Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community93
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle67
Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice66
Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)59
Exploring the connection between autophagy and heat-stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster58
Multiscale analysis of the randomization limits of the chromosomal gene organization between Lepidoptera and Diptera58
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome56
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate56
Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations54
Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly52
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health51
Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women51
Auditory mechanics in the grig ( Cyphoderris monstrosa ): tympanal travelling waves and frequency discrimination as a precursor to inner ear tonotopy50
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales45
The gaze of a social monkey is perceptible to conspecifics and predators but not prey45
Insect cross-tolerance to freezing and drought stress: role of metabolic rearrangement45
Evolution of competitive traits changes species diversity in a natural field43
The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds41
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs41
Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits40
Correction to: ‘Age determination in echinoderms: first evidence of annual growth rings in holothuroids’ 2022 by Sun et al.38
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations38
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?37
Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes35
Complexity and diversity of motion amplification and control strategies in motile carnivorous plant traps34
Win-Stay-Lose-Shift as a self-confirming equilibrium in the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma34
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass34
Bee flowers drive macroevolutionary diversification in long-horned bees33
Correction to: First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals33
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population33
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy32
Which peer reviewers voluntarily reveal their identity to authors? Insights into the consequences of open-identities peer review32
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)32
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication32
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings31
Mosquito ageing modulates the development, virulence and transmission potential of pathogens31
Disease-driven mass mortality event leads to widespread extirpation and variable recovery potential of a marine predator across the eastern Pacific31
Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock31
Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird31
Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology30
Crocodile perception of distress in hominid baby cries30
Comparative genomics reveals convergent signals associated with the high metabolism and longevity in birds and bats29
Animal lifestyle affects acceptable mass limits for attached tags29
Feather chemicals contain information about the major histocompatibility complex in a highly scented seabird29
Early-life sibling conflict in Canada jays has lifetime fitness consequences29
Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis29
Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of Hydrangeeae (Hydrangeaceae) elucidate the effects of geologic and climatic dynamics on diversification29
Prenatal acoustic programming of mitochondrial function for high temperatures in an arid-adapted bird27
Energetic trade-offs in migration decision-making, reproductive effort and subsequent parental care in a long-distance migratory bird27
Museomics unveil systematics, diversity and evolution of Australian cycad-pollinating weevils27
Rare edges and abundant cores: range-wide variation in abundance in North American birds27
Do mutualistic interactions last longer than antagonistic interactions?27
Beyond ancient versus anthropogenic for Madagascar's grassy ecosystems. A Reply to: Crowley et al . (2021)27
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea27
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group26
Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)26
Developmental and functional controls on enrolment in an ancient, extinct arthropod26
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia26
Cool-edge populations of the kelp Ecklonia radiata under global ocean change scenarios: strong sensitivity to ocean warming but little effect of ocean acidification26
King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites26
Mechanistic interactions as the origin of modularity in biological networks26
Wild raccoons demonstrate flexibility and individuality in innovative problem-solving26
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral26
Kin recognition for incest avoidance in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis26
Male–male social bonding, coalitionary support and reproductive success in wild Guinea baboons25
Sticky steps and the gender gap: how thoughtful practices could help keep caregivers in science25
A genome-wide test for paternal indirect genetic effects on lifespan inDrosophila melanogaster25
Character displacement or priority effects: immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution25
Half of global islands have reached critical area thresholds for undergoing rapid increases in biological invasions25
Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats25
Population trends are more strongly linked to environmental change and species traits in birds than mammals25
Green turtle tracking leads the discovery of seagrass blue carbon resources24
Blue whales increase feeding rates at fine-scale ocean features24
Correction to: ‘Captive-bred Atlantic salmon released into the wild have fewer offspring than wild-bred fish and decrease population productivity’24
How to generate and test hypotheses about colour: insights from half a century of guppy research24
All camouflage strategies are not equal24
The metabolic pace of life histories across fishes23
Three-dimensional modelling, disparity and ecology of the first Cambrian apex predators23
Niche shifts after island colonization spurred adaptive diversification and speciation in a cosmopolitan bird clade23
Colonization–persistence trade-offs in natural bacterial communities23
The presence of multiple parasitoids decreases host survival under warming, but parasitoid performance also decreases23
And thereby hangs a tail: morphology, developmental patterns and biomechanics of the adhesive tails of crested geckos ( Correlophus ciliatus )23
Grandmother presence improved grandchild survival against childhood infections but not vaccination coverage in historical Finns23
A closer look at pupil diversity and evolution in frogs and toads23
Drivers of nematode diversity in forest soils across climatic zones23
Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought23
The evolution of sour taste23
A critical evaluation of the index of patch quality23
Life-history responses to temperature and seasonality mediate ectotherm consumer–resource dynamics under climate warming23
Divergent regional evolutionary histories of a devastating global amphibian pathogen23
Unisexual flowers as a resolution to intralocus sexual conflict in hermaphrodites23
Positive and negative effects of land abandonment on butterfly communities revealed by a hierarchical sampling design across climatic regions23
Multispecies interactions shape the transition to multicellularity22
Third-party punishers do not compete to be chosen as partners in an experimental game22
Correction: ‘Multidimensional plasticity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: larval performance is temperature, host and family specific’ (2020), by Nadja et al.22
Evolutionary ecomorphology for the twenty-first century: examples from mammalian carnivores22
Effects of physical impairments on fitness correlates of the white-footed mouse,Peromyscus leucopus22
Determinants of hyena participation in risky collective action22
Straining the root on and off triggers local calcium signalling22
Human density is associated with the increased prevalence of a generalist zoonotic parasite in mammalian wildlife22
Exploring the phylogeography and population dynamics of the giant deer ( Megaloceros giganteus ) using Late Quaternary mitogenomes22
The biogeography of community assembly: latitude and predation drive variation in community trait distribution in a guild of epifaunal crustaceans22
TiDeTree: a Bayesian phylogenetic framework to estimate single-cell trees and population dynamic parameters from genetic lineage tracing data21
The genomic architecture of continuous plumage colour variation in the European barn owl ( Tyto alba )21
Twenty years of big plant genera21
Phenotypic plasticity can reverse the relative extent of intra- and interspecific variability across a thermal gradient21
Differential local genetic adaptation to pesticide use in organic and conventional agriculture in an aquatic non-target species21
The resolution of evolutionary conflicts within species21
Large genetic divergence underpins cryptic local adaptation across ecological and evolutionary gradients21
Tipping points induced by palaeo-human impacts can explain presence of savannah in Malagasy and global systems where forest is expected21
Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival21
Land-use-associated stressors interact to reduce bumblebee health at the individual and colony level21
No evidence for temporally balanced selection on larval Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas : a comment on Durland et al . (2021)21
Phylogenomics reveals deep relationships and diversification within phylactolaemate bryozoans21
Drosophila female reproductive glands contribute to mating plug composition and the timing of sperm ejection21
Convergence of gut microbiota in myrmecophagous amphibians21
Experimental extra-pair copulations provide proof of concept for fertility insurance in a socially monogamous bird21
A reassessment of the enigmatic diapsid Paliguana whitei and the early history of Lepidosauromorpha21
Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach20
Developmental risk sensitivity theory: the effects of socio-economic status on children's risky gain and loss decisions20
Beneficial cumulative effects of old parental age on offspring fitness20
The experimental evolution of human culture: flexibility, fidelity and environmental instability20
Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners20
A sterol-mediated gleaner–opportunist trade-off underlies the evolution of grazer resistance to cyanobacteria20
Competition and habitat availability interact to structure arboreal ant communities across scales of ecological organization20
Global tropical reef fish richness could decline by around half if corals are lost20
Seeing the forest for the trees—and the grasses: revisiting the evidence for grazer-maintained grasslands in Madagascar's Central Highlands19
Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom19
