Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences

Papers
(The TQCC of Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences is 13. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modelling the emergence of synchrony from decentralized rhythmic interactions in animal communication177
Human-driven breakdown of predator–prey interactions in the northern Adriatic Sea114
Swimming through sand: using accelerometers to observe the cryptic, pre-emergence life-stage of sea turtle hatchlings72
In search of the genetic variants of human sex ratio at birth: was Fisher wrong about sex ratio evolution?71
Shifts in predator behaviour following climate induced disturbance on coral reefs68
Crocodile perception of distress in hominid baby cries65
Labour's pain: strenuous subsistence work, mechanical wear-and-tear and musculoskeletal pain in a non-industrialized population53
Early-life sibling conflict in Canada jays has lifetime fitness consequences52
Ecological shifts underlie parallels between ontogenetic and evolutionary allometries in parrotfishes45
Beak morphometry and morphogenesis across avian radiations45
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle44
Correction to: ‘Age determination in echinoderms: first evidence of annual growth rings in holothuroids’ 2022 by Sun et al.43
King- and queen-specific degradation of uric acid contributes to reproduction in termites42
Kin selection of time travel: the social evolutionary causes and consequences of dormancy42
Binocular field configuration in owls: the role of foraging ecology38
A dawn and dusk chorus will emerge if males sing in the absence of their mate38
Evolution of competitive traits changes species diversity in a natural field37
Seed size variation impacts local adaptation and life-history strategies in a perennial grass37
The ontogeny of asymmetry in echolocating whales36
Developmental changes of opsin gene expression in ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii)36
Ants act as olfactory bio-detectors of tumours in patient-derived xenograft mice35
Mosquito ageing modulates the development, virulence and transmission potential of pathogens34
The psychology of relative state, desperation and violence: a commentary on de Courson et al. (2023)34
Rare edges and abundant cores: range-wide variation in abundance in North American birds34
Comparative genomics reveals convergent signals associated with the high metabolism and longevity in birds and bats34
Ecological determinants of rabies virus dynamics in vampire bats and spillover to livestock34
Exploring the connection between autophagy and heat-stress tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster33
Social restructuring during harsh environmental conditions promotes cooperative behaviour in a songbird33
Museomics unveil systematics, diversity and evolution of Australian cycad-pollinating weevils32
Uncovering the Holocene roots of contemporary disease-scapes: bringing archaeology into One Health32
Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of Hydrangeeae (Hydrangeaceae) elucidate the effects of geologic and climatic dynamics on diversification32
Sub-communities of the vaginal microbiota in pregnant and non-pregnant women32
The importance of migratory drop-off for island colonization in birds31
Phenology in the deep sea: seasonal and tidal feeding rhythms in a keystone octocoral31
Energetic trade-offs in migration decision-making, reproductive effort and subsequent parental care in a long-distance migratory bird30
Genotype-by-environment interactions influence the composition of the Drosophila seminal proteome30
Seeds of language-like generativity in bird call combinations30
Wild raccoons demonstrate flexibility and individuality in innovative problem-solving29
Sampling biases obscure the early diversification of the largest living vertebrate group29
Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia29
Quantitative genetic-by-soil microbiome interactions in a perennial grass affect functional traits29
Extreme heat exposure of host plants indirectly reduces solitary bee fecundity and survival28
Cool-edge populations of the kelp Ecklonia radiata under global ocean change scenarios: strong sensitivity to ocean warming but little effect of ocean acidification28
Kin recognition for incest avoidance in Damaraland mole-rats, Fukomys damarensis28
Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats28
External and internal driving forces of community and functional group stability in the forest mammal community28
Developmental and functional controls on enrolment in an ancient, extinct arthropod28
Sticky steps and the gender gap: how thoughtful practices could help keep caregivers in science28
Unisexual flowers as a resolution to intralocus sexual conflict in hermaphrodites27
Colonization–persistence trade-offs in natural bacterial communities27
Convergence of gut microbiota in myrmecophagous amphibians27
