Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication158
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea106
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings69
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?66
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs66
Crocodile perception of distress in hominid baby cries57
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population51
Early-life sibling conflict in Canada jays has lifetime fitness consequences50
Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations48
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations42
Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes42
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle41
Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits40
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome39
Correction to: ‘Age determination in echinoderms: first evidence of annual growth rings in holothuroids’ 2022 by Sun et al.39
Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis37
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy36
King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites35
Comparative genomics reveals convergent signals associated with the high metabolism and longevity in birds and bats34
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group34
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral34
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)33
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales33
Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice33
Museomics unveil systematics, diversity and evolution of Australian cycad-pollinating weevils32
Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock32
Cool-edge populations of the kelp Ecklonia radiata under global ocean change scenarios: strong sensitivity to ocean warming but little effect of ocean acidification32
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community32
Rare edges and abundant cores: range-wide variation in abundance in North American birds31
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia31
Mosquito ageing modulates the development, virulence and transmission potential of pathogens31
Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women30
The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds30
The gaze of a social monkey is perceptible to conspecifics and predators but not prey30
Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)29
Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology29
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass29
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate29
Evolution of competitive traits changes species diversity in a natural field29
Exploring the connection between autophagy and heat-stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster28
Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird28
Wild raccoons demonstrate flexibility and individuality in innovative problem-solving28
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health27
Insect cross-tolerance to freezing and drought stress: role of metabolic rearrangement27
Energetic trade-offs in migration decision-making, reproductive effort and subsequent parental care in a long-distance migratory bird27
Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of Hydrangeeae (Hydrangeaceae) elucidate the effects of geologic and climatic dynamics on diversification26
Green turtle tracking leads the discovery of seagrass blue carbon resources26
Determinants of hyena participation in risky collective action26
Developmental and functional controls on enrolment in an ancient, extinct arthropod26
Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats26
Sticky steps and the gender gap: how thoughtful practices could help keep caregivers in science26
Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival26
Land-use-associated stressors interact to reduce bumblebee health at the individual and colony level26
No evidence for temporally balanced selection on larval Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas : a comment on Durland et al 26
Convergence of gut microbiota in myrmecophagous amphibians25
Colonization–persistence trade-offs in natural bacterial communities25
Unisexual flowers as a resolution to intralocus sexual conflict in hermaphrodites25
TiDeTree: a Bayesian phylogenetic framework to estimate single-cell trees and population dynamic parameters from genetic lineage tracing data25
Kin recognition for incest avoidance in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis25
Twenty years of big plant genera25
Population trends are more strongly linked to environmental change and species traits in birds than mammals25
Straining the root on and off triggers local calcium signalling24
Grandmother presence improved grandchild survival against childhood infections but not vaccination coverage in historical Finns24
Phylogenomics reveals deep relationships and diversification within phylactolaemate bryozoans24
All camouflage strategies are not equal24
How to generate and test hypotheses about colour: insights from half a century of guppy research24
Mechanistic interactions as the origin of modularity in biological networks24
Evolutionary ecomorphology for the twenty-first century: examples from mammalian carnivores24
Experimental extra-pair copulations provide proof of concept for fertility insurance in a socially monogamous bird24
Character displacement or priority effects: immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution23
Drivers of nematode diversity in forest soils across climatic zones23
Large genetic divergence underpins cryptic local adaptation across ecological and evolutionary gradients23
