Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 10. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Global shifts in mammalian population trends reveal key predictors of virus spillover risk221
Towards a unified study of multiple stressors: divisions and common goals across research disciplines187
Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators164
Pollination by hoverflies in the Anthropocene109
The role of the gut microbiome in sustainable teleost aquaculture90
Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies87
What would it take to describe the global diversity of parasites?71
Microplastics negatively affect soil fauna but stimulate microbial activity: insights from a field-based microplastic addition experiment70
Towards a taxonomically unbiased European Union biodiversity strategy for 203068
Native biodiversity collapse in the eastern Mediterranean68
Do novel insecticides pose a threat to beneficial insects?66
When everything changes at once: finding a new normal after genome duplication66
A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation63
Perspective on musculoskeletal modelling and predictive simulations of human movement to assess the neuromechanics of gait58
Genome size evolution: towards new model systems for old questions57
Long-term shifts in the colony size structure of coral populations along the Great Barrier Reef56
Navigating cross-cultural research: methodological and ethical considerations52
Global determinants of prey naiveté to exotic predators51
Maximum CO2diffusion inside leaves is limited by the scaling of cell size and genome size50
Changes in taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity in the Anthropocene50
Body shape diversification along the benthic–pelagic axis in marine fishes50
Pace and stability of embryonic development affect telomere dynamics: an experimental study in a precocial bird model50
Sex differences in moral judgements across 67 countries50
Trait-based approaches to global change ecology: moving from description to prediction49
Transient receptor potential channels: current perspectives on evolution, structure, function and nomenclature48
Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters46
Fire and grazing determined grasslands of central Madagascar represent ancient assemblages46
Reduced thermal tolerance of massive coral species in a highly variable environment45
A global analysis of cultural tightness in non-industrial societies45
Symbionts shape host innate immunity in honeybees44
Pesticide and resource stressors additively impair wild bee reproduction44
Predicting the zoonotic capacity of mammals to transmit SARS-CoV-244
Network ecology in dynamic landscapes43
Why do bugs perish? Range size and local vulnerability traits as surrogates of Odonata extinction risk43
The Archean origin of oxygenic photosynthesis and extant cyanobacterial lineages43
The critical role of mental imagery in human emotion: insights from fear-based imagery and aphantasia42
Wild insect diversity increases inter-annual stability in global crop pollinator communities41
Limited plasticity in thermally tolerant ectotherm populations: evidence for a trade-off40
Optimizing adaptive cancer therapy: dynamic programming and evolutionary game theory40
The phantom chorus: birdsong boosts human well-being in protected areas39
A biologist's guide to model selection and causal inference39
Rapid behavioural response of urban birds to COVID-19 lockdown39
Tropical bats counter heat by combining torpor with adaptive hyperthermia39
Emerging infectious disease and the challenges of social distancing in human and non-human animals39
Census of heat tolerance among Florida's threatened staghorn corals finds resilient individuals throughout existing nursery populations38
A scientist like me: demographic analysis of biology textbooks reveals both progress and long-term lags38
The apparent exponential radiation of Phanerozoic land vertebrates is an artefact of spatial sampling biases38
Environmental DNA provides quantitative estimates of Pacific hake abundance and distribution in the open ocean37
Influence of past climate change on phylogeography and demographic history of narwhals, Monodon monoceros36
Developmental programming of mitochondrial biology: a conceptual framework and review36
‘Inert’ ingredients are understudied, potentially dangerous to bees and deserve more research attention36
Overcoming racism in the twin spheres of conservation science and practice36
‘What I cannot create, I do not understand’: functionally validated synergism of metabolic and target site insecticide resistance36
Taxonomic similarity does not predict necessary sample size for ex situ conservation: a comparison among five genera35
