Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 9. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Retraction: ‘Parasite prevalence and the worldwide distribution of cognitive ability’ (2010), by Eppig, Fincher and Thornhill90
Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods78
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings61
Increased functional diversity warns of ecological transition in the Arctic59
Characterization of a sperm motility signalling pathway in a gonochoric coral suggests conservation across cnidarian sexual systems57
Olfactory learning in Pieris brassicae butterflies is dependent on the intensity of a plant-derived oviposition cue56
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral55
Accounting for extinction dynamics unifies the geological and biological histories of Indo-Australian Archipelago54
Sexual selection may support phenotypic plasticity in male coloration of an African cichlid fish54
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community53
Uncertainty about old information results in differential predator memory in tadpoles51
Area, isolation and climate explain the diversity of mammals on islands worldwide51
Do air-breathing fish suffer branchial oxygen loss in hypoxic water?48
Men are less religious in more gender-equal countries48
Cool-edge populations of the kelp Ecklonia radiata under global ocean change scenarios: strong sensitivity to ocean warming but little effect of ocean acidification45
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea44
Adaptive human behaviour modulates the impact of immune life history and vaccination on long-term epidemic dynamics43
Biomechanical drivers of the evolution of butterflies and moths with a coilable proboscis42
Fine-tuning the evolutionary stability of recombinant herpesviral transmissible vaccines42
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?42
Weak overcomes strong in sensory integration: shading warps the disparity field40
Non-vertical cultural transmission, assortment and the evolution of cooperation39
Cognitive performance is linked to survival in free-living African striped mice39
Experimental evolution can enhance benefits of rhizobia to novel legume hosts38
Cellular and environmental dynamics influence species-specific extents of organelle gene retention38
Complexity and diversity of motion amplification and control strategies in motile carnivorous plant traps37
The dilution effect behind the scenes: testing the underlying assumptions of its mechanisms through quantifying the long-term dynamics and effects of a pathogen in multiple host species37
Juvenile ecology drives adult morphology in two insect orders35
Additive and interactive effects of anthropogenic stressors on an insect herbivore34
Win-Stay-Lose-Shift as a self-confirming equilibrium in the iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma34
Life-history speed, population disappearances and noise-induced ratchet effects34
Direct and indirect effects of male genital elaboration in female seed beetles33
The timings of host diapause and epidemic progression mediate host genetic diversity and future epidemic size in Daphnia– parasite populations33
Sexually antagonistic selection maintains genetic variance when sexual dimorphism evolves32
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass32
A highly conserved ontogenetic limb allometry and its evolutionary significance in the adaptive radiation of Anolis lizards32
Noise matters: elephants show risk-avoidance behaviour in response to human-generated seismic cues32
Manipulating nest architecture reveals three-dimensional building strategies and colony resilience in honeybees31
Harsh is large: nonlinear vocal phenomena lower voice pitch and exaggerate body size31
Senescence: why and where selection gradients might not decline with age31
Variable tropical moisture and food availability underlie mixed winter space-use strategies in a migratory songbird31
Why don't all animals avoid inbreeding?30
Pollinators and plant nurseries: how irrigation and pesticide treatment of native ornamental plants impact solitary bees30
Early detection of wildlife morbidity and mortality through an event-based surveillance system30
Correction to: ‘Feeding, mating and animal wellbeing: new insights from phylogenetic comparative methods’30
The genome of a daddy-long-legs (Opiliones) illuminates the evolution of arachnid appendages30
Dim light at night affects the locomotor activity of nocturnal African pygmy mice (Mus minutoides) in an intensity-dependent manner30
Per-pathogen virulence of HIV-1 subtypes A, C and D29
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population29
Lifetime reproductive benefits of cooperative polygamy vary for males and females in the acorn woodpecker ( Melanerpes formicivorus )28
Evolutionary history of quadrupedal walking gaits shows mammalian release from locomotor constraint28
Evolutionary and ecological perspectives on the wheat phenotype27
When death comes: linking predator–prey activity patterns to timing of mortality to understand predation risk27
Giant clam growth in the Gulf of Aqaba is accelerated compared to fossil populations27
Higher temperature variability in deforested mountain regions impacts the competitive advantage of nocturnal species27
Correction to: First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals26
Artificial light at night causes conflicting behavioural and morphological defence responses in a marine isopod26
The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages26
Bee flowers drive macroevolutionary diversification in long-horned bees26
Do mutualistic interactions last longer than antagonistic interactions?26
Mismatches between phenotype and environment shape fitness at hyperlocal scales26
Spring arrival of the common cuckoo at breeding grounds is strongly determined by environmental conditions in tropical Africa26
Evolutionary walks through flower colour space driven by gene expression inPetuniaand allies (Petunieae)25
