Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 7. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia148
Feather chemicals contain information about the major histocompatibility complex in a highly scented seabird104
Crocodile perception of distress in hominid baby cries67
Wild raccoons demonstrate flexibility and individuality in innovative problem-solving66
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community65
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication55
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea51
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings50
Correction to: ‘Age determination in echinoderms: first evidence of annual growth rings in holothuroids’ 2022 by Sun et al.46
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?46
Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits42
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate41
Evolution of competitive traits changes species diversity in a natural field41
Energetic trade-offs in migration decision-making, reproductive effort and subsequent parental care in a long-distance migratory bird41
Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women40
Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology38
The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds37
Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)37
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass36
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health35
Exploring the connection between autophagy and heat-stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster35
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population33
Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes33
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome33
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle33
The gaze of a social monkey is perceptible to conspecifics and predators but not prey33
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs33
Mosquito ageing modulates the development, virulence and transmission potential of pathogens33
Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations32
Insect cross-tolerance to freezing and drought stress: role of metabolic rearrangement31
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral31
Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird31
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations31
Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice30
Early-life sibling conflict in Canada jays has lifetime fitness consequences30
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales30
Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis30
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group30
Comparative genomics reveals convergent signals associated with the high metabolism and longevity in birds and bats30
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)29
Museomics unveil systematics, diversity and evolution of Australian cycad-pollinating weevils29
Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of Hydrangeeae (Hydrangeaceae) elucidate the effects of geologic and climatic dynamics on diversification29
Rare edges and abundant cores: range-wide variation in abundance in North American birds29
Character displacement or priority effects: immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution28
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy28
Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock28
King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites28
Cool-edge populations of the kelp Ecklonia radiata under global ocean change scenarios: strong sensitivity to ocean warming but little effect of ocean acidification28
Experimental extra-pair copulations provide proof of concept for fertility insurance in a socially monogamous bird27
Male–male social bonding, coalitionary support and reproductive success in wild Guinea baboons27
Colonization–persistence trade-offs in natural bacterial communities27
TiDeTree: a Bayesian phylogenetic framework to estimate single-cell trees and population dynamic parameters from genetic lineage tracing data27
All camouflage strategies are not equal26
Life-history responses to temperature and seasonality mediate ectotherm consumer–resource dynamics under climate warming26
Population trends are more strongly linked to environmental change and species traits in birds than mammals26
Grandmother presence improved grandchild survival against childhood infections but not vaccination coverage in historical Finns26
Mechanistic interactions as the origin of modularity in biological networks26
Half of global islands have reached critical area thresholds for undergoing rapid increases in biological invasions26
Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival25
Green turtle tracking leads the discovery of seagrass blue carbon resources25
Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats25
Straining the root on and off triggers local calcium signalling25
Correction: ‘Multidimensional plasticity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: larval performance is temperature, host and family specific’ (2020), by Nadja et al.25
No evidence for temporally balanced selection on larval Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas : a comment on Durland et al 25
Determinants of hyena participation in risky collective action25
Land-use-associated stressors interact to reduce bumblebee health at the individual and colony level25
A genome-wide test for paternal indirect genetic effects on lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster25
Sticky steps and the gender gap: how thoughtful practices could help keep caregivers in science24
Kin recognition for incest avoidance in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis24