Bumblebees moving up: shifts in elevation ranges in the Pyrenees over 115 years35
The extensibility of the plantar fascia influences the windlass mechanism during human running35
Plants in the UK flower a month earlier under recent warming33
Accumulation curves of environmental DNA sequences predict coastal fish diversity in the coral triangle33
Ecological opportunity and the rise and fall of crocodylomorph evolutionary innovation32
Cuttlefish exert self-control in a delay of gratification task32
Genotype by environment interactions in coral bleaching32
Coordinated changes across the O2transport pathway underlie adaptive increases in thermogenic capacity in high-altitude deer mice32
Long-term gene–culture coevolution and the human evolutionary transition31
Why don't we share data and code? Perceived barriers and benefits to public archiving practices31
Chemical signals act as the main reproductive barrier between sister and mimetic Heliconius butterflies31
Stress in the city: meta-analysis indicates no overall evidence for stress in urban vertebrates31
Species richness promotes ecosystem carbon storage: evidence from biodiversity-ecosystem functioning experiments31
Influenza A viruses remain infectious for more than seven months in northern wetlands of North America31
Reproduction under light pollution: maladaptive response to spatial variation in artificial light in a glow-worm31
Psychoactive pollution suppresses individual differences in fish behaviour31
Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of third-party punishment31
Senescence: why and where selection gradients might not decline with age30
The diversity of maternal-age effects upon pre-adult survival across animal species30
Temporal niche partitioning as a novel mechanism promoting co-existence of sympatric predators in marine systems30
Transmission efficiency drives host–microbe associations30
Poorly differentiated XX/XY sex chromosomes are widely shared across skink radiation30
Individual variability and versatility in an eco-evolutionary model of avian migration29
Bird wings act as a suspension system that rejects gusts29
Adaptive strategies of high-flying migratory hoverflies in response to wind currents29
Eye size and investment in frogs and toads correlate with adult habitat, activity pattern and breeding ecology29
Effect of urban habitat use on parasitism in mammals: a meta-analysis29
Trophic consequences of terrestrial eutrophication for a threatened ungulate29
Species traits elucidate crop pest response to landscape composition: a global analysis29
Biomechanical analyses of Cambrian euarthropod limbs reveal their effectiveness in mastication and durophagy29
Social network architecture and the tempo of cumulative cultural evolution29
High temperatures drive offspring mortality in a cooperatively breeding bird29
Chemical signals from eggs facilitate cryptic female choice in humans29
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals and unpacks a biodiversity conservation paradox in Mediterranean marine reserves28
Ecology of the collapse of Rapa Nui society28
Introduction of probiotic bacterial consortia promotes plant growth via impacts on the resident rhizosphere microbiome28
Captive-bred Atlantic salmon released into the wild have fewer offspring than wild-bred fish and decrease population productivity28
Depth moderates loss of marine foundation species after an extreme marine heatwave: could deep temperate reefs act as a refuge?28
Reversible plasticity in brain size, behaviour and physiology characterizes caste transitions in a socially flexible ant (Harpegnathos saltator)28
Species-specific but not phylosymbiotic gut microbiomes of New Guinean passerine birds are shaped by diet and flight-associated gut modifications28
Thermal niches of specialized gut symbionts: the case of social bees28
Positive selection and gene duplications in tumour suppressor genes reveal clues about how cetaceans resist cancer27
Late Holocene spread of pastoralism coincides with endemic megafaunal extinction on Madagascar27
Expanding the mutualistic niche: parallel symbiont turnover along climatic gradients27
A gene's-eye view of sexual antagonism27
Loss of vocal culture and fitness costs in a critically endangered songbird27
First Atlantic satellite tracks of ‘lost years’ green turtles support the importance of the Sargasso Sea as a sea turtle nursery27
The effects of ants on pest control: a meta-analysis27
Extensive hybridization reveals multiple coloration genes underlying a complex plumage phenotype27
Elevated temperature increases genome-wide selection on de novo mutations27
Extensive polyploid clonality was a successful strategy for seagrass to expand into a newly submerged environment27