Global ecomorphological restructuring of dominant marine reptiles prior to the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction19
Nuclear-specific gene expression in heterokaryons of the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma19
The impact of within-host coinfection interactions on between-host parasite transmission dynamics varies with spatial scale19
Rapid multi-generational acclimation of coralline algal reproductive structures to ocean acidification19
Marine diversity patterns in Australia are filtered through biogeography19
Gender shapes the formation of review paper collaborations in microbiology19
Panoramic spatial vision in the bay scallop Argopecten irradians19
Spatial variation in avian bill size is associated with temperature extremes in a major radiation of Australian passerines19
Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function19
Partial protection from fluctuating selection leads to evolution towards wider population size fluctuation and a novel mechanism of balancing selection19
Emerging infectious disease triggered a trophic cascade and enhanced recruitment of a masting tree19
Retraction of: ‘Reef fishes can recognize bleached habitat during settlement: sea anemone bleaching alters anemonefish host selection’ (2016) by Scott and Dixson19
Hummingbirds use distinct control strategies for forward and hovering flight19
Social interaction can select for reduced ability19
Early life adversity jointly regulates body-mass index and working memory development18
Positive-to-negative behavioural responses suggest hedonic evaluation in treefrog mate choice18
Novel spikey ionocytes are regulated by cortisol in the skin of an amphibious fish18
Brains in sync, friends in empathy: interbrain neural mechanisms underlying the impact of interpersonal closeness on mutual empathy18
Mitochondrial effects on fertility and longevity in Tigriopus californicus contradict predictions of the mother's curse hypothesis18
Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques18
Liver transcriptomic and methylomic analyses identify transcriptional mitogen-activated protein kinase regulation in facultative hibernation of Syrian hamster18
What's my age again? On the ambiguity of histology-based skeletochronology18
Mitochondrial DNA content in eggs as a maternal effect18
Selection for biparental inheritance of mitochondria under hybridization and mitonuclear fitness interactions18
Utilizing citizen science data to rapidly assess changing associations between wild birds and avian influenza outbreaks in poultry18
A sex skew in life-history research: the problem of missing males18
Epidemiological dynamics of bacteriocin competition and antibiotic resistance18
Rapid evolution of unimodal but not of linear thermal performance curves inDaphnia magna18
Evolutionary modularity, integration and disparity in an accretionary skeleton: analysis of venerid Bivalvia18
Effects of genotype and host environment on the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of Lysiphlebus parasitoids and aggression by aphid-tending ants18
Background complexity can mitigate poor camouflage18
Ecogeography of group size suggests differences in drivers of sociality among cooperatively breeding fairywrens18
Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat ( Eptesicus fuscus )18
Evolution of self-sustained circadian rhythms is facilitated by seasonal change of daylight18
Temperature-driven heterochrony as a main evolutionary response to climate changes in conodonts18
Colonial coral resilience by decreasing size: reaction to increased detrital influx during onset of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age18
Susceptible and infectious states for both vector and host in a dynamic pathogen–vector–host system17
Quantifying the impacts of 166 years of land cover change on lowland bird communities17
Harmonizing spatial scales and ecological theories to predict avian richness and functional diversity within forest ecosystems17
The megaherbivore gap after the non-avian dinosaur extinctions modified trait evolution and diversification of tropical palms17
Evolution in changing seas17
Handgrip strength and 2D : 4D in women: homogeneous samples challenge the (apparent) gender paradox17
Size is relative: use of relational concepts by wild hummingbirds17
Grouping behaviour impacts on the parasitic pressure and squamation of sharks17
Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale17
Size rather than complexity of sexual ornaments prolongs male metamorphosis and explains sexual size dimorphism in sepsid flies17
New Caledonian crows' planning behaviour: a reply to de Mahy et al .17
New Middle Eocene proboscidean from Togo illuminates the early evolution of the elephantiform-like dental pattern17
Hearing, echolocation, and beam steering from day 0 in tongue-clicking bats17
A nutrition–defence trade-off drives diet choice in a toxic plant generalist17
Multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism in phenotypic plasticity17
Parasite co-infection: an ecological, molecular and experimental perspective17
Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs17
A matter of time: Bateman's principles and mating success as count and duration across social strata in contemporary Finland17
Androgen-armoured amazons: reversed sex roles in coucals are associated with testosterone in females but not males17
The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds17
Sea ice reduction drives genetic differentiation among Barents Sea polar bears17
Virulence decomposition for bifurcating infections17
The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition16
RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results16
Synergistic negative effects between a fungicide and high temperatures on homing behaviours in honeybees16
Delayed early life effects in the threespine stickleback16
Genome-wide selection signatures reveal widespread synergistic effects of two different stressors in Drosophila melanogaster16
Volatile-mediated between-plant communication in Scots pine and the effects of elevated ozone16
Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation16
Natural selection on a carbon cycling trait drives ecosystem engineering by Sphagnum (peat moss)16
Matches and mismatches between the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability16
Metatarsal fusion resisted bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal16
Gene loss and relaxed selection of plaat1 in vertebrates adapted to low-light environments16
Restricted X chromosome introgression and support for Haldane's rule in hybridizing damselflies16
Genetic and genomic architecture of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon variation in parasitoid wasps16
No correlative evidence of costs of infection or immunity on leucocyte telomere length in a wild population of Soay sheep16
The utility of genomic prediction models in evolutionary genetics16
Environmental memory gained from exposure to extreme pCO2variability promotes coral cellular acid–base homeostasis16
Lunar rhythms and their carry-over effects may shape environmental sex determination in a coral reef fish16
Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly16
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity16
Evolutionary story of caddisflies: new insights from phylogenomics16
Transparent transmission models for informing public health policy: the role of trust and generalizability16
Disentangling the influence of entanglement on recruitment in North Atlantic right whales16
Life-history genotype explains variation in migration activity in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar )16
Bathymetric evolution of black corals through deep time16
Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone16
Photosynthesis from stolen chloroplasts can support sea slug reproductive fitness16
Mechanisms of damage prevention, signalling and repair impact disease tolerance16
Interindividual variation in the use of social information during learning in honeybees15
Parallel evolution despite low genetic diversity in three-spined sticklebacks15
Mixed-species bird flocks re-assemble interspecific associations across an elevational gradient15
Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively15
The social shape of sperm: using an integrative machine-learning approach to examine sperm ultrastructure and collective motility15
Holds enable one-shot reciprocal exchange15
Immunological feedback loops generate parasite persistence thresholds that explain variation in infection duration15
The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals15
DNA methylation extends lifespan in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris15
Effects of environmental translocation and host characteristics on skin microbiomes of sun-basking fish15
Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals Wolbachia -mediated modification in early stages of Drosophila spermatogenesis15
The influence of temperature on the seasonality of historical plague outbreaks15
Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge15
A supergene in seaweed flies modulates male traits and female perception15
Individualized composition or community dynamics? A new statistical approach to assess the individuality of host-associated microbiomes15
Correlated evolution of oxidative physiology and MHC-based immunosurveillance in birds15
Senescence, trait parameterization and (st)age-specific forces of selection15
Discrepancies between the drivers of alpha and beta plant diversity in arable field margins15
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in Anopheles gambiae revealed by allele-specific expression15
You are what you eat—ecological niche and microhabitat influence venom activity and composition in aquatic bugs15
Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems15
Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents' motion in naive domestic chicks15
Moving conferences online: lessons learned from an international virtual meeting15
Can female guppies learn to like male colours? A test of the role of associative learning in originating sexual preferences14
Effects of local versus global competition on reproductive skew and sex differences in social dominance behaviour14
The causes of species richness patterns among clades14
Death is overrated: the potential role of detection in driving virulence evolution14
Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions14
Dollo meets Bergmann: morphological evolution in secondary aquatic mammals14
Loss-of-heterozygosity facilitates a fitness valley crossing in experimentally evolved multicellular yeast14
When origin, reproduction ability and diet define the role of birds in invasions14
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe14
Unexpected cryptic species among streptophyte algae most distant to land plants14
Greater plasticity in CTmax with increased climate variability among populations of tailed frogs14
Mice selected for a high basal metabolic rate evolved larger guts but not more efficient mitochondria14
Innovation across 13 ungulate species: problem solvers are less integrated in the social group and less neophobic14
Global long-term stability of individual dietary specialization in herbivorous mammals14
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