Straining the root on and off triggers local calcium signalling27
Population trends are more strongly linked to environmental change and species traits in birds than mammals27
Evolutionary ecomorphology for the twenty-first century: examples from mammalian carnivores26
All camouflage strategies are not equal26
Grandmother presence improved grandchild survival against childhood infections but not vaccination coverage in historical Finns26
Mechanistic interactions as the origin of modularity in biological networks26
Correction: ‘Multidimensional plasticity in the Glanville fritillary butterfly: larval performance is temperature, host and family specific’ (2020), by Nadja et al.25
Life-history responses to temperature and seasonality mediate ectotherm consumer–resource dynamics under climate warming25
How to generate and test hypotheses about colour: insights from half a century of guppy research25
Phylogenomics reveals deep relationships and diversification within phylactolaemate bryozoans25
Twenty years of big plant genera25
Character displacement or priority effects: immigration timing can affect community assembly with rapid evolution25
The genomic architecture of continuous plumage colour variation in the European barn owl ( Tyto alba )25
Land-use-associated stressors interact to reduce bumblebee health at the individual and colony level25
Determinants of hyena participation in risky collective action24
Multispecies interactions shape the transition to multicellularity24
Green turtle tracking leads the discovery of seagrass blue carbon resources24
Blue whales increase feeding rates at fine-scale ocean features24
Rapid evolution during climate change: demographic and genetic constraints on adaptation to severe drought23
The resolution of evolutionary conflicts within species23
Half of global islands have reached critical area thresholds for undergoing rapid increases in biological invasions23
Drivers of nematode diversity in forest soils across climatic zones23
Large genetic divergence underpins cryptic local adaptation across ecological and evolutionary gradients23
TiDeTree: a Bayesian phylogenetic framework to estimate single-cell trees and population dynamic parameters from genetic lineage tracing data23
Nuclear-specific gene expression in heterokaryons of the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma22
Utilizing citizen science data to rapidly assess changing associations between wild birds and avian influenza outbreaks in poultry22
Liver transcriptomic and methylomic analyses identify transcriptional mitogen-activated protein kinase regulation in facultative hibernation of Syrian hamster22
Evidence of cospeciation between termites and their gut bacteria on a geological time scale22
Hummingbirds use distinct control strategies for forward and hovering flight22
Developmental risk sensitivity theory: the effects of socio-economic status on children's risky gain and loss decisions22
Social interaction can select for reduced ability22
Competition and habitat availability interact to structure arboreal ant communities across scales of ecological organization22
The experimental evolution of human culture: flexibility, fidelity and environmental instability22
Effects of genotype and host environment on the cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of Lysiphlebus parasitoids and aggression by aphid-tending ants22
Temperature-driven heterochrony as a main evolutionary response to climate changes in conodonts22
Partial protection from fluctuating selection leads to evolution towards wider population size fluctuation and a novel mechanism of balancing selection22
Gender shapes the formation of review paper collaborations in microbiology22
Susceptible and infectious states for both vector and host in a dynamic pathogen–vector–host system21
Colonial coral resilience by decreasing size: reaction to increased detrital influx during onset of the late Palaeozoic Ice Age21
Rapid evolution of unimodal but not of linear thermal performance curves inDaphnia magna21
Resistance to age-related hearing loss in the echolocating big brown bat ( Eptesicus fuscus )21
Retraction of: ‘Reef fishes can recognize bleached habitat during settlement: sea anemone bleaching alters anemonefish host selection’ (2016) by Scott and Dixson21
Harmonizing spatial scales and ecological theories to predict avian richness and functional diversity within forest ecosystems21
Ecogeography of group size suggests differences in drivers of sociality among cooperatively breeding fairywrens21
Tonic and phasic effects of reward on the pupil: implications for locus coeruleus function21
Epidemiological dynamics of bacteriocin competition and antibiotic resistance21
Evolution of self-sustained circadian rhythms is facilitated by seasonal change of daylight21
Spatial variation in avian bill size is associated with temperature extremes in a major radiation of Australian passerines21
