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 2020-08-01 to 2024-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Impact of extreme weather conditions on European crop production in 2018162
Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics100
How sperm competition shapes the evolution of testes and sperm: a meta-analysis98
Roles of the gut microbiota in the adaptive evolution of mammalian species97
Life in fluctuating environments95
A historical, geographical and ecological perspective on the 2018 European summer drought95
Novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV (COVID-19): early estimation of epidemiological parameters and epidemic size estimates89
TheDrosophilaseminal proteome and its role in postcopulatory sexual selection89
How does epigenetics influence the course of evolution?85
Challenges in control of COVID-19: short doubling time and long delay to effect of interventions80
Sensitivity of gross primary productivity to climatic drivers during the summer drought of 2018 in Europe79
The establishment and maintenance of dominance hierarchies79
The study of host–microbiome (co)evolution across levels of selection79
Separating vascular and neuronal effects of age on fMRI BOLD signals78
Neural versus alternative integrative systems: molecular insights into origins of neurotransmitters77
Citizen science and marine conservation: a global review75
Epigenetics and the success of invasive plants71
Microbiome-mediated plasticity directs host evolution along several distinct time scales69
Molluscan mitochondrial genomes break the rules69
Impacts of extreme summers on European ecosystems: a comparative analysis of 2003, 2010 and 201867
The role of soil in regulation of climate67
Evolution of master sex determiners: TGF-β signalling pathways at regulatory crossroads67
Pathogen resistance may be the principal evolutionary advantage provided by the microbiome65
Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing64
Compartmentalization drives the evolution of symbiotic cooperation64
The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach64
The chemical brain hypothesis for the origin of nervous systems62
The impact of testing and infection prevention and control strategies on within-hospital transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in English hospitals61
Sweet solutions: nectar chemistry and quality60
Conceptual developments in sperm competition: a very brief synopsis60
Rhythm and timing as vulnerabilities in neurodevelopmental disorders58
Real-time nowcasting and forecasting of COVID-19 dynamics in England: the first wave57
Selfish, promiscuous and sometimes useful: how mobile genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer in microbial populations56
Earth as construction material in the circular economy context: practitioner perspectives on barriers to overcome55
Continuous decisions55
Modelling that shaped the early COVID-19 pandemic response in the UK55
A neutral model for the loss of recombination on sex chromosomes55
The future of zoonotic risk prediction53
Social bonds, social status and survival in wild baboons: a tale of two sexes53
The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems52
Novel control strategies for mosquito-borne diseases51
The role of female reproductive fluid in sperm competition51
The whole prefrontal cortex is premotor cortex51
Age-related decline in executive function as a hallmark of cognitive ageing in primates: an overview of cognitive and neurobiological studies50
WolbachiastrainwAlbB maintains high density and dengue inhibition following introduction into a field population ofAedes aegypti50
A 180 Myr-old female-specific genome region in sturgeon reveals the oldest known vertebrate sex determining system with undifferentiated sex chromosomes49
Grounding cognition: heterarchical control mechanisms in biology49
Origins of eukaryotic excitability49
Empirical evidence for epigenetic inheritance driving evolutionary adaptation48
Vocal production learning in mammals revisited48
Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects48
What makes a megaplasmid?48
Multiple sex chromosomes in teleost fishes from a cytogenetic perspective: state of the art and future challenges47
The role of soils in regulation and provision of blue and green water47
Expanding the classical paradigm: what we have learnt from vertebrates about sex chromosome evolution47
Physiological response of Swiss ecosystems to 2018 drought across plant types and elevation46
Involuntary autobiographical memories and their relation to other forms of spontaneous thoughts46
Evolution of animal immunity in the light of beneficial symbioses45
A roadmap towards predicting species interaction networks (across space and time)45
Spring enhancement and summer reduction in carbon uptake during the 2018 drought in northwestern Europe45
Understanding and combating misperceived polarization44
Climate change and plant reproduction: trends and drivers of mast seeding change44
Refocusing neuroscience: moving away from mental categories and towards complex behaviours44