The genomic architecture of continuous plumage colour variation in the European barn owl ( Tyto alba )23
Half of global islands have reached critical area thresholds for undergoing rapid increases in biological invasions23
Multispecies interactions shape the transition to multicellularity23
Correction: ‘Multidimensional plasticity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: larval performance is temperature, host and family specific’ (2020), by Nadja et al.22
Blue whales increase feeding rates at fine-scale ocean features22
The resolution of evolutionary conflicts within species22
Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought22
Life-history responses to temperature and seasonality mediate ectotherm consumer–resource dynamics under climate warming22
Utilizing citizen science data to rapidly assess changing associations between wild birds and avian influenza outbreaks in poultry21
Epidemiological dynamics of bacteriocin competition and antibiotic resistance21
Temperature-driven heterochrony as a main evolutionary response to climate changes in conodonts21
Early life adversity jointly regulates body-mass index and working memory development21
Social interaction can select for reduced ability21
Developmental risk sensitivity theory: the effects of socio-economic status on children's risky gain and loss decisions21
Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom21
Nuclear-specific gene expression in heterokaryons of the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma21
Effects of genotype and host environment on the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of Lysiphlebus parasitoids and aggression by aphid-tending ants21
Retraction of: ‘Reef fishes can recognize bleached habitat during settlement: sea anemone bleaching alters anemonefish host selection’ (2016) by Scott and Dixson21
Competition and habitat availability interact to structure arboreal ant communities across scales of ecological organization21
Gender shapes the formation of review paper collaborations in microbiology21
Hummingbirds use distinct control strategies for forward and hovering flight21
The impact of within-host coinfection interactions on between-host parasite transmission dynamics varies with spatial scale20
The experimental evolution of human culture: flexibility, fidelity and environmental instability20
Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat ( Eptesicus fuscus )20
Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques20
Susceptible and infectious states for both vector and host in a dynamic pathogen–vector–host system20
Rapid evolution of unimodal but not of linear thermal performance curves inDaphnia magna20
Spatial variation in avian bill size is associated with temperature extremes in a major radiation of Australian passerines20
Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function20
Colonial coral resilience by decreasing size: reaction to increased detrital influx during onset of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age20
Evolution of self-sustained circadian rhythms is facilitated by seasonal change of daylight20
Mitochondrial effects on fertility and longevity in Tigriopus californicus contradict predictions of the mother's curse hypothesis20
Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs20
Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale20
Harmonizing spatial scales and ecological theories to predict avian richness and functional diversity within forest ecosystems20
Liver transcriptomic and methylomic analyses identify transcriptional mitogen-activated protein kinase regulation in facultative hibernation of Syrian hamster19
Androgen-armoured amazons: reversed sex roles in coucals are associated with testosterone in females but not males19
Evolutionary story of caddisflies: new insights from phylogenomics19
Delayed early life effects in the threespine stickleback19
Metatarsal fusion resisted bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal19
Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly19
No correlative evidence of costs of infection or immunity on leucocyte telomere length in a wild population of Soay sheep19
Virulence decomposition for bifurcating infections19
Brains in sync, friends in empathy: interbrain neural mechanisms underlying the impact of interpersonal closeness on mutual empathy19
Ecogeography of group size suggests differences in drivers of sociality among cooperatively breeding fairywrens19
Transparent transmission models for informing public health policy: the role of trust and generalizability19
RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results19
Life-history genotype explains variation in migration activity in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar )19
Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone19
A nutrition–defence trade-off drives diet choice in a toxic plant generalist19
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity19
Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach19
Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners19
A sex skew in life-history research: the problem of missing males19
A matter of time: Bateman's principles and mating success as count and duration across social strata in contemporary Finland19
Partial protection from fluctuating selection leads to evolution towards wider population size fluctuation and a novel mechanism of balancing selection19
Genetic and genomic architecture of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon variation in parasitoid wasps19
The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition19
Multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism in phenotypic plasticity19