Mitochondrial effects on fertility and longevity in Tigriopus californicus contradict predictions of the mother's curse hypothesis21
Virulence decomposition for bifurcating infections20
Androgen-armoured amazons: reversed sex roles in coucals are associated with testosterone in females but not males20
A nutrition–defence trade-off drives diet choice in a toxic plant generalist20
The impact of within-host coinfection interactions on between-host parasite transmission dynamics varies with spatial scale20
Simulation and social network analysis provide insight into the acquisition of tool behaviour in hybrid macaques20
A matter of time: Bateman's principles and mating success as count and duration across social strata in contemporary Finland20
RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results20
The evolutionary consequences of learning under competition20
Physical constraints during Snowball Earth drive the evolution of multicellularity20
Generalized mutualisms promote range expansion in both plant and ant partners20
Managing the effects of multiple stressors on wildlife populations in their ecosystems: developing a cumulative risk approach20
Evolutionary story of caddisflies: new insights from phylogenomics20
Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs20
No correlative evidence of costs of infection or immunity on leucocyte telomere length in a wild population of Soay sheep20
Avian behaviour changes in response to human activity during the COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom20
Multilevel selection in the evolution of sexual dimorphism in phenotypic plasticity20
Early life adversity jointly regulates body-mass index and working memory development20
Brains in sync, friends in empathy: interbrain neural mechanisms underlying the impact of interpersonal closeness on mutual empathy20
Transparent transmission models for informing public health policy: the role of trust and generalizability20
Size rather than complexity of sexual ornaments prolongs male metamorphosis and explains sexual size dimorphism in sepsid flies19
Disentangling the influence of entanglement on recruitment in North Atlantic right whales19
Land-use change interacts with island biogeography to alter bird community assembly19
Matches and mismatches between the global distribution of major food crops and climate suitability19
A supergene in seaweed flies modulates male traits and female perception19
Metatarsal fusion resisted bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal19
Mixed-species bird flocks re-assemble interspecific associations across an elevational gradient19
Gene loss and relaxed selection of plaat1 in vertebrates adapted to low-light environments19
Migratory birds can extract positional information from magnetic inclination and magnetic declination alone19
Mechanisms of damage prevention, signalling and repair impact disease tolerance19
Acoustic activity of bats at power lines correlates with relative humidity: a potential role for corona discharges19
Innovation across 13 ungulate species: problem solvers are less integrated in the social group and less neophobic19
DNA methylation extends lifespan in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris19
Synergistic negative effects between a fungicide and high temperatures on homing behaviours in honeybees19
Bathymetric evolution of black corals through deep time19
Holds enable one-shot reciprocal exchange19
Individualized composition or community dynamics? A new statistical approach to assess the individuality of host-associated microbiomes19
Correlated evolution of oxidative physiology and MHC-based immunosurveillance in birds19
Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively19
Parallel evolution despite low genetic diversity in three-spined sticklebacks18
Volatile-mediated between-plant communication in Scots pine and the effects of elevated ozone18
Immunological feedback loops generate parasite persistence thresholds that explain variation in infection duration18
Dollo meets Bergmann: morphological evolution in secondary aquatic mammals18
Genome-wide selection signatures reveal widespread synergistic effects of two different stressors in Drosophila melanogaster18
Single-cell transcriptome sequencing reveals Wolbachia -mediated modification in early stages of Drosophila 18
Discrepancies between the drivers of alpha and beta plant diversity in arable field margins18
Death is overrated: the potential role of detection in driving virulence evolution18
The evolution of gestation length in eutherian mammals18
When origin, reproduction ability and diet define the role of birds in invasions18
You are what you eat—ecological niche and microhabitat influence venom activity and composition in aquatic bugs18
Lunar rhythms and their carry-over effects may shape environmental sex determination in a coral reef fish18
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation in Anopheles gambiae revealed by allele-specific expression18