The avian W chromosome is a refugium for endogenous retroviruses with likely effects on female-biased mutational load and genetic incompatibilities43
Circling the drain: the extinction crisis and the future of humanity43
How is epigenetics predicted to contribute to climate change adaptation? What evidence do we need?42
The epiallelic potential of transposable elements and its evolutionary significance in plants42
The benefits of being seen to help others: indirect reciprocity and reputation-based partner choice42
The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies42
Sex chromosomes in meiotic, hemiclonal, clonal and polyploid hybrid vertebrates: along the ‘extended speciation continuum'42
The ecology and evolution of synchronized reproduction in long-lived plants42
Behavioural and physiological plasticity in social hierarchies41
Effects of drought and meteorological forcing on carbon and water fluxes in Nordic forests during the dry summer of 201841
Cross-species neuroscience: closing the explanatory gap41
Seminal fluid and accessory male investment in sperm competition41
Symbiosis and stress: how plant microbiomes affect host evolution41
Unconscious mental imagery40
In the beginning: egg–microbe interactions and consequences for animal hosts40
Sperm competition and fertilization mode in fishes40
Coral evolutionary responses to microbial symbioses40
Neural systems that facilitate the representation of social rank40
The male breadwinner nuclear family is not the ‘traditional’ human family, and promotion of this myth may have adverse health consequences40
Small RNAs and chromatin in the multigenerational epigenetic landscape ofCaenorhabditis elegans39
Multi-omic detection ofMycobacterium lepraein archaeological human dental calculus39
The multi-dimensional nature of vocal learning39
A brief review of vertebrate sex evolution with a pledge for integrative research: towards ‘sexomics39
Individual variation and interactions explain food web responses to global warming39
Altered energy partitioning across terrestrial ecosystems in the European drought year 201838
Rude mechanicals in brain haemodynamics: non-neural actors that influence blood flow38
Adaptive behaviour and learning in slime moulds: the role of oscillations38
Inversion invasions: when the genetic basis of local adaptation is concentrated within inversions in the face of gene flow38
The impact of school reopening on the spread of COVID-19 in England38
Reafference and the origin of the self in early nervous system evolution38
More than just summed neuronal activity: how multiple cell types shape the BOLD response37
Heart rate as a measure of emotional arousal in evolutionary biology37
Collective minds: social network topology shapes collective cognition37
As soon as there was life, there was danger: the deep history of survival behaviours and the shallower history of consciousness37
The role of soil in the contribution of food and feed36
Changes in net ecosystem exchange over Europe during the 2018 drought based on atmospheric observations36
Shifting sociality during primate ageing36
Control of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes using gene drives36
Ancient RNA virus epidemics through the lens of recent adaptation in human genomes35
Effect of the 2018 European drought on methane and carbon dioxide exchange of northern mire ecosystems35
Biophysical models of dispersal contribute to seascape genetic analyses35
The role of the microbiome in host evolution35
The thermodynamics of thinking: connections between neural activity, energy metabolism and blood flow34
Evolution of behavioural control from chordates to primates34
Evolutionary transitions in learning and cognition34
The timing of genetic degeneration of sex chromosomes34
Computational validity: using computation to translate behaviours across species34
The origins of human cumulative culture: from the foraging niche to collective intelligence34
Why do imagery and perception look and feel so different?34
Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 with waning immunity in the UK population33
Neuroscience needs evolution33
Towards a phylogenetic ecology of plant pests and pathogens33
Sex chromosome evolution among amniotes: is the origin of sex chromosomes non-random?33
Exploring surveillance data biases when estimating the reproduction number: with insights into subpopulation transmission of COVID-19 in England33
A review on trade-offs at the warm and cold ends of geographical distributions33
The evolution of brain architectures for predictive coding and active inference33
Sperm and alternative reproductive tactics: a review of existing theory and empirical data32
The description–experience gap: a challenge for the neuroeconomics of decision-making under uncertainty32
Postzygotic reproductive isolation established in the endosperm: mechanisms, drivers and relevance32
Prospects for probiotics in social bees32
Analysis of floodplain forest sensitivity to drought32
Social hierarchies and social networks in humans32
Role of soil in the regulation of human and plant pathogens: soils' contributions to people32
