Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 11. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations125
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass120
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community90
Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits75
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea68
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication68
Feather chemicals contain information about the major histocompatibility complex in a highly scented seabird63
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population57
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings55
Correction to: ‘Age determination in echinoderms: first evidence of annual growth rings in holothuroids’ 2022 by Sun et al.54
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?54
Multiscale analysis of the randomization limits of the chromosomal gene organization between Lepidoptera and Diptera47
Museomics unveil systematics, diversity and evolution of Australian cycad-pollinating weevils44
Energetic trade-offs in migration decision-making, reproductive effort and subsequent parental care in a long-distance migratory bird44
Evolution of competitive traits changes species diversity in a natural field44
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome42
Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice41
Human adults prefer to cooperate even when it is costly41
Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of Hydrangeeae (Hydrangeaceae) elucidate the effects of geologic and climatic dynamics on diversification39
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)37
King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites36
Crocodile perception of distress in hominid baby cries36
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia35
Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women35
Rare edges and abundant cores: range-wide variation in abundance in North American birds35
Auditory mechanics in the grig ( Cyphoderris monstrosa ): tympanal travelling waves and frequency discrimination as a precursor to inner ear tonotopy34
Insect cross-tolerance to freezing and drought stress: role of metabolic rearrangement33
Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)33
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health33
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate32
Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock31
Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology31
Mosquito ageing modulates the development, virulence and transmission potential of pathogens31
Occupancy winners in tropical protected forests: a pantropical analysis31
The gaze of a social monkey is perceptible to conspecifics and predators but not prey31
Early-life sibling conflict in Canada jays has lifetime fitness consequences31
Wild raccoons demonstrate flexibility and individuality in innovative problem-solving30
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs30
Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations29
Cool-edge populations of the kelp Ecklonia radiata under global ocean change scenarios: strong sensitivity to ocean warming but little effect of ocean acidification29
Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes29
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy29
Comparative genomics reveals convergent signals associated with the high metabolism and longevity in birds and bats29
Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird28
Exploring the connection between autophagy and heat-stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster28
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral28
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group28
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle28
The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds28
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales28
The evolution of sour taste27
Unisexual flowers as a resolution to intralocus sexual conflict in hermaphrodites27
Land-use-associated stressors interact to reduce bumblebee health at the individual and colony level27
Twenty years of big plant genera27
The resolution of evolutionary conflicts within species27
Experimental extra-pair copulations provide proof of concept for fertility insurance in a socially monogamous bird26
Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought26
Life-history responses to temperature and seasonality mediate ectotherm consumer–resource dynamics under climate warming26
Green turtle tracking leads the discovery of seagrass blue carbon resources26
Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival26
Correction: ‘Multidimensional plasticity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: larval performance is temperature, host and family specific’ (2020), by Nadja et al.26
Sticky steps and the gender gap: how thoughtful practices could help keep caregivers in science25
All camouflage strategies are not equal25
The biogeography of community assembly: latitude and predation drive variation in community trait distribution in a guild of epifaunal crustaceans25
Kin recognition for incest avoidance in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis25
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 signalling25
Mechanistic interactions as the origin of modularity in biological networks25
Half of global islands have reached critical area thresholds for undergoing rapid increases in biological invasions25
Determinants of hyena participation in risky collective action24
The genomic architecture of continuous plumage colour variation in the European barn owl ( Tyto alba )24
The presence of multiple parasitoids decreases host survival under warming, but parasitoid performance also decreases24