Gene loss and relaxed selection of plaat1 in vertebrates adapted to low-light environments18
Bathymetric evolution of black corals through deep time18
Mechanisms of damage prevention, signalling and repair impact disease tolerance18
Acoustic activity of bats at power lines correlates with relative humidity: a potential role for corona discharges18
Genome-wide selection signatures reveal widespread synergistic effects of two different stressors in Drosophila melanogaster18
Matches and mismatches between the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability18
Size rather than complexity of sexual ornaments prolongs male metamorphosis and explains sexual size dimorphism in sepsid flies18
Synergistic negative effects between a fungicide and high temperatures on homing behaviours in honeybees18
Individualized composition or community dynamics? A new statistical approach to assess the individuality of host-associated microbiomes18
Restricted X chromosome introgression and support for Haldane's rule in hybridizing damselflies18
Disentangling the influence of entanglement on recruitment in North Atlantic right whales18
Holds enable one-shot reciprocal exchange18
Innovation across 13 ungulate species: problem solvers are less integrated in the social group and less neophobic17
Death is overrated: the potential role of detection in driving virulence evolution17
Something in the water: aquatic microbial communities influence the larval amphibian gut microbiota, neurodevelopment and behaviour17
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe17
Chimpanzees communicate to coordinate a cultural practice17
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in Anopheles gambiae revealed by allele-specific expression17
Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents' motion in naive domestic chicks17
Long-distance vocalizations of spotted hyenas contain individual, but not group, signatures17
A supergene in seaweed flies modulates male traits and female perception17
Lunar rhythms and their carry-over effects may shape environmental sex determination in a coral reef fish17
Dollo meets Bergmann: morphological evolution in secondary aquatic mammals17
Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge17
Discrepancies between the drivers of alpha and beta plant diversity in arable field margins17
The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals17
Correlated evolution of oxidative physiology and MHC-based immunosurveillance in birds17
Dim-light colour vision in the facultatively nocturnal Asian giant honeybee, Apis dorsata17
Environmental memory gained from exposure to extreme pCO2variability promotes coral cellular acid–base homeostasis17
The evolution of masturbation is associated with postcopulatory selection and pathogen avoidance in primates17
Volatile-mediated between-plant communication in Scots pine and the effects of elevated ozone17
When origin, reproduction ability and diet define the role of birds in invasions17
Immunological feedback loops generate parasite persistence thresholds that explain variation in infection duration17
Deriving the cone fundamentals: a subspace intersection method16
Tipping points and interactive effects of chronic human disturbance and acute heat stress on coral diversity16
You are what you eat—ecological niche and microhabitat influence venom activity and composition in aquatic bugs16
Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals Wolbachia -mediated modification in early stages of Drosophila 16
Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems16
Mice selected for a high basal metabolic rate evolved larger guts but not more efficient mitochondria16
The causes of species richness patterns among clades16
Effects of local versus global competition on reproductive skew and sex differences in social dominance behaviour16
On the relationship between foveal mask interference and mental imagery in peripheral object recognition16
Resolving selfish and spiteful interdependent conflict16
Sex-biased gene expression in nutrient-sensing pathways16
Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively16
Effects of environmental translocation and host characteristics on skin microbiomes of sun-basking fish16
Parallel evolution despite low genetic diversity in three-spined sticklebacks16
Loss-of-heterozygosity facilitates a fitness valley crossing in experimentally evolved multicellular yeast16
Influence of visual background on discrimination of signal-relevant colours in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)16
Wild gibbons plan their travel pattern according to food types of breakfast16
Influence of colour vision on attention to, and impression of, complex aesthetic images16
Variation in personality shaped by evolutionary history, genotype and developmental plasticity in response to feeding modalities in the Arctic charr16
Adolescence is characterized by more sedentary behaviour and less physical activity even among highly active forager-farmers16
DNA methylation extends lifespan in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris16
Chronic and acute thermal stressors have non-additive effects on fertility16
Genetic and environmental architecture of synaesthesia and its association with the autism spectrum—a twin study16
Mixed-species bird flocks re-assemble interspecific associations across an elevational gradient16
A cretaceous frog with eggs from northwestern China provides fossil evidence for sexual maturity preceding skeletal maturity in anurans16
Structural disorder facilitates future memory decisions16
Dispersal modes affect Rhamnaceae diversification rates in a differentiated manner16
Marine heatwave conditions drive carryover effects in a temperate sponge microbiome and developmental performance16