Elementary nervous systems31
Potential effects of nectar microbes on pollinator health31
Bio-sensing technologies in aquaculture: how remote monitoring can bring us closer to our farm animals31
Oxidative stress and senescence in social insects: a significant but inconsistent link?31
Complexity–biodiversity relationships on marine urban structures: reintroducing habitat heterogeneity through eco-engineering31
Housing microbial symbionts: evolutionary origins and diversification of symbiotic organs in animals31
Uncovering cognitive similarities and differences, conservation and innovation31
The role of soils in the disposition, sequestration and decontamination of environmental contaminants31
Epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity: emerging parallels between tissue morphogenesis and cancer metastasis31
Modern models of trophic meta-communities31
The fingerprint of the summer 2018 drought in Europe on ground-based atmospheric CO2measurements31
Vocal learning as a preadaptation for the evolution of human beat perception and synchronization31
A spatial model of COVID-19 transmission in England and Wales: early spread, peak timing and the impact of seasonality30
The role of soils in habitat creation, maintenance and restoration30
Costs of reproduction and ageing in the human female30
Why are rhizobial symbiosis genes mobile?30
Gossip and reputation in everyday life30
Why do plasmids manipulate the expression of bacterial phenotypes?30
Directly modelling population dynamics in the South American Arid Diagonal using 14 C dates29
A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change29
The gender-binary cycle: the perpetual relations between a biological-essentialist view of gender, gender ideology, and gender-labelling and sorting29
Drought and heatwave impacts on semi-arid ecosystems' carbon fluxes along a precipitation gradient29
Population differentiation of polygenic score predictions under stabilizing selection29
The Neolithic Demographic Transition in the Central Balkans: population dynamics reconstruction based on new radiocarbon evidence29
Stepwise evolution of a butterfly supergene via duplication and inversion28
Some people just want to watch the world burn: the prevalence, psychology and politics of the ‘Need for Chaos’28
Did pre-Columbian populations of the Amazonian biome reach carrying capacity during the Late Holocene?28
Mesoderm patterning by a dynamic gradient of retinoic acid signalling28
The territories of governance : unpacking the ontologies and geophilosophies of fixed to flexible ocean management, and beyond28
Imagination as a fundamental function of the hippocampus28
Non-stomatal processes reduce gross primary productivity in temperate forest ecosystems during severe edaphic drought28
Children are important too: juvenile playgroups and maternal childcare in a foraging population, the Agta28
Lessons from an unusual vertebrate sex-determining gene28
Costs dictate strategic investment in dominance interactions28
Gene sharing among plasmids and chromosomes reveals barriers for antibiotic resistance gene transfer28
Sex-chromosome evolution in frogs: what role for sex-antagonistic genes?28
A brief history of masting research28
CRISPR-Cas is associated with fewer antibiotic resistance genes in bacterial pathogens28
Spontaneous electrical low-frequency oscillations: a possible role inHydraand all living systems28
The centennial of the pecking order: current state and future prospects for the study of dominance hierarchies28
The impact of occasional drought periods on vegetation spread and greenhouse gas exchange in rewetted fens28
When does cultural evolution become cumulative culture? A case study of humpback whale song27
Differential attraction in mosquito–human interactions and implications for disease control27
Three decades of sperm competition in birds27
Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture27
The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests27
An assessment of temporal variability in mast seeding of North American Pinaceae27
Microbiota–host interactions shape ageing dynamics27
Networks of reliable reputations and cooperation: a review27
Molecular regulation of lifespan extension in fertile ant workers27
Using a household-structured branching process to analyse contact tracing in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic27
Regional variation in neurovascular coupling and why we still lack a Rosetta Stone26
Protophones, the precursors to speech, dominate the human infant vocal landscape26
Evidence for cumulative cultural evolution in bird song26
Individuality, self and sociality of vascular plants26
Shut and re-open: the role of schools in the spread of COVID-19 in Europe26
On folding morphogenesis, a mechanical problem26
The future of theoretical evolutionary game theory26
Characteristics of the 100 largest modern zoonotic disease outbreaks26
The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution25
Global epistasis on fitness landscapes25
Attention driven phantom vision: measuring the sensory strength of attentional templates and their relation to visual mental imagery and aphantasia25