Broadening the ecology of fear: non-lethal effects arise from diverse responses to predation and parasitism26
Salinity stress increases the severity of ranavirus epidemics in amphibian populations26
Experimental evidence that matching habitat choice drives local adaptation in a wild population26
Nutrients and warming interact to force mountain lakes into unprecedented ecological states26
Whose trait is it anyways? Coevolution of joint phenotypes and genetic architecture in mutualisms26
Testosterone regulates CYP2J19 -linked carotenoid signal expression in male red-backed fairywrens ( Malurus melanocephalus )26
Pollen feeding inHeliconiusbutterflies: the singular evolution of an adaptive suite26
Microplastic exposure interacts with habitat degradation to affect behaviour and survival of juvenile fish in the field26
Development and testing of a novel killer–rescue self-limiting gene drive system in Drosophila melanogaster26
Kinship dynamics: patterns and consequences of changes in local relatedness26
Genetic growth potential, rather than phenotypic size, predicts migration phenotype in Atlantic salmon26
Endosymbiotic Rickettsiella causes cytoplasmic incompatibility in a spider host25
The direct and indirect effects of environmental toxicants on the health of bumblebees and their microbiomes25
Tropical mammal functional diversity increases with productivity but decreases with anthropogenic disturbance25
Phylogenomics indicates Amazonia as the major source of Neotropical swarm-founding social wasp diversity25
Beat gestures influence which speech sounds you hear25
The interplay of wind and uplift facilitates over-water flight in facultative soaring birds25
Disease-driven mass mortality event leads to widespread extirpation and variable recovery potential of a marine predator across the eastern Pacific25
Skull morphology diverges between urban and rural populations of red foxes mirroring patterns of domestication and macroevolution25
Tip dating supports novel resolutions of controversial relationships among early mammals25
Asymmetrical gene flow in five co-distributed syngnathids explained by ocean currents and rafting propensity25
Global change in the functional diversity of marine fisheries exploitation over the past 65 years25
New Caledonian crows plan for specific future tool use24
Harsh environments promote alloparental care across human societies24
Madagascan highlands: originally woodland and forest containing endemic grasses, not grazing-adapted grassland24
Longer telomeres during early life predict higher lifetime reproductive success in females but not males24
Enthalpy efficiency of the soleus muscle contributes to improvements in running economy24
Does conspicuousness scale linearly with colour distance? A test using reef fish24
Urban moth communities suggest that life in the city favours thermophilic multi-dimensional generalists24
Bacterial community richness shifts the balance between volatile organic compound-mediated microbe–pathogen and microbe–plant interactions24
Cyclically producing the same average muscle-tendon force with a smaller duty increases metabolic rate24
Scaling up biodiversity–ecosystem functioning relationships: the role of environmental heterogeneity in space and time24
7000 years of turnover: historical contingency and human niche construction shape the Caribbean's Anthropocene biota24
Feeding, hunger, satiety and serotonin in invertebrates24
Behavioural syndromes shape evolutionary trajectories via conserved genetic architecture24
Speed and strength of an epidemic intervention24
Forest stratification shapes allometry and flight morphology of tropical butterflies24
Mutation bias can shape adaptation in large asexual populations experiencing clonal interference23
Higher temperatures lower rates of physiological and niche evolution23
Specialized terminology reduces the number of citations of scientific papers23
Tolerant and intolerant macaques show different levels of structural complexity in their vocal communication23
How do habitat amount and habitat fragmentation drive time-delayed responses of biodiversity to land-use change?23
Aerial photogrammetry and tag-derived tissue density reveal patterns of lipid-store body condition of humpback whales on their feeding grounds23
Diet quantity influences caste determination in honeybees ( Apis mellifera )23
Osteohistological analyses reveal diverse strategies of theropod dinosaur body-size evolution23
Population genomic, climatic and anthropogenic evidence suggest the role of human forces in endangerment of green peafowl ( Pavo muticus )23
A comparison of dominance rank metrics reveals multiple competitive landscapes in an animal society23