The exploitation of sexual signals by predators: a meta-analysis15
Synchronized locomotion can improve spatial accessibility inside ant colonies15
Post-marital residence patterns and the timing of reproduction: evidence from a matrilineal society15
300 Million years of coral treaders (Insecta: Heteroptera: Hermatobatidae) back to the ocean in the phylogenetic context of Arthropoda15
Stressors interact across generations to influence offspring telomeres and survival15
Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback15
Ancient insect vision tuned for flight among rocks and plants underpins natural flower colour diversity15
The acclimatory response of the mayfly Neocloeon triangulifer to dilute conditions is linked to the plasticity of sodium transport15
Collective movement as a solution to noisy navigation and its vulnerability to population loss15
Differential reproductive plasticity under thermal variability in a freshwater fish ( Danio rerio )15
Millennial processes of population decline, range contraction and near extinction of the European bison15
Colony size buffers interactions between neonicotinoid exposure and cold stress in bumblebees15
A comparative approach for characterizing the relationship among morphology, range-of-motion and locomotor behaviour in the primate shoulder15
Fossils indicate marine dispersal in osteoglossid fishes, a classic example of continental vicariance15
Individual preferences for sound tool design in a parrot15
Environmental, sex-specific and genetic determinants of infant social behaviour in a wild primate15
Females smell differently: characteristics and significance of the most common olfactory sensilla of female silkmoths15
Performance characteristics allow for confinement of a CRISPR toxin–antidote gene drive for population suppression in a reaction–diffusion model15
Multispecies interactions and the community context of the evolution of virulence15
Food-caching chickadees with specialized spatial cognition do not use scrounging as a stable strategy when learning a spatial task15
The emergence of division of labour through decentralized social sanctioning15
Divergence in brain size and brain region volumes across wild guppy populations15
Response to geometrical visual illusions in non-human animals: a meta-analysis15
How to be a good partner and father? The role of adult males in pair bond maintenance and parental care in Javan gibbons15
Natural alleles at the Doa locus underpin evolutionary changes in Drosophila lifespan and fecundity15
The limits of metabolic heredity in protocells15
Seagrass production around artificial reefs is resistant to human stressors15
Environmental drivers of Arctic communities based on metabarcoding of marine sediment eDNA15
Greater plasticity in CTmax with increased climate variability among populations of tailed frogs15
Reproductive tactics, birth timing and the risk-resource trade-off in an income breeder15
Cognitive performance is linked to survival in free-living African striped mice15
Sexual selection may support phenotypic plasticity in male coloration of an African cichlid fish15
Biomechanical drivers of the evolution of butterflies and moths with a coilable proboscis15
Higher temperature variability in deforested mountain regions impacts the competitive advantage of nocturnal species15
Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from ‘Newtonian’ to ‘Darwinian’ approaches15
A restatement of the natural science evidence base concerning grassland management, grazing livestock and soil carbon storage15
Marine heatwaves and upwelling shape stress responses in a keystone predator15
The evolution of age-specific resistance to infectious disease15
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms15
Early-acting inbreeding depression can evolve as an inbreeding avoidance mechanism14
The first arriving virus shapes within-host viral diversity during natural epidemics14
Microchimerism as a source of information on future pregnancies14
Photoperiod-driven concurrent changes in hypothalamic and brainstem transcription of sleep and immune genes in migratory redheaded bunting14
The microbiome at the interface between environmental stress and animal health: an example from the most threatened vertebrate group14
Spider dung beetles: coordinated cooperative transport without a predefined destination14
Differences in the costs and benefits of choosiness may explain variation in cuckoo egg-matching strategy: a reply to Wang and Liang (2023)14
Despite COVID: showcasing new research in evolutionary biology from academic care-givers in the middle of a pandemic14
Striving for humane deaths for laboratory mice: hypobaric hypoxia provides a potential alternative to carbon dioxide exposure14
The emergence and shift in seasonality of Lyme borreliosis in Northern Europe14
Collective synchrony of mating signals modulated by ecological cues and social signals in bioluminescent sea fireflies14
Circadian rhythm entrainment of the jewel wasp, Nasonia vitripennis , by antagonistic interactions of multiple spectral inputs14
Sexual antagonism in sequential hermaphrodites14
A power amplification dyad in seahorses14
Long walk home: Magellanic penguins have strategies that lead them to areas where they can navigate most efficiently14
Cattle aggregations at shared resources create potential parasite exposure hotspots for wildlife14
Nonlinear elasticity and short-range mechanical coupling govern the rate and symmetry of mouth opening in Hydra14
Vertical and diel niches modulate thermal selection by rainforest frogs14
Cryptic species in time and space: an assessment of cryptic diversity within eight nominal species of Hydrozoa (Cnidaria)14
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