Blue whales increase feeding rates at fine-scale ocean features24
Unisexual flowers as a resolution to intralocus sexual conflict in hermaphrodites24
Drivers of nematode diversity in forest soils across climatic zones24
Developmental and functional controls on enrolment in an ancient, extinct arthropod24
Twenty years of big plant genera24
The genomic architecture of continuous plumage colour variation in the European barn owl ( Tyto alba )23
Multispecies interactions shape the transition to multicellularity23
Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought23
The resolution of evolutionary conflicts within species23
Large genetic divergence underpins cryptic local adaptation across ecological and evolutionary gradients23
Evolutionary ecomorphology for the twenty-first century: examples from mammalian carnivores23
Phylogenomics reveals deep relationships and diversification within phylactolaemate bryozoans23
How to generate and test hypotheses about colour: insights from half a century of guppy research23
Gender shapes the formation of review paper collaborations in microbiology22
Convergence of gut microbiota in myrmecophagous amphibians22
Grouping behaviour impacts on the parasitic pressure and squamation of sharks22
Developmental risk sensitivity theory: the effects of socio-economic status on children's risky gain and loss decisions22
Social interaction can select for reduced ability22
Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function21
Retraction of: ‘Reef fishes can recognize bleached habitat during settlement: sea anemone bleaching alters anemonefish host selection’ (2016) by Scott and Dixson21
Liver transcriptomic and methylomic analyses identify transcriptional mitogen-activated protein kinase regulation in facultative hibernation of Syrian hamster21
Temperature-driven heterochrony as a main evolutionary response to climate changes in conodonts21
Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques21
Brains in sync, friends in empathy: interbrain neural mechanisms underlying the impact of interpersonal closeness on mutual empathy21
The impact of within-host coinfection interactions on between-host parasite transmission dynamics varies with spatial scale21
Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach21
Utilizing citizen science data to rapidly assess changing associations between wild birds and avian influenza outbreaks in poultry21
A sterol-mediated gleaner–opportunist trade-off underlies the evolution of grazer resistance to cyanobacteria21
The experimental evolution of human culture: flexibility, fidelity and environmental instability21
Mitochondrial effects on fertility and longevity in Tigriopus californicus contradict predictions of the mother's curse hypothesis21
Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale21
Early life adversity jointly regulates body-mass index and working memory development21
Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom21
A sex skew in life-history research: the problem of missing males21
Ecogeography of group size suggests differences in drivers of sociality among cooperatively breeding fairywrens20
Epidemiological dynamics of bacteriocin competition and antibiotic resistance20
Colonial coral resilience by decreasing size: reaction to increased detrital influx during onset of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age20
Quantifying the impacts of 166 years of land cover change on lowland bird communities20
Harmonizing spatial scales and ecological theories to predict avian richness and functional diversity within forest ecosystems20
Hummingbirds use distinct control strategies for forward and hovering flight20
Effects of genotype and host environment on the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of Lysiphlebus parasitoids and aggression by aphid-tending ants20
Evolution of self-sustained circadian rhythms is facilitated by seasonal change of daylight20
Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat ( Eptesicus fuscus )20
Spatial variation in avian bill size is associated with temperature extremes in a major radiation of Australian passerines20
Global ecomorphological restructuring of dominant marine reptiles prior to the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction20
Competition and habitat availability interact to structure arboreal ant communities across scales of ecological organization20
Transparent transmission models for informing public health policy: the role of trust and generalizability19
Rapid evolution of unimodal but not of linear thermal performance curves inDaphnia magna19
The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition19
Bathymetric evolution of black corals through deep time19
Size rather than complexity of sexual ornaments prolongs male metamorphosis and explains sexual size dimorphism in sepsid flies19
Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly19
Nuclear-specific gene expression in heterokaryons of the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma19
Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners19
Susceptible and infectious states for both vector and host in a dynamic pathogen–vector–host system19
Androgen-armoured amazons: reversed sex roles in coucals are associated with testosterone in females but not males19
Evolutionary story of caddisflies: new insights from phylogenomics19
RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results19
A matter of time: Bateman's principles and mating success as count and duration across social strata in contemporary Finland19
Partial protection from fluctuating selection leads to evolution towards wider population size fluctuation and a novel mechanism of balancing selection19
Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs19
