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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Do mutualistic interactions last longer than antagonistic interactions?103
Disease-driven mass mortality event leads to widespread extirpation and variable recovery potential of a marine predator across the eastern Pacific82
King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites70
Bee flowers drive macroevolutionary diversification in long-horned bees69
Prenatal acoustic programming of mitochondrial function for high temperatures in an arid-adapted bird62
Animal lifestyle affects acceptable mass limits for attached tags61
Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes60
Crocodile perception of distress in hominid baby cries59
Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations58
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health57
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication53
Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly52
Cool-edge populations of the kelp Ecklonia radiata under global ocean change scenarios: strong sensitivity to ocean warming but little effect of ocean acidification50
Auditory mechanics in the grig ( Cyphoderris monstrosa ): tympanal travelling waves and frequency discrimination as a precursor to inner ear tonotopy47
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate47
Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis46
Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)46
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea43
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass41
Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology41
Which peer reviewers voluntarily reveal their identity to authors? Insights into the consequences of open-identities peer review37
Feather chemicals contain information about the major histocompatibility complex in a highly scented seabird37
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population36
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia36
Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird36
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group35
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings34
Correction to: ‘Age determination in echinoderms: first evidence of annual growth rings in holothuroids’ 2022 by Sun et al.34
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?34
Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice33
Evolution of competitive traits changes species diversity in a natural field32
Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of Hydrangeeae (Hydrangeaceae) elucidate the effects of geologic and climatic dynamics on diversification32
Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women31
Early-life sibling conflict in Canada jays has lifetime fitness consequences31
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community31
Exploring the connection between autophagy and heat-stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster31
Multiscale analysis of the randomization limits of the chromosomal gene organization between Lepidoptera and Diptera31
Comparative genomics reveals convergent signals associated with the high metabolism and longevity in birds and bats31
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)30
Wild raccoons demonstrate flexibility and individuality in innovative problem-solving29
Mosquito ageing modulates the development, virulence and transmission potential of pathogens29
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy29
Rare edges and abundant cores: range-wide variation in abundance in North American birds29
The gaze of a social monkey is perceptible to conspecifics and predators but not prey28
The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds28
Insect cross-tolerance to freezing and drought stress: role of metabolic rearrangement28
Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock28
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome28
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral28
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs27
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle27
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales27
Museomics unveil systematics, diversity and evolution of Australian cycad-pollinating weevils27
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations27
Energetic trade-offs in migration decision-making, reproductive effort and subsequent parental care in a long-distance migratory bird27
Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits26
A reassessment of the enigmatic diapsid Paliguana whitei and the early history of Lepidosauromorpha26
Evolutionary ecomorphology for the twenty-first century: examples from mammalian carnivores26
A closer look at pupil diversity and evolution in frogs and toads26
Niche shifts after island colonization spurred adaptive diversification and speciation in a cosmopolitan bird clade26
Correction to: First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals26
Male–male social bonding, coalitionary support and reproductive success in wild Guinea baboons26
Phylogenomics reveals deep relationships and diversification within phylactolaemate bryozoans26
Human density is associated with the increased prevalence of a generalist zoonotic parasite in mammalian wildlife25
Green turtle tracking leads the discovery of seagrass blue carbon resources25
Character displacement or priority effects: immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution25
Unisexual flowers as a resolution to intralocus sexual conflict in hermaphrodites25
The resolution of evolutionary conflicts within species25