How to be a good partner and father? The role of adult males in pair bond maintenance and parental care in Javan gibbons25
Mass extinctions alter extinction and origination dynamics with respect to body size25
Human locomotion over obstacles reveals real-time prediction of energy expenditure for optimized decision-making25
Association between arginine vasopressin receptor 1A ( AVPR1A ) polymorphism and inequity aversion25
300 Million years of coral treaders (Insecta: Heteroptera: Hermatobatidae) back to the ocean in the phylogenetic context of Arthropoda25
Positive selection on mitochondria may eliminate heritable microbes from arthropod populations25
Immune lag is a major cost of prokaryotic adaptive immunity during viral outbreaks24
Guppies in large groups cooperate more frequently in an experimental test of the group size paradox24
What's in a mate? Social pairing decisions and spatial cognitive ability in food-caching mountain chickadees23
Food-caching chickadees with specialized spatial cognition do not use scrounging as a stable strategy when learning a spatial task23
Crocodile perception of distress in hominid baby cries23
Dogs’ expectations about occlusion events: from expectancy violation to exploration23
Ecological specialization, rather than the island effect, explains morphological diversification in an ancient radiation of geckos23
Fossilization can mislead analyses of phenotypic disparity23
Chicken gut microbiome members limit the spread of an antimicrobial resistance plasmid in Escherichia coli23
Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-223
Molecular basis of parental contributions to the behavioural tolerance of elevated pCO2in a coral reef fish23
Prenatal acoustic programming of mitochondrial function for high temperatures in an arid-adapted bird23
Correction to: ‘Religious celibacy brings inclusive fitness benefits’ (2022) by Micheletti et al.23
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication23
Colony size buffers interactions between neonicotinoid exposure and cold stress in bumblebees23
Simultaneous warming and acidification limit population fitness and reveal phenotype costs for a marine copepod23
Personality traits differentially affect components of reproductive success in a Neotropical poison frog22
Aquatic surface respiration improves survival during hypoxia in zebrafish (Danio rerio) lacking hypoxia-inducible factor 1-α22
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy22
Museomics unveil systematics, diversity and evolution of Australian cycad-pollinating weevils22
Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations22
Complex axial growth patterns in an early Cambrian trilobite from South Australia22
Species packing and the latitudinal gradient in beta-diversity22
Parametric effects of light acting via multiple photoreceptors contribute to circadian entrainment in Drosophila melanogaster22
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome22
The genetic architecture and evolution of life-history divergence among perennials in theMimulus guttatusspecies complex22
Exploring the connection between autophagy and heat-stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster22
When perfection isn't enough: host egg signatures are an effective defence against high-fidelity African cuckoo mimicry22
The relative impact of parental and current environment on plant transcriptomes depends on type of stress and genotype22
Stable isotope signals provide seasonal climatic markers for moss functional groups22
Craniofacial development illuminates the evolution of nightbirds (Strisores)21
Multiscale analysis of the randomization limits of the chromosomal gene organization between Lepidoptera and Diptera21
DNA metabarcoding reveals host-specific communities of arthropods residing in fungal fruit bodies21
Evolution of flexible biting in hyperdiverse parasitoid wasps21
Vocal tract shape variation contributes to individual vocal identity in African penguins21
Stability and manoeuvrability in animal movement: lessons from biology, modelling and robotics21
Social consequences of energetically costly nest construction in a facultatively social bee21
Town population size and structuring into villages and households drive infectious disease risks in pre-healthcare Finland21
Phylogenomics illuminates the phylogeny of flower weevils (Curculioninae) and reveals ten independent origins of brood-site pollination mutualism in true weevils21
Osmoregulatory ability predicts geographical range size in marine amniotes21
Meta-analytic evidence for quantitative honesty in aposematic signals21
Can an introduced predator select for adaptive sex allocation?21
Matrilateral bias of grandparental investment in grandchildren persists despite the grandchildren's adverse early life experiences20
Genomic estimates of mutation and substitution rates contradict the evolutionary speed hypothesis of the latitudinal diversity gradient20
Cellular and immunological mechanisms influence host-adapted phenotypes in a vector-borne microparasite20
Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters20
A proximal–distal difference in bat wing muscle thermal sensitivity parallels a difference in operating temperatures along the wing20
Hidden paths to endless forms most wonderful: parasite-blind diversification of host quality20
Large-scale application of palaeoproteomics (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry; ZooMS) in two Palaeolithic faunal assemblages from China20
Drivers of diversification in freshwater gastropods vary over deep time20
Complex patch geometry promotes species coexistence through a reverse competition–colonization trade-off20
Predator-specific responses and emergent multi-predator effects on oviposition site choice in grey treefrogs,Hyla chrysoscelis20
Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology20
Correction to ‘The roles of T-cell competition and stochastic extinction events in CAR T-cell therapy’20
The emergence of division of labour through decentralized social sanctioning20