Colonization–persistence trade-offs in natural bacterial communities24
A genome-wide test for paternal indirect genetic effects on lifespan in Drosophila melanogaster24
Character displacement or priority effects: immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution24
Phylogenomics reveals deep relationships and diversification within phylactolaemate bryozoans24
Grandmother presence improved grandchild survival against childhood infections but not vaccination coverage in historical Finns23
Tipping points induced by palaeo-human impacts can explain presence of savannah in Malagasy and global systems where forest is expected23
Male–male social bonding, coalitionary support and reproductive success in wild Guinea baboons23
How to generate and test hypotheses about colour: insights from half a century of guppy research23
Multispecies interactions shape the transition to multicellularity23
Third-party punishers do not compete to be chosen as partners in an experimental game23
Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats23
Blue whales increase feeding rates at fine-scale ocean features23
No evidence for temporally balanced selection on larval Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas : a comment on Durland et al 23
Drosophila female reproductive glands contribute to mating plug composition and the timing of sperm ejection23
Positive and negative effects of land abandonment on butterfly communities revealed by a hierarchical sampling design across climatic regions23
Brains in sync, friends in empathy: interbrain neural mechanisms underlying the impact of interpersonal closeness on mutual empathy22
Large genetic divergence underpins cryptic local adaptation across ecological and evolutionary gradients22
Drivers of nematode diversity in forest soils across climatic zones22
Retraction of: ‘Reef fishes can recognize bleached habitat during settlement: sea anemone bleaching alters anemonefish host selection’ (2016) by Scott and Dixson22
Utilizing citizen science data to rapidly assess changing associations between wild birds and avian influenza outbreaks in poultry22
Social interaction can select for reduced ability22
Evolutionary ecomorphology for the twenty-first century: examples from mammalian carnivores22
TiDeTree: a Bayesian phylogenetic framework to estimate single-cell trees and population dynamic parameters from genetic lineage tracing data22
Positive-to-negative behavioural responses suggest hedonic evaluation in treefrog mate choice22
Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function22
Developmental and functional controls on enrolment in an ancient, extinct arthropod22
Convergence of gut microbiota in myrmecophagous amphibians22
Gender shapes the formation of review paper collaborations in microbiology22
Grouping behaviour impacts on the parasitic pressure and squamation of sharks22
Spatial variation in avian bill size is associated with temperature extremes in a major radiation of Australian passerines21
Partial protection from fluctuating selection leads to evolution towards wider population size fluctuation and a novel mechanism of balancing selection21
Effects of genotype and host environment on the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of Lysiphlebus parasitoids and aggression by aphid-tending ants21
Mitochondrial effects on fertility and longevity in Tigriopus californicus contradict predictions of the mother's curse hypothesis21
Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs21
The experimental evolution of human culture: flexibility, fidelity and environmental instability21
Hummingbirds use distinct control strategies for forward and hovering flight21
Competition and habitat availability interact to structure arboreal ant communities across scales of ecological organization21
A sex skew in life-history research: the problem of missing males21
A sterol-mediated gleaner–opportunist trade-off underlies the evolution of grazer resistance to cyanobacteria21
Epidemiological dynamics of bacteriocin competition and antibiotic resistance20
Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat ( Eptesicus fuscus )20
Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale20
The impact of within-host coinfection interactions on between-host parasite transmission dynamics varies with spatial scale20
Liver transcriptomic and methylomic analyses identify transcriptional mitogen-activated protein kinase regulation in facultative hibernation of Syrian hamster20
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
Harmonizing spatial scales and ecological theories to predict avian richness and functional diversity within forest ecosystems20
Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners20
Evolution of self-sustained circadian rhythms is facilitated by seasonal change of daylight20
Nuclear-specific gene expression in heterokaryons of the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma20
Early life adversity jointly regulates body-mass index and working memory development19
Global ecomorphological restructuring of dominant marine reptiles prior to the Cretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinction19
Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach19
Developmental risk sensitivity theory: the effects of socio-economic status on children's risky gain and loss decisions19
Temperature-driven heterochrony as a main evolutionary response to climate changes in conodonts19
Parasite co-infection: an ecological, molecular and experimental perspective19
Quantifying the impacts of 166 years of land cover change on lowland bird communities19
Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom19