Drosophila female reproductive glands contribute to mating plug composition and the timing of sperm ejection24
Colonization–persistence trade-offs in natural bacterial communities24
Differential local genetic adaptation to pesticide use in organic and conventional agriculture in an aquatic non-target species24
Grandmother presence improved grandchild survival against childhood infections but not vaccination coverage in historical Finns24
Blue whales increase feeding rates at fine-scale ocean features24
Multispecies interactions shape the transition to multicellularity24
Convergence of gut microbiota in myrmecophagous amphibians23
How to generate and test hypotheses about colour: insights from half a century of guppy research23
All camouflage strategies are not equal23
Positive and negative effects of land abandonment on butterfly communities revealed by a hierarchical sampling design across climatic regions23
Half of global islands have reached critical area thresholds for undergoing rapid increases in biological invasions23
Tipping points induced by palaeo-human impacts can explain presence of savannah in Malagasy and global systems where forest is expected23
Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought23
Twenty years of big plant genera23
Life-history responses to temperature and seasonality mediate ectotherm consumer–resource dynamics under climate warming23
Determinants of hyena participation in risky collective action23
The presence of multiple parasitoids decreases host survival under warming, but parasitoid performance also decreases23
Kin recognition for incest avoidance in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis23
Sticky steps and the gender gap: how thoughtful practices could help keep caregivers in science23
Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats23
TiDeTree: a Bayesian phylogenetic framework to estimate single-cell trees and population dynamic parameters from genetic lineage tracing data23
Experimental extra-pair copulations provide proof of concept for fertility insurance in a socially monogamous bird22
The biogeography of community assembly: latitude and predation drive variation in community trait distribution in a guild of epifaunal crustaceans22
No evidence for temporally balanced selection on larval Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas : a comment on Durland et al . (2021)22
Straining the root on and off triggers local calcium signalling22
Population trends are more strongly linked to environmental change and species traits in birds than mammals22
Land-use-associated stressors interact to reduce bumblebee health at the individual and colony level22
Drivers of nematode diversity in forest soils across climatic zones22
Third-party punishers do not compete to be chosen as partners in an experimental game22
Mechanistic interactions as the origin of modularity in biological networks22
Developmental and functional controls on enrolment in an ancient, extinct arthropod22
A genome-wide test for paternal indirect genetic effects on lifespan inDrosophila melanogaster22
The genomic architecture of continuous plumage colour variation in the European barn owl ( Tyto alba )22
Effects of physical impairments on fitness correlates of the white-footed mouse,Peromyscus leucopus22
Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival22
Correction: ‘Multidimensional plasticity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: larval performance is temperature, host and family specific’ (2020), by Nadja et al.22
Large genetic divergence underpins cryptic local adaptation across ecological and evolutionary gradients22
The evolution of sour taste21
Effects of genotype and host environment on the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of Lysiphlebus parasitoids and aggression by aphid-tending ants21
Global ecomorphological restructuring of dominant marine reptiles prior to the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction21
Quantifying the impacts of 166 years of land cover change on lowland bird communities21
Mitochondrial DNA content in eggs as a maternal effect21
Hummingbirds use distinct control strategies for forward and hovering flight21
Early life adversity jointly regulates body-mass index and working memory development21
Emerging infectious disease triggered a trophic cascade and enhanced recruitment of a masting tree21
Novel spikey ionocytes are regulated by cortisol in the skin of an amphibious fish21
Temperature-driven heterochrony as a main evolutionary response to climate changes in conodonts21
Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom21
Brains in sync, friends in empathy: interbrain neural mechanisms underlying the impact of interpersonal closeness on mutual empathy20
Utilizing citizen science data to rapidly assess changing associations between wild birds and avian influenza outbreaks in poultry20
A sterol-mediated gleaner–opportunist trade-off underlies the evolution of grazer resistance to cyanobacteria20
Harmonizing spatial scales and ecological theories to predict avian richness and functional diversity within forest ecosystems20
Colonial coral resilience by decreasing size: reaction to increased detrital influx during onset of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age20
Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach20
The impact of within-host coinfection interactions on between-host parasite transmission dynamics varies with spatial scale20
Social interaction can select for reduced ability20
Panoramic spatial vision in the bay scallop Argopecten irradians20
Rapid evolution of unimodal but not of linear thermal performance curves inDaphnia magna20