Dim-light colour vision in the facultatively nocturnal Asian giant honeybee, Apis dorsata18
The evolution of masturbation is associated with postcopulatory selection and pathogen avoidance in primates18
Ancient DNA evidence for the ecological globalization of cod fishing in medieval and post-medieval Europe17
Environmental memory gained from exposure to extreme pCO2variability promotes coral cellular acid–base homeostasis17
Chimpanzees communicate to coordinate a cultural practice17
Individual preferences for sound tool design in a parrot17
On the relationship between foveal mask interference and mental imagery in peripheral object recognition17
The causes of species richness patterns among clades17
Influence of colour vision on attention to, and impression of, complex aesthetic images17
Post-marital residence patterns and the timing of reproduction: evidence from a matrilineal society17
Something in the water: aquatic microbial communities influence the larval amphibian gut microbiota, neurodevelopment and behaviour17
Effects of environmental translocation and host characteristics on skin microbiomes of sun-basking fish17
Chronic and acute thermal stressors have non-additive effects on fertility17
Dispersal modes affect Rhamnaceae diversification rates in a differentiated manner17
A cretaceous frog with eggs from northwestern China provides fossil evidence for sexual maturity preceding skeletal maturity in anurans17
Structural disorder facilitates future memory decisions17
Wild gibbons plan their travel pattern according to food types of breakfast17
Tipping points and interactive effects of chronic human disturbance and acute heat stress on coral diversity17
Spontaneous preference for unpredictability in the temporal contingencies between agents' motion in naive domestic chicks17
Scavenging in the realm of senses: smell and vision drive recruitment at carcasses in Neotropical ecosystems17
Greater plasticity in CTmax with increased climate variability among populations of tailed frogs17
Environmental, sex-specific and genetic determinants of infant social behaviour in a wild primate17
Effects of local versus global competition on reproductive skew and sex differences in social dominance behaviour17
Deriving the cone fundamentals: a subspace intersection method17
Seagrass production around artificial reefs is resistant to human stressors17
Marine heatwaves and upwelling shape stress responses in a keystone predator16
Stressors interact across generations to influence offspring telomeres and survival16
Comparative genomics sheds new light on the convergent evolution of infrared vision in snakes16
How to be a good partner and father? The role of adult males in pair bond maintenance and parental care in Javan gibbons16
Food-caching chickadees with specialized spatial cognition do not use scrounging as a stable strategy when learning a spatial task16
Genetic and environmental architecture of synaesthesia and its association with the autism spectrum—a twin study16
Variable metabolic scaling breaks the law: from ‘Newtonian’ to ‘Darwinian’ approaches16
Fossils indicate marine dispersal in osteoglossid fishes, a classic example of continental vicariance16
Synchronized locomotion can improve spatial accessibility inside ant colonies16
Variation in personality shaped by evolutionary history, genotype and developmental plasticity in response to feeding modalities in the Arctic charr16
Response to geometrical visual illusions in non-human animals: a meta-analysis16
Parametric effects of light acting via multiple photoreceptors contribute to circadian entrainment in Drosophila melanogaster16
Multispecies interactions and the community context of the evolution of virulence16
The limits of metabolic heredity in protocells16
Cognitive performance is linked to survival in free-living African striped mice16
Natural alleles at the Doa locus underpin evolutionary changes in Drosophila lifespan and fecundity16
A comparative approach for characterizing the relationship among morphology, range-of-motion and locomotor behaviour in the primate shoulder16
Sex-biased gene expression in nutrient-sensing pathways16
Environmental drivers of Arctic communities based on metabarcoding of marine sediment eDNA16
Adolescence is characterized by more sedentary behaviour and less physical activity even among highly active forager-farmers16
The emergence of division of labour through decentralized social sanctioning16
Olfactory learning in Pieris brassicae butterflies is dependent on the intensity of a plant-derived oviposition cue16
Ancient insect vision tuned for flight among rocks and plants underpins natural flower colour diversity16
Divergence in brain size and brain region volumes across wild guppy populations16
Females smell differently: characteristics and significance of the most common olfactory sensilla of female silkmoths16