Evolutionary modularity, integration and disparity in an accretionary skeleton: analysis of venerid Bivalvia19
Ecogeography of group size suggests differences in drivers of sociality among cooperatively breeding fairywrens19
Colonial coral resilience by decreasing size: reaction to increased detrital influx during onset of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age19
Mitochondrial DNA content in eggs as a maternal effect19
Size rather than complexity of sexual ornaments prolongs male metamorphosis and explains sexual size dimorphism in sepsid flies18
Emerging infectious disease triggered a trophic cascade and enhanced recruitment of a masting tree18
Restricted X chromosome introgression and support for Haldane's rule in hybridizing damselflies18
No correlative evidence of costs of infection or immunity on leucocyte telomere length in a wild population of Soay sheep18
Life-history genotype explains variation in migration activity in Atlantic salmon ( Salmo salar )18
Virulence decomposition for bifurcating infections18
Rapid evolution of unimodal but not of linear thermal performance curves inDaphnia magna18
A matter of time: Bateman's principles and mating success as count and duration across social strata in contemporary Finland18
The megaherbivore gap after the non-avian dinosaur extinctions modified trait evolution and diversification of tropical palms18
Genetic and genomic architecture of species-specific cuticular hydrocarbon variation in parasitoid wasps18
Size is relative: use of relational concepts by wild hummingbirds18
Multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism in phenotypic plasticity18
Delayed early life effects in the threespine stickleback18
Transparent transmission models for informing public health policy: the role of trust and generalizability18
Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly18
Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation18
Synergistic negative effects between a fungicide and high temperatures on homing behaviours in honeybees18
Mechanisms of damage prevention, signalling and repair impact disease tolerance18
A nutrition–defence trade-off drives diet choice in a toxic plant generalist18
Androgen-armoured amazons: reversed sex roles in coucals are associated with testosterone in females but not males18
Metatarsal fusion resisted bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal17
RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results17
Disentangling the influence of entanglement on recruitment in North Atlantic right whales17
Matches and mismatches between the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability17
Genome-wide selection signatures reveal widespread synergistic effects of two different stressors in Drosophila melanogaster17
Lunar rhythms and their carry-over effects may shape environmental sex determination in a coral reef fish17
Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively17
Chronic and acute thermal stressors have non-additive effects on fertility17
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity17
Evolutionary story of caddisflies: new insights from phylogenomics17
Gene loss and relaxed selection of plaat1 in vertebrates adapted to low-light environments17
Holds enable one-shot reciprocal exchange17
A supergene in seaweed flies modulates male traits and female perception17
Interindividual variation in the use of social information during learning in honeybees17
Senescence, trait parameterization and (st)age-specific forces of selection17
Innovation across 13 ungulate species: problem solvers are less integrated in the social group and less neophobic17
Bathymetric evolution of black corals through deep time17
Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone17
The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition17
Parallel evolution despite low genetic diversity in three-spined sticklebacks17
Something in the water: aquatic microbial communities influence the larval amphibian gut microbiota, neurodevelopment and behaviour17
Individualized composition or community dynamics? A new statistical approach to assess the individuality of host-associated microbiomes17
Telomere length correlates with physiological and behavioural responses of a long-lived seabird to an ecologically relevant challenge17
Effects of environmental translocation and host characteristics on skin microbiomes of sun-basking fish16
Volatile-mediated between-plant communication in Scots pine and the effects of elevated ozone16
Death is overrated: the potential role of detection in driving virulence evolution16
Long-distance vocalizations of spotted hyenas contain individual, but not group, signatures16
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in Anopheles gambiae revealed by allele-specific expression16
Can female guppies learn to like male colours? A test of the role of associative learning in originating sexual preferences16
Dollo meets Bergmann: morphological evolution in secondary aquatic mammals16
You are what you eat—ecological niche and microhabitat influence venom activity and composition in aquatic bugs16
Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems16
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe16
Dim-light colour vision in the facultatively nocturnal Asian giant honeybee, Apis dorsata16
DNA methylation extends lifespan in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris16
Discrepancies between the drivers of alpha and beta plant diversity in arable field margins16
Immunological feedback loops generate parasite persistence thresholds that explain variation in infection duration16
Acoustic activity of bats at power lines correlates with relative humidity: a potential role for corona discharges16
