Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The median citation count of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Evolution of competitive traits changes species diversity in a natural field114
Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird102
Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes85
Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology71
Mosquito ageing modulates the development, virulence and transmission potential of pathogens65
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate64
Comparative genomics reveals convergent signals associated with the high metabolism and longevity in birds and bats59
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle59
Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)55
Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of Hydrangeeae (Hydrangeaceae) elucidate the effects of geologic and climatic dynamics on diversification54
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass51
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome50
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral49
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group44
Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis41
Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock41
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community40
Rare edges and abundant cores: range-wide variation in abundance in North American birds40
Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits39
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication37
Auditory mechanics in the grig ( Cyphoderris monstrosa ): tympanal travelling waves and frequency discrimination as a precursor to inner ear tonotopy36
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea36
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings35
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population35
Feather chemicals contain information about the major histocompatibility complex in a highly scented seabird35
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 mice34
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)33
Multiscale analysis of the randomization limits of the chromosomal gene organization between Lepidoptera and Diptera33
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy32
Wild raccoons demonstrate flexibility and individuality in innovative problem-solving32
Energetic trade-offs in migration decision-making, reproductive effort and subsequent parental care in a long-distance migratory bird32
King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites31
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs31
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales31
Crocodile perception of distress in hominid baby cries30
Prenatal acoustic programming of mitochondrial function for high temperatures in an arid-adapted bird30
Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations29
Early-life sibling conflict in Canada jays has lifetime fitness consequences29
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health29
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia29
Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women29
Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly29
Museomics unveil systematics, diversity and evolution of Australian cycad-pollinating weevils29
Exploring the connection between autophagy and heat-stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster28
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
Cool-edge populations of the kelp Ecklonia radiata under global ocean change scenarios: strong sensitivity to ocean warming but little effect of ocean acidification28
Insect cross-tolerance to freezing and drought stress: role of metabolic rearrangement28
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations28
A genome-wide test for paternal indirect genetic effects on lifespan inDrosophila melanogaster27
Determinants of hyena participation in risky collective action27
The resolution of evolutionary conflicts within species27
Experimental extra-pair copulations provide proof of concept for fertility insurance in a socially monogamous bird27
Character displacement or priority effects: immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution27
Population trends are more strongly linked to environmental change and species traits in birds than mammals26
Correction: ‘Multidimensional plasticity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: larval performance is temperature, host and family specific’ (2020), by Nadja et al.26
Life-history responses to temperature and seasonality mediate ectotherm consumer–resource dynamics under climate warming26
No evidence for temporally balanced selection on larval Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas : a comment on Durland et al . (2021)26
The biogeography of community assembly: latitude and predation drive variation in community trait distribution in a guild of epifaunal crustaceans25
Third-party punishers do not compete to be chosen as partners in an experimental game25
Green turtle tracking leads the discovery of seagrass blue carbon resources25
Tipping points induced by palaeo-human impacts can explain presence of savannah in Malagasy and global systems where forest is expected25
Straining the root on and off triggers local calcium signalling25
Half of global islands have reached critical area thresholds for undergoing rapid increases in biological invasions25
The evolution of sour taste25
Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats24
All camouflage strategies are not equal24