Marine heatwave conditions drive carryover effects in a temperate sponge microbiome and developmental performance16
Resolving selfish and spiteful interdependent conflict16
No evidence for inequity aversion in non-human animals: a meta-analysis of accept/reject paradigms16
Reproductive tactics, birth timing and the risk-resource trade-off in an income breeder16
Millennial processes of population decline, range contraction and near extinction of the European bison16
Despite COVID: showcasing new research in evolutionary biology from academic care-givers in the middle of a pandemic15
Vertical and diel niches modulate thermal selection by rainforest frogs15
Differences in the costs and benefits of choosiness may explain variation in cuckoo egg-matching strategy: a reply to Wang and Liang (2023)15
Circadian rhythm entrainment of the jewel wasp, Nasonia vitripennis , by antagonistic interactions of multiple spectral inputs15
Diversification dynamics in Caribbean rain frogs (Eleutherodactylus) are uncoupled from the anuran community and consistent with adaptive radiation15
Enhanced electrophysiological responses to explicitly predicted and pre-imagined inputs, with confirmation from online decoding with neuro-feedback15
A restatement of the natural science evidence base concerning grassland management, grazing livestock and soil carbon storage15
Differential reproductive plasticity under thermal variability in a freshwater fish ( Danio rerio )15
The evolution of age-specific resistance to infectious disease15
Dominance reversals: the resolution of genetic conflict and maintenance of genetic variation15
Higher temperature variability in deforested mountain regions impacts the competitive advantage of nocturnal species15
The emergence and shift in seasonality of Lyme borreliosis in Northern Europe15
Spider dung beetles: coordinated cooperative transport without a predefined destination15
Nonlinear elasticity and short-range mechanical coupling govern the rate and symmetry of mouth opening in Hydra15
Prioritizing pollinators over pests: wild bees are more important than beetle damage for watermelon yield15
Striving for humane deaths for laboratory mice: hypobaric hypoxia provides a potential alternative to carbon dioxide exposure15
Colony size buffers interactions between neonicotinoid exposure and cold stress in bumblebees15
Collective movement as a solution to noisy navigation and its vulnerability to population loss15
Early-acting inbreeding depression can evolve as an inbreeding avoidance mechanism15
Biomechanical drivers of the evolution of butterflies and moths with a coilable proboscis15
Sexual selection may support phenotypic plasticity in male coloration of an African cichlid fish15
Performance characteristics allow for confinement of a CRISPR toxin–antidote gene drive for population suppression in a reaction–diffusion model15
Correction to: ‘Coral reef fish smell leaves to find island homes’ (2022) by Dixson et al.15
Collective synchrony of mating signals modulated by ecological cues and social signals in bioluminescent sea fireflies15
Sexual antagonism in sequential hermaphrodites15
Microchimerism as a source of information on future pregnancies15
A power amplification dyad in seahorses15
Phylogenomics supports a single origin of terrestriality in isopods15
300 Million years of coral treaders (Insecta: Heteroptera: Hermatobatidae) back to the ocean in the phylogenetic context of Arthropoda15
Per-pathogen virulence of HIV-1 subtypes A, C and D15
Haemosporidian parasites and incubation period influence plumage coloration in tanagers (Passeriformes: Thraupidae)15
Temperature adaptation and its impact on the shape of performance curves inDrosophilapopulations15
Ageing of juvenile coral grouper ( Plectropomus maculatus ) reveals year-round spawning and recruitment: implications for seasonal closures14
Demographic feedbacks during evolutionary rescue can slow or speed adaptive evolution14
The shifting shelf task: a new, non-verbal measure for attentional set shifting14
Seasonal species richness of birds on the world's islands and its geographical correlates14
An initial but receding altercentric bias in preverbal infants' memory14
Imprinting in an interspecific brood parasitic bird14
An Invited Reply to: A Comment on: The exploitation of sexual signals by predators: a meta-analysis (2022) White et al.14
DNA methylation dynamics in a coastal foundation seagrass species under abiotic stressors14
Parasite escape mechanisms drive morphological diversification in avian lice14
Oxygen extraction efficiency of the tidally-ventilated rectal gills of dragonfly nymphs14
Trilobites in rock enrol: a comment on ‘Developmental and functional controls on enrolment in an ancient, extinct arthropod’ by Esteve and Hughes (2023)14
Inferring the evolution of reproductive isolation in a lineage of fossil threespine stickleback, Gasterosteus doryssus14
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