Environmental memory gained from exposure to extreme pCO2variability promotes coral cellular acid–base homeostasis16
Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals Wolbachia -mediated modification in early stages of Drosophila 16
When origin, reproduction ability and diet define the role of birds in invasions16
The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals16
Global long-term stability of individual dietary specialization in herbivorous mammals16
Chimpanzees communicate to coordinate a cultural practice16
Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents' motion in naive domestic chicks16
Correlated evolution of oxidative physiology and MHC-based immunosurveillance in birds16
The evolution of masturbation is associated with postcopulatory selection and pathogen avoidance in primates15
Mixed-species bird flocks re-assemble interspecific associations across an elevational gradient15
Environmental, sex-specific and genetic determinants of infant social behaviour in a wild primate15
Cellular senescence, rejuvenation and potential immortality15
Seagrass production around artificial reefs is resistant to human stressors15
Influence of colour vision on attention to, and impression of, complex aesthetic images15
Sex-biased gene expression in nutrient-sensing pathways15
On the relationship between foveal mask interference and mental imagery in peripheral object recognition15
The causes of species richness patterns among clades15
Variation in personality shaped by evolutionary history, genotype and developmental plasticity in response to feeding modalities in the Arctic charr15
Fossils indicate marine dispersal in osteoglossid fishes, a classic example of continental vicariance15
Sanctions and international interaction improve cooperation to avert climate change15
Reproductive tactics, birth timing and the risk-resource trade-off in an income breeder15
Synchronized locomotion can improve spatial accessibility inside ant colonies15
Competition among small individuals hinders adaptive radiation despite ecological opportunity15
Social divergence: molecular pathways underlying castes and longevity in a facultatively eusocial small carpenter bee15
Genetic and environmental architecture of synaesthesia and its association with the autism spectrum—a twin study15
Influence of visual background on discrimination of signal-relevant colours in zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)15
A cretaceous frog with eggs from northwestern China provides fossil evidence for sexual maturity preceding skeletal maturity in anurans15
Tipping points and interactive effects of chronic human disturbance and acute heat stress on coral diversity15
Adolescence is characterized by more sedentary behaviour and less physical activity even among highly active forager-farmers15
A comparative approach for characterizing the relationship among morphology, range-of-motion and locomotor behaviour in the primate shoulder15
Post-marital residence patterns and the timing of reproduction: evidence from a matrilineal society15
Structural disorder facilitates future memory decisions15
Deriving the cone fundamentals: a subspace intersection method15
Effects of local versus global competition on reproductive skew and sex differences in social dominance behaviour15
Wild gibbons plan their travel pattern according to food types of breakfast15
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms15
Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback14
The exploitation of sexual signals by predators: a meta-analysis14
Females smell differently: characteristics and significance of the most common olfactory sensilla of female silkmoths14
Haemosporidian parasites and incubation period influence plumage coloration in tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae)14
Performance characteristics allow for confinement of a CRISPR toxin–antidote gene drive for population suppression in a reaction–diffusion model14
Evolution of flexible biting in hyperdiverse parasitoid wasps14
The acclimatory response of the mayfly Neocloeon triangulifer to dilute conditions is linked to the plasticity of sodium transport14
300 Million years of coral treaders (Insecta: Heteroptera: Hermatobatidae) back to the ocean in the phylogenetic context of Arthropoda14
Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from ‘Newtonian’ to ‘Darwinian’ approaches14
Biomechanical drivers of the evolution of butterflies and moths with a coilable proboscis14
Comparative genomics sheds new light on the convergent evolution of infrared vision in snakes14
A novel statistical framework for exploring the population dynamics and seasonality of mosquito populations14
Higher temperature variability in deforested mountain regions impacts the competitive advantage of nocturnal species14
Dominance reversals: the resolution of genetic conflict and maintenance of genetic variation14
Divergence in brain size and brain region volumes across wild guppy populations14
Ancient insect vision tuned for flight among rocks and plants underpins natural flower colour diversity14
Early-acting inbreeding depression can evolve as an inbreeding avoidance mechanism14
How to be a good partner and father? The role of adult males in pair bond maintenance and parental care in Javan gibbons14
Millennial processes of population decline, range contraction and near extinction of the European bison14
Stressors interact across generations to influence offspring telomeres and survival14
The evolution of age-specific resistance to infectious disease14
Food-caching chickadees with specialized spatial cognition do not use scrounging as a stable strategy when learning a spatial task14
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