No correlative evidence of costs of infection or immunity on leucocyte telomere length in a wild population of Soay sheep19
Delayed early life effects in the threespine stickleback19
Disentangling the influence of entanglement on recruitment in North Atlantic right whales19
Life-history genotype explains variation in migration activity in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar )19
Mechanisms of damage prevention, signalling and repair impact disease tolerance18
Multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism in phenotypic plasticity18
Gene loss and relaxed selection of plaat1 in vertebrates adapted to low-light environments18
Matches and mismatches between the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability18
Genome-wide selection signatures reveal widespread synergistic effects of two different stressors in Drosophila melanogaster18
Individualized composition or community dynamics? A new statistical approach to assess the individuality of host-associated microbiomes18
Correlated evolution of oxidative physiology and MHC-based immunosurveillance in birds18
Metatarsal fusion resisted bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal18
A nutrition–defence trade-off drives diet choice in a toxic plant generalist18
Genetic and genomic architecture of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon variation in parasitoid wasps18
Restricted X chromosome introgression and support for Haldane's rule in hybridizing damselflies18
A supergene in seaweed flies modulates male traits and female perception18
Dim-light colour vision in the facultatively nocturnal Asian giant honeybee, Apis dorsata18
Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone18
Virulence decomposition for bifurcating infections18
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity18
Synergistic negative effects between a fungicide and high temperatures on homing behaviours in honeybees18
Holds enable one-shot reciprocal exchange18
Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively18
Death is overrated: the potential role of detection in driving virulence evolution18
DNA methylation extends lifespan in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris17
Environmental memory gained from exposure to extreme pCO2variability promotes coral cellular acid–base homeostasis17
Effects of environmental translocation and host characteristics on skin microbiomes of sun-basking fish17
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in Anopheles gambiae revealed by allele-specific expression17
Chronic and acute thermal stressors have non-additive effects on fertility17
Volatile-mediated between-plant communication in Scots pine and the effects of elevated ozone17
Discrepancies between the drivers of alpha and beta plant diversity in arable field margins17
Mixed-species bird flocks re-assemble interspecific associations across an elevational gradient17
When origin, reproduction ability and diet define the role of birds in invasions17
Long-distance vocalizations of spotted hyenas contain individual, but not group, signatures17
Something in the water: aquatic microbial communities influence the larval amphibian gut microbiota, neurodevelopment and behaviour17
Immunological feedback loops generate parasite persistence thresholds that explain variation in infection duration17
Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems17
Chimpanzees communicate to coordinate a cultural practice17
Acoustic activity of bats at power lines correlates with relative humidity: a potential role for corona discharges17
The evolution of masturbation is associated with postcopulatory selection and pathogen avoidance in primates17
Innovation across 13 ungulate species: problem solvers are less integrated in the social group and less neophobic17
Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals Wolbachia -mediated modification in early stages of Drosophila 17
Parallel evolution despite low genetic diversity in three-spined sticklebacks17
Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge17
The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals17
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe17
Lunar rhythms and their carry-over effects may shape environmental sex determination in a coral reef fish17
Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents' motion in naive domestic chicks17
Dollo meets Bergmann: morphological evolution in secondary aquatic mammals17
You are what you eat—ecological niche and microhabitat influence venom activity and composition in aquatic bugs16
Structural disorder facilitates future memory decisions16
Effects of local versus global competition on reproductive skew and sex differences in social dominance behaviour16
Fossils indicate marine dispersal in osteoglossid fishes, a classic example of continental vicariance16
The exploitation of sexual signals by predators: a meta-analysis16
Resolving selfish and spiteful interdependent conflict16
Individual preferences for sound tool design in a parrot16
The causes of species richness patterns among clades16
On the relationship between foveal mask interference and mental imagery in peripheral object recognition16
Tipping points and interactive effects of chronic human disturbance and acute heat stress on coral diversity16
Deriving the cone fundamentals: a subspace intersection method16
Reproductive tactics, birth timing and the risk-resource trade-off in an income breeder16
Seagrass production around artificial reefs is resistant to human stressors16
Sex-biased gene expression in nutrient-sensing pathways16
Dispersal modes affect Rhamnaceae diversification rates in a differentiated manner16
Genetic and environmental architecture of synaesthesia and its association with the autism spectrum—a twin study16