Evolutionary modularity, integration and disparity in an accretionary skeleton: analysis of venerid Bivalvia20
Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale19
Positive-to-negative behavioural responses suggest hedonic evaluation in treefrog mate choice19
Parasite co-infection: an ecological, molecular and experimental perspective19
Grouping behaviour impacts on the parasitic pressure and squamation of sharks19
Evolution of self-sustained circadian rhythms is facilitated by seasonal change of daylight19
Partial protection from fluctuating selection leads to evolution towards wider population size fluctuation and a novel mechanism of balancing selection19
Ecogeography of group size suggests differences in drivers of sociality among cooperatively breeding fairywrens19
Marine diversity patterns in Australia are filtered through biogeography19
Mitochondrial effects on fertility and longevity in Tigriopus californicus contradict predictions of the mother's curse hypothesis19
Spatial variation in avian bill size is associated with temperature extremes in a major radiation of Australian passerines19
Susceptible and infectious states for both vector and host in a dynamic pathogen–vector–host system19
Developmental risk sensitivity theory: the effects of socio-economic status on children's risky gain and loss decisions19
Beneficial cumulative effects of old parental age on offspring fitness19
Gender shapes the formation of review paper collaborations in microbiology19
Nuclear-specific gene expression in heterokaryons of the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma19
Retraction of: ‘Reef fishes can recognize bleached habitat during settlement: sea anemone bleaching alters anemonefish host selection’ (2016) by Scott and Dixson19
The experimental evolution of human culture: flexibility, fidelity and environmental instability19
Competition and habitat availability interact to structure arboreal ant communities across scales of ecological organization19
Selection for biparental inheritance of mitochondria under hybridization and mitonuclear fitness interactions19
Background complexity can mitigate poor camouflage19
Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners18
Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat ( Eptesicus fuscus )18
Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs18
Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques18
The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds18
A sex skew in life-history research: the problem of missing males18
Liver transcriptomic and methylomic analyses identify transcriptional mitogen-activated protein kinase regulation in facultative hibernation of Syrian hamster18
The utility of genomic prediction models in evolutionary genetics18
Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function18
Epidemiological dynamics of bacteriocin competition and antibiotic resistance18
Virulence decomposition for bifurcating infections17
Sea ice reduction drives genetic differentiation among Barents Sea polar bears17
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
Handgrip strength and 2D : 4D in women: homogeneous samples challenge the (apparent) gender paradox17
Life-history genotype explains variation in migration activity in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar )17
Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly17
Synergistic negative effects between a fungicide and high temperatures on homing behaviours in honeybees17
RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results17
A nutrition–defence trade-off drives diet choice in a toxic plant generalist17
Androgen-armoured amazons: reversed sex roles in coucals are associated with testosterone in females but not males17
Hearing, echolocation, and beam steering from day 0 in tongue-clicking bats17
Evolutionary story of caddisflies: new insights from phylogenomics17
Restricted X chromosome introgression and support for Haldane's rule in hybridizing damselflies17
Genetic and genomic architecture of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon variation in parasitoid wasps17
Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation17
Natural selection on a carbon cycling trait drives ecosystem engineering by Sphagnum (peat moss)17
Matches and mismatches between the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability17
Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone17
Multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism in phenotypic plasticity17
Bathymetric evolution of black corals through deep time17
Transparent transmission models for informing public health policy: the role of trust and generalizability17
New Middle Eocene proboscidean from Togo illuminates the early evolution of the elephantiform-like dental pattern17
Photosynthesis from stolen chloroplasts can support sea slug reproductive fitness16
Gene loss and relaxed selection of plaat1 in vertebrates adapted to low-light environments16
The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition16
Mechanisms of damage prevention, signalling and repair impact disease tolerance16
Lunar rhythms and their carry-over effects may shape environmental sex determination in a coral reef fish16
Volatile-mediated between-plant communication in Scots pine and the effects of elevated ozone16
The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals16
Delayed early life effects in the threespine stickleback16
Disentangling the influence of entanglement on recruitment in North Atlantic right whales16
The megaherbivore gap after the non-avian dinosaur extinctions modified trait evolution and diversification of tropical palms16