Efficiency fosters cumulative culture across species25
EnteroBase: hierarchical clustering of 100 000s of bacterial genomes into species/subspecies and populations25
The language of cooperation: reputation and honest signalling25
Approaching prehistoric demography: proxies, scales and scope of the Cologne Protocol in European contexts25
Bistability of somatic pattern memories: stochastic outcomes in bioelectric circuits underlying regeneration25
Understanding mast seeding for conservation and land management25
Oxytocin—a social peptide? Deconstructing the evidence25
Mobilizing molluscan models and genomes in biology25
Dominance in humans25
Learning from others is good, with others is better: the role of social interaction in human acquisition of new knowledge25
A manifesto for palaeodemography in the twenty-first century24
Perceiving distance in virtual reality: theoretical insights from contemporary technologies24
Future trends in measuring physiology in free-living animals24
Ecological limits to evolutionary rescue24
Reputation and punishment sustain cooperation in the optional public goods game24
Sperm competition in squamate reptiles24
Recommendations for building out mosquito-transmitted diseases in sub-Saharan Africa: the DELIVER mnemonic24
Animal tag technology keeps coming of age: an engineering perspective24
Ageing and sociality: why, when and how does sociality change ageing patterns?24
Human cumulative culture and the exploitation of natural phenomena24
Epigenetic mechanisms in sex determination and in the evolutionary transitions between sexual systems24
Active perception during angiogenesis: filopodia speed up Notch selection of tip cells in silico and in vivo 24
The impact of epigenetic information on genome evolution24
Sex-biased gene expression and recent sex chromosome turnover24
Neuromodulation of the mind-wandering brain state: the interaction between neuromodulatory tone, sharp wave-ripples and spontaneous thought24
Going with the flow: insights fromCaenorhabditis eleganszygote polarization24
Re-evaluating vocal production learning in non-oscine birds24
Within-ejaculate sperm competition24
The complexity of human cooperation under indirect reciprocity24
The dynamics of dominance: open questions, challenges and solutions24
Effects of species interactions on the potential for evolution at species' range limits24
Assessing pollen nutrient content: a unifying approach for the study of bee nutritional ecology23
Fifty years of sperm competition: the structure of a scientific revolution23
Confirmation bias is adaptive when coupled with efficient metacognition23
Association mapping of colour variation in a butterfly provides evidence that a supergene locks together a cluster of adaptive loci23
Investigating the demographic history of Japan using ancient oral microbiota23
New ancient Eastern European Yersinia pestis genomes illuminate the dispersal of plague in Europe23
Sex bias in intergroup conflict and collective movements among social mammals: male warriors and female guides23
Optimal integration between host physiology and functions of the gut microbiome23
Preventing postnatal depression: a causal mediation analysis of a 20-year preconception cohort23
Fifteen essential science advances needed for effective restoration of the world's forest landscapes23
TheDrosophilamicropyle as a system to study how epithelia build complex extracellular structures23
Forecasting parasite sharing under climate change23
Exploring the neural basis of fear produced by mental imagery: imaginal exposure in individuals fearful of spiders23
The emergence of collective knowledge and cumulative culture in animals, humans and machines23
Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession23
Sticky problems: extraction of nucleic acids from molluscs23
Sarcomere maturation: function acquisition, molecular mechanism, and interplay with other organelles22
Sexual selection after gamete release in broadcast spawning invertebrates22
Inversions and parallel evolution22
The role of soils in the regulation of hazards and extreme events22
Competitive gossip: the impact of domain, resource value, resource scarcity and coalitions22
Evaluating refugia in recent human evolution in Africa22
The psychological foundations of reputation-based cooperation22
Variola virus genome sequenced from an eighteenth-century museum specimen supports the recent origin of smallpox22
The selfing syndrome and beyond: diverse evolutionary consequences of mating system transitions in plants22
Rhythmic abilities in humans and non-human animals: a review and recommendations from a methodological perspective22
Benchmarking Oxford Nanopore read assemblers for high-quality molluscan genomes22
Acoustic indexes for marine biodiversity trends and ecosystem health22
Molluscan phylogenomics requires strategically selected genomes22
On the macroecological significance of eco-evolutionary dynamics: the range shift–niche breadth hypothesis22
Genetic pest management and the background genetics of release strains22
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