Endotherms trade body temperature regulation for the stress response20
Beyond ancient versus anthropogenic for Madagascar's grassy ecosystems. A Reply to: Crowley et al . (2021)20
Walruses on the Dnieper: new evidence for the intercontinental trade of Greenlandic ivory in the Middle Ages19
Evolutionary trade-offs between male secondary sexual traits revealed by a phylogeny of the hyperdiverse tribe Eumaeini (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae)19
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)19
Phylogenomic resolution of the root of Panpulmonata, a hyperdiverse radiation of gastropods: new insight into the evolution of air breathing19
Transcriptomic responses to location learning by honeybee dancers are partly mirrored in the brains of dance-followers19
The functional significance of aberrant cervical counts in sloths: insights from automated exhaustive analysis of cervical range of motion19
Adaptation of perennial flowering phenology across the European range of Arabis alpina19
Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women19
The effects of early-life and intergenerational stress on the brain19
The intricate triangular interaction between protective microbe, pathogen and host determines fitness of the metaorganism19
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate19
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health19
Effective population size mediates the impact of pollination services on pollen limitation18
Ancient insect vision tuned for flight among rocks and plants underpins natural flower colour diversity18
A novel statistical framework for exploring the population dynamics and seasonality of mosquito populations18
Genetic architecture of adaptive radiation across two trophic levels18
The gaze of a social monkey is perceptible to conspecifics and predators but not prey18
Early-acting inbreeding depression can evolve as an inbreeding avoidance mechanism18
Disentangling genetic, plastic and social learning drivers of sex-specific foraging behaviour in Trinidadian guppies ( Poecilia reticulata )18
Costly teaching contributes to the acquisition of spear hunting skill among BaYaka forager adolescents18
Robustness versus productivity during evolutionary community assembly: short-term synergies and long-term trade-offs18
Auditory mechanics in the grig ( Cyphoderris monstrosa ): tympanal travelling waves and frequency discrimination as a precursor to inner ear tonotopy18
Extreme heat reduces host and parasite performance in a butterfly–parasite interaction18
Females smell differently: characteristics and significance of the most common olfactory sensilla of female silkmoths18
Dominance reversals: the resolution of genetic conflict and maintenance of genetic variation18
Energetic trade-offs in migration decision-making, reproductive effort and subsequent parental care in a long-distance migratory bird18
Newly identified nematodes from the Great Salt Lake are associated with microbialites and specially adapted to hypersaline conditions18
Shifts in gut microbiome across five decades of repeated guppy translocations in Trinidadian streams18
Using genomic prediction to detect microevolutionary change of a quantitative trait18
Ripple effects in a communication network: anti-eavesdropper defence elicits elaborated sexual signals in rival males18
Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly18
The visual coupling between neighbours explains local interactions underlying human ‘flocking'18
A restatement of the natural science evidence base concerning grassland management, grazing livestock and soil carbon storage18
The influence of demographic and meteorological factors on temporal patterns of rotavirus infection in Dhaka, Bangladesh18
Feather chemicals contain information about the major histocompatibility complex in a highly scented seabird18
Extended incubation recesses in sanderlings are impacted by temperature and body condition18
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales17
Insects allocate eggs adaptively according to plant age, stress, disease or damage17
Simulated evolution of mating signal diversification in a primate radiation17
Not just females: the socio-ecology of social interactions between spider monkey males17
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia17
Evidence of selection in the uncoupling protein 1 gene region suggests local adaptation to solar irradiance in savannah monkeys ( Chlorocebus spp.)17
Promoting scientific literacy in evolution through citizen science17
Reality and illusion: the assessment of angular separation of multi-modal signallers in a duetting bird17
Insect cross-tolerance to freezing and drought stress: role of metabolic rearrangement17
Synergistic response to climate stressors in coral is associated with genotypic variation in baseline expression17
The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds17
Invasibility of a North American soil ecosystem to amphibian-killing fungal pathogens17
The three-dimensionally articulated oral apparatus of a Devonian heterostracan sheds light on feeding in Palaeozoic jawless fishes17
Small skeletons show size-specific scaling: an exploration of allometry in the mammalian lumbar spine17
Stressors interact across generations to influence offspring telomeres and survival17
Ageing desexualizes the Drosophila brain transcriptome17
Differential reproductive plasticity under thermal variability in a freshwater fish ( Danio rerio )17
Divergence in brain size and brain region volumes across wild guppy populations17
Body condition, skin bacterial communities and disease status: insights from the first release trial of the limosa harlequin frog,Atelopus limosus17
Blessing or curse: how the epigenetic resolution of host-transposable element conflicts shapes their evolutionary dynamics17
The Liexi fauna: a new Lagerstätte from the Lower Ordovician of South China17
Language-like efficiency and structure in house finch song17
Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis17