Metatarsal fusion resisted bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal16
Evolution in changing seas16
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in Anopheles gambiae revealed by allele-specific expression16
Individualized composition or community dynamics? A new statistical approach to assess the individuality of host-associated microbiomes16
Chimpanzees communicate to coordinate a cultural practice16
A matter of time: Bateman's principles and mating success as count and duration across social strata in contemporary Finland16
No correlative evidence of costs of infection or immunity on leucocyte telomere length in a wild population of Soay sheep16
Size is relative: use of relational concepts by wild hummingbirds16
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity16
The social shape of sperm: using an integrative machine-learning approach to examine sperm ultrastructure and collective motility16
Innovation across 13 ungulate species: problem solvers are less integrated in the social group and less neophobic16
Mixed-species bird flocks re-assemble interspecific associations across an elevational gradient16
Interindividual variation in the use of social information during learning in honeybees16
Immunological feedback loops generate parasite persistence thresholds that explain variation in infection duration15
Moving conferences online: lessons learned from an international virtual meeting15
DNA methylation extends lifespan in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris15
Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents' motion in naive domestic chicks15
Senescence, trait parameterization and (st)age-specific forces of selection15
Death is overrated: the potential role of detection in driving virulence evolution15
You are what you eat—ecological niche and microhabitat influence venom activity and composition in aquatic bugs15
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe15
Can female guppies learn to like male colours? A test of the role of associative learning in originating sexual preferences15
A supergene in seaweed flies modulates male traits and female perception15
Dollo meets Bergmann: morphological evolution in secondary aquatic mammals15
The evolution of masturbation is associated with postcopulatory selection and pathogen avoidance in primates15
Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge15
Discrepancies between the drivers of alpha and beta plant diversity in arable field margins15
When origin, reproduction ability and diet define the role of birds in invasions15
Risk of herbivory negatively correlates with the diversity of volatile emissions involved in plant communication14
Ecological impacts of water-based recreational activities on freshwater ecosystems: a global meta-analysis14
Individual preferences for sound tool design in a parrot14
Cellular senescence, rejuvenation and potential immortality14
Variation in personality shaped by evolutionary history, genotype and developmental plasticity in response to feeding modalities in the Arctic charr14
Human biomechanics perspective on robotics for gait assistance: challenges and potential solutions14
Synchronized locomotion can improve spatial accessibility inside ant colonies14
Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively14
Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals Wolbachia -mediated modification in early stages of Drosophila spermatogenesis14
Parallel evolution despite low genetic diversity in three-spined sticklebacks14
Holds enable one-shot reciprocal exchange14
Genome-wide selection signatures reveal widespread synergistic effects of two different stressors in Drosophila melanogaster14
Unexpected cryptic species among streptophyte algae most distant to land plants14
Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions14
On the relationship between foveal mask interference and mental imagery in peripheral object recognition14
A comparative approach for characterizing the relationship among morphology, range-of-motion and locomotor behaviour in the primate shoulder14
Episodic-like memory is preserved with age in cuttlefish14
Dim-light colour vision in the facultatively nocturnal Asian giant honeybee, Apis dorsata14
Effects of environmental translocation and host characteristics on skin microbiomes of sun-basking fish14
Something in the water: aquatic microbial communities influence the larval amphibian gut microbiota, neurodevelopment and behaviour14
Simple decentralized control mechanism that enables limb adjustment for adaptive quadruped running14
A single intronic single nucleotide polymorphism in splicing site of steroidogenic enzyme hsd17b1 is associated with phenotypic sex in oyster pompano, Tra14
Global long-term stability of individual dietary specialization in herbivorous mammals14
Influence of colour vision on attention to, and impression of, complex aesthetic images14
Environmental drivers of Arctic communities based on metabarcoding of marine sediment eDNA14
Mice selected for a high basal metabolic rate evolved larger guts but not more efficient mitochondria14
Reproductive tactics, birth timing and the risk-resource trade-off in an income breeder14
Long-distance vocalizations of spotted hyenas contain individual, but not group, signatures14
Acoustic activity of bats at power lines correlates with relative humidity: a potential role for corona discharges14
Chronic and acute thermal stressors have non-additive effects on fertility14
Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems14
Environmental memory gained from exposure to extreme pCO2variability promotes coral cellular acid–base homeostasis14
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