A triple threat: high population density, high foraging intensity and flexible habitat preferences explain high impact of feral cats on prey23
Influence of water content on mechanical behaviour of gastropod taenioglossan radulae23
Interaction capacity as a potential driver of community diversity23
Florivory of Early Cretaceous flowers by functionally diverse insects: implications for early angiosperm pollination23
Morphological convergence obscures functional diversity in sabre-toothed carnivores23
Extinction of herbivorous dinosaurs linked to Early Jurassic global warming event23
Noise distracts foraging bats23
Drought-driven wildfire impacts on structure and dynamics in a wet Central Amazonian forest22
Upper tidal flats are disproportionately important for the conservation of migratory shorebirds22
Multiyear social stability and social information use in reef sharks with diel fission–fusion dynamics22
First monk seal from the Southern Hemisphere rewrites the evolutionary history of true seals22
Functional constraints during development limit jaw shape evolution in marsupials22
Sedimentation and overfishing drive changes in early succession and coral recruitment22
Allometric analysis of brain cell number in Hymenoptera suggests ant brains diverge from general trends22
The increasing diversity and complexity of the RNA-binding protein repertoire in plants22
Age and sex influence social interactions, but not associations, within a killer whale pod21
The evolution of virulence inPseudomonas aeruginosaduring chronic wound infection21
Restricted dispersal in a sea of gene flow21
Environmental variability, reliability of information and the timing of migration21
Fluctuating selection and global change: a synthesis and review on disentangling the roles of climate amplitude, predictability and novelty21
Wind plays a major but not exclusive role in the prevalence of insect flight loss on remote islands21
Riddles in the cold: Antarctic endemism and microbial succession impact methane cycling in the Southern Ocean21
Whole-organism responses to constant temperatures do not predict responses to variable temperatures in the ecosystem engineer Mytilus trossulus21
DNA metabarcoding reveals trophic niche diversity of micro and mesozooplankton species21
The ghost of disturbance past: long-term effects of pulse disturbances on community biomass and composition21
Octopamine and dopamine mediate waggle dance following and information use in honeybees21
The latitudinal diversity gradient of tetrapods across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction and recovery interval21
Unexpected cryptic species among streptophyte algae most distant to land plants21
Seeing the forest for the trees—and the grasses: revisiting the evidence for grazer-maintained grasslands in Madagascar's Central Highlands21
Toxin expression in snake venom evolves rapidly with constant shifts in evolutionary rates21
Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from ‘Newtonian’ to ‘Darwinian’ approaches21
Sociability increases survival of adult female giraffes20
The effect of optic flow cues on honeybee flight control in wind20
Managing fisheries in a world with more sea turtles20
Ecological regime shift preserved in the Anthropocene stratigraphic record20
Genomic analysis of distinct bleaching tolerances among cryptic coral species20
Coming together—symbiont acquisition and early development in deep-sea bathymodioline mussels20
Towards reconciliation of the four world bird lists: hotspots of disagreement in taxonomy of raptors20
Hard to catch: experimental evidence supports evasive mimicry20
A multi-faceted comparative perspective on elevational beta-diversity: the patterns and their causes20
Self-clearance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection: implications for lifetime risk and population at-risk of tuberculosis disease20
Recent warming reduces the reproductive advantage of large size and contributes to evolutionary downsizing in nature20
Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals winners and losers of global change in coastal waters20
Insect-host control of obligate, intracellular symbiont density19
Polygenic basis for adaptive morphological variation in a threatened Aotearoa | New Zealand bird, the hihi ( Notiomystis cincta )19
Environmental DNA from multiple pathogens is elevated near active Atlantic salmon farms19
Warming indirectly increases invasion success in food webs19
Life-history traits and habitat availability shape genomic diversity in birds: implications for conservation19
The development of flight behaviours in birds19
Physiological synchrony predicts observational threat learning in humans19
