides genome annotations21
Neonatal auditory input affects vocal development in harbour seals21
Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers21
Three-dimensional remodelling of the cellular energy distribution system during postnatal heart development21
Divergent age-related changes in parasite infection occur independently of behaviour and demography in a wild ungulate21
The evolutionary functions of consciousness21
Correction: ‘Chimpanzee vowel-like sounds and voice quality suggest formant space expansion through the hominoid lineage’ (2021), by Grawunder et al.21
Dengue virus non-structural protein 1 as a surrogate biomarker of antiviral efficacy in early phase clinical trials21
Circadian rhythms and the use of transfer learning for critically endangered crested argus Rheinardia ocellata in the Central Highlands of Vietnam: the i21
More than a colour; how pigment influences colourblind microbes21
Reading tree leaves: inferring speciation and extinction processes using phylogenies21
Invited reply: Response to: Towards a universal definition of ‘domestication’21
Inheritance and inequality among nomads of South Siberia21
Progresses and challenges in Strongyloides spp. proteomics21
Unresponsive to change: Ectotherms fail to adjust physiology to daily temperature variation21
Counterfactual curiosity: motivated thinking about what might have been21
A glossary for the cross-disciplinary study of numerals21
Unravelling domestication: introduction to the theme issue21
The role of incentive mechanisms in promoting forest restoration21
Distinct mechanisms and functions of episodic memory20
Interaction between mutation type and gene pleiotropy drives parallel evolution in the laboratory20
How video calls affect mimicry and trust during interactions20
Crops under stress: can we mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture and launch the ‘Resilience Revolution’?20
Late sodium current in synergism with Ca 2+ /calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II contributes to β-adrenergic activation-induced atrial fibrillatio20
Warmer ambient temperatures reduce protein intake by a mammalian folivore20
Ribosome-associated proteins: unwRAPping ribosome heterogeneity in the twenty-first century20
Knowledge transmission, culture and the consequences of social disruption in wild elephants20
Restoration success in former Amazonian mines is driven by soil amendment and forest proximity20
Rapidly reversible persistent long-term potentiation inhibition by patient-derived brain tau and amyloid ß proteins20
Changes in transmission rates drive seasonal patterns of shrimp Black Gill disease20
Real-time magnetic resonance imaging reveals distinct vocal tract configurations during spontaneous and volitional laughter20
Host developmental stages shape the evolution of a plant RNA virus20
Scalable Bayesian phylogenetics20
The hippocampus as a generative model20
How cytoskeletal proteins regulate mitochondrial energetics in cell physiology and diseases20
Extreme mitochondrial genome complexity in the calcaronean sponge Sycon ciliatum (Fabricius, 1780): fragmentation, gene duplication and mRNA editing20
Stay on the road: from germ cell specification to gonadal colonization in mammals20
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