A central place foraging seabird flies at right angles to the wind to jointly optimize locomotor and olfactory search efficiency17
The acclimatory response of the mayfly Neocloeon triangulifer to dilute conditions is linked to the plasticity of sodium transport17
The development of sex differences in song in a tropical duetting wren17
Association between the gut microbiome and carotenoid plumage phenotype in an avian hybrid zone17
Hybridization order is not the driving factor behind biases in duplicate gene losses among the hexaploid Solanaceae16
Comparative genomics sheds new light on the convergent evolution of infrared vision in snakes16
Adaptive optics in the Arctic? A commentary on Fosbury and Jeffery16
Response to geometrical visual illusions in non-human animals: a meta-analysis16
Unveiling the underlying drivers of Phanerozoic marine diversification16
Sensory evolution in a cavefish radiation: patterns of neuromast distribution and associated behaviour inSinocyclocheilus(Cypriniformes: Cyprinidae)16
Phenotypic plasticity and the effects of thermal fluctuations on specialists and generalists16
Sexual selection on male but not female function in monoecious and dioecious populations of broadleaf arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia)16
Pathogen transmission modes determine contact network structure, altering other pathogen characteristics16
Performance characteristics allow for confinement of a CRISPR toxin–antidote gene drive for population suppression in a reaction–diffusion model16
Evolution of competitive traits changes species diversity in a natural field16
Evolved reductions in body temperature and the metabolic costs of thermoregulation in deer mice native to high altitude16
Paternal care regulates the timing, synchrony and success of hatching in a coral reef fish16
Correction to: ‘Age determination in echinoderms: first evidence of annual growth rings in holothuroids’ 2022 by Sun et al.16
King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites16
The limits of metabolic heredity in protocells16
Collective movement as a solution to noisy navigation and its vulnerability to population loss16
Loss of endangered frugivores from seed dispersal networks generates severe mutualism disruption16
Do bears hibernate in the woods? Comment on ‘Why bears hibernate? Redefining the scaling energetics of hibernation’16
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group16
Higher phage virulence accelerates the evolution of host resistance16
All the brain's a stage for serotonin: the forgotten story of serotonin diffusion across cell membranes16
Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)16
Interhemispheric communication during haptic self-perception16
Complex economic decisions from simple neurocognitive processes: the role of interactive attention15
Environmental complexity and regularity shape the evolution of cognition15
Ageing across the great divide: tissue transformation, organismal growth and temperature shape telomere dynamics through the metamorphic transition15
The evolution of age-specific resistance to infectious disease15
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations15
Diving into a dead-end: asymmetric evolution of diving drives diversity and disparity shifts in waterbirds15
Wild raccoons demonstrate flexibility and individuality in innovative problem-solving15
The phoenix hypothesis of speciation15
Sensory-motor tuning allows generic features of conspecific acoustic scenes to guide rapid, adaptive, call-timing responses in túngara frogs15
Beringia and the peopling of the Western Hemisphere15
Social behaviour mediates the microbiome response to antibiotic treatment in a wild mammal15
Trophic strategies explain the ocean niches of small eukaryotic phytoplankton15
An anchovy ecosystem indicator of marine predator foraging and reproduction15
Functional and phylogenetic relationships link predators to plant diversity via trophic and non-trophic pathways15
Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits15
Multi-decadal warming alters predator’s effect on prey community composition15
Drivers and facilitators of the illegal killing of elephants across 64 African sites15
Are weak dispersers more vulnerable than strong dispersers to land use intensification?15
Haemosporidian parasites and incubation period influence plumage coloration in tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae)15
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle15
Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice15
Dogs take into account the actions of a human partner in a cooperative task15
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs15
Multispecies interactions and the community context of the evolution of virulence15
Selective and prolonged attention to emotional scenes in humans and bonobos15
Protection from fishing improves body growth of an exploited species15
Warming signals in temperate reef communities following more than a decade of ecological stability15
The environmental conditions of endemism hotspots shape the functional traits of mammalian assemblages14
Misidentifying illuminant changes in natural scenes due to failures in relational colour constancy14
The specious interaction of time and numerosity perception14
Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback14
The roots of polarization in the individual reward system14
Cambrian edrioasteroid reveals new mechanism for secondary reduction of the skeleton in echinoderms14
Diet changes thermal acclimation capacity, but not acclimation rate, in a marine ectotherm (Girella nigricans) during warming14
How density dependence, genetic erosion and the extinction vortex impact evolutionary rescue14
Non-invasive investigation of the morphology and optical properties of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea with optical coherence tomography14
Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of development in life-history evolution14
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