Traffic noise inhibits cognitive performance in a songbird19
Selective extinction against redundant species buffers functional diversity19
Functional genetic diversity in an exploited marine species and its relevance to fisheries management19
Pollen grain size associated with pollinator feeding strategy19
The costs and benefits of paternal care in fish: a meta-analysis19
How to escape from insect egg parasitoids: a review of potential factors explaining parasitoid absence across the Insecta19
Natural disturbance impacts on trade-offs and co-benefits of forest biodiversity and carbon18
Within-population variability in coral heat tolerance indicates climate adaptation potential18
Food talk: 40-Hz fin whale calls are associated with prey biomass18
Determinate growth is predominant and likely ancestral in squamate reptiles18
Is the X chromosome a hot spot for sexually antagonistic polymorphisms? Biases in current empirical tests of classical theory18
What's my age again? On the ambiguity of histology-based skeletochronology18
Age influences the thermal suitability of Plasmodium falciparum transmission in the Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi18
Biotic stability mechanisms in Inner Mongolian grassland18
Climate change and lithium mining influence flamingo abundance in the Lithium Triangle18
Growth acceleration results in faster telomere shortening later in life18
Hippopotamus are distinct from domestic livestock in their resource subsidies to and effects on aquatic ecosystems18
Racing against change: understanding dispersal and persistence to improve species' conservation prospects18
Spatial and temporal variation in nest temperatures forecasts sex ratio skews in a crocodilian with environmental sex determination18
The multinomial index: a robust measure of reproductive skew18
Population-level effects of acoustic disturbance in Atlantic cod: a size-structured analysis based on energy budgets18
Differences in Quaternary co-divergence reveals community-wide diversification in the mountains of southwest China varied among species18
Variation in the strength of allometry drives rates of evolution in primate brain shape18
Overcoming a ‘forbidden phenotype’: the parrot's head supports, propels and powers tripedal locomotion18
Chytrid rhizoid morphogenesis resembles hyphal development in multicellular fungi and is adaptive to resource availability18
Modelling homing suppression gene drive in haplodiploid organisms18
The under-investigated wild side ofEscherichia coli: genetic diversity, pathogenicity and antimicrobial resistance in wild animals18
Perfect mimicry between Heliconius butterflies is constrained by genetics and development18
Phylogenetic clustering and rarity imply risk of local species extinction in prospective deep-sea mining areas of the Clarion–Clipperton Fracture Zone18
The roles of T cell competition and stochastic extinction events in chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy17
Using the Goldilocks Principle to model coral ecosystem engineering17
Target-capture phylogenomics provide insights on gene and species tree discordances in Old World treefrogs (Anura: Rhacophoridae)17
Host–microbiota–insect interactions drive emergent virulence in a complex tree disease17
Parallel evolution ofVarroaresistance in honey bees: a common mechanism across continents?17
Seaweed-coral competition in the field: effects on coral growth, photosynthesis and microbiomes require direct contact17
Small burrowing amphipods cause major damage in a large kelp17
Among-individual and within-individual variation in seasonal migration covaries with subsequent reproductive success in a partially migratory bird17
A fast pace-of-life is traded off against a high thermal performance17
Repeated loss of variation in insect ovary morphology highlights the role of development in life-history evolution17
The problem of mediocre generalists: population genetics and eco-evolutionary perspectives on host breadth evolution in pathogens17
The stagnation paradox: the ever-improving but (more or less) stationary population fitness17
Calibrating phylogenies assuming bifurcation or budding alters inferred macroevolutionary dynamics in a densely sampled phylogeny of bivalve families17
Global tropical reef fish richness could decline by around half if corals are lost17
Isochrony and rhythmic interaction in ape duetting17
Emotion in animal contests17
Self-organization of river vegetation leads to emergent buffering of river flows and water levels17
Plicidentine and the repeated origins of snake venom fangs17
Contrasted histories of organelle and nuclear genomes underlying physiological diversification in a grass species17
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