Loss-of-heterozygosity facilitates a fitness valley crossing in experimentally evolved multicellular yeast16
Marine heatwave conditions drive carryover effects in a temperate sponge microbiome and developmental performance16
Wild gibbons plan their travel pattern according to food types of breakfast16
Adolescence is characterized by more sedentary behaviour and less physical activity even among highly active forager-farmers16
A cretaceous frog with eggs from northwestern China provides fossil evidence for sexual maturity preceding skeletal maturity in anurans16
Influence of colour vision on attention to, and impression of, complex aesthetic images16
Post-marital residence patterns and the timing of reproduction: evidence from a matrilineal society16
A comparative approach for characterizing the relationship among morphology, range-of-motion and locomotor behaviour in the primate shoulder16
Environmental, sex-specific and genetic determinants of infant social behaviour in a wild primate16
Variation in personality shaped by evolutionary history, genotype and developmental plasticity in response to feeding modalities in the Arctic charr16
Mice selected for a high basal metabolic rate evolved larger guts but not more efficient mitochondria16
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms16
Influence of visual background on discrimination of signal-relevant colours in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)16
Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from ‘Newtonian’ to ‘Darwinian’ approaches15
Millennial processes of population decline, range contraction and near extinction of the European bison15
Cognitive performance is linked to survival in free-living African striped mice15
Temperature adaptation and its impact on the shape of performance curves inDrosophilapopulations15
Stressors interact across generations to influence offspring telomeres and survival15
Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback15
Haemosporidian parasites and incubation period influence plumage coloration in tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae)15
Ancient insect vision tuned for flight among rocks and plants underpins natural flower colour diversity15
Collective movement as a solution to noisy navigation and its vulnerability to population loss15
Response to geometrical visual illusions in non-human animals: a meta-analysis15
Environmental drivers of Arctic communities based on metabarcoding of marine sediment eDNA15
Present and future distribution of bat hosts of sarbecoviruses: implications for conservation and public health15
Marine heatwaves and upwelling shape stress responses in a keystone predator15
Per-pathogen virulence of HIV-1 subtypes A, C and D15
Performance characteristics allow for confinement of a CRISPR toxin–antidote gene drive for population suppression in a reaction–diffusion model15
Differential reproductive plasticity under thermal variability in a freshwater fish ( Danio rerio )15
Colony size buffers interactions between neonicotinoid exposure and cold stress in bumblebees15
Multispecies interactions and the community context of the evolution of virulence15
How to be a good partner and father? The role of adult males in pair bond maintenance and parental care in Javan gibbons15
Food-caching chickadees with specialized spatial cognition do not use scrounging as a stable strategy when learning a spatial task15
Dominance reversals: the resolution of genetic conflict and maintenance of genetic variation15
Comparative genomics sheds new light on the convergent evolution of infrared vision in snakes15
Synchronized locomotion can improve spatial accessibility inside ant colonies15
Divergence in brain size and brain region volumes across wild guppy populations15
The acclimatory response of the mayfly Neocloeon triangulifer to dilute conditions is linked to the plasticity of sodium transport15
The limits of metabolic heredity in protocells15
Females smell differently: characteristics and significance of the most common olfactory sensilla of female silkmoths15
300 Million years of coral treaders (Insecta: Heteroptera: Hermatobatidae) back to the ocean in the phylogenetic context of Arthropoda15
Sexual selection may support phenotypic plasticity in male coloration of an African cichlid fish15
Biomechanical drivers of the evolution of butterflies and moths with a coilable proboscis15
The emergence of division of labour through decentralized social sanctioning15
Higher temperature variability in deforested mountain regions impacts the competitive advantage of nocturnal species15
A restatement of the natural science evidence base concerning grassland management, grazing livestock and soil carbon storage15
Natural alleles at the Doa locus underpin evolutionary changes in Drosophila lifespan and fecundity15
Greater plasticity in CTmax with increased climate variability among populations of tailed frogs15
Correction to: ‘Coral reef fish smell leaves to find island homes’ (2022) by Dixson et al.14
Spider dung beetles: coordinated cooperative transport without a predefined destination14
RETRACTED: Correction to: ‘Reef fishes can recognize bleached habitat during settlement: sea anemone bleaching alters anemonefish host selection’14
Covariation between glucocorticoids, behaviour and immunity supports the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis: an experimental approach14
Correction to: ‘Diet changes thermal acclimation capacity, but not acclimation rate, in a marine ectotherm ( Girella nigricans ) during warming’ (2023), 14
Vertical and diel niches modulate thermal selection by rainforest frogs14
Sexual antagonism in sequential hermaphrodites14
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