Kin recognition for incest avoidance in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis24
Effects of physical impairments on fitness correlates of the white-footed mouse,Peromyscus leucopus24
Sticky steps and the gender gap: how thoughtful practices could help keep caregivers in science24
Phylogenomics reveals deep relationships and diversification within phylactolaemate bryozoans24
Developmental and functional controls on enrolment in an ancient, extinct arthropod23
Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought23
Mechanistic interactions as the origin of modularity in biological networks23
Evolutionary ecomorphology for the twenty-first century: examples from mammalian carnivores23
Grandmother presence improved grandchild survival against childhood infections but not vaccination coverage in historical Finns23
Land-use-associated stressors interact to reduce bumblebee health at the individual and colony level23
How to generate and test hypotheses about colour: insights from half a century of guppy research23
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 multicellularity23
Blue whales increase feeding rates at fine-scale ocean features23
Twenty years of big plant genera23
The genomic architecture of continuous plumage colour variation in the European barn owl ( Tyto alba )23
Differential local genetic adaptation to pesticide use in organic and conventional agriculture in an aquatic non-target species22
Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival22
Colonization–persistence trade-offs in natural bacterial communities22
The presence of multiple parasitoids decreases host survival under warming, but parasitoid performance also decreases22
Drivers of nematode diversity in forest soils across climatic zones22
Male–male social bonding, coalitionary support and reproductive success in wild Guinea baboons22
Large genetic divergence underpins cryptic local adaptation across ecological and evolutionary gradients22
TiDeTree: a Bayesian phylogenetic framework to estimate single-cell trees and population dynamic parameters from genetic lineage tracing data22
Convergence of gut microbiota in myrmecophagous amphibians22
Drosophila female reproductive glands contribute to mating plug composition and the timing of sperm ejection22
Unisexual flowers as a resolution to intralocus sexual conflict in hermaphrodites22
Effects of genotype and host environment on the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of Lysiphlebus parasitoids and aggression by aphid-tending ants21
Selection for biparental inheritance of mitochondria under hybridization and mitonuclear fitness interactions21
Positive-to-negative behavioural responses suggest hedonic evaluation in treefrog mate choice21
Global ecomorphological restructuring of dominant marine reptiles prior to the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction21
Early life adversity jointly regulates body-mass index and working memory development21
Evolutionary modularity, integration and disparity in an accretionary skeleton: analysis of venerid Bivalvia21
Novel spikey ionocytes are regulated by cortisol in the skin of an amphibious fish21
Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques21
Panoramic spatial vision in the bay scallop Argopecten irradians21
Grouping behaviour impacts on the parasitic pressure and squamation of sharks20
Susceptible and infectious states for both vector and host in a dynamic pathogen–vector–host system20
Temperature-driven heterochrony as a main evolutionary response to climate changes in conodonts20
A sterol-mediated gleaner–opportunist trade-off underlies the evolution of grazer resistance to cyanobacteria20
Utilizing citizen science data to rapidly assess changing associations between wild birds and avian influenza outbreaks in poultry20
Ecogeography of group size suggests differences in drivers of sociality among cooperatively breeding fairywrens20
Retraction of: ‘Reef fishes can recognize bleached habitat during settlement: sea anemone bleaching alters anemonefish host selection’ (2016) by Scott and Dixson20
Brains in sync, friends in empathy: interbrain neural mechanisms underlying the impact of interpersonal closeness on mutual empathy20
Quantifying the impacts of 166 years of land cover change on lowland bird communities20
Liver transcriptomic and methylomic analyses identify transcriptional mitogen-activated protein kinase regulation in facultative hibernation of Syrian hamster20
Colonial coral resilience by decreasing size: reaction to increased detrital influx during onset of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age20
Gender shapes the formation of review paper collaborations in microbiology20
Mitochondrial effects on fertility and longevity in Tigriopus californicus contradict predictions of the mother's curse hypothesis20
Social interaction can select for reduced ability20
The impact of within-host coinfection interactions on between-host parasite transmission dynamics varies with spatial scale20
Marine diversity patterns in Australia are filtered through biogeography20
A sex skew in life-history research: the problem of missing males20
Epidemiological dynamics of bacteriocin competition and antibiotic resistance20
Competition and habitat availability interact to structure arboreal ant communities across scales of ecological organization19
Mitochondrial DNA content in eggs as a maternal effect19
Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs19
Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale19
Parasite co-infection: an ecological, molecular and experimental perspective19
Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom19
Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners19
Spatial variation in avian bill size is associated with temperature extremes in a major radiation of Australian passerines19
Rapid evolution of unimodal but not of linear thermal performance curves inDaphnia magna19
Emerging infectious disease triggered a trophic cascade and enhanced recruitment of a masting tree19
Background complexity can mitigate poor camouflage19
Evolution of self-sustained circadian rhythms is facilitated by seasonal change of daylight19
The experimental evolution of human culture: flexibility, fidelity and environmental instability19
Nuclear-specific gene expression in heterokaryons of the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma19
Hummingbirds use distinct control strategies for forward and hovering flight19
Harmonizing spatial scales and ecological theories to predict avian richness and functional diversity within forest ecosystems19
Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat ( Eptesicus fuscus )19
Developmental risk sensitivity theory: the effects of socio-economic status on children's risky gain and loss decisions19
Partial protection from fluctuating selection leads to evolution towards wider population size fluctuation and a novel mechanism of balancing selection19
Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function19
Evolution in changing seas18
Size rather than complexity of sexual ornaments prolongs male metamorphosis and explains sexual size dimorphism in sepsid flies18
Disentangling the influence of entanglement on recruitment in North Atlantic right whales18
A nutrition–defence trade-off drives diet choice in a toxic plant generalist18
Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone18
Evolutionary story of caddisflies: new insights from phylogenomics18
Gene loss and relaxed selection of plaat1 in vertebrates adapted to low-light environments18
The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition18
Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach18
Androgen-armoured amazons: reversed sex roles in coucals are associated with testosterone in females but not males18
Life-history genotype explains variation in migration activity in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar )18
Transparent transmission models for informing public health policy: the role of trust and generalizability18
Multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism in phenotypic plasticity18
Genetic and genomic architecture of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon variation in parasitoid wasps18
Mechanisms of damage prevention, signalling and repair impact disease tolerance18
Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly17
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity17
A matter of time: Bateman's principles and mating success as count and duration across social strata in contemporary Finland17
Handgrip strength and 2D : 4D in women: homogeneous samples challenge the (apparent) gender paradox17
Holds enable one-shot reciprocal exchange17
Virulence decomposition for bifurcating infections17
Size is relative: use of relational concepts by wild hummingbirds17
No correlative evidence of costs of infection or immunity on leucocyte telomere length in a wild population of Soay sheep17
Metatarsal fusion resisted bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal17
Bathymetric evolution of black corals through deep time17
Matches and mismatches between the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability17
Restricted X chromosome introgression and support for Haldane's rule in hybridizing damselflies17
Simple decentralized control mechanism that enables limb adjustment for adaptive quadruped running17
Delayed early life effects in the threespine stickleback17
Synergistic negative effects between a fungicide and high temperatures on homing behaviours in honeybees17
The megaherbivore gap after the non-avian dinosaur extinctions modified trait evolution and diversification of tropical palms17
RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results17
Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation17
Parallel evolution despite low genetic diversity in three-spined sticklebacks17
Dim-light colour vision in the facultatively nocturnal Asian giant honeybee, Apis dorsata16
Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents' motion in naive domestic chicks16
Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively16
Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge16
Innovation across 13 ungulate species: problem solvers are less integrated in the social group and less neophobic16
Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals Wolbachia -mediated modification in early stages of Drosophila spermatogenesis16
Genome-wide selection signatures reveal widespread synergistic effects of two different stressors in Drosophila melanogaster16
Discrepancies between the drivers of alpha and beta plant diversity in arable field margins16
Can female guppies learn to like male colours? A test of the role of associative learning in originating sexual preferences16
Individualized composition or community dynamics? A new statistical approach to assess the individuality of host-associated microbiomes16
Chronic and acute thermal stressors have non-additive effects on fertility16
Immunological feedback loops generate parasite persistence thresholds that explain variation in infection duration16
Senescence, trait parameterization and (st)age-specific forces of selection16
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in Anopheles gambiae revealed by allele-specific expression16
Death is overrated: the potential role of detection in driving virulence evolution16
Volatile-mediated between-plant communication in Scots pine and the effects of elevated ozone15
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe15
Unexpected cryptic species among streptophyte algae most distant to land plants15
Long-distance vocalizations of spotted hyenas contain individual, but not group, signatures15
Global long-term stability of individual dietary specialization in herbivorous mammals15
Lunar rhythms and their carry-over effects may shape environmental sex determination in a coral reef fish15
Acoustic activity of bats at power lines correlates with relative humidity: a potential role for corona discharges15
You are what you eat—ecological niche and microhabitat influence venom activity and composition in aquatic bugs15
A single intronic single nucleotide polymorphism in splicing site of steroidogenic enzyme hsd17b1 is associated with phenotypic sex in oyster pompano, Tra15
Chimpanzees communicate to coordinate a cultural practice15
Dollo meets Bergmann: morphological evolution in secondary aquatic mammals15
Correlated evolution of oxidative physiology and MHC-based immunosurveillance in birds15
Effects of environmental translocation and host characteristics on skin microbiomes of sun-basking fish15
Interindividual variation in the use of social information during learning in honeybees15
DNA methylation extends lifespan in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris15
When origin, reproduction ability and diet define the role of birds in invasions15
A supergene in seaweed flies modulates male traits and female perception15
The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals15
Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions15
Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems15
Something in the water: aquatic microbial communities influence the larval amphibian gut microbiota, neurodevelopment and behaviour15
Mixed-species bird flocks re-assemble interspecific associations across an elevational gradient15
The evolution of masturbation is associated with postcopulatory selection and pathogen avoidance in primates15
The exploitation of sexual signals by predators: a meta-analysis14
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms14
Deriving the cone fundamentals: a subspace intersection method14
Effects of local versus global competition on reproductive skew and sex differences in social dominance behaviour14
Social divergence: molecular pathways underlying castes and longevity in a facultatively eusocial small carpenter bee14
Tipping points and interactive effects of chronic human disturbance and acute heat stress on coral diversity14
Structural disorder facilitates future memory decisions14
Greater plasticity in CTmax with increased climate variability among populations of tailed frogs14
Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation science and practice14
Interaction capacity as a potential driver of community diversity14
Marine heatwave conditions drive carryover effects in a temperate sponge microbiome and developmental performance14
Environmental drivers of Arctic communities based on metabarcoding of marine sediment eDNA14
Influence of colour vision on attention to, and impression of, complex aesthetic images14
Loss-of-heterozygosity facilitates a fitness valley crossing in experimentally evolved multicellular yeast14
Resolving selfish and spiteful interdependent conflict14
Environmental, sex-specific and genetic determinants of infant social behaviour in a wild primate14
The peptide secreted at the water to land transition in a model amphibian has antioxidant effects14
Seagrass production around artificial reefs is resistant to human stressors14
Influence of visual background on discrimination of signal-relevant colours in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)14
Sanctions and international interaction improve cooperation to avert climate change14
A cretaceous frog with eggs from northwestern China provides fossil evidence for sexual maturity preceding skeletal maturity in anurans14
Competition among small individuals hinders adaptive radiation despite ecological opportunity14
Environmental memory gained from exposure to extreme pCO2variability promotes coral cellular acid–base homeostasis14
Synchronized locomotion can improve spatial accessibility inside ant colonies14
Individual preferences for sound tool design in a parrot14
Genetic and environmental architecture of synaesthesia and its association with the autism spectrum—a twin study14
Post-marital residence patterns and the timing of reproduction: evidence from a matrilineal society14
On the relationship between foveal mask interference and mental imagery in peripheral object recognition14
Wild gibbons plan their travel pattern according to food types of breakfast14
Variation in personality shaped by evolutionary history, genotype and developmental plasticity in response to feeding modalities in the Arctic charr14
Sex-biased gene expression in nutrient-sensing pathways14
Fossils indicate marine dispersal in osteoglossid fishes, a classic example of continental vicariance14
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
A comparative approach for characterizing the relationship among morphology, range-of-motion and locomotor behaviour in the primate shoulder14
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